Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 496

[Chapter 494 The Stolen Room]

With countless questions and conjectures in his mind, Duncan put the brass key close to his body, and Alice waited obediently by the side, rolling his eyes, like someone expecting a secret child.

“Do you feel any different now?” Duncan asked, looking into Alice’s eyes.

“Does it feel different?” Alice tilted her head, raised her hand to rub her back, and shook her head after a while, “I just felt itchy in the keyhole, but it doesn’t itch now.” Duncan frowned

. She frowned: “…Is there anything else? That’s it?”

“Nothing,” Alice replied honestly, and then she showed some curiosity, “Is there anything else? You look so serious… …Did you figure out the key thing?”

Duncan frowned tightly, after a moment of hesitation, he finally sorted out his thoughts and words, sat down on the bed opposite the doll, and said seriously: “You It may have felt like a fleeting moment, but I was in a strange place for a long time – it was a huge old mansion whose name…was called ‘Alice’s Mansion’.” A little bit of Gothic

doll With eyes wide open, he listened to the captain’s narration in surprise and confusion.

Duncan did not hide his experience in Alice’s mansion. He told the puppet lady in front of him everything he saw and heard there, and then he mentioned what he saw and heard in the deep sea, including his relationship with Frost. A meeting with Queen Leigh Nora.

Of course, he knew that Alice might only understand part of it, and even the part he understood could only be vaguely understood, and the things he could remember afterwards were limited, but he still chose to say everything.

Because this is what she should know – you can’t hide it from her with the mentality of “she doesn’t understand anyway”, this is the most basic respect.

Alice listened to the end in a daze. It wasn’t until more than ten seconds after Duncan’s voice fell that the Gothic puppet woke up: “…Wow.”

Immediately afterwards, she scratched her hair, with confusion and a little apology on her face: “I… I don’t understand well, I feel dizzy… Sorry, Captain, you took so much effort to help me understand this things, but I seem a little stupid…”

“No, you’re not stupid, it’s just that these things are too complicated.” Duncan knew that the other party would definitely react in this way, so he shook his head with a smile, “Even I feel that these things are everywhere. Full of mysteries—there are too many clues and too scattered, and there is obviously still a long way to go before tearing through the final fog.”

Alice nodded half-understanding, thought about it carefully, and suddenly became curious: “The mansion ‘Are there many people in the mansion? And there is no head?”

“I only saw a man who claimed to be a butler, but according to the butler, there were indeed many people in the mansion, but they were all hiding,” Duncan recalled. “In addition, according to my observation, those should be headless attendants.”

Alice frowned, thinking hard while muttering: “Could it be related to my ‘beheading’ ability…” “

It’s possible , it is not ruled out that some of the attendants are the souls of people who were beheaded by you,” Duncan, as someone who knew about “Alice’s Guillotine”, certainly thought of this direction, but then he changed the subject again, “But according to the steward According to some information, there are a large number of “drifting and gathering” souls gathered in the mansion, they are like some kind of exiles, accepting the asylum of the mansion, these attendants don’t seem to be beheaded…” He paused,

slightly After thinking about it, he continued: “Perhaps, it is your guillotine ability that makes the souls gathered in the mansion appear headless, regardless of their specific ‘source’.” “Oh…”

Alice She seemed to understand, and then she seemed to think of something, “What about the ‘Frost Queen’? Is it really just gone?” “

The room has indeed disappeared,” Duncan nodded, “It looks like As she said, when the ancient god’s tentacles as the ‘connection point’ are destroyed, the ‘drifting land’ will lose its restraint, like a cable untied…” He stopped suddenly, with a thoughtful expression on his

face .

“Captain?” Alice looked at Duncan inexplicably, “Why are you silent all of a sudden?”

She asked twice in a row before Duncan raised his head from his contemplation, with a hint of solemnity in his tone: “I was thinking, Lei The “drifting place” in Nora’s mouth refers to her room, or the whole Alice’s mansion.” “

Huh?” Alice didn’t realize it all at once, “is there any difference?”

“If the drifting place refers to It is the entire Alice mansion, so when the ‘connection point’ is burned by me, it should be the whole mansion that disappeared, not a single room on the second floor; What is the relationship between one room and the whole mansion? Or… the ‘connection’ between her room and the whole mansion, isn’t it a ‘connection point’?” Duncan

paused After a pause, he pointed at Alice again.

