Deep Sea Ember

Chapter 17 Cave xue

Cold, damp, the smell of carrion, the noise of iron chains rubbing against the ground.

Many strange perceptions flooded into Duncan's mind, but he failed to open his eyes for a moment - at this moment, he felt as if his soul had been divided into two parts, one part was still on the Lost Home, but the other part was stuffed into a completely unfamiliar body, which was as difficult to control as an old and dilapidated machine, and the chaotic perception was rampaging in the nervous system, mixed with a certain sense of dullness and numbness. He tried to open his eyes and move his fingers, but he couldn't feel the presence of these corresponding body parts at all.

This uncomfortable feeling lasted for several seconds, and the indescribable numbness and sluggishness in the nervous system finally faded, and Duncan felt that his "body" seemed to have awakened from a long hibernation and regained its ability to move little by little.

He finally opened his eyes and saw the situation around him clearly at the moment.

Duncan saw many people—or many dead bodies—thrown horizontally among the damp and water-soaked mud and rocks, mostly in ragged clothes, and a small number of with intact clothes.

There were condensed water droplets dripping from the top of the cave xue, and in the distance, the sound of sewage flowing from an underground river or drainage channel could be vaguely heard, and the sound of the iron chain rubbing seemed to come from the depths of a corridor connected to the cave xue, and it had gradually drifted away.

Duncan blinked, trying to figure out what was going on—he looked down at his right hand, and what caught his eye was a completely strange, thin palm, and a ragged shirt on his arm, and the brass compass he had been holding in his hand had long since disappeared.

He looked up at himself again, and he remembered that he had caught a glimpse of a shadow following him as he traveled through the net of stars and light, the outline of the shadow looked like some kind of bird, but of course he didn't find anything.

The bird-like shadow did not seem to come to the real space with him.

Duncan slowly shook his palm, forcibly suppressed the nervousness in his heart, and then tried to rub his fingers.

An extremely faint cluster of green flames emerged from his fingertips.

I have to say that this cluster of flames now looked much weaker than what Duncan was familiar with, but he still felt a little at ease, and while the flames were burning, his still somewhat chaotic spirit was slightly lifted, and he felt some kind of ...... more clearly than just now. The spiritual level is torn and connected.

He clearly sensed that the other part of his spirit was not here, he sensed the existence of the lost home, and he sensed himself sitting at the desk, holding a brass compass.

It was a wonderful feeling, but Duncan immediately vaguely realized what was happening:

his spirit had happened...... Some kind of projection, or extension, that projected part of the mind crossed an unknown distance, and now burrowed into another strange body.

And in this projective state, he can still clearly feel the existence of his "ontology".

It must have something to do with that brass compass! Could it be that this is the ability of that "anomalous item"?

Duncan had some conjectures in his mind, but he didn't let his cranky thoughts take up too much of his time. After confirming that his body was still safe and sound, and his spirit was still under control, and now he had only temporarily entered a distant nameless body, he had calmed down a little and was ready to first confirm what his "new body" was like.

The first thing to be sure is that the surroundings are not on a certain ship.

This is land - the land he has been wandering on the sea for so many days without being able to find it!

The second point was that this gloomy cave didn't look like a good place, and the corpses scattered around didn't look like a normal "burial" scene, the body he was occupying now...... Is it because of some unlucky reason that you are trapped in this human hell?

Duncan took a deep breath and sat up with his body—his body had been leaning against a large rock, and the posture was not comfortable.

And it was this breath that combined with his body, Duncan suddenly felt a huge strangeness from his body - he felt that the air he had sucked into his body was discharged all at once, and a certain empty and strange feeling also came from his chest, and even the movement of getting up was deformed.

Duncan glanced down in surprise and saw a big hole.

The big hole was opened in the heart position, and the contents were naturally gone, and a cold wind blew through it, mixed with a breath that Duncan had absorbed that had not completely dissipated just now, and finally escaped into the humid air.

Duncan even clearly saw the picture behind him from a certain angle.

“…… Damn?!

No matter how thick the nerves were, even if they had more or less increased their "world" on the lost home, Duncan still felt a layer of cold sweat at this moment, he felt that his goosebumps were emerging one after another, and every hair stood up!

And after this sudden horror, what he immediately realized was that he was still standing here well, and even had the power to curse the street.

With his heart gone and his chest pierced, he didn't even feel any pain from this body!

"This is ...... A corpse?

After a while, Duncan had already woken up, he further figured out his situation, and quickly calmed down.

After all, he also has a ghost ship that can sail on his own and a wooden goat first mate who can make people noisy to the point of boiling in their brains, and recently met a cursed doll who can act separately and is good at riding the wind and waves on the boundless sea.

After all, he just lost his heart now, and Alice's head was often not on her neck......

With these chaotic thoughts in his mind, Duncan regained his composure at a speed that surprised him, and then he confirmed the activity of his current body, and slightly adjusted to the movement caused by the abnormal movement in his chest, and then walked towards the corpses that had been thrown into the hole.

"Sure enough......"

Duncan looked at the first corpse, not surprised after seeing the terrifying hollow in the other party's chest.

It was a middle-aged man with a haggard face and ragged clothes, who looked like a beggar on the side of the road, who had been dead for a long time, but his angry eyes still conveyed his struggle and despair at the moment of his death.

Duncan continued to walk forward, seeing one body after another heartless corpses, miserably falling on the cold stones, with only two exceptions—those two had hideous wounds on their heads, which seemed to be the result of slamming into the stones and dying instantly.

Duncan couldn't help but have some associations—perhaps, these were two people who had committed suicide before facing the pain of digging out their hearts.

To be honest, the things in this hole were a bit too exciting for ordinary people, even Duncan felt a little overwhelmed to check it all around, so much so that after checking all the corpses, he had to find a relatively clean stone in a distant place and sit down, sorting out his condition little by little, and speculating on the truth of all this in the process of calming down.

Obviously, this is a horrific murder - but judging from the overly ruthless and uniform way of killing, it seems that this is not just murder, but also reveals some kind of evil ...... Sense of ritual.

Duncan summoned the spirit flame again, feeling the connection between himself and the "main body", he knew that he could cut off this "projection state" at any time and return to the safety of the lost home.

But he felt the need to figure out what was going on here.

Even if it's just to grasp some information about the land.

Duncan exhaled, feeling the air leaking in his chest, he stood up from the large rock that was temporarily resting, he looked at the passage deep in the cave, and remembered that the sound of the iron chain rubbing against it came from there.

This underground space is not only about corpses, but also about other people, those who can move freely in this terrible place...... It should give him some answers.

Of course, it was not very safe to rush over to check the situation, but Duncan didn't care -

anyway, he was relieved now.