A doll, a doll so lifelike that Duncan could barely tell it at first glance—she lay quietly in the ornate wooden box, like a lady sleeping in a coffin, waiting for someone to wake her up.

Duncan really felt that the other party would wake up in the next second.

But this was just an illusion, the doll was just lying quietly in the box, unresponsive to its surroundings.

Duncan watched this strange ...... "thing" vigilantly and cautiously: there was nothing strange about a doll in itself, but the appearance of the other party that was too close to a real person and the coffin-like wooden box made him instinctively feel a kind of danger, and it was no wonder that he was wary of the process of the box appearing inexplicably on the Lost Land.

After observing for a long time, Duncan was finally sure that the gorgeous goth figure in the box would not suddenly jump up to surprise himself, and then he frowned and asked the goat's head: "What do you think is the situation?" ”

"This must be the important cargo that the ship was escorting," replied the goathead at once, and although it had said that it did not know the strange wooden crate that had suddenly appeared on the deck, it was clearly more experienced in matters at sea than Duncan, the fake captain, "The wooden crate has a symbol pointing to the gods on the outside, and there are pins around the crate to secure the chains, which may indicate that it was in some kind of sealed state—the ship seems to have some kind of origin in transporting seals on the infinite seas, which is a very risky business. ”

"Seals?" Duncan's eyelids jumped subconsciously, and then he looked at the lid of the box that had been completely opened by himself, the lid was broken when he came to the Lost Land, so he could be easily pushed by himself, although he didn't know anything about seals, but he believed that the seal of this thing was definitely invalid, "So this thing is dangerous?" ”

"It's dangerous for the fragile normal, but I don't think it's a threat to you - this 'anomaly' that can be sealed away with special techniques is no match for Captain Duncan's power."

Duncan was silent, his expression serious, but his thoughts fluctuated.

The goat's compliment sounded pretty useful—if he really was some "Captain Duncan" he might have believed it, but he wasn't, so he was panicking now.

Because the goat's head has made it clear that this doll lying in the coffin is a "dangerous goods"! It's just that it doesn't threaten the real captain!

Although he is now under the name of Captain Duncan, and even seems to have occupied the other party's body and has some power, "Zhou Ming" is quite self-aware - he doesn't think that this can make him the same as the "real Captain Duncan".

He didn't know much about the world, about the ship, or even about the body he was in now.

In addition, he was keenly aware of a new and strange word that appeared in Goathead's words - "anomalous".

Unconventional is abnormal, it sounds like a very ordinary word, but the extra emphasis in the goat's head makes him vaguely aware that this word seems to have a special meaning here.

Perhaps, the word "anomalous" in this world refers not only to the meaning of "beyond the ordinary", but also to a specific type of thing? Like what...... A doll lying in a coffin.

It's a pity that he has no suitable reason to ask about this kind of thing that should be "common sense" here.

After feeling that he still needed to gather information and accumulate knowledge carefully, Duncan frowned and gave the doll one last look, as if he had made up his mind: "I should throw it back into the sea." ”

There was a hint of hesitation in his heart when he said this, especially when he looked at the puppet.

This was not for simple reasons such as "this doll is beautiful", of course, but because ...... "she" was so much like a living person sleeping in a coffin that Duncan even felt like he was throwing a living person off the ship at the thought of throwing it back into the sea.

But this hesitation eventually strengthened his determination.

Because he already knew that there were many strange and strange things in this world—although he had only come into contact with one Lost Homeland in this world so far, even on this ship, he had already seen talking goats' heads, self-hoisting masts, ship lights that never went out, and the strange and dangerous sea, the spiritual world and the endless sea mist......

And just now, he also bumped into a mechanical ship transporting seals on this strange sea, and the things that the ship was "escorting" were bizarrely on the deck of the Lost Country.

As a sane and cautious person, he couldn't leave this kind of thing with him, which was very likely to contain strange and dangerous powers, just because the puppet looked beautiful.

Regret to regret, Duncan finally firmly closed the lid of the "coffin" again, because he was not at ease, he found nails and hammers from the cabin, and seriously put another circle of iron nails on the coffin.

Eventually, he pushed the "coffin" containing the puppet to the edge of the deck.

The goat's voice came to his ears: "You can dispose of your loot as you like, but I will still respectfully and humbly suggest that you do not need to be so cautious, the Lost Country has not increased its loot for a long time......"

"Shut up." Duncan simply pinched off the goat's head of the balabala.

The goat's head fell silent, and Duncan kicked the "coffin" so hard that it was thrown straight into the sea.

The heavy wooden crate fell straight down the edge of the deck into the sea, which had returned to its normal color, and with a dull thud it resurfaced from the water, drifting towards the stern of the Lost Land.

Duncan watched the box drift away until it was completely obscured by the stern of the ship, and then he looked up into the distance to see that the fog had completely dissipated and the blue sea was slowly rising around the Lost Homeland.

The ship has completely detached itself from the "spirit world" and returned to the reality dimension.

In the nearby sea, there is no trace of the mechanical ship that briefly rendezvous with the Lost Land.

Duncan's brow furrowed slightly, and he briefly estimated the time elapsed after the two ships met and the speed of each of the two ships.

Based on the current situation on the sea, the ship should not have disappeared into visual distance so quickly.

“…… Is this also because of this strange sea? Or is it related to the so-called 'spiritual voyage'? ”

Duncan's heart was dripping, but soon, his attention was drawn to something else—

He saw a glimmer of golden light suddenly glow in the depths of the clouds above the sea that had never dispersed.

The bright golden sunlight gradually filled, as if the heavy curtain of clouds gradually dissipated as if swept away by an invisible hand, and the sea that had been gloomy for an unknown time was gradually illuminated by the sun—Duncan stood on the bow of the Lost Land, staring at the scenery with wide eyes as the clouds dissipated, and at this moment, he suddenly felt an inexplicable touch.

Ever since he learned of the existence of "this side" many days ago, and since he first explored this strange ship, the clouds that have always covered the entire ocean, so much so that he almost thinks that there is no sunlight in this world at all, or that this world is forever cloudy.

He has been away from the sun for too long, even on the opposite side of the "door", in Zhou Ming's bachelor apartment, the thick fog outside the window has long blocked the sun.

But now, the boundless sea is clear.

After a long absence from the sun, he finally had a sense of seeing the light of day in the world "on this side".

Duncan subconsciously took a deep breath and opened his hands in the direction of the sun, and the heavy clouds quickly dissipated and faded as if echoing, and at the most dazzling moment of the sky, a huge sphere shrouded in countless distorted golden streams of light came into Duncan's eyes.

All of Duncan's expressions froze in the moment when he opened his hands to meet the sun.

He stared at the sky, the sunlight was dazzling, but far less dazzling than he was familiar with, he could clearly see the thing hanging in the sky, see its spherical shell that seemed to have countless dense lines, see the brilliant light flow around it, and the two rings that were slowly moving in concentric circles around the central sphere against the background of the intertwined light flow.

Duncan's eyes narrowed, and he could vaguely distinguish that the two rings seemed to be connected by countless intricate runes, as if some supreme power had engraved eternal bindings in the firmament, imprisoning the "sun" in the sky.

Duncan failed to embrace the sunshine he had been waiting for.

There is no sunlight at all in this world.

"What's that?" He whispered, his voice a little cold.

"Of course it's the sun, Captain." The goat's voice was as calm as ever.