Chapter 834 Their Last Journey

The "flames" among the stars flowed at the end of the world. In Duncan Zhou Ming's perception, he seemed to be able to clearly see that the sparks were slowly connecting into a ring——

Every fire he left on the four nodes of the external barrier is now spreading evenly with starlight, and these lights are gradually penetrating and covering those nodes, covering the " "Old God", covering their authority, covering their essence, covering their memory, covering...their information.

Just like when he first penetrated his flame into the golden sun mask and understood the secret hidden behind the mask, just like he usually uses flame to spy on and control extraordinary objects, what he is doing now is still the same. things.

Every piece of data from the beginning of this world to its end was gradually reflected in his mind during this process.

Because in the eyes of the "inverse singularity", this entire boundless sea, this heap of ashes that is gradually cooling but still persists in pretending that civilization still exists, is itself an "extraordinary object."

Alice lowered her head and looked at Duncan curiously: "Captain, how long do we have to wait here?"

"It's time to go," Duncan said softly, "Nina and the others have returned to the Infinite Sea safely, and it's time for us to continue to the next place."

Alice was curious: "Next place? You haven't told me where it is yet..."

"We have to find it ourselves - but it shouldn't be difficult." Duncan said slowly, then lowered his head and looked at something beside him.

It was an hourglass with a simple and exquisite shape. It was the "life" left by Bartok, the god of death, to the storm goddess Gemona. Three days ago, Duncan took this hourglass out of the temple.

Now, the sand that represents life in the hourglass has almost drained out.

Duncan picked up the hourglass, and a little flame burned illusively and quietly in the hourglass container. The last few remaining grains of sand did not fall, but floated in the center of the container in the flames. He stared at the last "life" and listened. A faint and small voice came from them, and then they nodded slightly: "Yes, I'm leaving."

A faint voice seemed to be saying goodbye to him, but almost no message could be heard.

Duncan seemed to have understood everything. He smiled, with gentleness and joy in his tone: "Ah, that sounds good... I want to be with my friends again, and I want to travel again, and have a lively trip." Group...and also want to open a shop selling souvenirs?

"Okay, I understand, I will arrange it... Don't doubt or worry, there will be. This is the only opportunity to customize the world and the future - you all deserve this opportunity.

"...Yes, it will take some time, a very, very long time, but don't worry, the most important thing I lack is time. For eternity, it only takes one blink..."

"We're leaving now, Gemona. Goodbye—and sweet dreams."

The last grains of sand dissipated quietly in the flames, and the hourglass disintegrated into dust silently. They drifted away in the wind, and the entire island began to sink little by little in the star-filled flames.

Duncan stood up and waved his hand to open the flame door leading to the Lost Home.

A moment later, they had returned to the Lost Home - under the control of Goat Head, the ship was smoothly passing through the fog between the Leviathan Islands, approaching the edge of the Node Sea.

Duncan took Alice to the captain's cabin. The moment the door opened, the goat head who was in a daze on the edge of the chart table immediately turned his head. The conscientious first mate let out a long sigh before the captain said to shut up and started Naobibao:

"Oh, I'm really not used to being so quiet on the ship. Usually at this time, Miss Vanna would have started exercising on the deck, and Shirley must be taking Agou around for 'adventures'. At first, I thought they were too noisy and always wanted to I was wondering when I would be able to be quiet. I didn’t expect that I would be quiet all of a sudden, but I still feel so out of place. I’m obviously just back to the way I was on the boat at the beginning. Think about how time flies. You said the human heart is really a wonderful thing. Why didn't I expect that I would experience such things? Of course, I can't be considered a good person now. I'll shut up after saying this."

The goat head simply shut his mouth without giving Duncan a chance to shout "Shut up" - the latter felt that the words on the other side, which were so dense that no water could penetrate, were crushing him like a wall, and he was about to open his mouth to give up. This guy shut up, but he didn't expect it to learn to answer quickly. As a result, he was holding the two words in his throat and couldn't get rid of them. He could only stare at the wood carving on the table, and after a while he said: "You Can you shut up?"

The goat-headed face was expressionless (of course, that stiff face usually had no expression): "Yes, I just need to finish what I said."

Duncan choked again. He suspected that this guy did it on purpose, and the evidence was sufficient, but the goat head definitely didn't care about this, so he could only say with a sullen face: "...Then you can continue to shut up here, I and I Alice goes to solve the next navigation problem.”

The goat head said concisely: "Understood."

