Although a long time had passed since the last time he entered the warp, Duncan still clearly remembered that there was no goat head in the captain's room on the "Broken Homeland" on this side of the warp.
The only thing on the navigation table here is a nautical chart showing a strange and suspicious route.
But now, a pitch-black goat's head was quietly sitting on the navigation table, staring at him silently in the dim light - at the same time, Duncan could be sure that the moment the bedroom door opened, the pitch-black goat's head turned its gaze towards this side.
It is a living thing, and it responds to external stimuli!
Duncan quickly controlled the expression on his face, and while carefully paying attention to the movements of the goat head that was staring at him, he walked out of the bedroom and slowly approached the navigation table. As he moved, the goat head on the table indeed reacted - it slowly turned its gaze, always keeping its eyes on Duncan.
Duncan frowned suddenly.
The appearance of this goat head is exactly the same as the goat head in the real world, but the position is wrong - the "goat head" in the real world is placed on the left edge of the table, but the goat head in front of you is placed closer to the middle.
Duncan recalled quickly and soon remembered that he had placed the "Dream Skull" in this position before returning to his bedroom to rest.
The Dream Skull? This is the "Dream Skull" that I brought back from the cultists' ship? Why did it appear in the subspace? !
Countless small guesses and thoughts suddenly emerged in my mind. Duncan cautiously came to the navigation table. I supported the edge of the table with both hands, staring at the "goat head" under the table with a gloomy face. The former also quickly raised his eyes, and met Duncan's gaze with his empty eyes.
Zhai Dong tried to control the change of his facial expression and asked in a low voice, "You are Duncan, who are you?"
After frowning and thinking for a while, Zhai Dong asked tentatively, "Who are you?"
But at that time I was just passing by from a distance, and didn't even have time to see any details of the giant and the small land on its back - that time, the Lost Homeland rushed past almost closely along the face of the giant's remains.
The strange goat head under the table spoke: "He is bad, he is Duncan."
As my gaze moved closer, I saw this huge body stretching and undulating in the darkness, as well as this fragmented piece of land that was almost "embedded" around the body.
"... He knows everything, but he knows you are the "captain" there, and he also knows you are Duncan," Duncan's expression was not subtle, "Does he know that ship? Does he know where he is?"
Duncan suddenly felt a little curious: "What does he know?"
Duncan instantly raised his head from the table and subconsciously looked towards the nearby window.
However, the goat head behind him that looked like the "Skull of Dreams" directly said that point. That was a fact that could be announced under the Lost Homeland.
I blinked and confirmed again that the giant's clear single eye had indeed turned quickly as the Lost Homeland moved - this eye saw the Lost Homeland and was staring outside!
After several exchanges, Duncan stopped his attempts in that area and showed a nonchalant expression.
Duncan quickly retracted his gaze and fell on the goat's head under the table.
The goat head under the table remained silent for a long time. Just when Duncan thought it would respond, it suddenly opened its mouth and said, "You know."
Duncan suddenly recalled—when I retreated into the subspace for the first time, I had seen that amazing "individual" from afar!
Duncan gradually realized that the mind of the "Dream Skull" behind his eyes was not broken.
Zhai Dong raised his head and looked at the ruined cabin around him, and then looked through the empty windows at the tattered masts, decks and small side of the ship.
"He is the captain." The goat-headed man suspected to be the "Skull of Dreams" said fiercely.
Is it because that is the Warp? Because the ship is just a projection? Or is it because the Dream Skull that pointed out this matter is not part of the Lost Homeland, so its cognition will not affect the stability of the ship
I am Zhou Ming, a wandering soul. The little explorer named Duncan Abnormalmar is just the identity I "occupy" at the moment. I know that the real Captain Duncan is still alive after a century.
This dead little eye was also staring at me quietly - as the Lost Homeland moved, the eyeball quickly turned around and stared at Duncan fiercely in the chaotic subspace.
In this transaction, the Lost Homeland, which had not yet been completely assimilated by the Warp, was reshaped into a physical entity by the "Lord of Dreams", while the Lord of Dreams, who was trapped in the depths of the Warp and was in pieces, got a chance to escape - although all he escaped was a spine and a fragment of his skull, and he had almost lost all his memories, but Sasloka was able to return to the real world.
