Deep Sea Embers Chapter 236: Secret contact is a local custom

Thank you.

It was a very common word, but it instantly made Duncan breathless.

He can be sure that there was no such word on the paper just now, let alone the trace of being wet by water smoke, all of which appeared out of thin air before his eyes!

He stared at the imprint on the paper, and a dark green flame was gradually burning around him. His consciousness swept across the entire ship in an instant to confirm whether there was anything uninvited on the ship. The "guest" who came - but he found nothing.

Where did the word come from? Who is conveying information to oneself? Why?

Frankly speaking, at this moment, he has a little understanding of the mood of those people who are scared by him, such as Fanna who jumped at the vanity mirror in the dream, such as Tirian and Lucret just now. Thea——but only a little understanding, and he will do the same next time.

The key now is why a word suddenly appeared on this piece of paper.

Duncan frowned tightly, and suddenly, he thought of a detail in a flash of inspiration-just now, when he was talking with Tirian, he said something in a joking tone:

"If the **** behind this church is watching, he owes me a thank you."

The expression on Duncan's face became more subtle. As soon as this idea came to him, his first reaction was to be outrageous. How could such a joke be taken seriously, but after this subconscious reaction, he couldn't bear it. Thinking about it in this direction, the more I think about it... the more restless I become.

He lowered his head and looked at the wet corner of the paper. After hesitating for a moment, he picked up the pen next to him and wrote a few words on the drier edge of the water mark.

"Storm Goddess?"

After he finished writing, he waited patiently, followed by the others and stared at the place that was wet with water, looking forward to it, but the waiting water was almost dry and he didn't wait for a reply.

The other party seems to have left a message and then slipped away—maybe it's because he couldn't read it on purpose?

Outrageous and weird thoughts emerged in Duncan's mind one after another. He has been in this evil world for so long, and the level of evil at this moment is still far higher than before, so that he finally tempered his mentality of Gujing Wubo. It was a bit difficult, but after waiting for a long time without any results, he slowly put down the pen in his hand to calm himself down a little bit.

After thinking for a while, he got up and pushed open the wooden door leading to the chart room—beside the nautical table, the goat's head was staring at the foggy chart as always, and turned immediately after hearing the sound of the door opening. Come over.

"Is there anything unusual on board just now?" Duncan asked without waiting for the other party to speak.

"On the boat? There's nothing unusual on the boat," Goat's head froze for a moment, then answered subconsciously, and then seemed to notice something, "What happened? I'll search the whole boat...

"No need, I've checked it once, and I'm just looking for you for a second confirmation," Duncan waved his hand, then calmed down, and decided not to mention the weird handwriting that appeared on the paper, "I just saw the mention Ryan and Lucrezia are just in touch with each other.

The goat head felt that the captain's state was a bit strange at the moment, but since the other party didn't intend to explain further, it wisely didn't ask. After hearing Duncan's words, it just sighed a little: "Many people in the world guessed that Tirian and The relationship between Lucrecia's brother and sister is cold. The evidence is that Tirian was a pirate in the depths of the civilized border, while his sister was engaged in a great adventure and pioneering career on the border of civilization. The two never met... But now it seems , the random guesses of the world are just guesses after all.

"In my opinion, they have a pretty good relationship, especially when they face me together. That kind of tacit understanding can be seen from being cultivated since childhood, and they have experienced the childhood of father's injury together." Duncan shook his head, "As for Now they are far apart, and they just chose different paths in life.

"Ah, the emotion of the old father," the goat head exaggeratedly sighed, "you and your pair of 'sons and daughters, is the communication going well?

"...I think it went well," Duncan thought for a while, then nodded slightly, "I think I have fully expressed my goodwill, and I have initially implanted the impression of reason and 'return of humanity' in their minds , and also

It paves the way for future contact. At least the next time they encounter the Sea Mist, they should not have to cover each other with firepower. This is the first step in family harmony. "

The goat didn't say a word for a while, which made Duncan feel very strange: "Why didn't you talk this time? Don't you usually talk a lot?

The goat's head said quietly: "If you don't cover each other with firepower, the family is harmonious. This is too powerful, and I can't evaluate it.

Duncan didn't know how to pick it up, so he could only spread his hands wordlessly, and Goat's Head asked after a moment of silence: "It sounds like you are already preparing for a meeting with Tirian? Why are you... Suddenly so positive about this matter?

"Because he once worked for the Frost Queen," Duncan said lightly, "and now I am a little curious about his experience.

"Is it because of Miss Alice?"

"A little bit."

Duncan said casually.

