Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 333

[Chapter 331 Legacy]

Morris made full use of his words, and confirmed many questions to Galone in a quiet conversation.

During the conversation, he and Duncan gradually confirmed the status of the female apprentice.

All memories related to Brown Scott’s shipwreck six years ago and the death of his mentor after that had completely disappeared from Galone’s mind.

No, it is not only the memory that disappears, but also the entire cognitive system

that goes with it—the death of a person triggers a series of chain reactions, including ripples in the social circle, and the handling of the aftermath. The recollections and emotional ups and downs over a long period of time, as well as the changes in details that have remained in this house over the past six years, cannot be resolved simply by deleting and replacing a memory.

However, in Galone’s cognition, “Brown Scott died in a shipwreck six years ago” had never happened, and the series of follow-up reactions triggered by this incident did not leave the slightest trace. She took it for granted that she had lived in the house for six years, peacefully waiting for her teacher to return – and now her teacher had returned and was resting in an upstairs room.

The sharp whistle of the kettle suddenly sounded, interrupting the conversation in the living room. Galone immediately got up and walked to the kitchen: “Sorry, I’m going to turn off the fire.” Taking advantage of the moment

when the Senjin lady left, Duncan Looking up at Morris on the opposite sofa: “Her cognition has been interfered with.” “

We should check the whole building,” Morris said in a low voice, “If Brown is really here, he will definitely take advantage of himself He left something when he was still awake—he wrote me a second letter not long ago, and he had obviously noticed some truths at that time.” “

…Let Galony rest for a while.” Duncan said softly Said.

Morris nodded, and during this conversation, Galone had returned from the kitchen—she was carrying a large tray with warming ginger tea and some biscuits. This lady with stone-like gray skin Put the things on the coffee table, and looked up at the two guests: “It’s been a long time, let’s drink some ginger tea to warm up.” “

Thank you,” Morris said, pointing to the sofa next to him, “Galonia , you sit here first, sit down, let me tell you something.”

“Ah… yes, Mr. Morris,” although Galoni felt a little strange, but facing the mentor’s best friend, she immediately Sat down obediently, “What do you want to say?”

Morris looked into Galoni’s eyes: “Lomonsov’s inequality group.”

Galoni suddenly opened her eyes, and the vast amount of knowledge, memory and logic problems instantly It covered all her thoughts, and before she could figure out the general outline of these “information storms”, a strong, self-protective tiredness had already surfaced in her heart.

She passed out soundlessly, snoring peacefully and sleeping peacefully.

Duncan watched this scene expressionlessly, and was silent for two seconds before asking, “How long will she sleep?” “

It depends on IQ. Heidi slept for twelve hours, and Galone should have been longer,” Morris shrugged, “Folklorists are usually not very good at mathematics.”

Duncan didn’t know what to say for a while, and asked after a long time: “Why did you use this trick on your daughter?”

Morris had a subtle expression : “Heidi insists that her hypnotism skills have surpassed mine – and a father occasionally has some strange desire to win.”

Duncan thought for a while, and felt that this topic did not need to continue, so he stood up and looked at The stairs leading to the second floor.

“Now we can do a good job of checking—if Galone is not lying, her teacher should be in the bedroom on the second floor by now.” The

old stairs creaked, and bright electric lights illuminated the second floor In the corridor, Morris and Duncan went up the stairs and began to look for the folklorist who had “returned to the world”.

The structure of the second floor of the house is not complicated. A straight corridor connects every room, and the doors of most of the rooms are not locked——Duncan and Morris quickly confirmed the situation of most of the houses, and opened the door in the corridor. The last room on the left stopped before the door.

This is the only locked place on the entire second floor.

Morris stepped forward and tugged on the doorknob, frowning slightly: “It’s locked—it’s locked.”

