Deep Sea Embers Chapter 32: Breakfast aboard the Lost Homes

As the night faded, and the pale scars that occupied the entire sky gradually dissipated, Duncan stood on the stern deck and looked up at the sky, not missing a single detail of the day and night.

When he saw the scar, it was like a waking dream, and it became transparent and illusory. The gray-white light mist that escaped from its surroundings first merged with the sky, followed by the body of the scar—and in the During this entire process, the location of the "scar" never changed.

Duncan blinked, and a further speculation appeared in his heart: the trace in the sky did not change its position, does it mean that it is not some distant astronomical structure? Does it mean that it is just some kind of phantom "printed" in the background of the atmosphere that moves synchronously with the boundless sea?

Or is it because the planet the Infinity Sea is on (if it's a planet at all) is in sync with the scar? Or is the scar actually moving, but the observation time is too short to detect it with the naked eye?

All kinds of conjectures come and go in my mind, but Duncan is very clear that until there is sufficient evidence and reliable experimental verification, these conjectures are just conjectures. There are thousands of possible explanations behind a natural phenomenon, but there is no theory. Everything with evidence to back it up is empty talk.

The "sun" has risen.

The first is the golden brilliance that emerges from the sky and sea, and then the huge luminous structure suddenly emerges from the sea. Along with the splendid glow, the sphere of light locked by the double rune structure appears in Duncan. in the field of vision.

Under the slow motion of the rune structure, the sun rose solemnly, and this majestic process seemed to have a certain sound - a low, powerful, slow roar echoed illusoryly in Duncan's mind, but when When he really listened intently, the voice suddenly disappeared.

He frowned, doubting whether he had auditory hallucinations just now, but the memory of the voice was so vivid that he couldn't deny it at all.

That's...the sun's announcement to the world as it rises? Or is it just one of many hallucinations brought about by the infinite sea?

No one can answer Duncan's doubts, and the vast boundless sea keeps all the secrets as always.

Pigeon Ay squatted comfortably on Duncan's shoulder as usual, then stood up abruptly, flapping his wings vigorously, and shouting while looking at the sea: "French fries! Chips!"

Duncan couldn't help laughing. He glanced at the odd pigeon, and suddenly felt that it was not bad to have such a bird thing around - the strange words that the pigeon said from time to time always made him have some "hometown". intimacy".

"It's a pity that there are no French fries on board." He fiddled with the pigeon's mouth and turned to the direction of the captain's room. "But you're right, you need to get something to eat."

A moment later, the captain of the Lost Homes prepared a traditional breakfast for himself on the ghost ship. In the captain's room, Duncan directly used the nautical table as a dining table, and placed a few plates on the empty table next to the chart. Today's breakfast, like yesterday's dinner, yesterday's lunch, and every meal in the past, is jerky, cheese, and plain water.

Duncan sits at the sailing table, laying out his napkin seriously and ritually, with the goat head quietly opposite him, and to his left is the cursed doll Alice who came to say hello early in the morning , the odd dove crouched on the table to his right.

Duncan suddenly felt that this scene began to match his character as a "ghost captain" - a wooden goat representing the devil, a cursed doll that could not be discarded, a bird of words with knowledge of the other world, and a sitting The ghost captain in the main role, this can be used as the cover of the movie without repairing it...

But only the people involved know the current state of the meals on the Lost Homes.

Duncan sighed and looked down at the contents of the dinner plate—the movie poster-like opening scene was over, and what followed was real life aboard the Lost Country.

He picked up the table knife and cut **** the cheese. There was a creaking sound when the hard object rubbed against it. He poked the jerky next to him with a fork. The jerky collided with the plate and made a crisp sound. jingle.

Alice watched this scene curiously, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Captain, is the meal today the same as yesterday?"

"Tomorrow will be the same," Duncan looked up at the cursed puppet, "Would you like to try?"

Alice thought for a while, then picked up a piece of jerky with her hands, put it in her mouth and chewed it hard, and then spit it out: "It's not delicious at all!"

