Duncan looked at Alice quietly, and Alice looked at Duncan with a righteous look on her face.
After a while, Duncan rubbed his brows and felt a strange emotion rising in his heart. The sense of disobedience in his heart could not be dissipated for a long time. It was obviously the same face, how could it show such a huge difference in temperament...
"Captain," Alice blinked curiously after seeing Duncan's reaction and came over to ask, "Why don't you say anything? Did I say something wrong?"
"No, it's not your problem." Duncan shook his head, getting rid of the messy thoughts in his mind, then suddenly raised his eyelids and looked at the puppet in front of him with a solemn and serious expression.
"Aelis, have you ever been curious about the connection between you and the Frost Queen?"
Alice was stunned for a moment, raised her hand and scratched her head, and seemed to think seriously for a while before she spoke uncertainly: "I was curious, but then I thought about it and it didn't seem to be a very important matter~~ so I didn't think about it anymore.
Duncan was a little surprised: "Not very important?"
"The Frost Queen is the Frost Queen, and I am me. No matter how great that queen is, that is her business. I don't understand." Alice said seriously.
"I have my own things to do, and I like my life every day, which is good enough. Also, I heard from Mr. Morris that everyone in this world may find someone who looks exactly like them, so I will pretend that the Frost Queen is the person who looks exactly like me, even though I am actually a doll..."
Duncan listened to the doll's words quietly, and looked at the natural and satisfied look in her eyes when she mentioned the present days, and his heart was suddenly touched.
Perhaps, she is really just a special and wrong replica made by the ancient god in the deep sea. Perhaps, she is really just the result of the strange fusion of Lenora who fell into the deep sea and the guillotine. Or perhaps, she hides more secrets, secrets that even Lenora can't imagine.
But as Ellie herself said, it doesn't matter. She is not smart, but very happy. There are many things she doesn't understand, but she has never felt nervous or afraid because of these overly complicated things.
She was born and lived in a world full of weirdness, but this weird world was the most ordinary and "normal" thing in the world to her.
She was exploring this new and unknown world for her, curious and looking forward to everything, including tomorrow, just like a child opening his eyes in the sunlight.
There are countless living beings in the world, but even the bravest warriors, the most knowledgeable wise men, and the most devout believers cannot see the world from the same perspective as Alice.
Duncan suddenly had a feeling that in this strange world where everyone was afraid and everything was distorted, Alice, the puppet, was more like a human being than anyone else. Just like the ordinary human beings he saw walking calmly in the sun in another world, a world without abnormalities and visions, without gods and weirdness. "Ship?"
Alice's curious voice sounded again.
"Why are you daydreaming again?"
"Nothing..." Duncan shook his head.
"I just suddenly felt that... you are actually very wise."
When Alice heard the compliment from Chuan Chang, she was slightly startled, then a happy expression gradually appeared on her face: "Hehe"
She didn't know why Chuan Chang suddenly praised her for her "wisdom", and she didn't even think that she could have any wisdom, but since Chuan Chang praised her like that, it must be something to be happy about.
After Deng Xing finished praising him, he thought for a moment, then slowly reached his hand to his side—he felt a cool touch from his fingertips; it was the brass key.
In the deep sea, the submersible is slowly rising, and it will take some time before it can be "recovered". The Frost Queen Lei Nonola has revealed a lot of information to him, but there are still many omissions or ambiguities in that information, which he needs to verify himself.
The Brass Key... ... was handed to Lenora by a rational End Times preacher, but even with the latter's ability, she was ultimately unable to figure out the true "essence" of the key.
At the same time, a corresponding keyhole appeared on Alice's body, which seemed to be a wrong copy created by "coincidence".
Is it still a coincidence? Did the End Preacher foresee what would happen today? Or did the tentacles of the ancient god sleeping in the deep sea retrieve the memory of Lenora when creating Alice and leave the keyhole on Alice? Maybe we should give it a try.
Alice
Duncan suddenly raised his head and looked at the puppet in front of him seriously. "Come with me."
"ah?"
Alice was startled for a moment, but immediately reacted and stood up to follow. "Oh, okay."
"Hold the helm..." Duncan stood up from behind the chart table and told Goat Head, then took a deep breath and turned to walk towards the captain's bedroom. Alice followed Duncan, not knowing why, and walked into the bedroom door together, then turned back and closed the door at his command.
