Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 257
Bell Rings Tirian, who returned to the room, ordered his subordinates to leave, but his mood did not calm down with the silence of the room.
The long conversation with “Father” still lingers in his mind, and all kinds of memories about the diving plan seem to linger in his heart uncontrollably. From time to time, he flashes those fragments that have been half a century ago-rough diving equipment , the sea cliffs that are always cold and rainy, the silent platform guards, the priests’ low prayers in the rainy night, the brightly lit but always gloomy coastal laboratories, and the Queen of Frost that always looks out at the sea. , Buried all the secret eyes.
Tirian shook his head. For some reason, he suddenly thought of the puppet that claimed to be “Alice”—anomaly 099 that had completely escaped the seal and moved freely in the world.
A “controlled” anomaly, a puppet that can think and communicate like a human being, and even has its own emotions…
She is so similar to the Frost Queen, but she is definitely not the Queen herself—although her existence and The process of this world is indeed very reminiscent of some kind of “return” of the queen, but Tirian can feel that there is no trace of Lei Nora’s will in that puppet.
If I had to say it, Tirian felt that “Alice” was more like a “replica” that was perfectly restored on the outside but completely distorted on the inside.
Just like those “No. 3 submersibles” that surfaced one after another at the beginning.
Tirian’s eyes suddenly changed slightly, and he felt a little cold because of the associations that emerged in his mind.
He sat in the room, poured himself a glass of strong wine, and relied on the power of alcohol to re-warm his cold mind and calm his restless heart. After a while, he felt a little better, and then he raised his head and saw To the exquisite suitcase placed next to the bed.
After a little hesitation, he took the box to the table, opened the lid, and activated the complicated lenses and the crystal located in the center of the lens group.
The crystal ball lit up, a multitude of flickering points of light emerged from it, and disturbing noises emanated.
It took a while before he saw Lucrezia’s figure looming in the middle of those flickering spots, as well as the other party’s indistinct voice. After another two or three minutes, the voice and image barely became clear. , My sister’s voice came to my ears: “Can you hear it?”
“It’s clear now,” Tirian nodded, “Why is there more interference on your side than before… What is that around you? Sunshine? Look It looks a little weird…”
He noticed that there seemed to be streaks of pale golden light floating in the background behind Lucrezia, which looked like a brilliant sunset shining into the room through the window, but the texture of the light was far away. It is warmer and brighter than the sunset, and the distribution and diffusion of its brilliance also give people a feeling of paradox from the sun, which makes people pay special attention.
Tirian knew that his sister was often active at the border, where strange phenomena often occurred, and it was often dangerous, but Lucrecia could always save the day—but he still couldn’t help being a little worried.
“Ah, I picked up some strange things at the border, but I have carefully inspected them, and they are not harmful,” Lucrezia replied indifferently, “That thing may have fallen from the sky, and it will project It emits a very wide range of glow… I am using the Bright Star to drag that thing back to study.”
Tirian frowned subconsciously: “You always pick up strange things at the border, last time you were caught by a group of Have you forgotten about the fact that the human-shaped smoke was dragged directly into the depths of the spirit world?”
“I will be careful, I have always been very careful-it’s just that there will be some accidents occasionally, adventures, accidents are inevitable,” Lucrezia said He waved his hand, and then he seemed to find something suddenly, staring at Tirian’s face, “Brother, what happened to your face and head?
“
You beat the city wall,” Lucrezia frowned slightly, “you wouldn’t have been able to fall like this without a run-up acceleration of 200 meters and a resolute head-butt impact—you were attacked.” Tirian’s expression froze for a
moment , After a while, he shook his head helplessly: “Sometimes I really don’t want you to be so smart.”
“Who attacked you?” Lucrezia didn’t care about Tirian’s interruption, her expression was extremely serious, “You are in the city-state of Pland, where you don’t have any enemies, and the city-state authorities won’t just sit back and watch ‘guests’ Being attacked… Ah, you didn’t admit that you were attacked just now, and you said you fell…”
Lucrezia stopped suddenly as she spoke, as if she had thought of something, the expression on her face changed suddenly. Immediately afterwards, he looked around the crystal ball with flickering eyes.
