Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 743

[Chapter 725 Recasting]

such a familiar sentence made Shirley fall into a brief trance. Her memories seemed to rise and fall in a faded ocean, and some distant warmth and color emerged from those illusory and hazy foams. After a long time, , she slowly came back to her senses and looked at the unusually huge deep hound not far away.

It’s still waiting there, hesitant and nervous, and a little confused.

As if there was a layer of viscous mud covering his mind, Agou felt that there were many things wrong in his mind. His past memories were blurry, and his thoughts at the moment were intermittent. He was not sure what went wrong. I just feel like…there seems to be something missing in my heart.

A faint light flickered in the empty eye sockets. Agou looked at the mysterious demon not far away with strange bones and limbs and a somewhat familiar appearance, feeling dazed for a while.

It had not seen her, but it knew her—a long, long time ago.

The little thing in my memory…why did it become like this?

After hesitating for an unknown amount of time, Agou finally walked forward cautiously. It first sniffed around, and then crossed over the slender jointed limbs covered with barbs and came to Shirley.

Shirley stared at the tall and mysterious hound quietly. After a few minutes, she slowly stood up and put her hand on Agou’s head: “Why have you become weird?”

Agou tilted his head slowly. He seemed to want to say something, but before he could speak, he felt a push from the back of his neck – Shirley suddenly reached out and hugged Agou’s neck, and then hugged him hard.

“…I thought I couldn’t find you…” She whispered, her voice trembling slightly with late fear, “You suddenly fell, and I couldn’t even hold you back…”

Agou It felt that its mind was getting more and more dizzy, its slow thinking was intermittent, and it was almost impossible to form a coherent train of thought, but at this moment, it suddenly heard something.

Plop, plop – that’s the familiar heartbeat!

It was close to Shirley’s chest, separated by the layer of ferocious intertwined bones, the slow beating sound of the two hearts seemed to suddenly penetrate the sluggishness in the mind. It suddenly woke up from a long and hazy dream, and with every heartbeat Zhong quickly recalled everything, the light in its eyes gradually brightened, and it finally broke the silence. At the same time, it struggled slightly: “Shirley, I…at that time…”

Shirley did not let go of her arms, but continued to hug Agou. He whispered on his neck: “I know, Agou… I know everything.”

The fire in Agou’s eyes flashed for a moment, it stopped struggling, and his tone was hesitant: “When did you know…?” “

In It was the first time I knew that the deep demon has no heart.” Shirley replied softly.

Agou fell silent. He remained in the position of being hugged by his neck, motionless and not knowing what he was thinking about. After a long time, he mumbled and said, “I’m sorry…” “

It’s okay,” Shirley said almost immediately. , then she loosened Agou’s neck slightly, looked at the mysterious hound who had been with her for twelve years and almost raised her seriously, and nodded slowly as if to emphasize, “It doesn’t matter – You have always been with me.”

Agou nodded dullly, but while feeling a sense of relief in his heart, he suddenly felt slightly in a trance in his mind.

The feeling of sluggish thinking and intermittent memory appeared again, and came in waves.

“Shirley, I feel dizzy…” it spoke subconsciously.

“Maybe it’s because of this,” Shirley reacted instantly, and then looked down at her chest – two hearts were beating in her chest, but soon she frowned again, “…but I seem to have I can’t take it out…”

As she spoke, she reached out and touched the criss-crossed bone armor on her chest, as if she wanted to try to reopen the strong “bone cage.”

“Don’t touch them,” Agou said immediately to stop Shirley’s next move, “You will die!”

Shirley stopped and looked at Agou with a confused expression: “Then… what should we do?”

Agou didn’t speak, but his eyes fell on Shirley’s right hand – the broken chain was hanging there, and a faint green flame could still be seen burning at the end of the chain.

Shirley also reacted immediately, her eyes fell on the same place as Ah Gou, and they thought about it together.

“…Fix this?” She asked hesitantly, “Is this okay?”

“Theoretically, I think it is okay. After all, we have always relied on symbiosis to maintain each other’s balance, but…” Agou muttered, his tone Not very sure, “This has never happened before. It is unprecedented for a symbiote to survive for so long after the chain is broken. As for repairing the chain… it is even more incredible. To be honest, I don’t know how. Do it.”

