Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 244 Return
Zhou Ming stood in front of the mirror, quietly watching himself in the mirror.

Such a clear and real mirror image - if he hadn't reached out and touched a cold and hard surface, he would even doubt whether the person standing opposite was really "another self".

After a long time, he looked away from the mirror and looked at the vast darkness around him.

How big is this space?Continue to go outward, can you go to infinity?What is the nature of this dark space?Why is it here, behind the door of the homeless?What is the connection between the gate of the lost in the warp and the gate of the lost in the real world?and most importantly...

What are those words emerging from the darkness?
Zhou Ming moved away from the mirror, and the mirror quietly dissipated as he left, and the figure in the mirror also disappeared into the darkness, and with his footsteps, more pale words emerged in the darkness——Description Everything about him.

Like an extremely detailed personal file... a personal file that is registered in a vital database, and I don't know what it will be used for.

Zhou Ming felt that his associative ability was not enough—he tried to find a set of reasonable reasons to explain what he saw, but found that no matter what kind of reasoning, in the end it looked like a bunch of wild ideas. Pure fantasy.

He even began to feel that there was a "doomsday shelter plan", and he was the one who hid in the shelter, but he didn't know it. The bachelor apartment was his fortress of shelter, and the words emerging from this dark space It was his registration document before entering the shelter...

In the darkness, his thoughts flowed uncontrollably, but after an unknown period of time, he suddenly put away all his wild thoughts.

"...enough time wasted."

He grunted softly.

There are no more clues here, only phantoms that can shake his mind—whether there is really a huge secret hidden in this dark space, or this is just another conspiracy and temptation from the subspace to him, he does not care. It's time to save time here and dig into the corners.

Zhou Ming took a light breath to calm his mind gradually, and then decided to conduct a final test and exploration of this dark space before leaving.

He walked towards the distance, cautiously and cautiously away from the door.

More text is emerging at the foot - the content is similar to before, but more detailed and formal, more and more like a registration information used in formal occasions.

While Zhou Ming silently wrote down these words, he turned his head from time to time to confirm the distance between himself and the door and whether he lost his way in the darkness.

The more he walked, the more cautious he was, and the distance between each step was only more than ten centimeters forward.

Suddenly, he noticed a change in the text that appeared under his feet——

"The situation of ￥#%&...% whether @#?"

"￥@* is about 355 to *&, there may be %& of &...%..."

The text began to appear confused, the sentences became weird and inexplicable, and the originally clear and smooth records became something that could not even be read.

Zhou Ming's heart moved, but he didn't stop walking forward, but walked more carefully, and as he continued to walk towards the dark border, more words emerged in the darkness.

It's getting weirder and more confusing, and the frequency of the confusion is increasing exponentially. At first, he can still see a few meaningful words in each sentence, but soon he can't appear in a few sentences. At the level of a word, after that, he can't even see those "garbled characters".

Emerging from the darkness are no longer words and symbols, but a series of twisted and jumping lines, chaotic and restless light spots, and even all kinds of trembling projections that almost violate the laws of geometry.

He walked forward, and there appeared in the darkness a chaotic light and shadow that is difficult for mortal minds to understand, as if some indescribable reflections on the edge of the universe turned into a road extending forward under his feet.

In the end, even those chaotic and jumping lines and light spots finally disappeared, and nothing new appeared.

Zhou Ming stopped immediately.

He hasn't lost his mind yet, and hasn't become obsessed with this process of constantly exploring the unknown.

When he turned his head, there was almost only a dim light spot left on the door he came from, but it still stood quietly in the darkness.

Zhou Ming turned around decisively and walked back—no matter what was in the depths of the darkness, the moment the information that surfaced under his feet came to an end, he knew that he could not move forward.

The speed of going back was faster than when he came, and it didn't take long for him to cross the darkness of nothingness and return to the "Lost Gate" leading to the Lost Home.

Putting his hand on the door, Zhou Ming, who had been wandering in the dark for a long time, felt an inexplicable sense of solidity from the solid texture. Then he took a light breath and stepped across the door.

The cool sea breeze was blowing head-on, and the bright sky that suddenly appeared in the field of vision made Duncan a little uncomfortable for a while. The slight shaking from under his feet and the sound of waves lapping in his ears were delayed for a few tenths of a second before appearing in his mind. In the perception—perhaps after staying in a quiet place for too long, the sound of the waves beating suddenly appeared like thunder.

