Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 358

[Chapter 356 Movement in the Deep of the Abandoned Waterway]

Accompanied by that old but loud voice, Duncan heard a tinkling sound from the hut, as if someone got up in a hurry and bumped into something, and then Just as footsteps approached, an old man with a hunched body, thin white hair, a gray coat, and wrinkled face appeared near the door.

This so-called “old ghost” stood in his administrator’s hut, bent over, his slightly cloudy eyes swept outside, and I don’t know if he saw the figures of several people standing outside the door clearly. He hurriedly lowered his head and muttered: “The queen came to inspect… I didn’t prepare well… Those assistants are getting more and more unreliable, and there are also messengers…” “

Old ghost!” Nemo said. I had to interrupt the old man’s chanting with a loud voice, “The queen is not coming! The queen is not coming back! We have guests today—the distinguished guests arranged by Captain Tirian. Don’t babble, they will come to see you.

” Then, Nemo turned his head and said to Duncan with an apology on his face: “Sorry——as you can see, he is a little nervous, and he often suddenly recalls things from decades ago. But don’t look like this , as long as he deals with pipes and valves, he will wake up immediately.”

“Awake? I’m awake!” Just as he was speaking, the “old ghost” suddenly rolled his eyes, as if he understood all of a sudden. When he came over, he looked at Duncan and the others, and muttered, “Guest, there are still strange faces coming in here… Have you checked the token, and the password.” “Yes, of course I checked everything,

” Nemo said immediately, and at the same time took a careful look at Duncan, “These are all distinguished guests, you just… you just pretend to be Captain Tirian.” “Oh, come in then,

although I don’t have much to see here ,” the old ghost muttered, and stepped aside, “they are all antique things, if you don’t dislike them.”

Fan Na turned to look at Morris, and Morris’ eyes were always fixed on “the old ghost “.

After a while, Morris shook his head, and said in a low voice, “It’s not easy to judge—his mind is not normal, and his memory is intermittent.”

Duncan heard Morris’ soft report, and his expression remained unchanged. , just followed behind the nagging old man, and walked into the abandoned manager’s lounge.

The lounge is not big, and it is brightly lit by a gas lamp. As expected, it is filled with various things. Except for a bed in the corner, as far as the naked eye can see, it is almost covered. The bent and deformed shelves and the boxes on the ground are full of various mechanical parts, spare valve kits, and work tools.

Even if a skilled acrobat came over, he would have to be handicapped at level ten to get out.

“It’s a mess,” Alice looked at the chaotic scene in the room, and couldn’t help muttering, “I really want to clean it up…” “

Ah, I’m so sorry!” The old ghost who was walking around in a pile of debris immediately turned around. Turning around, bowing and bowing, “Your Majesty, I have been negligent in management recently, and this place is a bit chaotic…”

Alice was stunned: “Huh?”

Duncan’s eyes also changed slightly in an instant, but just as he looked Xiang Laogui, when he was about to say something, the old man was in a daze again, and he stood up while talking to himself: “It’s strange, where is my kettle… How can I not even drink water when the guests come? …”

Duncan and the others looked at each other.

“There’s no need to look for your water bottle. A few guests just asked you for some information,” Nemo said at this time, “They are here to investigate the current situation of the second waterway and your own situation.”

” Investigation?” The old ghost stopped immediately, and turned around with a very serious expression, “General Tirian still needs to investigate his troops? Is there a traitor? Is it our area? Or the central city? I think They’ve been talking about it lately…”

“There are no traitors, but there may be other lurkers who are threatened by some kind of extraordinary pollution,” Fan Na took a step forward at this time, but almost tripped over the debris on the ground—this chaotic hut was very different from her 1.9-meter-long body. In terms of height, it is really a very challenging place, “Have you contacted people in other areas recently? Has anyone behaved abnormally?