"It's delicious and you can't eat it--do you have a stomach?" Duncan reached out and took the half of the jerky left in Alice's hand, "I'll let you try it."

Having said that, he glanced at the food on the plate with some worry.

These are the only foods that can be found on the boat. The jerky tastes like thick cardboard with salt, and the cheese is like loose firewood mixed with sand. No matter how you handle it, it has a strange smell. He also tried boiling it with water. Jerky or roasting or frying, but no effort has been made to improve the texture and taste of these things.

The good news is that these foods are at least not spoiled and will not poison people to death, the bad news is that the power of the passage of time has still turned these non-rotten substances into a state that is extremely not recommended to swallow - Duncan completely There is reason to believe that the cheese is several years older than himself, and if the jerky is still alive, at least it has witnessed the rise and fall of a century.

The captain of the Lost Homeland may not have to worry about scurvy, but Duncan still yearns for a healthy diet—at least, he wants the food on his plate to be a little younger than he is.

Same age.

The "Lost Homes Supply Plan" and "Land Exploration Plan" that I had been thinking about yesterday came to my mind again.

But this is not something that can be achieved in a short time.

Duncan sighed and continued to cut the "firewood" in the plate with a revengeful attitude. Ai, who had been looking at the side table for a long time, came over curiously. The bird looked at himself first. The owner glanced at the contents of the plate: "Insufficient crystal ore reserves?"

Duncan glanced at the pigeon and threw a bit of the falling cheese crumbs at it. Aye lowered his head and pecked it twice, and immediately stood still as if he was suddenly dead...

The bird was so stiff for three or four seconds before it suddenly became active. It flapped its wings and flew to the shelf next to it, making an exasperated voice: "I'm starving to death today. Outside, if you jump from here, you won't be able to eat..."

Duncan felt a little hurt, and the goat head, who had been silent for a long time across the table, finally couldn't help but start to make a creaking sound of wood.

Before the **** drilled into his own fire, Duncan finally nodded: "If you have something to say, say it."

"Yes, Captain," Goat Head roared immediately when he had a chance to speak, "I've been wanting to ask since yesterday, this one you brought... is called 'Ai'? It speaks Why can't I always understand? I thought about it all night yesterday, what does it mean to charge Q coins?"

Duncan raised his eyebrows immediately - he really didn't expect this goat's head to be able to hold it until this time to ask, and he underestimated the self-control of this guy!

"You don't have to worry, this bird's thinking is very weird~IndoMTL.com~ Duncan didn't stop the woodworking work in his hand, but casually said the sound of chiseling and sawing with his knife and fork. Think of a good excuse, "It seems to use a language that only it can understand to communicate with people, and if you listen to it, you can roughly guess what it means. "

"Is that so?" Goat Head pondered to himself, "but I always feel that there is some kind of logic hidden in its words... as if there is a complete set of self-consistent knowledge hidden behind the language. ...Did you discover Ai in the process of walking in the spiritual world? Could it be some kind of projection from the deep? You know, the deeper the place, the more information from the misplaced time and space will be projected. There are some lost eras that we have never understood, and even some fragments of the future. Maybe Ai is talking about another time and space?"

The cutting work in Duncan's hands paused for a moment at an imperceptible range to the naked eye, and then everything went as usual, and at the same time he said in a flat tone: "Then I wish you an early summary of the logic behind the Ai language."

Goat Head's words may be random guesswork, but the information revealed in it inevitably caused waves in Duncan's heart!

In the process of walking in the spiritual world, his soul approached the "deeper layer" of this world? In the "deeper" place, the more projections from dislocated space-time will be seen? Is it even possible for those projections to represent scenes from different timelines?

Duncan didn't see any "landscapes in different timelines" when he was walking in the spirit world, but there was one sentence in Goat's Head that was right - Ay, indeed, came from another time and space.

Then... Was this pigeon brought to this world by a man named "Zhou Ming", or did it really come from a deeper layer of this world as Goat Head said?