Deep Sea Embers

On the edge of order, the composition and operation rules of information presented a bizarre state - Duncan thought seriously for a long time and decided to give up thinking.

Anyway, the good news now is that Leigh Nora was not knocked out by the Homeless Ship, nor was she crushed under the ship - the bad news is that she was knocked "into" the ship, and she was still dazed at this time.

This reminded Duncan of a world-famous painting:

A dog who was hit by a car on the road and ended up embedded in the front bumper and was driven onto the highway.jpg.

Duncan coughed twice and put aside the somewhat unreasonable associations in his mind. He and Alice took two steps forward together, with some apology and concern on their faces: "Sorry, I didn't pay attention to you when we were sailing. Are you okay?"

Alice on the side lowered her head and didn't know what she was thinking. Then she suddenly poked Duncan's arm: "Captain, I remember that the Homeless ship hit the White Oak at the beginning and then I came to your ship. Now it's my turn." Come to the Frost Queen, is this the beginning and the end?”

Duncan immediately glared: "That's not how 'beginning and end' are used!"

Le Nora seemed to have recovered a little at this time. She rubbed her dizzy and swollen head, and stood up from the bed while adapting: "It's okay, it's just that the impact was a bit big - I didn't expect the way you showed up. It would be so... 'shocking'."

As she spoke, her eyes had fallen on Alice beside her. With a slightly strange and complicated look in her eyes, she carefully looked at the doll, which looked almost exactly the same as hers, and the latter also turned her eyes. , looked at Le Nora seriously and curiously.

After a long time, Le Nora suddenly smiled and stretched out her hand to Alice: "Hello."

Alice also laughed happily, grabbed Le Nora's hand and shook it up and down: "Okay!"

"It's incredible," Le Nora secretly sighed at the strength of the doll's hands, then turned to Duncan and said, "I didn't expect that the first time Alice and I met in the real dimension would be in such a state... Although it’s hard for us to say whether this place is a ‘reality dimension’.”

As she spoke, she quietly withdrew her hand, turned around, walked to the wall on the other side of the room, and raised her hand to wave.

The wall "broken" silently in the blink of an eye, turning into a transparent curtain. Beyond the curtain was endless nothingness, and a chaotic mist floating in the nothingness.

"I've been waiting here for a long time," Le Nora said slowly, looking at the "scenery" outside. "During this time, I tried to 'sail' along the edge of this thick fog, but found nothing. , there is only this kind of chaotic and void mist here - in fact, I couldn't even see the mist at the beginning, but could only feel that there was something 'something' here. It was only after I came into contact with you last time that I made the observation These fogs are capable, but that’s all.”

"Don't tell me that you tried to walk deeper into the Fog," Duncan looked at Le Nora with a strange look, "This is not an ordinary recklessness."

"Don't worry, although I am keen on exploring now, I haven't thrown away my brain yet," Leigh Nora smiled and shook her head. "The dangers in deeper places are unimaginable. Even with the protection of the 'Drift House', I Once you go in, you probably won’t be able to come back alive.”

"Your judgment is rational," Duncan exhaled slightly. "There is a 'original data sea' that is completely undefined and unassigned. Any entity that enters will be instantly cleared into the same unassigned state - just like here." "Boundary' status is not a concept."

Leigh Nora nodded slightly and looked at Duncan curiously: "You are here now, so what are you going to do next?"

"Confirm your conjecture first, and then do some research and testing to see if you can generate some 'samples' in this sea of ​​raw data," Duncan said immediately. It was obvious that he had a plan in mind, and then he looked at what was in front of him curiously. Frost Queen, "But now I'm more curious about another thing...can you come out of this room."

Ley Nora was stunned for a moment: "Get out of here?"

As she spoke, she looked up at the door-shaped hole left when Duncan and Alice pushed the wall into the house just now - the shimmering "passage" still existed stably.

"You mean..." She gradually came to her senses, "I will go to the Lost Home with you?"

"This is a door that can allow stable passage, although it seems that the way it opens is a bit strange now," Duncan nodded. "I feel that it can accommodate people to come and go freely, but I am not sure whether you are the one who can leave this room." 'entity'."

"...It should be possible," Le Nora frowned slightly, thought carefully and said, "I once put my hand out of the door to fish out the 'invisible things' in this sea of ​​ashes, and I also left the room. Entering your 'palace' floating in endless nothingness - although I am bound to be a part of this 'drifting house', there seems to be no problem as long as I don't leave too far."

