Deep Sea Embers

The deck area of ​​the Obsidian was limited and clearly visible. The group quickly completed the search of the entire deck area and found nothing suspicious.

Except that areas that should have been wet and waterlogged are now abnormally dry, the Obsidian's deck looks no different from an ordinary hulk - heavily rusted, uneven, and chipped in many places, but overall it's not that good. Total collapse.

After checking the deck area, Duncan decided to enter the cabin of the ship to take a look.

They soon found a door leading to the cabin.

It was a rusty iron door, inlaid on a white wall. The handle of the iron door had been severely corroded, and the door lock had long been scrapped due to immersion in sea water. The entire door was firmly closed, and it was obviously no longer possible. Open it by normal means.

Morris stepped forward to check the status of the door, then gave up the idea of ​​opening the door normally. He turned to the others and said, "You may have to use some violence."

"Let me do it," Fanna volunteered and stepped forward without waiting for anyone else to speak. "Others, please step back to prevent the debris from hurting anyone."

Shirley, Alice and others immediately and obediently withdrew far away. Duncan didn't move much. He just moved a few steps to the side to prevent his clothes from being stained. Then he looked at Vanna's movements curiously - he saw The strong woman came to the big iron door that was completely rusted, and then... knocked on the door panel.

Only a short buzzing sound was heard, and a large hole collapsed in the middle of the big iron door. The strong and thick steel turned into countless debris and scattered in all directions, and the hole was filled with smoke and dust.

Then Fanna stretched out her hand and tore at the big hole a few more times. She tore the remaining steel plates cleanly from the door frame like tearing paper and threw them aside.

Shirley and Agou looked at this scene and were dumbfounded. They held it in for a long time before breaking the silence in unison: "... Damn it, is this a human being?"

Of course, Fanna heard the voices of Shirley and Agou, turned around and smiled: "I usually insist on exercising."

The corner of Shirley's mouth twitched obviously, and she muttered in a low voice: "This has nothing to do with exercising, right?

Duncan also admired Vanna's simple and crude solution, but he had witnessed the feat of this beautiful young warrior killing the city-state, so he didn't have any additional reaction. He just looked up at the smoke-filled door: "What's going on inside?"

Fanna waved her hand, and after the dust settled for a while, she peeked inside, and a strange expression suddenly appeared on her face.

After a few seconds, she stepped back and turned to Duncan: "There is still a door inside."

"Is it still a door?" Duncan was stunned for a moment. He walked over and took a look in person. Sure enough, he saw another rusty door standing in front of him, only a few meters away from the door outside.

However, the space between the two doors is neither a corridor, nor a foyer, nor a specially designed safety partition - it is just an empty place, with no devices or furnishings in sight, and no additional windows. , there were only bare walls and a ceiling that looked crooked for some reason.

"...I don't know if this is the normal structure of the Obsidian," Morris also came over to take a look and shook his head, "I only knew about this ship before and had never seen it myself."

Duncan frowned slightly and quickly nodded to Vanna: "Open that door."

Fanna immediately stepped forward and smashed the second door inside in accordance with the law. Then she took a look inside and turned back with a look of astonishment: "There is still a door inside..."

"There's more?!" Even Shirley was surprised this time. She didn't care about the safe distance, so she walked over with Agou in hand, "I'll go... Is it really there?!"

Inside the second door is the third door, and it has exactly the same structure and the same weird "compartments".

If only the second door appeared, it could be explained by the "special design of the Obsidian", but now there is a "third door" that has no apparent function at all and just feels weird... This is difficult. Use "the design concept of this ship is relatively advanced" to describe

Derived.

"There's something wrong with the structure of this ship." Duncan looked back at the two previous doors, his expression becoming slightly serious, "It shouldn't be designed like this... Vanna, open this door too. ”

"Okay." Fanna said without hesitation.

She stepped forward and punched the third door, but this time she only punched a big hole and stopped, without continuing to clean the remaining steel plate on the door frame - because she could already see the door through the big hole. situation within.

"Ship... captain," she said with some discomfort with this title, her expression became even weirder than before, "There is a wall inside."

