Deep Sea Embers

The deck area of ​​the Obsidian is limited and clear at a glance. The group quickly completed the search of the entire deck area and found nothing suspicious.

Except that the places that should have been wet and watery are now abnormally dry, the deck of the Obsidian looks no different from an ordinary hulk—seriously corroded, uneven, and missing in many places, but overall it has not yet arrived. The degree of complete collapse.

After inspecting the deck area, Duncan decided to enter the ship's cabin to take a look.

They soon found a door leading to the cabin.

It was a rusty iron door, inlaid on a white wall. The handle of the iron door was severely decayed, and the door lock had already been scrapped in the sea water. The whole door was firmly closed, and it was obviously impossible to Open by conventional means.

Morris stepped forward to check the status of the door, then gave up the idea of ​​opening the door normally, turned to the others and said, "Maybe we need to use some violence."

"Let me do it." Fan Na volunteered to step forward without waiting for others to speak, "Others stand back a little to prevent the debris from hurting people."

Shirley, Alice and the others immediately retreated far away obediently. Duncan didn't move much, but moved a few steps to the side to prevent his clothes from being soiled. He watched Fanna's movements curiously—he saw The strong woman came to the big iron door that was completely rusted, and then... knocked on the door panel casually.

Only a short buzzing sound was heard, and a big hole was directly shattered and collapsed in the middle of the big iron gate. The solid and heavy steel turned into countless debris and scattered, and the hole was filled with smoke and dust.

Then Fan Na stretched out her hand and tore a few times beside the big hole, tore the remaining steel plates from the door frame like paper, and threw them aside.

Shirley and Agou were dumbfounded watching this scene, and they held it in for a long time before they broke the silence with one voice: "...Fuck, is this a human?"

Of course, Fan Na heard the voices of Xue Li and A Gou, and turned her head and smiled: "I usually keep exercising."

The corner of Shirley's mouth twitched visibly, and she muttered softly, "This shit has nothing to do with exercising..."

Duncan also admired Fan Na's simple and crude solution, but he had seen the feat of this beautiful girl and strong man smashing through the city-state, so he didn't have any extra reactions. He just looked up at the smoke-filled gate: " What's going on inside?"

Fan Na waved her hand, and after the dust settled for a while, she poked her head in and took a look inside, her face suddenly became strange.

After a few seconds, she stepped back and turned to Duncan: "Inside...is still a door."

"It's still a door?" Duncan was stunned for a moment, and walked over to take a look for himself, and sure enough, he saw another rusty door standing in front of him—only a few meters away from the outer door.

However, the space between the two doors is neither a corridor nor a hall, nor does it look like some kind of specially designed security partition—it is just an empty place, with no fixtures or furnishings in sight, and no additional windows. , just bare walls and a ceiling that looks crooked for some reason.

"...I don't know if this is the normal structure of the Obsidian." Morris also came over to take a look and shook his head. "I only knew about this ship before, but I didn't see it myself."

Duncan frowned slightly, and quickly nodded to Fan Na: "Open that door."

Fan Na immediately stepped forward, smashed the second door inside according to the law, then probed inside to take a look, and turned around with a look of astonishment: "The inside...is still a door."

"What else?!" Even Xueli was surprised this time, and she didn't care about the safe distance, so she led Agou and came over, "I'll go...is there really?!"

Inside the second door is the third door, and it has exactly the same structure, with the same weird "compartment".

If only the second door appeared, it could be explained by "the special design of the Obsidian", but now there is a "third door" that has no effect at all and has a weird feeling... This is very It is difficult to use "the design concept of this ship is relatively advanced" to perfunctory.

"The structure of this ship is not right." Duncan looked back at the two doors before, his expression became slightly serious, "it shouldn't have such a design... Fanna, open this door too. "

"Okay." Without hesitation, Fan Na stepped forward and punched the third door, but this time she just punched a big hole and stopped, and did not continue to clean the remaining steel plates on the door frame—because Through the big hole, she has already seen the situation inside the door.

