Duncan looked at the nervous Agou and smiled as kindly as possible - he felt that there might be a misunderstanding between him and the other party, and it was better to resolve this misunderstanding as soon as possible.
But just before he was about to speak, he suddenly saw the blood in Agou's eyes flashing - even though he couldn't see any emotional changes from a bone head, he seemed to be able to feel the intense turbulence of this profound hound. Feeling.
The next second, he heard Agou's stammering voice:
"You...are you the 'Mr. Duncan' we have been dealing with these past two days?" Duncan was stunned, and then glanced at Shirley next to him.
He didn't see any communication between Agou and Shirley, but it was obvious that there was a convenient means of sharing intelligence between these two individuals connected by chains.
"It's me," Duncan said softly with a smile.
"Do you need me to explain anything else? Or is there anything you want to know?"
"No!" Agou almost screamed, retreating back with his whole body.
"We don't need to know any 'knowledge' or 'truth', and we have no intention of prying into your mysteries!"
"...I always feel that there are still some misunderstandings between you and me, but it seems that it is becoming increasingly unclear," Duncan sighed and shook his head helplessly.
"Forget it, let time slowly help us build mutual trust. As for now, I have some things I want to know." Agoudi pulled his head:
"You... please tell me." Duncan frowned. He was actually very curious about why he, a ghost captain who was so famous in the real world, had such a big influence among the deep demons, because in his impression, the deep sea It's one that's extremely close to subspace.
"Place", the demons entrenched in the deep depths should be closer to those than mortals in the real world.
"Underlying shadows", correspondingly, they should not be so afraid and resistant to the Homeless Ship returning from subspace.
However, it now seems that those things that are inherently important to human beings are
He was confused that the "dangerous" demons were as afraid of the Homeless Ship as humans. But before he figured this out, he first focused on the scene in front of him.
"Nightmare" - a nightmare that comes from the depths of Shirley's memory and is very likely to reproduce the truth of eleven years ago.
"I want to know about this dream," he said, his eyes falling on Shirley.
"I know this is a very painful memory for you. If you don't want to talk about it, you can refuse."
"...There's nothing I don't want to say," Shirley just shook her head lightly.
"I should thank you. You interrupted this nightmare, so I can suffer less... As you can see, this is what I experienced back then."
"Is it a big fire..." Duncan nodded slightly, then looked at Agou,
"What I saw was the first 'encounter' between you and Shirley?" Agou turned away and said:
"I was just a deep demon at that time."
"Then how did you suddenly get the 'heart'?" Duncan asked curiously,
"From what I just saw, you almost killed Shirley back then."
"...I don't know," Agou was silent for a few seconds, shaking his ugly head slightly.
"When I first became self-aware, all I saw was Shirley lying on the ground dying." Duncan took a deep look at the mysterious hound, and then moved his eyes along the chain around his neck. , saw Shirley's dark and twisted half of the body fused with the chains.
"After that, you just... merged together?"
"So be it," Shirley whispered. She lowered her head, hiding her eyes and expressions in the shadow of her hair.
"Actually, I don't remember exactly. After all, I was only six years old at the time, and I lived in a daze for a long time after that... If you are really curious about how I slowly changed into a mysterious demon who almost killed me... If you have this relationship, you can get a psychiatrist to come over and hypnotize me, maybe..."
"No need." Shirley's words were suddenly interrupted, and then she was shocked to feel a large palm pressing on the top of her head.
The palm was actually warm.
"Sorry, I don't want to reveal your scars. I just want to know the details of eleven years ago." Duncan gently pressed the girl's hair. He knew that his questions would be disturbing to Shirley, who had just escaped from the nightmare. It's not very pleasant to say,
"You should know that in the incident eleven years ago, not only the sun fragments appeared, but also countless cultists were active, and the Nether Hound...theoretically should be the summoned object of the Annihilation Sect." Shirley was a little dazed. Looking up, she heard Duncan continue:
"A demonic creature from the deep sea suddenly gains humanity. This is a kind of 'mutation' in itself. Have you ever thought that this mutation may also be affected by some inducement in the past?" Shirley blinked. He said a little dullly:
"Sun fragments?"
"I'm not sure... no one knows what form the sun fragments have, or what power they have. It's just that in the teachings promoted by Sun Cultists, the 'real Sun God' does not have 'humanity' or similar authority at all. ," Duncan shook his head,
"So what caused Agou to appear human may be...something other than sun fragments."
"Are you saying that there may not only be sun fragments that appeared in the city-state of Pland eleven years ago?!" Shirley finally woke up, and her eyes suddenly widened.
"Just a little doubt," Duncan patted Shirley's shoulder lightly, then withdrew his hand.
"Because I have always felt that there is a big violation in this matter: the sun fragment is a 'holy object' directed at the Sun Cultists. According to the description of the cultists, its power is actually very simple. In terms of occultism, It is only related to the 'True Sun God'. However, in the chaos eleven years ago, the cultists arrested in the officially disclosed documents included Annihilation Cultists and Evangelists who had nothing to do with the 'True Sun God'. God's irrelevant guys...why are they getting involved?
"Of course, it can also be explained that the power of the sun fragments is so great that even people who do not believe in the sun god were affected and made them go crazy on the same day, but this cannot explain why there are weird things like Agou. The...'phenomenon'-a demon with frenzied attributes suddenly gained sanity during an incident. What's going on?
"Even extending out, there are many suspicious places, including but not limited to the curtain covering the outside of the 'fire', the remaining memories in your and Nina's minds, the weird phenomena in the Sixth Street... We have always thought that these things are not right All the places are attributed to sun fragments, but now think about it carefully, are these really the power of the 'solar domain'? Then the so-called real sun god is too omnipotent." Duncan expressed his thoughts Doubts, and some of them actually arose before today. It was only after seeing Agou's changes eleven years ago that he became more convinced of the doubts in his heart.
The fire eleven years ago may have been caused by solar debris, but there was definitely something else that played a role in the entire incident!
Shirley was still a little confused. She was actually not very good at thinking about these complicated things. In her daze, she heard Agou's voice ringing rapidly in her mind:
"Shirley, are you okay? Did he touch your head just now to release a curse? Are you still conscious? You..."
"I'm fine," Shirley replied in her mind, a bit dumbfounded.
"Agou, you are too nervous."
"Nonsense, can I not be nervous? You have directly come into contact with a source of pollution that can make ordinary people crazy instantly!" Agou's voice sounded panicked.
"Then how do you feel?" Shirley thought for a moment and touched the top of her head uncertainly. In her memory, the last time someone stroked her hair like this and comforted her softly like a child was many, many years ago.
"...Warm." She said softly in a daze. Agou was suddenly shocked:
"Shirley, is there really something wrong with your mind?"
"...Shut up!" Duncan didn't know what Agou and Shirley exchanged in this brief moment. He just looked thoughtfully at the window filled with dim red light and suddenly asked One sentence:
"What's outside?" Shirley was stunned:
"Ah?" Duncan raised his hand and pointed to the window:
"What's outside the room?"
"I... don't know," Shirley blinked, suddenly realizing that in this nightmare that was constantly bothering her, an impossible option seemed to suddenly appear at this moment.
"I have never considered this issue. Every time I dream, I am trapped in this room..."
"But now you broke away," Duncan walked to the door of the cabin, turned around and whispered softly. Those words were like a temptation in the dark, leaving an unprecedented choice in front of Shirley and Agou.
"Would you like to try it, while you are awake... to see what the edge of your dream looks like?",
