Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 671

[Chapter 664 Alice’s Trophy]

“You saw the shadow of the Lost Home!?” Duncan did not hide his surprise at all.

“Yes,” Lucretia glanced at Duncan and nodded in a subtle tone. “After being lost in the fog for three days, I saw a silhouette that looked very much like the Homeless Ship emerging from the thick fog in the distance. It passed by, and where it passed, the dense fog seemed to become thinner for a short time, and revealed the appearance of normal sea area. I… hesitated for a long time, but there was no other choice at the time, so I mustered up the courage to head towards that road. The silhouette sailed away, but it suddenly disappeared just as the Brilliant Star was approaching… Then, I returned to the normal sea area.” After

Lucretia finished speaking, she looked at Duncan with a strange look for several seconds. , then added: “That was 1862, and you have been in the subspace for sixty-two years.”

Duncan was silent for a while, and calmly turned around to look at the sea in the distance to hide the change in his eyes, While saying calmly: “I don’t remember this.”

“I know,” Lucretia nodded, “So I have been wondering whether what I saw at that time was the real Homeless Ship, or just Hallucinations caused by exhaustion, or… that was also some kind of ‘special phenomenon’ at the border.

“That was the first and only time I crossed the ‘six nautical miles’ limit. After that, I never entered that level again.” Deep down, I have never seen a similar ‘phantom’ again. “

Duncan was silent, and his thoughts were ups and downs.

From Lucretia’s story, he finally realized for the first time what kind of weirdness there was in the boundless fog known as the “Border of Civilization” and the “Eternal Curtain” and danger, but it also gave rise to countless conjectures and…curiosity about the incredible phenomena that appeared in the fog.

Obviously, entering that fog is risky, even for an experienced border scholar like Lucretia and A great explorer, even if he is well prepared, is almost lost in the veil forever, and even in the relatively “safe” calm zone of six nautical miles, all kinds of weird and dangerous “entities” and phenomena can come at any time. The explorer’s life.

But those weird and dangerous “entities” aroused Duncan’s attention. The

“black shadow” suspected to be left after the crash of New Hope is just one of them. In the fog six sea miles from the border, there are How many “residues” are there like New Hope? Are they all the “core remnants” that remain after the annihilation of various worlds? And what kind of mechanism allows these remnants to remain until now? These “entities” are surrounded by mist Looking at the entire boundless sea, what about outside this “ring”? What remains there?

Vaguely, Duncan had a premonition that there were strange “hollows” in Lucretia’s perception. “Entity” may help him understand the crisis at the bottom of the world, and even help him find the “way out” to solve the “bottom pollution” of all things… The look from beside him

made Duncan end his meditation. He raised his head and saw Lucretia standing aside and looking at him quietly, with a hint of worry in her complex eyes.

“…You’re going there again, right? Lucretia

asked in a low voice.

“…This ship is sailing to the border.” Duncan patted the handrail beside him. “The Annihilation cultists have a hiding place in the fog on the border. No matter what, I will to solve this problem. “

I’m not talking about this time – those cultists won’t hide in very deep places, and it may be just a piece of cake for you to eliminate their nests. I’m talking about after this,” Lucretia stared at Looking at Duncan’s eyes, “After solving this nest, your attention will be on the fog, right? You will investigate the ‘entities’ and ‘visions’ I described to you, even… six nautical miles away. “

Her gaze brought some pressure. For the first time, Duncan felt that the gaze of this “Sea Witch” was a bit overwhelming. But after a moment of silence, he still nodded: “I will go if the situation requires it. .

Lucretia pursed her lips.

But she did not persuade or stop her. She just said suddenly after a long silence: “Take me with you this time. My experience can help you. ” “

Duncan was a little surprised. He looked at the “witch” and after a few seconds said softly: “…What if the end of the fog is subspace? “

Then I need your experience. ” “

Duncan didn’t speak for a while. He turned around and looked at the sea in the distance silently. After a while, he breathed out slightly: “Let’s talk about it later. I do have this idea, but I won’t go in now. Deep in that fog – at least before that, I have to get rid of the cultist’s nest hidden on the border and make some contact with the Four Gods Church. Lucretia

nodded slightly.

But at this moment, a sound of footsteps and a strange clanking sound of metal collision came from not far away, interrupting the communication between the two.

