Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 184 The Invasion After Nightfall
"The teacher left just like that?" Nina came to the first floor, her eyes widened in surprise after hearing the news that Morris had left, and then she complained, "Uncle, why don't you stay for a while, the weather is so bad And let the teacher leave..."

"It will be dark anytime later," Duncan turned and locked the door, then said casually as he walked towards the stairs, "He came here by car, and a little rain won't affect much."

"But the teacher doesn't seem to be feeling well," Nina followed, muttering as she went upstairs, "He should rest for a while..."

Duncan thought for a while, thinking that if the old man really rested here for a while, he might not be feeling well. If he didn't keep it all together, he would fail a ten-consecutive Will test. Let alone tomorrow's sun, he couldn't even see the creation of the world tonight. ...

But he couldn't explain this to Nina, so he could only say a few perfunctory words, and then came to the dining table on the second floor.

Nina had prepared a hot meal—beet soup, toast, vegetable wraps, sliced ​​ham.

Obviously more than one person's weight.

"If you can't finish eating, save it until tomorrow morning," Nina murmured, and then looked up at Duncan curiously, "What did you tell the teacher? I didn't hear clearly on the board just now, but I feel that you two talked very well." It's quite lively..."

Duncan looked at Nina quietly. He had been watching like this since just now, watching the girl busy.

As usual, she always smiles, even when she complains, she doesn't show any real angry expression, she is always busy, it seems that there are always endless things to do, endless energy, and she is always looking forward to tomorrow .

Duncan could only see this kind of Nina. He didn't have the "eyes that see through reality" like Morris, and he couldn't see the flames gushing out of Nina's body.

If he hadn't heard it with his own ears just now, he would never have imagined that the fragments of the sun that affected the nerves of countless people would actually "sleeping" here quietly, right under his nose.

Sun Fragment... what the hell is it?
Duncan once thought it was a transcendent item with a tangible quality, and later confirmed through various clues that it was a prominence that had been stripped off, but now, he discovered that this thing was probably sleeping in Nina's body...

If that thing really came from the "star" he was familiar with, then what kind of changes would a star have to undergo to peel off such a weird piece..."fragment"?
"Uncle Duncan?" Nina noticed the sight from across the table, and she turned around awkwardly, "Is there something stuck on my face?"

"...No, nothing," Duncan shook his head lightly, and asked casually as he lowered his head and opened the bread, "By the way, have you been feeling ill recently? The strange dream before... still appeared. ever?"

"No." Nina waved her hand. "The hypnosis that Miss Heidi gave me last time was quite effective. I haven't had any strange dreams since then, and I'm very energetic every day."

She paused for a moment, and then looked at Duncan with a little worry: "Uncle, what's wrong with you? I think...you are a bit weird, just after you finished chatting with Mr. Morris...ah, could it be The results of my last exam..."

"No, don't think about it, your teacher didn't come to complain." Duncan raised an eyebrow immediately, "Eat first, eat first."

Nina responded, and then bowed her head to eat, but at this moment, Duncan seemed to sense something, and looked in a certain direction outside the window with some doubts.

……

In the lower city, in the depths of dilapidated and dark alleys, the hastily lit gas lamps finally dispelled the surrounding darkness before the night completely enveloped the street. Under the dim light brought by the gas lamps, Shirley lay on the window sill, looking ecstatically. Looking out at the dark street.

The rattling sound of iron chains rubbing against each other came from behind, followed by Agou's voice: "Look outside again? What's there to see?"

"I can't sleep, it's so early and I have nothing to do," Shirley muttered, "It's so boring..."

"...Why don't you go out tomorrow and continue to trouble the cultists?"

"...I still feel like I'll get nothing," Shirley thought for a while, then shook her head, "I don't know if it's because the church guys have suddenly become better at it. Recently, the cultists in the city-state seem to have been caught clean. Even you can't smell their stink..."

"The Sun Cultists who have been active in the city recently are indeed gone, maybe they have been caught." A Gou came over and lay lazily at Shirley's feet, "But I don't think it's because of this at all. bored..."

Shirley immediately rolled her eyes: "Then why else?"

"...Did you miss 'over there'?" Agou raised his head, and there was a glimmer of light in his empty blood-colored eyes, "I miss that warm house, that bright room, that hot meal, that The days when someone wakes you up and urges you to eat, or... thinks about that subspace dependent named Nina? Or even thinks about that Deng..."

