Deep Sea Embers Chapter 17: Cave

Cold, damp, the stench of carrion, the noise of chains rubbing against the ground.

Many strange perceptions flooded into Duncan's mind, but he failed to open his eyes for a while - at this moment, he felt as if his soul was divided into two parts, and one part was still left in the lost homeland However, the other part was stuffed into a completely unfamiliar body. This body was as unruly as an old and broken machine. The chaotic perception was rampant in the nervous system, mixed with a certain dullness and numbness. Try to open your eyes and move your fingers, but you can't feel the presence of these corresponding body parts at all.

This unpleasant feeling lasted for several seconds, and the unspeakable numbness and dullness in the nervous system finally gradually faded away. Duncan felt that his "body" seemed to wake up from a long hibernation and recover little by little. ability to move.

He finally opened his eyes and saw the situation around him at the moment.

The place to look is a drowsy, crypt-like space, with burning torches stuck on the stone walls in the distance, and the flickering light of the fire reflects the terrifying picture around, Duncan saw many people ——Or to say that many dead bodies were thrown across the wet soil and rocks, most of them were in rags, and a few still had intact clothes on their bodies.

Condensed water droplets dripped from the top of the cave, and the sound of sewage running in an underground river or drain could be vaguely heard in the distance, and the sound of the iron chain rubbing seemed to be transmitted from the depths of a corridor connected to the cave. Come, and it's getting farther and farther.

Duncan blinked, trying to figure out what was going on - he looked down at his right hand, and what he saw was a completely unfamiliar and thin palm, and the ragged clothes on the arm, which had been The brass compass he held in his hand had long since disappeared.

He looked up beside him again. He remembered that he had caught a glimpse of a shadow beside him when he was traveling through the net of stars and light. The outline of the shadow looked like some kind of bird, but Of course, he found nothing.

The bird-like shadow didn't seem to come to the real space with him.

Duncan slowly shook hands, forcibly suppressing the nervousness in his heart, and then tried to rub his fingers.

A very faint green flame emerged from the fingertips.

I have to say that this cluster of flames now looks much weaker than what Duncan is familiar with, but he still feels a little peace of mind, and while the flames are burning, his still somewhat chaotic spirit is also slightly lifted , and more clearly than before, I felt some kind of... spiritual tear and connection.

He clearly perceives that another part of his spirit is not here. He perceives the existence of Homeless, and he perceives himself sitting at the desk with a brass compass in his hand.

It's a wonderful feeling, but Duncan has a vague sense of what's going on right now:

His spirit happened... a kind of projection, or extension, part of the projected mind spanned an unknown distance and now burrowed into another unfamiliar body.

And in this projection state, he can still clearly feel the existence of his "noumenon".

It must have something to do with that brass compass! Could this be the ability of that "anomalous item"?

Duncan had a few guesses in his mind, but he didn't let his whims take up too much of his time. After confirming that his body is still safe and his mind is still under control, and now he has only temporarily entered a distant nameless body, he has calmed down a little, and is ready to confirm what his "new body" is. .

First of all, the first point is to be sure that the surrounding environment is by no means on a certain ship.

This is land - land he hasn't been able to find after all the days he's been at sea!

Second point, this spooky cave doesn't look like a good place, and the scattered corpses don't look like a normal "burial" scene. The body that I occupy now... is because of some unfortunate reasons. Trapped in such a human hell?

Duncan took a deep breath and sat up propped up—his body had been resting on a large rock before, in a position that was hardly comfortable.

And with this inhalation, Duncan suddenly felt a huge strangeness from his body - he felt that the air he had inhaled into his body was expelled at once, some kind of empty and strange. The feeling also came from the chest, and even the movement of getting up was deformed.

Duncan glanced down in surprise and saw a large hole.

The big hole was opened at the heart, and the contents inside were naturally gone, and the cool wind blew through it, mixed with the breath that Duncan took in that had not completely dissipated just now, and finally escaped in the damp in the air.

Duncan even sees the picture behind him clearly from a certain angle.

"...What the hell?!"

No matter how thick the nerves are, even if the "worldliness" has grown more or less on the Lost Homeland, Duncan still feels a layer of cold sweat at this moment, and he feels that his goosebumps are endless. Every single hair stood up!

After this sudden shock, what he realized immediately was that he was still standing here well, and he even had the power to scold the street.

With his heart missing and a big hole in his chest, he didn't even feel any pain from this body!

"This is... a corpse?"

After a moment, Duncan had come to his senses, he understood his situation further, and quickly calmed down.

Possessing a corpse's body and getting up and moving may not be much of a fuss, after all, he also has a ghost ship that can sail on his own, a wooden goat first mate who can make people's brains boil, and recently Knowing a cursed puppet who can act separately and is good at riding the wind and waves on the boundless sea, which of these is not more scary than "dead talking"?

Anyway, he just lost his heart now, and Alice's head is often not on her neck...

With these messy thoughts running through his mind, Duncan regained his composure at a speed that surprised him. Then he confirmed the movement of his current body, and adapted to the movement caused by the strangeness of his chest. Then he walked towards the corpses that were thrown into the cave.

"Sure enough..."

Duncan looked at the first corpse, not surprised to see the horrific hole in the other's chest.

It was a middle-aged man with a gaunt face and ragged clothes. He looked like a beggar on the side of the road. He had been dead for a long time, but his glaring eyes still conveyed his struggle and despair at the moment of his death.

Duncan moved on and saw heartless corpses after death~IndoMTL.com~ They fell miserably on the cold stone, with only two exceptions - those with heads with The ferocious wound seems to be the result of a violent impact on the stone and death on the spot.

Duncan can't help but have some associations - perhaps, these are two people who cut themselves off before facing the pain of gouging out their hearts.

To be honest, the things in this cave are a little too exciting for ordinary people. Even Duncan feels a little overwhelmed after such a round inspection, so that he had to check all the corpses in one place. I found a relatively clean stone in the distance and sat down, sorting out my state little by little, and speculating on the truth of all this in the process of calming down.

Obviously, this is a horrific murder - but from the too cold and uniform way of killing, it seems that this is not just murder, but also reveals some kind of evil... ritual.

Duncan once again summoned the flame of the spirit body, feeling the connection between himself and the "main body". He knew that he could cut off this "projection state" at any time and return to the safety of the Lost Home.

But he felt he had to figure out what was going on here.

Even if it's just to get some information about the land.

Duncan sighed, feeling the air leaking in his chest, and stood up from the boulder that had temporarily rested. He looked at the corridor deep in the cave and remembered that the sound of the iron chain rubbing was from there. come.

There are not only corpses in this underground space, but also other people moving. Those who can move freely in this terrible place... should give him some answers.

It's certainly not safe to rush in to check the situation, but Duncan doesn't care-

Anyway, my heart is open now.