Deep Sea Embers

The fire spread faster and more violently than Duncan imagined.

He just ignited a small fire on the edge of the huge "pillar" and was ready to wait for it to spread slowly, but he didn't expect that small fire to grow into a monstrous flame shining in the deep sea in an instant—— Under the weight of tons of seawater, the weirdness of the raging fire is even more ordinary.

Extraordinary things are the best fuel for the flames of the spiritual body, and the tentacles of the ancient gods are naturally "extraordinary", but even so, the flames still burn too violently and too quickly.

It's as if some power is catalyzing and strengthening the power of the spiritual fire.

Is it caused by the special environment of the deep sea itself? Or is that ancient god's tentacle wrist actively "cooperating"?

Duncan frowned slightly, feeling the huge information that the flames sent to him—the information was fragmented, interspersed with a large amount of distorted noise and light and shadow fragments of unknown meaning, which seemed to escape uncontrollably during the collapse of the "tentacles" thing.

To an ordinary human being, even a murmur among those "things" might be enough to induce madness, but Duncan only finds them trivial and disordered-he tries hard to distinguish useful information from those disordered noises, and in all Just before the noise subsided, he finally "heard" some understandable "voices".

In the sea water, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, with a little astonishment, staring at the ancient god's tentacles that were rapidly disintegrating in the spiritual fire.

"LH-01? Pilot One?!"

In the nothingness, there seemed to be a roaring sound coming from the deep sea. The false copy of the ancient god finally disintegrated completely, all the noise disappeared, and there was no sound to answer Duncan's question at this moment—in the sudden, seemingly flooding In the silence surrounded by endless emptiness, there was only one hazy thought, which quietly floated through his mind like a phantom in the fog——

"Thank you, Fire Tamper."

Duncan blinked, and there were numerous thoughts and countless astonishing guesses and associations in his mind. After an unknown period of time, when he began to think about whether to continue to explore this place, whether to continue to dive deeper, A flicker of fire suddenly appeared at the edge of his vision.

He turned his head suddenly, and saw that Ai, who was flying around beside him, suddenly flickered violently, like a projection with bad contact, the flames all over the pigeon's body became flickering, and it began to flap rapidly Flapping its wings, it made a sharp and intermittent cry: "Your... signal quality is poor, please check... your hardware is connected to... the remote server... wait..."

Duncan's eyes froze for a moment, and he waved Ai back to send him back. The second after Ai returned to the Lost, he noticed that the "temporary body" he was using was rapidly collapsing.

Large and small cracks covered the entire body of this "rough" body in the blink of an eye, and the dark green flames jumping in the cracks were rapidly escaping.

In the surrounding sea water, those "human figures" floating around also began to show the same signs of disintegration, and the countless human figures' bodies were rapidly turning into black debris, and they moved towards the dark "Frost Float" in the deep sea. Island" sinks.

The wrong copy of the ancient god was burned by the flames, and the rough human body surrounding the floating island in the deep sea collapsed. Except for the floating island that may be the "original blueprint" itself, everything in the deep sea is rapidly changing. Disintegrated and dissipated, returning to..."the original normal state of design".

Duncan quickly figured out the causal relationship between these changes in his mind, and in the next second, he felt his consciousness being forcibly "bounced" from this body that could no longer be maintained.

Before the perception was interrupted, there was only one thought in his mind——

It's a pity that this body adapted to the deep sea environment thought it could be used for a long time, but it turned out to be a one-off...

The deep roar of the pressurized water tank's outward discharge echoed in the submersible, accompanied by a slight vibration, the whole machine began to accelerate to float up.

Duncan in front of the console sighed regretfully, remembering the "temporary body" he had just lost, and at the same time confirmed the status of the machine.

The deep-sea turbulence caused by the collapse and disintegration of the huge "pillar" hit the slowly rising submersible, but luckily did not cause any damage.

Agatha's horrified voice came from the side: "Just now... what was that?!"

She raised her finger and pointed out the porthole, pointing at the dark deep sea that was rapidly returning to darkness—however, in the boundless darkness, there were still some residual green glows bursting out from time to time, and the large-scale green streamers seemed to be in the dark. Along the huge wreckage, it was burning rapidly, and it seemed that a series of explosions were erupting in the darkness.

But outside the submersible, there is chaotic water flow all over the place at the moment, the noise of the machine running and the occasional thumping sound from the hull are frightening.

There was no question that something big was going on down there.

