Deep Sea Embers

The Lost Home has set off - these days, many people are paying attention to its every move, including the four church arks, as well as the monitors arranged by the city-state. But in full view, the huge and majestic ghost ship is hiding... With flames and thick smoke, it moved away from Qingfeng Port at a speed that is impossible to imagine with common sense, and disappeared in the gap between the spiritual world and reality in the blink of an eye.

Appear like a phantom, disappear like a phantom, everything is as described in the legend.

"Let's go~ let's go~"

Shirley grabbed the guardrail on the side of the ship and looked at the endless dark sea in the distance. She swayed back and forth and looked very happy.

The Lost Home has entered the spirit world sailing state. The sea outside the ship's side has turned into a layer of darkness. The chaotic sky of black and white and gray covers the whole world low. There are no lighthouses, ships and islands in the distance. There are only all kinds of strange and strange things. A shadowy and weird projection appears between the sky and the sea, as if overlooking the entire world from the end of the horizon.

Agou lay down a little distance from the side of the ship, stretched his neck hard and pulled Shirley's arm with a chain. While holding on to the deck with four paws, he reminded loudly: "Hey, stop shaking! Be careful not to fall. Get down!"

"Agou, when did you become so cowardly?" Shirley simply sat on the guardrail, arranging her messy hair and turning her head with a smile, "Didn't you often play on the edge of the deck before?"

"This is the depth of the spiritual world!" Agou immediately yelled, "You can't get up if you fall from this place!"

Shirley ignored her and just sat on the guardrail and continued to have fun looking at the sea until Duncan came over from the side and ruffled her hair: "I never saw you so excited when setting sail before. This time Why are you so happy to leave the city-state?"

"I've had enough of staying in Qingfeng Port," Shirley said with full resentment in her tone. "There is no good food in the city. The nearby shops are either bookstores or machine workshops. There is no good food. There are no fun places or delicious food..."

Duncan looked at Shirley with a dumbfounded look, who seemed to have been psychologically affected by the "elf food" in Qingfeng Port, and couldn't help but remind him: "It's unlikely that there will be delicious food in the place we go to this time - I should say pick it up." We spent most of the time at sea after coming down.”

"That's okay, the food on the ship is pretty good too. At least you don't have to be dragged around the bookstore by Nina all day long," Shirley said with a smile, "Just come out and get some fresh air..."

“When you’ve been on the boat enough, you want to go to the city to play, and when you’ve been in the city enough, you want to go out to sea...” Agou lay on the deck next to him and babbled, “I know how to play all day long, and Nina is so busy these days. I visited all the bookstores in the city..."

Shirley immediately waved her hands: "Oh, you, don't talk about my headache like an old woman..."

Duncan didn't say anything anymore. He just listened to the usual chatter and bickering between Shirley and Agou beside him with a smile. Then he seemed to feel something and suddenly raised his head and looked at somewhere on the nearby sea.

Almost at the same time, a hazy shadow emerged from beside him, and Agatha reported softly in the shadow: "The Brilliant Star is here and is looking for an entrance to the real world."

Duncan nodded: "Well, go and show Lucy the way."

Agatha's figure disappeared, and within a moment, Duncan saw large shadows suddenly appearing above the dark sea near the Lost Home.

Shadows intertwined like fog. A huge, weird and gorgeous ship gradually took shape in the shadow and mist. The Brilliant Star slowly sailed out of the fog - it was just a hazy phantom at first, only the stern part of the ship. It seemed real and solid, but as the Homeless Ship got closer to it, the hazy phantom quickly became real almost in the blink of an eye, and turned into an entity that could exist stably in the depths of the spiritual world.

The Brilliant Star entered the depths of the spiritual world and began to sail with the Lost Home.

Shirley sat on the guardrail, stretched her neck to look at the scene in front of her, and exclaimed exaggeratedly: "Wow——"

Then, she saw a snow-white paper boat floating on the deck of the Brilliant Star. The paper boat took off in the wind, flew over the dark sea between the two ships, and finally landed steadily. Landed on the deck of the Lost Home.

Lucretia, who had black hair and a black dress, came out of the paper boat with her wind-up doll Luni.

Alice, who was drying fish on the deck, noticed the movement and immediately came up to her happily: "Luni! You're here!"

The clockwork doll following Lucretia turned its head when it heard the voice, and immediately showed a happy look, and opened its hands to greet her: "Alice!"

The two dolls happily held hands and spun around on the deck. Although they hadn't been separated for too long, they felt like they were reunited after a long separation.

