Deep Sea Embers Chapter 65: Guillotine

The captain's cabin of the White Oak was temporarily set up as a sanctuary.

The scent of incense wafted in the room, and talismans depicting storm runes were hung on all doors and windows. The priests set up bronze boundary markers in the four corners of the room, and tied the top of the boundary markers soaked in holy oil. Cloth strips, and finally, a copy of the Book of Storms from the cathedral was sent into the room to serve as a "pillar" for the entire sanctuary.

After all these arrangements were completed, Captain Lawrence entered the captain's room with Inquisitor Vanna.

"I hope you won't mind our 'transformation' of this place," Fanna said lightly, maintaining the restraint and decent manners she should have as a high-ranking cleric. "Everything is for safety."

"Of course, everything is for safety - what I lack the most right now is a sense of safety," Captain Lawrence nodded understandingly immediately, he looked around at the sacred things in the room, slightly relieved, "There are these things in , Ordinary twisted and polluted things are afraid to come in and look at them and die..."

"You can rest assured to talk to me about the Homeless here," Fanna nodded, "Let's start from the beginning, where are you, and how did you meet the ship? boat?"

Captain Lawrence calmed down and began to recount the most terrifying day in his memory: "It's like this..."

Captain Lawrence spoke in great detail. In front of a professional judge, he even said exactly what he had eaten for breakfast that day and what time the sailors on the ship opened the meal—those who really can’t remember. , and flipped through the captain's logbook and the sailors' diaries of the day.

Experienced captains know this: many anomalies are preceded by seemingly ordinary signs, and it may be difficult for people at the time to realize the connection between these things. Personnel can draw lessons from those daily clues and use this as a warning to future generations.

Every captain on the Boundless Sea has the habit of keeping a logbook -- at the same time, reading the log written by oneself is the only safe "reading way" on the Boundless Sea, other than reading church classics.

After Fanna heard the thrilling encounter, Yingqi's brows furrowed little by little.

The situation is more serious than expected, and more bizarre than expected.

She thought that the so-called "encounter" of Captain Lawrence was just a face-to-face, or at most a brush with the ghost ship, so the terrible captain only took the ship's cargo, not the Injuring anyone - but I didn't expect it to be a head-on collision.

The entire White Oak crashed into the cabin of the Lost Country, sweeping the ship from top to bottom in the green ghostly flames.

According to Captain Lawrence, the White Oak even began to transform from top to bottom to the Lost! He can clearly see that his body has turned into a spirit state!

The holy emblem on the ship was shut down at the time, the ballast relic did not respond, the protective material added to the hull material was useless, the priest could only protect himself, the whole ship was in the depths of the spiritual world, and there was no way The outside world asked for help - it can be said that the White Oak was already hunted by the captain at that time, and there was no possibility of "getting away" at all.

Captain Lawrence is still standing here today only because the Homeless gave up the spoils without hesitation.

"Your Majesty Judge," after finally telling his own experience, Captain Lawrence saw that Fanna had not responded for a long time, and finally couldn't help saying, "You said, what did the Homeless want to do at that time? Really just Do you want to take Abnormal 099 away?"

Fana glanced at him: "Isn't this what you always think?"

"I... I always thought so, but I'm not sure now," Lawrence sighed, "Especially when you said that the ghost captain had recently extended his power to the city-state of Perand... I I always feel that things are not that simple."

"No one can guess what the ghost captain is thinking," Fanna shook her head. "Now all we can do is to conduct the most thorough inspection of the White Oak to prevent any 'invasions' on this ship. You and your crew will also be a little wronged these days. Until the investigation is over, you are not allowed to have any contact with anyone other than the priests of the church...including family visits."

Captain Lawrence bowed his head: "I understand."

Then he paused, and then asked: "Then...about the theft of Anomaly 099..."

Fanna knew what the captain was worried about.

Eerie and terrifying sea anomalies are threats hanging over civilization, but before considering these long-term and vast threats, the captain is first and foremost an ordinary man who needs to support his family - he has lost anomalous 099, this responsibility It's too heavy to put on an ordinary person's head.

"Don't worry, the church will come forward to explain this matter to the city-state authorities and the Explorers' Association," she said calmly, "The appearance of the Lost Homes is a force majeure, and the loss of anomalous 099 is not your responsibility - even if It was a church ship that was in charge of escorting at that time, and the result is probably the same."

The expression on Captain Lawrence's face relaxed a little.

Fana still had a word in her heart that she didn't say: After all, the "abnormal" itself is on the verge of being sealed and out of control. Every year, new anomalies are out of control, and there are always city-state residents. Losing their lives under the influence of strange things, and the church has been fighting against these out-of-control anomalies for thousands of years. In the face of this long and huge dynamic balance, the loss of an anomaly is not unimaginable - even if The number of the exception is within the hundreds.

