Duncan looked at Alice expressionlessly, as if looking at a retard.
The echoes from history have not completely dissipated in his mind. The cold and seemingly see-through gaze of the Frost Queen half a century ago is still entrenched in his mind - but this afterimage that should have caused a lot of thoughts is now facing him. He got into a fight with Alice, a mentally retarded doll, not to mention that he was very angry, and she was gradually turning into a harmonious figure when she pulled out her head "Boer, Boer, Boer".
After looking at it for a long time, Duncan finally couldn't help it anymore: "...What are you doing?"
"Ah! Captain!" Alice reacted belatedly and quickly put her head on her hands to look at Duncan, "Oh, I always feel like there are a few hairs stuck in the joints of my neck..."
Duncan said with a deadpan expression: "You'll have to pull it out a few more times and it'll be time to name the new hair again."
"I'm already up! If they fall, call the Williams family..."
It took a lot of effort for Duncan to control his expression and refrain from throwing the doll out of the cabin.
After a few seconds, he let out a long sigh, and his mind gradually calmed down.
To be fair, Alice's appearance does bring a bit of joy to the lifeless Homeless Ship, but sometimes it's too much... Even the goat head can't keep up with the rhythm of this doll, and Duncan is most of the time. I can't even figure out what structure is inside this guy's head.
Maybe it's solid.
Duncan's eyes swept over Alice, and he couldn't help but recall the "reverberation" he had seen in that dark space before. His expression became serious, and the details he saw in the reverberation made him frown. Slightly wrinkled.
He was certain that it was the legendary Frost Queen Leigh Nora who was executed by the rebels half a century ago. She was the "prototype" of the Alice doll mentioned in the background information about Anomaly 099. He saw When we arrived at the "execution" scene, the opportunity undoubtedly came from the "doll coffin" in front of us.
The spiritual fire established a connection between him and the coffin.
But what is the nature of those images? Was the "coffin" telling him something consciously? Are they some passively recorded "images"? Is it the memory of Abnormal 099? Is it a real historical fragment, or is it an "illusion" with certain distortions and corrections?
The calm gaze of the young queen looking at him emerged in his mind, and he recalled the other party's soft request——
"No matter who you are, please don't pollute history."
Who is this sentence addressed to? Are you really saying this to yourself? Does this sentence really span time and space? Or is this just the illusion outlined by the coffin reacting to its own "visit"? And after the Queen finished saying these words, there was a slightly frightened voice under the guillotine, asking who she was talking to...
This continuous reaction is so real, even so real that it makes people shudder.
As for the last part of "Reverberation", the sounds coming from the darkness also made Duncan particularly concerned.
The Frost Queen was executed by the rebels. One of her "crimes" turned out to be "attempting to bring the Lost Home into the real world" and "building a second Lost Home". There was also a "submersible" plan, which seemed to have also led to The reason why the queen rebelled against her relatives... But he had never heard Goat Head mention these things!
The goat head often recounted to him some of the "great deeds of the Homeless Ship", such as how many ships it swallowed up on which route, and what a huge commotion it caused in which city-state. Although eight out of ten of his words were It's not very reliable, but if there was really a city-state ruler who had "colluded" with the Lost Country, he would have definitely told it long ago - that guy would have to make up three thousand words for anything, let alone such a big thing!
Unless... this matter is false, just a crime fabricated by the rebels against the Queen.
"Captain? Captain, are you okay?"
Alice's voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Duncan's random thoughts.
Duncan exhaled softly and suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind. He glanced at Alice, trying to find some trace of "Frost Queen Leigh Nora" in this guy, but soon he Shaking his head: "It's okay, I just saw a little 'record' kept in the coffin."
"Record?" Alice opened her eyes curiously, "What kind of record is it?"
"The scene where the Frost Queen was beheaded half a century ago," Duncan said calmly, "I saw her - she was indeed exactly the same as you."
Alice immediately touched her neck subconsciously. Miss Doll didn't know whether to feel nervous or to feel that the matter was ordinary. She struggled for a long time before finally holding back her words: "Is it possible that I really am the Frost Queen?" ? He didn’t die after being beheaded, but was affected by extraordinary power and became what he is now?”