"...I have found the source of the Frost Crisis. In the center of the deep-sea floating island that is suspected to be the 'blueprint for creation', there is an astonishingly large-scale ancient god's tentacles. It has affected the entire sea area," Duncan turned his head slightly, and glanced at Agatha, who was obviously waiting for an explanation, "In the past fifty years, the soul of the Frost Queen has been appeasing the error clone, and has persisted. too long."

Agatha slowly opened her mouth wide.

She didn't expect that Captain Duncan would bring back such sensational information just by using the "Avatar" to take a look!

She was stunned for a long time in astonishment before finally waking up and subconsciously said, "Then...then what? Then what happened?"

"Burn." Duncan said succinctly.

Agatha didn't realize it all at once: "... burnt?"

"It's burning," Duncan repeated, and pointed out the porthole, "Didn't you see it? I lit the fire."

"No, it's not that I didn't understand what you said, I understand...no, I don't understand, I really don't understand," Agatha was a little incoherent, she faced hundreds of cultists in the weird and evil sacrificial field She has never been so helpless, but in front of Captain Duncan, who seems to never play cards according to common sense, her reason always seems not enough, "You just... burned it? An ancient God...even if it's just a false copy of the ancient god...you just burned it?"

Of course Duncan knew that Agatha would have such a reaction, but he really didn't know how to explain the vast number of details, so he could only think about it for a long time, and shrugged helplessly: "To be honest, I am also very surprised , He is more flammable than I thought."

Agatha: "..."

After a moment of silence, the gatekeeper lady finally started thinking again: "Then... what about the soul of the Frost Queen? Was it also 'burned' by you?"

"She's free, but I don't know where she's going—maybe we'll see each other again," Duncan told every word truthfully. "I've talked to her a lot, including her life experiences, including The secrets of the deep, and some...truths about our world. Much of it is subversive."

"Very subversive?" Agatha seemed to have not recovered from the impact of "burning" just now. At this time, her thinking was obviously a little slow, and she only subconsciously said after listening to Duncan's words, "What kind of subversive?" ?”

"Before listening, you need to burn incense and pray to write a will, and after listening, you need to observe in isolation and do a mental test." Duncan glanced at her sideways, "I will tell you, after we return to a safe land, and confirm you After getting ready."

Even as a gatekeeper who has experienced many tests and has an extremely tough mental will, Agatha still subconsciously felt her nerves tense after hearing Duncan's words.

This "captain" who can even return to subspace can use such a solemn and serious tone... What kind of secret did he know in that cold and boundless darkness?

At the same time, on the Lost Home, Duncan had returned from the "single apartment" enclosed by thick fog, and returned to his captain's cabin.

On the edge of the chart table, the dark goat's head creaked and turned its neck, and the obsidian inlaid eyes fell on the captain.

"Name?" it asked sternly.

"Duncan Abu Normar," Duncan waved his hand, sat at the table, and looked up at the goat's head again, "Have I been away for too long?"

"You've gone too far." The goat's head seemed to be relieved, and his tone immediately recovered, "I feel that a ray of your will has gone to a place far, far away, so far away that even the Lost Homelander can't catch it." , you must not be angry, I am also worried about your safety, after all, such a big ship still depends on the wise captain to lead it..."

"Okay, I know you are loyal, reliable, diligent and considerate, don't worry, it's just a long but short journey, it doesn't matter - what is Alice doing?"

"Miss Alice?" Goat paused for a moment, and then said, "She was resting in her own cabin just now... Ah, she came towards the captain's cabin, as if in a hurry."

As soon as the goat's head finished speaking, the sound of hurried footsteps came from the deck outside the door, followed by Alice's familiar aura outside the door.

Just as the knock on the door was about to ring, Duncan spoke first: "Come in."

In the next second, there were still two knocks on the door, and then the puppet belatedly said "Oh" outside, opened the door and walked into the room.

"Captain! Captain, Captain!" Alice hurried up to Duncan as soon as she entered the room, and before the latter could speak, said, "Something's wrong! I was dreaming! I was dreaming! "

Duncan had a lot of things he wanted to say to Alice, but he didn't expect the other party to act more anxious than himself, which made him frowned: "Did you have a dream? What did you dream about?"

"I can't remember the specific content!" Alice said confidently, "I feel like I'm in the dream... a little powerful? It's like the feeling you said before... I seem to have a brain?"

(Time to push the book, the title of the book is "Shepherd's Tantra", Victorian Fantasy, Amber Flow, the author has written about Mercury's Blood, Players are Super Justice, and the character is guaranteed. It is worth reading.)