Deep Sea Embers

Duncan sat on the sofa in the living room, leisurely looking at the newspapers he bought from the street this morning, and occasionally turned his head to see Shirley, who was lying on the coffee table, writing with a sad face, and Shirley, who was lying beside Shirley holding a book. A Gou, who was engrossed in the book "Compendium of Modern History of City-States", felt relieved for a while.

In this strange and strange world, he finally found a little familiar rhythm of life.

On the other hand, taking Agou, Shirley and Nina over can be regarded as the realization of an idea that he had been thinking about for a long time before - Captain Duncan's small classroom has finally reopened.

He turned his head and looked at the other side of the coffee table. Nina was sitting there on a small stool, seriously writing her winter homework. Morris was supervising and occasionally helping his students correct some details. mistakes and omissions.

"You are a conscientious and good teacher," Duncan said to Morris. "Nina is very lucky."

"She is a hard-working child, and I don't want to delay her life," Morris laughed, and then glanced at the homework book spread out in front of Shirley, with a subtle expression on his face, "But I didn't expect you to do the same Good at . . . teaching others."

Duncan raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

"The study plan you made for Shirley, Alice, and Agou is very reasonable, even... a bit professional," Morris said in a hesitant tone, "I saw the test papers you prepared for them before, and they are also very professional. It's a little... not what I expected."

The old man was very cautious in his wording, and he really cared a little bit about this matter—when he first learned that Duncan was interested in teaching the three illiterates on board, he didn’t think of flashcards, vocabulary books, and multiplication tables in his mind. The first image that popped up in his head was completely towards the direction of "the family of evil gods gathered in the ritual ground to learn about forbidden knowledge", but in the end, they saw the frightening Captain Duncan taking out a bunch of literacy cards...

How should I put it, although now he is more or less used to Captain Duncan's private peace and friendliness, but when he thinks that such a subspace shadow is actually teaching people seriously (or a literacy class), he still feels awkward. Upwell in a controlled manner.

Of course Duncan knew what the old scholar meant, but he couldn't explain it, so he just smiled and waved his hands: "Maybe I once had a dream of becoming a teacher?"

Morris didn't know what to say for a while, but Duncan looked at Shirley's heart-wrenching handwriting again, and couldn't help sighing: "It's a pity that the learning progress of these three 'students' is too different. It's a real headache."

Morris thought for a while and nodded: "Indeed. I think Agou can almost spend time in a library and learn to graduate from college, but Shirley is still struggling with common words, Alice...Alice she ..."

Duncan sighed again: "Oh, Alice worked very hard, but she is Alice."

The learning progress of the three illiterates on board is not at all what he expected at first. He thought that Shirley would learn faster because her brain is better. Desperate learning attitude is the main reason. Alice works harder than anyone else, but Miss Doll's head seems to be really not suitable for reading and writing. In the end, the highest level among the last three illiterates turned out to be a dog. Thanks to his astonishing diligence and savvy, Ah Gou can now not only read literary works by himself, but even solve quadratic equations in three variables...

There are tens of thousands of deep hounds chasing knowledge-now it seems that Agou is the only one who has caught up.

In all fairness, this is the biggest stain in Duncan's—or Zhou Ming's entire teaching career.

Just as he was sighing in his heart, Alice, who had gone out to buy groceries, finally came back—nearly 20 minutes later than expected.

"I'm back!"

The puppet lady opened the door and entered the room, put down the things in her hand and poked her head to greet the living room. Then she saw Xueba, Xueshuang and Xuegou who were doing their homework next to the coffee table, and their faces suddenly showed a happy look. : "Nina! Shirley! Gou! Are you here?"

"I just came here in the morning, and I've already done half a day's homework..." Shirley raised her head with tears in her eyes, "The captain told me to re-copy all the content from the sixteenth page of the vocabulary book..."

"Three times," Duncan said beside him unhurriedly, "Don't keep your face down and cut yourself two-thirds of the tasks."

Then he ignored Shirley's follow-up reaction and looked up at Alice: "Why did you come back at this time? Are you in trouble?"

"Ah, no!" Alice quickly waved her hand, "It's just that there's something exciting... I didn't watch the excitement! It's something that happened, I'm investigating..."

This puppet really can't lie, and it's not good at making excuses. A few words can reveal the fact that it was a waste of time to watch the excitement on the way home.