But she, the judge, can't say such words.

"In addition..." At this moment, Captain Lawrence suddenly hesitated to break the silence, "I want to ask, what is so special about Anomaly 099?"

Speaking of this, he paused and quickly added: "Of course, when I took on the **** mission, I got a document, but it mainly involved the sealing method of the abnormal 099 and the emergency disposal method after the initial loss of control. It does not involve the origin and background of this anomaly and the situation after it is completely out of control... You know, it is an anomaly within a hundred after all. The more ordinary people around it know about it, the more likely it is out of control. I still understand this rule.

"But now Anomaly 099 has been abducted by the Lost Country. According to the regulations, it should be considered completely out of control, so..."

"It's okay to tell you," Fanna nodded before Captain Lawrence finished speaking, "Anomaly 099 has been out of the control of civilized society. According to the regulations, its relevant information will be reported to the Adventurers Association and the city-states. The superhuman team is announced in order to capture and reseal it in the future, and you are a member of the Adventurers Association and the last contact of Anomaly 099, so you should know this information."

Speaking of this, she stopped to think for a while, and then slowly said while sorting out the information she knew: "Anomaly 099, a puppet coffin, the appearance is a gorgeous wooden box like a coffin, and there is a coffin inside. A doll in a sleeping state, with a silver-haired purple skirt and a body shape similar to that of an ordinary human;

"This anomaly was originally discovered in the cold sea in the north. The doll inside it looks very similar to the Frost Queen Lei Nora, who was beheaded and executed by the rebels half a century ago, but there is no evidence to prove the relationship between the two. There is a real connection;

"This anomaly has no tendency to think, no consciousness, but it is very likely that it will actively perceive the outside world and exert influence on the outside world under the drive of instinct;

"You should be very clear about the sealing method of anomaly 099, so I won't repeat it. As for its dangers...

"First of all, the puppet coffin has a tendency to 'settlement'. Once it stays in an area for a long time, it will regard the area as its own territory, and it will be difficult to transfer it later, and it will be in the Their own settlements gradually expand their influence, and at the same time, the strength of their seals will also decrease sharply, and they will become more and more easily out of control—this is also a common feature of a considerable number of anomalies, so Anomaly 099 needs to transfer the seal location frequently to prevent it from overgrowing. .

"Secondly, when the doll's coffin is out of control, within a certain range around it, all humanoid units, including humans, elves, Senjins, and Jipulo, will be used as the target of the check. The range is less. Hundred meters, as many as nearly a thousand meters, will grow with the 'settlement' time of anomaly 099. The specific test standard is not yet clear, only know that the selected target will immediately lose freedom of movement as if controlled by a puppet line. Consciously bow down to the direction of the puppet's coffin, just like the people of the city worship the queen, and once this action is completed...the victim will be immediately beheaded.

"The beheading cannot be evaded, protected, or exempted, and it is meaningless to apply any blessing or wear armor on the victim~IndoMTL.com~ The only effective condition is 'selected by a puppet', and the victim will complete the action when the action is completed. After that, it directly becomes the state of being beheaded, and after the beheading is completed, the puppet will be temporarily quiet for four to six hours, and then start to search for the next target, until no one survives within the range, or the coffin is resealed.

"The doll's coffin has the characteristics of movement when it is out of control, it is extremely fast and powerful, and it will break free from capture in various unimaginable ways. In addition, the coffin itself is extremely strong, so the danger after it is out of control is also will increase further.

"During the several runaway events of the puppet coffin, only one saint survived, but that saint happened to have the blood of the northern frost city-state, so it is uncertain whether it was the saint's strength that resisted the curse, or whether Because his lineage just fits the 'pardon' condition of the puppet coffin."

Listening to the young Inquisitor's calm and indifferent remarks, Captain Lawrence felt his hair stand up a little.

His first thought was: the city-state authorities are really hard to earn!

No wonder the reward of escorting anomalous 099 is almost five times that of escorting ordinary anomalies - this completely ignores protection and ignores dodge, and the effective condition only requires "the puppet is eyeing you" to trigger the lethal damage, and it is not necessary to escape. On the ocean-going ship that can escape, it is simply a horrible thing that is destined to die if it goes out of control!

That's why a group of captains in the Explorers Association who deal with "extreme survival" will take up this kind of work.

At the same time, he heard the voice of Inquisitor Fanna continued: "...for such a strange and terrifying ability of the doll coffin, the church specially gave it the ability when it archived the anomaly 099. Named after the torture device the rebels used to execute the Frost Queen half a century ago:

"Alice Guillotine."