Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 231
[Chapter 231 Warm Daily Life in the Subspace Lair]
The large parrot with colorful tail flapped its wings and left the Sea Mist, flew over the dock area at an astonishing speed, and flew straight to the city-state.
“First officer, what should we do? Just wait here?”
On the bridge of the Sea Mist, a sailor looked at Perley’s figure flying far away, and turned his head to ask Aiden, who was silent beside him.
“…I can only wait first,” Aiden lowered his head and glanced at the ground under his feet. He was weighing quickly to keep his cold mind running as much as possible. “It’s not just because of the captain’s order, It’s more because of the current state of the Sea Fog.”
The second half of his sentence made several restless subordinates quickly settle down.
The captain only brought a few cronies ashore, and left his first mate and all the rest of the sailors with him. The obvious explanation for this was that most of the undead sailors on the Sea Mist were weird and frightening, and it was easy for them to go ashore in the city-state. Cause riots and hostility, but in reality Aiden is well aware of the situation.
Because the Sea Fog had just encountered its flagship not long ago.
The ship is in a very bad state, not only because of the damage to its hull, but also because the… “soul” of the ship is restless. There was a hollow sound, and the pressure in the steam pipe hadn’t completely stabilized until now. The ship has indeed returned to “this side” now, but it’s hard to say whether it will still get out of control.
When the ship was in an unstable state, the sailors who had served on the ship for more than half a century were the “anchor” of the ship – the anchor of the Sea Mist allowed it to dock on the sea, and the “humanity” composed of immortal people An anchor” can stabilize it in the dimension of reality.
Aiden didn’t dare to reduce the number of sailors on board rashly—especially after he vaguely noticed the strange situation of Purand, he didn’t dare to let the members of the Sea Mist enter the city-state casually, because it was very likely to cause “touching”, Let the “soul” of this ship just stabilized wake up.
Similarly, he did not dare to let the Seafog directly send signals to the city-state of Purdand, including honking the whistle, ringing the bell, or directly contacting the city-state authorities with telegrams, because he was afraid of alarming some powers hidden in Pland.
Letting the parrot Polly pass the message is the least risky solution he can think of so far. I hope the captain can return as soon as possible after receiving the news—hope he hasn’t been trapped by anything, and hope it’s not too late.
Of course, he can’t put all his hopes on “waiting”-if the captain still hasn’t returned after a day, he can only send a small part of the crew to the shore to take a risk.
Aiden frowned tightly, staring at the city of pearls shining brightly in the sun, recalling every detail of the captain leaving with the city-state judge, trying to find anything wrong in it, to explain what happened just now. Unusual manifestation of anomaly 203.
…
Duncan, who was sitting by the counter flipping through the newspaper, suddenly stopped what he was doing, raised his head and looked out the window thoughtfully.
Alice, who was sitting next to him and flipping through the newspaper imitatively, noticed it, and asked curiously: “Mr. Duncan, what are you looking at?
” Frowning, he muttered uncertainly, “But it’s gone in a blink of an eye.”
“Oh, I know, this is called ‘Strike of the Strong’! Mr. Goathead told me,” Alice said suddenly He said happily, “It says that the stronger you are, the easier it is for you to feel the gaze and even the thoughts directed at you, and a strong person like you will always be excited…” Duncan put down the newspaper in his hand and looked at Alice blankly
. : “It really said that?”
The smile on Alice’s face froze instantly: “…the last sentence was deduced by me.”
“Don’t make such useless reasoning.” Duncan said casually, and then Then he concentrated a little bit and began to look for the source of the “spirit” just now.
He didn’t take that flash of feeling as an illusion—after staying in this weird world for so long, he has developed the habit of paying attention to any “sudden intuition” and asking the bottom line.
Duncan’s perception quickly expanded and spread towards the edge of the city-state. In just a split second, he felt that Purand had a clear outline in his mind like the Lost Land, as if he could feel the loss of the land. He began to feel the complex “tactile senses” conveyed to him by the city-state under his feet, and among these tactile senses, one of the most obvious and abrupt messages entered his mind.
In the southeast port of Prand.
“…Tirion’s ship?” Duncan was a little surprised after sensing the source of the breath, “Why is he here?”
Immediately afterwards, he recalled his previous encounter with the steel warship, recalling Recalling the position of the ship at that time and the intentions shown by the opponent in the battle, after a short thought, the expression on his face became a little weird.
The Sea Fog appeared near Purland and launched an attack on the Lost Homeland…… Could it be the “reinforcement” called by the Purland authorities? Is it to intercept yourself?
He vaguely guessed the cause and effect of the matter in his mind, but Duncan just felt dumbfounded. He didn’t know whether he should first feel the relationship between the father and his son, or should he feel the professionalism of Tirian as a reinforcement—after being beaten like that by the Homeless, Even when the ship was almost sunk, it was still unswerving to reach Purand. What kind of spirit is this?
