The delay in returning to the base from their patrols made Nemo feel uneasy.

"Let's go together," Duncan said with his own words, just as he also wanted to take a walk around this abandoned and mysterious "Second Waterway" to see if there were some secrets hidden in the ancient legacy left by the Queen of Frost, "multiple people and multiple care."

Nemo glanced at the burly "Legendary Captain" in front of him with some surprise.

Frankly speaking, until now he still has a sense of unreality in the clouds - the legendary "Captain Duncan" returned from subspace, he has indeed heard of this matter, after all, not long ago the Sea Mist also made a special trip to the "far gate" because of this incident, but Captain Duncan standing directly in front of him is another layer of horror, belonging to the level of running to the cemetery to tell his deceased grandfather, the old man will jump out of the coffin to shut himself up - but it really happened.

However, after a short period of contact, he discovered that this "Captain Duncan" was not as terrible as the legend suggests.

He was sane, conversary, and polite—and he was surrounded by several "assistants" who didn't look like puppets under the control of some evil magic.

Now, he has even offered to help.

This made Nemo a little confused for a moment, but he quickly nodded—compared to analyzing the temper of his boss's father, the crow who had not returned for a long time was something that could not be delayed.

"I'm going along," the old ghost's voice came over at this moment, and the old man came to the nearby shelf, rummaged through the mess of "rags", found a safety oil lamp and a crowbar to hang on his chest, and found a rope hanging from another shelf, and walked to the door, "No one knows the route down here better than I do—if that kid really gets lost at some fork in the road, you need the wisdom of the elderly."

Obviously, this old man, who was sometimes confused and sometimes understood, was in better shape at the moment.

Duncan didn't say anything, just motioned for Nemo to lead the way, and the group left the caretaker's hut, crossed the wide "intersection" from before, and began to follow a sewer branch road that stretched north to find Nemo's long-delayed men.

And as he crossed that intersection and descended deeper into the depths of the "second waterway," Duncan became more and more aware of what a huge undertaking it was—and how powerful the city-state had been under the Frost Queen fifty years ago.

Everywhere you look, the walls are solid, the corridors are high, the so-called "sewers" are almost like a grand underground palace, and the criss-crossing structures are obviously not only used for drainage, but are also likely to have military, evacuation, and even underground factory considerations, and above those wide corridors, you can see the criss-crossing of pipes, although many of them have been severely rusted and even broken and fallen off due to long-term abandonment, but still remind people of the scale of their construction.

On both sides of the corridor, there are occasional openings in huge pipes and rusty grates, and the above-ground drains on either side have long since dried up - due to the short service life of the entire underground waterway and the fact that it has been abandoned for many years, there is no unbearable smell in it except for a few stale musty smells.

Walking in such an incredible underground facility, even the well-informed Morris couldn't help but sigh in admiration, but in addition to the admiration, the old scholar suddenly had some doubts.

"Even for the sake of the city-state's development in a hundred years... It's a bit of an exaggeration to build such a massive underground facility, right?" He couldn't help but speak, "Purland's sewer system is already advanced, but it's still a lot inferior to this one—not to mention that it was built fifty years ago, so did Frost really need such a huge 'second waterway'?"

"The queen has her own considerations, and her judgment has always been correct," the old ghost who was walking in front heard Morris's question, and immediately said, "Your Majesty, she is a natural psyker, and she can always see things that ordinary people can't, and even the future of the city-state—she relies on this judgment to make Frost strong, and we believe that these things she plans will always come in handy."

Duncan's brow furrowed suddenly. "A natural psyker?" He looked at the old man with the rope on his back and a crowbar, "You mean that the Frost Queen can predict the future to some extent?"

"She said she couldn't, but we all believed she could—how else would we explain the incredible judgments she made?" The old man turned his head and said with a determined expression, "Anyway, it's certain that the queen has extraordinary sense, and everyone of us at that time knew this."

Duncan looked at Morris on the side, who also had a thoughtful look on his face at the moment, and said in a low voice, "There are not many records of the Frost Queen in history, because most of the information was lost or deliberately hidden and tampered with during that rebellion, but as far as I know, there is no record of 'the Queen was born with psychic powers' or 'The Queen has prophetic powers, only that she is extremely intelligent and has flexible political skills."

Duncan listened, and silently glanced at Alice, who was honestly following him.

She wasn't smart at all, and she didn't know what politics was — she hadn't even learned to spell the word.

Alice noticed the captain's gaze and immediately turned her head, her eyes curled with a smile out of her eyes.

「... There are times when there are omissions in the records, especially since the rebels will definitely deliberately hide a lot of things, and I would like to believe that the Frost Queen did have something peculiar," Duncan said casually as he wiped Alice's silly smile from his mind, "It's just the huge 'second waterway' in front of me,...... What was her purpose in building such an incredible thing..."

No one could answer Duncan's question, and just then, Vana suddenly noticed something strange in the distance.

"Somebody over there is on the ground!" She reminded as she pointed into the distance.

Everyone looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, they saw a figure in a blue coat lying on the ground.

The group ran as fast as they could, and Nemo reached out and turned the man who had fallen to the ground over, and a pale face came into view.

「..... It's a crow," the expression on Nemo's face was extremely ugly for a moment, and then he slammed his fist into the ground next to him, "He's X!"

Vanna crouched down next to the dead young man, she seemed to notice that something was wrong with the corpse, and after some inspection, she suddenly frowned, "He is. Drowned?"

」... Drown?" Maurice, who was next to him, was shocked to find the corpse's wet coat and the signs of abnormally swollen skin, but when he looked around, he saw only the dry ground nearby—the only water mark was under the crow's body.

Vanna leaned in closer, examined it carefully for a moment, and then looked up, "The smell of the sea—he was drowned in the sea."

"There's no seawater here, even if it's an underground river nearby, it's fresh water," the old ghost followed from behind, and when he saw the dead crow, the already criss-crossed wrinkles on his face suddenly twisted even more, "Poor young man, he must have been caught by the rebels, drowned and thrown here..."

"It's not certain that the rebels are not rebels, but it is possible to throw corpses," Morris's expression was serious, "This is obviously not the scene of the crime... … Huh?"

As if he had suddenly noticed something, he reached into the pocket of the "crow's" coat and groped for it, and he pulled out a piece of paper, which had also been completely soaked with water, and caught his attention.

Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on that piece of paper.

Morris pinched the paper, which was particularly fragile due to the immersion in the water, and carefully unfolded it.

There were words on the paper - although they had been blurred by the blisters, they had not yet completely dispersed.

With the extra light of the oil lamp brought by the old ghost, Duncan made out the information on the paper, but the content on it was confusing, it was a few paragraphs with no beginning and no end

」.... The meetings of the Fallen Kings were held and opened, and the original plan was set, and most of the people in the ashes were sheltered and had to rise in the light and heat.....

」... But the kings quarreled again

Stubborn, they saw a clan hiding in the shadows ....

"And the forsaken, whose flesh will melt in the light, and who cannot be blessed from the newborn world, came to the council of the forsaken kings, and demanded that they be given the same refuge, but what they wanted, which was inherently harmful to others in the ashes, the derelict kings could not grant them, and they were abandoned.

"They went into the shadows, and imprisoned themselves in a dark place, but they could not die completely, and they cried out, and they sought refuge in their homeland, but they could not ask for it, so they fled further into the darkness—for they did not like darkness, but only darkness could save them from the poison of this world, and they dwelt in darkness for a long time..."