Deep Sea Embers

The city-state floats on the boundless sea without any roots. Under the 850-meter "thick" base is the seemingly endless dark deep water. The deeper you dive into the deep sea, the more incomprehensible noises you hear. See He saw incomprehensible lights and shadows, and the first explorer who crossed a thousand meters of water fell into madness after rushing to the surface. The only words he left to the world were -

"We all died there."

This is what happened in the process of Frost City State's "Abyss Plan" from the beginning until it gradually became wrong.

Duncan fell into a brief thought. He suddenly discovered that even if he did not go deep into the spiritual world and the deep, just in the "real dimension" of this world, there were many dangers and weirdness hidden in the boundless sea. After a brief thought, he Then he suddenly asked:

"What happened to the explorer?"

"He died soon - the rapid ascent and pressurization killed him. He screamed wildly for a while and then died of vascular embolism, at least from a practical perspective."

"Only one crew member in a submersible?" Duncan asked again.

"It can only accommodate one person. Of course, this will amplify the mental pressure on the explorer, but this is also a helpless move. On the one hand, the technology at that time was limited, and on the other hand, this kind of exploration is not suitable for many people to go together - —Under the deep sea, it is difficult to be sure what will replace your companions next second, and it is also difficult to be sure whether the sound you hear is real, so it is better to just dive alone, so that at least you don’t have to doubt what’s going on in the submersible. There are others."

"The deep sea, darkness, loneliness, being away from the civilized world and facing the strange and unknown waters, these may be the reasons for this explorer's madness," Duncan slowly shook his head, "But that is not important, the important thing is... That still doesn’t explain why Project Qianyuan later became an extremely taboo subject.”

He looked into Tirian's eyes and continued: "So far, what you have told is just an expedition that had an accident, and similar expeditions happen every year. The Academy of Truth even takes the initiative to invest and encourage It is taboo for scholars and explorers to do those things, and they should not be associated with the Lost Home."

"Empty?" Duncan raised his eyebrows slightly, then shook his head, "Then this is even more disturbing."

"Yes, the first one," Tirian nodded. "It rushed up in front of the navy soldiers and kept flashing the light signal that it needed assistance to open the hatch. Although the well-trained soldiers were confused, All of a sudden, but still quickly according to standard procedures, the submersible was dragged to the working platform, and seventy-one rifles, two rapid-fire cannons and a flamethrower were aimed at its hatch. Then a cowardly priest came on Then, he poured holy water and unlocked the door.

At this time, even the person next to me, who had not spoken a word but was just listening in fascination, couldn't help but speak: "There's a second one?!

A second ago, Tirian was lost in memories of the past. At this moment, Miss Doll suddenly stopped thinking. She opened her mouth for a long time but failed to mobilize her emotions: "Well... they didn't have any emotion at all at that time. I thought about this..."

"After that, doctors and church scholars jointly examined the corpse, and the Frost Queen seemed to have personally visited the autopsy site, but the conclusion of the examination was not announced—or rather, before they had time to announce anything, the first Two No. 2 submersibles appeared."

"This monster also couldn't survive in the air for more than two minutes.

Tirian glanced at Alice subconsciously, and the expression on his face seemed a little strange. He seemed to be unaccustomed to a person who looked exactly like the Frost Queen standing here making a fuss, but he quickly adjusted his expression and gently nodded:

The second one, and more than two - after that, every hour or more, a submersible will emerge from here..."

"...Yes, if we stop this plan when we are one thousand meters away, the things that happened later will not happen,"

Tirian shook his head and sighed in the memory, "After the accident of the No. 2 submersible, His Majesty Ray Nora once ordered a temporary suspension of exploration, but something happened a few days later, which made the situation... gradually become weird. stand up

. "

Alice listened to this weird and bizarre "story" in surprise. He thought for a while and suddenly said: "So, they only need to wait here to have a steady stream of submersibles? This is called ' Isn’t the submersible too valuable? Is it more valuable than the cultists?”

"At the edge of the temporarily blocked test sea area, the No. 2 submersible rushed to the surface."

"Don't bury him, your thinking is different from ordinary people," Duncan glanced at Alice and said to Tirian with a serious expression, "Go on, what happened next?"

