Deep Sea Embers

On the small metal breastplate, the name of "Christo Barberi" and the identity of the captain of the Obsidian were stamped with steel stamps.

This badge made the atmosphere at the scene suddenly quiet and weird - in the quiet and open cabin, there was even only the beating sound of the heart.

"His name is Krystal?" After a long time, it was Alice who broke the silence first. She scratched her hair, seemingly puzzled, "But the...'person' we saw behind that blue door, Did you say his name is Christo?"

"If this ship comes from the frosty deep sea, then everything on the ship may just be a distorted replica, and every pile of twisted things here may be Krystal, or anyone on the Obsidian at that time," Duncan said lightly Said, and at the same time, his eyes fell on the middle-aged man on the ground with wide-eyed eyes and his mouth covered with his hand, "The key is this... This remains is obviously very special."

"You suspect that he is the main body?" Fan Na quickly came to her senses and looked at Duncan in astonishment, "But... the whole ship is obviously a twisted copy, how could the main body be here?"

"...All our knowledge of the frosty deep sea is based on Tirian's limited memories, and even what Tirian knows is only part of the information in the early stage of the entire abyss plan-the entire abyss plan has never been real. I have uncovered the secrets of the seabed below a thousand meters," Duncan shook his head, "We know very little about the conditions of the frosty seabed, and the conclusions about the laws of these 'replicas' are likely to be wrong, perhaps Maybe the main body is hidden, or maybe every fake is the expression of the main body split, maybe even under the deep sea, there is no difference between the fake and the main body at all.”

Fan Na listened to Duncan's words, but couldn't help but glance at Alice next to her.

Alice didn't think that much at all, she just looked at "Christo Barberry" on the ground curiously, and after thinking for a long time, she suddenly asked, "Why is he covering his mouth?"

"That's how people react when they're scared," Morris said casually. "It's not surprising."

But as soon as he finished speaking, Duncan's voice suddenly sounded: "No, it's strange...he wasn't out of fear."

Morris looked at Duncan with some surprise, but saw the latter squatting down beside the corpse in a strange and terrifying state, and even leaned closer to his face, observing something seriously.

Plop, plop, plop.

Christo Barberry's heart beat continuously, as if as Duncan approached, the beating was faster and stronger than before.

Duncan noticed the change in his heart, but he still focused more on Captain Crystal's face. After careful observation, he suddenly discovered something.

"He has something in his mouth."

"There's something in the mouth?" Morris was taken aback, and then he saw Duncan stretch out his hand, trying to break the corpse's hand away from its mouth.

Duncan was taken aback by the resistance in his hand.

This corpse tightly covered its mouth, as if it was still consciously resisting something today after many years of death!

Duncan didn't use too much force for the first time, but he failed to break the opponent's hand. He knew that if he really stepped up his strength, he should be able to easily run over the dead man's obsession, but before continuing to exert force, he seemed to suddenly Thinking of something, he stopped.

"Mr. Barberry, if you are keeping any secret, you can let it go now," Duncan said in a calm voice, looking at those angry eyes, "Leave the follow-up matters to me."

The hand loosened.

Below is a mouth clenched in teeth - but the next second, that mouth also relaxes.

Fan Na and Morris looked at each other in astonishment, and then they saw Duncan reaching out his hand, groping for something in Crystal's slightly opened mouth.

A soft and slightly disgusting touch came, and Duncan frowned, enduring the awkwardness in his heart, and took out some kind of lump he felt from the dead man's mouth.

It was a lump about the size of a thumb, dark in color with slight blue filaments, very soft to the touch, it felt... like some kind of meat.

It's a bite off of some larger individual.

"What is this?" Alice was the first to come over curiously, holding Duncan's arm and looking at the motionless, black and blue piece of meat, and then showed some resistance, "Evil ...I don't like this stuff..."

Duncan glanced at Alice in surprise. It is rare for this cheerful lady doll to express her dislike for something so quickly and clearly.

And after Alice's voice fell, Fan Na quickly frowned: "I feel a very disturbing aura from this thing-it reminds me of some pollution that has risen from the depths of the world to the real world. "

"My intuition tells me that it's best not to stare at this thing all the time," Morris said, "This is probably a warning from the God of Wisdom. Don't you feel it when you hold it?"

