Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 372

[Chapter 370]

Duncan Sitting on the sofa in the living room, he leisurely reads the newspaper he bought from the street this morning, occasionally turning his head to look at Shirley who is writing with a sad face on the coffee table, and A Gou, who was lying next to Shirley and holding the “Compendium of Modern History of the City-State” engrossed, felt relieved for a while.

In this strange and strange world, he finally found a little familiar rhythm of life.

On the other hand, taking Agou, Shirley and Nina over can be regarded as the realization of an idea that he had been thinking about for a long time before – Captain Duncan’s small classroom has finally reopened.

He turned his head and looked at the other side of the coffee table. Nina was sitting there on a small stool, seriously writing her winter homework. Morris was supervising and occasionally helping his students correct some details. mistakes and omissions.

“You’re a good and conscientious teacher,” Duncan said to Morris. “Nina is very lucky.” “

She’s a hardworking kid, and I don’t want to take her life away,” Morris laughed, then glanced at Shirley again. With the homework book spread out in front of him, the expression on his face was a bit subtle, “But I didn’t expect you to be so good at… teaching others.”

Duncan raised his eyebrows: “Oh?”

“You gave Shirley, Alice and Agou The study plan made is very reasonable, even…a bit professional,” Morris said in a hesitant tone, “I saw the test papers you prepared for them before, and they are also very professional, which is a bit…beyond my expectations.”

The old man was very cautious in his wording, and he really cared a little bit about this matter—when he first learned that Duncan was interested in teaching the three illiterates on board, he didn’t think of flashcards, vocabulary books, and multiplication tables in his mind. The first image that popped up in his head was completely towards the direction of “the family of evil gods gathered in the ritual ground to learn about forbidden knowledge”, but in the end, they saw the frightening Captain Duncan taking out a bunch of literacy cards…

How should I put it, although now he is more or less used to Captain Duncan’s private peace and friendliness, but when he thinks that such a subspace shadow is actually teaching people seriously (or a literacy class), he still feels awkward. Upwell in a controlled manner.

Of course Duncan knew what the old scholar meant, but he couldn’t explain it, so he just smiled and waved his hands: “Maybe I once had a dream of being a teacher?”

Morris didn’t know what to say for a while, Duncan looked at Shirley’s heart-wrenching handwriting again, and couldn’t help sighing: “It’s a pity that the learning progress of these three ‘students’ is too different, which is really a headache.” Morris thought for a

while , nodded: “Indeed. I think Agou can almost spend time in a certain library and educate himself to graduate from college, but Shirley is still struggling with common words, Alice…Alice, she…” Duncan

continued Sighing: “Oh, Alice worked very hard, but she is Alice.” The

learning progress of the three illiterates on board was not at all what he expected at first. He thought that the learning progress would be faster because of better brains. Shirley is still half-illiterate. The main reasons are her unswerving spirit and her hopeless attitude towards learning. Alice works harder than anyone else, but Miss Doll’s head really doesn’t seem to be suitable for reading and writing. As a result, the highest level among the last three illiterates turned out to be a dog—with amazing diligence and understanding, Agou can now not only read literary works by himself, but even solve ternary quadratic equations… Chasing the depth of

knowledge There are tens of thousands of hounds-now it seems that Agou is the only one who has caught up.

In all fairness, this is the biggest stain in Duncan’s—or Zhou Ming’s entire teaching career.

Just as he was sighing in his heart, Alice, who had gone out to buy groceries, finally came back—nearly 20 minutes later than expected.

“I’m back!”

Miss Puppet opened the door and entered the room. She put down the things in her hand and poked her head to greet the living room. Then she saw Xueba, Xueshuang and Xuegou who were doing their homework next to the coffee table. Immediately, he showed a happy look: “Nina! Shirley! Agou! Are you here?”

“I just came here in the morning, and I’ve already done half a day’s homework…” Shirley raised her head with tears in her eyes, “The captain told me to re-copy all the content from the sixteenth page of the vocabulary book…”

“Three times,” Duncan said beside him unhurriedly, “Don’t keep your composure and reduce your tasks by two-thirds.”

Then he ignored Shirley’s subsequent reaction and looked up at Alice: “Why did you come back at this time? Are you in trouble?”

“Ah, no!” Alice waved her hand hastily, “It’s because of the excitement… I didn’t watch the excitement! It’s because of something, I’m investigating…”

This puppet really can’t lie, and it’s not good at making excuses. A few words can reveal the fact that it was a waste of time to watch the excitement on the way home.

