Duncan returned to the cabin with a rich harvest.
With a heavy thud, a big fish almost as tall as an adult was thrown to the ground by him, and a few smaller ugly fish were also thrown next to the big fish.
"These fish struggled really hard today, luckily I am stronger," Duncan said with a proud and happy tone, while wiping his scalp. In fact, he was not sweating at all, but as a fisherman who showed off with a bunch of big fish, wiping his scalp at this time was the most basic respect for the animals. "Come and take a look, this is a specialty from the depths of the Infinite Sea. Although it looks ugly, it actually tastes quite good... Why do you all have those expressions?"
Duncan finally shifted his gaze away from his prey, and looked up to find Shirley, Morris and Agou hiding far away in the boat. Apart from Agou's expression which was difficult to understand, Morris and Shirley's faces were obviously not right.
Only Nina came over and greeted as usual: "Duncan, save him!" Then she looked curiously at the fish thrown on the floor.
It was indeed a fish, although an ugly one—but it was indeed the same kind that Uncle Duncan had taken home earlier.
"They are really ugly..." Nina exclaimed in amazement, "They were uglier before they were made into dried fish? And how did they become like this...
"Why do they all look like this?" Duncan couldn't help asking as he looked at Shirley and Maurice across the cabin who looked like they had seen ghosts.
"They were frightened by the noise you made when you caught the fish, uncle," Nina answered immediately. Then, as if thinking for a moment, she showed a slightly embarrassed expression, "Actually, I was also frightened... The noise you made when you caught the fish was really big..."
"Was the noise I made when I caught the fish a big one?" Duncan frowned doubtfully, as if he had vaguely sensed something. He raised his head and looked at Morris who was sitting in the distance, "Did anything happen just now?"
Morris then carefully stood up from his chair, and then cautiously came to the ugly fish. After looking at them again and again to confirm that they had really turned into fish, he hesitated and said, "Mr. Duncan, are you... bad friends with the deep sea creatures? To the point of twisting them into this appearance..."
Duncan was startled for a moment, and finally realized what was going on with this dissonance from the beginning to the end. He slowly turned his head to look at Ni Lian, and said thoughtfully: "... In your opinion, isn't what I caught a fish?"
"It is now, but not just now," Nina stuck out her tongue and replied in a low voice, "Just now we saw you fighting with a huge thing. It was... like this...
Nina stretched out her hands, trying to gesture the huge sea beast that could never appear in human consciousness, and then described the scene on the deck that she had just seen. While she was talking, Duncan's expression became a little serious, and then he fell into thought again.
"That's about it," Ni Yu finally finished. She turned her head and looked at the strange fish again, with a tone of disbelief, "but we didn't expect that thing to actually turn into... fish."
Duncan fell silent for a while, and after a long while, he murmured thoughtfully: "It sounds like a huge octopus.
Shirley, who had been hiding aside and not saying anything, finally came over in her clothes. Wen Dang couldn't help but be curious: "Octopus? What is that?"
"It's actually edible," Duncan explained. "It looks scary, but it tastes okay."
As soon as these words came out, the expressions on Shirley and Morris' faces became interesting again.
Duncan didn't care about their reactions at the moment. He just looked at his cat and fell into deep thought.
It turns out that the “fish” I lined up… weren’t actually fish at first.
The descendants of the deep sea, the terrible "monsters" in the sea, the sea monsters that terrified the captains and sailors - they only became fish after being "fished" by themselves.
Why did this change happen
Duncan first felt the surprise and confusion, but in the end, these surprises and confusions converged into a more fundamental problem.
Is this fish still edible
Duncan was a little confused for a moment, but after a few seconds he got the answer - it's not like he hasn't eaten them before, and apart from the fact that they look a little ugly, they taste pretty good.
This is the Wugen Sea. There are countless strange things in the Wudui Sea. Compared with those truly indescribable horrors, what's so surprising about the deep-sea monsters turning into ugly fish after coming ashore? Although the words "deep-sea offspring" sound pretty cool, let's think more broadly. Aren't deep-sea offspring just a kind of sea monster? Throughout human civilization, how many things that were once regarded as terrifying monsters ended up on the table
Duncan believes that the essence of this whole thing is that one kind of food was used as another kind of material on the Lost Homeland...
The words "I've eaten it before" dispelled all the doubts and entanglements in Duncan's heart. He decided to not care about it anymore and just regard it as uncovering the secret behind the delicious taste of the ingredients - if he was really worried, the worst that could happen was that he would go back and ask Alice to cook it for a little longer.