Duncan thought for a long time and said honestly: "If you don't talk or move, and just lie quietly in this box, I will really think so."
Alice reacted for a moment, but didn't respond.
However, she quickly put this doubt behind her mind and looked at her "coffin" seriously: "Then after you burned it with...'fire', did it change anything? You successfully controlled it Have you lived in it?"
Only then did Duncan return his attention to the wooden box, and carefully felt the remaining connection between himself and the wooden box.
The fire has faded, but the traces left by the fire remain.
In the invisible perception, he can clearly "see" the imprint he left in the coffin, and feel the connection between himself and it. This is somewhat similar to the connection between him and the mutated sun emblem, but it is Yet more complex and more subtle.
Putting aside the huge mystery that the information recorded in the coffin brought to him, he did successfully establish contact with this thing. However, unlike the sun emblem with a simple structure, he had no idea how to control the coffin.
He didn't even feel that there was an option to "control" this thing.
He could only be sure of one thing: the coffin was now very stable and... "tame".
After the flames passed by, it seemed to have been completely "tamed", as if... it was part of the Lost Home.
"I'm not sure. Maybe we need further testing to know whether it is safe, and then more testing is needed to determine whether the 'decapitation' effect comes from the coffin or from you," Duncan shook his head, " But from what I feel so far, it is now very 'docile', just like other items on the Lost Home..."
As he spoke, he turned to look at the puppet beside him.
"The key now is you - do you feel anything abnormal?"
Alice pointed at herself curiously: "Me? I don't have one. Why do you ask?"
"You and your wooden box are one, and together you are 'Anomaly 099'. Now that I have used flames to usurp the authority of the coffin, you, the doll, may be affected to a certain extent," Duncan looked at Alice seriously. , he knew that the doll was slow to respond, so he gradually got used to telling her clearly, "Move your body, and tell me if anything is wrong."
Only then did Alice react belatedly, and quickly stood up to check herself. She ran around the room twice, jumped on the spot, and finally returned to the wooden box and curled her fingers towards her wooden box. head.
The wooden box didn't move at all.
"It...it's disobedient!" Alice was shocked and finally discovered the big problem, "It turns out that it will float as long as I give it a command!"
Duncan's heart moved - when Alice fingered the wooden box, he seemed to feel some response from the coffin, but...
The coffin was waiting for his orders.
His eyebrows twitched, suddenly a little embarrassed: "Maybe... it's because after being exposed to the spiritual fire, this coffin has regarded me as a higher-level 'master'."
Alice stared at the captain in front of her in stunned silence, and then her expression became visibly aggrieved.
"But it doesn't matter. I can lift my restrictions on it." Duncan felt even more embarrassed when he saw the aggrieved Bala on the doll's face, and quickly waved his hand, "It will still obey your orders."
Alice was stunned, then turned around and hooked her fingers at her wooden box - this time, she finally saw that the wooden box responded to her order again, just like usual.
Miss Doll immediately burst into laughter. After letting the wooden box fall back to the ground, she immediately rushed forward and hugged its lid: "Great! I thought you wouldn't be disobedient in the future!"
Duncan looked at the puppet lady with a subtle look on her face as her emotions quickly changed. He held it in for a while before saying, "Sometimes... I really envy your open-minded attitude towards life."
Alice was startled when she heard the captain's words. It took her a long time to react, but she didn't react...
"Forget it, as long as you're happy," Duncan sighed, "Are you sure there's nothing wrong with you?"
"No," Alice looked down at herself, "There is no discomfort at all, and... on the contrary, it feels better than before?"
"Better than before?"
"I can't tell. I just feel... my body is very relaxed? And there is a sense of stability and peace of mind?" Alice thought for a while, trying to find words to describe her feelings, "It's a bit like the peace of mind when she was lying in the box before. But now I stand outside the box and feel equally at ease..."
The doll was thinking as she spoke, and before Duncan could help her analyze it, she waved her hand quite openly: "It doesn't matter, it's not a bad thing anyway!"
(End of chapter)
