Deep Sea Embers

A doll, a doll so delicate and lifelike that Duncan almost couldn't identify it at first glance - she was lying quietly in the gorgeous wooden box, like a lady sleeping in a coffin, Waiting for someone to wake it up.

Duncan really felt that the other party would wake up in the next second.

But this was just an illusion. The doll just lay quietly in the box, completely unresponsive to the surrounding environment.

Duncan observed this strange... "thing" vigilantly and cautiously: a doll itself was nothing strange, but its appearance that was too close to a real person and the coffin-like wooden box made him instinctively feel something... Danger, and when you think about how this box inexplicably appeared on the Lost Home, no wonder he became wary.

After observing for a long time, Duncan was finally sure that the gorgeous Gothic doll in the box would not suddenly jump up and surprise him. Then he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he frowned and asked the goat head: "Do you think this is what's the situation?"

"This should be an important cargo escorted by the previous ship," the goat head replied immediately. Although it previously stated that it did not recognize the strange wooden box that suddenly appeared on the deck, it obviously has more experience in maritime affairs than Duncan. This fake captain said: "There are symbols pointing to the gods on the outside of the wooden box, and there are pins used to fix the chains around the box. This may indicate that it was in some kind of sealed state - transporting sealed objects on the boundless sea is extremely risky. Things, that ship seems to have some background.”

"Seal?" Duncan's eyelids twitched subconsciously, and then he looked at the lid of the box that he had completely opened. The lid was broken when he arrived on the Lost Home, so he could easily push it. He didn't know anything about seals, but he believed that the seal on this thing had definitely expired. "So this thing is dangerous?"

"It is dangerous for those fragile ordinary people, but I don't think it will be a threat to you - this kind of 'abnormality' that can be sealed using special skills cannot resist Captain Duncan's power. "

Duncan remained silent, his expression serious, but his thoughts were ups and downs in his heart.

The goat-headed compliment sounded quite flattering - if he was really some kind of "Captain Duncan", maybe he would actually believe it, but he wasn't, so he was feeling quite flustered now.

Because the words of the goat head have already made it clear that the doll lying in the coffin is a "dangerous item"! It's just that he can't threaten the real captain!

Although he now bears the name of Captain Duncan, and even seems to have taken over the opponent's body and mastered some power, "Zhou Ming" is quite self-aware - he does not think that this can make him become the same as that " The real Captain Duncan".

He still knew too little about this world, this ship, and even his current body.

In addition, he also keenly noticed that a new strange word appeared in the goat head's words - "abnormal".

Unconventional means abnormal. This sounds like a very common word, but the extra emphasis in Goat Head's words made him vaguely aware that this word seemed to have a special meaning here.

Perhaps, the word "abnormal" in this world does not only mean "extraordinary", but also refers to a certain type of thing? For example...a doll lying in a coffin.

Unfortunately, he had no proper reason to ask about something that should be "common knowledge" here.

After sighing in his heart that he still needed to carefully collect information and accumulate knowledge, Duncan frowned and took one last look at the doll, as if he had made some determination: "I should throw it back into the sea."

There was a trace of hesitation in his heart when he said this, especially when he looked at the doll. This hesitation was particularly obvious.

This is of course not because of a simple reason like "this doll is very beautiful", but because... "she" really looks like a living person sleeping in a coffin. When he thought of throwing it back into the sea, Duncan It even felt like I was throwing a living person overboard.

But this hesitation finally strengthened his determination.

Because he has long known that there are many weird and bizarre things in this world - although he has only come into contact with one ship in this world so far, but even on this ship, he has already seen When it comes to the talking goat head, the mast that can sail by itself, the ship's light that never goes out, and the weird and dangerous sea, the frightening spirit world and the endless sea fog...

And just now, he ran into a mechanical ship transporting sealed objects on this strange sea, and the things that the ship "escorted" mysteriously landed on the deck of the Lost Home.