“Locked from the inside?” Duncan felt a vague sense of disobedience, and then recalled something, ” Just now Galone said that she would send meals to the teacher’s room every day…”

“Impossible, this door has not been opened for many days—a week or more,” Morris said immediately, his His eyes were slowly sweeping across the door in front of him, and there seemed to be a slight floating light in his eyes, “The door lock has no signs of being damaged.” “…

So, it’s just that Galone ‘thinks’ that she puts food away every day. Send it to the teacher’s room, but her teacher hasn’t opened the door since many days ago,” Duncan said, looking back slightly at the stairs leading to the first floor, “cognitive interference It’s been going on.”

Morris didn’t speak, but raised his hand and knocked lightly on the light yellow door.

There was no response from the room.

“Brown, it’s me,” Morris said, “If you’re inside, open the door—no matter what your current state is, don’t worry, we can solve your troubles.” There was still no response in the room

.

Duncan watched the door silently, feeling that the situation… was not surprising.

In the end, he sighed softly: “Let me come, Morris, we may still be a step late.” Morris’s

expression froze for a moment, and he seemed to want to say something, but his lips trembled twice, or something Didn’t say a word, just stepped aside silently.

Duncan didn’t use any fancy tricks, just bumped forward, and the ordinary wooden door, which was not very strong at all, was smashed into the lock with a loud bang, and opened wide.

A room completely shrouded in darkness appeared before the two of them.

The lights in the room were not turned on, and the windows facing the street seemed to be blocked by something, so that the light from the street lamps outside could not shine into the room. In places where the light cannot be seen, there seems to be something vaguely covered with the roof and the floor.

Duncan was the first to enter the room. He raised his right hand, holding a group of dark green spirit flames in his palm, and fumbled for the light switch by the door with the other hand.

After the lights were turned on, everything in the room finally became clear.

“This is…” Morris, who followed into the room, saw the scene inside the room, and exclaimed in a low voice in astonishment.

Some kind of gray-black, mud-like substance was distributed throughout the room piece by piece, covering the floor, polluting the walls, and even firmly adhered to the roof, and the half-melted “mud” came from the dirty part of the roof. It hangs down from the dirt and hangs in the air, looking like a curved and swollen blood vessel, or some kind of weird stalactite hanging.

In just a moment, Duncan thought of the scene he saw at the bottom of the Obsidian.

These weird and terrifying “muds”… look exactly like the situation in the bilge of the Obsidian!

The muscles in Morris’ face tensed.

Frankly speaking, from the very beginning, he didn’t believe that his “old friend” had really returned to the human world. He knew that there must be some kind of out-of-control extraordinary vision behind this incident, and it might even be related to the curse of the deep sea, but… Even though he had vaguely expected it before opening the door, after actually seeing this scene, he still felt a huge shock.

“Replicas of the deep sea… It seems that they will eventually become like this.” At this moment, Duncan’s voice interrupted Morris’s stupefied, “We are one step late after all, unfortunately.” Morris blinked, and

then Shaking his head vigorously, as if trying to get those complicated and chaotic thoughts out of his mind, he walked to the depths of the room, carefully avoiding the “mud” balls distributed on the floor, and stopped at a table after a long time.

The table had also been covered in mud, and one of the largest lumps of mud had accumulated between the table and the bed.

“…he wrote two letters, at least at that time, he still had a certain sense of reason,” Morris said softly, “he must have noticed his abnormality…” “

His reason lasted at least until this time The moment the room was locked, after that, he couldn’t control the development of the situation,” Duncan also came to the desk, and said thoughtfully while observing the solidified mud around him, “These replicas from the deep sea seem to be… …They are all different, some have no reason at all, some even retain their original memories, and can survive for a period of time like ordinary people, and some… just like the captain of the Obsidian, completely distorted into Alien, but with a soul from beginning to end.” “

Like some kind of unstable experimental product?”

Morris said casually, and at this moment, something suddenly entered his line of sight.

There was a piece of paper, pressed against the edge of a congealed mass of mud that vaguely had the outline of an arm.

“This is…” The old scholar opened his eyes wide, and carefully pulled out the piece of paper while exclaiming in a low voice, “Mr. Duncan, look at this!

” On the paper, some words that were not clear came into his eyes—

“To the investigators, the following are the changes in my body in the final stage:”

(End of this chapter)