Deep Sea Embers Chapter 56: Lower

It was so wicked that Duncan couldn't finish the bowl of fish soup in the end.

After all, as long as he thought about the head of the doll-doll once rolling in the soup pot, he felt that the style of this dinner was running wildly in the direction of the curse and death - even if Alice was real The style of painting is actually not harmonious, and the fact that she dropped her head in the pot is a bit too scary...

Miss Doll looked a little hurt. She looked at the food that Duncan had put aside, and grabbed the lace decoration on the edge of her clothes with both hands: "Captain, are you angry?"

Duncan gave the doll a tired look: "If you have any unhappiness on the boat, you can tell me directly..."

"Huh? I don't have any..."

"Try not to go into the kitchen after that..." Duncan said casually, but soon he noticed Alice's increasingly frustrated expression, and finally shook his head helplessly and changed his words, "Forget it, Your starting point is good, I'm actually very happy, but cooking is something... If you're not skilled, there will be some accidents, but it's good to be familiar with it in the future."

Alice immediately stood up: "Then I can try it later?"

Duncan held back for a long time, and finally nodded: "...just be careful."

He also thought about it: this cursed doll obviously couldn't stand the status quo of living on the Lost Country, maybe she really had some kind of "nature" that made her have to do things on this ship. It takes some things to settle down, and she is an independent individual with thought and personality, and Duncan feels that he can't always treat this puppet with a blow.

Well, it's better to have Alice help in the kitchen than to keep fighting with cables, anchors, and cannonballs—at least the pots and pans on Lost Homeland are a bit more temperamental.

He lowered his head and glanced at the fish soup next to him. In all fairness, the taste of this fish soup was actually quite normal. Although the seasoning on board was limited, the heat was not a problem at all. As a person who has no sense of taste or digestive system Occasionally, Alice can achieve this level on the premise of hearing a few theoretical knowledge (and this theoretical knowledge also comes from a goat head that also does not eat human food), which is actually quite incredible.

Two guys who don't eat human food can come together and make a meal that can be eaten by human beings, what more can they ask for? Duncan felt that as long as this puppet was careful in the future, it should still be able to do the work in the kitchen - so at least he won't have to cook by himself in the future.

"Then... Captain, do you want me to do something else for you?" At this time, Alice's voice came from the side, interrupting Duncan's thinking, "I also learned to bake fish with Mr. Goat Head. And the practice of fried fish fillet, in the kitchen..."

"No, I'm not hungry," Duncan shook his head. In fact, his body does not have a strong demand for food, and he usually maintains three meals a day just to maintain his habit as a "human". The bowl of Alice's soup at that time had already dispelled his appetite for a long time, so he simply stood up from the table, "I'm going to take a walk in the cabin."

"Are you going to the cabin?" Alice was stunned for a moment, then her expression became slightly nervous as if she had remembered something, "Then... can you go 'below' to see?"

"Below?" Duncan frowned.

"It's the deeper cabins—the ones I'm not allowed to go to," Alice said, "I always hear creaking down there, and sometimes it seems like someone is muttering under the floor. Goo, do you want to take a look... is there something going on down there?"

Seeing the slightly nervous expression on Miss Doll's face, Duncan's heart suddenly lifted.

The depths of Homeless...that's a place he hasn't yet explored!

Because the deepest part gave him a really strange and dangerous feeling, and at that time he had not yet "steered", nor had he mastered the power of the fire of the spirit body, so the previous explorations of himself were all leading to the deep cabin. The place stopped - of course, he has plans to explore further in the future, but now it seems that the plan is obviously unable to keep up with the changes.

At this moment, the voice of the goat head suddenly came from the side: "Ah, it sounds like the bilge is a little restless, Captain, do you want to go down and have a look?"

Before Duncan could speak, he heard Goat Head ramble on to himself: "Thinking about it, it seems that you haven't checked down there for a long time, the bilge needs some comfort from the captain, you know, After all, it has been immersed in the boundless sea for a long time... Do you want to bring your lantern? It is still in the old place, just behind the door... During this time, you have been working on the upper floor, and the guys on the lower floor are very noisy. Are you I don't know how annoying they are, alas, I'm a quiet person and can't hear those creaking sounds in the middle of the night..."

Duncan glanced silently at Goat Head, who fell silent.

Seriously, after hearing some of the goat's head muttering, he suddenly became more resistant to that weird bilge-sounds, it was obviously affected by the deeper influence of the boundless sea, which has changed It has become a structure that can be considered "wrong" even on the Lost Homes!

But the idea of ​​conflict only lingered in my mind for less than a second.