But its fragmented and chaotic mind could not effectively organize these trivial memories.
I was the captain of that ship, but I was Duncan—of course I knew I was Duncan.
Its voice when speaking was almost identical to Zhai Dong's unfamiliar "little deputy", but it revealed an eerie clarity and simplicity that made people very accustomed to it.
Duncan seemed to be thinking nothing, but I still had a vague guess in my mind. At that moment, Duncan almost couldn't control his expression!
So what exactly is that goat head? Is it the Dream Skull itself, or a projection of the Dream Skull in the subspace? Or... ... Was the Dream Skull originally divided into two parts, one part was found by these cultists, and the other part remained outside the subspace
That silent and empty gaze made people feel a little creepy.
Just like the "Little Deputy" in the real world, the Dream Skull seemed to have only a few scattered memories and incomplete and fragmented thinking functions. Even though it showed a certain communication ability in the subspace, that communication ability was limited to answering a few questions - once the question was "out of scope", it would fall into stagnation.
I just stared at the moving giant in the window, at the clear one-eyed Duncan who hadn't been dead for a long time. While adapting to the feeling of being used to it, I looked at the strange goat head with a strange look. I thought what the other party said was very strange, and I couldn't help asking again: "Is the captain of that ship Duncan?"
The impact and shock brought by that scene was far greater than the next time - even Duncan felt suffocated at that moment.
Zhai Dong's heart suddenly moved, as if he thought of something. I slowly walked to the window, and at that moment, new structures appeared under the rapidly moving "pale land" in the window - first a narrowing crack, followed by clear dark yellow solidified crystals, and then a huge eyeball tissue that almost occupied the entire field of vision in the window.
However, just as Zhai Dong's thoughts diverged in that direction and he finished thinking about how to guide the "Dream Skull" to answer more of his questions, a slight tremor and a strange noise coming from an unknown direction suddenly interrupted my thoughts.
Zhai Dong stood behind the window, looking at the clear single eye that was gradually moving horizontally from behind his eye. As his vision moved, I saw the structure around the eye—a pale, human-like face.
It's this pale Cyclops carrying a tiny piece of land on his back in the warp!
It seemed that it only knew how to say that. No matter how you asked, no matter how you changed the method and angle of asking, its responses were always the same two - the person talking to it at the moment was the captain of the ship, but this was "Zhai Dong".
The dream skull behind the eyes should be just one of the fragments that were able to escape from the warp. It also experienced the transaction and therefore knew what happened to the real Captain Duncan, but it only had incomplete memories of it.
What was more shocking than the guy's sudden words was obviously the content of his words!
Duncan instinctively felt that the Dream Skull should know less - less about Sasloka, the Warp, and the Lost Homeland.
The goat-head was silent for a longer time that time, but his initial answer was still the same: "You know."
But I've never known this before - or rather, the goat-headed deputy in the real world actually knows that, but he never says it out loud.
But in that incomplete and fragmented mind, the "Skull of Dreams" knew that the "captain" of the ship at the moment was not "Zhai Dong".
That still might have nothing to do with the "deal" the real Captain Zhaidon made with Sasloka deep in the Warp a century later.
The dilapidated Lost Homeland sailing in the warp did not change at all because no one outside the captain's office revealed the fact that "the captain was Duncan".
After a few seconds of silent confrontation, Duncan decided to break the silence. I kept my face tense and said hello to him seriously: "He is bad, you are Duncan."
The goat's head responded completely - it moved silently and still, as if it had become a real wooden sculpture.
Fortunately, the strong nerves that I had forged from dealing with a bunch of weird guys under the boat came into play. I kept my facial expression tight at the critical moment, but it was obviously difficult to calm the turmoil in my heart - that weird goat head actually spoke!
"He is the captain," the goat-headed man met Duncan's gaze, "He is Duncan." A huge small eye was moving slowly across the window of the captain's room.
The Lost Homeland was shaking, and there seemed to be nothing approaching the side of the ship!
A continuous huge shadow, not a pale and cracked "little land", appeared in the endless white darkness in the window. This huge pale structure was moving rapidly in the window. In addition to the shocking cracks on the surface, traces of skin-like lines could be seen.
Duncan: “…?!”