MTL - Deep Sea Embers-Chapter 32 Breakfast on the Lost Country

As the night faded, 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 this time of day and night.

When he saw the scar, it was like a waking dream that became transparent and illusory little by little. The gray-white light mist escaping around it first merged with the sky, followed by the body of the scar—and during this whole process , the location of the "scar" has 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 Boundless Sea is on (if it's really a planet) and the scar just keep running in sync? 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 his 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 they lack theoretical and evidence support. Everything is empty talk.

The "sun" has risen.

The first is the golden brilliance emerging 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's field of vision. .

Under the slow movement of the rune structure, the sun rose solemnly, and this majestic process seemed to have some kind of sound - a low, powerful, slow roar echoed illusoryly in Duncan's mind, but when he really When he 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.

Is that...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 and boundless sea keeps all the secrets as always.

The pigeon Ai Yin squatted comfortably on Duncan's shoulder as usual, then it stood up abruptly, flapping its wings vigorously, while looking at the sea surface, pressing loudly: "All the fries! All the fries! "

Duncan couldn't help laughing. He glanced at this strange 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 gave him 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 of ghost ship characteristics for himself. In the captain's room, Duncan directly used the sailing table as a dining table, and put 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, it's jerky, cheese, and plain water.

Duncan sat at the sailing table, laying out a napkin for himself in a serious and ritualistic manner, the goat head was quietly opposite him, and on his left was the cursed doll Alice who came to say hello early in the morning, the The eccentric pigeon squatted on the table to his right.

Duncan suddenly felt that this scene began to match his character as a "ghost captain" - the goat wood representing the devil, the cursed puppet that could not be discarded, the bird of words who knew the knowledge of the other world, and the sitting master. The great ghost captain, this can be used as the cover of the movie without repairing it...

But the current situation of the meals on the Lost Homes is only known to the parties involved.

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 from the friction of the hard object. He poked the jerky next to him with a fork. The jerky collided with the plate and made a crisp clanging sound.

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. "If you try it, you really try it."

After saying 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, and no matter how you handle it, there is a strange smell. He has also tried boiling the jerky with water. Baking and frying, but I couldn't make the texture and taste of these things any better.

The good news is that these foods are at least not rotten, and they won't poison people to death. The bad news is that the power of the passage of time has still turned these non-rotten substances into some extreme state that is not recommended for swallowing - Duncan has every reason to believe This cheese is several rounds 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 Homeless may not have to worry about scurvy, but Duncan still yearns for a healthy diet—at least, he wants the food on his plate a little younger than he is.

Same age.

The "Lost Homes Supply Plan" and "Land Exploration Plan" that I had planned in my mind came to 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 Yin, who had been watching for a long time with his head tilted on the table next to him, came over curiously. The bird first glanced at its owner. , looked at the things on the plate again: "Insufficient crystal ore reserves?"

Duncan glanced at the pigeon and threw some cheese crumbs at it. Ai Yin 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, I'm dying outside, from If you jump down 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 making a creaking sound of wood.

Duncan finally nodded before the **** drilled into his own fire: "Speak up if you have something to say."

"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 Yin'? Why does it always speak to me? Can't understand it? 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 back until this time to ask, and he even underestimated the self-control of this guy!

"You don't have to worry about it, this bird's thinking is very weird," Duncan didn't stop his carpentry work, but casually uttered the pretext he had thought of for a long time while making the sound of adze, chisel and saw with his knife and fork. " It seems to communicate with people in a language that only it can understand, 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... You Did he discover Ai Yin while 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 dislocation of time and space will emerge in the form of projection Come out, there are some lost eras that we have never understood, and even some fragments of the future, maybe Ai Yin 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 calm tone: "Then I wish you an early summary of the logic behind Ai Yin's language."

The words of the goat head may be a random guess, 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 time lines" when he walked in the spiritual world, but there was one sentence in Goat's Head that was right - Ai Yin, indeed, came from another time and space.

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