Duncan silently listened to the voices in his heart, the calm and reliable reports of Fanna and Maurice, the helpless complaints of Lucrecia, and sometimes the babbling of Shirley and Nina's tireless admonitions—these voices that crossed the distant time and space were like anchor chains with temperature, and after the two "avatars" he left in the city-state gradually failed, they still firmly anchored him to the side of reason and humanity.

Then, he temporarily ended his communication with Vanna and the others, and slowly walked across the entire deck, through the stairs and ramps at the stern, to the towering aft bridge.

The doll still stood quietly on the bridge, her hands clutching the dark steering wheel, her unfocused eyes fixed on the front, and countless invisible threads extending from her body, connecting the Lost Country at her feet and the illusory projection of the New Hope in the sky.

A thin mist suddenly filled the deck in all directions, flowing and converging.

Duncan subconsciously frowned at the strange appearance of the fog, and then he realized that the gray and white background in the distance seemed to be gradually "cracking"—a large area of fog appeared at the end of the evenly textured "passage", and there was a sense of emptiness in the depths of the fog.

Almost instantly, he heard the intermittent and indistinct voice: "End of the jump......"

There was a slight shake from the Lost Country, but it did not produce the same obvious vibration as when it suddenly drove into some "medium" as when it arrived at the border node, the passage shattered silently, and the endless and thin mist filled the surroundings almost in the blink of an eye, and the next second, Alice, who was at the helm, blinked, and the consciousness of the puppet suddenly returned to her shell.

"Captain!" Miss Doll looked at Duncan, and a happy smile instantly bloomed on her face, "We're here!" ”

Duncan nodded, but was about to open his mouth when he was startled - he noticed that the edges of the Lost Country were rapidly becoming "blurred"!

No, not just the edges, the whole ship is quickly becoming "blurred"! Under the shroud of the fog, everything in his field of vision seemed to suddenly lose its clear "boundaries", the deck lost its details, the mast gradually dimmed in the fog, and even Alice in front of him seemed to be fused with the fog and was rapidly transforming into some kind of illusory form.

And the dark green flame that shrouded the whole body of the Lost Land also dissipated in the process!

Alice seemed to notice something, she froze in place, and then slowly lowered her head, looking at her hands that were quickly losing detail and "blurry": "...... Huh? ”

But in the next second, Zhou Ming-Duncan reacted suddenly.

The dark green flames that enveloped the Lost Ship were suddenly impregnated with a hazy layer of starlight, and Duncan's eyes seemed to shine with billions of stars, while the Lost Country, which was already on the verge of information collapse, quickly rebuilt and regained its value in his field of vision—the deck and mast were restored to their original state almost in the blink of an eye, and Alice's figure stabilized before his eyes.

The puppet barely reacted to what was happening, she saw the flames on the ship suddenly "change color", and then the same flames surrounded her, and after a few seconds of froze, she raised her hand to look at it and let out an exclamation: "Wow-"

Duncan's heart was still a little palpitating, and he took a soft breath, finally feeling a little bit of the "edge of ashes" that Ray Nora had discovered for the first time.

This is the true frontier of order, the edge of nothingness, the "primordial sea" where the information unit has not been assigned, the information here has not yet been defined, and all the "creations" that come from the sanctuary, even the Lost Ship returning from subspace, are not a stable "data structure" here - because there is no data structure here at all!

The only people who can maintain their relative "security and stability" in this place are those who have experienced the great annihilation and have gained "self-stability" at the information level.

Such as the "reverse singularity", such as the wreck of the New Hope.

Duncan took a deep breath, calmed himself, reached out and pressed Alice's hair, and then looked around - where was Ray Nora when it came to the wreckage of the New Hope?

He and his ship had reached the location of the escape pod's location signal, but he looked around from the towering aft deck, and did not see any entities in the chaotic and ethereal "fog".

"Can you feel the signal from the escape pod?" Duncan frowned slightly and asked Alice, "We should have arrived at the position, right?" ”

"Yes, theoretically it should be here," the puppet finally came back to its senses from the beautiful starlight around it, quickly sensed the direction of the escape pod, and then scratched its head a little confused, "The signal is around here...... I sensed it just now, why can't I see it......"

The corners of Duncan's mouth suddenly twitched: "Shouldn't you knock her away again......"

