On the small metal breastplate, the name "Christo Barberi" and the identity of the captain of the Obsidian were stenciled.
This badge made the atmosphere on the scene suddenly quiet and strange - in the quiet open cabin, the only sound left was the beating of the heart.
"His name is Christo?" After a long time, it was Alice who finally broke the silence first. She scratched her hair, seemingly puzzled, "But the...'person' we saw behind the blue door,
Also said his name is Christo?”
"If this ship comes from the Frost Deep Sea, then everything on the ship may be just a twisted copy. Every twisted thing here may be Crystal, or anyone on the Obsidian at that time," Duncan said calmly
He said, while his eyes fell on the middle-aged man on the ground with his eyes wide open and his hands covering his mouth, "The key is this...this remains is obviously very special."
"Do you suspect that he is the true body?" Vanna quickly reacted and looked at Duncan in shock, "But... this entire ship is obviously a twisted copy. How could the true body be here?"
"... All our knowledge of the Frost Deep Sea is based on Tirian's limited memories, and even what Tirian knows is only part of the early stage information of the entire Abyss Plan - the entire Abyss Plan has never been truly
Uncovering the secrets of the seabed a thousand meters below," Duncan shook his head, "We know very little about the conditions on the frosty seabed. The summary of the rules of these 'replicas' is very likely to be wrong. Maybe there is something in the shell of the fake.
Maybe the real thing is hidden, or maybe every fake is a manifestation of the real thing after it has been split, or maybe even under the deep sea, there is no difference between the fake and the real thing."
Vanna 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 Barbelli" on the ground curiously. After thinking for a long time, she suddenly said: "Why is he covering his mouth?"
"People often react like this when they are afraid," Morris said casually, "It's not surprising."
But as soon as he finished speaking, Duncan's voice suddenly sounded: "No, it's strange...it's not because of fear."
Morris looked at Duncan with some surprise, but saw the latter squatting down next to the body in a strange and terrifying state, and even got close to the face, observing something carefully.
Plop, plop, plop.
Christo Barberi's heart was beating continuously, as if as Duncan approached, it was beating faster and stronger than before.
Duncan noticed the change in his heart, but he paid more attention to Captain Christo's face. After careful observation, he suddenly discovered something.
"There's something in his mouth."
"Is there something in the mouth?" Morris was startled, and then he saw Duncan reaching out his hand to pry the body's hand away from his mouth.
Duncan was surprised by the resistance in his hands.
The body was covering its mouth tightly, as if it was still consciously resisting something even after many years of death!
Duncan didn't use too much force for the first time, and he failed to break the other person's hand off. He knew that if he really increased his strength, he should be able to easily overcome the obsession of the deceased. But before he continued to use force, he seemed to suddenly
Thinking of something, he stopped.
"Mr. Barbery, if you are keeping a secret, you can let it go now," Duncan said in a calm voice, looking at the angry wide eyes, "leave the rest to me."
The hand loosened.
Below is a mouth with clenched teeth - but the next second, the mouth relaxed.
Vanna and Morris on the side looked at each other in astonishment, and then they saw Duncan reaching out his hand and groping for something in Christo's slightly open mouth.
A soft and slightly disgusting touch came. Duncan frowned and endured the awkwardness in his heart as he took out some kind of lump he touched from the deceased's mouth.
It was a lump about the size of a thumb, dark in color with slightly blue filaments, and felt very soft to the touch...like some kind of meat.
It's meat bitten off from something larger.
"What is this?" Alice was the first to come over curiously, holding Duncan's arm and looking at the motionless piece of black and bluish meat, and then showed a somewhat contradictory look, "Evil
…I don’t like this thing…”
Duncan glanced at Alice in surprise. This cheerful doll lady rarely expressed her dislike of something so quickly and clearly.
After Alice finished speaking, Vanna quickly frowned: "I feel a very disturbing aura from this thing - it reminds me of some pollution that has surfaced 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 followed up. "This is probably a warning from the God of Wisdom. Don't you feel anything when you hold this thing?"
