Deep Sea Embers

Outside the door of the guard hut, on the path leading to the morgue, the pile of charcoal that barely maintained the outline of a human figure still remained in place. Several church guards were preparing to transfer the pile of remains into wooden boxes. After seeing "Gatekeeper" After the "person" and the cemetery guard appeared, they temporarily stopped.

Gatekeeper Agatha pointed to the pile of charred remains: "It should be him you saw yesterday - of course, what is left here at the moment is just a body, and the visitor who once occupied this body has indeed left. ”

The old guard came to the wreckage, lowered his head to observe for a moment, and frowned slightly: "He is one of the four cultists who disguised themselves as priests last night, if I am right," Agatha said calmly, " This body died due to the symbiotic backlash of the deep demon. "

The old guard looked solemn and silent. He didn't know what he was thinking about. After two minutes, he suddenly raised his head and said: "The body you sent last night..."

Agatha nodded, raised her hand and pointed in another direction: "It's over here, but its state... is a little weirder."

Under the leadership of the gatekeeper, the old guard came to an open space at the edge of the morgue, where the processed "samples" and other key evidence to be returned to the cathedral were stored.

The old guard looked at what Agatha pointed to him in astonishment.

It was a bunch of large and small glass jars.

"I mean...is this the body you sent yesterday? The restless one who chatted with me in the coffin for a long time last night?" The old man stared at the pile of bottles and cans for a long time, and finally endured He couldn't help turning his head and looking at Vanessa suspiciously, "After just one night, he was even able to knock the wooden boards in the coffin with great energy!"

He must have known that the "gatekeeper" would not deceive him. In any case, he could not connect those things with the "restless one" who was nagging in the coffin yesterday.

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The atmosphere seems pretty good.

He paused and pointed to one of the largest jars.

As soon as Aga entered the door, he saw Morris correcting Nina's homework, while Nina was supervising Shirley, Agou and Alice's spelling words at another table not far away.

"We are not that mean." Vanessa said calmly.

"I feel like something is watching our city. The coming days may not be too quiet."

“Two blocks away, in full view of everyone, this pile of debris suddenly fell onto the intersection,” Agatha said. “Also there was a demon bird that was clearly out of control—this demon was in reality. The world lasted less than a few seconds before it collapsed and disappeared, and passers-by at the scene called the police.”

Aga came to Morris in a roundabout way and handed over a letter: "A letter from your wife."

Aga arrived at the restaurant before evening.

"My opinion is that this heretic may have also seen the 'visitor' you saw last night - the eyes of the deep demon are more likely to see the 'reality,' so her death bird went crazy and led her in madness. He followed his master to escape into the Deep Depths," Vanessa analyzed calmly, "Judging from the wreckage, this heretic was torn apart by other Deep Demons before being backlashed by the symbiosis contract. This was someone who fell into the Deep Depths without protection. Typical characteristics. "

"Ah? You went to Hanshuang to investigate the situation?" Morris was suddenly startled and couldn't help but exclaimed, "When did you go?"

Lying on the concrete floor somewhere, there was a pile of remains with only vaguely identifiable human outlines. The remains had obvious signs of charring - just like the pile of charcoal guarding the door of the hut.

"Brown Scott's fifth letter has arrived, only three days before the first letter was sent." Li Shiying did not hide anything, but her tone was a little weird, "Her mental state in the letter was obviously not right. Mary, fearing that the letter contained something unclean, burned the original, but relayed its contents—Brown was very uneasy and dissuaded him from coming near Frost.”

"In the name of the God of Death, what exactly did you send yesterday?"

The old guard blinked and suddenly his expression became serious: "You are forging

To deceive the family of the deceased? "

"Do you still remember that four heretics entered your cemetery yesterday?" Vanessa raised her head,

He handed the piece of paper directly to the old man, "You killed two of them, and one of them turned into charcoal in your hut. Now, we have found the whereabouts of the last Annihilation Cultist."

The expression on Miss Inquisitor's face was somewhat strange.

The old guard thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "I'm not an expert in this field. Just tell me your opinion."

