Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 492

[Chapter 490 Turn the Key]

Duncan looked at Alice quietly, and Alice looked at Duncan with a straight face.

After a while, Duncan rubbed the center of his brows first, and felt a strange emotion in his heart, and the sense of disobedience in his heart could not be dissipated for a long time.

How could it be possible to show such a huge difference in temperament with the same face…

“Captain,” Alice blinked curiously after seeing Duncan’s reaction, and leaned over to ask, “Why don’t you Talk? Did I say something wrong?”

“…No, it’s not your problem,” Duncan shook his head, getting rid of the messy thoughts in his head, then suddenly raised his eyelids, with a solemn and serious expression Looking at the puppet in front of her face, “Alice, have you… ever wondered about the connection between yourself and the Frost Queen?”

Alice was stunned for a moment, raised her hand and scratched her head, as if she was serious After thinking for a while, he opened his mouth uncertainly: “I…was curious, but then I thought about it, and it seemed to be an unimportant matter, so I didn’t think about it again.” Duncan was a little surprised: “Not

really Is it important?”

“The Frost Queen is the Frost Queen, I am me, no matter how great that queen is, that is her business, and I don’t understand it,” Alice said seriously, “I have what I am good at. and I like my daily life very much, which is very good. In addition, I also heard from Mr. Morris that everyone in this world may find another person who looks almost exactly like himself, so I will be The Frost Queen is the one who looks exactly like me—even though I’m actually a puppet…”

Duncan listened quietly to the puppet’s words, and looked at the look in her eyes when she mentioned the current day. With a natural and satisfied expression, there was a sudden touch in my heart.

Maybe…she is really just a special false copy made by the ancient gods in the deep sea, maybe she is really just the result of the weird fusion of Le Nora who fell into the deep sea and the guillotine, or Perhaps, there are more secrets hidden in her, secrets that even Lei Nora can’t imagine… But as Alice herself said, this is not very important.

She is not smart, but very happy. She has many things she doesn’t understand, but she never feels nervous or afraid because of these complicated things. She was born and lived in a world full of weirdness. This weird world is very important to her. For her, it is the most common “normal” in the world – she is exploring, curious, and looking forward to everything including tomorrow in this world full of novelty and unknowns to her, just like… a person standing in the

sun child with open eyes.

There are countless beings in the world, but even the bravest warriors, the most learned sages, and the most pious believers cannot look at the world from the perspective of Alice.

Duncan suddenly had a feeling—in this weird world where everyone is afraid and everything is twisted, Alice, the “doll”, is more like… “human” than anyone else.

Just like what he saw in another world, in that world without abnormalities and visions, without gods and weirdness, ordinary human beings walking calmly under the sun.

“Captain?” Alice’s curious voice sounded again, “Why are you in a daze again?” “

It’s nothing,” Duncan shook his head, “I just suddenly felt…you are actually very wise.”

Alice listened When she heard the captain’s compliment,

she was startled for a moment, and a happy look gradually appeared on her face: “Hey…” She didn’t know why the captain suddenly praised her for being “wisdom”, and she didn’t even think that she had any wisdom, but since It must be something to be happy about the captain boasting so much.

Duncan thought for a while after boasting this sentence, and then slowly stretched his hand to his side – the cold touch came from his fingertips, it was the brass key.

In the deep sea, the submersible is slowly rising, and it will take some time before “recovery”.

Frost Queen Leh Nora revealed a lot of information to herself, but there are still many gaps or ambiguities in those information, which need to be verified by herself.

The brass key…a sane final missionary handed it to Le Nora, and even with the latter’s ability, he finally failed to understand the true “essence” of the key. At the same time, Alice, who seemed to be born as a wrong copy by “coincidence”, has a corresponding keyhole… At this point, is it still a coincidence?

The final missionary foresaw all this happening today? Or was it that the tentacle of the ancient god sleeping in the deep sea retrieved Le Nora’s memory when creating “Alice”, and left the “keyhole” on Alice?

Maybe… it’s time to give it a try.

“Alice,” Duncan raised his head suddenly, looking at the puppet in front of him solemnly, “Come with me.” “Ah

?” Alice was startled for a moment, but immediately reacted, got up and followed, “Oh, Alright!”

“Take the helm.” Duncan got up from behind the chart table, gave instructions to the goat’s head, then took a light breath, turned and walked towards the captain’s bedroom.