Tirian knew what was going on as soon as he saw her expression, and shook his head before he could speak: “Don’t be nervous, he’s not here.” “
Really… he hit him?” Lucrezia opened her eyes wide in shock. He closed his eyes, “Wait, didn’t you say that he is not in the city-state? And why would he…” “He is
indeed not, he is one of his current subordinates,” Tirian rubbed his forehead depressingly, “Don’t worry, we There was no conflict, this injury…it was just a small accident, he wanted to talk to me about something, and I was too vigilant.” “‘
Subordinate’?!” Lucrezia was taken aback , instinctively wanted to ask how strong his subordinate was, and what weapon he used to beat the “Steel Lieutenant General” into a pig’s head, but then she noticed the second part of Tirian’s words, and her eyes changed, ” …He talked to you again so soon, what happened?”
“He became interested in some old things about Frost,” Tirian said casually, “but you don’t have to worry about this, I came to you to ask some questions. In other cases—anomaly 099, you should know about it?”
“Of course I do, I also know that it was stolen by the Lost Home, this matter was spread all over the Explorers’ Association, and shortly after that, The Church of the Deep Sea then issued an announcement that the name of anomaly 099 changed from ‘doll coffin’ to ‘doll’… Many people have uneasy speculation about this.” Tirian raised his eyelids and looked at
Lucret solemnly Thea’s eyes: “Then do you know why its name changed from ‘Doll’s Coffin’ to ‘Doll’?”
Lucrezia frowned beautifully, and she seemed to vaguely react to something.
“I saw her,” Tirian exhaled, without continuing to pretend, “that ‘doll’, she calls herself ‘Alice’, and has awakened from the coffin, and is currently serving her father, just like the rumors, That doll looks exactly like the Frost Queen, but its personality…is very unexpected.”
“This information is also very unexpected,” Lucrecia said softly, her eyes seemed to be shining slightly under the inexplicable golden light , “You mean, father… ‘released’ Anomaly 099 from the coffin, allowing that dangerous anomaly to move freely outside, while the latter willingly followed father? She could even talk to you?” “It sounds
like Unbelievable, but true,” Tirian nodded, “she can talk, she can think, she has feelings like a human, and even… I think she has a good relationship with her father, but I’m not sure if that’s the case. It is a ‘friendship’ that humans can understand, after all, one of them is a ghost returning from the subspace, and the other is an ‘abnormal object’ whose number is within a hundred.” Lucrezia did not speak, and after a moment of silence,
she He raised his head: “Then what do you want to ask?”
“About the situation when Anomaly 099 was first discovered, you were there at the time,” Tirian looked at his sister, “I want to know some of the most real facts from you. The situation. As you know, my fleet and I have never been close to Frost, and we missed the original scene.”
Lucrecia pondered for a few seconds: “That year… I did happen to be in the sea area where the incident happened, but at first It was not the Brilliant Star that salvaged abnormality 099, but an offshore fishing vessel named ‘Charvin’. It was already the second scene, so I am not sure what the scene was when Anomaly 099 was first salvaged—I can only tell you the scene on the Charvin at that time.”
Lucret Thea paused, recalling the scenes she had seen.
“When I found the ship, there were almost no living people on board. Eleven of the twelve crew members, including the captain, had been beheaded—only one sailor was frightened and half-mad described to me the ‘cursed wooden box’ they salvaged.
“He said they couldn’t discard the box because it was alive and moving around on the ship, and they couldn’t break it because it was so strong and so strong. , Sailors with self-defense weapons can’t deal with that thing at all…
“About this part, you can basically find it in the public information of the Explorers Association, but there is one detail… it is not recorded in the information, but you may find it Interested.
“During the first half hour after Anomaly 099 was salvaged, the sailors of the Charlene heard several slight rattling noises coming from the box, which sounded… as if there was something Something is taking shape inside. “
A slight clicking sound…” Tirian frowned and muttered softly, and then he seemed to want to ask something more, but just as he was about to speak, a sudden, slightly hasty bell sound from outside the window interrupted him. He thought what he wanted to say.
He raised his head in surprise, and heard the bell ringing clearly and quickly in the gradually darkening sky. After carefully distinguishing it for a moment, he said to himself uncertainly: “It’s not Twilight. The clock… sounds like ‘Xun Zhong’. “
Xunzhong…” Lucrezia’s voice came from the crystal ball, “I heard seven short beeps. If I remember correctly, this is the bell representing the summons from the ‘Tomb of the Unknown King’?” ! “
(end of this chapter)
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