Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 16 Walking in the Spirit World
The door closed behind him, blocking the empty gaze of the goat's head.

But Duncan can still clearly perceive the Lost Home, and perceive every subtle change on the ghost ship—in that sympathetic feeling like an extension of the limbs, he "sees" a series of sails on the Lost Home. The angle was finely adjusted in the sea breeze, and the black steering wheel on the stern bridge was turning slightly, which further stabilized the Lost Home in the waves.

As he expected, Goat's Head temporarily took over the rudder and began to perform his duties as first mate conscientiously-but Duncan could still take over the ship himself at any time.

Compared with when he was directly at the helm, the Lost Country was weakened in terms of flexibility and speed, but now Duncan's main purpose is to further dispel the fog on the chart, and there is no clear goal and route. He didn't care about this effect.

After confirming that the goat's head hadn't moved, and that the Gothic doll below the deck was staying in the room obediently, Duncan breathed a sigh of relief and took a look at the not-so-big room.

This is his private bedroom as the captain, and it is also the most comfortable and elegant room on the Lost Country. In addition to a soft bed, there is a large classical wardrobe and a display on the wall facing the door of the room. There are many shelves with strange items, and there is a dark brown desk opposite the bed, but there are no books on the desk, only a few furnishings and tools for writing and drawing. .

There is a window next to the desk, which can directly look out to the distant sea, and there are several hooks on the wall beside the window - the pirate sword and the flintlock that Duncan is carrying now were hung on these hooks before.

Duncan came to the desk, put the long sword and the flintlock gun where they were convenient, opened the desk drawer, and checked the gunpowder and lead bullets in the wooden box.

A small brass compass was placed next to the buckshot and gunpowder bag. Duncan picked up the compass and saw that the pointer under the glass shell was still spinning wildly, as if being pulled by an invisible chaotic force field. The bottom of the compass was engraved with A small line of text——

"We are all homeless."

Duncan casually put the compass in his hand and played with it, watching the pointer on it turn around as if he was drunk.

He has checked the things here many times. He discovered this room during the initial exploration, and the things here, including the line of messages, must have been left by the real Captain Duncan.

After reviewing the information he had so far in his mind, Duncan exhaled, casually placed the compass on the table, raised his right hand and rubbed his fingertips gently.

A cluster of small green flames were then ignited at his fingertips. Under the reflection of the flames, half of Duncan's palm immediately showed a transparent and illusory texture like a spirit body—but under conscious control, the flames But it didn't spread around like before, but hovered over his fingers like a candle.

After the flame stabilized, Duncan approached the flame with his other hand to feel it, then took a quill from the side, and touched the flame with the end of the pen.

Neither could feel the heat, nor was the quill ignited, only a little dark green spread on the pen barrel, making the quill glow faintly.

Duncan did not "feel" any feedback from the quill, which was completely different from when he touched the chart and the rudder with the flame.

Duncan silently recorded the new experience in his heart-this "spiritual body fire" has no temperature, and it will not ignite things, and it is very likely that it will only be connected with the "abnormal" things on the Lost Country, and it will not affect ordinary things. then there will be no feedback.

So if it's something "anomalous" from outside the Lost Home... will the flame respond?
Duncan was contemplating, and for a moment, a figure of a goth doll suddenly appeared in his mind——Alice, as if it was an "abnormality" from outside the Lost Home?
Will she be affected by this spirit body fire?
But that's all he thought about for a while, and then he threw this far-fetched idea aside.

Because even if Alice is not human, even if she is the cursed "Anomaly 099", she is also an independent individual who can speak and walk, and has her own thoughts, and is now the "crew" of the Lost Homelander, Duncan has subconsciously Think of it as a "person".

He couldn't accept using a living person to test his flame—after all, he wasn't sure how far-reaching the flame would be to the affected "abnormality" and whether it was harmful.

Then Duncan tested a few more times, while checking the nature of the flames, and at the same time determining whether there were extraordinary attributes behind the various things in this bedroom.

Finally, his eyes finally fell on the little brass compass with "Message" on it.

The brass compass was lying quietly on the table, and the pointer under the glass shell was spinning randomly, but I don’t know if it was an illusion. When Duncan kept the flames on while his “malicious” eyes fell on the pointer, the pointer seemed to suddenly It froze for a moment.

Then continue to wander around in place as if nothing happened.

Duncan: "..."

This thing definitely reacted to his gaze just now!

Originally, he was a little apprehensive about this compass. After all, there was a handwriting left by the "real Captain Duncan" on it. He was very worried whether the dead ghost captain left some kind of power or something on this personal item. "Trap" to keep out thieves, so he hadn't tested the compass with flames, but after seeing the compass's reaction, he suddenly made up his mind.

Duncan reached out to pick up the compass, and the cold touch spread to his fingertips. After glancing at the pointer that was still spinning wildly, he directly put the thing into the right hand used to maintain the fire of the spirit body, and slowly clenched it .

The green flames flowed instantly like burning grease, spreading between his fingers, and a faint flame quickly ignited on the surface of the compass. In the flames, there seemed to be countless phantoms undulating and dissipating. In the next moment, the pointer that was spinning randomly It stopped suddenly, and pointed straight to a certain direction on the vast sea.

Duncan's heart moved. At this moment, he clearly felt the "feedback" from the compass, and confirmed that it was indeed an "abnormal item" that could be controlled by the fire of the spirit body. The details in this feedback, a sudden "gravity" came over!

Duncan only felt his body shake for a moment, and in the next second his eyes blurred. The furnishings in the captain's bedroom had turned into nothingness at some point, and even the surrounding walls and roof disintegrated and dissipated like snowflakes in the blink of an eye. In the light and shadow, the boundless darkness filled his vision.

Duncan stood in the center of the darkness in astonishment, and the alarm bells were ringing in his heart. His first reaction was to reach for the musket and saber beside him, but in the next second he found that there was only the brass gun left beside him. The compass—it was still held tightly in his hand.

Duncan blinked, and in his gaze, countless wisps of slender light suddenly diffused around the brass compass.

These rays of light spread and interweave in the darkness, expanding infinitely like weaving a net, and between the interweaving of rays of light, there are countless bits and pieces of light emerging, some of these rays of light are scattered scattered, some converge like rivers, In the background of the intertwined light network, it is as brilliant as a galaxy.

Duncan looked at the vision in front of him in some confusion. He was vigilant and a little uneasy, but for some reason, he didn't feel any sense of crisis, even...

Between this dim light net and star point, he felt a sense of peace and comfort that he had not seen for a long time.

The next second, a strange feeling came suddenly. Duncan's eyes were involuntarily attracted by a cluster of starlight intertwined in the optical network. dark.

He subconsciously stretched out his hand towards the starlight.

A huge pulling force came at this moment—Duncan felt as if his soul was flying, and he involuntarily rushed towards the star that was about to fall into darkness, while the dense light web woven by the compass was in sight. Zhong quickly retreated, and the surrounding galaxy formed by starlight suddenly began to rotate and creep!
During the rapid flyover, he subconsciously looked at his right hand holding the compass tightly, but saw that the compass had disappeared at some point. From the corner of the eye, I saw a shadow suddenly condensed in the darkness.

The shadow appeared naturally as if it was always by his side, and quickly fell towards the dim light spot along with him.

Duncan could only vaguely see that the shadow seemed to be a flying bird, and before he could see the details clearly, his eyes went dark.

The heavy touch from the real world came from the limbs, together with the stench of rotting limbs, and the harsh sound of heavy chains mopping the floor.

(Mom!)

(End of this chapter)