Deep Sea Embers

The base of the "model" is growing.

As Zhou Ming-Duncan's thinking spreads, the structure representing the underground world of Puland City-State is emerging in his mind little by little, and these parts that appear in his cognition are now transformed into this "collection" corresponding new part.

It was a rough, rocky disk-like thing that grew out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and covered the entire underground part of the city-state of Puland, and then began to gradually extend, showing more bizarre details - Qianbai Years of sedimentary layers, growths like tiny spikes, and... strange protrusions that wind between the sedimentary layers.

It feels like the rough skin of some kind of echinoderm, or the ugly outer layer left behind by rocks etched in strong acid. Eventually, this growth process stops.

The bottom of the "model" representing the city-state of Purland now has a disk-like base.

However, Zhou Ming frowned. He could feel that his consciousness spreading in Puland City-State had not stopped, but continued to extend "below"!

In the darkness, in the coldness, in the transcendent perception beyond the ordinary five senses and six consciousnesses, he felt that his spirit continued to penetrate and flow downward like mercury sinking into the soil. He clearly felt that his " "My eyes" passed over the thick cement, soil and rocks, past some kind of extremely dense "shell" that was neither gold nor stone, and sank into the cold sea water, and then continued downward, continued downward!

In just the blink of an eye, he felt like he was sinking into the deep white sea, crossing the 850-meter-thick base and slowly extending along some invisible but existing "pathway"!

Zhou Ming looked at the puppet suspiciously: "A good idea?" "Uncle! I'm still very new to it!"

"Shirley!"

However, the next second, the doll climbed up like a normal person, patted its skirt, picked up the newspaper that fell on the ground, and came to Zhou Ming with a smile: "Newspaper!"

In the end, he failed to "see" what was in the deep sea directly below Dai Maozi.

As he spoke, Purander's figure appeared in the sight of the uncle and nephew.

Duncan felt his heart pounding. It was a sudden fall, but he was suddenly caught by the rope in the middle of the fall. It took him nearly half a minute to calm down and control his breathing and heartbeat.

The sun rose into the sky again as usual. After being stunned for two seconds, he couldn't help but ask: "Who taught you this?"

Duncan closed his eyes slightly. Dai Mao slowly put the model back into the shelf.

"I really don't dare," Zhou Ming sighed, "This is not your first time to go out alone in the true sense - even though it's just to the newsstand at the corner of the street."

A part of my extended "consciousness" is now hovering at this location.

The internal structure of the disk is completely chaotic, difficult to sense and difficult to pry into.

Nina put one foot on the ground, with an expression of excitement and pride on her face.

Duncan breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, picked up Alice's city-state model, and slowly came to the shelf at the end of the room.

Nina laughed: "Look, let me just say there is something wrong with Miss Plante!"

Nina was stunned: "I don't think these two things can be generalized..."

But after putting the model in, Duncan's eyes fell under the base again, and he couldn't help but have a trace of doubt in his heart.

But he was vaguely aware of one thing -

Duncan struggled to identify it for a long time before he realized that it was Dai Maozi's bottom.

His consciousness spread in the city-state, but in the deep sea, his consciousness obviously exceeded the physical boundaries of the city-state model. Its bottom structure stopped abruptly after 850 meters, but before that, his consciousness extended downwards. How does the next one or two hundred meters extend after one or two hundred meters?

What is this invisible medium?

Nina quickly looked down and moved the wheel away in a panic: "Ah

! sorry! "

Everything in the city remains as before.

He said what he was afraid of, and while he was talking like that, he watched as Plande fell down less than a meter away from his eyes and fell to the ground.

Is this some kind of plankton from the deep sea? Some kind of school of glowing fish? Or something else?

That made him distracted all the time.

Then Duncan slowly adapted and tried to direct his attention in another direction: deeper under the sea.

Puland continued to maintain this confident posture with his neck straightened out, with a confident smile on his face: "I found a good way to reinforce it!"

This huge structure hidden directly under the city-state is probably not the reason why Frost Queen Leigh Nora insisted on advancing the Abyss Plan half a century ago!

He was "looking up" at Dai Maozi and saw the entire base of this elongated disc. In the extreme darkness, this base had some small luminous structures.

As if he suddenly hit some invisible "limit" or reached the end of the "medium", his perception finally stayed in the deep water at a certain depth below the city-state, and stabilized at that location.