It seems that his friend has discovered some of the truth." After hearing this, Ajia looked thoughtful, "Unfortunately, my trip to investigate Hanshuang's situation did not go well, and I was unable to find out about your friend. "

"What did the letter say?" Ajia asked curiously, but then added, "Private matters can only be discussed."

The church guard whispered something quickly to Vanessa, and then handed over a thick piece of paper.

Then she withdrew her gaze and looked at the pile of creepy-looking glass jars in the sample storage area.

The "gatekeeper" finished speaking fiercely and exhaled softly.

Morris nodded, took out the letter and looked at it slowly, and he frowned subconsciously.

"Sent from Mary?" Morris stopped grading his homework and looked at the letter handed over by the captain with some surprise. Then he took out the letter opener he carried with him and muttered while opening the envelope, "She is in the letter. I said there’s no need to rush to reply.”

"Okay, the dead have turned into mud, and evil things always happen together." The old guard finally sighed, "Now that it's over, how should I explain all that to the family of the deceased? They will come. Go to the cemetery to say goodbye to your loved ones, and then I tell them that yesterday, a few Annihilation cultists sneaked in and caused trouble, and they also brought something that looked like a shadow in subspace, so your family members turned into several jars of liquid for some reason? "

"Anyway, the stamps only require a few French fries," Ajia said casually with a smile, "Let's take a look at what's written inside. Maybe it's urgent."

These have no outline of biological tissue, dark red mixed with black and gray, like underwater mud.

Obviously, it was the backlash after the symbiosis between the deep demons was severed.

The old guard frowned and stared at the strange substances in these glass jars. As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a snap not far away.

She looked into the old guard's eyes.

The old guard didn't speak for a while, but looked a little worried. At this moment, a church guard in white suddenly came from another path and came back to Vanessa in a roundabout way.

"There used to be a few bones here, but now all that's left is this weird sticky substance."

Morris was a little worried: "...Is Duncan okay?"

Although I don’t know when I arrived, the restaurant seemed to have become a place where the crew members gathered in their free time.

"They found another body - the worker who fell and died in this shaft at noon today. It is exactly the same as the body we sent here last night..."

"I'm fine," Ajia waved his hand and answered for Rich, "I'm a bit nervous."

Duncan was sitting near the window of the restaurant, holding a church book and reading it seriously.

"Just last night," Ajia didn't hide anything. Anyway, we were all her own people here. "She borrowed a body - it's a pity that she couldn't find out much information. It wasn't that troublesome in Puland last time."

After a long time, he suddenly came back to his senses and subconsciously turned his head to look at the platform not far away - on this platform was the luxurious coffin that was sent to the cemetery last night.

"Yes, but when the defenders found the pile, they had to collect it with shovels and put it in jars as much as possible - only its outline and location were left "It can prove that those are indeed the deceased we sent to the cemetery last night." Vanessa shook her head, "As he saw, it was a pile of semi-solid mud, barely remnant."

There are some traces of biological tissue left, and these remaining biological traces are rapidly transforming into something like mud over time. "

Rich and Morris looked out at the same time and saw the book in Duncan's hand falling to the ground.

"It's this man..." The old guard frowned and looked up at Vanessa, "Is he dead? How did he die? Where is he?"

"Oh, you have to worry about this. Their families won't come to trouble you." Vanessa just shook her head expressionlessly, "They completed the farewell ceremony at the No. 5 Cemetery next door. The miner who fell down the shaft and died will be sent to the furnace as scheduled."

"What happened?" the old caretaker asked casually.

"We will investigate," Vanessa said. There was little expression change on his face, but he was more or less serious at the moment. "The only thing that can be determined now is that the body sent to Cemetery No. 5 should be 'Really, it didn't agitate or collapse, and the body we sent here yesterday was tampered with by extraordinary forces."

The old guard took the piece of paper and discovered that it turned out to be a photo.

The old guard stared, his expression slightly stiff.

Vanessa took a look at the contents of the paper, and her expression didn't change. She just nodded slightly: "I understand."

"That…"

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