Deep Sea Ember

Chapter 8 The Sun

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

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

But this is just an illusion, the doll just lies quietly in the box, unresponsive to its surroundings.

Duncan observed this strange ...... "thing" vigilantly and cautiously: there was nothing strange about a doll in itself, but the other party's appearance that was too close to the real person and the coffin-like wooden box made him instinctively feel a sense of danger.

After observing for a long time, Duncan was finally sure that the gorgeous goth doll in the box would not suddenly jump up to surprise him, and then he was a little relieved, and then he frowned and asked the goathead: "What do you think is the situation?"

"This should be the important cargo escorted by the previous ship," replied Goathead at once, and although it had previously stated that it did not know the strange wooden box that had suddenly appeared on deck, it was clearly more experienced in matters at sea than Duncan, the false captain, "The wooden box had symbols pointing to the gods on the outside, and there were pins around the box for holding the chains in place, which may indicate that it had been in some kind of sealed state— Transporting sealed things on the boundless sea is an extremely risky thing, and the ship seems to have some origin.

"Seal?" Duncan's eyelids jumped subconsciously, and then he looked at the box lid that had been completely opened by himself, when he came to the lost home, this lid was broken, so he could be easily pushed by himself, although he didn't know what kind of seal or so on, but he believed that the seal of this thing had definitely failed, "So this thing is a dangerous thing?"

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

Duncan was silent, his expression was serious, but his thoughts were fluctuating.

The goat's compliment sounded quite useful - if he really was "Captain Duncan", maybe he would believe it, but he wasn't, so he was panicked now.

Because the goat's words have made it clear that this doll lying in the coffin is a "dangerous goods"! It's just that it can't threaten the real captain!

Although he now bears the name of Captain Duncan, and even seems to have occupied the other party's body and mastered some power, "Zhou Ming" is quite self-aware - he doesn't think this can make him the same as the "real Captain Duncan".

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

In addition, he keenly noticed that a new strange word appeared in Goathead's words just now - "abnormal".

Unconventional is abnormal, which sounds like a very ordinary word, but the extra emphasis in the goat's words made him faintly realize that this word seemed to have a special meaning here.

Perhaps, the word "abnormal" in this world not only refers to the meaning of "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 this kind of thing that should be "common sense" here.

After sighing in his heart that he still needed to carefully collect intelligence and accumulate knowledge, Duncan frowned and glanced at the doll one last time, as if he had made up his mindDetermination: "I should throw it back into the sea."

When he

said this, he had a hint of hesitation in his heart, especially when looking at the doll, this hesitation was particularly obvious.

This is certainly not because of such a simple reason as "this doll is beautiful", but because ...... "she" really looks like a living person sleeping in a coffin, and when he thinks about throwing it back into the sea, Duncan even feels that he is throwing a living person off the boat.

But this hesitation eventually strengthened his determination.

Because he already knew that there were many strange and bizarre things in this world—although he had only been in contact with the Lost Homeland ship so far, even on this ship, he had already seen the talking goat's head, the mast that could sail on its own, the ship's lights that never went out, and the strange and dangerous sea, the fearing spiritual world and endless sea mist......

And just now, he also bumped into a mechanical ship that was transporting seals on this strange sea, and the things "escorted" by that ship mysteriously landed on the deck of the Lost Home.

As a rational and cautious person, he couldn't keep this kind of thing with this kind of thing that was very likely to contain strange and dangerous power just because the doll looked beautiful.

Regret is regret, Duncan finally firmly closed the lid of the "coffin" again, because he was worried, he found nails and hammers from the cabin again, and seriously put another circle of iron nails on the coffin.

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

The goat's voice came into his ears: "You can dispose of your loot as you please, but I will still make suggestions respectfully and humbly, you don't need to be so cautious, the lost country hasn't increased its loot for a long time......"

"Shut up." Duncan simply pinched the goat's head of the balabala.

The goat head fell silent, and Duncan kicked the "coffin" hard, kicking it directly into the sea.

The heavy wooden box fell straight down from the edge of the deck, straight into the sea that had returned to its normal color, made a dull sound, and then floated up from the water again, gradually drifting towards the stern of the Lost Home.

Duncan watched the box drift away with the waves, until it was completely obscured by the stern before breathing a sigh of relief, and then he looked up into the distance and saw that the fog on the sea had completely dissipated, and the blue sea was slowly undulating around the Lost Home.

The ship has completely detached from the "spirit world" and returned to the dimension of reality.

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

Duncan frowned slightly, and briefly estimated the time elapsed after the two ships met and the speed of the two ships.

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 drawn to something else -

he saw a golden light suddenly glowing from the depths of the clouds that had never dispersed above the sea.

The bright golden sunlight gradually filled, the clouds like a thick curtain seemed to be brushed away by an invisible hand, and the sea that had been gloomy for an unknown amount of time was gradually illuminated by the sun - Duncan stood on the bow of the Lost Home, staring at the scenery as the clouds dissipated, and at this moment, he suddenly felt an inexplicable touch.

Since he learned about the existence of "this side" many years ago, since he first explored this strange ship, the undispersing clouds have always shrouded the entire ocean, so much so that he almost thinks that there is no sunshine in this world at all, and that this world is always cloudy.

He had been away from the sun for too long, even on the opposite side of the "door", in Zhou Ming's single apartment, the thick mist outside the window had already blocked the sun.

But now, the boundless sea is clear.

After a long absence from the sun, he finally felt like he was seeing the light of day again in the world of "this side".

Duncan subconsciously took a deep breath and opened his hands in the direction of the sun, and the thick clouds quickly dissipated and faded as if echoing, and at the most dazzling moment of the sky, the huge sphere shrouded in countless distorted golden streams of light was reflected in Duncan's eyes.

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

He could clearly see the thing hanging in the sky, see its sphere shell that seemed to have countless dense patterns, see the brilliant light flow overflowing around it, and the two ring structures that were slowly moving in concentric circles around the central sphere against the background of the intertwining light flow.

Duncan narrowed his eyes, and he could vaguely distinguish that the two rings seemed to be connected by countless fine and complex runes, as if there was some supreme power that had engraved eternal bondage in the sky, imprisoning the "sun" in the sky.

Duncan couldn't embrace the sunshine he had been waiting for for so long.

There is no sunlight in this world at all.

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

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