Deep Sea Embers

There are some things that are destined not to be discussed in front of Nina.

Hearing the scene described by Agou, Duncan's heart suddenly jumped.

There are ashes floating around... a lot of ashes... What does this mean?

In the factory covered by the curtain, there are hidden ashes everywhere. Ashes are traces of flames that have burned, proof that the fire once existed, and symbolize things that have been destroyed. Then the ashes around Nina...

He raised his head and looked at the stairs leading to the second floor.

Nina was busy in the kitchen on the second floor. From here, you can vaguely hear the sound of her cooking. The sound of kitchen utensils colliding seems very brisk. The optimistic girl has experienced a lot today, but she is still in a good mood at this moment.

He retracted his gaze and looked at Shirley sitting opposite him.

"So, after Agou told you that he had found a very suspicious target, you managed to sneak into the school and tried to find clues around Nina. At the same time, you also began to approach the sun cultists active in the city, trying to find clues from them to solve the mystery of the fire eleven years ago..." Shirley nodded gently: "Yes." "I guess you are not looking for the sun fragments, right?" What's the point of looking for the sun fragments?" Shirley asked back, "To find a ball of fire and then question why it is burning? What I want to find... is the person who set the fire that year. "This is not an ordinary fire," Duncan stared into Shirley's eyes quietly, "If it is really a fragment of the sun... its power is more than enough to burn down a factory. Shirley, you are doing something very, very dangerous."

"Don't be angry if I tell you the truth, Shirley thought about it and lowered her head honestly, "I think sitting in front of you is dangerous enough..."

·Haha, maybe," Duncan was slightly startled and couldn't help laughing. Then he got up from behind the counter and slowly walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor, "I just made a kind reminder casually. Of course, how to judge is your business.

"Wait a minute," Shirley suddenly stood up, but hesitated for two seconds before continuing to speak. Judging from your attitude... Didn't you know the special thing about Nina before?"

Duncan stopped and pondered for a while. He raised his hand and pointed at his eyes: "It seems that what I am using now This body's 'eyesight' is not very good, and I really didn't notice some things.

This body...

Shirley noticed these words keenly, but she didn't dare to ask anything. She just looked at the other party and continued to walk upstairs with some curiosity: "What are you going to do now?"

"What? Of course, go upstairs to eat," Duncan looked down and said as a matter of course, "You guys come up too, it's time for dinner. "

It's dinner time.

What does it feel like to eat at the home of a warp boss?

Shirley didn't know how to describe to others how many strange and bizarre thoughts flashed through her mind as she followed the boss upstairs. She was nervous and expectant, curious and afraid. Although she knew that this was most likely just an ordinary daily meal, she couldn't help but guess what kind of horrible and bizarre things would appear on the table later.

In this seemingly ordinary antique shop, there lives a shadow from the warp. This is the nest of the warp shadow, the collapsed gap between the real world and the deep world, and in such a nest...even if the offspring of the evil god appeared on the table, it would be quite normal in her opinion.

Shirley went upstairs with this wild guess in her head and a nervous mood, and came to the slightly narrow The kitchen, and then saw what was on the table. It was just a plate of freshly heated hard bread, a pot of vegetable soup, which is the most common in downtown, and some tomato sauce and mushroom sauce. The most eye-catching thing on the table was a pot of fish soup - floating in the white soup were a few pieces of fish meat that had been cut and processed, and the original appearance could not be seen. The fresh and fragrant smell wafted over, which aroused Shirley's stomach. "I made soup with the half salted fish left in the kitchen," Nina said to Duncan with a smile, and then looked at Shirley. Shirley, "Uncle bought this fish, try it, it tastes delicious!" Shirley sat down at the table with a bit of horniness, her eyes sweeping around the ordinary food. Duncan next to her couldn't help laughing when she saw this: "Why, the food is too ordinary, which is unexpected? Or is it not to your taste?" "Ah, no no no... This is much better than what I usually eat..." Shirley answered subconsciously, and then added, "But I really didn't expect it to be such an ordinary thing." "This fish looks a bit strange," Agou next to her also poked his head to look at the food on the table, and said in a muffled voice, "I always feel... a bit familiar?" "What kind of food do you know?" Shirley looked at it after hearing it, "You usually eat stones as biscuits..." "Mr. Agou doesn't eat?" Nina was surprised when she heard it. "The Deep Demon doesn't eat human food-in fact, it doesn't need to eat at all," Shirley nodded, "It just chews stones and steel plates when it grinds its teeth occasionally.

