Duncan approached the door and checked its status again worriedly.
This "subspace door" was really closed - I had indeed reached the opposite side of the door before, and that easy pass had indeed completely sealed this door that was difficult to shake in the real dimension.
He exhaled softly and looked up at the door.
The mysterious ancient text is still clearly printed on the door frame: "This door leads to the Lost Home."
"To the Lost Home..." Duncan couldn't help but recall the situation on the other side of the door, recalling the Lost Home that sailed in the subspace and seemed to have been abandoned and decayed for an unknown number of years. He suddenly faced the door frame.
This sentence gave me a hint of understanding.
The words on this door are real, and the opposite side of the door really leads to the Lost Home, another Lost Home - a distorted projection of the Lost Home in the real dimension in the subspace.
Duncan grabbed the lantern, turned and left the hold, without stopping, passed through the cargo hold and superstructure where the light and shadow were reversed, and returned to the captain's cabin.
"Ah! Captain, you are back!" Goat Head was still here in confusion. The first thing he did when he saw Duncan coming back was to mumble, "Why did you leave so suddenly? Just now you said you went to subspace? This is not possible.
Just kidding! You..."
"I closed the 'subspace door' at the bottom of the ship," Duncan said casually as he put the lantern away, "I just went down to confirm it from 'this side'."
The goat-headed man was immediately choked by his words, and another "bang" sound came from between his head and the table.
Duncan couldn't help but glance at it: "Take it easy, don't make the same mistake as Alice."
The goat head did not pay attention to the ridicule in the captain's tone. It did not hide its astonishment at all: "You closed that door!? You mean, you closed the door from the subspace?"
"Otherwise?" Duncan asked back, "Isn't that door unable to be closed from 'this side'? Or can I take this effort?"
"You...is that why?" Goat 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 utility room.
It's an ordinary wooden door, and you just... closed it?!"
Duncan felt happy.
He just looked at the goat head happily, watching this guy who usually made people's brains boil with his chatter, actually fell into an incoherent situation, looking at this guy as if he had turned on the vibration mode.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,” he kept a calm expression on his face, but he was almost overjoyed in his heart.
Duncan knew that he hadn't explained the matter clearly yet, which caused some misunderstandings among the goat heads - but he mainly wanted to see how the guy's words turned around. This was the happiness of the most playful person in the boundless sea.
In addition to being happy, the slight sense of depression caused by exploring the "Broken Home" and that dark space has also weakened a lot.
But Duncan finally spoke. After all, it was about subspace. Only by explaining some things clearly can we avoid future risks. Moreover, the goat head knows a lot of secret knowledge. 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 entering the subspace this time was an accident, and I just need to hear your opinion."
"Unexpected... unexpected?" The goat head was stunned for a moment, and his tone instantly changed from the previous shock to extremely serious, "Please tell me, what exactly is going on?"
Duncan told the goat head about the fact that he entered the subspace as soon as he opened his eyes after a light sleep - of course, he concealed the details of the 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, apart from his "real name" and "origin", he doesn't have much to hide from Goat Head now, and hiding his real name and origin is not more because of how important this secret is -
—Purely because the stability of the Lost Home must be based on the "anchor" of "Captain Duncan".
The goat head said nothing and listened to Duncan's story very carefully.
Then it said that it didn’t know what was going on...
"According to your description, it is indeed subspace," the goat head said calmly, "but I have never heard of a situation like this. You directly...'entered' there in your sleep, and then came back safe and sound.
You know... you must know that although the threat of subspace to the real dimension is very serious, this does not mean that it is an easy place to 'reach'. Its danger is more reflected in the fact that its contamination is difficult to prevent.
"Loopholes in the soul, shaken beliefs, wrong sacrifices, these may all lead to the penetration of subspace power, but 'infiltration' and going in like you...'exploring' are completely different concepts."
Having said this, it paused for a moment, then turned its head and looked directly at Duncan with its empty, dark eyes: "Captain, you really weren't affected at all over there? You really... didn't feel anything lingering in your head.
what?"
"No," Duncan spread his hands and said calmly, "Do you think I'm delirious? I'm very normal."
The goat head was speechless for a moment.
Duncan said thoughtfully: "I've always seen you worried about the Homeless Ship falling into subspace again. I thought it would be easy to fall in..."
"This... is a relative concept," Goat Head explained with some embarrassment, "Falling downward from the real dimension is very dangerous, but even the Homeless Ship will not 'fall' casually.
"It's dangerous to fall down" and "it's easy to fall down" are not the same concepts, and... How can I explain to you? Generally speaking, victims who unfortunately fall into subspace...their process and feelings of entering subspace are the same as yours.
It is completely different. This is an extremely painful and terrifying process, and it is often difficult to simply end with death..."
After hearing this, Duncan thought carefully and shook his head: "I really didn't feel it..."
The goat head held it in for a long time and sighed.
Duncan was even a little shocked - for the first time in history, this talkative man didn't say anything, he just sighed!
Duncan thought for a moment and said seriously: "...Should I act more serious?"
Goat Head: "...You are worthy of the name of a moving natural disaster on the boundless sea..."
It's all just good reading, without any emotion at all, and every sentence is spoken like muscle memory.
"Then let's not discuss this issue," Duncan waved his hand upon seeing this, and directly changed the topic, "What are those huge shadows I saw in the subspace? Those broken land, wreckage, and the pale
Cyclops…what are they?”
The goat head suddenly fell silent. After nearly half a minute, it slowly spoke: "...As you can see, it is just a wreckage."
"Just wreckage?" Duncan frowned, "This is not really an answer. What kind of wreckage? Where did it come from? When did it come from? These..."
"The remains of the world," Goathead said, "all those who did not survive to this day have become twisted shadows in the warp in the ancient past."
Duncan was startled for a moment, then repeated in a deep voice: "The wreckage of the world?"
The goat head fell silent again, seeming to be 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 reacted: "You mean, everything in the current reality dimension..."
"...Yes, what's left after it falls off," the goat head said softly, "a tiny bit of residue, with a few stubborn bacterial colonies remaining on it."
Duncan was stunned, and suddenly thought of something: "Is this the truth about the Great Annihilation?"
"It's just an insignificant link," Goat 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 full picture.
"In your words, there is a 'horizon limit', and all information is on the other side that is unknowable and unobservable, unless there is some truly omniscient and omnipotent great being who can instantly see from subspace to the deep sea to the spiritual world and reality.
All the secrets of the dimension, and pushing them back ten thousand years, can we know what happened during the Great Annihilation - but even so, what's the point?
"I know what else you want to ask, but unfortunately, this is all I know, and I can't guarantee that they are all true - I do know some things related to subspace, but even the so-called 'truth'
', it may not necessarily be distorted into something after being affected by the subspace. Causal logic and time sequence are meaningless, and my fragmented knowledge... I don't even know how much of it is there.
The real memories are partly the shadows left behind in the process of leaving the subspace."