Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 148 Appeared in the real world?
"Uncle Duncan, I'm off to school!"

Amidst the cheerful greetings, Nina ran down the stairs. She turned around and waved in the direction of the second floor, and then ran towards the door.

The rest day is over, and today is the day to go to school again.

But before she reached the door, Nina stopped suddenly, and she saw a figure shaking behind the shelf not far ahead—that figure walked out, and it was Xue Li.

"Ah, Shirley," Nina stood happily and waved at the girl in front of her, "I still said where have you been—do you want to go together?"

"Together?" Shirley blinked in confusion, "Where are we going together?"

"Go to school, today is..." Nina said subconsciously, but she realized halfway through the sentence, with a slightly embarrassed expression on her face, "Ah, sorry, I forgot..."

Shirley is not her classmate, nor does she attend classes at school. The pleasant experience of getting along on campus was just a play—Nina herself knew this, but it was something that actually happened after all. Sometimes, she still forgets.

The expression on Shirley's face also became weird for a while, and her eyes showed apology again, but she quickly recovered and shook her head slightly: "I won't go with you, I was in that school... ...'investigative activities' have been completed."

"That's right," Nina pursed her lips, and quickly returned to her usual smile. "Sorry, I forgot. Then I'll go first?"

"Well," Shirley nodded, but then she seemed to remember something and added, "By the way, Nina, I...I'm going home today."

"Go home?" Nina was stunned for a moment. It seemed that only two days had passed, and she had taken Shirley as a member of this place for granted, so that she reacted a little when the other party mentioned the word "go home." But come on, "You're not here anymore?"

"I have to go home, I'm only staying here temporarily," Shirley waved her hands, saying what she wanted to say a long time ago, "I told Mr. Duncan, and he agreed."

Nina didn't say a word for a while, she was just a little dazed, and after a few seconds he hesitated to say: "Then... will you come again in the future?"

As long as it is possible, I really don't want to come here in the future, and even want to steal a boat ticket and run to Frost to avoid the limelight.

The thought of running from the heart appeared in Xue Li's mind for a moment, but then she seemed to feel a line of sight falling on her through the second floor, and she quickly shrank her neck subconsciously: "I ... I will come to you when I have a chance, after all, my house is not too far away, ha, ha ha..."

Nina tilted her head. For some reason, she always felt that Shirley's reaction just now was weird, but she didn't think much about it soon. She was happy again, because the other party promised "come to me when you have a chance". Satisfied, he waved his hands happily, turned around and ran out of the gate like a gust of wind, disappearing on the street outside the antique shop.

Shirley watched Nina running away in a gust of wind in a daze. After a while, she realized that there was a figure standing on the stairs not far away, watching her calmly.

She hurriedly turned around, bowed and greeted with a polite attitude rarely seen in her life: "Dun... Good morning, Mr. Duncan!"

"You are much more polite now, and this is what a girl of your age should look like," Duncan said indifferently, walking down the stairs slowly, "Did you explain it to Nina? Are you going home today?"

"Speak...to be clear," Xue Li lowered her head, not daring to speak too loudly, for fear that the boss would go back on what she had agreed to if she was unhappy, "You also agreed, I can leave today."

"Why are you nervous again? You were fine yesterday, and you can still reset your nervousness every morning?" Duncan shook his head dumbfounded, stepped forward and patted Shirley's slightly thin shoulder, "Relax, I I never said that I would imprison you in a certain place, I just invited you to be a guest here for two days, and you can go back when you want to go back—you can come anytime when you want to come.”

"I...I see," Shirley nodded again and again, and then felt a little helpless, "Actually... I'm not that nervous. It's Agou who is always nervous. As long as you get close, it will be nervous instinctively, and then it The nervousness is passed on to me."

"Ah Dog... Well, there is no way, its nervousness seems to come from the keen perception of the deep demon," Duncan shrugged, and then looked at Shirley again, "But don't you really think about it? You You can stay here. The conditions of the place where you and Agou live seem a little crude, and it’s not safe enough after nightfall. In contrast, this is a very safe place.”

