Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 399

[Chapter 397 Unknown Material Alice]

Duncan has indeed cast a spark on the Frost City-State in the mirror image – but he feels that this is not enough.

He could clearly feel that Frost’s situation this time was different from that of Prand, the fire he cast did not spread rapidly on the “other side of the mirror”, and his own perception of fire was also greatly weakened And interference—he guessed that this may be because of the natural barriers in the world “on both sides of the mirror”, or because there is actually no accurate correspondence between the mirror image and the real world, and those misplaced parts are interfering with his judgment.

No matter what the reason is, he needs to find a way to strengthen the connection between himself and Tinder, and strengthen the connection with the White Oak and Agatha.

During the conversation, Fan Na suddenly showed a thoughtful expression: “Speaking of the mirror image… Are you sure you saw the figure of the gatekeeper in the reflection of the glass?” “Of course I can be sure.

” ”

This is a little strange…” Fan Na frowned, “If she is really trapped in that mirror world, why is there still no news about the city-state? At least the cathedral and the city hall will take some other actions…”

She paused when she said this, and summed up based on her own experience: “Secret search, martial law in a certain area , Changes in the frequency and distribution of guards’ night patrols—even in the case of news blockade, these details can be observed, but I have been active in the city-state with Mr. Morris for a long time today, and I have not found any changes in this regard. Nina , who was reading a book, suddenly raised her head: ”   Maybe it

‘s because the gatekeeper disappeared not long ago, and the city-state hasn’t reacted yet?”

The medicine is ready.” Fan Na shook her head seriously, “But according to my observations during this period, although this city-state is in a state of decline, it is not so bad in other aspects. At least the church and the city hall are in an orderly state. In progress.”

“Perhaps we will observe the change of the atmosphere in the city-state during the day tomorrow.” Duncan said casually, but just as he was about to continue speaking, he suddenly felt a heavy touch on his arm, which interrupted what he wanted to say if.

Shirley had already turned upside down, bumping her head on his arm, snoring evenly.

But in the next second, before Duncan could react, he saw the girl wake up from her sleep, and Agou who was dozing off at the foot of the sofa was thrown into the air with her: ” Yes, yes, yes… yes… right…”

Shirley didn’t stutter “I’m sorry” until the end, and Duncan heard a loud “bang”, and Agou, who was thrown into the air just now, fell to the ground. The latter turned upside down, and the dog’s head buzzed: “What’s the situation, what’s the situation, it’s fighting?”

Then it realized that the atmosphere around it was a bit weird, and when it looked up, several eyes fell on itself and Shirley strangely. body.

“It’s not a fight, it’s Shirley who fell asleep.” Duncan smiled and sighed, looking at Shirley who was still tense, “It’s okay, go upstairs to sleep, minors must ensure enough sleep All right—Nina, stop reading, it’s time for bed.” ”

Oh.” Nina reluctantly put away the half-read book, got up and grabbed Shirley who was still nervous , the two held hands and walked to the second floor.

Duncan watched the two girls disappear on the stairs, then turned his gaze and nodded to Fanna: “Tomorrow, you and Morris will go to the upper town to see if there is any change in the atmosphere at the cathedral. If possible, inquire about the reaction of the city hall—the situation has developed to this day, and the presence of the Frost City Hall has always been very low, and I am curious what they are doing.” “Okay,” Fanna nodded

, Then I was a little curious, “What about you? What plans do you have next?” ”

I’m going to go to the Second Waterway again, and go there with Alice,” Duncan said casually, “Let’s go and see the place where the crow had an accident. A corridor—since it is now speculated that there is a ‘Mirror Mirror Frost’, and it is very likely that the crow entered there by mistake at that time, maybe we can find some new clues from that corridor.”

Speaking of this, he suddenly realized: “Speaking of which, is Alice still tidying up in the kitchen?” ”

It seems so,” Morris said as he got up and turned around, “she really stayed in the kitchen for too long… no Could it be that the head fell in some corner and got stuck and couldn’t be taken out?”

“It’s really worrying…I’ll go and have a look.” Duncan sighed helplessly, got up and left the sofa and went to the kitchen.

As soon as he got to the kitchen, he saw the gothic doll standing by the sink—she didn’t lose her head as Morris guessed, but she was looking up at a weird angle corner of the ceiling.