Sooner or later, he will have to further explore the other structures of Homeless, and it is better to go sooner rather than later... Reason tells him that the sooner the better.

The Lost Homes is huge, not only of amazing length, but also divided into many layers in the depth of the cabin. The area that Duncan knows so far is actually only the superstructure of the ship - including the deck area, the upper cabin below the deck and the superstructure of the ship. The ammunition depot, the artillery area, and the warehouse, fresh water tank and part of the crew room on the next floor, and based on the previous explorations, he can fully imagine how huge structures are hidden in the darkness below these areas. place.

Those structures are located below the waterline, and at depth, they are completely submerged in the boundless sea.

Dark, gloomy, echoing with the hollow sound of wind or whistling—the deeper you go, the more eerie the conditions inside Homeless.

Duncan doesn't know his boat - it's definitely not going to be dragging on like this.

He is already the captain of this ship, and the Lost Homes is his foothold and the base of his activities in this world. He can't be so ignorant of his own basics - even if it's just for the sake of being full of anomalies. To survive long in the boundless seas of visions and visions, he must also understand the potential and dangers of the Homeless.

God knows if there will be a crisis tomorrow, God knows if the Homeless will hit the descendants in the deep sea, or the collapsed frontier of reality in the next second.

What's more, the goat head just mentioned a sentence: The bilge needs the captain's comfort.

"Captain" has not been to the lower cabin for too long... If this continues, it seems that something bad will happen.

Duncan got up and went to the door to find the lantern mentioned by Goat Head.

This is a rather old lantern. The copper frame is in the shape of a hexagonal prism that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. The glass lampshade is inlaid in the copper frame, which looks a little fuzzy. Inside the lampshade, Duncan But no wick-like structure was seen.

He didn't show curiosity, and didn't ask Goat Head. After a short and quiet thought, he tried to activate the green spirit fire and poured this power into the lantern.

A cluster of bright green flames jumped and burned within the lampshade, and the quaint old lantern began to emit a constant glow.

In the place where the lantern shone, a bleak atmosphere pervaded for some reason, but Duncan suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of calm and control while standing in the light, as if he could vaguely feel his own The power spreads with the light, and where the light shines, the details of everything are clearly reflected in his mind.

The pigeon Aye suddenly flew over and landed on Duncan's shoulder.

It has transformed into the illusory undead bird form-although Duncan did not actively "activate" the pigeon at all, but under the illumination of the lantern, it still passively completed the "transformation".

Duncan glanced down at the lantern in his hand, thinking that it might be a good thing... It seems to be able to spread its power to the surrounding environment with minimal loss and maintain a "force field", which is also detection. , early warning and even control functions, this feature is obviously quite suitable for long-term exploration in unfamiliar or dangerous areas.

"Captain... can I go with you?"

Duncan looked back and saw Alice standing behind him, looking at the lantern curiously, with an eager expression on her face: "I haven't been to the lower level yet! Mr. Goathead said no. You can't go down with your permission..."

Duncan thought for a while, then nodded slightly: "Yes."

He still doesn't know what's in the lower cabin, but it's part of Homeless anyway, and as long as he's successfully "steered" ~IndoMTL.com~ there won't be much of a bilge. Dangerous, bringing this doll with you might be able to help yourself.

The Goat Head, left on the nautical table, made no comments, apparently from its point of view, it was quite normal for the captain to visit the Homeless—and so was to bring a helper.

Outside the cabin, night has gradually fallen, and the cold glow of the creation of the world is shining on the sea and the empty deck of the ghost ship. angle.

Duncan, holding a lantern and carrying his saber and flintlock gun, walked with Alice across the empty deck, through the two uppermost cabins, down the wooden stairs, towards the lost Deep in the cabin of the Township.

The staircase at the end of the crew's cabin is where Duncan's previous explorations stopped.

A peculiar darkness surrounds the sloping staircase, and only the columns and some wall structures that support the cabin can be vaguely seen in the darkness.

"It's so dark down here," Alice stood at the entrance of the stairs, looking nervously at the dim environment below, "Isn't there any lights here? There are oil lamps that never go out in other places..." /

"No, there are lights down there," Duncan said slowly with the lantern in his hand. Under the pervading power of the lantern, he finally saw the situation under the cabin more clearly than before, "...only But the lights below are black."

"...Ah?" Alice was stunned for a while, but didn't respond for a long time, "There is still black light?"

Duncan didn't respond for a while, just walked down slowly with the lantern, and only after Alice followed, did he say softly: "After all, we have already reached the bottom of the boundless sea."