Deep Sea Embers

It is no exaggeration to say that Duncan clearly heard a "crack" sound coming from somewhere on the sailor's body - apparently a joint was dislocated when the mummy shivered.

Then the ghostly wails of Abnormal 077 exploded on the back deck: "Captain! Captain, don't scare me! I am loyal, diligent, conscientious and honest! You can tell me what I did wrong and I will change it. Don't take this Scare me... How about you put me in a cannon and shoot me out..."

The mummy's broken gong voice echoed over the entire rear deck, and while it was yelling, it was pulling its body hard to climb up the railing on the edge of the bridge, as if it was going to jump from this place in the next second - in fact He really climbed over the railing, but the moment he was about to jump out, a cable rushed out like a sharp arrow, directly tied to the guy's ankles and dragged him back to the bridge. She also wrapped herself around him several times.

Duncan glanced at Anomaly 077 who was still struggling to crawl out with a half-smile, then took two steps forward and just watched quietly without saying a word.

Anomaly 077's howling of ghosts and wolves stopped abruptly. He shivered visibly again, shrunk his neck and stopped moving. After holding it in for a long time, he said: "If you are bored, just stew me...I will show you a pot." Sit-ups……"

"There aren't that big pots on the ship," Duncan said casually, then put away the smile on his face and turned serious, "I'm serious - I need to do some tests."

Noticing the changes in the captain's tone and expression, Anomaly 077 finally realized something. He looked up at Duncan blankly: "...test?"

"Let him go." Duncan nodded and said casually - the lifelike cables immediately fell off from Anomaly 077 in circles, and retreated to the side with a rustling sound.

The sailor climbed up in surprise, first grabbed his thigh and pushed it back to straighten the joint (now Duncan knew where the "crack" sound on this guy just now came from), and then nervously Following the captain, he looked around and paid attention to the movements of the cables around him - he came to the dark steering wheel, but still did not dare to reach out and touch it. After hesitating for a long time, he couldn't help but said: "Is it what you want to test? yes……"

"Route." Duncan said calmly.

The sailor's face changed slightly, and his eyes finally had a thoughtful look.

"I know you can't recall anything about the route - Lucretia already told me," Duncan turned to look into the sailor's eyes, "but I trust the information Captain Kalani left in the log - -Strictly speaking, I think she should have considered the changes that may occur to you after returning to the Infinite Sea when she left that diary. After all, she had faced the gods directly and had undergone fundamental changes in herself. She has 'recovered' from this change again - she possesses 'knowledge' that ordinary people cannot understand."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at the sailor.

"So, I want to understand 'you' now, and understand the truth hidden under your various 'characteristics' as 'Anomaly 077', just like Captain Kalani's log is recorded in your shroud, I think You are also a kind of 'vehicle' yourself, and to conduct tests in this area... letting you use your 'power' is the most effective way."

The sailor was stunned, thinking and lowering his head to look at his hands: "My power..."

"When Anomaly 077 is active, it will try to 'take over' the ship closest to it, and cause the ship to be randomly teleported within the boundless sea," Duncan said slowly about the church's records about "Anomaly 077-Sailor" "The out-of-control feature," and "every time it teleports, the affected ship will be swept into a storm - now, this feature arouses my curiosity."

The sailor seemed to gradually understand what the captain meant. He raised his head and looked at the dark steering wheel in front of him, which was slowly and automatically fine-tuning in the night, but he still hesitated: "But if I really touch the rudder..."

"Don't worry, the Homeless Ship will not really be affected by you - I just want to use this to observe how your ability takes effect," Duncan said casually, "And even if the 'teleport' and ' A storm isn't much of a problem, it's not as good as a breeze for this ship."

"Um, that's not what I meant." The sailor shook his head quickly and looked around cautiously. "I meant that this ship won't beat me up... I have observed before that people will be beaten up on this ship." There are so many things, I saw at least three fights within two hours of boarding the ship..."

As soon as he finished his muttering, Alice stood up proudly.

Duncan's eyes suddenly twitched and he looked at the inexplicably stiffened doll: "Why are you so proud!"

Alice raised her head: "I won the fight with the barrel!"

Duncan: "..."

He forcibly ignored the puppet lady beside him, and his eyes fell on Anomaly 077: "I control everything on this ship. Now I allow you to take the helm temporarily. You don't have to worry about the consequences. Of course, if you really resist this plan, I will There is another 'research proposal'."

The sailor's eyes suddenly lit up: "Is there any other plan?"