“More importantly, after I turned the clockwork key on you, I entered the ‘Alice’s mansion’. Obviously, the relationship between that mansion and you is the strongest. You should even be some kind of ‘one-hearted The same body’ relationship, if the ‘drifting land’ needs a connection point to exist stably…then you are obviously the most stable connection point.” Alice blinked her eyes and listened carefully, trying to understand—but couldn’t

.

But her strengths have always been her sincerity: “What are you talking about?”

“The room where the Frost Queen slept was ‘torn’ from the main body of the mansion, and there were obvious signs of damage on the edges. I didn’t pay much attention at first. This, but it suddenly occurred to me just now…Lee Nora may have hidden something from me.

“The so-called ‘drifting place’ should theoretically refer to the entire Alice mansion, and that mansion is closely related to you.” They are closely connected, and as far as I can see, there is no tendency to ‘drift’, so it is very likely that Lei Nora took advantage of the opportunity of me burning the wrists of the ancient gods and the weakening of a certain ‘connection’ to force her The rooms are ‘detached’ from the main body of the mansion. “

Alice continued to try to understand.

But this time, she finally understood most of it.

“You mean that the Frost Queen took advantage of your opportunity to ‘open’ her room? It’s like taking advantage of the fog to drive away the lifeboat on the ship?” Duncan was surprised when he heard this

. Looking at the puppet: “Your metaphor is subtle and somewhat reasonable…how did you come up with it?”

“Mr. Goathead told me many stories about this. Some rebel sailors took advantage of the fog to steal the ship. Steal the ship’s lifeboat, steal the wine barrels, steal the cheese, steal the salted fish on the ship, etc., and then the wise and mighty captain will cross the entire boundless sea to snatch the stolen salted fish back… Are you going to catch the Frost Queen who stole the room?”

Duncan was taken aback for a while, and then curled his lips with a strange expression after Alice finished speaking: “Let’s not talk about why the rebellious crew wanted to steal salted fish, And why do I have to cross the entire boundless sea to snatch back a salted fish—where can I find that Frost Queen? Besides, if you want to catch it, you should be the one to catch it, she stole your room—you She is the hostess of Alice’s mansion.”

“…That’s right,” Alice thought for a while, accepted the truth easily, and then shook her head, “Then I won’t arrest her, after all, that room was originally hers. Yes. But…why would she do this? Didn’t you just say that once the drifting ground loses its restraint, it will fly around, and may even fall into the subspace, just like exile——this is not very scary Something?”

Duncan couldn’t help thinking, and slowly said in thought: “Yeah, why…”

He recalled the Le Nora he saw, recalling the woman who seemed to be in shackles since birth, Crowned in shackles and overthrown in shackles, even if she fell into the deep sea, she has been imprisoned in the nightmare of the “Frost Queen”.

She said she has been sleeping in the cage, even though the cage has since had its bars removed.

Now, she’s out of prison — and with her cage.

“Probably for ‘freedom’.” Duncan said softly.

But only for “freedom”?

…

The dial pointer on the control console is shaking rapidly, and the shaking is becoming more and more obvious when approaching the water surface. Through the thick glass porthole, you can faintly see some water sprayed from above in the deep and boundless sea outside. light.

Sunlight appears in the body of water – a sign that the submersible is rapidly approaching the surface.

However, the gradually filling brilliance could not completely dispel the repressive impression left in the deep sea—it was as if something was still floating and dispersing in the vast darkness below the submersible, stretching out invisible tentacles, It is opening its arms upwards, and it is holding back the uninvited guests who have broken into the deep sea.

The things that Duncan told himself during the ascent were still circling in his mind—horrifying, treacherous, bizarre, and shocking to the three views.

Whether it is the soul of the Frost Queen who has lived with the ancient gods in the deep sea for fifty years, or the terrifying possibility contained in all things in the world, it is enough to make a firm-minded and pious person feel chills in the sun.

Everything in the world is the descendant of the ancient god, and the flesh and blood of the ancient god exists in all living beings, and they are gradually waking up.

Even in the most blasphemous, deviant and filthy classics, no one dared to record such remarks—those craziest Annihilation Cultists had only scratched the surface of the theory of “creation of the deep and holy lord”.

The sunlight from the sea grew brighter.

The dead body can’t feel any warmth.

Agatha clasped her hands in front of her chest, silently calling Bartok’s name, wanting to pray to her god.

But no matter what, he couldn’t calm down.

(end of this chapter)