Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 724 Under the dark starry sky

The green flames were like meteors, falling straight down from the dome of the solid starry sky, crossing a bright trajectory and then crashing down on the barren plain full of strange rocks.

Then the flames exploded and bloomed in mid-air. In the swirling firelight, the figures of Duncan and Alice walked out of it, and finally stepped into this unknown world.

Before the firelight dissipated, Duncan noticed those strange, twisted and horrifying figures in the distance - a dozen deep demons gathered at the edge of the landing site, looking a little dull for some reason.

He and the demons looked at each other, and the atmosphere at the scene was inexplicably frozen.

It was not until Alice, who was belatedly aware of it, finally shouted something that she broke the solid atmosphere: "Captain! We are surrounded!"

"...I saw it." Duncan said casually, and at the same time he was ready to "deal with" those demons - the dozen monsters in the distance were the same as those he had seen in the real dimension, led by the Annihilation Cult. The summoned deep demons are obviously different. Their limbs are obviously more twisted, and weird dislocations and cracks can be seen on some bodies. The skull demon floating in the air has a terrifying hole on its head, which doesn't look good. deal with.

According to Duncan's understanding, the twisted things like the deep demons are, of course, the more twisted and wrong they are, the stronger they are - the demons in front of him are so twisted that they are about to break. They must be masters in the deep sea, most of them have nothing to do with the real world. Unlike those rookies who run away as soon as they see him...

But what he didn't expect was that as soon as he was ready to "say hello" to the local indigenous people, he saw a group of monsters in the distance suddenly reacting, and they instantly let out a series of chaotic and noisy roars and hoarseness. The noise suddenly scattered in all directions, and half of it was gone in the blink of an eye.

It's not that the remaining half didn't run, but that they were limping and couldn't run. Although the scary-looking skull demon could fly, when it flew, it trembled like an old diesel engine with a leaky cylinder. , after two puffs, a puff of black smoke came out of the big hole in the head and then fell to the ground. After struggling for a few times, it floated up again, and after two puffs of black smoke, it fell to the ground again...

Optimistically, it can fly up to six meters in half a minute, and it will stay in place for most of the time.

Duncan & Alice: "...?"

The two of them reacted for a while, and Duncan finally noticed the messy traces on the ground at the edge of the landing site - many almost unrecognizable wreckage scattered in the potholes and ravines, with smoke and dust billowing out and blending into the ground. There are horrifying deep pits and dents everywhere on the earth, as if a layer had been "cut off" by some kind of crushing force, which is terrifying to look at.

At first, Duncan thought these traces were just "natural landscapes" in the deep sea. After all, he had heard from the beginning that this place was a "broken wasteland", but now he finally realized... this place was a place of fierce battle. The battlefield afterwards.

Something came here one step ahead and killed almost all the deep demons in the center of the wasteland, while the dozen demons in the distance were just a group of lucky survivors——

Their twisted appearance is really disturbing.

Alice also reacted at this time. She looked around with wide eyes and noticed the dark skeletons scattered in a nearby pothole. She immediately grabbed Duncan's arm: "Captain! This place is full of demonic remains!"

Duncan glanced at the skull demon that was swinging and flying in the distance and a few death birds jumping on the ground with one leg, and thought thoughtfully: "...It turns out that I have already beaten him..."

"Who did this?" Alice looked quite uneasy, and the scene nearby made her a little nervous, "Are the inner fights among the deep demons usually so fierce?"

Duncan didn't speak for a while. He just bent down and looked carefully at a fragment of bones that was almost burnt to charcoal, and then opened his palm above the fragment.

A small green spark, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, floated out from the charred bones and landed in his hand.

The faint sparks still carry the "memory" left on this battlefield not long ago.

"It's Shirley and Agou." After a moment, Duncan raised his head and looked towards the end of the vast wasteland. "They have been here one after another... Theoretically, the traces here are left by them."

Alice listened, her expression was dull for a moment, and she was a little unresponsive: "...Are Shirley and Agou so powerful?"

"It seems like something happened to them, some kind of huge... change," Duncan frowned slightly, his expression solemn, "Especially Shirley, she doesn't feel right to me now."

As he spoke, he followed the direction he sensed and turned his gaze to the direction where the "imprinted breath" on Shirley and Agou came from.