This must not be the spirit of maintaining world peace.
The most likely thing is the spirit of endless fun fighting with Dad.
“Mr. Duncan, you are in a daze,” Alice’s voice sounded from the side again, and the puppet tilted its head slightly to look at this side, “Do you want to go out?”
“No,” Duncan shook his head, while maintaining his perception of the Seafog. Since the latter hadn’t become his “collection” like the Lost Home and Prand, he couldn’t perceive the people on that ship. However, considering the “connection” between himself and the Seamist and Tirian, he has already begun to search for the location of his “eldest son” – but Alice will listen to these complicated things He didn’t understand, so he didn’t explain it at all, but couldn’t help frowning when he saw the puppet tilting his head, “Don’t tilt your head, the head will fall.”
Alice quickly nodded slightly: “Oh At this moment, there was another sound of footsteps behind the small door behind the counter, and
then the door opened, and a petite figure came out from inside.
“Mr. Duncan,” Shirley patted the dust on her skirt, and greeted Duncan with a face full of credit, “The warehouse has been cleaned up! All the sundries you told me have been put on a shelf!”
“Well, you did a good job,” Duncan kept his attention on the port side, and at the same time he turned his head and nodded to Shirley, “There is still a little dust on his shoulder.” “Oh,”
Shirley turned her head and patted the dust, Immediately afterwards, she looked at Duncan nervously, “Mr. Duncan, what are you doing next?”
When talking to Duncan here, the expression on her face was obviously not as frightened as on the Lost Home, but she still carried Some obvious tension, it seems that this kind of tension will not be completely eliminated for a while, but compared to the first time, her current state is obviously more than a little bit better.
Obviously, at least intellectually, she knew Duncan’s kindness towards her. As for the tension that could not be eliminated… Agou’s tension had to be resolved first.
Duncan nodded, and then glanced at Alice who was flipping through the newspaper, but actually didn’t know a single word.
illiteracy.
He looked at Shirley on the opposite side again.
Another illiterate.
There is also Agou who hides in the shadows beside him, although he has never shown his face, but his breath is becoming more and more difficult to hide.
Still illiterate.
Ask these three to come to the store to help, and I don’t even understand the account.
Duncan sighed in his heart, and then he remembered a previous idea of his own, as well as his old profession.
“Come on, you all sit here, Shirley, you sit on Alice’s right,” Duncan casually pulled a chair from the side and put it next to the counter, “Ah Gou, you sit behind the counter…don’t hide, I saw your shadow Come here, I have an arrangement.”
Shirley hurriedly sat down on the chair obediently, and Alice finally put down the newspaper she couldn’t understand, and cast her eyes curiously: “Ah, what arrangement?” “Anyway,
Ni Na went shopping and hasn’t come back yet, so she’s still idle, I’ll teach you how to read,” Duncan said cheerfully, and got up to tidy up his clothes, “You can’t be illiterate all the time, right?” Shirley Wan did
n’t Thinking that Captain Duncan’s serious “arrangement” turned out to be this matter, she was immediately stunned on the spot. Alice was full of curiosity, and even her eyes lit up slightly, while Agou, who was squatting obediently behind the counter, He raised his head to look at Duncan, and then at Shirley. The dog’s head was full of question marks: “But I’m just a dog…”
Duncan lowered his head and glanced at the words. Before he could say anything, the secluded demon suddenly Suddenly, the whole upper body straightened up: “But I can try to be a cultured dog. I have the enthusiasm and confidence…” “That’s fine,”
Duncan said cheerfully. He kept his attention on the port, At the same time, he reached out and took out a few blank white paper books from under the counter, and distributed them to a few “students” while saying, “Then this will be used as an alphabet book for you, let’s start with the most basic letters… Shirley
took the notebook Duncan handed over with a confused face.
Then, she entered a more encircled state.
Alphabets and spelling, the door to a completely incomprehensible new world.
Only a few minutes passed, and Shirley confirmed one thing: It’s easier to fight the cultists with a dog!
But Duncan obviously didn’t pay much attention to Shirley’s distressed expression – or rather, he had long been accustomed to this expression.
He only feels happiness, which is a kind of happiness when he suddenly comes into contact with familiar things and suddenly does familiar things when he is wandering in a foreign land.
But this happy time didn’t last too long——when Shirley started to stumble and learn to write the fourth letter, crisp bells and brisk footsteps suddenly came from the door, interrupting this “subspace shadow” imparting knowledge to dependents” class time.
Nina’s cheerful voice sounded at the door: “Uncle Duncan! I’m back!”
Duncan raised his head from the pleasant teaching and saw Nina pushing the door to enter the store. Something flew in after him.
“I saw Ai when I came back,” Nina said happily, “Ai seems to have brought friends back!” “
Friends?”
Duncan frowned slightly, and then saw Ai flying behind Nina. After entering the store, a big parrot with colorful tail flew in immediately…
Duncan: “…?”
(End of this chapter)
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