“Investigation?” Duncan looked at Alice in surprise. He didn’t want to pursue her “watching the fun”. Although he did warn the other party not to walk around on the road, it was just a trivial matter, and he cared more about it. What’s amazing is… the usually dumbfounded Alice can actually say the word “investigation” with a serious face.

Even if it was her temporary excuse, he still cared that the puppet had investigated something.

“On the nearby street, there was a family who said it was dead, and all the people from the church had gone.” Alice immediately began to tell Duncan what she saw and heard on the road, “A woman, what did she say that she killed her husband? , and the onlookers also said that the male owner of that house had gone out before… Ah, yes, I also saw a woman, she was dressed like you! She was also wrapped in bandages…” Duncan was taken

aback Listening to the puppet’s upside-down and pointless narration for a while, he barely understood what happened, and then noticed the “bandaged woman” mentioned by the other party at the end. He frowned slightly, and just wanted to ask some questions. Seeing the details, Fan Na, who was sitting at the dining table feeding the pigeons not far away, suddenly stood up.

“The stranger is approaching,” Fanna said quickly, “it’s a priest.”

Duncan immediately waved his hand to calm Alice down and put on the veil again. Agou who was squatting next to the sofa retreated into the shadows in the blink of an eye. Ai flapped his wings and hid on a nearby cabinet. Get up and go to the door.

“Don’t be nervous, it’s just a visitor.” Duncan was quite calm. He waved to Fan Na and Morris, who were a little nervous, and then calmly came to the door and pulled it away.

A young woman wearing a long black trench coat, bandages, a black bowler hat, and a cane was standing outside the door, keeping her hand raised to knock on the door.

She seemed to be frozen there.

Duncan looked the young lady up and down, then down at himself.

“Ah, I’ve bumped my shirt.” He said casually.

“It’s her, it’s her,” Alice stood behind Duncan, at this moment, she saw the appearance of the person at the door, and immediately came over happily, “The woman in black I told you, I saw it on the way back from shopping. …”

Alice’s voice made Agatha, who was in a dazed state, wake up suddenly. The muscles on her face trembled slightly. It took a long time to move her eyes away from the tall and burly figure in front of her, and look at the voice. direction.

The blond woman with no breathing or heartbeat that I had just seen not long ago was standing in the room, looking at this side with curious and happy eyes.

She is indeed here.

Agatha took several deep breaths, tried to calm her heartbeat, the slight tinnitus gradually faded in her mind, and the blackness of vision and double image phenomenon caused by suddenly looking directly at the “truth” finally disappeared from her eyes—she Finally he breathed a sigh of relief, and remembered his reason for coming in his confused mind.

A somewhat stiff smile appeared on her face: “I… have no intention of disturbing, just to check on the situation, you…” “Come in,”

Duncan nodded calmly, and stepped aside, “It’s pretty good It’s cold, don’t stand at the door and say.”

Agatha was stunned for a moment, but didn’t react for a while.

Seeing this scene, Fan Na, who was standing by the side silently before, couldn’t help but frowned, and stepped forward to look at the other party: “You rushed over knowing where this place is, so you didn’t even think about opening the door. right?”

“Understand,” Morris hurriedly said aside, “After meeting the captain for the first time, her mind must be confused, and the higher the spiritual vision, the more she will be like this. This girl is confused at first glance.” Fan Na heard

, Immediately, I recalled my entry experience on the Lost Home, and felt that the old man was right.

Agatha finally realized when Fanna was talking with Morris—her brain was indeed still a little confused, but her reason had returned to dominate. Due to Duncan’s conscious restraint, her mind was not affected too much, which meant that As soon as Shi recovered, she nodded hurriedly: “Sorry, I’m a little distracted.”

Then she glanced at the road Duncan made way for, and finally took a step after a little hesitation.

She knows where this is.

She knew that the burly figure was essentially an indescribable person who had descended on the city-state and was very likely to be similar to an ancient god.

She knew that she had stepped into a “falling place”.

But from the moment the door opened, there was no room for remorse.

Behind Duncan, Morris watched the tense young lady stepping into the room, turned her head slightly and whispered to Fanna: “Better than you were before.” Fanna muttered softly: “Don’t blame me, the

captain is the first It was too scary when I was ‘into a dream’.”

Morris nodded: “That’s true…”

Fanna added: “But I was much calmer the second time.”

Duncan listened to the two people in the back Muttering, finally couldn’t help but turn around: “You didn’t force much the second time—be quiet, the guests are here.”

(End of this chapter)