Deep Sea Embers

Duncan looked at the nervous Agou and smiled as kindly as possible—he felt that there might be a little misunderstanding between himself and the other party, and it is better to resolve this misunderstanding as soon as possible.

But just before he was about to speak, he suddenly saw the blood in Agou's eye sockets flickering—even though he couldn't see any emotional changes from a bone head, he seemed to feel the fierce and turbulent moment of this deep hound Feeling.

In the next second, he heard Agou's stammering voice: "You...you are the 'Mr. Duncan' we have been dealing with these two days?"

Duncan was taken aback for a moment, and then he glanced at Shirley next to him.

He didn't see any communication between Agou and Shirley, but it was clear that there was a convenient means of information sharing between these two individuals linked together by chains.

"It's me," Duncan said with a gentle smile, "do you need me to explain something? Or do you want to know anything?"

"No!" Ah Gou almost screamed, retreating with his whole body, "We don't need to know any 'knowledge' or 'truth', we have no intention of prying into your mysteries!"

"...I always feel that there are still some misunderstandings between me and you, but it seems that the explanation is becoming more and more unclear." Duncan sighed and shook his head helplessly, "Forget it, let time help us to establish slowly." Let's trust each other, as for now, I have some things I want to know."

Agou drooped his head: "You...please tell me."

Duncan frowned. He was actually very curious as to why his famous ghost captain in the real world had such a great influence among the deep demons, because in his impression, the deep sea was a "place" that was very close to the subspace. ", the demons entrenched in the depths should be closer to the "underlying shadows" than the mortals in the real world. Correspondingly, they should be less afraid and resistant to the Lost Homeland returning from the subspace.

However, now it seems that those demons who are "dangerous" to humans are as afraid of the Homeless as humans, which makes him quite puzzled.

However, before he figured out this problem, he first focused on the "nightmare" scene in front of him-this came from the depths of Shirley's memory, and it was very likely that the nightmare of the truth eleven years ago had reappeared.

"I want to know the situation of this dream," he said, his eyes fell on Shirley. "I know this is a very painful memory for you. If you don't want to talk about it, you can refuse."

"...There is nothing I don't want to say," Shirley just shook her head slightly, "I should thank you, you interrupted this nightmare, and I can suffer less... As you can see, this That’s what I’ve been through before.”

"Big fire..." Duncan nodded lightly, then looked at Agou again, "What I saw was the first 'meeting' between you and Shirley?"

Agou turned his face away: "I was just a ghost demon at that time."

"Then how did you suddenly get the 'heart'?" Duncan asked curiously, "From what I saw just now, you almost killed Shirley back then."

"...I don't know," Agou was silent for a few seconds, shaking his ugly head slightly, "When I first became self-aware, what I saw was Shirley lying on the ground dying .”

Duncan took a deep look at the deep hound, and then moved his eyes along the chain on the other's neck, and saw Shirley's dark, twisted half body that fused with the chain.

"After that, you... merged together?"

"Well," Shirley said in a low voice, she lowered her head, hiding her eyes and expression in the shadow of her hair, "Actually, I don't remember very well, after all, I was only six years old at that time, and it was a long time since then. It’s been a while too… If you’re really curious about how I gradually got into this relationship with a deep demon who almost killed me, then you can grab a psychiatrist and hypnotize me, maybe ..."

"No need."

Xue Li's words were suddenly interrupted, and immediately afterwards, she felt a big hand pressing on the top of her head in astonishment.

That palm turned out to be warm.

"Sorry, I don't want to reveal your scars, I just want to know the details of eleven years ago," Duncan gently pressed the girl's hair, he knew that his question was very important to Shirley, who had just escaped from the nightmare. The words were not very pleasant, "You should know that not only the sun shards appeared in the incident eleven years ago, but also countless cultists were active, and the deep hound... Theoretically, it should be the summoning object of the oblivion sect."

Shirley raised her head in a daze, and she heard Duncan continue to say: "A demon-like creature from the deep sea suddenly acquires human nature, which itself is a kind of 'mutation', have you ever thought that this kind of mutation may also be Affected by a certain inducement back then?"

Shirley blinked, and said a little dullly: "Shards of the sun?"

"I'm not sure... No one knows what form the sun shards are, or what power they have. It's just that in the teachings propagated by the Sun Cultists, the 'true sun god' has no 'humanity' or similar authority." " Duncan shook his head, "So what caused Ah Gou to appear human may be...something other than sun fragments."

"You mean, there may be more than sun shards that appeared in the Puland city-state eleven years ago?!" Shirley finally woke up, her eyes widened suddenly.

"Just a little doubt," Duncan patted Shirley on the shoulder lightly, and then withdrew his hand, "because I always feel that there is a big contradiction in this matter: the sun shards point to the 'sacred objects' of the Sun Cultists. ', according to the descriptions of those cultists, its power is actually very simple, and it is only related to the "real sun god" in mysticism. However, in the chaos eleven years ago, only the officially disclosed documents were arrested The cultists arrested already include the Annihilation Cultist and the Final Evangelist, guys who have nothing to do with the "real Sun God" at all... What are they doing?

"Of course, it can also be explained that the sun fragments are so powerful that even people who don't believe in the sun god are affected, making them go crazy on the same day, but this can't explain why there are such weird things like Agou. The...'phenomenon'——a demon with frenzied attributes suddenly gained sanity during the incident. What's going on?

"Even extending out, there are still many suspicious places, including but not limited to the curtain that shrouded the 'fire', the memories left in your and Nina's minds, the strange phenomenon in the sixth block... We have always referred to these What is wrong is all attributed to the sun fragments, but now think about it carefully, is this really the power of the 'sun domain'? Then the so-called real sun god is too omnipotent."

Duncan expressed the doubts in his heart, and some of the doubts actually arose before today. It was only after seeing the change of Agou eleven years ago that he became more firm in his doubts.

The fire eleven years ago might have been caused by debris from the sun, but there must be something else at play in the whole incident!

Xue Li was still a little dazed. She was actually not very good at thinking about these complicated things, but in a daze, she heard A Gou's voice quickly sounded in her mind: "Xue Li, are you okay? He touched your butt just now. Is the head casting a curse? Are you sane? Are you..."

"I'm fine," Shirley replied in her mind, a little dumbfounded, "Agou, you are too nervous."

"Nonsense, can I not be nervous! You have directly come into contact with a pollution source that is enough to drive ordinary people crazy!" Agou's voice panicked, "Then how do you feel?"

Shirley thought about it, and touched the top of her head uncertainly.

In her memory, the last time someone stroked her hair like this and comforted herself softly like a child was many, many years ago.

"...It's warm."

She spoke softly in a trance.

Agou was startled: "Shirley, is your brain really out of order?"

"...you shut up!"

Duncan didn't know what Agou and Shirley had exchanged in this short moment, he just looked thoughtfully at the window filled with dim red light, and suddenly asked, "What's outside?"

Shirley was taken aback: "Huh?"

Duncan raised his hand and pointed to the window: "What's outside the room?"

"I...don't know," Shirley blinked, suddenly realizing that in this nightmare that kept haunting her, an impossible option suddenly appeared at this moment, "I never thought about this question, every time In my dreams, I was always trapped in this room..."

"But now you broke free," Duncan walked to the door of the hut, turned his head and said softly, those words were like a temptation in the dark, throwing an unprecedented choice in front of Shirley and Agou, "Would you like to try, When you are awake... what does it look like to see the edge of your dream?"