Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 713

[Chapter 695 The urging bell]

“Captain! You trust me! You know my style of doing things – let alone stealing wine from your collection, I just walked to the door of your room and my calf started to twist. Oh…I really don’t know how this thing got into my hands!”

Anomaly 077 roared to Lawrence with a broken voice. The noise was so loud that people on half the deck could hear it, as well as the sailors passing by around him. They all looked sideways, curiously watching what trouble this most special “member” in the White Oak had caused.

The gray-haired Lawrence frowned. He ignored the cry and howl of the mummy in front of him, but looked thoughtfully at the two bottles of beer placed on the deck next to him.

Of course he believed what the sailor said – even though this mummy usually had many unreliable behaviors, he had always been very reliable when it came to “the calf cramps when seeing the captain”.

This “abnormal” who feared spiritual fire as much as he feared natural enemies could not take the initiative to go to the captain’s cabin and steal something. Even if these two bottles of wine were placed on the table, he would not touch them.

After thinking for a moment, Lawrence suddenly raised his head: “…Mr. Ted Leal left just now? He was with you before he left?”

The sailor was startled when he heard this, although he didn’t know why the captain suddenly changed the topic This direction, but he nodded quickly: “Yes, he just left, and he kept chatting with me before leaving.”

Lawrence looked into Anomaly 077’s eyes: “What are you talking about?”

“… Poems and songs? “Anomaly 077 said casually, and then waved his hands quickly before the old captain changed his expression, “Of course that’s impossible… It seems to be a world view or something? I can’t remember clearly. We seemed to have talked a lot, and I think that Mr. Secret Keeper was very preoccupied and talked to me a lot about the world, the future, life and so on…”

He stopped hesitantly when he said this, and then muttered hesitantly: “I seem to have invited him to drink. Come, but he didn’t ask for it… It’s strange, did I invite you or not…”

Lawrence frowned slightly, and he observed the expression and behavior of the mummy in front of him solemnly, and waited for the other party to mumble for a long time. Then he asked: “Then do you still remember how you answered? Do you remember what you said?”

The sailor stopped mumbling for an instant, and soon after the memory appeared on his face, his expression became confused and confused. Become uneasy.

“I… don’t seem to remember? I should have told him a lot of things, but I only seem to remember a few words… most of the time it seems like I was just talking nonsense…” Abnormal 077 Nian Nian Nagging, he looked at the captain with some embarrassment, “Wait, I remembered… I didn’t want to speak, but there seemed to be a voice talking to me all the time, leading me to speak… This feels a little wrong. Captain?”

“Something is wrong…of course something is wrong.” Lawrence said softly, and along with his words, a layer of weak green flames quietly emerged around him and flowed along the deck. At the same time, a huge black shadow appeared silently on the sea next to the White Oak – the Black Oak appeared next to the White Oak like a reflection floating from the sea, and the ship was surrounded by dark rooms. The lights flickered on the shadow, and its outline undulated.

Anomaly 077 was startled by the sudden movement, and quickly jumped away from the spiritual fire spreading on the deck while shouting: “Hey, Captain, what are you doing…” “There

is an uninvited guest on the ship – although now he may Already left,” Lawrence glanced at Anomaly 077 and said casually, “Martha told me that she saw a figure that did not belong to one of us in the reflection of the White Oak, and that figure was once standing next to you. “

The sailor was stunned for a moment, and his expression gradually became horrified: “… Damn it!”

…

“Your judgment is correct. There was indeed an uninvited guest on the White Oak at that time – he was near Anomaly 077,” Duncan told Tai De Lier nodded, “You think you heard two voices, one of which should be from the ‘uninvited guest’.”

Ted Lier noticed the change in Duncan’s expression just now, and guessed: “…is there news from the White Oak? Has the old captain caught someone?”

“No,” Duncan shook his head. “The other party was very alert, and they were already there when Lawrence and Martha were aware of it. Leaving the ship.”

“Leaving?” Ted Leal was slightly confused when he heard this, “On the vast sea, you can run…”

He stopped suddenly. Obviously, as a “keeper of the truth,” he had already I found the most likely answer based on my own experience.

Duncan nodded slightly after noticing the change in the other person’s expression: “Do you still remember the conversation between you and that ‘sailor’?”

“Remember.” Ted Leal said immediately, and then he quickly After recalling it for a while, he told Duncan everything he had said to the “sailor” at that time.

