It could have been explained as hallucinations or something like that if only one person or even a small group of people had them, but that wasn't the case, everyone had those memories.
"That really did happen, it can't be that you also know the answer to this?" A
curious blood power user asked, after hearing Dan's question.
"Of course I know, after all the answer to the first question is linked to the second, both of them happened because of the same reason" Dan nodded with a smile.
"Then... What's the reason? Why are all those weird things happening?" Another person asked.
"Ok, I will tell you, this will sound somehow unbelievable and astonishing, but you should all understand that it is the truth."
"You see, every world you have memories of is...Real, they are all real worlds, the world with floating islands, the world with an advanced technology the world were people have abilities, each and every one of those worlds exist, just like this one here, yours." when he finished his words he looked at everyone there.
He saw the surprised confused expression on their faces and he understood that they didn't totally understand what he meant instantly and that they needed time to entirely understand what he had just said.
When it finally hit them and they truly understood what he meant, everyone there looked at each other not knowing what to say.
They were speechless to say the least, they expected a weird explanation because what happened to them wasn't normal, but that explanation wasn't even in the same realm as what they would call weird, it was simply unbelievable.
"Are you serious?" finally Mad Dog broke the silence by half shouting that.
He couldn't accept what Dan said, the memories which appeared in his mind suddenly after he lost consciousness where memories about a world where most of the surface of the planet was covered by lava, it was simply a purgatory, he couldn't believe the existence of such a world, not to mention some of the other weirder worlds which he had heard about from his follower when they talked about the subject.
"Of course I'm, I don't have any free time, and even if I had I wouldn't waste it on something meaningless like jokes." Dan said seriously than he looked at everyone in that cave before saying:
"Believe me what I said is true, all the worlds that you have memories of exist, they are real"
"How can you be so sure that they exist?" a voice rung form the crowd.
"It's because I... No, we, the six of us aren't from here, we aren't from this world, we are from different worlds." Dan finally said.
Every one there just stood there frozen, they expected him to say that He had a prof or something like that, but instead he said that they were from those worlds, making them not to know what to think.
They started talking to each other in hushed voices while there faces wore signs of uncertainty.
Their expressions said it all, so without even waiting for one word from them Dan said:
"You probably don't believe me at all but I can prove it, I can prove that we are from different worlds."
Hearing him say that he could prove it everyone there stopped talking and listened, they wanted to see how he was going to do that, how he was going to prove that they weren't from the same world as them.
"To prove it I need to ask you a few questions, first, are there people here that have memories of a world where people have abilities and superpowers?"
A few second after he said that five people lifted their hands.
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"Ok you see that those people all have memories of such a world, and I'm sure that if we search in the rest of the base we will find many others." Saying that, Dan tuned his head to Robin and nodded his head.
Understanding him Robin looked at one of the people who lifted their hands, and then in front of the eyes of everyone there he disappeared, before appearing next to that person, he put his hand on that person's shoulder and just like that they both disappeared appearing again next to Dan and the others.
This ghost like movement made everyone there dumbfounded, even Mad Dog and the others who saw it once before were surprised.
"Robin is from that world, he can teleport from one place to another instantly, this can be accepted as a proof, right?" Dan's voice sounded amidst the silence that fall on the room, returning people to their senses.
No one said anything, what they had just saw was unbelievable and Dan saying that those worlds were real was also unbelievable so if one of them was something that they saw with their own eyes and believed to be true why won't the other thing to be true?
"Even if those worlds exist than what does this have to do with anything?" a man asked.
"That's what I was going to say, and it's here that I can answer the question of why is the duration of the day longer."
"The reason of that is because all those worlds that you have memories of are now... Combined, they are all combined right now and they became one big world, this world, I mean your world is also a part of it, a really small part of it, because that happened, the duration of the day is way longer then before."
If people in the cave were surprised by Dan's words when he said that all those worlds that they have memories of were true, then when he said that all those worlds combined and there world become only a small part of it, they simply turned speechless and didn't know what to say or think.
