Deep Sea Embers

The figures in burqas and hoods naturally noticed Duncan standing in the middle of the road without hesitation.

At this moment, Duncan still looked like he did when he just left the cave. His thin and shriveled body was covered with tattered clothes. The temporary rag that he put on his upper body blocked the big hole in his chest. He stood carelessly in the middle of the road. , but it looked like they were frightened by the "hooded man" who suddenly appeared - and the figures in burqas were obviously surprised. They were obviously stunned for a moment, and then the leader Then he suddenly shouted: "One of the sacrifices has escaped!"

Then Duncan saw them running towards this side, and another person shouted while running: "Quick! Stop him! Don't let him run away!"

Duncan shrugged and just continued to look at these figures running towards him expressionlessly, who did not look like good people no matter how they looked. After weighing the current situation, he had no intention of running at all, but several people on the opposite side were still there. While rushing over, he shouted: "Don't let him escape!" "Some sacrifices have escaped!"

As a result, Duncan's behavior of standing obediently in the middle of the road without evading made the atmosphere awkward. Those people who were running and shouting obviously felt that something was wrong halfway through, and they shouted involuntarily. The ground stopped, but he had to continue running this way. Duncan could almost smell the smell of embarrassment and anger from under their dark hoods - and then these embarrassed and angry people surrounded him from front to back and left to right. got up.

Only then did Duncan look around at the people around him, and after a moment of hesitation, he said, "Should I have run away just now? After all, the atmosphere is here..."

The figures in burqas didn't seem to hear Duncan's cold joke. They just glanced at the latter warily and cautiously, and then looked in the direction behind Duncan. Two of them quickly lowered their heads and talked. After a few words, Duncan vaguely heard the content of their conversation:

"Why did one come out?"

"Could it be that the hyenas from the church discovered this hiding place...but it doesn't look like he was released..."

"Anyway, take it back first. There's something wrong with the sacrifice that escaped...it needs to be dealt with quickly."

"Let the messenger make the decision."

Duncan had no idea what the identity of this group of people was, let alone what the "messenger" the other party mentioned meant, but thinking of what he had seen along the way and the word "sacrifice" mentioned by the other party, He had already vaguely guessed some of the truth here.

He didn't know how he should react to be considered a "normal sacrifice", and he had no intention of cooperating with these people's "performance". He was using a temporary body outside the Homeless Ship. There were obviously very few things to worry about, so after observing the surrounding situation for a while, he simply asked: "Where are you taking me?"

Those wearing burqas were obviously a little surprised when they heard the "sacrifice" in front of them speak calmly. Although their hoods still wore black gauze masks that completely covered their faces, even so Duncan could guess their surprise at this moment. , one of the men in black robes glanced at the "sacrifice" in front of him fiercely through his mask, and his voice was low: "You are not qualified to ask questions - take them away!"

Several men in black robes immediately stepped forward, but before they could take action, Duncan took a step forward: "You don't need to take action, I will just follow you."

Several men in black robes looked at each other, probably feeling that the spirit of the "sacrifice" in front of them was a little abnormal, but the leader of the men in black robes waved his hand: "This is best, you can't run away anyway... Come with us. , you may still be able to welcome the glory with dignity.”

Several men in black robes gathered around Duncan, blocking all his "escape" routes from front to back, left and right, and led him deeper into the sewer.

The stench and foul smell in the sewers was disgusting, but these men in black robes walked calmly on the dirty and moldy road as if they didn't notice it at all. Duncan remained expressionless and silent as he followed these men in black robes forward. While listening carefully to the conversations of these people - these black-robed men didn't talk much to each other, but in the occasional conversations, Duncan still heard words such as "Plander", "Consul", and "Church" useful words.

"Is this the city-state of Puland?" Duncan suddenly said, as calmly as if he was chatting with an acquaintance.

"Nonsense..." One of the men in black robes subconsciously replied, but then he reacted and glanced at Duncan like a ghost, "You are very calm, boy, do you know what will happen next?"

"You can probably guess it," Duncan nodded, even with a smile on his face, and then he asked tentatively, "The real Sun God... right?"

Several men in black robes obviously paused for a moment. They seemed to have misunderstood Duncan's strange reaction. One of them whispered to his companions: "Wait, are these also believers of the Lord?"

"Impossible, he is obviously a sacrifice that escaped..." Another man in black robe whispered, and then glanced at Duncan, "You are quite clever, but don't think that you can avoid the sacrifice... The Lord has decreed your fate, and you'd better accept it."

Duncan was noncommittal. He knew that his too calm reaction caused the group of suspected cultists in front of him to have the wrong idea. Most of them thought that he was pretending to be calm and trying to survive by pretending to be "believers", but in reality Only Duncan knows the situation.

This temporarily occupied body couldn't even move normally. The muscles on his face were as stiff as if they had peripheral necrosis... Of course, all that was left was a calm expressionless face!

But he didn't care what these cultists were thinking. He just wanted to collect as much information as possible in this "one-time exploration operation", so he asked casually: "What do you think about the current situation in the sky?" Is the 'sun' a fake day? Do you think it will fall sooner or later?"

"Of course the false sun will eventually fall!" This was obviously a topic that could stimulate these cultists. Duncan got his wish and heard the positive and fanatical reaction of one of them, "Even the lackeys of the Holy See must admit it in the general history. The sun in the sky is a twisted and grotesque thing that only appeared after the Great Annihilation! It is the Sun God who truly brings vitality and order to all things in the world, but my Lord has been usurped by that despicable counterfeit... Sooner or later, that despicable counterfeit will. There is a time when it collapses from the sky!”

Immediately afterwards, Duncan heard the surrounding cultists respond: "Sooner or later, the false sun will fall!" "The real sun god will soon revive!" "The excess sea water in the world will be driven back to nothingness by the power of the sun god. Deep space, the earth will return to an era of fertility and stability!"

Listening to the words of these cultists who had obviously started talking to them, Duncan's thoughts were spinning rapidly in his mind. He knew that such fanatical cultists could not be understood by common sense, and most of the things they believed in were distorted and tampered with. Later information, but some of the intelligence they revealed is still worthy of reference——

The "sun" hanging in the sky is a fake...

The real sun has been usurped...

They firmly believe that the real sun is a fallen god, and that the god will "rise from blood and fire"...

They also spoke of excess sea water in the world, of eras of fertility and stability... What do these words mean?

There were many thoughts in Duncan's mind, but the cultists calmed down soon after. They still remembered the business and that they were escorting an escaped "sacrifice", so the few people closest to Duncan returned to silence. The two people walking at the end of the team whispered a few words:

"Do you think this 'sacrifice' is a bit evil?"

"Something doesn't seem right about him...I'm a little uneasy."

"Did this sacrifice stay in the lightless underground for too long when he escaped before, and his spirit was possessed by something..."

"That's just right. The power of the Lord will purify him."

Duncan listened to the conversation behind him. He especially noticed the words "lightless underground", but just when he wanted to collect more information from the conversation, the leader of the black-robed man stopped. pace.

"Here we are."

The cultist in black robe said in a low and cold voice.

Duncan felt a little regretful for a moment, but then, his attention was attracted by the sight in front of him.

Ahead is the end of a road, the intersection of several sewers, and in this space, which is as wide as a small underground hall, is a gathering of black-robed cultists!