Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 732

[Chapter 714 The shocked Shirley]

“This island… this island as a whole is a part of the ancient god. Everything on the island… stones, soil, and things that look like trees are all the same…

“Those The Annihilation cultists who live on this island use the resources on the island to build houses, make boats, eat things that grow in the soil here, and perform rituals all day long to summon demons… to connect themselves with the entire island. Together…

“There is indeed no living person on the island. Everyone has been eaten by ‘it’, by this island…those stupid…stupid cultists have touched something deep in this island, so that It came alive…”

Shirley hugged her knees and sat on the ground at the edge of the square, telling intermittently what she had just seen. Her lingering fear had not gone away, and the fear and uneasiness was still deeply imprinted in her mind. The impact of the brief glimpse of the “truth” put her mind under heavy pressure. Even though she was “pulled” out by the captain at the last moment, she still felt like something was buzzing in her head. There are many vague “memories” floating around in my consciousness.

Agou stood next to Shirley, using its ferocious and terrifying skeletal body to gently rub against Shirley’s thigh, hoping to use this method to soothe the other person’s frightened mind – this had some effect, Shirley was gradually ground recovery.

Duncan sat next to Shirley. He protected Shirley’s mind so that it would not be affected by the contaminating knowledge. At the same time, he asked curiously: “Touched something deep in the island? What did they do?” What?”

Shirley hesitated for a moment, rummaging through her messy memories – too much information had just poured into her mind, and that was the “memory left on this “living island” “She had no time to identify, think, or even understand the information in them. Now, these chaotic memories gradually tumbled out from the depths of her consciousness, and some useful fragments finally became clear.

“They… they dug too deep.”

“Dig too deep?” Morris on the side immediately frowned, “What are they digging?”

“In the center of the island, there is a passage leading underground… “Shirley frowned tightly, and finally found some useful memory fragments, “It was when the sun went out…!” “

When the sun went out?” Morris’s eyes changed slightly in an instant, while repeating these words Subconsciously exchanged glances with Vanna and the captain.

Shirley suddenly became energetic. She matched the sounds she “heard” with the messy pictures she saw, and immediately spoke quickly: “Yes, that’s when! After the sun goes out, this holy island On the contrary, there was still daylight, and the cultists on the island remained ‘awake’… Then they seemed to have received some inspiration, and they began to dig things in the center of the island… There was a cave there, and it was full of… They started digging frantically into the black rock, and then found a secret room, but it was sealed…”

Shirley paused, and her tone was a little uncertain: “They wanted to enter the secret room, but it seemed they couldn’t. There was no time to destroy or even touch the door, and something happened…”

Amber walked over from the side. The young deep sea priestess was extremely interested in what Shirley told: “So, on the island All the cultists were killed because they touched the defense mechanism of this ‘living island’?”

Shirley blinked and was about to nod, but suddenly felt that she had forgotten something very important, and hesitated again He shook his head.

“…No, they were not killed by a ‘defense mechanism’…” She recalled slowly, understanding bit by bit the “information” hovering in her mind. After a few minutes of sorting and thinking, , she finally understood the “truth”, “They were killed by a…’knowledge’…”

As soon as she finished speaking, before she could continue to say anything, Morris next to her reacted instantly: “Don’t say that !”

Almost at the same time, Amber had instantly taken out the Storm Goddess’s amulet from her arms and pricked her palm with its tip. Next to her, the leader of the Death Priest, who had been silent all the way, also took out the blessed urn. , more than 20 marines also used talismans and sacred objects to provide emergency protection for themselves.

Morris instantly applied several layers of mental protection to himself, and wrapped Lachem’s amulet and colorful stone bracelet around his wrist. Then he relaxed a little, looked at Shirley and nodded: “You can say now It’s over.”

Shirley was startled by the scene and asked subconsciously: “…As for this?”

Fanna looked at Shirley seriously and nodded: “As for, because this is an instant kill. The ‘knowledge’ that killed all the Annihilation cultists on the entire island, although from your description it seems that this is related to the rituals they have performed for a long time, this ‘knowledge’ may still be dangerous.”

Morris also added: “Normally, if investigators accidentally obtain secret knowledge and survive, the safest and most professional operation is to use the ‘secret language’ blessed by the four gods to write the content on parchment. In this way, Reduce and filter out the pollution carried in the information – do you understand the ‘secret language’?”

