Deep Sea Embers

The goat's head was a dangerous fellow, Duncan had known it from the beginning—it was dangerous not just because it was an anomaly of unknown origin, but because it had served the real Captain Duncan and was still following the old rules to this day. Act and think in the right way.

From the perspective of the goat's head, the city-states on land are meaningless, the mortals in the city-states are ignorant and ridiculous, the fleets of the weak city-states are food, and plundering and killing them...is the natural "daily life" of the Lost Home.

Duncan didn't know how long it would take him to adjust the goat's head's thinking habits, but he knew that this process had to be subtle—it was the safest way to use some reasonable reasons to change himself and the Lost Country's behavior style.

He took one last look at the goat's head who was quietly waiting on the nautical table, and confirmed that the other party had taken over the sail and rudder system of the Lost Home, and then opened the door and walked into his bedroom.

This afternoon, Nina will be back at the antique shop, and before that, he will have pigeon Ay complete some more tests.

The door leading to the captain's bedroom was closed, and the goat's head quietly watched the direction of the door in the dark. It was silent for an unknown period of time, until it was confirmed that the captain's consciousness had set off to walk in the spirit world, and then it muttered softly as if talking to itself. Get up: "It's really not affected by the subspace..."

In the dark, the carved wooden goat's head creaked and turned. It seemed to be looking around the room, and it seemed to look around the entire ship through the room.

"The Lost Home, the Lost Home... What terrible thing did you fish up back then..."

...

Duncan has returned to the familiar dark space. He feels his will extending among countless starlight and twilight lines, and the two ends of the extension trajectory are the Lost Country and the antique shop in the city-state of Pland.

It seems that as the time of this "two-wire connection" prolongs, this feeling is becoming clearer. Now he doesn't even need to concentrate deliberately, he can perceive the situation over there in the antique shop—and he can also remotely control the situation there. Carry out some simple daily activities with the body in the furniture store.

This is obviously a good thing. An antique shop owner who spends more than half of the time "sleeping" in the shop is obviously suspicious, and even if the body just gets up and moves, standing at the door for a minute or two, it can Get rid of many unnecessary eyes.

Duncan did not immediately "transmit" his main consciousness to the city-state of Prand, but stopped in the dark space. He carefully perceived the changes in the space, and then looked back to his side.

In the vast darkness, Ai in the form of a bone pigeon is hovering silently, his ghostly body continuously sprinkles dots of green fire while flying, and in the center of the area where Ai is circling, there are some blurred phantoms .

Among those phantoms were the sun amulet brought to the Lost Home, a simple and old dagger, a piece of cheese, a round cannonball, and a hard dried salted fish.

These are all "test items" he prepared before departure, to further test Ai's ability to carry items and changes during the carrying process.

The short dagger was found in the hold of the ship, it may have belonged to a certain sailor, it is a "common item" without thinking, the cheese is brought from the kitchen, it has the property of not spoiling, the shells are from the ammunition storehouse, and the dried salted fish is It was one of the catches of the last fishing trip. It had just been dried in the past two days—in fact, it hadn’t been fully dried yet, but it was already hard.

Duncan looked at Ai who was hovering around these phantoms, and nodded slightly: "So you always carry things like this every time."

Ai flapped his wings and let out a hoarse and sharp cry: "Sit tight, sit tight, sit tight!"

Duncan smiled, then concentrated his mind and prepared to project the main consciousness.

But at the moment when he was concentrating, he suddenly saw a strange glimmer of light appearing at the end of the light stream pointing to the city-state of Puland in the distance!

Duncan stopped immediately, staring in amazement at the light flickering among countless dim star spots—the light seemed to have been there originally, and it only turned from dark to bright when he focused his attention, as if suddenly Noticing the general, began to exude a clear sense of presence.

What it is?

Duncan tried to move towards the twilight in doubt, but with just one thought, he had already crossed the vast darkness, the twilight rapidly expanded before his eyes, and turned into a stream of light flowing undulating in front of his eyes.

Only then did he realize that there was an undetectable "connection" between this undulating stream of light and himself—just like the connection between his own body on the Lost Home and the spare body in an antique shop. same as contact.

