Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 45

[Chapter 45 History]

This feeling is wonderful.

Duncan could clearly feel things in the distance—he could feel the Lost Homeland drifting in the boundless sea, the living ghost ship was constantly opening up the route on the chart under the control of a goat head, and one head was not very strong The cursed doll turned around in the cabin, as if familiar with the environment on board the ship, the deep and dark sea was slowly undulating around, and there were countless strange things hidden in the sea.

However, in his other line of sight, he was sitting in an antique shop in the lower part of the city-state of Pland. Nina’s human girl was sitting opposite her, eating the cheapest cake in the lower city.

He is Captain Duncan, the Master of the Lost Home, the mobile Scourge of the Infinite Sea—he is sitting here like an ordinary person, eating his own breakfast, in the depths of a peaceful marketplace.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but he feels that there is a part of his heart that is always hanging and uneasy is settling down little by little. It may be the nerves that have been tense for a long time on the ghost ship, or it may be something else, but he feels that it is always Not a bad thing.

As if noticing the sight coming from the side, Nina who was eating the cake suddenly raised her head, and she glanced at Duncan curiously: “Uncle Duncan, don’t you want to eat?”

Duncan glanced at the food on the other party’s plate: “Is it enough for you?”

“Enough, it’s not good to eat too much sweets.”

“Yeah.”

Duncan nodded, picked up the cake and took a bite. He seriously felt the rich taste that he hadn’t tasted for a long time. The sweet taste slowly dissipated in the mouth—then, he clearly felt that this body began to process the food he ate.

He calmed down a little in his heart, knowing that the situation was as he expected.

This body is “better to use” than the one that was temporarily occupied for the first time – its “parts” are intact, the death time is not long, and the takeover of my own soul almost seamlessly restarts the vitality in the body, which is the same as before. The open-minded corpse was quite different.

He is now breathing, blood is flowing, and his heart is beating—although the beating speed seems to be a little slower, it should still be in the range of normal people.

There should be no need to worry about the problem of body corruption, and it also saves the calculation of soaking in preservatives, and in this way, it is less likely to be exposed in front of ordinary people.

But there’s one thing Duncan isn’t sure about.

He knew that his body should have a disease – in the memory obtained from devouring, the negative impression of being sick was more profound than all other memories, and the spirits and painkillers found in the cabinet before were also proof.

He didn’t know what kind of disease this body had before, because the time of the onset and the cause of the onset seemed to be a long time ago, and it had long been blurred, but one thing was obvious: at this moment, except for ordinary people with physique Apart from the feeling of weakness he gave himself, he didn’t feel anything wrong with this body.

Disease gone? Because of walking in the spirit world, this body has healed itself? Or is it because the projected soul is ultimately limited in perception, so that I can’t actually feel the problem of the body, and the health of the body is actually still deteriorating?

Duncan ate his meal calmly while thinking, and then suddenly glanced at Nina who was eating opposite him: “Don’t you have to go to school today?

” The city-state has obviously developed to the point where basic education is relatively popular. She is now attending school in a school jointly run by the church and the city hall, specializing in steam mechanisms—this kind of school can be regarded as a “vocational high school”. It was to send skilled steam craftsmen to factories and churches.

Half of Nina’s tuition is paid by her uncle, and the other half is a subsidy from the city hall.

For a city-state that has developed into the industrial age, even official subsidies to train craftsmen in this area are quite worthwhile—and it is undeniable that this kind of school with a very clear purpose can at least solve the problem of literacy for civilians .

Nina was very studious, and in her uncle’s memory, the girl had excellent grades in all subjects.

“I don’t have any classes this morning,” Nina nodded. “There are only two history classes in the afternoon. In addition, I have to tell Mrs. White that I won’t live in the dormitory for a few days…” Duncan suddenly

stopped He took a serious look at Nina and asked, “Don’t you think that staying here to take care of someone like me will delay a lot of things? You can live in the school for a long time, and it may be more beneficial to your studies.” Helpful.”

