Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 57

This matter is too evil, so Duncan still couldn’t finish the bowl of fish soup in the end.

After all, as long as he thought of Miss Doll’s head rolling up and down in the soup pot, he felt that the painting style of this dinner was rushing all the way in the direction of the grudge and the god of death—even if Alice’s real painting style was actually It’s not funny, the fact that she dropped her head into the pot is a bit too scary…

Miss Doll looks a little hurt, she looks at the food that Duncan put aside, and grabs the lace decoration on the side of her clothes with both hands: ” Captain, are you angry?”

Duncan glanced at the doll exhausted physically and mentally: “If you have any unhappiness on board, you can tell me directly…” “

Ah? I didn’t…”

“Then from now on Try not to enter the kitchen…” Duncan said casually, but soon he noticed Alice’s increasingly frustrated expression, and finally shook his head helplessly and changed the subject, “Forget it, your intention is good, actually I’m very happy, but about cooking… there will be accidents if you are not proficient, and it will be fine if you get familiar with it in the future.”

Alice immediately hesitated: “Then I can try it in the future?”

Duncan held back for a long time , and finally nodded: “… Just be careful.”

He also thought about it: this cursed doll obviously couldn’t stand the status quo of dawdling on the Lost Home, maybe she really had some kind of “nature” , so that she has to do something on this ship to feel at ease, and she is an independent individual with thinking and personality, Duncan feels that he can’t treat this puppet with blows forever.

In contrast, it is better to let Alice go to help in the kitchen than to let her continue to fight with cables, anchor lines and shells-at least the pots and pans on the Lost Country are relatively good-natured.

He lowered his head and glanced at the fish soup next to him. In all fairness, the taste of this fish soup is actually quite normal. Although the seasoning on board is limited, the heat is not a problem at all. Si can achieve this level on the premise of only listening to a few theoretical knowledge (and this theoretical knowledge comes from a goat head who also eats people), which is actually quite remarkable.

Two guys who don’t eat human food can come together to cook a meal that can be eaten by human beings, what more can you ask for? Duncan felt that as long as the puppet was careful in the future, it should still be able to do the work in the kitchen-at least he, the captain, would not have to cook by himself in the future.

“Then… Captain, do you want me to do something else for you?” Alice’s voice came from the side, interrupting Duncan’s thinking, “I also learned how to bake and fry fish from Mr. Goat’s Head. There are slices of them in the kitchen…”

“Not for now, I’m not hungry,” Duncan shook his head, his body actually doesn’t have a strong need for food, and he usually maintains three meals a day just to maintain his activities It’s just a habit of “human beings”. At this time, a bowl of Alice’s soup had already dispelled his appetite for a long time, so he simply stood up from the table, “I’m going to take a walk in the cabin.” “Are you going to the cabin

? “Alice was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to remember something, her expression became slightly tense, “Then…then can you go to ‘below’ to have a look?” “

Below?” Duncan frowned.

“It’s the deeper cabins—the places I’m not allowed to go,” said Alice. “I always hear creaking noises down there, and sometimes it seems like someone is muttering under the floorboards, you Why don’t you go and see… is there anything wrong down here?”

Seeing the slightly nervous expression on Miss Doll’s face, Duncan’s heart suddenly rose.

The depths of the Lost…that was a place he hadn’t explored yet!

Because the deepest part gave him a strange and dangerous feeling, and at that time he hadn’t “steered the helm” and hadn’t mastered the power of the spirit fire, so the previous few explorations stopped at the place leading to the deep cabin— —Of course, he has plans for further exploration in the future, but now it seems that the plan obviously cannot keep up with the changes.

At this moment, Goat’s Head’s voice suddenly came from the side: “Ah, it sounds like the bilge is a little restless, Captain, do you want to go down and have a look?

” He muttered to himself: “Thinking carefully, it seems that you haven’t checked the bottom for a long time. Some of the bilge needs the captain’s comfort. You know, after all, it has been soaked in the boundless sea for a long time… You need to bring your lantern. Is it still in the old place, just behind the door… You have been active on the upper floor during this time, but the guys on the lower floor are very noisy, you don’t know how annoying they are, oh, I am a quiet person, I can’t hear those creaking noises in the middle of the night…”

Duncan gave the goat’s head a silent look, and the latter fell silent.

To be honest, after hearing some of Goat’s Head’s chanting, he suddenly became more resistant to the weird bilge—it sounds like it was obviously affected by the deeper influence of the boundless sea, and it has become even more It can be regarded as a “wrong” structure on the Lost Home!

But the contradictory thoughts only lingered in his mind for less than a second.

Sooner or later, he would have to further explore the other structures of the Lost Home, and it would be better to go early… Reason told him that the sooner the better.