This is...another spare body to be selected?

Such a conjecture could not help but appear in Duncan's mind, but he quickly shook his head—the glimmer of light flowing in front of his eyes far exceeded those light spots representing the "body" in terms of scale, such a large piece of light...not so much representing Looking at the body to be selected, it is better to say that it is some kind of huge object that has established a connection with himself.

While hesitating, he made up his mind, stretched out his hand and carefully touched the light...

In the next second, a huge and strange "perception" suddenly flooded into his mind - he couldn't see the surrounding things clearly, but felt the sea breeze blowing his body, and felt the waves slowly undulating around him, he felt He saw a lot of people walking around him, even on his body, he heard the voices of people talking from all directions, but all the voices were mixed together, as if separated by a thick curtain, he could not hear them at all. clear.

He vaguely realized that he was perceiving the environment through the perspective of a behemoth, but this behemoth was not suitable for his spirit to descend directly, or there was some kind of power protecting this thing, preventing his own power from intruding, so All his perceptions are in a state of being stagnated and blocked.

This behemoth seems to be staying on the sea near the land, and many people are gathering here.

There was a tense and serious atmosphere in the crowd, they seemed to be seriously dealing with some dangerous factors, and everyone's conversations were low and concise.

Duncan tried his best to concentrate, trying to hear what these voices seemed to be talking about through a thick curtain.

He worked hard for a long time, and finally heard a word that was repeatedly mentioned in these buzzing, rumbling, overlapping and mixed voices-White Oak.

Duncan took back the hand that touched the light flow, and looked at the floating twilight in front of him with some astonishment.

A faint light floated in the darkness, faintly showing the phantom of the ship.

White Oak... the name seems a little familiar, but I can't remember when I heard it.

Duncan tried hard to think and recall, and finally found some superficial impressions in the depths of his memory. He recalled the ship he collided with in the spirit world when he was at the helm for the first time, and recalled when the Lost Homeland and the other party penetrated. And in the past, I seem to have seen its name on the side of the ship... That ship seems to be called the White Oak.

Immediately afterwards, he remembered the newspaper he bought in the city-state of Pland. At that time, an inconspicuous section in the newspaper seemed to have mentioned this incident, saying that the ocean-going ship White Oak, which had been lost for several days, would be in the near future. Moored……

Duncan stared blankly at the glimmer of light floating in front of him.

This is the White Oak, which was responsible for escorting the white oak of anomaly 099.

The old captain and his crew who had tried to speak to him seemed to have finally arrived in the city-state of Purdue - which is something to be happy about.

Obviously, he established a connection with this ship.

Could it be that the connection was established after the "spirit world collision" accident? Because the flames from the Lost Homeland spread to the White Oak?

Conjectures vaguely emerged in Duncan's mind, and he speculated on the various attributes of his spiritual body flames. At the same time, he was also thinking about whether the connection between himself and this steamship could be useful. use.

After so long adrift on the Lost Home, he valued every connection between himself and the civilized world.

Now it seems that although the White Oak has already docked, it is still in a state of blockade and surveillance. Those nervous people should be "professionals" in the city-state who specialize in dealing with extraordinary visions.

Obviously, for the people in the city-state, a ship that has lost its way at sea is dangerous, and the experience of the other party's negative distance contact with the Lost Homeland may also be a major pending issue.

Duncan is still a little self-conscious about himself and the terrible reputation of the Lost Homeland.

After thinking for a while, Duncan stepped back cautiously, not continuing to touch the cloud of light in front of him.

As the number one boss on the boundless sea, he doesn't intend to deal with the protectors of the city-state, and he doesn't want to reveal that the White Oak has established contact with "Captain Duncan" without knowing the details of those "extraordinary experts" fact.

He doesn't want the connection between himself and this steamship to be discovered and cleared away - anyway, the connection has been established, as stable as an anchor cable under the sea, he can wait patiently, the White Oak's surveillance will one day will lift.

At that time, maybe he can still talk to the old captain calmly.

Find out what the old captain was yelling to himself when the wind and waves were too strong.