Chapter 446: A flash of light
Chapter 446: A Flash of Light
Listening to Duncan’s instructions, Agatha immediately associated with the “corpse” that was used as temporary descent material.
She gently nodded without raising any objections, “Yes, I will consider this method.”
Duncan gave a hmmm, and then looked at Agatha, who was presenting herself in the flaming doorway with some curiosity, observing the vague and blurred view behind her, and casually asked, “How is the situation on your side now?”
“The cathedral is back on an even keel, and we are contacting churches all over the city today to confirm the manpower that is currently available as well as tallying up the losses of the past period of time,” Agatha replied, with another hint of celebration in her tone, “Last night, as you said, the city-state passed by on an even keel, and the darkness actually did not really It’s a relief that no shadows have grown, not even the asylum or the cemetery, which are most likely to be problematic – if that’s the way it’s going to be in the future, we’ll have half the things we need to worry about.”
“I mean in your case,” Duncan raised an eyebrow, “you don’t have problems working so intensely in this body today?”
“I don’t feel tired – perhaps becoming a corpse would be a good thing for me nowadays instead,” Agatha said in a calm tone, “Corpses don’t get tired and don’t need to rest in the conventional sense, as long as they can still get some peace from the prayer and meditation for peace, I’ll be fine.”
“You seem to be in the prayer room of the church?”
“Yes, I’m in the cathedral – it was the original Bishop Ivan’s room, and it’s very quiet,” Agatha looked back at the familiar and special room with a hint of sadness in her tone, “Now it’s reserved for me up.”
Duncan, however, was suddenly flooded with a touch of oddity, and after hesitating for several seconds, he could not help but ask, “Does Bartok not mind if you contact me like that in the cathedral?”
Agatha froze at once, “……”
Next to her, Shirley and Dog also froze.
“Captain how do you manage to think from such an incredible perspective every time?” Shirley muttered up in a small voice, “And that sounds weird ……”
Duncan glanced at the girl expressionlessly, “Don’t interrupt when adults are talking, and stop writing when you catch a chance – you haven’t written a word since just now have you.”
Shirley let out a sudden sigh and continued to fight her homework to the death, while Agatha, projected in the flames, finally snapped out of it, and with a strange expression twisted her head to look at the sacred statue of the God of Death not too far away for a long time before turning back, “I haven’t thought about that at all …… “
Immediately afterward, she paused and asked thoughtfully, “Vanna follows you around, do you usually ask her this question? What did she answer?”
Duncan thought about it for a moment, “I haven’t really asked, I can ask when I have time.”
Agatha subconsciously opened her mouth as if to say something, but in the end nothing came out.
There was an awkward silence for a few seconds before she finally found something else to talk about, “Besides, I’m ready to check out the situation inside the Boiling Gold Mine.”
“The mine has returned to calm?” Duncan raised an eyebrow, “I thought you said this would be at least a few more days.”
“Calm has been largely restored, and to be honest …… exploring the depths right now may still be risky, but I don’t intend to wait any longer,” Agatha’s expression turned serious, looking like she had already made up her mind, “I can feel that there is something in the depths of that Something is calling me, this feeling has been getting stronger since this morning, if I wait any longer …… I’m afraid I’ll miss something very important.”
Duncan gently nodded, and after a few seconds of silence suddenly spoke, “Before you leave, go to 44 Oak Street and find me.”
Agatha’s eyes widened in sudden surprise, “You’re coming with me?”
“I’m also curious as to what was left there.”
“I see, I’ll look for you before we leave.”
Duncan nodded and waved his hand to disperse the flames in midair, then exhaled and lowered his head to look at the empty fishing rod in his hand.
“…… Never mind, the Air Force is part of fishing,” he muttered, then turned his head to look at Shirley and Dog, who were sprawled out next to the barrel, “I’m going to head back to my room, Dog, keep an eye on Shirley, and make sure she copies at least the first five pages of the vocabulary book copied out – play with it all you want after your homework is done.”
Dog hurriedly stood up, eagerly nodding and wagging his bony tail again, and it wasn’t until Duncan’s figure disappeared into the stairway not far away that the spectral hound finally sighed in relief and returned to where he’d begun to sprawl out, but before plopping down he suddenly glanced up at Shirley again, “Don’t go off on a tangent, just write and write.”
