Deep Sea Embers Chapter 2: Captain of the Homeless

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This is not the first time that Zhou Ming has passed through this door to the “opposite side”.

Since a few days ago, Zhou Ming woke up and found that he was trapped in his room by some kind of “vision”. After a strange thick fog covered the whole world, he found this place “opposite” the door Weird place.

After all, that door is now the only exit from his “room”.

He still remembers the dazedness and confusion when he opened the door for the first time and saw the deck outside. He even remembers the shock and panic when he first looked down and saw that he had changed his body, but after that , in order to seek an opportunity to break through the predicament, he has boldly carried out several successful explorations of “this side”, although he still does not understand what happened to himself, nor does he understand that this ship appeared in him” What is the situation with the strange big ship outside the door, but at least he has mastered some experience and has a preliminary understanding of this ship.

Like the previous few times, Zhou Ming forced himself to get rid of the dizziness caused by passing through the gate in the shortest possible time, and then immediately confirmed the condition of the body. He checked the handle in his hand. The short gun compared all the details from memory, and finally confirmed that the items on his body were the same as the last time he left the deck.

“…It seems that every time you pass through this door, your body will ‘seamlessly switch’… If you can put a camera on this side of the deck, you can confirm that you are pushing the captain’s room door. Will this body change when I return to the apartment…

“Unfortunately, the items of the two ‘worlds’ cannot pass through the gate, and there is no way to bring the camera over…

“However, before the cell phone in the apartment, I recorded the scene when I passed through the gate from there. I did walk through the black fog… So it was indeed when my body passed through the black fog. ‘Change’ has become like this?”

Zhou Ming muttered, he knew that the way he was standing on the deck talking to himself might be a bit funny to outsiders, but he had to make some noise, on this eerie ghost ship that was empty and empty …he needs a little proof that he is still “alive”.

A gust of salty sea breeze blew across the deck, blowing the black-blue captain’s suit of unknown material on his body, Zhou Ming sighed softly, but he did not walk towards the deck, but turned around He looked at the door behind him.

He put his hand on the doorknob.

Turn the handle, and then just push the door inward, and he will see a thick gray-black fog, through which he will return to his bachelor apartment where he has lived for many years.

With force in his hand, he pulled the door open.

The slightly heavy oak door creaked, and inside the door was a slightly dim cabin. In the dim light, you could see the exquisite tapestries hanging on the walls, and the storage for many decorations. There is a shelf, and a large nautical table in the center of the room, and there is a small door in the deepest part of the room with a burgundy carpet in front of it.

Push the door open, and you’ll return to your bachelor’s apartment. Pull the door open and you’ll find the captain’s room – which is obviously the “normal facility” on this ship.

Zhou Ming stepped into the captain’s room. When passing by the door, he habitually looked to the left – there was a one-person-high mirror fixed on the wall next to it. In the mirror, ” Zhou Ming” looks like now.

It was a tall man with thick black hair, a dignified short beard, and sunken eye sockets. His appearance alone seemed to have an aura of indifference. He seemed to be over forty years old. However, Yingwu’s appearance and extremely oppressive eyes seem to blur this sense of age, and the well-crafted captain’s uniform shows the special identity of the person in the mirror.

Zhou Ming moved his neck and grimaced at the mirror – he felt that he was an easy-going and friendly person, and the image in the mirror really didn’t match his temperament, but he quickly gave up This attempt, because he felt that instead of looking friendly in the mirror, he had changed from a majestic captain to a psychopathic serial killer…

While Zhou Ming was doing these actions, a slight creaking sound came from the direction of the sailing table. Unsurprisingly, he looked in the direction of the sound and saw the table on the table. A wooden goat head statue was placed, turning its face to itself a little bit – the lifeless block of wood seemed to come to life at this moment, and the pair of obsidian eyes inlaid on the wooden face stared at it faintly.

The panicked memories of seeing this strange scene for the first time flashed in my mind, but Zhou Ming only twitched the corners of his mouth. He walked to the sailing table, and the wooden goat head on the table also followed. Turning his neck, a hoarse and gloomy voice came out of its wooden cavity: “Name?”

“Duncan,” Zhou Ming said calmly, “Duncan Abnomar.”

