Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 373

[Chapter 371 Agatha Understands]

Nervous and curious, Agatha secretly looked at this place.

It looks like an ordinary house, most of the furniture is a bit old, but it has been tidied up very cleanly, and the air in the room is also very fresh, maybe the window was opened not long ago to let in the wind, and the sound of boiling water came from the direction of the kitchen, It sounded like the movement of a samovar.

It’s not like a “falling place”, it’s completely a residential house.

Of course, Agatha knew from the very beginning that this place was indeed just an ordinary house—until a few days ago, it was listed in the registration book of the Citizen Help Center as a house to be rented out. She just thought… Now that An unnamed visitor chose to use this place as his temporary residence, so shouldn’t there be something special here?

But she found nothing.

“Would you like some tea? Or do you want some coffee?” Duncan came to Agatha’s side and asked casually.

Agatha woke up suddenly, looked at Duncan who was sitting across from him in surprise, realized what the other person meant after reacting, and quickly waved her hand: “No…thank you, I’m not thirsty.” “Don’t be

restrained , just like at home,” Duncan smiled, sat down on the sofa opposite Agatha, and said in a very easy-going manner, “Let me think about it… If you guessed right, you should be the city-state The gatekeeper? The one who came to the gate at this time is unlikely to be an ordinary guard.”

“Agatha the gatekeeper,” Agatha nodded immediately, trying to calm herself, “You know I will come? “

“You will definitely come, or other high-level church officials,” Duncan said indifferently, “Annie will tell the gravekeeper about me, and the gravekeeper will report the situation to the church. I just need to Wait here, and then you can meet with the high-level church leaders of this city-state.”

Agatha adjusted her sitting posture slightly, and stared at the burly figure in front of her with a more solemn attitude: “I want to know… your real Purpose. Who are you, and why did you come to Frost?”

“Didn’t I say that?” Duncan raised his eyebrows, “It was to solve the problems that happened here—I thought I made it very clear in that report letter.” Agatha opened her mouth, obviously still a little

bit It’s hard to accept such a simple answer, and after two or three seconds he hesitated to speak: “Really… that’s all?”

“If you need a darker reason and a more complicated conspiracy to feel this matter It’s reasonable enough, so I can make one up now,” Duncan said casually, “Which style do you like? The end of the world or the conquest of King’s Landing?”

Agatha’s body tensed up visible to the naked eye.

“Hey, you scared her,” Fanna suddenly coughed twice behind Duncan, “this Miss Gatekeeper will take it seriously.” “Would you?”

Duncan turned his head slightly in doubt, “I thought this joke was obvious. It’s…”

“According to my experience, yes,” Fanna sighed helplessly, “In this line of work, the nerves are always tense, so you can’t joke.”

Duncan didn’t know what to say for a while, Ah Jiasha looked at the extremely tall woman suspiciously. For some reason, she always felt that the other person’s gaze fell on her intentionally or unintentionally after entering the room, as if… she was observing something with great interest. .

But that’s not important, what’s important is that she confirmed that the superior existence in front of her was just playing a joke on herself—a nasty and scary joke.

“Please forgive my sensitivity,” Agatha said sincerely, “Recently, the abnormalities in the city-state have become more and more serious, and everyone’s nerves are tense. I even suspected…” She hesitated to say the following words

, Duncan took it with ease: “I was once suspicious? Don’t be nervous, it’s reasonable. After all, the timing of my appearance is just right, and I have dealt with the Annihilation Cultists and ‘fakes’ the first time I came here.”

Agatha didn’t say anything, but looked a little embarrassed.

“I want to know the progress of your investigation.” Duncan didn’t care about the other party’s reaction, but just said to himself, “Do you have any clues?”

Agatha hesitated for a while, wondering if she should reveal too much information about Frost to the “visitor” in front of her with a mysterious origin, but after a while she still considered and said: “After receiving your warning, we It is true that some Annihilation Cultists have been caught, but almost no effective information has been obtained—those heretics who live in deep symbiosis with the deep demons are extremely tenacious, and often choose to self-destruct at the last moment, and the few captured alive are marginal characters, not at all. Know the whole picture of the plan…

“Until now, we can only confirm that the frequent replicas in the city are indeed the heretics, and they have indeed built a hidden and huge lair in Frost City, but as for the specifics of this lair The location of … still no idea. Speaking of this

, Agatha paused for a moment, and then continued: “As for the dagger island you mentioned in that letter… What’s more disturbing is that it has disappeared. “

“I know.” “Duncan said lightly.

