Deep Sea Embers

In the crew area below deck, Shirley was staying in her room with a sad face, sighing incessantly to a pile of exercise books spread out on the table.

"There are so many... when can I finish writing..."

"If you sigh all the time, you can never finish writing," Agou muttered next to him, "and there is not much at all, yours is purely accumulated from procrastinating every day—Miss Alice can even be on time every day." Would you like to complete these exercises?"

"Her writing method of filling in whatever comes to mind can also be called 'completion'?" Shirley rolled her eyes immediately, then put her head on the table and muttered in a muffled voice, "I want to go ashore to play. , I want to go shopping in the city-state, I want to eat delicious food... Nina said, Qingfeng Harbor has a lot of delicious food, food from all over the world..."

However, Agou has been used to Xueli's nagging many years ago, he shook his head, and his tone was unmoved: "The captain said, when will you finish your procrastinating homework and you can go ashore to play. "

Shirley curled her lips, then faced the exercise book on the table and thought for a while, her eyes turned suddenly, with a sneaky smile on her face, she carefully bent down and approached Agou who was lying on the floor: " So what, how about you help me out, these questions must be for you..."

However, Shirley just said halfway, before Ah Gou even had time to respond, a voice suddenly came from a certain mirror in front of the desk: "I'm watching."

Shirley suddenly let out an exaggerated "Ah—" in frustration, and looked up at Agatha's figure emerging from the mirror, with an expression as if she was about to cry: "Can't you just stare at others! Why don't you Whatever I do you will pop out of the mirror!"

Agatha in the mirror looked serious: "Because the captain said, I want me to watch you do your homework."

Xue Li let out a long sigh, and plunged her head into the exercise book on the desk again. After rolling her face in the book several times, she suddenly raised her head again: "Then can you help me..."

Agatha said without hesitation, "No."

Shirley immediately became obsessed: "That's not what the story says! The story says that the magic mirror knows everything, as long as you ask the magic mirror, the mirror will tell the answer to the person who asked the question..."

Agatha frowned: "Where did this weird story come from?"

"The captain told Nina, and Nina told me."

Listening to Xue Li's nonsense, the expression on Agatha's face suddenly became serious. After thinking for a few seconds, she looked into Xue Li's eyes and asked: "Is the captain really talking to you?" Nina told a 'magic mirror' story?"

"Yes... yes," Shirley didn't know why the other party suddenly became serious, and she was a little nervous when she answered, "Just what I said two days ago..."

Agatha thought very seriously, and muttered softly while thinking: "He arranged for me to live in the mirror on the ship... so there is another deep meaning..."

Shirley didn't react at all: "Uh...huh?"

However, Agatha did not answer her. After thinking hard for a while, the "gatekeeper in the mirror" raised his head and glanced at Shirley: "Which question do you not know?"

Shirley thought for a while, then pushed the exercise book forward: "...this one won't do it."

"this?!"

"Yeah——if it's too troublesome, I can do the oral arithmetic part..."

"Write it yourself!"

Duncan, who had just returned to the captain's cabin, raised his head suspiciously, as if he was listening to the sound coming from afar.

The goat's head on the nautical table suddenly turned his gaze: "What's wrong with you?"

"I seem to 'hear' Agatha's voice," Duncan said casually. Of course, he didn't really "hear" anything, but the ship was constantly conveying to him the voice of every corner of the Lost Home. Message, "She seems to be in Shirley's room, very emotional."

"Do you need to check the situation? Or call her over?"

"No need," Duncan shook his head, "Everyone who is responsible for watching Shirley's homework will eventually become emotional, and this can also be regarded as a kind of tempering of the mind..."

The goat's head let out an oh, and I don't know if it really understood the meaning of the joke. Duncan silently sensed the state of the Lost Country again, walked to the table and sat down, and exhaled softly. Tone: "It's time for Shirley and Nina to go ashore to get some air. Lucrezia is just about to return to Qingfeng Harbor, so let her take a ride."

The goat's head quietly followed the captain's actions and expression, and finally couldn't help but said: "You seem to be in a good mood?"

"Maybe it's because I want to understand something, or maybe it's because I let it go temporarily." Duncan raised his eyebrows, but Alice's sunny appearance couldn't help but appear in his mind, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help bringing out There was a smile, then he shook his head, reached out and took out the "sketch" that he got from Lucrecia before.

