Deep Sea Embers Chapter 45: History

It's a wonderful feeling.

Duncan can clearly feel things in the distance - he can feel the Homeless drifting in the boundless sea, the living ghost ship is constantly developing the route on the chart under the control of a goat head, with a head The not-so-sturdy cursed puppets turned around in the cabin, as if they were familiar with the environment on the ship as if they were exploring. The deep and dark sea was slowly rising and falling around, and there were countless strange things hidden in the sea.

However, in his other line of sight, he was sitting in an antique shop in the lower part of the city-state of Perland. The voices of people and cars on the street came into his ears, but instead, it became more and more to set off the quietness of the shop. A human girl named Nina was sitting across from her, eating the cheapest cake in the lower city.

He is Captain Duncan, the master of the Homeless, a moving natural disaster on the boundless sea - he is sitting here like a normal person, eating his own breakfast, in the peaceful depths of the city.

I don't know if it was an illusion or not. He felt that there was a part in his heart that was always hanging and always restless. I don't think this is a bad thing at all.

Seemingly noticing the sight from the side, Nina, who was eating cake, suddenly raised her head. She glanced at Duncan curiously: "Uncle Duncan, don't you want to eat?"

Duncan glanced at the food on the other's plate: "Is there enough for you?"

"Enough is enough, it's not good to eat too many sweets."

"Hmm."

Duncan nodded, picked up the cake and took a bite. He seriously felt the rich taste that he hadn't tasted for a long time, and felt the crude sweetness slowly dissolve in his mouth—then, he clearly felt the The body begins to process the food it eats.

He calmed down a little, knowing that the situation was as he expected.

This body is "better to use" than the body that was temporarily occupied for the first time - its "parts" are intact, the death time is not long, and the takeover of its own soul almost seamlessly restarts the vitality in the body, This is nothing like the open-minded corpse from before.

He is breathing, blood is flowing, and his heart is beating—although the beating speed seems to be a little slower, but it should still be in the range of a normal person.

There should be no need to worry about the problem of body corruption, and it also saves the calculation of soaking in preservatives, and in this way, it is less likely to be exposed in front of ordinary people.

There's one thing Duncan isn't quite sure about, though.

He knew that his body should have a disease - in the memory he had swallowed, the negative impression about the stagnation was more profound than all other memories, and the spirits and painkillers he found in the cabinet before were also a proof.

He didn't know what was wrong with this body before, because the time of onset and the cause of the onset seemed to be a memory from a long time ago, and it was already blurred, but one thing was obvious: at this moment, apart from ordinary Apart from the feeling of weakness brought about by his constitution, he did not feel that there was anything wrong with his body.

Is the disease gone? Because of the reason of walking in the spiritual world, this body has healed itself? Or is it because the projected soul is finally limited in perception, so that he can't actually feel the problem of the body, and the health of this body is actually still deteriorating?

Duncan ate quietly while thinking, then suddenly glanced at Nina who was eating opposite him: "Don't you have to go to school today?"

Nina lives in the lower city, and the economic conditions are not good, but the city-state of Perland has obviously developed to the level where basic education is more popular. She is now studying in a school jointly run by the church and the city hall, focusing on the steam engine. Professional - This kind of school can be thought of as a kind of "vocational high school", mainly to send skilled steam craftsmen to factories and churches.

Half of Nina's tuition is paid for by her uncle and the other half comes from a grant from the city hall.

For a city-state that has developed into an industrial age, it is quite worthwhile to train artisans in this area even with official subsidies - and it is undeniable that this kind of school with a very clear purpose has at least solved the problem of civilians. literacy problem.

Nina is very good at learning. In her uncle's memory, this girl has relatively good grades in all courses.

"I have no classes this morning," Nina nodded. "There are only two history classes in the afternoon. In addition, I have to go and tell Mrs. White in the afternoon that I will not be living in the dormitory these days..."

Duncan suddenly stopped what he was doing. He gave Nina a serious look and asked, "Don't you think staying here to take care of someone like me will delay a lot of things? You can live here for a long time. School, that might be more helpful for your studies."

