Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 566

[Chapter 564 Return to the Garden]

Just like before, Alice always had unconditional trust in the captain’s words – she happily agreed without even wondering why Duncan suddenly wanted to use the key again.

But Duncan still explained to the doll seriously: “I want to enter the ‘Alice Mansion’ again to confirm some conjectures about the ‘old world.'”

Alice nodded, although she did not She didn’t quite understand what the “old world” the captain meant, but she knew it was a very serious matter.

Because she had already cooperated once, this time she quickly found a comfortable and stable place to sit down, then turned around to reveal the keyhole on her back.

“Actually, I discussed with Nina before and asked her to help me change the back of my clothes to see if I can make a hole for the keyhole.” While waiting for the captain to “wind up” himself, the doll returned She said happily, “But she is worried about sand, dust and other debris getting into my keyhole… I think she is too worried. I don’t roll on the ground, so how can sand get into the keyhole?” “Normally, it’s still the same

. Block it,” Duncan said casually. “No one knows whether this delicate structure may be fragile. If something gets stuck, I don’t know how to repair it.” “Miss Lucretia may be able to repair it

. She was the one who fixed Luni… But you’re right, it’s better to be careful, Luni’s head has been repaired for a long time…” The silver-haired

doll muttered, talking about these things like ordinary people talking about daily life. What others heard was too weird and evil. Duncan couldn’t help but have a faint smile on his face when he heard it. Then he smiled and shook his head, picked up the strange brass key, and held it carefully like last time. Insert it into Alice’s keyhole.

The familiar click sound came, and the key began to turn on its own. Duncan calmed down slightly. The next second, he felt the light and shadow in front of him changing, and his perception was rapidly oriented and reshaped.

After a moment, he opened his eyes in the darkness, adapting to the changes in his five senses after the change of environment. After the scene in front of him quickly stabilized, the strange and lush “garden” shrouded in a cartoon sky appeared in front of him again.

The silver-haired Gothic doll that looks exactly like Alice is still leaning quietly against the column in the center of the garden, sleeping among the flower vines and thorn bushes. The drawing board in the doll’s hand is also the same as before, its position and shape have not changed.

Duncan blinked and did not move rashly for the first time. Instead, he carefully checked the surrounding situation and compared it with the scene in his memory.

Half a minute later, he confirmed that there was nothing unusual around him, and everything remained as it was when he left – he even had a feeling as if the time of this “mansion” had been suspended during his absence until he returned. , time here begins to move again.

…This is probably not an illusion.

Duncan recalled what the strange “headless butler” had told him about the special time rules in Alice’s mansion, and he was thoughtful.

After thinking for a moment, he raised his head and looked up at the “sky” above the garden.

The last time he came here, a lot of his energy was attracted by the various weird and strange scenes in the mansion, and he had a lot of questions in his head. His limited energy was scattered everywhere, so that even though this garden The sky caught his attention, and he didn’t look too closely at the weird cartoon graffiti.

But this time, he looked at it very seriously.

It seems that the clouds drawn by children’s crayons are floating against the background of the light blue sky. The exaggerated “sunshine” lines pass through the clouds, and the “sun” painted with golden yellow paint is just like what we saw last time. Emitting light and heat, maintaining the vitality of the garden.

It is still full of “childishness”, and still overflowing with weirdness in the “childlikeness”.

Duncan suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly.

He carefully observed the golden sun. This time, he finally noticed a detail that he had ignored before –

There is no runic ring structure around that “graffiti sun”!

“No wonder… no wonder I felt something was wrong when I looked at it last time, but I couldn’t explain it…”

Duncan muttered, and the expression on his face changed slightly. He finally confirmed that the sky shown in this strange graffiti brought him Where does the biggest sense of dissonance come from: It is a normal sun. Although the brushwork is abstract and crude, it is undoubtedly the “sun” that I am familiar with!

But it is precisely because I am too familiar with it that I failed to notice this obvious “abnormality” when I took a quick look last time – if “indigenous residents” like Morris or Vanna came over, I am afraid that the first You will feel something is wrong with your eyes.

Duncan’s eyebrows wrinkled little by little. After confirming that the sky was a “normal sun”, the secret hidden in this “Alice Mansion” seemed to be quietly revealed to him.