Then he shook his head, turned around and went back to the room, found the piece of paper he had sketched just now, tore off the corner where the words had emerged from the water smoke, and went back to the nautical table in the chart room : "I have something to show you.

He placed the odd hexagonal pattern in front of the goat's head.

"Have you seen this thing?

The neck of the goat head creaked and turned, it lowered its eyes, stared at the pattern on the paper curiously, then shook its head; "Have you ever seen what this is?

"Haven't you seen it?" Duncan frowned, and slowly opened his mouth after confirming that the attitude of the goat head was not hiding anything. More than a century ago, several ascetic monks visited the Lost Country, and among them One holds an amulet with this pattern on his body. "

Goat's head was silent for a moment, then said softly: "Oh, that's out of my sight."

Duncan instantly understood what the other party meant.

At that time, the goat's head was not on the Lost Country.

The goat's head was not the "crew" of this ship from the very beginning, it only served on the Lost Homeland for a century - full of calculations, in fact, it appeared in the ship after the ship fell into the subspace on this ship.

There are many secrets hidden behind this ship and this "first mate", and this is one of the few mysteries that Duncan slowly explored and successfully solved.

Duncan didn't speak for a while.

In fact, he has always been very curious, curious about how this goat head came to this ship, why the other party became the "first mate" here after the real Captain Duncan went completely crazy, and... Curious about the other party's relationship with The link between the Warp, and the myriad secrets known behind it.

But it's a pity that the goat's head never mentioned these things - even several times when Duncan wanted to test it a little, it changed the topic in an obvious and blunt way.

This is an attitude and a hint that it cannot be said, and if it is said, there will be big troubles.

Duncan came back to his senses, put down the complicated thoughts in his mind for a while, and after thinking for a while, he nodded to the goat head; "Then you continue to steer, I need to deal with something."

"Of course, we are always at your service!"

Duncan put away the paper, turned and walked to his bedroom. But when he was halfway there, he suddenly heard the voice of the goat coming from behind:

"Captain."

Duncan stopped and turned his head slightly: "Huh?"

"You can always trust your loyal first mate."

Duncan didn't speak, but he nodded slightly, and then walked into the room.

……

Morris tossed and turned in bed for a long time before finally sitting up.

The wife was soundly asleep next to her, and the sound of slight and gentle snoring sounded from time to time. The glow of the creation of the world passed through the window, casting a piece of night on the bedroom floor.

Everything is like a dream, but everything is real.

Morris rarely suffers from insomnia, but since his wife "returned", he has always had trouble falling asleep, and he actually knows why.

Because of panic.

He worried that as soon as he fell asleep, this dream-like reality would really turn into a dream, worried about all the strange things

The traces are all just the result of my own wishful thinking, just like praying to the subspace eleven years ago, what I got in exchange is actually just an illusion that will be broken once I kill it.

Because of this fear, he didn't even dare to pray casually to Raheem. In the past many years, even if he deliberately alienated the church, he never interrupted the habitual prayers in his daily life, but now because of subconsciously avoiding With the blessing effect of "Eye of Truth", he forcibly restrained himself from praying.

Morris exhaled lightly to wake up his drowsy brain in the cold night, then got up and put on some clothes, and stood silently beside the bed, looking at his wife who was sleeping peacefully.

He has been doing this a lot these days.

But this time, after watching it for a while, he suddenly felt a trance in his mind, and then a faint call and a vague majestic figure appeared in the depths of his mind——Morris In a split second ~IndoMTL.com~ realized what was happening.

The captain is calling to himself.

The old scholar immediately took two deep breaths, fully awake, and then quickly walked to the utility room connected to the master bedroom. He turned on the electric light in the utility room, and then looked at the small room. Antique mirror in the corner.

The illusory spiritual body flames were slowly floating on the edge of the mirror, and the figure of the captain was gradually emerging from it.

For some reason, this scene, which should have terrified ordinary people, made Morris feel a little more at ease at this moment.

From the floating flames and the majestic figure, he found the "sense of reality", just as pain can prove that he is alive, it is the "evidence" that can prove that miracles have indeed happened, and that everything at this moment is true.

Morris came to the antique mirror and bent slightly: "Captain, what are your orders?"

Duncan saw Morris and the background of the sundries behind him, and immediately thought of the middle-aged social animal who secretly hid in the storage room to play games and was afraid of being discovered by his wife...

At the next moment, he put on a stern face, put aside the inconsequential associations, and said to Morris with a serious expression: "I need you to investigate something, which may be related to history or some kind of secret organization."

"What kind of thing?

"A mysterious pattern once appeared on the amulets of a group of ascetics.

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