Nina was stunned, she looked at her "Uncle Duncan" dully, and then suddenly became angry: "You shouldn't talk like that! You are just sick, take medicine according to the doctor's advice. That's good - Mom and Dad entrust you to me..."

"Your parents entrusted you to me," Duncan corrected seriously, using the memory in his head to organize his words while speaking, "You were only six years old then."

"But I'm seventeen now," Nina puffed up and slammed her fork into the last piece of cake, "you're not even as good at taking care of yourself as I am—if I do move out, You don't need three days to make a mess in your room. In fact, you can let me help you with the storefront, at least the cleaning, the windows are so dirty that you can't see clearly..."

Duncan reluctantly listened to the girl's rambled "lecture". He didn't expect that his casual "test" would bring about such a big response from the other party.

But slowly, he couldn't help laughing again.

He felt a kind of temperature from the girl named "Nina"... a warm temperature that seemed to be bathed in sunlight.

"Okay, I'll just say it casually," he said while shaking his head, stirring the last bit of soup in the bowl, "History class this afternoon... How has your history class been recently?"

"Uncle Duncan, are you really all right?" Nina's eyes widened in surprise. "You've never... well, at least never asked me about school in the past two years."

Duncan opened his mouth and was about to say something, but the girl in front of him continued to speak to herself: "We are talking about ancient history recently, and Mr. Morris is telling us about the events after the Great Annihilation... To be honest, it's quite interesting, and ancient history sounds like many parts of the story, far more interesting than modern history and modern history."

Duncan thought for a while, then looked serious: "It sounds like you learned well? Well, let me test you, what are the related concepts of the Great Annihilation?"

Today's Uncle Duncan is very strange, although I can't tell what is strange, but it is different from usual.

But Nina didn't think too much about it - compared to her uncle's slightly strange words and deeds, this innocent girl was more happy at this moment that Uncle Duncan was finally energized and seemed to be in a good mood.

She was delighted that Uncle Duncan was asking exactly what she had just learned.

So with a smug smile, she began to tell Duncan what she had just learned:

"The Great Annihilation occurred about 10,000 years ago - although for unknown reasons, ethnic minorities with unique cultural heritage such as the Elves, Senjins, and Kiplos recorded in their calendars Inconsistent timing, but in general, the archaeological community agrees that the Great Annihilation occurred at the end of the Era of Order 10,000 years ago..."

Duncan listened calmly ~IndoMTL.com~ full of question marks.

Elf? Senkins? Jeeplon? what's going on? It turns out that there is not only one intelligent group of humans on land? And elves... is this the same concept as "elves" in my own understanding? Are there still elf city-states living in the age of steam industry in the boundless sea?

Some very strange pictures appeared in his mind, and Nina's voice was still coming from the opposite side:

"...There are certain discrepancies in the records of the Great Annihilation of various city-states, but the more common part is that the era of order before the Great Annihilation was a far more prosperous, stable and secure era than today, when there were extremely vast continents. , the ocean area is far less boundless than it is today, and neither the ocean nor the land has an end like the so-called 'real border'...

"The era after the Great Annihilation is called the 'Deep Sea Age'. The Deep Sea Age has continued to this day, and there is no sign of its end. The most striking feature of the Deep Sea Age is that the boundless sea covers almost the entire world, while the land is only Less than 10% of the old age remains, and they are all divided into large and small islands or 'otherworlds in the fog'. Many city-states today are built on relatively stable islands, while various ocean-going ships have become inter-island. A means to communicate with each other and communicate with each other.

"In the early days of the deep sea era, the remnants of the old world suffered heavy losses, and the old civilization was almost completely destroyed. The 'ancient kingdom of Crete' that initially emerged from the ruins is the earliest civilization that can be tested in the deep sea era. The First Ancestor, although this ancient kingdom lasted for less than a hundred years, left a lot of legacy with far-reaching influence on future generations, including the most primitive and superficial classification method for many anomalies and anomalies in the Deep Sea Age, as well as the survival in the Deep Sea Age. A lot of valuable experience..."