Listening to Duncan's instructions, Agatha immediately thought of the "corpse" that was used as temporary material for the descent.

She nodded slightly without objection: "Yes, I will consider this method."

Duncan hummed, then looked at Agatha curiously in the flaming door, observing the vague and blurred scenery behind her, and asked casually, "How is the situation over there?"

"The cathedral has returned to normal. Today we are contacting churches across the city to confirm the manpower currently available and to count the losses over the past period of time," Agatha replied, with a hint of relief in her tone. "Last night was just as you said. The city-state was stable. There really was no shadow in the darkness. Even the mental hospital and cemetery, which were most likely to have problems, did not show any abnormalities. This made me feel relieved. If this continues in the future, we will have half the things to worry about."

"I'm talking about your situation," Duncan raised his eyebrows, "With your current body, won't there be any problems with such high-intensity work?"

"I don't feel tired - maybe becoming a corpse is a good thing for me now," Agatha said calmly, "Corpses don't get tired, and don't need rest in the conventional sense. As long as I can get peace from prayer and meditation, I'll be fine."

"You seem to be in the prayer room of the church?"

"Yes, I'm in the cathedral. This was Bishop Ivan's room. It's very quiet." Agatha turned around and took a look at this familiar yet special room. There was a hint of sadness in her tone. "Now, this place is left to me."

Duncan suddenly felt a little strange. He hesitated for several seconds, but couldn't help asking, "Does Bartok mind you contacting me like this in the cathedral?"

Agatha was stunned: "..."

Shirley and Agou next to them were also stunned.

"Captain, how come you always think about things from such an incredible angle?" Shirley muttered softly, "And this sounds weird..."

Duncan glanced at the girl expressionlessly and said, "Don't interrupt when adults are talking. Stop writing when you get the chance - you haven't written a single word since just now, right?"

Shirley sighed and continued to fight desperately with her homework. Agatha, who was projected in the flames, finally came to her senses. She turned her head with a strange expression and glanced at the statue of the God of Death not far away. After a long time, she turned back and said, "I haven't thought about this question at all..."

Then she paused and asked thoughtfully, "Vanna is with you. Have you ever asked her this question? How did she answer?"

Duncan thought about it and felt that it made sense: "I haven't asked it before. I can ask it when I have time."

Agatha subconsciously opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end nothing came out.

After a few seconds of awkward silence, she finally found another topic: "Besides, I'm ready to check out the situation in the Boiling Gold Mine."

"Has the mine returned to normal?" Duncan raised his eyebrows. "I remember you said it would take at least a few more days."

"It has basically calmed down. To be honest... it may still be risky to explore the depths now, but I don't plan to wait any longer." Agatha's expression became serious, and it seemed that she had made up her mind. "I can feel that something in the depths is calling me. This feeling has become stronger since this morning. If I wait any longer... I'm worried that I will miss something very important."

Duncan nodded slightly, and after a few seconds of silence, he suddenly said, "Before you leave, come find me at 44 Oak Street."

Agatha's eyes widened in surprise: "You want to come with me?"

"I'm also curious about what's left there."

"I see. I'll look for you before I leave."

Duncan nodded, waved his hand to disperse the flames in the air, then he exhaled and lowered his head to look at the empty fishing rod in his hand.

"...Forget it, air force is also part of fishing," he muttered, and turned to look at Shirley and Agou who were lying next to the wooden barrel, "I'm going back to the room first, Agou, keep an eye on Shirley and make her at least finish copying the first five pages of the vocabulary book - she can play however she wants after finishing her homework."

Agou quickly stood up, nodding eagerly and shaking his bony tail, until Duncan's figure disappeared at the stairs not far away. The Deep Hound finally breathed a sigh of relief and returned to where he had been lying at the beginning. But before lying down, he suddenly looked up at Shirley and said, "Don't be distracted. Write quickly."

"Agou, you're really pushing me." Shirley slumped her shoulders, "My hands are sore..."

