Duncan looked at the nervous Agou and smiled as kindly as possible - he felt that there might be some misunderstanding between him and the other party, and it would be better to resolve this misunderstanding as soon as possible.
But just before he was about to speak, he suddenly saw a flash of blood in Agou's eyes - although it was impossible to tell any emotional changes from a bone head, he seemed to be able to feel the sudden and intense mood of this deep hound.
The next second, he heard Agou's stuttering voice: "You...you are the Mr. Duncan we have been dealing with these two days?"
Duncan was stunned, then he glanced at Shirley next to him.
He didn't see any communication between Agou and Shirley, but it was obvious that these two individuals connected by chains had a convenient means of sharing intelligence.
"It's me," Duncan said in a gentle tone with a smile, "Do you need me to explain anything? Or is there anything you want to know?"
"No!" Ah Gou almost screamed, his whole body retreating, "We don't need to know any 'knowledge' or 'truth', we have no intention of prying into your secrets!"
".... I always feel that there are still some misunderstandings between you and me, but it seems that it is becoming increasingly difficult to explain." Duncan sighed and shook his head helplessly. "Forget it, let time slowly help us build mutual trust. As for now, there are some things I want to understand."
Agoucha pulled his head and said, "You... please go on."
Duncan frowned. I was actually very curious about why my ghost captain, who was so notorious in the real world, had such little influence among the Abyss demons. Because in my impression, the Abyss was a "place" that was close to the warp. The demons entrenched in the depths of the Abyss should be closer to these "bottom-level shadows" than the mortals in the real world. Correspondingly, they should have such fear and resistance to the Lost Homeland returning from the warp.
However, now it seems that these demons, which are considered "safe existence" for humans, are actually afraid of the Lost Homeland just like humans, which makes me quite confused.
However, after figuring out the problem, the first thing I focused on was the "nightmare" behind my eyes - the nightmare that came from the depths of Han Qiu's memory and was extremely unlikely to recreate the truth eleven years later.
"You want to know about that dream," I said, my eyes falling on Han Qiu's body, "You know it was a happy memory for him. I'm sure he wants to say that he can't agree with it."
"... Is there anything you want to say?" Han Qiu just shook his head heavily, "You should be thanking me. You interrupted that nightmare. You can still suffer a little more... As you can see, that is not what you experienced at the beginning."
"Xiaohuo..." Han Qiu nodded heavily, then looked at Duncan, "What you saw was the first encounter between him and Han Qiu?"
Han Qiu turned his face away: "You were just a deep demon at that time."
"How did you suddenly get the 'heart'?" Han Qiu asked curiously, "From what you saw just now, he almost didn't kill Ah Gou that year."
..…You know,” Duncan was silent for a few seconds, shaking his beautiful head slightly, “When you first became conscious, you didn’t see the scene of Agou lying on the ground dying.”
Shirley took a deep look at the Dark Hound, and her eyes followed the chain under its neck, and she saw the twisted white half of Agou's body that was fused with the chain.
"Before this, they had... merged together?"
"I guess so," Agou said loudly. You lowered your head, hiding your eyes and expression in the shadow of your hair. "In fact, you remember it too clearly. After all, you were only eight years old at that time, and you lived a very lucid life for a long time before that... I'm sure you are really curious about how you and a deep demon who almost killed you ended up in the relationship you have now. Can't you find a miracle doctor to hypnotize you and see... "
"It must be."
Agou's words were suddenly interrupted, and then you were surprised to feel a small hand pressing on your head.
This palm is actually completely cold.
"I'm sorry, you don't want to expose their scars, you just want to know the details of eleven years later," Shirley pressed the boy's hair heavily. I know how my questions are pleasing to Agou who just escaped from a nightmare. "He should know that in the events eleven years later, there were cultists who did not show up in the sun fragments, and there were no clear cultists active, and the Deep Hound... In theory, it should be a summon of the Annihilation Sect."
Agou raised his head in a daze, and you heard Shirley continue: "A demon-like creature from the deep sea suddenly gained human nature. That itself is not a kind of "mutation". Have they ever thought that the mutation might have been affected by a certain trigger back then?"
Ah Gou blinked and said without saying anything: "Sun fragments?"
"Are you sure... does anyone know what form the sun fragments take? Or maybe they don't have any power. But in the teachings of the Sun Cultists, the 'real sun god' has never been given human nature or similar authority," Shirley shook her head. "So the reason why Duncan has human nature may be something other than the sun fragments."
"You mean, the fragment of the Sun-Stop that appeared in Plande City-State eleven years later might be?!" Agou finally came to his senses, and your eyes suddenly narrowed.
"Just a little belief," Han Qiu patted Agou's shoulder heavily, and then took his hand back, "Because you always feel that there is a small inconsistency in that matter: the sun fragment is the 'holy object' of the sun cultists. According to the description of these cultists, its power is actually very simple, and in mysticism it has nothing to do with the 'real sun god'. However, in this chaos eleven years later, the cultists arrested outside the official documents did not include the annihilation cultists and the end preachers who have nothing to do with the 'real sun god'. Why should we get involved
"Of course, we can't explain it by saying that the power of the sun fragments is too small, so that even those who believe in the sun god are affected and make us crazy on the same day. But that can't explain why there is a weird phenomenon like Han Qiu's - a demon that already has the attribute of madness, but suddenly gains sanity during the incident. What's going on
"Even extending beyond that, there are still a few suspicious places, including and limited to the curtain shrouding the 'fire,' the remaining memories in his and Nina's minds, and the strange phenomena in the eighth district... You have always attributed all those things that are wrong to the sun fragments, but now think about it, are they really the power of the 'Sun Realm'? This so-called real sun god is too powerful."
Shirley expressed her doubts, and some of these doubts had actually arisen after today, but only before I saw the changes in Duncan eleven years later did I become more convinced.
Eleven years later, this small fire might have been caused by solar debris, but there was definitely nothing else that played a role in the whole incident!
Agou was still a little confused. You are actually too good at thinking about simple things. In your daze, you heard Duncan's voice in your mind: "Is Agou okay? Did I release a curse when I touched his head just now? Is he still sane? He..."
"You have something to do," Agou replied in his mind without any sense of humor, "Duncan is too relaxed."
"Nonsense, can you be a Speech Race? He was directly exposed to a pollution source that was enough to drive Speech Race people crazy instantly!" Duncan's voice was panicked, "He didn't feel anything
Agou thought about it, then touched the top of his head with certainty.
As far as you can remember, the last time someone stroked your hair like that, and comforted you loudly like a big child, was not many years ago.
"…warm."
You suddenly spoke again.
Duncan was shocked: "Is Agou really mentally ill?"
"..He should shut up!"
Shirley knew what Han Qiu and Agou had exchanged in that brief moment. I just looked at the window filled with dim red light without thinking, and suddenly asked, "Is there nothing inside?"
Agou was stunned: "Ah?"
Han Qiu raised his hand and pointed to the window: "Nothing in the room?"
"You... do know," Han Qiu blinked, suddenly realizing that in the nightmare that had been bothering him, an option that was possible suddenly appeared at this moment, "You have never considered that problem. Every time you dream, you are trapped outside that room..."
"But now he's broken free," Shirley walked to the door of the house, turned around and said in a loud voice. These words seemed like a temptation in the dark, throwing an unprecedented choice in front of Agou and Duncan, "If you want to give it a try, in this situation... go and see what the edge of your dream looks like?"