MTL - Deep Sea Embers-Chapter 56 lower level

It was so wicked that Duncan couldn't finish the bowl of fish soup in the end.

After all, as long as he thinks that the head of Miss Doll used to roll in the soup pot, he feels that the painting style of this dinner is running all the way in the direction of the curse and death - even if Alice's real painting style is actually harmonious No, the fact that she dropped her head in the pot is a little too scary...

The puppet lady looked a little hurt. She looked at the food that Duncan had put aside, and grabbed the lace decoration on the edge of the clothes with both hands: "Captain, are you angry?"

Duncan gave the doll a tired look: "If you have any unhappiness on the boat, you can tell me directly..."

"Ah? I didn't..."

"Try not to cook after that..." Duncan said casually, but soon he noticed Alice's increasingly frustrated expression, and finally shook his head helplessly and changed his words, "Forget it, your starting point is good. Yes, I'm actually very happy, but it's about cooking... If you're not skilled, there will be some accidents, but it's good to be familiar with it in the future."

Alice immediately stood up: "Then can I try it in the future?"

Duncan held back for a long time, and finally nodded: "...just be careful."

He also thought about it: this cursed doll obviously couldn't stand the status quo of living on the Lost Country, maybe she really had some kind of "nature" that made her have to do something on this ship to be able to do it. Calm down, and she is an independent individual with thought and personality, Duncan feels that he can't always treat this doll with a blow.

By comparison, it was better to have Alice help in the kitchen than to keep fighting with cables, anchors, and cannonballs—at least the pots and pans on the Lost Homes were a bit more temperamental.

He lowered his head and glanced at the fish soup next to him. In all fairness, the taste of this fish soup was actually quite normal. Although the seasoning on board was limited, the heat was not a problem at all. As a puppet with no sense of taste or digestive system, Ellie Silk can do this on the premise of listening to a few theoretical knowledge (and this theoretical knowledge also comes from a goat head that also does not eat human food), which is actually quite incredible.

Two guys who don't eat human food can come together and make a meal that can be eaten by human beings, what more can they ask for? Duncan felt that as long as this puppet was careful in the future, it should still be able to do the work in the kitchen - so at least he won't have to cook by himself in the future.

"Then... Captain, do you want me to do something else for you?" At this time, Alice's voice came from the side, interrupting Duncan's thinking, "I also learned how to grill and fry fish from Mr. Goat Head. The way to do it is in the kitchen…”

"No, I'm not hungry," Duncan shook his head. In fact, his body didn't have a strong demand for food, and he usually maintained three meals a day just to maintain his "human" habit. The bowl of Alice's soup had already quenched his appetite for a long time, so he simply stood up from the table, "I'm going to take a walk in the cabin."

"You're going to the cabin?" Alice was stunned for a moment, and then her expression became slightly nervous as if she had remembered something, "Then... can you go 'below' to see?"

"Below?" Duncan frowned.

"It's the deeper cabins—the ones I'm not allowed to go to," said Alice, "and I always hear creaking down there, and sometimes it's like someone is dripping under the floor, you Why don't you go and have a look... is there something going on down there?"

Looking at the slightly nervous expression on Miss Doll's face, Duncan's heart suddenly lifted.

The depths of Homeless... that was a place he had not yet explored!

Because the deepest part gave him a really weird and dangerous feeling, and at that time he hadn't yet "steered", nor had he mastered the power of the fire of the spirit body, so the previous few times he explored himself and stopped at the place leading to the deep cabin— Of course, he has plans to explore further in the future, but now it seems that the plan is obviously unable to keep up with the changes.

At this moment, the voice of the goat head suddenly came from the side: "Ah, it sounds like the bilge is a little restless, Captain, do you want to go down and have a look?"

Before Duncan opened his mouth, he heard the goat head ramble on to himself: "Thinking about it carefully, it seems that you haven't checked the bottom for a long time, the bilge needs some comfort from the captain, you know, after all, it has been there for a long time. Submerged in the sea... do you want to bring your lantern? It's still in the old place, just behind the door... you've been on the upper floor all this time, the guys on the lower floor are so noisy, don't you know how big they are Annoying, alas, I'm a quiet person, and I can't hear those creaking sounds in the middle of the night..."

Duncan glanced at Goat Head silently, and the latter fell silent.

Seriously, after hearing some of the goat's head muttering, he suddenly became more resistant to the weird bilge - it sounded that it was obviously affected by the deeper influence of the boundless sea, and it had become even more The Lost Homes can be considered a "wrong" structure!

But the conflicting thoughts only lingered in my mind for less than a second.