He turned around and looked at Duncan curiously. "Ship Chang? What's next?"
Deng Yi silently took the key in his hand and looked at the puppet quietly: "I want to test this key.
When Alice heard this, she was a little surprised: "Ah? Didn't you say that this key might be dangerous? It might contain the soul of the Frost Queen or something?" Now that the hidden danger has been eliminated, Duncan said calmly, I just eliminated it myself.
"Oh." Alice said immediately.
Then he turned around and fumbled with the zipper on his back, without hesitation, "Then I'll unbutton my clothes first..." "Just expose the keyhole." Even though he had been thinking about this solid-headed doll for so long,
Deng Kao was also a little embarrassed by this guy's unhesitating behavior at this time, and he subconsciously reminded him. Then he was a little surprised.
"You're not afraid?"
"Captain, you said there are no hidden dangers." Alice turned her head and said.
And you will help me wind up the spring yourself, and you will definitely protect me if anything goes wrong, right
"Yes, I will protect you." After a short silence of two or three seconds, Duncan nodded slowly, then raised his finger and clicked a round stool next to the bed. "Sit on it. I'm not sure what will happen after winding it up. It's best not to stand."
"Oh." Alice agreed and obediently came to sit next to the round stool. The clothes on the back of the Duncan doll had been unbuttoned with her back to him. Duncan finally saw the appearance of the "keyhole".
The keyhole was suddenly embedded in the center of Alice's smooth back, which was like white porcelain. There was another circle of fine and gorgeous patterns, with a texture like gold foil, surrounding the keyhole. Duncan lowered his head and took a look at the brass key in his hand...
The size and shape were indeed exactly the same. A strange feeling arose in his heart, mixed with a little nervousness. Duncan took a deep breath, controlled the strange feeling in his heart, and slowly moved the key closer to the round hole.
"Elise" "Hmm?"
"Don't be afraid."
The clockwork key entered the keyhole without any obstruction, and then Deng Bei heard an extremely clear "click" sound next to his ears, as if it was really ringing in his mind. Some mechanism was activated, but it was not an ordinary clockwork mechanism. A slight force came from his fingertips.
Duncan instantly realized that the clockwork key was turning on its own. It slowly turned to the horizontal position, and then there was another "click". The next second, everything in front of him began to change rapidly. The light and shadows were collapsing and reorganizing. His senses were undergoing transformation and reset. There was the familiar slight dizziness, and the feeling of "transfer" as if "walking in the spirit world". He didn't have time to sigh in his heart, "It's like this again."
Duncan found that everything around him had stabilized again. He was in an old, gorgeous, yet eerie and strange mansion. The classical and solemn hall was broad and spacious, with tall columns on both sides of the hall, supporting the gloomy roof above that looked like a gathering of dark clouds. Narrow and tall windows were embedded in the walls covered with patterns and reliefs, and the outside of the windows seemed to be covered with dark thorns.
There were chaotic shadows of light floating outside the thorn bushes, and in this eerie mansion, voices could be heard from time to time, whispers, intermittent laughter, footsteps walking across the floor, and even... strange and blurry music that sounded like a dance party was being held somewhere.
Deng frowned slightly, his eyes swept across the gloomy and old mansion, and something flashed in the corner of his eye.
Deng Bei quickly looked over there, but only saw an empty corner. However, he was sure that he had seen something just now. There was a figure... It looked like a maid in a white dress. The figure had no head, and there was only a bare neck at the collar of the shirt.
Duncan stood in the empty hall for a moment, carefully observing the surrounding environment, sensing the strange and uneasy atmosphere vaguely floating in the air, and then took a step forward and walked towards the spiral staircase at the end of the hall.
He wanted to understand what this place was, and why he was brought here after winding up Alice. He walked up the spiral staircase, and the stairs that seemed to have been abandoned for countless years made strange creaking sounds under his feet. As he walked, a sense of familiarity suddenly appeared in Duncan's heart.
He suddenly stopped and looked at the various furnishings and styles in the mansion with wide eyes. He knew what that familiar feeling meant. It was the room where the Frost Queen, Lenora, was sleeping.