Duncan looked up Looking towards the direction where the sound came from, I saw Alice walking happily towards this direction – Miss Doll was holding a big wooden box in one hand, and in the other hand she was carrying a lot of stuff from nowhere. She strung the knives, spatulas, and iron spoons she found into a string with wires, and walked over happily and flamboyantly as if she were returning with trophies, making a jingling noise all the way on the deck.

“captain! “This silly doll just came to Duncan, raised a large string of “babies” strung with wires in his hand and swayed in the air, “Look! I also have my own trophies! “

Duncan didn’t even react to the serious topic he had just had with Lucretia. This cheerful and silly beauty interrupted all his thoughts. He stared blankly at the bunch of things in Alice’s hand. It took a long time to finally react: “…you ransacked the kitchen? “

“Yes, yes,” Alice nodded slightly and said with a proud look on her face, “Goat Head said that after occupying the enemy ship, you must loot the treasure house as soon as possible and get enough loot before the ship sinks. , I just followed those toy soldiers in many places in the ship, and finally found the kitchen on the ship…”

Speaking of this, she recalled it again, and said with emotion: “This ship is really not good. They don’t look very smart. When I collected the loot, nothing in the kitchen resisted. I was ready to fight with this kitchen knife…” Lucretia listened to this

man in stunned silence. Occasionally, Duncan couldn’t help but speak after a moment of silence: “…Alice.” “

Huh?”

“Not everyone needs to fight with kitchen utensils when cooking…”

“I know, people won’t be beaten in the kitchens in the city-state, but isn’t this on a ship?” “…

Not all ships have buckets, mops, and pots and pans that can hit people.”

Alice His eyes widened in surprise.

Two seconds later, the doll exclaimed: “Is it so magical?”

Duncan: “…”

At this moment, Lucretia noticed the ball held in Alice’s other hand. Weird wooden box: “What is this? Is it also your trophy?”

“Yes,” Alice reacted immediately and nodded repeatedly, “I found it in a strange cabin. This is the only thing in such a big room. A wooden box with several iron chains around it – I pulled off most of the iron chains, but the lock on the box was strange and I couldn’t open it no matter how hard I tried. I didn’t know what was inside. Even the box was brought over…”

As she spoke, she handed the big wooden box to Duncan: “Do you want to take a look?”

Halfway through listening to Alice’s story, Duncan felt a twinge of joy in his heart. With a strange intuition, he took over the heavy wooden box with a dark surface and many complex patterns. He glanced at the lock, only to see that it was just an ordinary-looking iron lock, as if even the worst thief could do it. It was opened with a piece of wire – but just such a lock blocked the powerful doll.

Duncan knew about Alice’s strength. She could wave a coffin board on the sea and row a coffin out of an assault boat at the speed of an assault boat. She could also use her strength to break the iron chain used to imprison the wooden box – Duncan could even imagine it. Alice, this idiot, ran into the cabin and used brute force to break the iron chains, but she was helpless with the last broken iron lock on the box.

The child is not smart, but the child is strong (×)

The child is strong, but unfortunately not smart (√)

It seems that this box should be what I am looking for.

“Abnormal 132-Lock,” Lucretia came closer and quickly figured out what was going on with the iron lock that Alice couldn’t open with brute force. “It requires a special ‘key’ to open. The key It is a secret language that only the person who locked it knows. It will become indestructible after being locked, and the container it is locked will also become indestructible – even if it is just a paper box. This anomaly is a rare One of the harmless anomalies. Although the number is not high, it has a special function and can be used to assist in sealing some dangerous items. In 1876, it was stolen from a transfer ship during a pirate attack… I didn’t expect it to end up here. Help the cultists.”

After telling the information about the iron lock, Lucretia thought for a moment and said uncertainly: “The cultist who performed the ‘lock’ operation last time is dead. The secret key has been lost, but I can try to use other means to solve the mystery of this lock. Although it is ‘indestructible’, I heard that it has a loophole…” A soft “click” sound suddenly came,

interrupting The words behind this “witch”.

Lucretia looked at the wooden box in Duncan’s hand in shock.

The lock had opened on its own.

“It seems like it doesn’t want you to try it,” Duncan smiled and said to Lucretia, “Maybe it knows that if you try it and it doesn’t work, then it’s my turn to ‘try it’ myself.”

Lucretia was stunned: “…That’s reasonable, my thinking is limited.”

Duncan smiled and shook his head, then placed the big wooden box on the ground, took off the open padlock, and carefully opened the lid of the box.

A dark wooden goat’s head lay quietly in the box.

(End of chapter)