"I can write a diary without even fingers - at least you have ten fingers on both hands," Agou shook his head and muttered as he lay down again, "Read more books and learn more words. Shirley, don't be impatient. The captain is really doing this for your own good. Haven't you always wanted to have a life like other children? I really can't give it to you, but the captain wants to give it to you - as a being like him, there are so many ways to show favor, but he chose to care about you and Nina like a human being. Do you know how much this is..."

Shirley quickly waved her hands and begged for mercy halfway through: "Hey, stop talking, stop talking. I know, I know. I'm not stupid. Ah Gou, why are you acting like an old woman..."

Agou muttered twice again, but did not continue talking to Shirley. Instead, he lowered his head and continued to study the geometry textbook in front of him with great interest.

On the pages, words and symbols outline the knowledge and experience of the predecessors, lines and formulas tell the operation of the world. Agou's eye sockets filled with blood-red light are concentrating on reading the chapters that embody the wisdom of civilization. In his mind that belongs to the deep devil, he keeps sketching geometric figures and mathematical formulas according to the content of the textbook.

There was also a flashing red light source and a series of flashing light dots arranged like a matrix, flashing between the geometric images and formulas.

The next second, Shirley seemed to sense something and suddenly looked in the direction of Agou. Agou was awakened almost instantly from a certain state, and the whole dog jumped up several meters high: "Oh shit!!"

Shirley was dragged by the chain and flew into the air, then fell to the deck with a thud. After she got up in a daze, she immediately rushed over to hold Agou's head and shook it hard: "What's wrong with you! And what happened to you just now? Why did I feel like your aura changed?!"

"I... I don't know!" Agou's head creaked as Shirley shook it. He finally broke free, but he was still confused. "Just now I seemed to see something flash past my eyes. I didn't have time to see what it was... But now everything is fine."

Ai Yi, who was pecking at French fries, suddenly tilted his head and looked at Agou curiously: "The remote server is not responding, please check the network connection?"

Agou didn't react for a moment, and subconsciously said: "Ah?"

Ai Yi just flapped his wings and walked to the side as if nothing had happened, pacing while muttering: "Do you want to buy Q coins? Do you want to buy a monthly pass? Do you want to buy a pass?"

"Don't pay attention to it, this bird is even more confused than Alice," Shirley waved her hand and turned Agou's head towards her. She was obviously worried. "Are you okay? Did you burn your brain out from doing math problems all day?"

"I've never heard of a deep demon burning the brain..." Agou himself began to doubt, "I don't even know if I have this organ."

"Of course you haven't heard of it. You are the only Deep Demon in the world who uses his brain. Even if your fellow demons do have brains, there is no chance that they will burn out... Hey, don't move yet. Let me check you."

While muttering to herself, Shirley hurriedly checked Agou from head to toe, and then carefully sensed the changes in herself and the other party on the spiritual level through the connection of the symbiotic chain, but in the end, she still did not find any problems.

Everything works fine.

"I said it was all right," Ah Gou breathed a sigh of relief and said casually, "Maybe he was attracted by something while reading, and when he was about to run out, he found out that it was a 'colleague', so he went back..."

It muttered to itself as it lay down again, using its claws to scratch at the draft paper in front of it.

Shirley next to him suddenly became anxious: "Hey, are you still planning to watch it?"

Agou was drawing auxiliary lines on the paper while he said casually: "I am just one step away from a big question. I just have an idea for the last step."

Shirley: “…”

She looked at Agou, who was writing and calculating, with great concern, ready to pull the chain on her arm at any time if she saw something wrong. However, nothing happened until he finished solving the problem that seemed like a mystery to her.

Agou threw the pen on the deck and looked up at Shirley.

"See, I told you it's okay--" There was a hint of relief in its tone, but soon its eyes fell on the wooden barrel next to it.

"Shirley, you haven't finished your homework yet."

"ah--"

Listening to the girl's long-pitched cry, Agou just shook his head, and then his eyes fell on the book he had just read.

It seems...there really is nothing wrong.

But it was certain that it had really seen something—not “fellows” attracted by the book, but something else, more mysterious and weird.

What did I see?