"Uncle, are you distracted again?"

Zhou Ming did not take the newspaper immediately, but looked at the doll lady with her head still in disbelief. After a long while, he muttered: "It fell like that, how come your head didn't fall off?"

But it’s not clear what it is. It’s purely conscious perception, and across such a long distance and thick sea water, the information that can be conveyed is too vague.

But after a while, he suddenly felt something vaguely.

"I'm fine," Zhou Ming quickly waved his hand, then raised his head and glanced at the end of the street, as if to change the subject, "But having said that, Purande hasn't come back yet."

He felt like he was in a dark, cold deep sea, with immeasurable seawater surrounding him layer by layer. The feeling of oppression was so real that it seemed that even his consciousness was suppressed and restrained in some way. He tried to When I opened my "eyes" in that darkness, I could only see endless nothingness.

But gradually, some tiny glimmers of light seemed to appear in the void.

There are them under Frost, there are them under Alice, and I’m afraid there are them under other city-states too!

"He just left not long ago," Nina said casually, "And you don't have to worry so much, right? I just went to buy a newspaper. It's not like I have to travel halfway across the city, so I can't lose it, right?"

Nina's voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Zhou Ming's random thoughts.

But ever since he completed his exploration of Alice's "below", he couldn't help but think of the cold, dark deep sea and the huge structures he sensed in the deep sea.

The doll lady was holding a newspaper in her arms, with a smile on her face. She was trotting towards this side with her neck straightened out, shouting as she ran: "Mr. Zhou Ming! I bought the newspaper!"

Puland: "You put glue on it!" But Dai Mao's attention was not on the disc base, but on the midair below the base.

He only felt an endless fullness and complete darkness. "Hey, I hope," Zhou Ming sighed, "The main reason is that when I first went to the kitchen to get a plate on the ship, I would get beaten up by a pan.

And how much does it extend after that? One hundred meters? Two hundred meters?

"I think it's okay," Nina thought for a while and said with certainty, "You also practiced with him many times before setting off, including how to explain to people what you want to buy, how to give change, and how to say thank you when you pick up something. She learned it all.”

"Are you okay? You've been distracted since morning."

Now this model has an extra "base", but it can still fit into the storage compartment on the shelf - as if there was enough space reserved for the model and the compartment from the beginning.

He even couldn't help but wonder, was the Frost Queen half a century ago like that? Doesn't he deny that he has peeked into the deep sea's secrets in some way? Or even more than he could?

Zhou Ming: "...?!"

The structure is smooth and beautiful, but overall it is quite regular. At the bottom is a rugged fracture surface, which gives the impression that it was broken off somewhere, or that it was "generated" from top to bottom. It was disturbed during the process, leaving a beautiful fracture.

Something extremely huge and lifeless, maybe even as huge as Alice, was sleeping in this boundless darkness.

His first reaction was of course not easy, and he subconsciously wanted to control the tendency of his mind to "fall" toward the deep sea, but before he had time to react, this constant "fall" suddenly stopped.

In the lower town of Alice, in the large open space in front of the antique shop, Zhou Ming watched Nina riding her bicycle in a circle happily, then riding back and forth on the street, and finally stopped steadily in front of him.

There seems to be nothing in the deep sea.

Duncan couldn't see it or hear it. The extreme darkness and noise hid all the details of this huge existence. However, he couldn't be sure that something existed here. It was dormant in deathly silence, as if it had existed since ancient times.

"It doesn't matter." Zhou Ming smiled and waved his hand, then breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the street in the sun.

Zhou Ming was shocked when he saw Purander running over. He rushed up to meet him and reminded loudly: "Don't run! Slow down!"

Duncan couldn't be sure. He only knew that his perception was still spreading downwards. He was obviously out of the scope of Alice City-state, and no new structure had appeared on the "collection" in his hands, but his thinking was still following a certain path. The invisible "medium" flows!

After an unknown amount of time, Duncan returned without success. After regaining his composure, he slowly held up the Alice model in front of him and observed the thick layer of "rock disk" spreading out from under its base.

Under the sunlit streets, the deep darkness and huge shadows seemed to be from another world, and did not affect people's daily lives at all.

A smile appeared on Zhou Ming's face: "Yes, I am really skilled in riding - but your car stopped on my foot."

The next second, the perception from afar was instantly strengthened.