Deep Sea Embers

Listening to Duncan's instructions, Agatha immediately thought of the "corpse" that was used as the material for the temporary arrival.

She nodded slightly, without raising any objection: "Yes, I will consider this method."

Duncan hummed, and then looked curiously at Agatha who was appearing in the flame door, observed the faint and blurry scenery behind her, and asked casually: "How is the situation on your side now?"

"The cathedral has recovered. We are contacting churches across the city today to confirm the manpower currently available and to calculate the losses in the past period," Agatha replied, with a hint of gratitude in her tone, "Last night as you As I said, the city-state is passing through in a stable way, and there is really no shadow growing in the darkness, and even the mental hospital and cemetery area that are most likely to cause problems have not undergone any changes. If we could do that, we would have half as few things to worry about.”

"I'm talking about your situation." Duncan raised his eyebrows, "With your current body, won't there be any problems with such high-intensity work?"

"I don't feel tired—maybe it's a good thing for me now to become a corpse," Agatha said calmly, "A corpse won't be tired, and it doesn't need rest in the usual sense, as long as And get peace from prayer and meditation, and I'll be fine."

"You seem to be in the prayer room of the church?"

"Yes, I'm in the cathedral—this is the original Bishop Ivan's room. It's very quiet." Agatha turned her head, glanced at this familiar and special room, with a touch of sentimentality in her tone, "Now, Leave it to me here."

Duncan suddenly had a weird feeling, he hesitated for a few seconds, but couldn't help asking: "Does Bartok not mind you contacting me like this in the cathedral?"

Agatha was stunned for a moment: "..."

Shirley and Agou next to me were also stunned.

"Captain, how can you think about things from such an incredible angle every time?" Shirley muttered softly, "And these words sound weird..."

Duncan glanced at the girl expressionlessly: "Sir, don't interrupt, and stop writing when you get the chance—you haven't written a single word since just now, right?"

Shirley sighed immediately, and continued to fight to the death with homework. Agatha, projected in the flames, finally came to her senses. She turned her head and glanced at the statue of the God of Death not far away with a strange expression, and turned her head after a long time: "I I haven't thought about it at all..."

Then she paused, and then asked thoughtfully: "Fan Na is with you, do you usually ask her this question? How did she answer?"

Duncan thought about it and found it very reasonable: "I really haven't asked, I can ask when I have time."

Agatha opened her mouth subconsciously as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything in the end.

After a few seconds of awkward silence, she finally found another topic: "Also, I'm ready to check the situation in the Boiling Gold Mine."

"The mine has returned to calm?" Duncan raised his eyebrows. "I remember you said that it will take at least a few more days."

"Calm has been largely restored. To be honest... exploring the depths may still be risky, but I don't intend to wait any longer." Agatha's expression became serious, and she seemed to have made up her mind. "I can feel the depths Something is calling me, this feeling has been stronger since this morning, if I wait any longer... I am worried that I will miss something very important."

Duncan nodded slightly, and after a few seconds of silence, he suddenly said, "Before you leave, find me at 44 Oak Street."

Agatha suddenly opened her eyes wide in surprise: "You want to be with me?"

"I'm also curious as to what was left there."

"I understand. I will find you before I leave."

Duncan nodded, waved his hand to disperse the flames in mid-air, then took a breath, looked down at the empty fishing rod in his hand.

"...Forget it, the air force is also a part of fishing," he muttered, then turned his head to look at Shirley and Agou who were lying next to the barrel, "I'm going back to my room first, Agou, just keep an eye on Dianxue Li, let her copy at least the first five pages of the vocabulary book—you can do whatever you want after the homework is done."

Agou quickly stood up, nodded eagerly and shook its bony tail, until Duncan's figure disappeared at the stairs not far away, the deep hound finally heaved a sigh of relief, and returned to where he was lying on his stomach at the beginning. place, but before lying down, it suddenly looked up at Shirley again: "Don't be distracted, write quickly."

"Agou, are you really rushing?" Shirley immediately drooped her shoulders, "My hands are sore..."

