Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 746

[Chapter 728 Uncertain, discontinuous]

Amidst a series of sounds of bone deformation and rising black smoke, twelve symmetrical black joints spread and grew again. The dark bone armor gradually covered the body surface, and the sharp bone spurs shone with blood. Cold light – Shirley returned to the form of a deep demon again.

She is adapting to how to control her two forms at an alarming speed, and is becoming more and more comfortable controlling this body. The whole process is not so much “learning” from scratch, but more like this part of the knowledge has already been infiltrated in her mind. and deep inside her body, and now she is just “recalling” it gradually.

Slightly moving the joints behind her that were used to assist walking, and then turning her hands and feet, Shirley nodded with satisfaction: “I can feel a little more at ease in such a ghost place.”

Agou raised his head and took a look at it. Shirley, who was much taller, was suddenly enveloped in a swirling cloud of smoke, shrinking and merging into the shadow around Shirley as if melting.

Duncan watched this scene silently from the side, and waited until Shirley’s form stabilized before he stepped forward and said: “I thought you would resist your demon body – after all, such a violent form transformation is not something ordinary people can do. It’s something that…challenges your three views.”

“You’ve already reached the deep sea and still care about whether it looks good or not?” Shirley poked the rocks on the ground with her arthropods behind her and said with an indifferent expression, “I am…that word How can I put it, oh, I am a ‘pragmatist’ – first ensure that I can live safely, and then consider whether the life is good or not. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with this demon body, it is very capable of fighting, and It can withstand attacks and is very useful in the deep sea. If I have to say it has any shortcomings, it is that it will uncontrollably absorb the remains of dead demons. Evil… I still feel a little sick when I think about it…”

She just finished her words. A dog’s head emerged from the shadow at his feet: “…Actually, I think it tastes pretty good – Shirley, you really don’t want to taste the bone I brought you?”

Shirley said without hesitation: “No, it’s difficult. Eat!”

Duncan watched this scene silently, and a smile finally appeared on his face.

“Then the only thing we have to do next is to find the ‘Sacred Lord of the Underworld’,” he said, bringing the topic back to the topic, “There are countless floating islands here, and the scale of the entire space Far beyond the initial expectation – Agou, can you be sure where we are?”

The dog’s head emerged from the shadows again. Agou took a serious look around and nodded slightly to the captain: “This should be it. The upper level of the desolate ring is the area closest to the ‘starry sky’. If my judgment is correct, we need to go ‘down’.”

Duncan looked curious: “Down?”

Agou nodded, and then talked to After communicating for a while, Shirley came to the edge of the broken wasteland and looked down at the boundless chaotic darkness.

In the long void below the floating island, the chaotic and dim starlight becomes fainter and fainter, and more floating islands can be vaguely seen floating messily in the darkness. However, at the bottom of all darkness, one can vaguely see Something else… shimmered.

At first, Duncan thought it was another “starry sky” hanging upside down at the bottom of the deep sea, but soon he realized that those faint light spots were the faint flickering on the surface of some incredibly large structure. The… lights.

Those faint light spots, almost shrouded in darkness, are arranged in a distant place, vaguely outlining the winding branches and a “trunk” located in the center of all branches. The lights on the trunk are more dense and appear to be alive. It looks like a slow moving thing.

Duncan stood at the edge of the broken earth, quietly staring at the dim and dense spot of light. He could not judge how far it was from here to below, nor could he judge the scale of the “body” behind the spot of light. , but with just such a cursory observation, he could imagine what kind of behemoth it was.

“That is the Holy Lord Netherworld – the ‘matrix’ of all demons, and the destination of demons after death,” Agou said in the shadows, with a hint of inexplicable emotion in his voice, “At the bottom of all the broken islands, His limbs spread to the end of the entire deep sea, and its visible physical parts alone are equivalent to dozens or hundreds of city-states, while the invisible parts – the ends of those tentacles, they pierced the ‘bottom’ of the deep sea. , extending all the way into the subspace, cannot be calculated and judged in any language that conforms to mathematical logic.

“Every minute and every second, countless demon substrates will breed in the dark abyss – they are like light smoke, multiplying by The irregular invisible wind leaves the “bottom” and is sent to the floating islands above through a series of discontinuous space faults. They eat each other and become various kinds of things in the process. Entities, and then fight endlessly, the dead demons turn into smoke and mud again, and after wandering for a short or long time, they return to the abyss below, and are absorbed by the Holy Lord, and the cycle starts over and over again.

“I have escaped from this cycle… but this has a negligible impact on the entire deep sea. The devouring cycle between demons will not stop, and the ‘Holy Lord”s’ operation will never end.”

