Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 253
city-state in the deep sea floats on the boundless sea without roots or roots. Under the 850-meter “thick” base is the seemingly endless dark deep water. The deeper you dive into the sea, the harder it is to hear Incomprehensible noises, seeing incomprehensible lights and shadows, and the first explorer who crossed a thousand-meter water depth fell into madness after rushing to the sea. The only sentence left to the world is-“We all died
there.”
This is what happened in the process of Frost City State’s “Abyss Project” from the beginning to the process that gradually became wrong.
Duncan fell into a short thought, and he suddenly found that even if he didn’t go deep into the spirit world and the deep, only in the “real dimension” of this world, there are a lot of dangers and weirdness hidden in the boundless sea. After a short thought, he He suddenly asked again:
“What happened to that explorer?”
Embolism, at least on a practical level.”
“Only one occupant in a submersible?” Duncan asked again.
“Only one person can be accommodated. Of course, this will magnify the mental pressure on the explorer, but this is also a helpless move. On the one hand, the technology was limited back then, and on the other hand, it is because this kind of exploration is not suitable for many people to go together— —Under the deep sea, it is difficult for you to be sure what will be replaced by your companion in the next second, and it is also difficult to be sure whether the sound you hear is real, so it is better to dive alone, so that at least you don’t have to suspect There are others.”
“The deep sea, the darkness, the loneliness, the bizarre unknown waters after being away from the civilized world, all these may be the reasons for that explorer’s madness,” Duncan slowly shook his head, “But it’s not important, Importantly… this still doesn’t explain why Project Abyss has since become an extremely taboo subject.”
He looked into Tirian’s eyes, and continued: “So far, what you have described is nothing more than an expedition that had an accident, and similar expeditions occur every year, and the Academy of Truth even actively invests and encourages There is no taboo for scholars and explorers to do these things, and it should not be related to the Lost Homeland.” “…
Yes, if this plan stops at 1,000 meters, it will not happen later. “Tirion shook his head, feeling emotional in his memories, “After the accident with the No. 3 submersible, Her Majesty Le Nora once ordered the exploration to be temporarily stopped, but something happened a few days later, Let the situation… gradually become weird.”
Duncan frowned: “One thing?”
“At the edge of the temporarily blocked test sea area, the No. 3 submersible rushed to the surface.”
Duncan was stunned for a moment, and then he realized: “The second No. 3 submersible?!”
“Yes, the second one,” Tirian nodded, “it rushed up in front of the navy soldiers, and began to keep lighting the need for assistance to open the hatch Although the well-trained soldiers were confused for a while, they quickly dragged the submersible to the working platform according to standard procedures, and aimed at it with twenty-seven rifles, two rapid-fire guns and a flamethrower. Then a brave priest stepped forward, splashed holy water and unlocked the door.”
Tirian paused, and slowly said: “The hatch opened, and a… a human who looked like an explorer came from inside. Walked out.”
Duncan’s face sank like water: “Like it?”
“The appearance is similar, but the height and weight are different, and he is wearing the uniform of the Frost Navy, but there are many problems with the details of the clothes, and more importantly… The man who walked out of the submersible died after only a short while on land, without even leaving a word, and after the soldiers untied ‘his’ clothes, they found that his flesh and blood and the clothes It seems to be ‘grown’ together, and there are large and small, incomprehensible wounds on its body.
“After that, doctors and church scholars jointly examined the corpse, and the Queen of Frost seemed to have visited the autopsy site herself, but the conclusions of the examination were not announced—or, before they had time to announce anything, the first Three ‘No. 3 submersibles’ appeared.”
At this time, even Alice, who was fascinated by the sound, couldn’t help but speak: “There’s a third one?!”
Tirian looked subconsciously. Glancing at Alice, the expression on his face seemed a little weird. He seemed very unaccustomed to a person who looked exactly like the Frost Queen standing here and making a fuss, but he quickly adjusted his expression and nodded slightly: ” A third one, and more than three—after that, every twenty-four or forty-eight hours, a ‘Number Three submersible’ will emerge from there…” Alice listened in amazement to
this grotesque She thought for a while, and suddenly said: “So, you just need to wait there, and you can have a steady stream of submersibles? By the way, isn’t that thing called ‘submersible’ very valuable?” Huh? Is it worth more than cultists?”