Duncan's mouth trembled, and he took the puppet towards the dormitory deep in the captain's cabin. When he was almost there, he couldn't help but whisper to Alice: "I'll make a note of it later. I have to add a setting to the new world. I can't speak. All punctuation marks must be flashed..."

Alice also came over and muttered: "But Mr. Goat Head has no tongue at all, and his voice comes directly from his neck..."

Duncan entered the room and closed the door. He turned his head and looked at the doll lady: "Now that you mentioned it, I'm curious. Do you have a tongue?"

"Yes," Alice opened her mouth seriously and pulled the corner of her mouth with her fingers, "Look--Pulu Pulu, tongue."

"...I'm really curious about how the wrong replica of Navigator No. 1 "made" you. If you have a tongue, why can't you strengthen the joints?" Duncan looked at the cute doll with a subtle expression, turned around and came to the bed, then took out the clockwork key used to activate the "Navigator Version of Alice's Mansion" and shook it in front of the doll.

Without the captain's instructions, Alice had already sat in front of Duncan very skillfully, turned around, unzipped her back, and exposed the keyhole.

Duncan picked up the navigator key, but before turning the spring, he looked at Alice's back and suddenly fell silent. After a moment, he said, "Alice, I have a question."

"Hmm? You say."

"Have you ever thought about... wanting something? Like something you want, or a wish, like... not being a 'doll' anymore?"

Alice pressed her clothes and turned her head in confusion: "No, is there anything wrong with being a doll?"

"Don't you have any requirements or ideas about the new world and the future?" Duncan said seriously, "Nina and the others have more or less their own ideas about this matter. Shirley wants a large piece of free space, Morris wants space for research and exploration, and even the Queen of Leviathan has her own wishes to realize, but you... You have been very quiet. When we discussed the new world, you never expressed your opinion."

Alice was stunned, as if she was thinking seriously about the captain's question, but after a while, she shook her head: "Because I really don't have any opinions."

Duncan frowned slightly.

"Because I have nothing to be dissatisfied with, everything is good," Alice said seriously, "and I don't know what the new world should have. What I saw on the day of 'awakening' is all here. It's enough to have all these. Others...nothing else. And being a puppet is also good. I like it now."

Speaking of this, she suddenly paused, and quickly added: "Ah, if you must say, then I will stay with you in the new world - I can't get used to living in the city-state."

Duncan was stunned, and his face finally changed from surprise and astonishment to a helpless and gentle smile.

"Okay," he nodded gently, reaching out to touch Alice's hair, "I will take you with me, but this is just the basics - if you really don't know what you want, leave it to me, I will help you think and realize it."

"Oh, okay!" Alice nodded happily, moved on the bed and turned around, but suddenly seemed to remember something, and turned her head happily, "Oh, by the way, I want a new frying pan, a smaller one, the kind that can make small sweet pancakes, you add this."

"...Okay, I'll remember it," Duncan was stunned for a moment, a gentle smile gradually appeared on his face, and nodded solemnly, "In the new world, Alice wants a new frying pan."

"The kind used to make small sweet pancakes!"

"Yes, the kind used to make small sweet pancakes."

The clockwork key slid into the keyhole, and with a click, the key rotated in the keyhole of the doll - the light and shadow changed, the five senses were reset, Duncan opened his eyes and saw that he had returned to the position when he left Alice's mansion before.

The main engine hall of Pilot No. 3

Dim lights were pouring down from the sky. In the center of the dark hall stood a "tree" made of cables, pipes and metal branch structures. At the edge of the platform where the tree roots were located, the puppet holding the drawing board was slowly opening her eyes - just like a robot that was gradually turned on after being powered on, she woke up little by little, and then a smile appeared on her face.

"Captain! We are in again!"

Duncan nodded, walked over and helped the puppet who was a little uncomfortable because he had just woken up to get up.

"Captain, what are we going to do next? Do we want to say hello to the black sun at the door? Do we want to find the next route you mentioned?"

Duncan looked down at the "drawing board" in Alice's hand.

This so-called "drawing board" is essentially the remaining "functional interface" of the Pilot No. 3.

"I want you to search for something." He said.

"Searching for something? Searching for what?"

"The escape pod of the New Hope - it was left at the end of the ashes."

(Book recommendation time, Toad's new book "The First Magic World War" -

Charlotte Mecklen traveled to the Fars Empire and just wanted to be a civil servant in a foreign continent. She was not a combatant... But who would have thought that civilians would also go to the battlefield!

I'm recommending a book at the end of the book, highlighting that life and death are up to fate after the nurse...)