Duncan didn't say anything, but silently raised his hand, and a bright flame danced on his fingertips.

The sailor's eyes suddenly darkened: "I still like your first plan..."

Duncan casually dispersed the flames at his fingertips and gestured to the rudder next to him with his eyes: "Before I light the fire, do what you should do."

The sailor finally sighed, knowing that he had no reason to hesitate now.

His withered chest bulged hard, and he took a deep breath in the night. Feeling the cool air flowing out of his body, he gritted his teeth and came to the steering wheel. He closed his eyes and stretched out his hands.

Anomaly 077’s claw-like hands grasped the steering wheel of the Lost Home—

The first mate of the Sea Song took to the helm.

And almost the moment the sailor touched the helm, Duncan heard an illusory and distorted roar - the sound was like the loud noise of the ship sliding into the sea from the shipbuilding platform, as if a huge wave was losing its homeland. Rising around the ship, the sea was shaking and cracking beyond the ship's sides.

The Lost Home was affected by some kind of... "force", and in an instant, Duncan captured this "touch" that was acting on the entire ship.

An ordinary ship would have been swallowed up by some kind of dimensional rift due to this "touch" and been transported to a random place on the Infinite Sea and involved in a storm - but the Lost Home Still sailing steadily on the sea, under Duncan's conscious control, the unknown force could not really affect the ship's navigation.

Duncan frowned slowly. He sensed the current impact on the Homeless Ship, and then he seemed to suddenly feel something and turned his head to look aside.

A hazy phantom appeared in the corner of the bridge almost at the same time - Agatha, dressed as a female explorer, emerged from the mirror world. She looked at Duncan while holding on to the handrail next to her precariously: "Captain? What happened!? This side of the spirit world..."

Before Agatha could finish speaking, Duncan quickly walked towards her: "Agatha, I need to borrow your 'eyes'."

Agatha was startled when she heard this, but she immediately reacted and reached out to reach for her eyeballs: "Ah, okay, just wait a minute and I'll pick it..."

Duncan was immediately startled and quickly interrupted: "Stop! No need to pick it out!"

Agatha looked a little confused: "Huh?"

Duncan didn't have time to explain, so he lit a green flame and pointed it at Agatha's forehead——

"Don't be nervous, it's harmless."

Before he finished speaking, the link to the flames was established.

The gatekeeper's vision reflected in Duncan's eyes.

Everything in front of him seemed to be "trembling" rapidly and briefly, and all the lights and shadows were misaligned and then reorganized - Duncan felt that his field of vision was reversed several times, and then stabilized, and the latter was completely different from when Alice shared vision. The experience appears in his perception.

He saw the world in black, white and gray, saw the phantom of the Lost Home reflected in the sea surface of the "sky", and saw invisible waves rising and rising in the boundary between reality and illusion, and in all these intertwined, In the incredible scenery, he saw the...continuous collapse and reorganization of the sea in the distance!

In front of the Lost Home, the sea is constantly repeating the process of disintegration like a poorly connected illusion. Waves appear and disappear suddenly. The entire sea surface disappears at one moment and turns into a dark "hole", and then in the next The moment is filled and reappeared, and misplaced scenery is constantly emerging in the distance. Every minute and every second, this process is repeated, just like... a "process" that is constantly restarting because it is stuck!

Duncan stood at the stern of the Reflection Lost Home, staring at the rapidly collapsing and changing "landscape" in the distance. Then he suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of the ship's rudder.

A hazy phantom stood there - holding the steering wheel tightly, but couldn't see its face clearly. The transparency almost disappeared, as if it was just a lingering sound, bound to the rudder.

Agatha stood next to Duncan, and in the mirror world, her figure seemed extremely real.

Looking at the incredible scene on the sea in the distance, she finally couldn't help but ask: "Captain, what on earth is that?"

"...is the route," Duncan said softly, "the correct route from the 'border' to the 'outer barrier' composed of the gods."

Agatha's eyes widened.

"As Captain Kalani said in her log, she handed over the route to her first mate - this route has not disappeared," Duncan continued slowly, "Anomaly 077-Sailor, he is the route itself."

The sea surface in the distance reorganized and collapsed again, and the illusory roar echoed across the entire sea, as if the whole world was resonating with it!

"This is the route. The so-called process of 'Anomaly 077 taking over and causing the ship to teleport randomly' is actually just some kind of navigation - it is the first mate of the Sea Song trying to guide the ship to the 'destination' in his memory. It's just that This process cannot be completed within the boundless sea, so..."

He paused and spoke softly after a moment.

"So, those storms."