Shirley thought for a while and shook her head honestly: “…Okay, I don’t understand.”

Morris spread his hands: “It doesn’t matter, now You can talk now.”

Shirley scratched her cheek. With this interruption, her tense nerves were a little more relaxed than before. So after sorting out her thoughts for a while, she repeated what she had just “heard” Words –

“Human beings are a type of highly differentiated deep demons. Deep demons are primitive molds that were contained in the deep sea because they were unable to infuse humanity and wisdom.” The

square was quiet for a few seconds.

Alice was the first to break the silence. She blinked and looked at Shirley: “…It’s gone?”

“It’s gone,” Shirley nodded, “That’s it… but those cultists know this After the ‘truth’, almost in the blink of an eye, it turned into these…disgusting and scary states.”

Shirley said half-understood, and Alice listened half-understood, but beside them, Duncan’s face gradually changed. An expression of thinking and understanding emerged.

He slowly stood up and murmured while thinking: “This is not just a sentence… This sentence explains a lot of things.”

Amber lowered her head and outlined Gemona’s holy symbol on her chest with her hand: “Goddess I have mercy on you…”

The corner of Morris’s mouth also twitched: “…Humans are a kind of deep demon. This sentence seems a bit too extreme even in the theory of the Annihilation Sect.” “

We are no longer the first This is the first time I have encountered such ‘extreme’ information, ever since I first obtained the “Book of Blasphemy.”” Vanna shook her head with a strange expression, then raised her head and looked around at the people around her from the Tide and No Rest The Marines sent down.

Surprised, pensive, confused—but no one seemed shaken.

This is a force that specializes in handling border affairs – tenacity and a stable mental state are essential qualities. Considering the actual situation in the border waters, “maintaining a mentality in the face of incredible information and knowledge” has probably been engraved on These people have it in their bones.

“No wonder those ‘humanoids’ floating on the sea exude the aura of the deep demon…” Amber suddenly said thoughtfully, “I have heard before that the ‘Netherworld Holy Lord created all things in the third long night. “All living beings”, but I never thought that the connection between “human beings” and “deep demons” can be understood from this perspective… But if this is true, it can explain the “summoning” ability of those Annihilation cultists, as well as their relationship with What’s going on with the symbiosis between deep demons…”

As she said this, her eyes couldn’t help but glance at Agou who was lying next to Shirley’s legs.

Agou noticed Amber’s gaze instantly and immediately raised his head: “Don’t look at me, Shirley and I are in a different situation from those cultists – and I am different from my brainless relatives. , let me tell you, now I am at least at the level of a high school graduate, and maybe half a step into City State University…”

Shirley was stunned by Agou’s last two words: “…Agou, you What are you talking about?”

Agou whispered: “I don’t know, the captain taught me…”

Amber opened her mouth with a subtle expression: “Even if I have heard of it before, I can’t believe it until I see it with my own eyes. There really are deep demons with ‘hearts’ in the world… I’m sorry, I don’t mean anything else.”

Agou muttered: “You’d better not have one, I was fooling around with the captain…”

Duncan didn’t care about Agou. He muttered softly, and after confirming that Shirley’s condition was stable, he broke the silence: “We can discuss the connection between humans and demons later. Now we should think about the follow-up actions.”

As he spoke, he Turning back, he looked at a certain location in the interior of the island that Shirley had just pointed at.

“Shirley, do you still remember the specific location of their ‘dig’?”

“Yeah,” Shirley nodded immediately, “I remember this part quite clearly, and I even know the road.” “

Then our next goal is Those ‘secret rooms’ dug out by the cultists,” Duncan said, but his eyes quickly fell on Amber and the other marines, “But now there is a question – do you want to follow it and go deeper? The next area may not be as gentle as the port area.”

“… Sir Captain, we are not canaries who need protection.” Amber’s expression became serious, “We have been dealing with the weird things on the border. ‘Dealing with, including many dangerous and strange beings like this island – we have our own experience and methods.”

Looking at the other party’s serious expression, Duncan was silent for a few seconds, and finally nodded slowly.

“Okay, let’s continue to delve deeper.”

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