Deep Sea Embers

There are some things that are destined not to be discussed in front of Nina.

Listening to the scene described by Agou, Duncan's heart skipped a beat.

Ashes floating around... a lot of ash... what does that mean?

In the factory shrouded in curtains, there are hidden ashes everywhere. The ashes are the traces of the flames once burned, the proof of the existence of the fire, and symbolize the things that have been destroyed. Then the ashes around Nina ...

He raised his head and looked at the stairs leading to the second floor.

Nina is busy in the kitchen on the second floor, and the sound of her cooking can be faintly heard from here. The sound of the clashing of kitchen utensils is very brisk. That optimistic girl has experienced many things today, but she is still in a good mood at this moment.

He withdrew his gaze and looked at Shirley who was sitting across from him.

"So, after Agou told you that it found a very suspicious target, you tried to sneak into the school, and tried to find clues around Nina, and at the same time, you also started to approach those who were active in the city. The Sun Cultists, try to find clues in them to unravel the secret of the fire eleven years ago..."

Shirley nodded slightly: "Yes."

"I guess what you're looking for isn't actually a sun shard, is it?"

"...What's the point of finding sun fragments?" Shirley asked rhetorically, "Find a flame and ask why it burned? What I'm looking for...is the person who set the fire back then."

"This is not an ordinary fire." Duncan looked into Shirley's eyes quietly, "if it is really a fragment of the sun... its power is more than enough to burn down a factory. Shirley, you are doing something very Very dangerous thing."

"To be honest, don't be angry." Shirley thought for a while, lowered her head obediently, "I think sitting in front of you is dangerous enough..."

"...haha, probably," Duncan was slightly startled, and couldn't help laughing, then he got up from behind the counter and walked slowly towards the stairs leading to the second floor, "I'm just a casual reminder , Of course how to judge is your business."

"Wait a minute," Shirley stood up suddenly, but hesitated for two seconds before continuing, "Look at your attitude...you didn't know what's special about Nina before?"

Duncan stopped, and after pondering for a while, he raised his finger and pointed to his eyes: "It seems that the 'eyes' of the body I use now are not very good, and I really haven't noticed some things."

this body...

Shirley noticed these words keenly, but she didn't dare to ask anything. She was just a little curious as she watched the other person continue to walk upstairs: "What are you going to do now?"

"What are you doing? Of course I'm going upstairs for dinner," Duncan glanced down, and said as a matter of course, "You guys come up too, it's time for dinner."

It's dinner time.

What's it like to eat at the home of a warp boss?

Shirley didn't know how to describe to others how many weird thoughts flashed through her mind when she followed the boss upstairs. She was nervous and expectant, curious and fearful, even though she knew it was most likely just an ordinary meal. The usual daily meals, but can't help but guess what horrific and bizarre things will appear on the table later.

In this seemingly ordinary antique shop, lives a shadow from the subspace, which is the lair of the shadow of the subspace, the gap between the collapse of the real world and the deep world, and in such a lair ...Even if there are heirs of evil gods on the dining table, it is quite normal for her.

Shirley went upstairs with this wild guess and nervous mood, came to the slightly narrow kitchen, and saw the things on the dining table.

It was just a plate of freshly warmed hard bread, a pot of vegetable soup, which is the most common in the lower city, and some tomato sauce and mushroom sauce.

The most eye-catching thing on the entire dining table is nothing more than a pot of fish soup—there are a few pieces of fish that have been cut and processed and cannot see the original appearance floating in the whitish soup, with a delicious smell , Ticking Shirley's gastrointestinal motility.

"I made soup with the half salted fish left in the kitchen," Nina said to Duncan with a smile, and then looked at Shirley, "Uncle bought this fish, try it, it's delicious !"

Shirley sat down at the dining table in a daze, her eyes swept back and forth among the ordinary meals, and Duncan next to her couldn't help laughing when she saw this: "Why, the food is too ordinary, but it's unexpected? Or is it not to the taste? ?”