"Wall?!" Duncan's eyes trembled. He glanced into the big hole, and sure enough he saw the "wall" that Vanna mentioned.

There is really only one wall opposite the door, and that wall is less than half a meter away from the third door - almost right next to each other, the space between the door and the wall is meaningless and cannot fit anything.

"Why is this ship designed like this?" Nina muttered in confusion, "There is only one wall behind the three doors... What about the cabin? Where do you enter the cabin?"

Duncan did not speak. He just looked at this strangely structured "overlapping area" quietly, his eyes thoughtful, as if he had thought of something.

After a moment, he nodded to Vanna: "Continue to make holes."

Fanna immediately stepped forward, first kicked off the remaining door panels that were in the way of the lower half of the third door, and then punched the weird wall - a hole larger than before appeared immediately with a huge roar. In front of everyone.

"It's the corridor." Fanna glanced inside, then turned to the others and said.

"Great," Shirley immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally something normal. "It's upside down," Vanna continued before Shirley could finish her words, "The ceiling is under the feet and the floor is above the head. "

Shirley: "...fuck you."

Just like Vanna said, there is only an upside-down corridor behind the wall - just like the previous three repeated doors, there is no normal structure in the cabin of this ghost ship at all!

"The ship is twisted..."

Even a knowledgeable scholar like Morris was a little confused at this time. He looked at the corridor structure on the opposite wall in disbelief and muttered to himself, "What twisted the Obsidian into this way..." ·”

"Change your thinking," Duncan interrupted the old scholar, "Is this really the Obsidian?"

Morris raised his head suddenly and looked at Duncan in shock: "What do you mean..."

"This is near Frost, and some terrible things have happened under the deep sea of ​​Frost," Duncan said casually, glancing at Alice who was looking around curiously, "Remember what Tirian said back then. Qianyuan plan, right?”

"Remember, remember," Alice nodded immediately, "and there are a lot of submersibles and so on..."

"It's enough to remember these,"

Duncan pressed Alice's head as he spoke, "Stop clicking, it's already starting to shake."

Then he raised his hand and knocked on the wall next to him.

The metal bulkhead made a hollow thumping sound when struck.

"It looks normal, but is actually a mess, with poor imitation and copying, and incorrectly stacked internal spaces - this should not be the real Obsidian, but I can't tell which number it is, the Obsidian."

Alice didn't know how much she understood. She just said a long "Oh——" and nodded slowly in a pretentious manner. However, Fanna next to her quickly reacted: "But I remember you said before that when you first dived... Of those submersibles that surfaced in Project Yuan, only the crew inside had distortion errors during the copying process. The submersibles themselves were copied correctly. You speculated at the time that this error should be limited to humans or organisms..."

"Yes, limited to humans or organisms - at least that was the case half a century ago when the Frost Queen was still alive," Duncan said slowly, "so the situation is obviously worse now, and replication is no longer limited to the No. 3 Submersible. , the distortion extends to the category of inorganic matter... No matter what is in the frosty deep sea, it is silent

Fifty years later, it has apparently begun to act again, and its scope and intensity are far greater than half a century ago. "

Shirley blinked her eyes and listened. Everyone on the Lost Home had heard about the Abyss Project from the captain, so everyone knew how weird and evil it was. This made her subconsciously mutter: "I ······I’m starting to get nervous…”

"To put it another way, the captain is investigating this matter - I think it's not us who should be nervous," Agou also muttered in a low voice, "Don't scare yourself, my heart rate is going up."

Shirley was stunned: "Agou, do you have a heart?"

"I'm a devil with a heart!"

"Heart and heart are not the same thing - isn't your cavity empty?"

"...What if, maybe?

Something is jumping inside. "

"Pick it open and take a look?"

"That won't work."

Duncan didn't pay attention to the increasingly curious murmurs around him. He simply speculated on the situation of the ghost ship, and then focused on the corridor that led to nowhere.

After a brief thought, he walked towards the big hole created by Vanna: "Go in and take a look at the situation."

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