Deep Sea Embers Chapter 18: Sewer

Before leaving the cave where he was temporarily hiding, Duncan pulled some rags from nearby corpses and wrapped them around himself.

This is not because I can't stand the cold in the cave, but because I can more or less block my open heart - although the hole in the chest has no effect on Duncan's "survival", it can be used as a normal in the bones. People, walking around when the heart is cold is really a too evil thing. Putting something on your body can at least bring some comfort to your heart, and it can also reduce some of the weird touch caused by the "draft".

And Duncan also considered the possibility of suddenly bumping into other people when walking in this underground space - it is inferred from common sense that a big hole in the chest may not be conducive to talking to strangers...

In this way, after simply dealing with the "wound", Duncan carefully left the gloomy and damp cave. He entered a corridor connected to the cave and slowly walked towards the depths.

This temporarily occupied body is not "convenient". Not only is the fatal damage to the chest affecting the flexibility of activities, but also that Duncan can clearly feel the weakness of this body, the too thin hands and feet even walking They can't walk fast, which is completely incomparable to the "Ghost Captain"'s body that is so powerful that it obviously exceeds that of mortals.

Duncan can't see the full picture of his current body, but judging from the part he can see, he guesses that it should be a young man, a young man who has been weak due to chronic severe malnutrition - although at the moment Manipulating this body is the soul of a powerful ghost captain, but it seems that the strength of the soul cannot break through the physical limit brought by this weak body.

Unfortunately, there is no choice now. Duncan can only control this barely usable body to slowly explore forward in the deep corridor. He knows that with this temporary body state, he may encounter any crisis. They will be helpless, and they can only pray that this body can be used for a while.

The corridor is deep, damp and dark, but there seem to be hidden ventilation holes. A slight airflow has been flowing nearby. At intervals, you can also see torches or oil lamps hanging on the wall. The existence of these things proves that there has been activity here.

After walking along the corridor for a long distance, Duncan suddenly found that the road ahead suddenly opened up, and man-made traces began to appear in his sight-he saw a fork at the end of the corridor, and the roads connected to the fork. With flat walls and high semi-dome vaults, the ground covered with bricks is dark and damp, and there are two water channels running along the sides of the ground, which flow disgusting sewage.

On the walls on both sides of the road, you can also see openings that look like drains. Sewage flows out of some of the sewage outlets and is injected into the waterways below, flowing to a darker distance.

"... sewers?"

Duncan quickly realized that what he was looking at was clearly a large-scale sewer system, and the previous place where many bodies were hidden was like a natural cave structure directly connected to the sewer.

Huge sewers, natural caves connected to the sewers, and hidden corpses.

Countless conjectures popped up in Duncan's mind in an instant, and while many conjectures popped up in his mind, he was also carefully observing the details of the "sewers" in front of him.

It's massive and well-built, with what appears to be a reinforced concrete structure for the main support section, perhaps even enough to serve as some sort of underground shelter if necessary.

To be able to build something of this size, the scale of the city above this sewer is certainly not small, and various technologies must be developed to a certain height.

Technology cannot exist in isolation. Behind every project product must be the simultaneous support of countless related industries and technologies. Even if it is just a sewer, it can reveal to Duncan the level of construction, planning, materials, and maintenance behind it. , and the corresponding concept of life of residents.

This is enough to give Duncan, who is currently severely underinformed, some valuable information from the civilized world.

Duncan walked along the sewers, stopped abruptly after walking a short distance, and his eyes fell on the nearby wall.

There was a lamp inlaid on the wall—a glass-enclosed lamp with a rather sturdy-looking metal cage.

Compared with the torches and oil lamps in the previous cave, this lamp inlaid on the wall is obviously brighter. Inside the frosted glass shell is a bright flame that is burning steadily, and its light is enough to illuminate a considerable distance in the sewer. a distance.

Duncan leaned in and observed it carefully. For him now, everything outside of Homeless, especially the creations of modern civilization, had great attraction.

After observing for a long time, Duncan finally figured out what the light source in front of him was - it was a gas lamp.

But this gas lamp seems to be different from what he has seen in the materials. In addition to the difference in style, the most obvious thing is that he saw a few slender lights on the glass cover of the lamp shell. symbol.

The symbols seem to have been added at the beginning of the production of the lamp housing, and they are curved in a hieroglyph-like posture. Duncan does not recognize these symbols, but he immediately thinks of the mechanical ship before. , and those mysterious runes seen on Alice's "coffin".

Although the content is different, they all share a similar... "temperament".

That's something sacred, ritualistic.

Duncan stepped back a little. He looked up deeper into the sewer and saw a gas lamp burning brightly at intervals on the wall.

As an underground facility that almost no one will visit except for necessary maintenance, the lighting equipment in this sewer even seems a bit too much, and there may be a similar mystery on the shell of each gas lamp. "Rune".

This gave Duncan a feeling as if these densely distributed gas lamps were actually fighting something in this unvisited dark underground - the "human civilization world" behind them was fighting something.

Duncan walked along the road lit by the gas lamp, his eyes at the same time paying attention to any valuable clues that appeared on the surrounding walls, floors and vaults. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed something. strange.

He stopped between the two gas lamps. This is the darker part of the sewer. He looked up diagonally and saw that it was high on the wall, near the vault of the sewer. , something painted with dark red paint.

Duncan squinted his eyes, tried to distinguish for a long time, and finally saw the picture outlined by those rough lines-he saw a pair of hands reaching up to the sky, as if they were worshiping something, and in those hands In the direction of the crowd ~IndoMTL.com~, there is a sphere emitting a thousand feet of light hanging high.

Beneath this image of worship and crowding, there is a line of crooked words. The strokes of the words are shaking, as if they contain strong fanaticism and expectation. The letters above are not any kind of words on the earth, but Duncan naturally understand—

"The false sun will finally fall, and the true sun **** will be resurrected from blood and fire! The vitality of all things belongs to the sun, and the order of all things belongs to the sun!"

Duncan stood quietly in the sewers, looking up at the junction area where the Nagas lights were the darkest, at the dark red graffiti, at the wheel that seemed to be soaked in blood, shining brightly and being fanatical Worship the sun.

As if staring at another world for a long time.

He watched like this for a long time, until a noise suddenly came from the depths of the sewers, and a few footsteps entered Duncan's ears.

He suddenly raised his head to look in the direction of the sound, but saw several figures in burqas coming from the front, the heads and faces of those figures were shrouded in the shadow of the hood, appearing like spooky ghosts in the Deep in this dirty sewer.

Duncan didn't hide—in fact, there was almost no hiding place in this straight sewer, and his temporary body with limited mobility couldn't perform high-end operations such as "blind-spot movement", so he was simply thinking about After a moment, he simply stood carelessly in the middle of the sewer, staring calmly at the hooded men who were approaching from the front and looked suspicious no matter how they looked.

Since this body can't run away, it's destined to be a one-time consumable, so it's better to exchange some information at the end.

The next second, the hooded men who came out of the depths of the sewers noticed Duncan's presence.

(Mom!)