Alice dragged Luni like this and showed off to her good friends the dried fish that had just been dried on the deck. Luni obviously also had something to show off——

"Alice! Look at this, the mistress made it new for me..."

The clockwork doll said happily, while reaching out to hold his head, and then lifted it up with a slight force, and heard a "bo'er" sound...

She pulled out her head in front of everyone on the deck.

Alice stared at this scene with her mouth open - since she was usually careless, she was rarely so shocked - but she soon came to her senses and realized that this was a new "function" that her friend had mastered. Shang suddenly looked happy: "Ah, you can do it too!"

As she spoke, she casually pulled her own head off her neck, and she and Luni raised their heads in silly joy: "We...now...now...the same!"

Then the two dolls started laughing and joking on the deck.

Everyone on the deck was shocked except for them.

Duncan was walking towards Lucretia, ready to ask about the operation of the Brilliant Star after entering the spiritual world. As a result, he was shocked by the two dolls of Alice and Rune when he was halfway there - to be fair, he even He felt that it was difficult to see such an evil scene in subspace. After being stunned for several seconds, he finally reacted and turned to look at Lucretia who was walking this way: "What is going on?"

Lucretia also seemed a little sluggish. As she walked, she couldn't help but look back at the two dolls not far away with a strange expression. After hearing Duncan's words, her expression was obviously a little stiff: "...just a little bit of exposure. Ni made some modifications... After she pulled out her head and caused a malfunction, she mentioned to me from time to time that Alice's head joints could be removed... I was really tired of hearing this, so I replaced her joints..."

She stopped hesitantly, looking at the two dolls walking around on the deck with their heads raised, her expression finally became a little unbearable: "But I didn't expect this either!"

"...Forget it, as long as they are happy, the dolls...have the entertainment and social interaction of the dolls," Duncan finally sorted out his shocked views, twitching at the corner of his mouth and looking away from Alice and Luni. After returning (this was not easy, because the two running puppets were too eye-catching), he tried his best to return his attention to Lucretia and the Brilliant Star, "...how did you get here okay? ?”

Lucretia was still looking in the direction of Luni and Alice at this time. It wasn't until Duncan repeated it again that she suddenly reacted. She quickly raised her hand and tapped her forehead, and said while organizing her thoughts: "It's okay. , although it was a little confusing..."

She finally turned her attention completely, raised her head and glanced at the Brilliant Star, which was sailing automatically next to the Lost Home, and her thoughts became smoother.

"This is the first time that the Brilliant Star has sunk to such a 'deep' depth... Under normal circumstances, only the stern part of it is in the spiritual world, and it is completely 'submerged' like this... No matter for me or for this ship, Yandu is an unprecedented 'experience'."

"This will be very fast," Duncan laughed. "The Lost Home is already used to traveling in the depths of the spiritual world. The White Oak and Black Oak have also sailed together with the Lost Home as companion ships like this - in this depth , we only need less than two days to catch up with the 'returning ship', and we don't have to worry about being discovered."

Lucretia didn't speak, just raised her head and glanced at Duncan.

My father stood there, with undulating green flames rising around him, with a confident and proud smile on his face, which was just as he remembered.

After a while, she shook her head and asked, "What are the trends in the church?"

"There will be two small fleets from the Church of the Deep Sea and the Church of Death to join us. Among them, the flagship sent by the Church of the Deep Sea is the 'Tide' and its escort formation, while the Church of Death will send two small fleets, the 'Rest in Peace' and the 'Restless'. "The sister ships and their escort formations are said to be powerful battleships," Duncan said casually, "But what I value more is the 'professionals' they brought. After all, in the face of those weird things in the border waters, scholars' Knowledge is sometimes better than firepower.”

"But the professional knowledge of scholars can sometimes lead to greater dangers... Near the border, those restless 'shadows' are more likely to emerge than anywhere else." Lucretia couldn't help but look aside. reminded.

Duncan raised his eyebrows: "Wouldn't that be better?"

Lucretia's expression was a little dull: "..."

"Stop talking about that, what's the situation with that 'Saint'?" Duncan waved his hand and changed the subject, "Have you brought it with you this time?"

"Take it with you, and now he is locked in the containment cabin at the bottom of the Brilliant Star." Lucretia nodded immediately, with a happy smile on her face, "Don't worry, the guy is in good condition - I Restore this 'saint' to life as much as possible while ensuring that it doesn't escape. I can take it out at any time if you need it."

"It's not necessary yet," Duncan shook his head, looking towards the end of the chaotic and dark sea in the distance, "When we find the 'Holy Land' of those Annihilation Cultists, it's time to put that 'Saint' to use. "