Tirian was still immersed in the memories of the past a second ago, but at this moment, Miss Puppet’s thoughts were interrupted, and she opened her mouth for a long time without mobilizing her emotions Come back: “This…we didn’t think about this at all at the time…”
“Don’t pay attention to her, her way of thinking is different from ordinary people,” Duncan glanced at Alice, and said to Tirian with a serious expression, “Go on, What happened next?”
Tirian came back to his senses, collected his thoughts and continued to speak: “After the third submersible came up, it also issued a light signal requesting to open the cabin. This time, the soldiers have some experience. They The submersible was dragged to a more tightly protected area, and the hatch was opened after the priest had set up a large amount of protection in the extraordinary field in advance, but this time… the one who came out of it was a swollen and deformed person who was completely invisible. A humanoid monster that looked like an ‘explorer’.
” That monster also failed to survive in the air for more than three minutes.
“What crawled out of the fourth submersible was a mass of wriggling flesh, this time even the outline of a human could not be seen.
“After the hatch of the fifth submersible was opened, nothing came out of it—the soldiers at the scene stepped forward to check and saw only a pool of suspicious dark red mud in the cockpit, which carried a weak life reaction.
“There is only a little black fibrous dry matter in the sixth submersible, which looks like an unformed nerve structure, or a dried blood vessel specimen…”
As Tirian continued to tell, the expression on Duncan’s face became more and more serious. It became more and more serious, and even Alice next to her seemed to have noticed the change in the atmosphere,
and she sat upright. In this increasingly serious and deep atmosphere, Tirian said slowly—
“The seventh submersible, too. As far as I know the last one, it was empty inside. “
“Empty?” Duncan raised his eyebrows slightly, then shook his head, “Then this is even more disturbing.” “
“Yes, it is empty, so it is even more disturbing. This matter has completely gotten out of control, and there must be a way to end it,” said Tirian in a deep voice. It was originally the successor model of the No. 3 submersible. After the “One Kilometer” incident, the plan was suspended, and its construction work was also suspended. However, as the “No. 3 submersibles” surfaced one after another, the Queen ordered Finished the assembly of the ‘No. 4 submersible’ as quickly as possible, and decided to use it to understand what happened in the depth of 1,000 meters. “
Tirion paused, and it seemed that there were some gaps in his memory. He organized his words before continuing to speak slowly: “I can’t remember the specific situation of the No. 4 submersible. It was completed in a hurry, and it was cold. The Frost Navy is only responsible for part of it. I only know that it is bigger than No. 3, can accommodate three people, and has a sample chamber—scholars originally planned to use it to collect specimens in the deep sea. If there are specimens to collect if.
“On the second day after the seventh ‘No. 3 submersible’ appeared, the No. 4 submersible built by Frost City was thrown into the sea. Inside it sat a scholar, an officer, and a powerful priest— At this time, we can no longer consider the hidden dangers of “multiplayer exploration”. The most important thing is to do everything possible to avoid the appearance of the eighth “No. 3 submersible”.
“The No. 4 submersible dived all the way, and soon reached a depth of one thousand meters. The priest in the submersible kept in touch with the sea surface by relying on spiritual power. Probably because the new submersible was more powerful, they went smoothly all the way. , also confirmed the scene of the city-state’base’ observed by the previous explorers, but soon, the communication began to become intermittent, and after the depth reached a thousand meters, the chapel on the sea platform disappeared. The voice from the deep sea was hardly heard anymore.
” But fifteen minutes after the communication was cut off, the pastor on duty in the chapel suddenly heard the voice from the deep sea again. They first heard a scream, which was the priest’s voice. Yes, the pastor was screaming to the others in a very terrified tone, saying, ‘Don’t look! Do not think! ‘, followed by the officer’s voice, it was a roar, and then, a deafening roar. Tirian
looked up, looking into Duncan’s eyes.
“Submers Four detonated the explosives,” said the pirate slowly.
“Then, it was all over, No. 4 submersible never surfaced, and no more ‘No. 3 submersibles’ appeared.”
(End of this chapter)
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