"Investigation?" Duncan looked at Alice in surprise. He didn't want to pursue her "watching the fun". Although he did warn the other party not to walk around on the road, it was just a trivial matter, and he cared more about it. What's amazing is... the usually dumbfounded Alice can actually say the word "investigation" with a serious face.

Even if it was her temporary excuse, he still cared that the puppet had investigated something.

"On the nearby street, there was a family who said it was dead, and all the people from the church had gone." Alice immediately began to tell Duncan what she saw and heard on the road, "A woman, what did she say that she killed her husband? , and the onlookers also said that the male owner of that house had gone out before... Ah, yes, I also saw a woman, she was dressed like you! She was also wrapped in bandages..."

Duncan listened to the puppet's upside-down and pointless narration for a moment, and barely understood what happened. Then he noticed the "bandaged woman" mentioned by the other party at the end. He frowned slightly. He wanted to ask for some details, but saw Fan Na who was sitting at the dining table not far away feeding the pigeons suddenly stood up.

"The stranger is approaching," Fanna said quickly, "it's a priest."

Duncan immediately waved his hand to calm Alice down and put on the veil again. Agou who was squatting next to the sofa retreated into the shadows in the blink of an eye. Ai flapped his wings and hid on a nearby cabinet. Get up and go to the door.

"Don't be nervous, it's just a visitor." Duncan was quite calm. He waved to Fan Na and Morris, who were a little nervous, and then calmly came to the door and pulled it away.

A young woman wearing a long black trench coat, bandages, a black bowler hat, and a cane was standing outside the door, keeping her hand raised to knock on the door.

She seemed to be frozen there.

Duncan looked the young lady up and down, then down at himself.

"Ah, I've bumped my shirt." He said casually.

"It's her, it's her," Alice stood behind Duncan, at this moment, she saw the appearance of the person at the door, and immediately came over happily, "The woman in black I told you, I saw it on the way back from shopping. ..."

Alice's voice awakened Agatha who was in a daze. The muscles on her face trembled slightly. It took her a long time to move her eyes away from the tall and burly figure in front of her and look in the direction of the sound.

The blond woman with no breathing or heartbeat that I had just seen not long ago was standing in the room, looking at this side with curious and happy eyes.

She is indeed here.

Agatha took several deep breaths, tried to calm her heartbeat, the slight tinnitus gradually faded in her mind, and the blackness of vision and double image phenomenon caused by suddenly looking directly at the "truth" finally disappeared from her eyes—she Finally he breathed a sigh of relief, and remembered his reason for coming in his confused mind.

A somewhat stiff smile appeared on her face: "I... have no intention of interrupting, just to check on the situation, you..."

"Come in," Duncan nodded indifferently, and made way to the side. "It's quite cold, don't stand at the door and say."

Agatha was stunned for a moment, but didn't react for a while.

Seeing this scene, Fan Na, who was standing by the side silently before, couldn't help but frowned, and stepped forward to look at the other party: "You rushed over knowing where this place is, so you didn't even think about opening the door. thing?"

"Understand," Morris said hastily, "after seeing the captain for the first time, she must be confused. The higher the spirit vision is, the more she will be. This girl is confused at first sight."

Upon hearing this, Fan Na immediately recalled her entry experience on the Lost Home, and felt that the old man was right.

Agatha finally realized when Fanna was talking with Morris—her brain was indeed still a little confused, but her reason had regained control. Due to Duncan's conscious restraint, her mind was not affected too much, which meant that As soon as Shi recovered, he hurriedly nodded: "Sorry, I'm a little distracted."

Then she glanced at the road that Duncan made way for, and after a little hesitation, she finally took a step.

She knows where this is.

She knew that the burly figure was essentially an indescribable person who had descended on the city-state and was very likely to be similar to an ancient god.

She knew that she had stepped into a "falling place".

But from the moment the door opened, there was no room for remorse.

Behind Duncan, Morris watched the tense young lady stepping into the room, turned her head slightly and whispered to Fanna, "Be stronger than you were before."

Fan Na muttered in a low voice: "Don't blame me, the captain was too scary when he 'dreamed' for the first time."

Morris nodded: "That's true..."

Fan Na added: "But I was much calmer the second time."

Duncan heard the two men muttering in the back, and finally couldn't help turning his head: "You didn't force much the second time—be quiet, the guests are here."