Duncan and Alice stood at the end of the staircase leading to the bilge, and what they saw was a strange and terrifying scene—the entire bottom of the Lost Country was in a state of fragmentation, and beyond the broken cabin, there was a kind of nothingness that was filled with endless dim light.

This is the real "bilge structure" of the Lost Country? And what's beyond this shattered cabin?

Could such a scene exist beneath the level of the Infinite Sea?

Duncan cautiously took two steps forward into the shattered cabin, where he stepped on the largest piece of plank and looked back in the direction he had come.

The "last door" still stood silently in place, fixed to a floating plank, and behind the door was a dark, dreary staircase that sloped upwards—but on all sides of the door, there was no wall to be seen, only an empty space.

The door floats alone in this space.

Duncan cautiously walked around the back of the door, and found that there was nothing behind it, and through the open door, he could see directly the shattered cabin on the other side.

"Captain......" Alice's nervous voice came, and the doll looked around with a frightened expression, and finally his gaze fell on Duncan, "this...... That's normal, right? ”

Duncan's heart is actually more bottomless than this puppet, after all, the latter can still blindly trust the captain, where can he, the "captain", find confidence at this time? However, looking at Alice's nervous appearance, and thinking of the "crew code" that Goathead had said, Duncan still stubbornly controlled his uneasiness and maintained his usual serious and calm appearance.

"Don't worry," he said, "the Lost Country is a ship you can't imagine. ”

"Indeed, it's hard to imagine......" Alice said in amazement, Duncan's calm performance obviously reassured her a little, and she began to look curiously at the shattered hull and the chaotic light and shadow outside the hull, "Captain, this is ...... Doesn't it look like there's water? ”

Duncan thought for a moment, and suddenly looked at Alice curiously: "Do you think this is below the surface of the boundless sea?" ”

Alice was stunned: "Huh? Why do you ask me? ”

Duncan looked confused: "Because you have experience." ”

"That's not what you threw ......," Alice said subconsciously, but swallowed it back halfway through and began to answer honestly, "I don't think so...... The sea must be full of water, and even if the infinite sea is wrong, there must be water under the sea level, but it looks like ...... It's like ......"

"A void filled with chaotic streams of light," Duncan shook his head and walked slowly forward, coming to the edge of the shards of wood at his feet, looking down at the flowing lights and shadows outside the cabin, "the bottom of the Lost Ship...... And not in the infinite sea. ”

Alice was stunned: "Huh? So where is this? ”

Duncan didn't speak, looking unfathomable—in fact, because he didn't know either.

But he still has a guess about the model lake: perhaps, this ship is actually sailing in several different dimensions at the same time?! On the surface, the Lost Ship is sailing on the vast seas of the real world, but in reality, different parts of the ship belong to different dimensions at all!?

This also explains why, the deeper you go, the more eerie the surrounding cabins become, and perhaps the eerie and eerie cabins are not the cabins themselves at all......

So what is the dark and chaotic space outside this cabin, if not the infinite sea? It doesn't look like the spirit world, nor does it look like the dark space you see when you travel through the spirit world...... Is it a deeper place? Secluded? Subspace?

With countless speculations and assumptions in his mind, Duncan slowly reached out and drew the pirate sword at his waist, and then held the lantern in one hand and the long sword in the other, and slowly reached the edge of the fragment under his feet - he was very cautious at the moment, although the gap between the fragments seemed to be a step that could be jumped over in one step, he did not take a rash step, but tried it with the long sword first.

God knows if something will suddenly emerge from these cracks and swallow up those who have crossed rashly.

The next second, his eyes widened slightly in surprise.

He saw the tip of the sword disappear, and on the edge of the shard on the opposite side of the crack, a sharp tip of the sword emerged abruptly.

Duncan frowned, and tested in a different direction, and a similar phenomenon happened again.

He finally came to his senses.

These seemingly cracked areas are still spatially continuous! The seemingly fragmented bilge structure is still intact!

