Deep Sea Embers

Duncan grabbed some rags from nearby corpses and wrapped himself around himself before leaving the cave where he was temporarily hiding.

This is not because he can't stand the coldness in the cave, but to more or less block his open heart—although the hole in his chest did not affect Duncan's "survival" at all, as a normal person in his bones, Walking around with a cold heart is really too wicked a thing. Putting something on your body can at least bring a little comfort to your heart, and it can also reduce some of the weird touch caused by the "draft".

Moreover, Duncan also took into account the possibility of bumping into other people suddenly while walking in this underground space-it is common sense to infer that a big hole in the chest may not be conducive to talking to strangers...

In this way, Duncan carefully left the gloomy and damp cave after simply dealing with the "wound". He entered a corridor connected to the cave and walked slowly toward the depths.

This temporarily occupied body is not "convenient". Not only is the fatal damage to the chest affecting the flexibility of activities, but Duncan can clearly feel the weakness of this body, and the too thin hands and feet can't even walk fast. , It is completely incomparable with the body of "Captain Ghost", which is so powerful that it is obviously beyond the ordinary.

Duncan couldn't see the whole picture of his current body, but judging from the part he could see, he guessed that it should be a young man, a young man with a weak constitution due to long-term severe malnutrition—even though he was manipulating this body at the moment The body is the soul of a powerful ghost captain, but it seems that the strength of the soul level cannot break through the physical limit brought by this weak body.

It's a pity that there is no choice now. Duncan can only control this barely usable body and slowly explore the deep corridor. He knows that with this temporary body state, he may be helpless in any crisis. I can only pray that this body can be used for a while longer.

The corridor is very deep, damp and dark, but there seems to be hidden ventilation holes, a slight airflow has been flowing nearby, and at intervals, you can also see torches or oil lamps hanging on the wall. Existence proves that someone has been active here.

After walking along the corridor for a long distance, Duncan suddenly found that the road in front of him suddenly opened up, and man-made traces began to appear in his sight - he saw a fork in the end of the corridor, and the road connected by the fork had a level road. The walls and high semicircular vaults, the brick-paved ground are dark and damp, and there are two waterways running along the sides of the ground, with disgusting sewage flowing inside.

On the walls on both sides of the road, you can also see openings that look like drainage pipes. Sewage flows out of some of the sewage outlets, is injected into the water channel below, and flows to a darker distance.

"……sewer?"

Duncan quickly realized that what he saw was obviously some kind of large-scale sewer system, while the place where many remains were hidden before was like a natural cave structure that was just connected to the sewer.

Large-scale sewers, natural caves connected to the sewers, and hidden remains.

Countless conjectures popped up in Duncan's mind in an instant, and at the same time as many conjectures popped up in his mind, he was also carefully observing the details of the "sewer" in front of him.

Huge in scale and well built, the main support appears to be a reinforced concrete structure, which may even be sufficient to serve as some kind of underground shelter if necessary.

To be able to build something of this size, the scale of the city above the sewer is certainly not small, and various technologies must have developed to a certain height.

Technology cannot exist in isolation. Behind every engineering product must be the synchronous support of countless related industries and technologies. Even if it is just a sewer, it can also reveal to Duncan the construction, planning, materials, maintenance level, and all aspects behind it. The corresponding concept of residents' life.

This is enough for Duncan, who is currently severely lacking in information, to obtain some valuable information from the civilized world.

Duncan walked forward along the sewer, and stopped suddenly after walking a short distance, and then his eyes fell on the nearby wall.

A lamp was embedded on the wall—a lamp with a glass shell, and a metal cage that looked quite solid.

Compared with the torches and oil lamps in the previous cave, the lamp mounted on the wall is obviously brighter. Inside the frosted glass shell is a bright flame that is burning steadily, and the light it emits is enough to illuminate a considerable distance in the sewer .

Duncan leaned over to observe carefully. For him now, everything from the Lost Home, especially the creations of modern civilization, is extremely attractive.

After observing for a long time, Duncan finally figured out what the light source in front of him was—it was a gas lamp.

But this gas lamp seemed to be different from the ones he had seen in the literature. Apart from the difference in style, the most obvious thing was that he saw a few slender symbols on the glass cover of the lamp housing.

The symbol seemed to have been added at the beginning of the production of the lamp housing, and it curved like a hieroglyphic gesture. Duncan didn't recognize these symbols, but he immediately thought of the mechanical ship and Ellie. The mysterious runes seen on Silk's "coffin".

Although the content is different, they all have a similar... "temperament".

It was something sacred, ritual.

Duncan backed away a little. He looked up deeper into the sewer, and saw a brightly burning gas lamp at intervals on the wall.

As an underground facility that is rarely visited by people except for necessary maintenance, the lighting equipment in this sewer seems to be a bit too much, and there may be a similar mysterious "rune" on the shell of each gas lamp. ".

This gave Duncan a feeling, as if these densely distributed gas lamps were actually fighting against something in this untouched dark underground——the "human civilization world" represented behind them was fighting against something.

Duncan walked forward along the path illuminated by gas lamps, his eyes paying attention to any valuable clues that appeared on the surrounding walls, floors, and vaults. Suddenly, he noticed something strange from the corner of his eyes.

He stopped at the position between the two gas lamps, which was considered to be a relatively dark section of the sewer. He raised his head and looked obliquely upwards, and saw a dark spot on the high part of the wall near the vault of the sewer. Red paint paints something.

Duncan narrowed his eyes and tried hard to distinguish for a long time, finally he saw the picture outlined by those rough lines clearly - he saw a pair of hands reaching up to the sky, as if they were worshiping something, and in the direction where those hands surrounded , then hangs a sphere that exudes a thousand zhangs of light.

Under the picture of worship and swarming, there is a line of crooked words. The strokes of the words tremble, as if they contain strong fanaticism and anticipation. The letters on them are not any kind of characters on the earth, but Duncan understands naturally—— —

"The false sun will eventually fall, and the real sun god will be resurrected from blood and fire! The vitality of all things belongs to the sun, and the order of all things belongs to the sun!"

Duncan stood quietly in the sewer, looking up at the junction area where the light of the gas lamp was the dimmest, at the dark red graffiti, at the radiant sun that seemed to be soaked in blood and was fanatically worshiped by people .

As if staring at another world for a long time.

He watched like this for a long time, until a noise suddenly came from the depths of the sewer, and the sound of several footsteps reached Duncan's ears.

He suddenly raised his head to look in the direction of the sound, only to see several figures in burqas walking over from the front. Their heads and faces were shrouded in the shadow of the hoods, appearing in this dirty place like eerie ghosts. Deep in the sewers.

Duncan didn't hide—in fact, there was almost no place to hide in this straight sewer, and his temporary body with limited mobility couldn't do high-end operations such as "blind spot running", so after thinking about it briefly , he simply stood in the middle of the sewer with carelessness, watching the hooded men who were walking in front very calmly, no matter how they looked, they were very suspicious.

Since this body can't run away and is destined to be a one-time consumable, it's better to exchange some information back at the end.

In the next second, the hooded men who came out from the depths of the sewer noticed Duncan's existence.

(Mom!)