Now that the boredom in my heart has been cleared away, it is also time to study what was drawn in the manuscript left by Master Taran El after observing Vision 001.

"What is this?" Seeing Duncan's actions, the goat's head immediately turned its head to this side curiously, and there seemed to be a glimmer of light floating in the dark obsidian eyes.

"This is a sketch drawn by Taran Al after observing the surface of Vision 001," Duncan said casually. He unfolded the piece of paper and put it in front of the nearby oil lamp to reflect it. The true surface of the 'sun' was hidden, but the most critical details were smeared out by Taran Ayer himself."

The goat's head was startled, and he let out an exclamation of unknown meaning: "... oh oh."

"I thought you would remind me of the danger of doing this right away, just like you used to do," Duncan was a little surprised by the reaction of the goat's head, he raised his eyelids and glanced at the guy, "This time Why aren't you nagging?"

"I used to worry about your safety, but now I only worry about the safety of those who try to fight against you," the goat head immediately complimented, and his words and sentences were very skillful, "A mere sketch will not threaten the great Captain Duncan, Even if this picture is painted with the true face of an ancient god, that’s all there is to it—not to mention that the person who drew the picture is just a mortal, so what kind of truth can that man named Taran El see?”

Duncan ignored the nonsense of the goat's head, which was obviously flattering, and concentrated on studying the patterns on the draft paper, but after looking over and over for a long time, he still failed to analyze what was behind those messy scribbles.

He even felt... Those seemingly random lines were like some kind of powerful "seal", they "covered" the original image on the paper from the concept of mysticism, not just a layer of distracting sight ink.

Amidst the ups and downs of his thoughts, Duncan suddenly felt a move in his heart.

A layer of "seal" with "power"?

He lowered his head again, carefully observing the criss-crossing lines and large areas of smear marks on the draft paper.

Master Taran El is a senior and experienced scholar, and a devout follower of the God of Wisdom, Rahmu... Although he has a problem with poor work and rest, his attainments in mysticism are definitely outstanding. deep enough.

If such a university student really noticed some extremely dangerous "factors" when observing the vision 001, then he would definitely try to use more "professional" methods to control this danger at the first time, even at that time. His sanity has begun to be affected...

The ink left on the draft paper should not be simply smeared - so with conventional methods, it will never be possible to see the true appearance behind these "inks".

Is this actually a "secret letter" processed with extraordinary power?

Duncan frowned slightly, a vague idea emerged from the bottom of his heart, then he turned his head and stared at the oil lamp beside him.

Under his gaze, the flame in the oil lamp suddenly jumped, and then it was quickly dyed a layer of dark green.

The spirit fire swelled and burned, even rising from the opening above the lampshade.

After a little hesitation, Duncan picked up the draft paper and placed it above the flame formed by the fire of the spirit body.

In just a split second, the blazing green flames devoured the entire piece of paper!

Sure enough, there is a "camouflage" formed by some kind of extraordinary power on it.

The goat head on the side saw this scene but exclaimed: "Why did you burn it?!"

"The fire of the spiritual body only burns those 'distorted' parts," Duncan looked at the fussing goat's head indifferently, and extinguished the burning flame on the draft paper with a flick of his wrist. Under the flame, The fragile manuscript paper was still intact, "this is what it should be."

As he said that, Duncan held the manuscript paper that had been "processed" by the flames in front of his eyes, and glanced at the pattern reappearing on it.

In the next second, his expression suddenly froze.

The goat's head immediately noticed the change in the captain's expression, and turned its neck to look at this side worriedly and curiously, but due to the angle, it couldn't see the content on the front of the paper, so it could only shout loudly: "What is on it?" ? Are you okay? Then..."

Duncan finally woke up from his stupor. His gaze was drawn away from the paper, and he looked up at the goat's head with a strange expression: "...It is the true face of the ancient god."

Goat Head: "?!"

Duncan didn't speak again, but slowly lowered his head, and continued to carefully look at the picture on the draft paper—the sphere locked by double rune circles, the one covered in dark shadows, but the surface was covered with hideous bloodshot lines and lines , seems to be staring at the angry...

eyeball.

The body of Vision 001 is a huge eyeball enclosed in a dark spherical shell.