"That's good," Duncan said with a smile on his face and extended his hand to Le Nora as an invitation, "Would you like to be a guest on the Lost Home?"

The Frost Queen also smiled and bowed slightly: "It's a great honor."

After passing through the cool curtain again and feeling the familiar slight dizziness and sensory dislocation, Duncan and Alice returned to the deck of the Lost Home again.

Then Duncan turned back to confirm, and saw that Le Nora had indeed successfully passed through the gate - she was standing in front of the "Gate of the Homeless" with an expression on her face that seemed to be a little confused.

Leigh Nora opened her eyes wide. Even though she had been prepared before, she was still in a daze for a moment after actually walking through the door.

Now, she was standing firmly on the deck of the Lost Home, with an open "world" surrounding her. Everything in her field of vision seemed so real and... "spacious".

She stepped out of her cage.

"I..." Le Nora's lips moved a few times, and it took a long time before she made a sound, "I actually walked out of the room..."

"Welcome to my ship. Before exploring this vast sea of ​​ashes, I will show you here first," Duncan said with a smile, opening his hands in a welcoming gesture. "There is no one here now, maybe It seemed relatively deserted, but it was very lively before.”

Leigh Nora listened in a daze. At this time, she finally adjusted her mentality. With a faint smile, she stretched outside the cage.

“It feels so good to come out.”

She said softly and looked back in the direction she came from.

The Door of the Homeless, pushed open from the door axis, stood quietly in her field of vision.

Duncan noticed that Le Nora suddenly stopped moving and asked casually: "What are you thinking about?"

"……I'm thinking……"

"Ahem, this door is magical. Through different opening methods, it can reconstruct the 'channel' in the chaotic relationship between time and space." Duncan coughed twice and explained with a serious and professional look on his face, "But You only need to know two ways to open it - if you pull it open from the door handle normally, it will lead to my captain's cabin. If you push it from the door axis, it will now be connected to your drifting house. "

Le Nora blinked her eyes and couldn't help but asked curiously: "What's the principle?"

Duncan thought for a moment and continued with a sullen face: "Because it's magical."

Leigh Nora immediately stopped asking.

Duncan took a step forward and closed the "Homeless Door" in the normal way. After restoring it to its normal state, he pulled its handle and opened the door to the captain's cabin.

He turned to Le Nora with a gesture of invitation.

On the chart table in the captain's room, the dark wood-carved goat head heard the noise and immediately turned its neck to look at the figures who came in through the door. Then at the first glance, he noticed Hanshuang walking side by side with Alice. Queen.

It was obviously startled for a moment, and then exclaimed: "Oh! I guess these are not the two Miss Alice - Captain, you have brought an incredible guest."

"This is my first mate," Duncan raised his hand to introduce, "His name is Sasloka, but you can just call it Goat Head."

Then he pointed at Leigh Nora and said to the goat head: "This is the Frost Queen. I don't need to introduce it too much - don't worry about the principles and processes in between. Anyway, she is on the ship now. In this paragraph Time as a guest here.”

"Hello, Mr. First Mate, you can just call me Le Nora," Le Nora nodded politely, but then she was stunned for a moment, as if she had a vague reaction, "Wait... Sa Sloka? This name seems to me..."

"It all happened when I was young," the goat head suddenly shook his head reservedly, with a weathered tone in his voice, "I was still very complete at that time, there was a body under my head... But now I am just The ship's first mate, Captain Duncan's most loyal mate."

As it spoke, it stretched its neck vigorously towards its side and pointed with its chin at another "goat head" (Dream Skull) placed on the other side of the chart table: "This is also Sasloka, I But there is something wrong with this head, and I can't communicate now. I usually talk to it unilaterally - it is a good listener, silent and patient, and the captain usually thinks that I talk too much. I shut up, but this head can't. And let me tell you, I always feel that this head is actually responsive. When I talk to it a lot, it sometimes moves a little, but the captain always says that it's all my imagination. …”

"Shut up."

"Okay Captain."

Leigh Nora looked at this scene with a dull expression. She didn't realize what happened just now. She felt that the goat-headed man opened his mouth and spoke, and then suddenly there was a wall-like sound wave coming towards her. There are no punctuation marks in it...

The last time she felt this kind of impact was dozens of minutes ago, when the Homeless Ship ran over to her...