As a rational and cautious person, he cannot keep something like this that may contain strange and dangerous power around him just because the doll looks beautiful.

Regret to regret, Duncan finally resolutely closed the lid of the "coffin". Because he was worried, he found nails and a hammer from the cabin, and carefully added another ring of nails to the coffin.

Finally, he pushed the "coffin" containing the puppet to the edge of the deck.

The goat-headed voice came into his ears: "You can dispose of your trophies as you wish, but I will still respectfully and humbly make suggestions. You don't need to be so cautious. The Homeless Ship has not added trophies for a long time..."

"Shut up." Duncan simply cut off the goat-headed balabala.

Goathead fell silent, while Duncan kicked the "coffin" hard and kicked it directly into the sea.

The heavy wooden box fell straight down the edge of the deck and fell directly into the sea that had returned to its normal color. After making a dull sound, it floated up from the water and gradually drifted towards the stern of the Lost Home.

Duncan watched the box drift away with the waves, and only breathed a sigh of relief when it was completely blocked by the stern. Then he looked up and saw that the mist on the sea had completely dissipated, and the blue sea was slowly rising and falling around the Lost Home.

The ship had completely left the "spiritual world" and returned to the real dimension.

On the nearby sea, there was no trace of the mechanical ship that had briefly intersected with the Lost Home.

Duncan frowned slightly and simply estimated the time after the two ships intersected and the speed of each ship.

According to the current situation on the sea, the ship should not disappear from the visual distance so quickly.

"…Is this also because of this strange sea? Or is it related to the so-called 'spiritual voyage'?"

Duncan muttered in his heart, but soon, his attention was attracted by other things-

He saw a ray of golden light suddenly appear in the depths of the dark clouds above the sea that had never dispersed.

The bright golden sunlight gradually filled up, and the clouds that seemed like a heavy curtain gradually dissipated as if being brushed away by an invisible hand. The sea surface that had been gloomy for an unknown period of time was gradually illuminated by the sun-Duncan stood on the bow of the Lost Hometown, staring at the scenery of the dispersing dark clouds with wide eyes. At this moment, he suddenly felt an inexplicable touch.

Since knowing the existence of "this side" many days ago, since the first exploration of this strange ship, the dark clouds that never dissipated have always covered the entire ocean, so that he almost thought that there was no sunshine in this world at all, and that this world was always covered with dark clouds.

He has been away from the sun for too long. Even across the "door", in Zhou Ming's single apartment, the thick fog outside the window has long blocked the sun.

But now, the endless sea has cleared up.

After being away from the sun for a long time, he finally felt like he had seen the sun again in the world on "this side".

Duncan subconsciously took a deep breath and opened his hands in the direction of the sun, and the heavy clouds quickly dissipated and faded away as if in response. At the most dazzling moment of the sky, the huge sphere covered by countless twisted golden light streams appeared in Duncan's eyes.

All of Duncan's expressions froze at the moment when he opened his hands to welcome the sun.

He stared at the sky with his eyes wide open. The sunlight was dazzling, but not as dazzling as he was familiar with. He could clearly see the thing hanging in the sky, its spherical shell that seemed to have countless dense lines, the brilliant light streams overflowing around it, and the two ring structures that were slowly moving and distributed in concentric circles with the central sphere as the center against the background of the interweaving light streams.

Duncan narrowed his eyes. He could vaguely tell that the two circles seemed to be connected by countless fine and complex runes, as if some supreme power had engraved an eternal bondage in the sky, imprisoning the "sun" in the sky.

Duncan failed to embrace the sunshine he had been looking forward to for a long time.

There is no sunshine in this world at all.

"What is that?" He said softly, his voice was low and a little cold.

"Of course it's the sun, Captain." The voice of the goat head was as calm as ever.

(Oh my god!

I will try my best to maintain two updates in the next few days... until the manuscripts are exhausted or the energy can't keep up 23333)