Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 245 The corner of the veil

Duncan approached the door and checked its status again worryingly.

This "subspace door" was really closed - I was indeed on the opposite side of the door before, and that easy pass did completely seal this door that was difficult to shake in the real dimension.

He exhaled lightly, and looked up at the top of the door.

The mysterious ancient words are still clearly printed on the door frame: "This door leads to the Lost Home."

"To the Lost Home..." Duncan couldn't help recalling the situation on the other side of the door. He recalled the ship that sailed in the subspace and seemed to have been deserted and decayed for many years. This sentence has a glimmer of comprehension.

The words on this door are true, and the opposite door really leads to the Lost Home, another Ship Lost—the distorted projection of the Lost Home in the real dimension in the warp.

Duncan grabbed the lantern, turned and left the lower deck, and returned to the captain's cabin through the light and shadow reversed cargo hold and superstructure without stopping.

"Ah! Captain, you're back!" Goat's head was still here in a daze, and the first thing he did when he saw Duncan came back was to mutter, "Why did you leave suddenly, just now you said you went to the subspace? Just kidding! You..."

"I closed the 'Gate of Subspace' at the bottom of the boat," Duncan said casually as he put the lantern away, "Just now I went down and checked from 'this side'."

The words of the goat's head were suddenly choked, and there was another "crack" sound between the head and the table.

Duncan couldn't help but glanced at it: "Take it easy, don't fall into the same problem as Alice."

The goat's head didn't care about the teasing in the captain's tone, and it didn't hide its astonishment at all: "You closed that door!? You mean, you closed the door from the subspace...?"

"Otherwise?" Duncan asked rhetorically, "Isn't that door impossible to close from 'this way'? Why don't I make the effort?"

"You...you because of this?" Goat's head was a little incoherent at this time, "You entered the subspace and returned to the real dimension, just to close the door from the opposite side? Then...that is not a warehouse or a utility room The ordinary wooden door, you just... closed it?!"

Duncan cheered up.

He just looked at the goat's head happily, watching this guy who can make people's brains boil with his usual chatter, but fell into an incoherent situation, watching this guy standing there as if he had turned on the vibration mode." "Crackling, crackling" kept shaking, the expression on his face was still calm, and his heart was almost dying of joy.

Duncan knew that he hadn't explained the matter clearly, which caused some misunderstandings to the goat's head-but he mainly wanted to see how this guy turned his tongue, this is the joy of the number one fun person in the boundless sea.

In addition to being happy, the feeling of depression brought about by exploring the "Broken Lost Home" and that dark space has also weakened a lot.

But Duncan finally spoke up. After all, it is related to the subspace. Some things can be avoided in the future when they are explained clearly. Moreover, the goat's head knows a lot of secret knowledge, and its knowledge may be of some help: "I know you are in a hurry. But don’t worry, listen to me—I did close that door, but this time entering the subspace was an accident, and I just need to hear your opinion.”

"Unexpected...unexpected?" Goat's head was taken aback for a moment, and his tone changed from the astonishment before to extremely serious in an instant, "Please tell me, what's going on?"

Duncan then told Goat Head that he entered the subspace as soon as he opened his eyes after a light sleep—of course, he concealed the details of his exploration in that dark space, and focused on the door at the bottom of the ship , and the various scenes seen when looking at the chaos on the deck.

After all, besides his "real name" and "origin", he doesn't have much to hide from the goat's head now, and the concealment of his real name and origin is not because of the importance of this secret— —Purely because the stability of the Lost Home must be built on the "anchor" of "Captain Duncan".

The goat's head listened to Duncan's story very carefully without saying a word.

And then said it didn't know what was going on...

"According to your description, it is indeed a subspace," Goat Head said frankly, "but I have never heard of a situation like this, you just...'entered' there in your sleep, and then came back safe and sound Now... You know, although the threat of the subspace to the reality dimension is serious, it does not mean that it is an easy place to 'reach', and its danger is more reflected in the fact that its pollution is hard to guard against.

"Loopholes in the mind, shaky beliefs, wrong sacrifices, all of these may lead to the infiltration of subspace power, but 'infiltrating' and going in like you...'exploring' are completely different concepts."

Speaking of this, it paused for a moment, then turned its head, staring directly at Duncan with empty and dark eyes: "Captain, you really haven't been affected by anything over there? You really... don't feel any residual in your head. what?"

"No." Duncan spread his hands, with a calm face, "do you think I look delirious? I'm very normal."

The goat's head was speechless all of a sudden.

Duncan said thoughtfully: "Usually, I've always seen you worried that the Lost Land would fall into the subspace again. I thought it would be easy to fall in..."

"This...is a relative concept," the goat head explained with a little embarrassment, "falling down from the dimension of reality is very dangerous, but even the Lost Country will not just 'fall' down casually, 'fall down' It's dangerous to go down" and "it's easy to fall" are not the same concepts, and...how can I explain it to you? Generally, the victims who unfortunately fall into the subspace...their process and feelings of entering the subspace are similar to yours. It is completely different, this is an extremely painful and terrifying process, and it is often difficult to simply end with death..."

Duncan thought about it carefully after listening, then shook his head: "I really don't feel it..."

The goat's head held back for a long time and sighed.

Duncan was even a little shocked-for the first time in history, this talkative guy didn't say anything, just sighed!

Duncan pondered for a moment, then looked serious: "...Should I be more serious?"

Goat's Head: "...you are worthy of the name of the moving natural disaster on the boundless sea..."

It's all great reading, without any emotion, and it's like muscle memory when you say a sentence.

"Then let's not discuss this issue," Duncan waved his hand upon seeing this, and directly changed the subject, "What are those huge shadows I saw in the subspace? Those broken lands, wreckage, and that pale Cyclops... what are they?"

The goat's head suddenly fell silent, and it took nearly half a minute before it slowly opened its mouth: "...As you can see, it's just a wreck."

"It's just the wreckage?" Duncan frowned. "This is not an answer, what kind of wreckage? Where did the wreckage come from? When did the wreckage come from? These..."

"The wreckage of the world," said the Goathead, "all those who did not survive to this day are twisted shadows in the Warp in the ancient past."

Duncan was taken aback for a moment, then repeated in a deep voice: "The wreckage of the world?"

The goat's head fell silent again, as if hesitating and weighing something, but in the end, it raised its head slightly: "Do you think the boundless sea is vast? Do you think... our current real world is still spacious?"

Duncan blinked, and then suddenly realized: "You mean, everything in the reality dimension now..."

"...Yes, what's left after the drop," the goat's head said softly, "a little residue, with a few tenacious colonies left on it."

Duncan was startled, and suddenly thought of something: "Is this the truth about the Great Annihilation?"

"It's just an insignificant link," Goat's Head said in a low voice, "The complete truth of the Great Annihilation has been buried in the long river of time, and it is meaningless to piece together its whole picture.

"Using your words, there is a 'horizon limit', and all information is on the other side of the unknowable and unobservable, unless there is some truly omniscient and omnipotent great being, who can instantly understand everything from the subspace to the deep sea to the spirit world and reality All the secrets of the dimension, and push them back 1 years, to know what happened during the Great Annihilation-but even so, what's the point?

"I know what else you want to ask, but unfortunately, that's all I know, and I can't guarantee that it's all true - I do know some things about the Warp, but even the so-called 'truth' ', after being affected by the subspace, it may not necessarily be distorted into what it looks like. Causal logic and time sequence are meaningless there, and my fragmented knowledge... I don't know how much of it is in it. The real memory is somewhat a shadow left over from the process of leaving the subspace."

(End of this chapter)