Nina was stunned, she looked at her “Uncle Duncan” a little blankly, and then suddenly became angry: “You shouldn’t talk like that! You are just sick, honestly follow the doctor’s advice to eat The medicine is fine—mom and dad entrusted you to me…”

“It was your mom and dad who entrusted you to me,” Duncan corrected seriously, and he spoke while using the memory in his mind to organize his words, “at that time You’re only six years old.”

“But now I’m seventeen,” Nina puffed, pricking the last piece of cake with a fork, “you’re not even as good at taking care of yourself as I am—if I really If you move out, you can make a mess of your room in less than three days. In fact, you can still ask me to help take care of the store, at least clean up, the windows are so dirty that you can hardly see clearly…” Duncan listened

helplessly As the girl babbled about “teaching”, he never expected that his casual “test” could bring about such a big reaction from the other party.

But slowly, he couldn’t help laughing again.

He felt a kind of temperature from this girl named “Nina”… a kind of warm temperature as if bathed in the sun.

“Well, I’m just saying it casually,” he said, shaking his head while stirring the last bit of soup in the bowl, “It’s history class in the afternoon…how are you doing in history class recently?”

“Uncle Duncan, are you really okay?” Nina opened her eyes wide in surprise, “You never… well, at least the past two years never asked me about my school affairs.” Duncan opened his mouth, just

thinking What to say, but the girl in front of me continued on her own: “We are talking about ancient history recently, and Mr. Morris is telling us what happened after the Great Annihilation… To be honest, it is quite interesting, ancient history It sounds like many parts are the same as the story, which is far more interesting than modern history and modern history.”

Duncan thought for a while, with a serious face: “It sounds like you have learned well? Then I will test you, the concept of Great Annihilation What is it?”

Today’s Uncle Duncan is very strange, although he can’t say what is strange, but it is different from usual.

But Nina didn’t think too much about it—compared with her uncle’s slightly strange words and deeds, this innocent girl was more happy at this moment that Uncle Duncan finally cheered up and seemed to be in a good mood.

She was very happy that what Uncle Duncan asked was exactly what she had just mastered.

So with a smug smile, she began to tell Duncan the knowledge she had just learned:

“The Great Annihilation happened about 10,000 years ago—although due to unknown reasons, people like elves, Senjin, and Jiplo Minorities with a relatively unique cultural heritage like humans record inconsistent times in their own calendars, but generally speaking, the archaeological community generally agrees that the Great Annihilation occurred at the end of the Order Era 10,000 years ago…” Duncan said

calmly listen.

My heart is full of question marks.

Elf? Senjin? Jeeplo? What’s happening here? It turns out that humans are not the only intelligent group on land? And elves… Is this the same concept as the “elves” in my understanding? Could there still be elven city-states living in the age of the steam industry in the boundless sea?

Some very strange pictures appeared in his mind, and Nina’s voice was still coming from the opposite side:

“… There are some discrepancies in the records of the Great Annihilation in various city-states, but the more common part is that the era of order before the Great Annihilation was an era that was far more prosperous, stable and safe than it is today. At that time, there were extremely vast continents and oceans. Far from being as endless as it is today, and there is no such thing as the so-called “reality frontier” at the end of the sea and land…

“The era after the Great Annihilation is called the “Deep Sea Age”, and the Deep Sea Age has continued to this day, and it has not yet ended sign. The most notable feature of the deep-sea age is that the boundless sea covers almost the entire world, while the land remains less than 10% of that of the old era, and all of them are divided into large and small islands or “foreign lands in the fog”. Established on relatively stable islands, and various ocean-going ships have become a means of exchanging supplies and communicating with each other between islands.

“In the early days of the Deep Sea Age, the remnants of the old world suffered heavy losses, and the old civilization was almost completely destroyed. The ‘Ancient Kingdom of Crete’ that first rose from the ruins is the earliest ancestor of civilization in the Deep Sea Age that can be tested. Although This ancient kingdom lasted less than a hundred years, but it left behind a large number of far-reaching legacies, including the most primitive and superficial classification methods for many anomalies and anomalies in the deep sea age, as well as a lot of valuable experience in maintaining survival in the deep sea age …”

(end of this chapter)