Duncan froze suddenly.

He checked his surroundings, and what he saw was the familiar Lost Home, the familiar Boundless Sea, and the sun hanging in the sky bound by double runes.

He returned to the real dimension.

This unexpected situation made him a little confused, because the second before he stepped through the gate in the darkness, he was still thinking about how to continue exploring on the "Broken Lost Homeland" to find a way to return, But I didn't expect to step through the gate from there and return directly to reality... What is the law in the middle?
If you want to return to the real dimension from the "Broken Lost Ship" that is suspected to be in the subspace, you only need to pass through the gate of the lost people as a transit?
He turned his head thoughtfully, and saw that he was standing in front of the captain's cabin, and the door of the homeless was standing quietly in the sunlight, and the words on the door frame were shining brightly in the sky.

Duncan's mind instantly became active.

There are many doors on the Lost Home, but only three of them are special. The first is the "Door of the Lost", and the second is the gloomy wooden door leading to the bottom cabin in the depths of the cabin. It is marked with " The last door" sign, and the third one is located in the center of the bilge, the door standing out of thin air, which connects the subspace and the real dimension, and may be called the "gate of the subspace".

On the "Dilapidated Lost Home", whether it is the "last door" leading to the bilge or the "subspace door", the marks on the door frame have been erased, and only the door in front of the captain's cabin The "Gate of the Lost" maintains a completely consistent appearance no matter in the real dimension or in the subspace.

Now it seems that this "consistency" may have marked the real "exit" from the very beginning!
With the answer vaguely in his heart, Duncan breathed a sigh of relief, and then stepped forward and pushed open the door of the captain's room.

After stepping through the gate, he confirmed that it was not darkness, but his bachelor apartment—everything in the room was normal.

Immediately afterwards he returned to the ship, this time opening the door of the captain's cabin.

The familiar chart room, the familiar elegant furnishings, the familiar table, and the familiar goat's head on the table.

For the first time in his life, when he saw that the goat's head was still on the table, he felt a sense of security.

Goat's head turned his head immediately after hearing the movement from the door, and there was a creaking sound of wood rubbing against his neck: "Name?"

"Duncan Abu Normar, it's me, I'm back," Duncan said immediately. He had already guessed that the other party would confirm to himself—this goat head could sense whether he had left the Lost Homeland, and he might even be in a certain location. To a certain extent, I perceive some kind of "change" in myself. This kind of "name confirmation" seems to be a bit arbitrary on the surface, but there seems to be a faint law in it, "I have gone to a very far place."

"Ah, Captain! You are finally back!" The goat's head immediately made an exaggerated and courteous voice, it was as noisy as ever, "You left the ship suddenly, I was really shocked! You usually walk in the spirit world At least you'll leave your body here! But just now all your breath is gone... And now you're back from the deck? Where did you go?"

All breath gone?Completely off the ship?

Duncan's eyes changed slightly in an instant.

As expected, I entered the suspected subspace with my body, not the "consciousness projection" I thought at first!
He raised his head, looked into the black eyes of the goat's head, hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Don't be scared when I say it."

"Oh, don't worry, your first mate is not only loyal and brave, but also brave and loyal..."

"I went to the subspace."

Goat Head: "...?!"

After half a minute, this guy suddenly let out a loud bang, as if his neck was about to be broken: "Boat...ship...captain?! You said you..."

"I went to the subspace, if I didn't make a mistake," Duncan said as he walked into the captain's cabin, and picked up the lantern on the shelf next to him, "wait for me first."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Goat's Head to speak, he directly left the captain's cabin with the lantern in his hand, and then walked through the decks and layers of cabins almost in a hurry, and went straight to the bottom of the Lost Home.

He passed through the "last door" and came to the shattered bilge.

The cracks in the hull of the bilge are still dark and chaotic, and there are not many details to be seen in the limited field of vision, only chaotic light and shadow turbulence and occasional flashes of light jumping and flowing in the darkness.

And the most dangerous "subspace gate" stands quietly in the center of the cabin.

The door was closed tightly, without any gaps.

(End of this chapter)