Deep Sea Embers Chapter 24: Doves?

The snow-white dove stood blankly on the table, with the brass compass Duncan had been looking for hanging around his neck, and the familiar obsidian knife at its feet.

Duncan looked at the pigeon with a dazed expression, and the pigeon looked at him with a dazed expression.

It's not easy to see the expression on a bird's face, but for some reason, Duncan just felt that he could understand the expression of the pigeon. There was some kind of "wisdom" in the red eyes - the bird's two mung bean eyes were looking straight ahead, and when Duncan cast his eyes, one of its eyes obviously also It turned its attention, but its other eye still seemed to be looking at the ceiling of the captain's quarters, with erratic gazes all over the place.

"A... pigeon?"

After reacting for several seconds, Duncan finally muttered subconsciously with a flick of the corner of his mouth.

Why a pigeon? Why did a pigeon suddenly appear? Why is his brass compass still hanging on this pigeon? How did that knife get here?

Or a thousand words can be summed up into one sentence: Can something normal happen to this abnormal ship? !

And when Duncan's head was full of question marks and his heart was muttering, the pigeon that had been there for a long time seemed to finally "wake up". It nodded and walked two steps on the table, leaning in front of Duncan. He stretched his neck vigorously, making a loud "coo" sound.

"..." Duncan looked at the bird silently, and for some reason, the classic images of many pirate captains in memory suddenly appeared in his mind, and then looked down at the captain's uniform on his body, "The captain is next to him. It seems that a bird is indeed standard, but shouldn't it be a parrot under normal circumstances... What's the matter with the pigeon?"

When the pigeon heard Duncan's words, he immediately nodded solemnly, and made a female voice with a strange and dull tone: "The transfer is complete!"

Duncan's murmurs from his heart to his mouth were immediately cut off. His saliva almost choked into the leaves of his lungs. He stared at the white dove in front of him with a look of astonishment.

He recalled how he felt when he first set foot on the ship and saw a talking goat head in the captain's cabin.

But at least this is not the first day he came to the Lost Country. He was not surprised by the abnormality of this world, so the pigeon's words only surprised him for a moment, the next second, His expression became serious, and at the same time, a green spirit fire was emerging from one of his hands, watching the pigeon in front of him on alert: "Where are you from?"

The pigeon tilted its head, looking straight at Duncan with one eye and erratic at the ceiling with the other: "The address is wrong, please recheck the address, or contact the system administrator."

Duncan: "...?"

Compared with the momentary sluggishness on his expression, what he is setting off in his heart at this moment is a bigger wave!

What this pigeon said... It's not like the "painting style" of this world, it's not like a goat's head or Alice or any of those black-robed cultists can come up with words, but what he does "Zhou Ming" is a term more familiar to people on earth!

However, the pigeon seemed to have not noticed the change in Duncan's eyes and expression at all. It just lowered its head and pecked its own wings, then shook the brass compass hanging on its chest, and then began to relax on the table. Court walks up.

After pacing a few steps, it ran to the obsidian knife again, tugged it in Duncan's direction with its claws a few times, and made the same weird female voice as before: "Take this solar battle axe, Go and embrace the glory of battle!"

Duncan suddenly stood up from the desk, the seat slammed against the floor and made a screeching noise, he stared at the innocent and indifferent pigeon in front of him, and an extremely grotesque but comical emotion was Filled his mind.

This pigeon is by no means something that was originally on the Lost Country, and it is almost impossible that it was something that was originally in this world!

Only "Zhou Ming" can understand the words and phrases it speaks!

Perhaps it was because the table and chairs were bumping so loudly that even the chart room could hear the movement here. Duncan suddenly heard the voice of a goat head in his head: "Captain? Are you alright? "

Duncan was still staring at the pigeons on the table. He knew that the goat head did not dare to peep directly into the captain's quarters, so he replied in a low voice with the usual calmness: "I'm fine."

"Miss Alice came to you, would you like to..."

"You will receive first."

"Yes, Captain."

Duncan sighed and glanced back at the door leading to the chart room.

The goat head's bombardment of Alice continues. Miss Doll has tried to get up and left several times and was stopped. Duncan thinks he should go out and save the hapless doll, but now... he But there are more important things to confirm.

Let's work harder Alice.

Duncan sat back at the desk, ready to try to see if he could communicate normally with the pigeon in front of him, but at this moment, he suddenly saw a scene that he hadn't noticed before——

A "line of fire" faintly extended from the fire of the spirit body that jumped between his right fingers. This flame was as slender as a strand of hair. dissipated into the air.

And on that strange pigeon, there is also a wisp of green flame, which is hidden in the gap of the feather under its wings, and the other end also extends into the air, and disappears in mid-air. .

Duncan frowned, raised his right hand and thought, the dove on the table disappeared instantly as the flames jumped.

The next second, the pigeon appeared on his shoulder, it lowered its head to peck at Duncan's hair, and made a loud sound: "Cuckoo!"

Duncan flicked his fingers again, and the dove on his shoulder reappeared on the desk.

The brass compass hangs from the pigeon's chest, and the shiny casing glows green with flames.

Duncan frowned: "...is it related to this brass compass?"

He has been able to determine that the pigeon has a certain connection with himself, and this connection is even stronger than the connection between him and the Lost Country, which may explain why the pigeon "knows" something that only he knows. "knowledge" from Earth, he just couldn't be sure why the pigeon appeared.

And after thinking about it, he could only put his doubts on the odd brass compass.

From the time I tested the fire of the spirit body to the present, all the anomalies started from this brass compass, whether it was the experience of traveling through the soul before, or the experience of projecting the spirit onto a corpse, and then just now The compass disappeared, and when it reappeared, it hung on the pigeon's chest... The source of everything seems to be this thing.

Duncan stared at the pigeon for a moment, then reached for the compass.

He wants to take this thing down and study it.

The pigeon didn't dodge or block, but Duncan's fingers didn't touch the surface of the brass compass—his fingers went straight through ~IndoMTL.com~ and touched the soft down on the pigeon's chest.

It's like walking through an illusion.

The pigeon jumped on the spot twice, as if it was a little tickled by Duncan, and opened his mouth and shouted: "Today is KFC Crazy Thursday, V I 50..."

Duncan's eyes jumped twice, and he tested it twice in disbelief, and finally confirmed that it was impossible for him to remove the brass compass from the pigeon - this thing has obviously undergone some kind of alienation, becoming A phantom bound to the dove that cannot be removed or touched.

Or... that pigeon is the body of today's brass compass?

In an instant, many guesses popped up in Duncan's mind that he didn't even know whether to believe or not, and the only thing he could be sure of was one thing: the appearance of the pigeon, and his use of the brass compass to " The experience of "soul shuttle" is inseparable, and this experience may also change the shape of the brass compass at the same time.

This may be the nature of the brass compass itself, its inherent property as an "abnormal object", or the "use cost". As for why the pigeon is so wrong... not because of the compass, but because of "Zhou Ming" this earthling.

None of this can be proven or falsified until Duncan finds instructions for the various anomalies aboard the Homeless.

As for now, he has to figure out how to accommodate this... anomalous pigeon.

After a short thought, he decided to name the pigeon first.

"I have to give you a name," he tapped on the table with his fingers and said seriously to the pigeon in front of him, "I think you can understand me, right?"

The pigeon tilted its head and looked at Duncan with two mung bean-sized eyes: "Ai?"

(Mom!)