Probably because she was too involved, Alice didn’t hear Duncan’s footsteps, she just stared blankly at the direction where there was nothing, then stretched out the hand holding the kitchen knife to fiddle with the air, and then changed direction, and continued to fiddle with the air—as if trying to catch an invisible fly.

The gothic puppet cuts the air with a dull expression in the kitchen. This scene is too weird. It seems that a blood bar that can fill the screen will appear on the puppet’s head in the next second. By the way, there will be sounds around A bgm in the style of an organ   ——Duncan finally couldn’t help but said: “What are you doing?”

“Wow!”

She was still holding a sharp knife in her hand, so in the next second, she only heard a “poof”, and she stabbed her forehead with a knife.

With a sound of “Gaba”, the head was poked off by herself.

Even though he usually sees the scary and unreliable appearance of this puppet, Duncan was still dumbfounded at this moment. He hurriedly stepped forward to support Alice’s precarious body, and then saw the latter waving her arms and legs frantically. She cut her arm—she was still holding the sharp kitchen knife in her hand, and the tip of the knife poked her own head. After waving it a few times, she realized belatedly, and quickly embraced it with her left hand. Holding his head, he pulled the kitchen knife from his forehead with his right hand.

Then the puppet fumbled and threw the kitchen knife aside, held its head and pressed it on its neck with ease, and returned it to its original place after a “Bo’er”.

“You scared me!” Alice turned her head and looked at Duncan a little aggrieved, but soon her eyes were attracted by the thing on Duncan’s arm, “…Captain, this knife looks familiar.”

Duncan Holding the kitchen knife handle on his arm with a blank expression (sometimes blocked by the bandage), he pulled it off and threw it aside: “Nonsense, this is what you just stuck in me.” “…I’m sorry!

” I suddenly exclaimed, and hurriedly stepped forward to check the situation, “Are you okay? Do you want to bandage it?” ”

No, it’s a corpse anyway.” Duncan’s mouth twitched, but his eyes fell on Alice’s forehead.

Miss Puppet was stabbed on the forehead by herself just now, leaving a huge wound, but at this moment, the wound is healing at a speed visible to the naked eye – there is no blood in the wound, only warm, jade-like skin. Cut the surface, and after just a few breaths, it was restored to its original state.

Alice was a little embarrassed by Duncan’s gaze, and touched her face subconsciously: “Why do you keep looking at me…” “…

What material are you made of?” Duncan frowned, and reached out to touch Alice just now. Where Si was injured, there was a cold and lifeless touch that was similar to skin, “You just had a hole in your head, did you know that?” Alice was taken aback, raised her hand to touch her forehead

, She replied in a daze, “It’s grown.”

“Of course I know it’s grown!” ”

…I don’t understand,” Alice shook her head, “I don’t know what material I’m made of…but it doesn’t seem to be wood or wood. Ceramics…”

Duncan held back for two seconds, twitching the corners of his mouth: “I shouldn’t expect to get any answers from you-forget it, let’s not talk about this, what were you doing just now? Why are you staring at the ceiling in a daze?”

” Wires,” Alice answered honestly, “some wires popped up just now—and now they’re gone.”

Duncan’s expression changed instantly: “Line?!”

Alice can see special “lines”, and these lines represent “people”!
“That’s right,” Alice nodded, with a serious face, “I’m also curious as to why there is a line coming out, and there is no one else here… But I remember what you taught, you can’t grab other people’s ‘lines’ casually, So it was poked with a kitchen knife just now…”

Duncan didn’t pay attention to what the puppet said in the second half of the sentence, his attention was already on the “lines” that Alice mentioned that appeared and disappeared suddenly .

His eyes quickly swept across the kitchen, looking for everything that might be connected to the “mirror image”.

The glass on the window, the stagnant water in the pool, the blade of the kitchen knife—these all seem to be used to establish a relationship with the mirrored space, but none of them appear abnormal.

But Duncan believed in Alice, she would not lie.

At a certain moment just now, the mirrored frost intersected with the reality here—maybe it was only a very, very weak and brief intersecting, but it was enough for the puppet to catch the thread “floating” from there.

(End of this chapter)