Listening to the other party’s story, Duncan’s expression became serious little by little, and he finally nodded: “Sure enough… this can’t be something that the sailor said on his own initiative.”

Ted Leal was a little confused: “You How can you be so sure?”

“He doesn’t have such a high level of education.”

Ted Leal: “…”

“It seems that we can probably determine the identity of the uninvited guest,” Duncan exhaled softly, “This theory sounds good to me. It’s a bit close to the Doomsday Preacher’s doomsday theory, but it’s more like a relatively mild and logical version. The person you’re talking to should be a sane Preacher of the End – he was hiding on the White Oak and Talking to you through the mouth of the ‘sailor.'”

He paused and then added: “According to the situation reported by Lawrence, this process is very much like a kind of thinking ‘overwriting’ and ‘guiding’—— The sailor still remembers what he talked to you about, but he can’t remember the specific content of the conversation. He also made some actions that were not in line with his previous character. This should also be the result of being affected.”

Ted Leal frowned, The expression on his face was a little subtle: “…I have never heard that the preacher of the end has such ability and behavior…” “

It’s normal. Not long ago, we didn’t even believe that there was a rational end in this world. Preachers,” Duncan shrugged. “This group of ‘subspace worshipers’ located in the cracks of time has always been the most mysterious. Sometimes they behave like monsters distorted by subspace, and sometimes they look like Binbin. Polite scholars, they live in a non-linear time stream, so strictly speaking… maybe no one in the entire world has ever really come into contact with a ‘complete’ final preacher, and everything we know about them so far is It’s just a temporary state they display in a specific ‘time slice’.” “

…very interesting theory,” Ted Leal raised his eyebrows, then calmed his expression and sounded serious. Get up, “A preacher of the end can actually appear under my nose without knowing it, and finally escape without a trace, without even arousing the alertness of your old captain… It seems that their level of weirdness is indeed beyond It’s unimaginable, but that ‘uninvited guest’ did so much just to use the ‘sailor’ to tell me some doomsday theories… What do you think of what he said?”

Duncan didn’t speak for a while. , he fell silent, thinking about the words Ted Leal heard from “Sailor”. After a long time, he suddenly raised his head: “What do you think? Do you think tinkering with this world has any effect?” Is there any meaning?”

“It’s not that there is any meaning, but that there is no other way to go.” Ted Leal shook his head slightly, “The world is a big ship sailing on the sea, maybe as the Evangelist said As in, this ship is leaking, sinking, and has reached a point of no return, but what can those of us who live on the ship do? All we can do is repair– It’s better than sitting back and waiting for death, isn’t it?”

Duncan was noncommittal, he just thought for a long time, but no one knew what he was thinking about at the moment.

At this moment, a ethereal and illusory bell suddenly reached Ted Leal’s ears, interrupting the communication between him and Duncan.

The truth keeper was stunned for a moment. After distinguishing the frequency and interval of the bells, he gradually frowned in confusion: “Xun Bell…?”

“Xun Bell?” Duncan’s voice came from the side, “Are you talking about this sudden sound of bells?”

“Yes, this is to summon the saints to go…” Ted Leal said casually, but he stopped suddenly in the middle of the sentence and turned to Duncan looked at him with a surprised expression, “Wait a minute, you said you heard the bell just now?!” “

Yes, I heard it, what’s wrong?” Duncan looked confused, “Shouldn’t I hear it? It’s quite obvious…”

“Of course you shouldn’t hear it!” Ted Leal almost jumped up from his chair, “This is the call bell coming from the Tomb of the Unknown King, which was built by the Church of the Four Gods many years ago. Measures have been taken to seal and guide the bell. Theoretically, only the saints of the Four Gods can hear the call…” “

The Tomb of the Unknown King?” Duncan gradually reacted after hearing the words, “Ah, I listen to the mortals. Na had talked about this before, and it turned out that this was what she called the ‘Xun Bell’…”

As he spoke, he stood up and looked around, and then said casually: “The bell is ringing again – it It seems to be urging the saints to assemble? Do you have to participate in the rally?”

“Theoretically…” Ted Leal said, but suddenly hesitated, “But it shouldn’t… The Deep Sea Church is still on duty. During this period, theoretically even I shouldn’t hear the bell…”

He raised his head and looked at each other with Duncan.

The bell rang again, with a solemn and urging tone, as if… preparing to make a solemn announcement to the world.

(End of chapter)