Alice followed Duncan for some unknown reason, walked into the door of the bedroom together, and then turned back to close the door under the other party’s instructions, and turned around to look at Duncan curiously.

“Captain? What to do next?”

Duncan held the key in his hand in silence, and looked at the puppet quietly: “I want to test this key.”

Alice was a little surprised when she heard it: “Huh? Didn’t you say that this key might be dangerous? It might contain the soul of the Frost Queen…” “

Now the hidden danger is eliminated,” Duncan said calmly, “I just eliminated it myself.”

“Oh!” Ellie Si said immediately, then turned around and fumbled for the zipper on her back clothes without any hesitation, “Then I’ll untie the clothes first…”

“Just expose the keyhole.” Even though he had been with this solid-headed doll for so long, Duncan was a little embarrassed by this guy’s unhesitating behavior at this time, and he subconsciously reminded, Then there was some surprise, “Aren’t you afraid?”

“Captain, you said that there is no hidden danger,” Alice turned her head and said, “And you will help me wind the clock yourself, and you will definitely protect me if something happens?”

” …Yes, I will protect you.” After a short two or three seconds of silence, Duncan nodded slowly, then raised his finger and pointed to a round stool next to the bed, “Sit on this—I’m not sure What will happen after it is wound up, you’d better not stand.”

“Oh!” Alice obediently went to sit down on the round stool, with her back to Duncan.

The clothes on the back of the doll have been untied.

Duncan finally saw what the “keyhole” looked like – right in the center of Alice’s back that was as smooth as white porcelain, the keyhole was inlaid there abruptly, and there was a circle of fine and gorgeous patterns, with a texture like bronzing , wrapping around the keyhole.

Duncan lowered his head and glanced at the brass key in his hand.

…the size and shape really corresponded exactly.

A strange feeling rose from his heart, which was mixed with a little nervousness. Duncan took a light breath, controlled the strangeness in his heart, and slowly approached the key to the round hole.

“Alice.”

“Huh?”

“Don’t be afraid.”

“Hey!”

The clockwork key entered the keyhole without any hindrance, and then, a very clear voice came from Duncan’s ear, as if directly in his mind. There is a light “click” sound in the middle.

Something was activated—but no ordinary clockwork.

A slight force came from his fingertips, and Duncan instantly realized that the wind-up key was turning by itself – it slowly turned to the horizontal position, and then there was another “click”.

In the next second, everything in front of him began to change rapidly.

The light and shadow are collapsing and reorganizing, the senses are undergoing transformation and reset, and there is that familiar slight dizziness, and the feeling of “transfer” like “walking in the spirit world” – it’s too late to sigh in my heart, “It’s like this

again “, Duncan found that everything around him had stabilized again.

He is in an old, gorgeous but eerie and weird grand mansion.

The classical and solemn hall is wide and empty. Tall columns are arranged on both sides of the hall, supporting the gloomy roof above like a gathering of dark clouds. The narrow and high windows are inlaid on the walls covered with patterns and reliefs. There are pitch-black thorns, and chaotic light and shadows float outside the thorn bushes.

And in this eerie mansion, there are voices coming from time to time—whispering, intermittent talking and laughing, the sound of footsteps walking across the floor, and even… weird and vague sounds like a dance is being held somewhere music.

Duncan frowned slightly, his eyes swept across the gloomy old mansion.

Something flickered in the corner of his eye.

Duncan quickly looked over there, but only saw an empty corner of the wall.

But he was sure that he did see something just now. There was a figure… It looked like a maid in a black and white dress.

The figure has no head, and the neckline of the jacket only has a bare neck.

Duncan stood in the empty hall and paused for a while, carefully observing the surrounding environment, sensing the vaguely floating, strange and uneasy atmosphere in the air, and then walked towards the spiral upward staircase at the end of the hall.

He wanted to figure out what this place was—why was he brought here after “winding up” Alice?

He walked up the spiral staircase, as if the stairs that had been abandoned for countless years made weird creaking sounds under his feet, but as he walked, a sense of familiarity suddenly appeared in Duncan’s heart.

He stopped suddenly, and stared at the various furnishings and styles in the mansion with wide eyes.

He knew what the familiarity was about.

The room where Frost Queen Leh Nora sleeps!

(end of this chapter)