” There is a gurgling sound from the abandoned pipeline over there, as if someone is going to use the second waterway.” The old ghost waved his hand, “Well, you have all watched the situation of the second waterway, the queen built it at that time The thing is solid, but after all, it has been abandoned for so many years, and there are many areas below that cannot be approached, and sometimes the underground river will seep into the cracks in the rocks, and it is normal to bring some strange noises…” The old man said from time to

time If he got off track, Duncan had no choice but to forcefully bring the topic back: “The central city you mentioned…is it the area where the Boiling Gold Mine is located?” “Boiling Gold? Ah, yes,

Boiling Gold, it’s all there— —The cathedral is also there, the queen’s palace is also there, and the mine is also there, and the mine is so deep, it must be hundreds of meters deep.” The old ghost sat on his bed, and suddenly patted himself while talking “Ah, by the way, it should be the sound coming from which floor of the mine, the second waterway over there is quite close to the mine… Let me just say that the connectors over there are too nervous, gods Nagging…”

The old man started talking to himself again, but this time Duncan didn’t interrupt aloud – he was already lost in thought.

He recalled the situation when he first came to Frost, and recalled the first body he used here—a worker who fell to his death in the Boiling Gold Mine, fell into the bottom of the mine, and was finally taken away by the search personnel. What came up was a fake made of “elements”.

And now, the old ghost mentioned that the “connectors” lurking in the central city had heard strange noises coming from the pipeline of the second waterway, which sounded like something was surging inside—the second waterway in the central city , very close to a certain layer in the Boiling Gold Mine.

Considering that they are all “antiques” left over from the Queen’s era half a century ago, Duncan even suspects that the relationship between the two is not just “very close”.

Maybe those pipes are all interconnected!

He quickly wrote down this clue, and then asked: “Is there a way to go directly to the underground of the central city from here? How do you and the connector usually meet?” “From here? That’s not possible, there is a road in the

middle It is completely black, it has been polluted long ago, and other roads have also collapsed, so we have to start from the ground, but now the ground is full of minions of the rebels, be careful…” The old ghost muttered, but suddenly shouted again , “The Queen’s Guard! The rebels are coming, blow up the shaft!”

The old man suddenly stood up from the bed, looking around nervously, as if the rebels would attack this place in the next second, but suddenly he He stopped and his eyes fell on Alice.

“Oh, I made a mistake, the queen is safe and sound…”

Alice was a little flustered, and quickly waved her hands: “I…I’m not the queen…”

Duncan looked deeply at the old man standing beside the bed. He became dazed again, and after a few seconds, he looked at Alice dully: “Girl, who are you?

” There is something wrong with your eyes!” At this moment, Nemo’s voice suddenly sounded, interrupting this weird moment, and the informant nodded to Duncan with apology, “I’m sorry, although the old ghost usually He’s a bit distracted, but he looks very serious today, maybe he hasn’t dealt with outsiders for a long time, and he was a little excited to see you, so he messed up all the things in the past.” “…It doesn’t matter.” Duncan said

lightly Said, slowly withdrawing his gaze from the old man.

He didn’t really care whether the old man really saw the shadow of the Frost Queen from the disguised Alice—was it a brief sobriety in the muddy mind? Have you seen through this disguise? Or just plain memory confusion? None of this matters.

If this crazy old man really saw a little phantom of the Frost Queen from Alice, and felt a moment of peace in his heart because of this, that would be a good thing.

At this moment, Nemo seemed to suddenly recall something, and frowned, “Strange, why hasn’t the crow come back at this time?” “The crow

? He went to check the northern corridor,” the old ghost waved his hand, “That guy But a person who is dawdling, doesn’t he have to wander outside for a long time before coming back.”

Nemo’s furrowed brows did not relax at all: “…No, even if he dawdles, he should be back by this time , The lights over there are often broken down, and his lantern can’t last for such a long time… Old ghost, when did he leave?” “

Two or three hours?” The old ghost thought for a while, and seemed to be a little serious. Said, it seems to have really been away for a long time.”

“I have a bad feeling, the crow stayed in the depths of the waterway for too long,” Nemo finally said with a serious tone, and looked up at Duncan and the others. “I have to find him.”

(End of this chapter)