What they heard that day were things they thought they would never hear on their whole lives, existence of other worlds, abilities and the combination of the said worlds, all of those were unbelievable things.
"That's why we people from different worlds are here in your world." Dan said.
"Seeing how none of you is saying anything, that probably mean that you already accepted it, which means that I will now talk about the reason of all my weird orders, the first thing that you all should know is that now that all the worlds are combined, it means that this world is but a little part of the new world so... We can leave this place and go to another one, a world where there are no dragons, there might be other monsters and dangers, but at least it won't be as hopeless as here where you can't even leave the underground."
This time as soon as Dan finished his words everyone's faces changed and astonished expressions appeared on them, what he said then wasn't like anything he said in the other times, what he said then gave them something they lost ages ago... Hope.
No matter who it was, no matter how old they were, since the day they grew up and start understanding the world around them, people in area 07 always lived in fear, it's something in their bones, the fear of dragons, the fear of blood power users, and the fear of hunger, those three were for normal people in area 07 like a dark tunnel with no breath light at its end, they just lived their lives day by day while trying their best to survive.
So Dan's words were that light which finally appeared at the end of the tunnel, a hope which they didn't even expect, the thought that they may have a chance to leave area 07 and go to another place was unbelievable, and it took root in their brains as soon as they heard it.
Barry, old Frank, Robert, little Ru, copper and all the other members of the crew were just standing there frozen, not knowing what to believe or do, Barry and old Frank looked at each other and saw the disbelief on each other's faces.
They knew that Dan and the others weren't normal and from their orders they also knew that they were going to do something abnormal too, but the thought of using Barbarossa to leave the world under the control of the dragon never crossed their minds, but that's to be expected after all who would have guessed that?
Robert little Ru and the other crewmen of the one eyed dragon's gang were also just standing there not knowing what to do, they were clear about all the weird orders that Dan gave concerning Barbarossa, they even liked trying to guess what the real reason behind them was, but still, none of them expected or even imagined the real reason.
"We are going to try and leave this place in Barbarossa." finally Dan said it.
"Can you really do it? leave this place and go to another one where there are no dragons, a place where we can live without fear." a voice sounded from the crowed, the voice sounded full of hope and expectations.
Dan looked at the source of the voice and to his surprise he saw the gate keeper, he was standing there looking at him with unwavering eyes awaiting his answer.
When he heard Dan talk about how what he was going to say might be what he had been waiting for all along, he didn't understand but as soon as Dan mentioned how all those worlds combined he wasn't thinking about how unbelievable that was but the first thought that entered his mind was, what if what Dan said was true.
He would than be able to leave that place because it had became no more than a small part of the new world, he understood that without Dan's needing to clarify his words, and he wanted to know if that was really true or if it was just a lie which he come up with for some reason.
"Yes I... No we can do it, you should know that me and the other leaders of the one eyed dragon's gang will be on top of Barbarossa in two or three hours, as soon as everything is ready, we will be leaving to the ocean , the journey will be long and we don't even know if we are going to make it, if we are going to pass the whole distance till the other Area, or if the dragons might return from the Great Migration and find us still in the boundaries of this area, killing us on the ocean.
"All of those and more horrible scenarios might be waiting for us, but those scenarios aren't the only ones which we have, there are others, like how we might finish this journey safely, how we are going to find ourselves in a world which is peaceful a world with no dragons and no fear, there are different possibilities and we are willing to gamble, it's dangerous, yes but the returns are going to be big." Dan said in a loud voice.
His words about what might happen if they had bad luck in their journey made many people pale, but his words about a peaceful world made many others excited.
Dan was going to 'kidnapped' those that he found important for their journey, but that was only going to be used as a final method, he wanted the people in his team to have a sense of belonging and to treat each other as family, as they were going to go through a lot in their journey.
"Now I will say a few things, every crewmen of the one eyed dragon's gang are going to come with us, Unfortunately there's no other choice for you, while for the crewmen of the other gangs we will need another ten people so if you want join us lift your hand."