"Shut up, NMD! You're so annoying!" Shirley slammed the iron chain in her hand, and interrupted Agou roughly, "I'm not a crying kid, how can I be so weak!"

Agou didn't care about Shirley's rude reaction: "... yearning for light and warmth is not weakness, it only proves that you are still a human being."

"Hey..." Shirley suddenly shuddered, and then she looked disgusted, "Why are you so nasty all of a sudden? Are you talking politely? It proves that I am still a human... Are you complimenting me or are you saying I haven't grown much in all these years?"

"...Don't think that after 11 years of merging with me, a deep demon, you will really become a demon. There is nothing wrong with frankly admitting your human side," Agou shook his ugly head, "not to mention Don't you forget, it's not just this chain that connects me to you——Is there any change in your mood that I can't understand?"

"...Shut up," Shirley turned her face away, looking outside with a little irritability, "You have to keep pushing, I will really take you to Nina to play tomorrow, and then I will accompany Nina, you With Mr. Duncan, we both have a bright future - don't scare you!"

Agou finally fell silent.

However, after a moment of silence, Xue Li couldn't help but kicked the Youshen Hound beside her with her toes, and broke the silence: "Don't worry about it, aren't you still with me?"

"You are more numb than me," Agou moved, and the iron chain rattled, "Don't talk about it, and I'm going to throw up—then there will be a new hole on the floor."

The deep hound was chattering, but through the spirit of interconnection, Shirley could feel that the mood of "Agou", who had almost eaten her alive and brought her up, suddenly became better.

In the dim twilight and the twilight of the street lamps, the thin girl curled her lips, hiding a little bit of her smile.

This is good, everything is back on track, the familiar days are back, just continue to live—don’t think about the peace and warmth that doesn’t belong to you, especially that peaceful and warm place is occupied by a person from the subspace. shadow.

That warmth was too dangerous.

Shirley exhaled lightly.

However, in the next second, she frowned slightly, as if she felt something malicious was approaching, and felt the hairs on her back stand up slightly.

A Gou also stood up suddenly from the prone position, black smoke and flames suddenly filled the body of this huge deep hound, and the blood-colored hollow eye sockets were filled with red light, scanning the room vigilantly and hostilely.

The room was dark, in order to save money, Shirley turned off the oil lamp on the table the moment the street light came on, now only the light from the street light coming in from the window illuminates the room, the light is not very bright, and the simple home The furnishings cast eccentric shadows on the floors and walls.

In a simple home, everything is clear at a glance, familiar and intuitive.

However, for some reason, Shirley suddenly felt that the furnishings in the house were a bit strange—in the scattered light and shadow, in the corners of the tables and chairs and the gap at the end of the bed, a strange and inconsistent atmosphere was constantly seeping out!
Xue Li subconsciously tightened the chain in her hand: "A dog!"

"I know," Agou let out a low growl at the same time, "I'm watching! Something is entering here...surrounding us...fuck! What the hell, I'm dazzled!"

Before the deep hound finished speaking, Shirley suddenly noticed that the street light shining into the room from the window began to become distorted and dim!
As if a thick black curtain suddenly enveloped the entire house, the street scene that was clearly visible in the field of vision a second ago suddenly became blurred, and the light from the street lamps was cut into fragments, turning into pale shimmering light that fell on the Immediately afterwards, those pale gleams and ubiquitous black shadows squirmed together in the room, and accompanied by a series of disgusting low-pitched murmurs, several figures suddenly emerged from the light and shadow——

They were wearing tattered black robes, and the exposed arms under the robes were as thin as sticks. There were dark books hanging around their waists. The books seemed to be soaked in ink-like dirt, and there were black and suspicious liquids coming out continuously. The book seeped and dripped down, and each of them had an iron emblem that seemed to be surrounded by thorns hanging on their chests. In the center of the emblem, a pale and muddy flame jumped.

The leader of the man in black raised his finger to Xue Li, and the ambiguous and hoarse syllable that humans could not utter came from under the hood of the robe: "You will perish..."

Agou's exclamation finally reached Shirley's ears: "CNM is the final missionary!!!"

(End of this chapter)