A subspace shadow said that his lair is a safe place. This statement has both reasonableness and outrageous duality. However, Shirley thought for a long time and could not find a point to refute this statement (mainly, she did not refute it. Courage), so in the end, I could only let out a series of smirks: "Ah... ah ha ha... that..."

"Forget it, I'll just say this, don't get entangled," Duncan knew what was going on when he saw the other party's reaction, and he waved his hand, "Go if you want, anyway, you already know how to deal with me now Establish a connection, and if you find new clues about those Sun Cultists, remember to call me anytime."

Shirley nodded silently.

After two days that seemed like a dream, she finally got the permission to leave here, and got the chance to stay away from this terrifying existence, but when this chance really came up...she suddenly found herself a little bit at a loss.

Chatting and playing with a "friend", living under the care of an "elder", a warm bedroom, bright lights, delicious food, and a peaceful life without fear of nightmares or hiding from guards.

Now, she is allowed to leave.

For some reason, Shirley came up with an absurd idea——

A bright world had briefly opened to her, and now it was closing.

Obviously, not long ago, this was what she dreamed of—in fact, it is still the same now, she is just... a little entangled.

During the spiritual connection, she suddenly heard Agou muttering in a low voice: "Our life is going to get back on track, Shirley."

"Yeah, it's time to get back on track."

Shirley murmured softly in her head, then looked up to say goodbye to Mr. Duncan.

But at this moment, the expression on Duncan's face suddenly changed slightly.

In the dark, he sensed a breath passing by in the distance. This breath...is one of the imprints he left behind!

"Mr. Duncan?" Shirley noticed the sudden serious expression on the other person's face, and she was a little nervous, "You..."

"I sensed an aura," Duncan said softly without waiting for Shirley to finish speaking. He looked up into the distance, "It seems to be coming from that direction."

Shirley didn't react immediately: "A breath?"

"It's the small fire I left for that 'little bug'." Duncan lowered his head slightly, looking into Shirley's eyes. "Do you still remember that weird umbrella man who attacked you at the edge of the dream?"

Shirley was stunned for a moment, then her eyes widened: "It's the fragment you put 'home'? But...but that's not in the dream world..."

"Yeah, that's the attacker who appeared in the dream world," Duncan's tone became more meaningful, "but now I perceive that imprint in the real world."

Shirley stared, and she suddenly thought of what Mr. Duncan had said to herself in that nightmare:

Maybe it wasn't just a dream.

"Shirley," Duncan's voice came suddenly, interrupting the girl's memory. He lowered his head slightly with a smile on his face, "Before you go home, do you want to check with me again? Of course, if you don't ..."

"Go!" Shirley replied without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, her attitude was so firm that even she was startled, and then, as if to ease the embarrassment, she explained, "That... that'thing 'Appearing on the street after the fire must have something to do with the fire that year..."

Duncan pressed Shirley on the shoulder: "Then let's go together."

"How do we get there?" Shirley took a light breath, "Can you confirm the exact location of that thing? We still have to take the bus like last time..."

Duncan smiled and shook his head: "Now I have a more convenient mode of transportation."

Xue Li was stunned for a moment. She was about to ask what is the convenient mode of transportation, when out of the corner of her eye she suddenly saw a shadow flying down from the stairs on the second floor, accompanied by a series of sharp and weird female voices: "Go to the second floor!" Xianqiao, take Chenghua Avenue... big seat! There is a big seat behind... melon seeds drink mineral water! Keep your feet on both sides!"

The sudden appearance of the fast shadow and the sudden strange noise startled Shirley, and when she saw what it was, her eyes widened immediately: it was that weird pigeon!The pigeon that can eat French fries almost the same size as itself in a meal!
In the next second, under Shirley's stunned gaze, Ai has already circled in the air quickly, and green flames soared up from him, and the white dove that was just a naive one second before turned into a white dove in the blink of an eye. Terrifying spirit bone pigeon.

Shirley: "...?!"

She turned her head back stiffly, as if she wanted to confirm something with Duncan, but before she could speak, she felt her eyes blur...

In Ai Yi's constant pressing of "big seat, there is a big seat behind", a vortex like a flame door flashed past, and in the next second, a swift white pigeon rushed out of the antique shop and flew straight to distance.

(End of this chapter)