In the boundless sea, the “sun” is an artificial celestial body with double runic rings. This is common knowledge recognized by the world. It is a “fact” that has not changed for ten thousand years since the Deep Sea Age. No one in the world knows ” What does the “real sun” look like? Even those sun believers who claim to believe in the real sun god only depict a twisted and terrifying ancient god creature when they preach – then the “normal sun” in Alice

Mansion Or the “primordial sun”… who could have left it behind?

The doll “Alice” was “born” after the Frost Queen Leigh Nora fell into the deep sea, so why is there a record of the “sun” before the Great Annihilation era deep in the Alice Mansion connected to her? What does it look like?

And if we take into account the speculation of the Great Annihilation by the “World Convergence Theory”, that the Deep Sea Age was formed by the accumulation and reshaping of countless wreckage of the old world, then the “primitive sun” recorded in Alice’s Mansion… should Which old world does it belong to?

Does it represent a star from some old world? Or is it just an abstract symbol?

For some reason, what Duncan was thinking about at this moment was the chubby pigeon.

He frowned and shook his head, reorganizing the complicated information in his mind again and again. Suddenly, another clue emerged in his mind – the

birth of Alice.

Her image is indeed copied from the Frost Queen Leigh Nora, but her original coffin is also an incorrect copy of “Alice’s Guillotine” – as it turns out, for the “shaper” of Anomaly 099, The source and process of copying are not important in themselves. Whether it is a great human being or a hard piece of wood, it is just the initial “material”. What is really important is the “shaper” himself.

It was the “erroneous copy” of Holy Lord Netherworld that created Anomaly 099.

So can we think that this so-called “Alice Mansion” is actually a “creation” of the wrong copy of Holy Lord Netherworld – and if it is further extended, even the wrong copy of Lord Netherworld should still be preserved. A lot of “ontology” information, so the source of some of the “things” in this Alice Mansion may point directly to the “ancient god” stranded in the deep sea?

Duncan raised his head and carefully looked at the abstract and crude sun, as well as the clouds and sunlight around the sun.

…Are these graffiti-like pictures a part of the “memory” accidentally leaked by the Holy Lord Yousu, or some kind of “information” consciously conveyed to the outside world?

The more Duncan thought about it, the more likely it became that this was possible, because one thing is certain: the

true appearance of the “primitive sun” only existed at the time point before the Great Annihilation, and the secret of this Alice Mansion should also be traced back to that time. Before the node, and judging from the information currently available… only the Four Gods, and the mysterious and strange “ancient gods” in the deep layers of the world, can have a certain understanding of the world before the Great Annihilation.

Duncan’s heart moved. He lowered his head and saw the drawing board in the puppet’s hand.

After a slight hesitation, he bent down, carefully bypassed the surrounding thorns, and slowly pulled the drawing board out of the puppet’s hand.

The front of the panel still depicts the weird vortex, twisted stars, and ominous dark red light, while on the frame on the back of the panel, familiar words are still engraved on it:

“…The messenger brought news from afar. The chosen clan picked up the lost ancient stars and forged them into crowns of blessing – the third long night was over.” The chosen

clan picked up the lost stars. The ancient stars cast it into a crown of blessing.

Duncan’s eyes stayed on this sentence for a long time.

This is a description of the process by which the ancient Cretan clan, led by the “Creep King”, built Vision 001 and raised it into the sky.

When he first entered the garden and saw this line of text, he couldn’t understand what it meant.

But now, he suddenly realized something.

He thought of the “moon” with a diameter of ten meters – it was a “part” that fell off the rune ring of Vision 001.

The runic circle that binds the sun can be seen as a glorious “crown”.

And the “moon” that was distorted and compressed by unknown forces… naturally fits the description of “lost ancient stars”.

Some slight noises suddenly came from deep in the garden, awakening Duncan from his reverie.

He suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound.

There was nothing but lush vegetation, dim shadows between the thick bushes and the shadows of the dwarf trees.

But Duncan was sure that he really “heard” something just now.

This is the deepest part of Alice’s mansion. According to the headless butler, even the senior servants in the mansion are not qualified to enter here at will – only the hostess Alice and the being called the “gardener” can. Come in here, but the “gardener” seems to have stopped showing up a long time ago.

Intruder? Or is the “gardener” back?

Duncan frowned slowly. He stuffed the drawing board back into the doll’s arms and cautiously walked towards the lush bushes.

“Crash… rustling…”

A slight sound came from somewhere in the shadows again.

Suddenly, he caught something out of the corner of his eye –

a shadow, like a slippery and strange tentacle, crawling through the darkness at the edge of the garden!

(End of chapter)