The voice of the wooden goat head instantly changed from hoarse and gloomy to warm and friendly: “Good morning, Your Excellency Captain, I’m glad to see that you still remember your name – how are you feeling today? How are you feeling today? Did you sleep well? Hope you had a good dream. Besides, today is a good day to set sail, the sea is calm, the wind is good, cool and comfortable, and there is no annoying navy and noisy crew, Captain, you know a noisy The crew of…”

“You are already noisy enough.” Although it was not the first time he had dealt with this weird goat head, Zhou Ming still felt a shudder in his brain at this moment. “Quiet.”

“Oh, oh, oh of course, Captain, you like to be quiet, as your loyal First and Second Mate and Bosun and Lookout knows very well. There are many benefits to being quiet, and there was a medical It may be in the field of philosophy or in the field of architecture…”

Zhou Ming now feels that not only is his brain trembling, but even his bronchi begin to tremble: “I mean, I order you to be quiet!”

As soon as the word “command” came out, the goat head finally fell silent.

Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief, then walked to the sailing table and sat down – now, he is the “captain” of this empty ghost ship.

Duncan Abnomar, an unfamiliar name, a tongue-in-cheek surname.

The moment he walked through the black-gray fog and stepped on the ship for the first time, he knew this in his mind. He knew that the body he was on “this side” was called Duncan, and he knew that he It was the owner of the ship, who knew that the ship was on a long journey beyond imagination—he knew this, but only this.

The memory in his mind is so vague and thin that there are only those key passages above, and the other details are completely blank, as if he knew the ship had an amazing sailing plan but had no idea about it Where is it going? The original owner of this ship, the real “Duncan Abnomar”, seems to have died a long, long time ago.

The things that remained in Zhou Ming’s mind were more like the strongest and most profound “impressions” of a ghost captain left in the world after his complete death.

Instinct tells Zhou Ming that there is a big problem behind the identity of this “Captain Duncan”, especially with the existence of paranormal phenomena on this ship (the talking wooden goat head), the mystery of this Captain Duncan may even be It meant some kind of danger he had never imagined, but he had to wear that name to move safely on this ship.

Because just like the wooden goat head just now, something on this ship is trying to confirm the “captain’s identity” at any time.

Even the ship itself is always confirming the captain’s identity.

It feels like some kind of insurance, as if the captain of the ship could really forget his name at any time, and once he forgets his name, something extremely terrifying and dangerous will happen It is necessary to set up “checking means” everywhere on the ship.

Zhou Ming didn’t know the consequences of “Captain Duncan” forgetting his name, but he believed that once he said his name wrong, there would never be any good consequences.

After all, even the wooden goat head on the nautical table doesn’t look like a good person.

But if you wear the name Duncan Abnomar~IndoMTL.com~ then everything on this ship is pretty amiable.

They don’t look very intelligent anyway.

Zhou Ming—perhaps it should be called Duncan. Duncan ended his brief contemplation and memories, and then looked at the spread out chart on the table.

However, there were no identifiable routes, markings, or lands on the chart at all, not even an island. On its rough and thick parchment surface, only large swaths of undulating gray and white could be seen. The clumps, those gray-white, fog-like things seemed to obscure the original route on the paper, and the only thing that could be seen in the center of the chart was the silhouette of a ship looming in the thick fog.

Duncan (Zhou Ming) has no experience in sailing to sea in the past few decades, but even people who don’t know sea charts will know that “normal” charts don’t look like this.

Obviously, like the wooden goat’s head on the table, this chart is also some kind of supernatural item – but Duncan has not yet concluded its usage.

It seems that he noticed that the captain’s attention was finally on the chart, and the goat’s head, which had been quiet for a long time on the table, finally moved again. I twisted and twisted, and I was more restrained at first, but soon the clack and clack became too much to ignore-in the end, the whole head of this guy started to squirm on the base as if the vibration mode was turned on. .

Duncan was afraid that if he continued to smoke it, he would drill wood to make fire on his sailing table, and finally couldn’t help but glance at it: “Say.”

“Yes Your Excellency Captain – I’ll say it again, today is a good day to set sail, and Homeless is waiting for your orders as always! Are we going to set sail?”

       

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