He straightened up, looked around at the cracks around him and the light and shadows flowing outside the cracks, and realized in his heart that these "broken" scenes were only an optical result, but did not affect the spatial continuity, and the hull of the Lost Country was not broken here, but for some reason, the "picture" outside the hull appeared inside the hull.

But what causes this? Is it spatial overlap? Or is it a misprojection of high dimensions to low dimensions?

Duncan subconsciously mobilized all the reliable or unreliable knowledge in his mind, trying to explain the strange phenomenon here, while Alice on the side watched with a puzzled look at the captain doing some strange things on the edge of the crack, one would shine everywhere with a lantern, and the other would poke everywhere with a long sword, and after looking at it for a long time, he finally couldn't help but speak: "Captain...... You're using a special appeasement ritual...... Pacify the cabin? ”

Duncan silently put away his sword with his back to Alice, and stiffened: "...... Right. ”

"Oh! It's amazing! Alice's eyes lit up, "Then you're going to perform a pacification ritual for all the pieces here?" ”

“…… That's enough," Duncan said with a stiff face, then quickly diverted her attention before the curious doll could continue to speak, "Let's move on." ”

As he spoke, he cautiously stepped forward with his lantern in hand—the muscles and nerves of his body were almost tensed as he stepped out, ready for anything unexpected to happen while crossing the crack, but nothing happened.

Just like the previous test with the longsword, he directly "jumped" the process of crossing the rift, and walked directly to the debris on the opposite side, just like walking around in a normal cabin.

Alice watched in amazement as the captain walked ahead, walking as if ignoring the crack beneath her feet, and following as she could, she still nervous as she crossed the crack, and finally couldn't help but sped forward......

Then, as a matter of course, he hit Duncan headfirst in front of him.

Duncan felt the wind rise behind him, and then something hit his back firmly, and suddenly subconsciously turned around and raised his hand with a wave-

In the next second, he looked at the headless puppet that was scrambling around behind him with an expressionless face, and Alice's head was rolling and stammering more than ten meters away: "Yes...... Right...... Yes......"

"You honestly wait here, I'll pick it up for you," Duncan sighed, reflecting on why he had brought the waste doll down, and quickly caught up with Alice's already drifting head, picking it up with ease, "Do you want to consider screwing your neck......"

Alice's head didn't seem to hear Duncan's second half of the complaint, she just suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked in a certain direction next to her: "That...... That...... There's ...... over there. There is a fan ......"

Duncan frowned, and turned his head to look in the direction that Alice's head was desperately signaling with his eyes.

A black wooden door stood silently on the shards at the end.

A door...... There was still a door, and sure enough, there was another door!

When Duncan saw the prompt on the door at the end of the stairs before, he wondered if this classic situation would happen, but when he saw that there was indeed an extra door in this "bilge space", he couldn't help but jump in his heart!

At this time, Alice's body also stumbled over, and Duncan looked at the door while returning the doll's head to her: "Was there such a door over there just now?" ”

Alice stuffed her head back into her neck with a "Boer", and glanced over there while moving her cervical spine: "It doesn't seem to be, it only appeared after we came over." ”

Duncan hummed noncommittally, and cautiously walked towards the door with a lantern in hand.

In fact, in this strange cabin, he no longer needed the illumination of the lantern, and the chaotic glimmer that seeped in from outside the cracks, although dim, was enough to maintain the basic brightness of the entire space, but he still kept the lantern in his hand - it was necessary to be cautious.

Although Goathead hadn't warned him about it, Duncan had decided that he would never put out the light as long as he was in his cabin below the waterline.

The new door looked unremarkable, with a swarthy panel that was not much different from the previous "last door" at the end of the staircase, and similar in style and material to the doors used in most of the cabins on the Lost Land.

Duncan looked up, and above the door's frame, he saw a line of letters that seemed to have been cast in copper:

"This door leads to the Lost Country".