Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 242

He was now "opposite" the door.

After confirming this fact, Duncan involuntarily approached the crack in the door and carefully observed the scene on the other side.

This made him couldn't help but think of his previous experience after exploring the bilge, and how he immediately returned to the bachelor's apartment to confirm the situation on the other side of the crack in the door - a familiar mentality, a familiar scene.

But just like last time, there was no other "Duncan" on the other side of the door stabbing this way with a sword.

Duncan frowned slightly.

He has now reached this side of the door and has witnessed the situation on this side with his own eyes. He even searched the entire ship, and during the search, he found nothing wrong.

Then... what on earth was the guy who tried to disguise himself that he saw in the crack at the bottom of the ship in the real dimension...?

Duncan frowned slightly, turned around and looked around the empty and dim cabin, as if he wanted to find the thing that was originally disguised as "Zhou Ming" here - he remembered that he gave the opponent a sword at that time, but if this was really the In the subspace, that simple sword shouldn't be enough to kill the opponent. It should at least leave some traces here.

But no, there were no traces.

After searching carefully, Duncan finally began to doubt his judgment at the time.

Then his eyes returned to the door.

As he expected, the ordinary sign on the door was still there!

Zhou Ming put his hand on the doorknob with a smile on his face.

“About 1.4 meters – not very strong, but in good shape.

This figure is my own reflection in the mirror.

There was a soft click, and the door was tightly closed. Zhou Ming silently stared at the door that was not closed. After a few seconds, his expression tensed up, and then gradually relaxed, while his heart seemed to react slowly. After half a beat, it suddenly started pounding.

However, this door may not exist - even if this ship really "does not exist", this door must exist, because it can even exert an influence on itself like "inducing itself to open the door", and it has extraordinary power. The stuff definitely exists here!

Huge confusion filled his mind, but it was difficult for Zhou Ming to sort out his thoughts. He checked around the far side of the door and the entire cabin, but could not find any clues that could answer his doubts. As time gradually passed, He could only give up temporarily.

It seems that he has not yet found the entrance and exit on the ship that connects the subspace and the real dimension. In theory, if he opens the door from there, he should be able to return to the real world.

"your height?"

That strange Chinese.

"Duncan." His heartbeat almost skipped a beat, and he subconsciously took a half step forward. It was not the forward movement that made me realize that the mirror opposite me was actually a mirror.

"About eighty-seven years old

After calming down, he put his hand on the doorknob.

Looking around, you can only see endless darkness, which is the ultimate pure black, as if everything has not died out, as if there is no special darkness in the universe.

After a long time, he took a deep breath and took another step forward quickly.

Gradually he frowned.

Then, he lowered his head and looked at the new ripples caused by his half-step forward, and saw the writing emerging from the ripples - the feeling of penetrating the thick fog hit his face, followed by a brief period of weightlessness and confusion. Feeling, but this feeling soon faded away, and Duncan slowly opened his eyes.

The door to the homeless.

The door to the captain's cabin stood there quietly, maintaining the same appearance as when he left.

He didn't even feel the door's presence.

In the two seconds when he closed the door, he emptied his mind and didn't think about anything. He didn't think about returning to the real world, he didn't think about being trapped here, and he didn't think about all the consequences. He only gave himself "that door". He gave a strong hint of "safety" and then completed the execution without hesitation - and it was not until the door was completely closed that he allowed the emotions that he had forcibly suppressed to

Waves were released and a deep breath was exhaled.

"my age?"

Even though it was pitch black and there seemed to be nothing there, there was ground beneath his feet - when he stepped out, he would feel down to earth.

Just like the ship, in his perception, the door did not exist!

That kind of extreme dark space is enough to make anyone feel extremely depressed or even frightened. Duncan also knew this. However, for some reason, he stood there without the slightest resistance. On the contrary... he felt an inexplicable sense of relaxation and comfort. .

This door connected everything I was familiar with, and it also brought me the first and biggest mystery in this world.

Facing the real world face to face is the "Lost Home" I am facing.

When faced with the question of what is on this ship that means the most to me, that is the first time I open the door.

Duncan's eyes moved up. On the doorframe of this door, a few unfamiliar words could be vaguely seen in the dimness.

I don’t know what the reason for that weird feeling of relaxation was, but intellectually, he knew that he was in the right state. The conflict between reason and senses made me more cautious and tried to take a step back.