The Lost Homelander is huge, not only in its amazing length, but also in the depths of its cabin, which is divided into many layers. The area that Duncan knows so far is actually only the superstructure of the ship—including the deck area, the upper cabin below the deck, and the ammunition depot, The artillery area, as well as the warehouse, fresh water tank and part of the crew room on the next floor, and based on the previous explorations, he can fully imagine how huge structures are hidden in the dark depths under these areas.

Those structures are located below the waterline, and in terms of depth, they are completely submerged in the Infinity Sea.

Dark, gloomy, echoing with the hollow sound of the wind or howling——the deeper you go, the weirder the environment in the Lost Homeland becomes.

Duncan didn’t know his own ship – it wouldn’t work if it dragged on.

He is already the captain of this ship, and the Lost Home is his foothold, and it is also the base camp for his activities in this world. He can’t be so ignorant of his own basics—even if it’s just for the sake of a world full of anomalies and visions. In order to survive for a long time on the boundless sea, he must also have a clear understanding of the potential and dangers of the Lost Country.

God knows whether there will be a crisis tomorrow, and God knows whether the Lost Homeland will hit those children in the deep sea or the collapsed border of reality in the next second.

What’s more, the goat’s head mentioned just now: the bilge needs the captain’s comfort.

“Captain” hasn’t been to the lower cabin for too long… If this continues, something bad will happen.

Duncan got up and went to the door and found the lantern mentioned by the goat’s head.

This is a rather old lantern. The copper frame is in the shape of a hexagonal prism with a wide top and a narrow bottom. The glass lampshade is inlaid in the copper frame, which looks a little blurry, but inside the lampshade, Duncan didn’t look at it. to a wick-like structure.

He didn’t show curiosity, nor did he ask the goat’s head. After a short and calm thought, he tried to activate the green spirit fire and pour this power into the lantern.

A cluster of bright green flames immediately jumped and burned inside the lampshade, and this simple and ancient lantern began to emit a constant glow.

In the place where the lantern shines, a bleak atmosphere permeates for some reason, but Duncan suddenly feels an inexplicable sense of calm and control when he stands in this light. He seems to be able to vaguely feel his own strength. As the light spreads, where the light shines, the details of everything are clearly reflected in his mind.

Ay the pigeon flew over suddenly and landed on Duncan’s shoulder.

It has already turned into the flesh and blood illusory undead bird form – although Duncan did not actively “activate” the pigeon at all, under the light of the lantern, it still passively completed the “transformation”.

Duncan looked down at the lantern in his hand, thinking that it might be a good thing… It seems that it can spread its power to the surrounding environment with minimal loss and maintain a “force field”, which has both detection, early warning and even The function of control, this feature is obviously quite suitable for long-term exploration in unfamiliar or dangerous areas.

“Captain…can I go with you?”

Duncan turned his head and saw Alice standing behind him. She looked at the lantern curiously, with an eager expression on her face: “I haven’t I’ve been to the lower deck! Mr. Goathead said he can’t go down without your permission…”

Duncan thought for a while, then nodded slightly: “Yes.”

He didn’t know what was in the lower deck of the cabin yet, but it belonged to the Lost Country anyway. Part of it, on the premise that I have successfully “steered the helm”, I think there will be no great danger in the bilge, and maybe I can give myself a hand with this doll.

The goat’s head left on the nautical table did not express any opinions. Obviously, from its perspective, it is quite normal for the captain to inspect the Lost Homeland – the same is true for bringing a helper.

Outside the cabin, night has gradually fallen, and the cool glow of World Creation is shining on the sea surface, shining on the empty deck of the ghost ship, and the translucent sail of the spirit body is agitating in the air, slowly adjusting the angle unmanned.

Duncan held a lantern in his hand, took his saber and flintlock gun, and Alice and Alice walked through the empty deck, passed through the two uppermost cabins, and walked down the wooden stairs all the way to the front of the Lost Home. deep in the cabin.

The staircase at the end of the crew cabin is where Duncan’s previous explorations stopped.

A strange kind of darkness lingers around the sloping downward staircase, in which only the pillars and some wall structures used to support the cabin can be vaguely seen.

“It’s so dark down here,” Alice stood at the stairs, looking nervously at the dim environment below, “Isn’t there a light down here? There are obviously constant oil lamps in other places…” “No,

then There is a light below,” Duncan said slowly holding the lantern in his hand, and with the power emanating from the lantern, he finally saw the situation below the cabin more clearly than before, “…but the light below is black “

…Huh?” Alice was stunned for a long time before she could react, “There is still a black light?”

Duncan didn’t respond for a while, but walked down slowly with the lantern in his hand until Alice followed Only after that did he speak softly: “After all, we are already below the surface of the boundless sea.”

(End of this chapter)