Upon hearing this, Agou immediately hummed and shook his head: "I feel a little sad when you say that. Have you forgotten how I tried to steal food outside to feed you? Occasionally I also eat some...

As he spoke, he lay down on the edge of the dining table and got closer to the basin of fish soup. However, he stared at the fish soup for two seconds.

Finally, the second half of his unfinished sentence came to an abrupt end.

The next second, the deep hound suddenly withdrew its gaze, scurried back to where it was, and lay there motionless.

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Shirley was confused by the other party's reaction: "What's wrong with you, Agou?

Agou looked at Duncan for the first time, and what he saw was his gentle smile.

Agou looked at Duncan for the first time, and what he saw was his gentle smile.

"What? Don't like fish?" the indescribable whirlpool of light and shadow asked with a smile.

Agou's head shook from side to side. Suddenly, it felt that the so-called cordial and friendly conversations, the friendly smiles, and the friendship of cooperative investigation were all just illusions. In the depths of the indescribable distorted light and shadow, there was only terror!

A "descendant of the deep sea" with a higher rank than it was minced and stewed into soup, and even the essence was "real food"... Such a horrible thing was happening on that dining table!

"I... don't like eating fish."

The deep hound said in a muffled voice.

In the corner of its eye, the freshly prepared fish soup was still emitting steam and smelling good to humans.

It knows that the thing in that basin is really a "fish". No matter what it was in the past, it is already a fish now.

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The essence of the heir has long been distorted and tampered with. If it hadn't been for the eyes given to him by the Holy Lord Netherworld, even it wouldn't have been able to identify what those chopped pieces of meat were.

Nowadays, it is really harmless food, and there will be no problem even if Shirley eats it. But Agou himself would not go near that dining table today even if he died!

Duncan didn't know why Agou suddenly had such a big reaction to fish soup, but he thought it had nothing to do with the special food of the Deep Demon.

It was related to music spectrum, so he didn't care.

His attention was on Nina.

Nina looked the same as usual. Although she might have a few things on her mind, this sensible child chose to deal with her feelings in a way that would not embarrass everyone.

On the other hand, Duncan already knew that something was "hidden" next to Nina.

Or in other words, the huge and invisible "curtain" in the factory also spread invisibly and enveloped Nina.

He didn't dare to make a direct judgment yet, and he couldn't determine what the ashes surrounding Nina meant, but there was no doubt that Nina must have been in an extremely special position during the fire eleven years ago.

Just as special as that factory.

Nina knew nothing. She had lived in this ignorance for eleven years.

"Uncle?" Nina finally noticed Duncan's gaze, she was a little confused, "What's wrong?"

Duncan didn't answer, just stretched out his hand and gently stroked the top of Nina's head.

Nina was stunned for a moment, then shook her head from side to side: "I'm not a child anymore!"

"I know you are not a child anymore," Duncan laughed, and in the swaying hair of Nina, tiny green light spots flickered, "but you are still a child."

Nina puffed up her cheeks slightly.

"Uncle, you will go with Shirley in the future...'investigation'

She finally couldn't help but ask.

"Within a safe range." Duncan replied seriously.

"...Can't you not go?"

Duncan shook his head: "No."

Nina was silent for a moment and then asked: "Then what can I do?"

"Eat well," Duncan showed a smile and pointed to the dining table, "Then sleep well, study well, and finally protect yourself and Uncle Duncan who believes in you." "

Nina stuffed a piece of bread into her mouth, which was bulging.

"Well, I understand.