Zhou Ming shook his head gently, putting aside those confusions for the time being, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart - subspace is really a place full of mysteries.

It's not like two lines of text, it looks like a question and an answer.

After a moment of firmness, Duncan took a step forward.

With a slight force in his hand, he pushed the door outward. With a slight rotation of the door axis, the "Gate of the Homeless" was pushed open in a way that was unfamiliar to him. On the other side of the door, there was a thick fog that was also unfamiliar to him.

The things he saw in the crack in the door...maybe they were just illusions presented by the subspace, phantoms that only he could see at the time. This was also in line with the characteristic that "subspace will show a reflection of the mind."

Unexpectedly nervous - he still remembered that when he and Alice saw this door in the real dimension, they also tried to close the door, but found that the entire door seemed to be cast together with the space and was solid, no matter how much force was used It can be pushed even slightly, but on that side of the door, closing it only requires a slight pull.

But Duncan's attention was not on those huge floating objects. He walked directly across the empty deck and returned to the captain's cabin door.

The words rippled in my footsteps:

Duncan felt his heart pounding. He subconsciously changed the direction and took another step in the darkness.

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"What do I look like?"

He did not return to his bachelor apartment where he had lived for a long time.

The dilapidated and old Homeless Ship is still floating in the chaotic darkness of the universe. The light and shadow turbulence that appears from time to time around it often reflects the shadows of some huge and terrifying fragments, slowly drifting from far or near places. These Some of the fragments look like complete landmasses, some are huge twisted creatures, and some are simply unable to recognize their original appearance at all, just a pile of simple "accumulations" that have not lost their color and shape, which makes them even more terrifying to look at.

"What is my name?"

Then he pulled gently and closed the door.

Duncan immediately summed up a new experience: on the "Old and Dilapidated Homeless Ship", after opening the door of the Homeless Man, he failed to return to the bachelor's apartment, but entered a strange, dark space.

"It looks like this."

I stood in darkness.

It's just... I can't explain why this phantom didn't affect my mind at all, and it was even easily solved.

A middle school teacher who teaches Chinese and loves to read.

We can't waste all our time in this weird place - since there are huge hidden dangers in the "exit" of the bilge, we should find another way out.

Duncan lowered his head and looked at the place where he had landed. At this moment, he suddenly saw some ripples appearing under his feet. Colors other than darkness actually appeared in the dark place - these ripples emerged. What comes out are words.

Duncan's eyes changed slightly, and then he tentatively took a step forward. Sure enough, the moment he landed, new ripples emerged in the darkness, still in Chinese, still a sentence of questions and answers:

He immediately turned around and walked towards the stairs leading to the lower cabin, quickly passed through the dark and empty cargo hold and the lower crew cabin, passed through the wooden door connecting the lower deck and the cabin, and came to the deck.

Although there is no clear evidence, a strong intuition reminds Duncan that the way to return to reality is by no means simply pushing the door out from there - this is a temptation, a trap, and his loss of home in the real dimension. There was another seduction in the bilge of No. 1, and now this is the second time

, more secretive than the first time, more difficult to detect.

There may really be an "exit" to the real world, but you can never really push that door open!

Duncan stopped and watched quietly as the ripples under his feet gradually spread. The gray-white Chinese writing became more and more turbid in the ripples, and then returned to bright colors and dissipated as the ripples spread.

In the darkness, a bright light suddenly appeared. Something in the bright light seemed to condense and form instantly. Suddenly, I saw a figure appearing on the opposite side, a figure exactly like myself!

Over there, the door is slightly open to the outside of the door frame, but in the real dimension of the Lost Home's bilge, the door is slightly open to the inside, and the two correspond to each other.

"my occupation?"

Duncan stared at the door with deep eyes, and then slashed the door panel with the sword burning with spiritual flames in his hand. The green flames burned in the sky, swallowing up the entire door almost instantly. However, after a burst of burning, The door is still standing here quietly, as if it is not affected at all.

While thinking, Duncan suddenly remembered something.

Facing something that clearly belonged to the supernatural realm, the spiritual flame failed for the first time, but it wasn't because the door wasn't solid - on the contrary, he didn't feel the slightest resistance from the feedback from the flame.

Duncan lowered his head and saw that it was indeed his body as an "earth human". He turned around again and saw that the door he came from was standing here quietly, standing in the darkness out of thin air, maintaining With an open look.