"Feeling? No," Duncan squeezed the piece of meat in his hand. "It feels a bit disgusting, but I didn't feel the exaggerated reaction you mentioned."
"Oh, this is normal. After all, your personality is different from ours," Morris said without any surprise on his face, "But one thing is for sure, the thing in your hand is definitely not what it should be in the real world, it should be
This is the most important thread in this ghost ship..."
Halfway through his words, he suddenly stopped.
Because everyone could hear that the beating sound of the heart that was constantly beating in the air was rapidly weakening.
Duncan lowered his head and stared at Christo's open chest that was distorted by corrosion. He saw that the heart that was still beating vigorously before was now stained with a layer of gray, and the thumping thumping sound disappeared within a few seconds.
It weakened until it almost disappeared, and then, the heart suddenly burned under his gaze and turned into ashes in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, a low, hoarse, familiar-sounding voice suddenly reached everyone's ears. The source of this voice could not be identified, and it even seemed like the entire ship was sighing: "Ah, so that's it...
"
Fanna was the first to react: "It's the voice behind the blue door!"
Duncan looked at the body on the floor and saw that the remains of "Captain Christo" were melting like wax. This remains that should have been completely eroded by the sea six years ago seemed to be making up for the past six years.
It was polished and turned into jagged pieces of bone almost in the blink of an eye.
He immediately made a decision and turned around to walk in the direction he came from: "Go back the way you came."
The speed when returning is much faster than the speed when exploring.
The group quickly passed through this strange, open and dead cabin, passed through the chaotic and twisted inclined ramp, and soon returned to the "captain's cabin" with a blue door.
The door was ajar, and behind the door, the biological tissue calling itself "Christo Barberi" was still quietly clinging to the wooden board.
Vanna took a step forward, and almost immediately, the mass of biological tissue seemed to sense the movement around it, and its surface began to squirm, making a hoarse and low voice: "Ah, you guys are back."
"...Captain Christo," Fanna calmed down and tried to keep her tone calmer, "We have something..."
But before she could continue, "Christo" interrupted her: "I already know, ma'am - I remembered."
Although there was a vague suspicion in her heart, Fanna couldn't help but ask at this moment: "You...remember it?"
"If you are referring to my own death, then I remember it, although only part of it," Christo said in a low voice, "Am I dead? I must be dead... The Obsidian has sunk, and we encountered
Caught in the storm and iceberg, we sank, sinking into the endless darkness - there was no possibility of my survival."
Duncan was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly took two steps forward: "Do you know what happened deep inside this ship?"
"Deep?" Christo's voice seemed a little confused.
"Do you remember the details of your death?" Duncan asked again. "Did you fight with something? Did anything else happen on the ship after it sank into the deep sea?"
Christo calmed down and seemed to be thinking. Then a slightly regretful voice came from the biological tissue: "I'm sorry, I don't remember these details. I only remember... the ship is sinking, and it keeps sinking, very, very much."
It was a long process, everyone died, and I should die too, but I kept wandering in the darkness, the surroundings were very cold, and the vision was very dark. I seemed to be looking for something in the darkness. I don’t know how to deal with this chaotic state.
How long has it lasted - 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 only realized the fact that he was dead, but he did not remember what happened in the depths of the Obsidian, nor did he know that his "other self" died in the strange space in the bilge, nor did he know about the mysterious piece of flesh and blood.
The origin of.
The clue seems to be broken.
But Duncan glanced down at his palm - the dark piece of meat was still lying quietly in his palm.
He has already made very important gains.
(It’s time to recommend books ~ "Civilization Returns", the protagonist, as a trainee officer, accidentally fell asleep in a dormant cabin for 2000 years. After that, he suddenly discovered that the earth had exploded, and the rest of humanity was missing. After understanding the current situation
Later, the protagonist finally decided to bring the girl-shaped AI around him, which mainly adopted some settings of Warhammer 40K and Stellaris. It is a space opera-type farming novel.)