"Ah, no, no, no... This is much better than what I usually eat..." Shirley replied subconsciously, and then added, "But I really didn't expect it to be such an ordinary thing."

"This fish looks a little strange," Agou next to him also poked his head to glance at the food on the table, and said in a muffled voice, "I always feel... a little familiar?"

"What kind of food do you know?" Shirley glanced at it when she heard the words, "You who usually eat rocks for biscuits..."

"Mr. Agou doesn't eat?" Nina was surprised when she heard this.

"The deep demon doesn't eat human food—in fact, it doesn't need to eat anything at all," Shirley nodded, "it only occasionally gnaws on stones and steel plates when it grinds its teeth."

When Ah Gou heard it, he hummed and shook his head: "I'm a little sad when you say that. You forgot how I managed to steal food outside to feed you? Occasionally, I also eat some..."

While talking, it crawled to the edge of the dining table and approached the pot of fish soup, but after staring at the fish soup for two seconds, it stopped abruptly in the second half of its sentence.

In the next second, the deep hound suddenly looked away, scurried back to its original spot, and lay there motionless.

Shirley was confused by the other party's reaction: "What's wrong with you, dog?"

Agou looked at Duncan for the first time, but what he saw was a gentle smile on the other side.

"Why? Don't you like to eat fish?" The indescribable vortex of light and shadow asked with a smile.

Ah Gou shook his head from side to side. Suddenly, he felt that the so-called friendly conversations, kind smiles, and friendship of cooperative investigations were all just illusions. In the depths of that indescribable distorted light and shadow, there was nothing but terror. !

A "child of the deep sea" with a higher rank than it was chopped up and stewed into soup, and even the essence was really turned into "food"... This kind of horrible thing is happening on that table!

"I...don't like fish."

The deep hound said in a muffled voice.

In the corner of its eyes, the pot of freshly made fish soup is still emitting heat, and it smells very good to humans.

It knows that the thing in that basin is really a "fish", no matter what it used to be, it is already a fish now.

The nature of the heir has long been distorted and tampered with. If it weren't for the eyes bestowed upon him by the Holy Lord Youshen, even it would not be able to recognize what the minced pieces of meat were originally.

Nowadays, it is really harmless food, even if Shirley eats it, there will be no problem.

But Ah Gou himself would not come near the dining table today even if he was killed!

Duncan didn't know why Agou suddenly had such a big reaction to the fish soup, but he thought it had something to do with the special recipe of Youyou Demon, so he didn't care.

His attention was on Nina.

Nina didn't look any different from usual. Although she might have some worries, this sensible child chose to deal with her emotions in a way that would not embarrass everyone.

On the other hand, Duncan already knew that there was something "hidden" beside Nina.

Or in other words, the huge and invisible "curtain" in that factory also spread over invisible, covering Nina.

He still didn't dare to judge directly, and he couldn't be sure what the ashes around Nina meant, but there was no doubt that Nina must have been in a very special position during the fire eleven years ago.

As special as that factory is.

Nina didn't know anything. She had lived in such ignorance for eleven years.

"Uncle?" Nina finally noticed Duncan's gaze, she was a little confused, "What's wrong?"

Duncan didn't answer, just stretched out his hand and gently stroked the top of Nina's head.

Nina was startled for a moment, then shook her head left and right: "I'm not a child anymore!"

"I know, you're not a child anymore," Duncan laughed, and there was a faint green light flashing and disappearing between Nina's shaking hair, "but you're still a child."

Nina puffed up her cheeks slightly.

"Uncle, do you still want to go with Shirley...to 'investigate'?"

She finally couldn't help but ask.

"Within a safe range." Duncan replied seriously.

"...Can't we not go?"

Duncan shook his head: "No."

Nina was silent for a while, then asked again: "Then what can I do?"

"Eat well," Duncan smiled, pointing to the dining table, "then sleep well, study hard, and finally protect yourself and trust your Uncle Duncan."

Nina stuffed a piece of bread into her mouth, and it bulged.

"Well, I see."