"I can write a diary without even fingers—you have ten fingers on both hands anyway," Agou shook his head, and muttered as he lay down again, "Read more books, learn more characters, Shirley, don't be impatient, the captain is really doing it for you, don't you always want to have the same life as other children? I really can't give it to you, but the captain wants to give you——he exists like this, who exerts favor There are too many ways, but he chooses to let himself care about you and Nina like a human being, you know how..."

Xue Li hurriedly waved her hands and begged for mercy when she heard half of it: "Oh, don't say it, don't say it, I know, I know, and I'm not stupid—Agou, why are you acting like an old mother..."

Agou grunted twice again, but he didn't continue talking to Shirley. Instead, he lowered his head and continued to study the geometry textbook in front of him with great interest.

On the pages of the book, the words and symbols outline the knowledge and experience of the predecessors, and the lines and formulas describe the operation of the world. Agou's eyeholes filled with bloody red light are concentrating on reading the chapters that condense the wisdom of civilization. In the mind of the deep demon, geometric figures and mathematical formulas are constantly sketched out along with the content of the teaching materials.

There is also a light source that flashes red light, and a series of flashing light points arranged like a matrix, flashing between those geometric images and formulas.

The next second, Xue Li seemed to feel something, and suddenly raised her head to look in Agou's direction, and the latter woke up from a certain state almost instantly, and the whole dog jumped up several meters high: "Oh shit!!"

Shirley was directly dragged by the chains and flew into the air together, and then fell on the deck with a bang. After getting up in a mess, she threw herself on Agou's head and shook it vigorously: "What nerve are you! What happened to you just now, why do I feel that your breath has changed?!"

"I... I don't know!" Agou's head was creaked by Shirley's shaking, and he managed to break free, but he was obviously still in a daze, "I seemed to see something flashing past my eyes just now. , didn’t even have time to see what it was...but it’s all fine now.”

Ai Yi, who was pecking at the French fries, suddenly tilted his head and looked at Agou curiously: "The remote server is not responding, please check the network connection?"

Agou didn't react for a while, and subconsciously said, "Huh?"

Ai Yi just patted his wings, and walked to the side as if nothing happened just now, muttering to himself while pacing: "Will you go for Q coins? Go for Dayue card? Go for a pass?"

"Don't pay attention to it, this bird's brain is even more confused than Alice," Shirley waved her hand, turning Agou's head to her side, her face was obviously worried, "Are you okay? Are you doing math problems all day long?" Burned out your brain?"

"I've never heard that the deep demon will burn the brain..." Agou himself became suspicious, "I don't even know if I have this organ."

"Of course you haven't heard of it. In the whole world, you, a deep demon, use your brains. Even if your compatriots really have brains, there is no chance of burning out... Hey, don't move, I will check for you."

While muttering, Shirley hurriedly checked Agou from top to bottom, and then carefully perceived the spiritual changes between herself and the other party through the connection of the symbiotic chain, but in the end she still didn't find it. what is the problem.

everything is normal.

"I'll just say it's okay," Agou breathed a sigh of relief, and said casually, "Maybe it was because he attracted something when he was reading a book, and then when the other party was about to run out, he found that he was a 'peer', so he went back... "

While muttering, it lay down again, pawing at the draft paper in front of it with its paws.

Shirley beside her suddenly became anxious: "Hey, are you still planning to watch it?"

A Gou said casually while drawing the auxiliary line on the paper: "I'm just short of a big problem, the last step, I just got an idea."

Shirley: "..."

She looked at Agou who was doing calculations very worriedly, and was ready to pull the chain on his arm whenever the situation was wrong, but nothing happened until the other party solved the big problem that looked like a bible in her eyes .

A Gou threw the pen on the deck and looked up at Shirley.

"Look, I'll just say it's okay—" it said with a trace of relief in its tone, but soon, its eyes fell on the wooden barrel next to it.

"Shirley, you haven't finished your homework yet."

"ah--"

Hearing the girl's protracted mournful cry, Ah Gou just shook his head, but then his eyes fell on the book he was reading just now.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with it.

But it is sure that it really saw something - not the "citizens" attracted by the books, but something else, more mysterious and weird.

I... what did I see?