Alice was stunned when she heard this, and keenly caught the key: "Again? ”

Duncan: "...... You don't have to worry about that, let's get Ray Nora first. ”

As he spoke, he slowly released his senses, trying to find the anomalous aura around the Lost Homeland while carefully controlling the part of his power that belonged to the "Reverse Singularity".

At this time, he had two things in mind - first, the unlucky Frost Queen was really scared by the Lost Country, and second, the unlucky Frost Queen was not crushed by this big ship......

He came to make an appointment with the queen, not to let the queen "hit the luck", don't be embarrassed to meet in this matter, it's not easy to explain.

At this time, Alice also reacted, and the puppet lady pondered hard in her head for a long time, and finally slapped her face: "Yes...... The Lost Land 'flies' directly according to the positioning signal of the escape pod, so when it lands, it will land directly on the escape pod......"

Duncan let out a long sigh - what was the use of reacting at this time.

He knew that he shouldn't have let Alice jump directly to the location beacon of the escape pod, at least he had to set a safe distance from the "jump beacon XX", but how could he have thought that the positioning of the New Hope was such an accurate thing, and it didn't directly hit their heads when the Lost Country went to the Four Gods node before......

And just when he sighed in his heart, Duncan suddenly really sensed something.

He "scanned" an "entity" that did not belong to the Lost Country.

But the location of that entity ...... It's on the Lost Country.

Duncan looked up suspiciously, looking in a certain direction in his senses, and after a few confirmations, the expression on his face became more subtle.

Alice also noticed: "Ah, captain, you found it?" ”

"Let's go over and see what's going on." Duncan muttered casually, and led Alice out of the bridge, and they made their way through the platform and the connecting staircase, following the induction guidance, until finally to the stern ...... In front of the door to the captain's quarters.

Alice raised her head to look at the familiar place in front of her, and held her head with both hands: "This is the captain's room, I don't see anything else." ”

Duncan, however, was still staring at the door of the captain's room (the Gate of the Lost) in front of him, sensing the changes that had taken place here, and even ...... I gradually understood the changes that have taken place here.

After frowning and thinking hard for a long time, he finally stepped forward and put his hand on the ...... of the Lost Door shaft side.

The distorted structure of space-time surfaced in his mind, turning into an intelligible reflection of reality, and he found this node of space-time dislocation, reaching out and nudging it.

The door opened—pushed open from the position of the door shaft.

Alice watched this scene dumbfounded, and only after a long time did she burst out of the sentence: "Can you still start from here?!" ”

Duncan: "...... Don't make noise, I'm thinking. ”

There was a hazy halo behind the door, and it seemed that there was an "interior space" that did not belong to the Lost Country, which was shrouded in the depths of a layer of optical phenomena that were constantly shaking.

Unlike the "normal" process of pushing open the door of the Lost and teleporting directly to the "bachelor's apartment", this time Duncan appeared in front of him as if it were a physical "entrance", one that could even allow entities other than him to enter.

He first reached into the halo and tried it, then turned his head to look at Alice, "Are you coming?" ”

Ellie nodded without hesitation: "Yes!" ”

Duncan reached out to Miss Doll: "Follow me - hold my arm and don't let go until it's safe." ”

Alice immediately obediently grabbed Duncan's arm and followed the captain towards the hazy halo.

It was as if they had passed through a curtain of coldness, and after a brief moment of dizziness and sensory dislocation, the scene before them quickly stabilized.

A gorgeous and spacious room appears in front of Duncan and Alice, real and down-to-earth.

Ray Nora was sitting on the big bed in the center of the room with a somewhat dull expression, looking at Duncan and Alice who suddenly pushed the "door" and walked in—the frost queen seemed to have just been hit hard, and she looked stunned at this time, until Duncan walked towards her, she suddenly raised her hands and gestured in the air.

“…… Just run over it! ”

Ray Nora's expression grew a little frantic.

"Such a big ship! It's just running over head-on! Half of the room was smashed to pieces by the barrage of things that came your way, and it took a long time to recover, and then you pushed the wall and walked in! Such a big hole! Can't you walk through the door? ”

Push through the wall?

Duncan was stunned for a moment, and glanced back in the direction he had come.

He saw the door of Renola's room, which was well embedded in the wall and was still closed, but there was a large hole in the wall next to the door—where he and Alice had entered.

Space-time dislocation .jpg.

Alice quietly poked Duncan's arm: "Captain, why don't you speak?" ”

“…… Don't be noisy, I'm thinking again. ”

(End of chapter)