Boundless chaos fills this boundless dimension. The stagnant ancient starry sky covers the dome of the deep sea. The dim starlight shines on the fragmented floating islands in this chaotic space - as far as the field of vision can reach. Inside, he could see many large and small shadows floating in the dim starlight. They were all land floating out of thin air, including the "wasteland" where he and Alice were standing at the moment. They looked like just many broken pieces. Part of the floating island.

The entire "deep sea" is composed of countless broken floating islands. They float in a chaotic space and time covered by the stagnant ancient starry sky. The entire space is filled with a... desolate and death atmosphere.

Duncan withdrew his gaze and looked at the puppet beside him: "Do you feel anything special now? Can you see or hear any unusual information?"

Alice made a careful distinction and shook her head: "Not yet." "Well," Duncan nodded slightly, then raised his hand and pointed in the distance, "The marks of Shirley and Agou are still moving in this direction. Let’s chase after him.”

"Okay!" Alice nodded immediately and murmured as she followed Duncan, "Shirley must have been frightened...she is actually very timid...Agou is not very timid either..."

The two figures exuding a terrifying aura finally left in the distance - they seemed to have no intention of causing trouble here.

The skull demon floating crookedly in mid-air was trembling slightly, the red light in its eye sockets flickering on and off. It looked at the direction in which the two uninvited guests were leaving, and for the first time the word "lucky" appeared in its chaotic and ignorant mind. concept.

A death bird with only one leg and half a wing left jumped across the gravel not far away, while two groups of almost flattened horrors slowly wriggled through the cracks in the ground. There are also several ghost hounds that are almost torn apart and are struggling to crawl away.

What a great day.

A long arthropod covered with bone spurs stabbed down from the sky like a sharp sword, nailing a strange demon that was roaring and breathing to the ground. Then the arthropod continued to move forward, striding towards the end of the wilderness.

Twelve symmetrical joints are impaled with countless weird and terrifying demonic creatures, large and small. Some of these twisted and ugly things are still struggling and roaring, but more of them are no longer active, but emit billowing smoke. Gradually transforming into mud.

The owner of the arthropod no longer cared about this - after trekking for an unknown amount of time, she finally arrived at the end of the land.

The earth floating in the chaotic darkness is an island, with only vast nothingness at its end. At the edge of this wilderness, the rocks and soil suddenly stop, and a thin layer of smoke escapes from the edge of the broken earth, like low and flowing clouds. Surrounded by the island.

Shirley cautiously stopped at the end of the land. She used her barbed limbs to jam into the cracks in the rocks. She cautiously looked down at the edge of the floating island, and then quickly looked away.

There is no way.

What's next?

She was thinking, as if she were a sculpture standing still at the end of the wilderness, as if she were dead for a moment.

But the demons wandering around and hesitating knew that this powerful and terrifying "outsider" was still alive - in her ribcage intertwined with bones, two dark red hearts and a cluster of flames were still beating slowly. It cannot be extinguished.

After an unknown amount of time, Shirley finally woke up from her thoughts. She controlled her limbs and took two steps back, trying to lower her height - she was tired and wanted to sit down and rest for a few minutes.

After several attempts, she sat down awkwardly and slowly, and carefully gathered the bony structure behind her like giant wings of bones behind her back.

She just sat on a big rock, raised her head, and looked at the stagnant starry sky from ancient times in the sky with some trance.

The starry sky was very cold, with a dead and desolate atmosphere lingering around it, like a huge, majestic but lifeless corpse, coldly overlooking everything with billions of eyes.

It was so beautiful, but also a little scary. She felt as if she was about to fall into the dense stars and become a part of them. She also felt as if she was suffocated by them and was pressed here. A broken and desolate land.

What words should be used to describe such a scene and such a feeling?

Shirley thought seriously and hard. She suddenly regretted that she didn't listen to the captain and read more books. Then she would have a lot of vocabulary, instead of like now, she could only hold back one sentence after thinking for a long time——

"...It's so fucking beautiful..."

Then, footsteps suddenly appeared nearby, interrupting Shirley's sigh, and causing the demons hiding in the dark, who were ready to move but were hesitant to retreat, finally retreated.

Shirley slowly turned around and saw a Deep Hound, taller than all the Deep Hounds, with its broken bones floating in the black smoke, walking from the shadows.

It approached cautiously, with green fire burning in its empty eye sockets. It seemed to be hesitating, looking nervous and hesitant. It lingered for a long time more than ten meters away, and then slowly took a few steps closer and took the food in its mouth. A lump of something was placed on the ground.

"...Shirley, I found something to eat..."

This sentence sounds so familiar.

(End of this chapter)