Chapter 838: Stop Arguing, I'm Thinking

Duncan listened silently to the voices coming from his heart, including the steady and reliable reports from Vanna and Morris, the helpless complaints from Lucrecia, and sometimes the chattering from Shirley and the tireless exhortations from Nina. These voices that came across time and space seemed like anchor chains with warmth, and after the two "avatars" he left in the city-state gradually became ineffective, they still firmly anchored him to the side of reason and humanity.

Then, he temporarily ended the communication with Vanna and others, slowly walked across the entire deck, through the stairs and ramps at the stern, and came to the towering stern control platform.

The puppet still stood quietly on the control platform, holding the dark steering wheel tightly with both hands, and the unfocused eyes were looking forward. Countless invisible threads extended from her body, connecting the Lost Homeland under her feet and the illusory projection of the New Hope in the sky.

A little thin mist suddenly spread from the decks in all directions, flowing and converging.

Duncan noticed the strange fog and frowned subconsciously. Then, he realized that the gray-white background in the distance seemed to have gradually "cracked" - large patches of fog appeared at the end of the "channel" with uniform texture, and there was a sense of emptiness in the depths of the fog.

Almost at this moment, he heard the intermittent and vague voice: "The jump is over..."

There was a slight shake from the Lost Home, but it did not produce such obvious vibrations as when it suddenly entered a certain "medium" when it arrived at the border node before. The channel was broken silently, and the endless and thin fog filled the surroundings in almost the blink of an eye. The next second, Alice, who was at the helm, blinked, and the consciousness of the puppet suddenly returned to her body.

"Captain!" Miss Puppet looked at Duncan, and a happy and credit-seeking smile instantly bloomed on her face, "We're here!"

Duncan nodded, but was startled just as he was about to speak - he noticed that the edge of the Lost Home was rapidly becoming "blurry"!

No, not just the edge, the whole ship is rapidly becoming "blurred"! Shrouded in fog, everything in his vision seemed to suddenly lose its clear "boundaries", the deck lost details, the mast gradually dimmed in the fog, and even Alice in front of him seemed to merge with the fog and quickly transform into some kind of illusory form.

And the dark green flames covering the Lost Hometown also dissipated in the process!

Alice seemed to notice something, she was stunned in place, then slowly lowered her head, looking at her hands that were quickly losing details and "blurring": "... Eh?"

But the next second, Zhou Ming-Duncan reacted suddenly.

The dark green flames covering the Lost Hometown were suddenly stained with a layer of hazy starlight, and Duncan's eyes seemed to be shining with billions of stars, and the Lost Hometown, which was already on the verge of information collapse, was quickly rebuilt and re-assigned in his vision-under the burning of the star-filled flames, the deck and masts were restored to their original state in almost the blink of an eye, and Alice's figure also stabilized in front of him.

The puppet barely reacted to what happened, she saw the flames on the ship suddenly "change color", and then the same flames surrounded her. After a few seconds of stagnation, she raised her hand and looked at it, exclaiming: "Wow--"

Duncan still had some lingering fear in his heart. He took a deep breath and finally felt a little bit of reality for the "edge of ash" discovered by Lenora for the first time.

This is the real boundary of order, the edge of nothingness, the "primitive sea" where information units are not assigned, the information here has not yet been defined, and all the "creatures" from the shelter, even the Lost Homeland returning from the subspace, are not a "data structure" that can exist stably here-because there is no data structure here at all!

The only ones who can maintain their relative "safety and stability" in this place are probably those who have experienced the Great Annihilation and have obtained "self-stability" at the information level.

For example, the "reverse singularity", such as the wreckage of the New Hope.

Duncan took a deep breath to calm himself, reached out and touched Alice's hair, and then looked around - speaking of the wreckage of the New Hope, where is Leigh Nora?

He and his ship had already arrived at the location of the escape pod's positioning signal, but he looked around on the towering stern deck and did not see any entity in this chaotic and empty "fog".

"Can you feel the signal from the escape pod?" Duncan asked Alice with a frown, "We should have arrived at the location, right?"

"Yes, theoretically it should be here," the puppet finally came back to his senses from the beautiful starlight around him, and quickly sensed the location of the escape pod, then scratched his head in confusion, "The signal is nearby... I sensed it just now, why can't I see it..."

Duncan's mouth suddenly trembled: "Could it be that she was knocked away again..."

Alice was startled when she heard this, and keenly captured the key: "Again?"