“You already know?” Agatha said in surprise, “This news should still be blocked…”

Duncan said indifferently, “I have my own information channels in this world. Even if I don’t leave the city-state, I still know something about what happened in the outer seas. “

Of course the intelligence channel is Tirian—after all, Dagger Island disappeared in front of the Sea Fog Fleet, so Tirian will naturally report this situation to the Lost Homeland immediately. But even if he knew this immediately, it would be

shocking Duncan could only be shocked by the news—he couldn’t understand how such a large island disappeared out of thin air. Judging

from the situation conveyed by Tirian, the disappearance of the island was not a sinking process, but a more It seems to have been directly melted in the sea water, and there were continuous big explosions before it disappeared, it seems that the people on the island activated something – but other than that, there is no more information. The information is scarce, and the way of disappearing is

too Bizarre, there are no clues or traces left after disappearing. Dagger Island has changed from one mystery to another bigger mystery. No one knows what happened there, let alone where the island went.

“Do you know where Dagger Island went?” Agatha’s voice interrupted Duncan’s thinking. The gatekeeper of the city-state raised his head and looked at him sincerely. “Do you know what happened to it?” Duncan

thought After thinking about it, I felt that if I directly admitted that I also thought about it all night and didn’t figure it out, it might affect my image a bit, so I pondered for a while, and pointed to my feet.

“Below?” Agatha was stunned for a moment. “You mean, Dagger Island did sink into the sea… But the eyewitness report at that time said that there was no vortex phenomenon caused by the sinking of the island…” How could Duncan know

? Answer—he was also curious about how such a large island disappeared out of thin air!

He continued to stretch out his hand, pointing to his feet.

“You’re not talking about Dagger Island…the clues are at your feet?” Agatha seemed to realize it, and almost instantly, she recalled her last conversation with Bishop Ivan, recalling the deep underground ” The Second Waterway” thing!

The city hall and the church have searched the entire city-state. The strict curfew system and large-scale inspections are theoretically enough to catch a large number of hidden cultists, but there are always only a few fringe figures caught in the Annihilation Cult… The first Waterways, subways, pipe wells and other places where people can hide have been searched, but there is no clue…

The city-state is so big, if there are no traces of those heretics in the above places, then only the second waterway is left possibility.

Those collapsed areas, those caves that fell into darkness, those shafts and pipes covered by pollution… They may indeed not be suitable for living, but what if the gang of Oblivion Cultists really survived in those places?

Of course, the search for the “Second Waterway” was originally planned, but she was never sure whether the search operation that was destined to consume an astonishing amount of money was meaningful. Now, she finally found the most powerful support for this operation—— A friendly god-like being made it clear that you have to look down.

“So that’s it—I see, we’re heading in the right direction,” Agatha stood up suddenly, her tone filled with surprise and joy, she looked at Duncan opposite, her attitude suddenly became very sincere and respectful, and deeply Bending down deeply, “I see—thank you very much for reminding me!”

Duncan kept his fingers and feet moving, and looked at the bandage girl in front of him who was suddenly excited.

What does she know?

“We will immediately start the next step of the search, and this time we will definitely dig out the dens of heretics,” Agatha did not notice Duncan’s stupefied, she just said confidently, and she was about to leave soon, “Then I won’t waste your time—forgive me for disturbing you this time, I’m leaving.” “

Uh…OK,” Duncan stood up a little too late, and subconsciously said, “then you go slowly… …”

Agatha thanked her, turned around and walked towards the door, but then she seemed to remember something, and stopped suddenly.

Alice, who was about to stand up and see her off, almost bumped into her.

Agatha’s eyes swept over Alice, but this time she didn’t pay much attention to this blonde woman who had no heartbeat or breath—a god-like existence, and it is normal for the followers around her to have some strange things , not worth the fuss.

She turned her head to Duncan.

“Don’t worry, I will tell the guards of the church that no one will disturb you,” Agatha said very seriously, “I hope you can live happily in Frost—if there is any new situation, I will personally Come.”

“Ah, that’s good of course,” Duncan laughed, which he was quite satisfied with, “I really don’t want anyone to disturb you.”

Agatha nodded, and then turned and walked towards the door again, but she just left. After taking two steps, she seemed to think of something suddenly and stopped.

“There is one more thing, I almost forgot.” The gatekeeper pressed his forehead in embarrassment, looked at Duncan and said.

Duncan was puzzled: “Oh?”

Agatha hesitated for a while, and finally asked the question that has troubled her and many people for a long time: “About the…’secret number’ you left at the end of that ‘report letter’ last time, what exactly?” What does it mean? Please forgive our ignorance, we have solved the puzzle for a long time, but still can’t understand the puzzle you left behind.”

Duncan: “…ah?”

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(end of this chapter)