“Dog are you really rushing?” Shirley suddenly dropped her shoulders, “My hands are sore ……”
“I don’t even have fingers and I can still write a diary – you at least have two hands and ten fingers,” Dog shook his head and muttered as he got back down again, “Read more books, recognize more words, Shirley, don’t be impatient, the The Captain really does want what’s best for you; haven’t you always wanted to have a life like the other children? I really can’t give it to you, but the Captain wants to give it to you – there are so many ways to inflict favors on a being like him, but he’s chosen to make himself care for you and Nina like a human being, and you know how …… much that is.”
Shirley hurriedly waved her hand and begged for mercy halfway through the sentence, “Hey stop it stop it stop it, I know I know, I’m not stupid – Dog why are you acting like an old mom ……” Dog mumbled two more times, but did not continue to read with Shirley, but lowered his head and continued to study the geometry textbook in front of him with great interest.
On the pages of the book, words and symbols outline the knowledge and experience of previous generations, lines and formulas tell of the workings of this world, Dog’s eye holes filled with a bloody red light were fully concentrated on reading the chapter that condensed the wisdom of civilization, and in its mind that belonged to the Profound Demon, it continued to outline a geometrical figure and a mathematical formula along with the content of the textbook.
There was also a light source that flashed with red light, as well as a series of flickering points of light arranged like a matrix, flashing between those geometric images and formulas.
In the next second, as if she sensed something, Shirley jerked her head up to look in Dog’s direction, while the latter woke up almost instantly from a certain state of shock, and the whole dog directly jumped up several meters high: “Hey crikey!!!”
Shirley was directly dragged by the chain to fly into mid-air, and then fell on the deck with a thud, after climbing up in a state of confusion, the first time they jumped up and hugged Dog’s head vigorously shaking: “What’s wrong with you! What happened to you just now, why do I feel that your breath has changed?”
“I …… don’t know ah!” A Dog’s head was shaken by Shirley’s creaking, it was not easy to break free, but apparently still in a daze, “Just now it seems to see something flashing past in front of my eyes, didn’t even have time to see what it was …… but it’s all fine now.”
Ai, who was pecking fries on the side, suddenly cocked her head at this time and looked at Dog curiously, “The remote server is not responding, please check the network connection?”
Dog did not react for a moment and subconsciously spoke, “Ah?”
Ai, however, just flapped her wings and walked to the side as if nothing had just happened, muttering as she paced, “Charge Q-bucks or not? Big Monthly Card? Punch passes no?”
“Don’t mind it, this bird’s brain is even more confused than Alice’s,” Shirley waved her hand, turning Dog’s head to her side, worry clearly on her face, “Are you okay? Did you burn your brain out doing math all day?”
“I’ve never heard of a Phantom Demon burning out its brain ah ……” Dog got skeptical himself, “I don’t even know if I have the organ.”
“Of course you haven’t heard of it, you’re the only Profound Demon in the world who uses his brain, and your compatriots don’t have a chance to burn out even if they do have a brain …… Hey you stay still for a while, I’ll give you a check.”
Shirley chanted while hurriedly checking Dog from top to bottom, followed by carefully sensing the changes between herself and the other party on the spiritual level through the connection of the symbiotic chain, but in the end, she still didn’t find any problems.
Everything was normal.
“I told you it was fine,” Dog said casually with a sigh of relief, “Maybe it attracted some kind of contraption while reading a book, and then the other party was about to run out when they realized it was a ‘fellow traveler’ and went back in ……”
It chanted as it plopped down again, picking at the draft paper in front of it with its paws.
Next to it, Shirley instantly became anxious, “Hey you’re still going to read it?”
Dog casually said while scratching and pulling auxiliary lines on the paper, “I’m just one big question away from the last step, and I just got an idea.”
Sherry: “……”
She looked very worriedly at Dog who was writing and calculating there, ready to pull the chain on her arm anytime she saw that the situation was not right, but nothing happened until the other party finished solving the big question which was like a heavenly book in her eyes.
Dog threw his pen to the deck and looked up at Sherry.
“See, I told you there was no problem-” there was a hint of relief in its tone, but soon its gaze fell to the barrel next to it.
“Shirley, you haven’t finished your homework yet.”
“Ah…”
Listening to the girl’s drawn-out, mournful cry, Dog just shook its head, and then its gaze fell back on the book it had just been reading.
It seemed like …… there really wasn’t anything wrong with it.
But it was certain that it had really seen something – not a “compatriot” attracted by the book, but something else, something more mysterious, something more odd.
What did he …… really see?
(End of chapter)