Shirley and Morris watched as Duncan's expression became cheerful again, and heard his plan; "Don't think too much about it, I'll send these fish to the kitchen first."
Shirley was too careless to be cautious at this point: "Do you really want to eat it?!"
"It's not like you haven't eaten it before," Duncan gave the girl a strange look, "Didn't you enjoy it last time?"
Shirley: “…”
No matter what the visitors' mentality was, this special dinner on the Lost Hometown was finally served on the table.
And for Duncan, today is destined to be a special day.
After being deserted for such a long time, the Lost Homeland finally welcomed a day that could be considered "lively". In the energy room in the middle of the deck, the long-closed restaurant was reopened. Bright oil lamps drove away the darkness in the cabin. The long table was polished to a gleaming shine, and on it was the most sumptuous meal that could be provided on the ship.
Freshly baked bread, vegetable soup, pea stew, endive and mashed potatoes, two low-proof wines and a strong liquor, and fish.
Of course, there are also Ai Yin's fries and ketchup.
Duncan sat at one end of the long table, Nina sat next to him, and Alice came to join in the others. Shirley, Agou Morris, and Ai Yin sat at the two ends of the long table.
To be fair, compared with this huge restaurant and long table, the few more people in front of them can't be called "lively", and strictly speaking, there is not even a real "ordinary human" here except Morris. But even so, this will be the most atmospheric meal Duncan has had since he came to this ship.
After all, when he usually eats, the person sitting next to him is either Goat Head or Alice. There are not even two people on the whole ship who can eat. When he finally finds Ai Yin, the only food he gets is French fries...
For the "visitors" who boarded the ship today, this would be the most unbelievable and impressive meal in their lives. Morris looked at the plate in front of him. The grilled fish that Alice cut herself was placed in the middle. After being cooked, it was hard to see any weird or scary elements in the flesh of the offspring - it was like real food, and even had an alluring aroma.
Sitting on the Lost Homeland, living with the shadows of the warp, sharing the flesh and blood of the children of the deep sea.
Morris even couldn't help wanting to whisper the holy name of the God of Wisdom, Rahul - but he was afraid that the gods would really bring down a bad blessing on him and make him accidentally see something he shouldn't see.
The people sitting at the table seemed a little reserved, and Duncan noticed this, so he was the first to raise his glass: "First of all, welcome everyone again - although the process was a little unexpected, you are all members of the Lost Homeland now, so use this glass of wine as a welcoming ceremony."
The tangle and tension in his heart quickly gave way, and Morris hurriedly raised his glass and stood up, followed by Shirley and Ni Hao who followed suit - but Duncan quickly glanced at the two girls and said: "You two just drink the juice."
"I'm almost an adult!" Shirley said subconsciously.
"I... I'll just have a sip," Nina whispered to Ruo, "Fruit wine is fine too..."
… Then you two are only allowed to drink a little,” Duncan said seriously.
, "I'll have Alice watch over there."
"Hey! Hello uncle/Hello Mr. Duncan!"
Morris watched the communication between Shirley, Nina and Duncan with a little surprise. This scene, which seemed a little too down-to-earth, suddenly relaxed his tense nerves a little.
It wasn't just Morris's nerves that relaxed a little.
When Nina excitedly took a sip of the fruit wine but still choked and coughed repeatedly, the atmosphere in the entire restaurant seemed to relax.
Duncan felt that he could now talk about his next thoughts and support.
"After dinner, I will arrange for Ai Yin to take you back to the city-state," he looked around the dining table and said in a relaxed and calm tone, "Mr. Morris, you can go home directly, Shirley, Agou and Nina, you can go back to the Gug store.
Nina was recovering from a cough caused by a sip of fruit wine. When she heard Duncan's words, she suddenly thought of something; "Ahem...Uncle... Ahem, then you..."
"Of course I'll wait for you there," Duncan laughed, his eyes also falling on Shirley, "In fact, it has always been like this - I am both here and in the city-state."
"Uh..." Shirley was a little dazed. After a few seconds, she suddenly blinked, "I thought... after solving the problem of Boland, you no longer paid attention to that city-state. Just like what the story said, the captain continued to embark on an adventure..."
"Of course the captain will continue his adventure, and the Lost Homeland will still sail in the boundless ocean," Duncan looked at Shirley with a half-smile, "but the captain is still paying attention to the civilized world, and the crew of the Lost Homeland... you will return to your familiar life on land, but you may re-board the ship when the situation requires.
“…We have to come back?!” Shirley was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.
Nina also reacted: "We can still come back!?"
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