Sooner or later, he will have to further explore the other structures of Homeless, and it is better to go sooner rather than later... Reason tells him that the sooner this matter is, the better.

Homeless is huge, not only is it amazing in length, but also has many layers in the depth of the cabin. At present, the area that Duncan knows is actually only the superstructure of the ship - including the deck area, the upper cabin below the deck and the ammunition storage, artillery There are also warehouses, water tanks and some crew rooms on the next floor, and based on the previous explorations, he can fully imagine how huge structures are hidden in the depths of darkness under these areas.

Those structures are below the waterline, and at depth, they are completely submerged in the boundless sea.

Dark, eerie, and echoing with the hollow sound of wind or whistling—the deeper you go, the more eerie the conditions in Homeless.

Duncan didn't know his boat—it was definitely not going to be dragging on like this.

He is already the captain of this ship, and the Lost Homes is his foothold and the base of his activities in this world. He can't be so ignorant of his own basics - even if it's just for the sake of being full of anomalies and visions. To survive on the Boundless Sea, he must also understand the potential and dangers of the Homeless.

God knows if there will be a crisis tomorrow, God knows if the Homeless will hit those descendants in the deep sea, or the collapsed frontier of reality in the next second.

What's more, the goat head just mentioned a sentence: the bilge needs the captain's comfort.

"Captain" hasn't been to the lower cabin for too long... If it goes on like this, it seems that something bad will happen.

Duncan got up and went to the door to find the lantern mentioned by Goat Head.

This is a rather old lantern. The copper frame is in the shape of a hexagonal prism with a wide upper and a narrow lower. The glass lampshade is inlaid in the copper frame, which looks a little vague. Inside the lampshade, Duncan did not See the wick-like structure.

He didn't show curiosity, and he didn't ask Goat Head. After a short and quiet thought, he tried to activate the green spirit fire and poured this power into the lantern.

A cluster of bright green flames jumped and burned in the lampshade immediately, and the quaint old lantern began to emit a constant glow.

In the place where the lantern shone, a bleak atmosphere pervaded for some reason, but while Duncan stood in the light, he felt an inexplicable sense of calm and control, as if he could vaguely feel that his power was following As the light spreads, where the light shines, the details of everything are clearly reflected in his mind.

The pigeon Ai Yin suddenly flew over and landed on Duncan's shoulder.

It has turned into the illusory undead bird form - although Duncan did not actively "activate" the pigeon at all, but under the illumination of the lantern, it still passively completed the "transformation".

Duncan glanced down at the lantern in his hand and thought it might be a good thing... It seems to be able to spread its power to the surrounding environment with very little loss and maintain a "force field", which has both detection, early warning and even control. This feature is obviously quite suitable for long-term exploration in unfamiliar or dangerous areas.

"Captain... can I go with you?"

Duncan turned his head and saw Alice standing behind him. She looked at the lantern curiously, and at the same time had an eager expression on her face: "I haven't been to the lower level yet! Mr. Goathead said without your permission. can't go down..."

Duncan thought for a while, then nodded slightly: "Yes."

He still doesn't know what's in the lower deck of the cabin, but it's part of the Lost Homes anyway. On the premise that he has successfully "steered" the bilge, there won't be much danger in the bilge. Bring this doll with you. Maybe even give yourself a hand.

The goathead, left on the sailing table, made no comment, apparently from its point of view, it was quite normal for the captain to visit the Homeless—and the same goes for bringing a helper.

Outside the cabin, night has gradually fallen, and the cold radiance of the creation of the world is shining on the sea surface, shining on the empty ghost ship deck, the translucent spirit sails are stirring in the air, and the angle is slowly adjusted without any control.

With a lantern in hand, and with his saber and flintlock gun in hand, Duncan and Alice crossed the empty deck, through the two uppermost cabins, and down the wooden stairs to the shipwreck of the Homeless. Deep in the cabin.

The staircase at the end of the crew's cabin was where Duncan's earlier explorations stopped.

A strange darkness loomed around the sloping staircase, and only the columns and some wall structures that supported the cabin could be vaguely seen in the darkness.

"It's so dark down here," Alice stood at the entrance of the stairs, looking nervously at the dim environment below, "Isn't there any lights down here? There are oil lamps that never go out in other places..."

"No, there are lights down there," Duncan said slowly with the lantern in his hand. With the power emanating from the lantern, he finally saw the situation under the cabin more clearly than before, "...it's just the lights below. is black."

"...Ah?" Alice was stunned for a while, but she didn't respond for a long time, "There is still black light?"

Duncan didn't respond for a while, just walked down slowly with the lantern, and only after Alice followed, did he say softly: "After all, we have already reached the bottom of the boundless sea."