"Feeling? No," Duncan squeezed the meat in his hand, "It feels a bit disgusting, but I don't feel the exaggerated reaction you mentioned."

"Oh, it's normal, after all, your personality is different from ours," Morris said without any surprise on his face, "but one thing is certain, this thing in your hand is definitely not what it should be in the real world, it should be It is the most important line in this ghost ship..."

Halfway through his words, he suddenly stopped.

Because everyone could hear that the beating sound from the beating heart in the air was rapidly weakening.

Duncan lowered his head, staring at Christo's open chest due to corrosion and distortion, and saw that the heart that was still beating vigorously before was now stained with a layer of gray, and the pulsating sound disappeared within a few seconds. It weakened to almost disappear, and then, under his gaze, the heart suddenly burned, and turned into ashes in the blink of an eye.

At the same time, a low, hoarse, somewhat familiar voice suddenly reached everyone's ears. The source of this voice could not be identified, and it was even as if the whole ship sighed: "Ah, that's how it is... "

Fan Na was the first to realize: "It's the voice behind that blue door!"

Duncan looked at the remains on the floor and saw that the remains of "Captain Crystal" were melting like wax. This remains that should have been eroded by sea water six years ago seemed to be making up for the past six years. The polishing is average, and it becomes a bony bone in the blink of an eye.

He immediately made a decision, turned around and walked in the direction he came from: "Go back the same way."

The speed when returning is much faster than the speed when exploring.

A group of people quickly passed through this strange, open and dead cabin, passed through the chaotic and twisted slope, and returned to the "captain's cabin" with the blue door in a short time.

The door was ajar, and behind the door, the biological organization calling itself "Christo Barberi" was still quietly stuck to the wooden board.

Fan Na took a step forward, and almost immediately, the mass of biological tissue seemed to sense the movement around it, and its surface wriggled, making a hoarse and low voice: "Ah, you are back."

"...Captain Crystal," Fanna collected herself and tried to calm her tone, "We have something..."

But before she could finish, "Krystal" interrupted her: "I already knew, ma'am—I recall."

Although there was a vague guess in her heart, Fan Na couldn't help asking at this moment: "You...remember?"

"If you mean your own death, then I recall it, although only part of it," Christo said in a low voice, "I am dead, right? I must be dead... The Obsidian has sunk, we met On the storm and the iceberg, we went down, down into the darkness—and there was no way I could survive."

Duncan was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly took two steps forward: "Do you know what happened in the depths of this ship?"

"Deep?" Crystal's voice seemed a little puzzled.

"Do you remember the details of your own death?" Duncan asked again. "Have you ever wrestled with something? Did anything happen to the ship after it sank into the deep sea?"

Christo quieted down, as if he was thinking, and then a slightly regretful voice came from the mass of biological tissue: "Sorry, I don't remember these details, I just remember... the ship was sinking, it kept sinking, very, very It's been a long process, everyone is dead, I should die too, but I have been wandering in the dark, the surroundings are cold, and my vision is very dark. I seem to be looking for something in the dark. I don't know this chaotic state. How long has it been going on——When I have memories again, I will be knocking on this door."

Duncan exchanged glances with the others.

"Captain Crystal" has no reason to lie.

The captain was only aware of the fact that he was dead, but he didn't remember what happened in the depths of the Obsidian, nor did he know that the "other self" died in the strange space of the bilge, let alone the mysterious piece of flesh and blood. of origin.

The thread appears to be broken.

But Duncan looked down at the palm of his hand—the dull lump of flesh was still lying quietly in his palm.

He has already had a very important harvest.

(It’s time to push the book~ "The Return of Civilization", the protagonist, as a trainee officer, unexpectedly fell asleep in the dormant cabin for 2,000 years and then suddenly discovered that the earth has exploded, and the rest of the human race is missing. After understanding the current situation Afterwards, the protagonist finally decides to bring the AI ​​with a girly appearance around him, which mainly adopts part of the settings of Warhammer 40K and Stars, which is a kind of space opera.)