Duncan: "... You don't have to worry about this, let's find Lenora first."

As he spoke, he slowly released his perception, while carefully controlling the part of his power that belonged to the "anti-singularity", trying to find the abnormal breath around the Lost Homeland.

At this time, he was thinking of two things in his mind-first, the unfortunate Frost Queen was really knocked away by the Lost Homeland, and second, the unfortunate Frost Queen was not crushed by this big ship...

He came here to meet the Queen, not to let the Queen "get lucky". This matter will be embarrassing when they meet later, and it is difficult to explain.

At this time, Alice also reacted. Miss Doll thought hard in her head for a long time, and finally clapped her hands: "Yes... The Lost Homeland directly "flew" here according to the positioning signal of the escape pod, so when it landed, it would land directly on the escape pod..."

Duncan sighed - what's the use of reacting at this time.

If he had known earlier, he should not have let Alice jump directly according to the positioning beacon of the escape pod. At least a safe distance of "XX from the jump position mark" should be set. But he didn't expect that the positioning of the New Hope was so accurate. When the Lost Homeland went to the Four Gods Node before, it didn't hit them directly on the forehead...

And just as he sighed in his heart, Duncan suddenly really sensed something.

He "scanned" an "entity" that did not belong to the Lost Homeland.

But the location of that entity... was on the Lost Homeland.

Duncan raised his head in confusion and looked at a certain direction in his perception. After some confirmation, the expression on his face gradually became subtle.

Alice also noticed it: "Ah, Captain, have you found it?"

"Let's go over and see the situation first." Duncan muttered casually, and then took Alice away from the bridge. They walked through the platform and the connecting stairs, followed the guidance in the induction, and finally came to the front door of the captain's room at the stern.

Alice looked up at the familiar place in front of her, holding her head with both hands: "This is the captain's room, I don't see anything else."

However, Duncan still stared at the door of the captain's room (the door of the lost home) in front of him. He sensed the changes that had taken place here, and even... gradually understood the changes that had taken place here.

After frowning and thinking hard for a long time, he finally took a step forward and put his hand on the... door axis side of the door of the lost home.

The distorted and dislocated space-time structure emerged in his mind, and turned into an understandable reality mapping. He found the node of this dislocated space-time and reached out and gently pushed it.

The door opened—it was pushed open from the door axis.

Alice stared at this scene in amazement, and after a long while, she blurted out: "Can it be opened from here?!"

Duncan: "... Stop making noise, I'm thinking."

There was a hazy halo behind the door, as if there was an "indoor space" that did not belong to the Lost Homeland, which was shrouded in a layer of constantly shaking optical phenomena.

Unlike the process of directly teleporting to the "bachelor apartment" when the Lost Homelander's door was pushed open "under normal circumstances", this time what appeared in front of Duncan seemed to be a real "entrance", an entrance that could even allow entities other than him to enter.

He first reached out his hand into the halo to try it out, and then turned his head to look at Alice: "Are you coming?"

Alice nodded without hesitation: "Yes!"

Duncan reached out to Miss Doll: "Follow me—hold my arm, and don't let go until you are sure it is safe."

Alice immediately grabbed Duncan's arm obediently and followed the captain towards the hazy halo.

They seemed to have passed through a cold curtain. After a very brief dizziness and sensory dislocation, the scene in front of them quickly stabilized.

A gorgeous and spacious room appeared in front of Duncan and Alice, real and down-to-earth.

Lenora was sitting on the big bed in the middle of the room with a dazed expression, staring blankly at Duncan and Alice who suddenly pushed the "door" and walked in. The Frost Queen seemed to have just suffered a great shock. She was stunned at this time. It was not until Duncan walked towards her that she suddenly reacted and raised her hands and gestured in the air.

"... Just ran over!"

Lenora's expression gradually became a little crazy.

"Such a big ship! It ran over us directly! Half of the room was smashed into pieces by the messy stuff that came in front of us. It took a long time to recover, and then you pushed the wall open and walked in! Such a big hole! Can't you go through the door?"

Pushing the wall open?

Duncan was stunned for a moment and looked back at the direction he came from.

He saw Lenora's door, which was well embedded in the wall and was still closed at the moment, but there was a big hole in the wall next to the door - that was where he and Alice came in.

Time and space dislocation.jpg.

Alice quietly poked Duncan's arm: "Captain, why don't you speak?"

"...Don't make noise, I'm thinking again."