"Captain..." she said the title a little uncomfortable, her expression became weirder than before, "there is a wall inside."

"Wall?!" The corners of Duncan's eyes twitched. He glanced into the big hole, and he saw the "wall" that Fanna mentioned.

There was really only one wall opposite the door, and that wall was less than half a meter away from the third door—almost right next to each other, and the space between the door and the wall was meaningless and could not hold anything.

"Why is this ship designed like this?" Nina muttered in confusion, "There is only one wall behind the three doors... What about the cabin? Where do you get into the cabin?"

Duncan didn't speak, he just quietly looked at this "overlapping area" with weird structure, his eyes were thoughtful, as if thinking of something.

After a while, he nodded to Fan Na: "Continue to open the hole."

Fan Na stepped forward immediately, first kicked off the remaining door panels in the lower half of the third door, and then punched the weird wall——a hole that was bigger than before appeared with a huge roar In front of everyone.

"It's the corridor." Fan Na glanced inside, then turned her head and said to the others.

"Great," Shirley immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally something normal..."

"It's upside down," Fanna continued without waiting for Shirley's words to finish, "the ceiling is below the feet, and the floor is above the head."

Shirley: "...Damn it."

As Fan Na said, there is only one upside-down corridor behind that wall—just like the three repeated doors before, there is no normal structure in the cabin of this ghost ship at all!

"This ship is distorted..." Even a knowledgeable scholar like Morris was a little at a loss at this time. He looked at the corridor structure on the opposite side of the wall in disbelief, and muttered to himself, "What made the obsidian The number is distorted like this..."

"Change your thinking," Duncan interrupted the old scholar, "Is this really the Obsidian?"

Morris suddenly looked up and looked at Duncan in astonishment: "You mean..."

"This is near Frost, and some terrible things have happened under Frost's deep sea," Duncan said casually, and glanced at Alice who was looking around curiously, "Remember what Tirian said back then' Abyss Project, right?"

"I remember," Alice nodded immediately, "There are a lot of submersibles..."

"It's enough to remember these," Duncan said while pressing Alice's head, "Don't click, it's already started to shake."

Then he raised his hand and tapped on the wall next to him.

The metal bulkhead made a hollow thumping sound as it was tapped.

"The appearance is normal, but in fact it's a mess, poor imitation and duplication, wrongly stacked internal space-this should not be the real Obsidian, but it's hard to say which Obsidian it is."

Alice didn't know how much she understood, but she just stretched her voice "Oh—" and nodded slowly pretendingly, but Fan Na who was next to her quickly realized: "But I remember you said before that when you dived Only the occupants of the submersibles of the Yuan Project had distorted errors during the copying process, and the submersibles themselves were copied correctly. You speculated that this error should be limited to humans or organisms..."

"Yes, limited to humans or organisms - at least it was half a century ago when the Frost Queen was alive," Duncan said slowly, "so it's clearly worse now that replication is no longer limited to Submersible III , the distortion extends to the category of inorganic matter... No matter what is in the frosty deep sea, it has obviously started to move again after fifty years of silence, and its scope and intensity of influence are far beyond half a century ago."

Shirley blinked her eyes and listened. Everyone on the Lost Home had heard about the Abyss Project from the captain, so everyone knew how weird and evil it was, which made her subconsciously mutter: "I ...I'm starting to get nervous..."

"Another way of thinking, the captain is investigating this matter - I don't think we should be nervous," Agou also muttered in a low voice, "Don't scare yourself - my heart rate has followed suit."

Shirley was taken aback: "Agou, do you have a heart?"

"I am a demon with a heart!"

"Heart and 'heart' are not the same thing—isn't your cavity empty?"

"...In case, there might be something jumping in it."

"Pick it open and see?"

"That won't work."

Duncan didn't care about the increasingly curious murmurs around him, he simply speculated about the situation of the ghost ship, and then focused on the corridor that didn't know where it would lead.

After a short thought, he walked towards the big hole that Fan Na blasted out: "Go in and see the situation."