Shirley listened to Agou’s story with a serious expression on her face. Then she picked up the broken chain and found another part of the chain near Agou’s neck. She put the two broken parts together and played with them half way. After a few minutes, he raised his head and said, “…it doesn’t seem possible to just get together.”

“Nonsense, of course it won’t work – if an ordinary chain is broken, you have to find a blacksmith to repair it!” Agou shook his head suddenly, but immediately Then he lay down because of the dizziness in his consciousness, “This thing may need a strict ‘reshaping’ process… The important thing is not to repair the chain, but to repair the symbiotic relationship between us…”

Shirley listened carefully, Thinking hard, he couldn’t help but mutter: “After all…how did this chain suddenly break in the first place? I only remember that when we were in that cave, you suddenly said you felt uncomfortable, and then you sank to It’s gone to the ground…”

“Anyway, it must have something to do with Holy Lord Netherworld, and it also has something to do with the fact that you suddenly ‘saw’ a lot of ‘truths’ in that square before,” Agou said while fighting against the drowsiness in his mind. While trying its best to analyze, “Things were foreshadowed before the chains were broken, and the initial change happened after you ‘saw’ the memory of Holy Land Island…”

It suddenly stopped mid-sentence, as if it had captured something. Possibility, he continued after a moment: “…those cultists were polluted and distorted instantly after learning the ‘truth’, and were reduced from human beings to ‘rough parts’. And because you were protected by the captain, you seemed There is no contaminated image – but is it possible that the pollution is still in effect?”

Shirley was stunned for a moment, looking down at her body at the moment.

Agou was thinking at the side and said: “You have been symbiotic with me, a deep demon, from the beginning, long before you met the captain, so ‘pollution’ has actually been rooted in your essence, and the memory of Holy Land Island has been activated Using it awakens your side as a deep demon. Because this is what is in your body, it is equivalent to partially bypassing the captain’s protection…

“The essence of the chain between humans and deep demons is the symbiosis of two creatures. Contract’, and this kind of contract has strict conditions for establishment. In other words, when your essence changes, it is equivalent to destroying the conditions for the establishment of the contract… “

This is like a contract between businessmen. When the contract When one party loses the ability to perform the contract due to force majeure, the contract will naturally become invalid…”

Shirley listened blankly beside her, and then she said after a while: “Then… so what?”

Agou thought seriously. I thought: “If you can’t fix it, get a new one. Maybe we can consider re-establishing a symbiosis contract – no longer in your previous state, but in your current state.”

Shirley finally understood this time.

Hope was rekindled in her heart, and she instantly gained motivation: “Then what should we do? How does this symbiosis contract work under normal circumstances?”

Although she and Agou have been “symbiotic” for more than ten years, they have been inseparable from the beginning. It was not a normal contract relationship. She had never held any summoning ceremony like ordinary Annihilation cultists, so her knowledge in this area was almost blank.

But Agou obviously knew more than she did.

“According to the ‘symbiosis contract’ of the Annihilation Cultists, the most difficult part is the previous preparation. Annihilation Cultists usually need to transform themselves through a series of ritual behaviors, including various bloody ‘surgeries’, as well as spiritual aspects Reshaping, which is accompanied by many evil and dark activities, in order to finally make their life forms closer to the ‘original’, so that they can withstand the power of the deep demon – but for you, this is the least important Part.

“Because you can completely skip this process, you are now closer to the so-called ‘original’ state than any Annihilation cultist, and you have already adapted to the power of demons.

“So all you have to do is perform a simple summoning ritual – this is the easiest part.”

Agou said as he stood up unsteadily and walked slowly on the gravel-strewn wilderness. , while using its claws to leave deep ravines on the ground – it is drawing a set of complex runes and writing the “text” of the contract.

“Establishing contact…summoning demons…this is very simple for us. I can help you prepare all the runes and venues required for the ritual. The magic power required to activate these runes is also provided by me – you need All you have to do is stand on the node on the edge of the ritual field, and when I’m ready, you can outline the outline of the demon you want to summon in your mind.” It raised its

head and looked into the eyes of Shirley, who was watching curiously. , continued seriously –

“Normally, this summoning process will last a whole day or even longer. It will open a rift until a demon willing to respond to the summons appears in the center of the rune matrix, and then the contract is established. But…”

As it spoke, it slowly walked towards the center of the countless runes, and beside it, many runes were gradually lighting up.

“But Shirley, you don’t have to wait that long – I’m right here.”

(End of Chapter)