Duncan listened quietly . The dog did not speak in the middle of his story. It was not until the other party’s words fell that he nodded slightly: “Then we just need to go down?” “

That’s the problem. ‘Going down’ here is not an easy task.” Agou raised his head from the shadows and looked into Duncan’s eyes, “Do you still remember that there is a very strange and difficult ‘characteristic’ in the deep sea?” “

…You mean the space is discontinuous?” Duncan said thoughtfully. Thinking, “I remember we talked about this before. In the deep sea, ‘arriving’ from one place to another is a very uncertain thing. The direction and distance are completely random here – but we have walked all the way before. , and did not feel this problem.”

“This is because we are on an island, within the scope of a single floating island, and the space still follows the continuous structure we are familiar with, but if we are separated from these islands…”

Agou said as he walked out of the shadows. He picked up a piece of gravel nearby, picked it up and threw it far away into the vast darkness outside the floating island.

The rubble disappeared in front of everyone in the blink of an eye – as soon as it left two or three meters around the floating island, it disappeared out of thin air.

Alice stared wide-eyed at the direction in which the stone disappeared. After a few seconds, she couldn’t help but say, “Where did the stone go?”

“I don’t know. Anyway, there is only a small chance that it ‘falled downwards.'” Agou shook his head, “Up, down, left, right, back, any direction, any distance, any landing point, it is possible. It may be falling downwards from the star space, or it may have hit the head of some unlucky devil. Of course – it may also fall directly on the Holy Lord Netherworld. The entity moves in the ‘nihility’ zone between the floating islands in such a completely random manner.”

Duncan frowned: “…So the ones you just mentioned’ ‘Cycle’, the devil’s ‘cycle’ between the floating island and the Holy Lord, is it also so random?”

“Yes,” Agou nodded, “Everything is based on uncertainty – a person is born from the Holy Lord. It may take hundreds of years for a demon to take form on a floating island, and the remains of a demon killed by its own kind and thrown into the void may have to ‘fall’ in the darkness for a thousand years before reaching the deep. At the deepest point, this ‘fall’ could be in any direction…”

As it spoke, it raised its head and looked at the dark starry sky above its head.

“Given the scale of the Deep Sea and the endless number of demons, we can even suspect that some of the demon matrix that was initially differentiated from the Holy Body of the Deep Sea are still floating in the darkness and have never obtained an entity. Among the demons of death, there are also some who are still ‘falling’ in the darkness for ten thousand years and have not yet fallen to the bottom – this is very possible.” Not sure,

no Continuous, a “chaotic cycle” system built on huge random events…

how weird!

Duncan frowned, and while drawing a picture of a completely counterintuitive world “order” in his mind based on Agou’s description, he said thoughtfully: “…but the Homeless Ship once smashed straight through the deep. Deep sea.”

“Yes, so this is the most terrifying thing.” The green fire in Agou’s eyes shrank slightly, “In fact, compared to being killed by a ball of flames falling from the sky, ‘An object can fall from above, and then it will definitely fall to the bottom’, which shocked the demons in the deep sea even more – demons have no mind, but at least they can live in this land of chaos by instinct, and the Lost Home’s The emergence of this completely violated the ‘rules’ here. This incomprehensible, unreasonable and law-breaking ‘phenomenon’ is the reason why many demons went crazy on the spot.”

Agou paused and said in a very serious tone: “You understand me Do you mean that? For the deep sea, ‘an object can fall from above to below, and the falling process is true every time’. This thing that is taken for granted in the real world is ‘indescribable’ here – —The crash of the Homeless Ship here was not just as simple as destroying a few islands and killing tens of thousands of demons, it ‘pierced’ the order of the deep sea itself.”

Duncan thought for a moment: “… In other words, for the sake of the physical and mental health of the demons here, I’d better not do any more ‘falling’ here?”

“It’s not for the physical and mental health of the demons – their lifestyle is not very healthy anyway,” Ah The dog shook his head, “It’s for the ‘health’ of the deep sea. This place is not very stable anymore. If you smash it again, it might really leak.”

Duncan touched his chin and said nothing for a while.

And just as he was thinking hard about how to solve the problem of spatial discontinuity outside the floating island, and how to reach the “bottom” where the Lord of the Deep was, he suddenly felt someone tugging on his arm.

He turned his head and saw Alice’s beautiful big eyes.

The puppet raised his hand and handed a dark object to him: “Captain! Stone!”

Duncan was stunned for a moment, his expression a little subtle: “Well, Alice, it’s not now…”

He stopped suddenly.

The stone in Alice’s hand…is the one Agou threw just now!

(End of chapter)