Deep Sea Ember

Chapter 18 Sewers

Before leaving the cave where he was temporarily hiding, Duncan first dragged some rags from nearby corpses and wrapped them around himself.

This is not because he can't stand the cold in the hole, but to more or less block his open heart - although the hole in his chest did not affect Duncan's "survival" at all, but as a normal person in his bones, walking around in a cool situation is really too evil.

And Duncan also considered the possibility of suddenly bumping into other people while walking around this underground space - it is common sense to infer that a big hole in his chest may not be conducive to talking to strangers......

In this way, after simply treating the "wound", Duncan carefully left the gloomy and damp hole xue, he entered a passage connected to the cave xue, and slowly walked towards the depths.

This temporarily occupied body was not "convenient", not only the fatal damage to the chest affected the flexibility of movement, but also the fact that Duncan could clearly feel the weakness of this body, the too thin hands and feet could not even walk fast, and the body of the "Ghost Captain" was so strong that it was obviously beyond the mortal body was completely incomparable.

Duncan couldn't see the full picture of his current body, but judging from the parts he could see, he guessed that it should be a young man, a boy who was weak due to long-term severe malnutrition - although it was the soul of a powerful ghost captain who was manipulating this body at the moment, it seemed that the strength of the soul level could not break through the physical limits brought about by this weak body.

Unfortunately, there was no choice now, Duncan could only control this almost barely usable body and slowly explore forward in the deep corridor, he knew that with this temporary body, he would probably be helpless in any crisis, so he could only pray that this body could be used for a while.

The passage was deep, damp and dark, but there seemed to be hidden ventilation holes, a slight air flow had been flowing nearby, and every other distance, you could see torches or oil lamps hanging on the walls, the presence of these things proved that there was always activity here.

After walking a long distance along the corridor, Duncan suddenly found that the road ahead suddenly opened up, and man-made traces began to appear in his sight—he saw a fork in the road at the end of the corridor, with flat walls and high semi-circular vaults, the brick ground was dark and damp, and two waterways flowed along both sides of the ground, flowing with disgusting sewage.

On the walls on both sides of the road, you can also see openings that look like drain pipes, from which sewage flows out and is injected into the waterways below, flowing into darker distances.

“…… Sewers?

Duncan quickly reacted, what he saw was obviously some kind of large-scale sewer system, and the place where many bodies were hidden before seemed to be in front of the sowerA natural cave structure that is well connected.

A

huge sewer, a natural cave connected to the sewer, and hidden bodies.

Countless conjectures popped up in Duncan's mind for a moment, and while many speculations appeared in his mind, he was also carefully observing the details of the "sewer" in front of him.

The

scale was huge, the construction process was excellent, and the main support part seemed to be made of reinforced concrete structure, which might even be enough to be used as some kind of underground bunker if necessary.

If something of this size can be built, the scale of the city above this sewer must not be small, and various technologies must also develop to a certain height.

Technology cannot exist in isolation, and behind every engineering product must be the synchronous support of countless related industries and technologies, even if it is just a sewer, it can also reveal to Duncan the construction, planning, materials, and maintenance level behind it, as well as the corresponding residents' living concepts.

This is enough to allow Duncan, who is currently seriously lacking in intelligence, to obtain some valuable information from the civilized world.

Duncan walked forward along the sewer, and after just a short distance, he suddenly stopped, and his eyes fell on the nearby wall.

There was a lamp embedded in the wall—a glass-encased lamp, covered with a metal cage that looked quite strong.

Compared to the torches and oil lamps in the cave before, the lamp embedded in the wall was obviously brighter, and inside the frosted glass shell was a bright flame that was burning steadily, and its light was enough to illuminate a considerable distance in the sewer.

Duncan leaned in and observed carefully, for him now, everything from outside the lost home, especially the creations of modern civilization, has a great attraction.

After observing for a long time, Duncan finally figured out what the light source in front of him was - this was a gas lamp.

But this gas lamp seemed to be different from what he had seen in the information before, in addition to the difference in style, the most obvious thing was that he saw a few slender symbols on the glass cover of the lamp shell.

The symbols seemed to have been added at the beginning of the production of the lampshell, curving into a hieroglyph-like posture, Duncan didn't recognize these symbols, but he immediately thought of the mysterious runes he had seen on the mechanical ship and Alice's "coffin" before.

Although the content was different, they all had a similar ...... "temperament".

It was something sacred and ceremonial.

Duncan stepped back a little, he looked up deeper into the sewer and saw a bright burning gas lamp on the wall every other distance.

As an underground facility that is rarely visited except for necessary maintenance, the lighting in this sewer even seems a little excessive, and each gas lamp may have a similar mysterious "rune" on the shell.

This gave Duncan a sense of what these densely distributed gas lamps were actually fighting against in this unvisited dark underground - what the "human civilization world" they represented behind them was fighting against.

Duncan walked forward along the path illuminated by the gas lamp, his gaze fixed on any valuable clues that appeared on the walls, floors, and vaults around him, when suddenly out of the corner of his eye something strange was noticed.

He stopped between the two gas lamps, which was a darker part of the sewer, and looked up diagonally upwards and saw something painted with dark red pigment high on the wall, near the top of the sewer vault.

Duncan narrowed his eyes and struggled to distinguish for a long time, and finally saw the picture outlined by those rough lines - he saw a pair of hands reaching towards the sky, as if bowing to something, and in the direction of those hands, a sphere that emitted a thousand feet of light hung high.

Under this picture of worship and huddling, there is a line of crooked text, the strokes of the text shake, as if containing strong enthusiasm and anticipation, the letters on it are not any kind of text on earth, but Duncan naturally understands -

"The false sun will eventually fall, and the real sun god will rise from blood and fire! The vitality of all things belongs to the sun, and the order of all things belongs to the sun!

Duncan stood quietly in the sewers, looking up at the dim junction area of the Navas lights, staring at the dark red graffiti, and at the sun that seemed to be soaked in blood, shining and fanatically worshipped.

It was as if I was staring at another world for a long time.

He watched like this for a long time, until a noise suddenly came from the depths of the sewer, and a few footsteps reached Duncan's ears.

He suddenly raised his head to look in the direction where the sound came from, but saw several figures in burqas walking from the front, their heads and faces shrouded in the shadow of the hood, appearing like eerie ghosts in the depths of this filthy sewer.

Duncan didn't hide - in fact, there was almost no hiding place in this straight sewer, and his temporary body with limited mobility couldn't do high-end operations such as "blind spot running", so after a brief thought, he simply stood in the middle of the sewer with a big care, looking very calmly at the hooded men who were walking from the front, no matter how you look at it.

Since this body can't run away and is destined to be a one-time consumable, it is better to change some information and go back at the end.

In the next second, the hooded men who came out of the depths of the sewers noticed Duncan's presence.