As Tyrian continued to tell, the expression on Duncan's face became more and more serious. Even Alice next to him seemed to have noticed the change in the atmosphere and sat upright.

Tirian finally came back to his senses, collected his thoughts and continued to speak: "After the second submersible came up, it also sent out a light signal requesting to open the cabin. This time the soldiers had some experience, and they dragged the submersible to a A more tightly protected area, and the priest delayed in setting up a large number of extraordinary protections before opening the hatch. But this time... what came out of it was a swollen and deformed man with no trace of the 'Explorer'. A humanoid monster.

Ryan paused, as if there were some gaps in his memory. He organized his words before continuing to speak quickly: "I can't remember the specific situation of the No. 2 submersible. It was completed in a hurry, and the Duncan Navy only I was in charge of part of it, and I only knew that it was larger than No. 2, could not accommodate two people inside, and had a sample chamber—scholars originally planned to use it to collect specimens from the deep sea, if there were any specimens to collect.

Duncan was stunned for a moment, and then he realized: "What is the number of the first submersible?!"

Alice frowned: "One thing?"

"Then everything started. The No. 1 submersible never surfaced again, and no more No. 2 submersibles appeared in the eyes of everyone." Tirian paused and spoke slowly: "The hatch is opened. , a human being who looked very much like an explorer walked out of it. "

"The third submersible, and as far as you know the last one, is empty."

"Yes, it's empty, so it's even more unsettling. This thing is not completely out of control yet, and we must find a way to end it," Tirian said in a deep voice, "But fortunately, the No. 3 submersible is finally completed - it It was not originally the successor model of the No. 2 submersible. After the "One Kilometer" incident, the plan was suspended and its construction work was also suspended. However, as the "No. 2 submersible" surfaced one after another, the Queen ordered to He completed the assembly of the No. 3 submersible as quickly as possible and decided to use it to figure out what happened under a thousand meters of water. "

And in this increasingly serious and deep atmosphere, Tirian slowly said——

"On the first day after the first No. 2 submersible appeared, the No. 3 submersible built by the city-state was put into the sea. Inside it sat a scholar, an officer, and a powerful priest - at that time They forgot about the hidden dangers of multi-person exploration and did everything possible to avoid the emergence of the fourth submersible No. 2, which was the top priority.

Duncan's face was filled with tears: "It's very similar?"

"The No. 3 submersible detonated the explosives," the big pirate said slowly. "They filled the sample compartment with high explosives to deal with the 'ultimate dangerous situation.'

"There is only a little white fibrous moisture inside the third submersible, which looks like unformed neural structures or moist blood vessel specimens..."

"The appearance and outline are similar, but the height and weight are different. He is wearing a navy uniform, but there are many problems with the details of the clothes, and more importantly... the person who came out of the submersible only moved on land for a short time. He died without even having time to leave a word. After the soldiers untied his clothes, they found that his flesh and blood seemed to be growing together with the clothes, and there were many large and small... Wounds beyond comprehension.

Tirian raised his head and looked into Alice's eyes.

"What crawled out of the third submersible was a squirming mass of flesh. This time, not even the outline of a human could be seen.

“But seventeen minutes after the communication was interrupted, the chaplain on duty in the cathedral

The division suddenly heard the sound in the deep sea again. They first heard a scream, which was made by the priest. The priest screamed in a very frightened tone to remind others, he said: 'Don't look! Do not think! ,, followed immediately by the officer's voice, a roar, and then a deafening roar. "

"After the hatch of the third submersible was opened, nothing came out of it - the soldiers at the scene came forward to check and saw that there was only a pool of suspicious dark red mud in the cockpit, which had a strong life response.

"The No. 3 submersible dived all the way and soon reached a depth of one thousand meters. The priests in the submersible relied on psychic power to maintain contact with the sea surface. Probably because the new submersible has stronger performance, they were very careful all the way. It went smoothly, and confirmed the scene of the city-state's "base" observed by previous explorers, but soon, the contact became intermittent, and after the depth reached one thousand meters, the cathedral on the sea platform was almost No sounds from the deep sea can be heard.