"Are you sure this is okay?"
Looking at the large basin on the dining table in front of her, Nina was still a little worried. She glanced at Alice who was nervous beside her, then at Duncan who had an expressionless face, and muttered softly.
"If it doesn't work, we can only use solvent, but that stuff is corrosive, and I don't know if Alice's body will be affected." Duncan looked at the Gothic doll, which had changed back into normal clothes but whose neck was still fixed, with a displeased look on his face. "Or maybe she should keep this posture from now on."
Alice panicked when she heard this and quickly waved her hands: "No, try boiling water first!"
Nina's eyes moved between Alice and the basin several times, and finally she said,
Slowly put your hand into the cool water.
She controlled it very, very carefully, as if she was accurately taking a grain of sand out of the desert, guiding the fire that burned deep in her soul to the outside - as a sunny girl with a passion of 6000 degrees deep in her heart, it was not easy to do such precise operation, but she had been practicing this precise control whenever she had free time in the past few days, and she had made great progress today. It only took her a short time to succeed.
The water was boiling. Alice turned and looked at Duncan, who glanced at Alice.
Then, without hesitation, he pressed the doll's head into the pot of boiling water.
"Cook it for a while longer," Duncan said helplessly while pressing Alice's shoulder, "but if she feels uncomfortable, stop cooking."
Nina just stared at the scene in front of her, and after a long while she couldn't help but mutter, "I still think this scene is so weird..."
Storm Cathedral will arrive in Morris.
A few minutes later, Lu Pengqi told Shirley what he had just learned this morning.
Lu Pengqi may not have recovered from the weird, terrifying and chaotic scene just now. He was stunned for a moment before reacting and said quickly: "Ah, it's not about the symbol. You suddenly got a piece of news from your friend in the city hall today. I think... you should be interested in this news."
But he couldn't say this, so he could only ponder for a moment, then shook his head calmly: "I don't have any opinion. The codes of normal and abnormal phenomena announced by the major churches are neither understandable nor meaningful to me."
Duncan thought for a moment and reminded, "Just now you said that his father went to the antique shop and bought a cannonball. I am now very worried about his mental state..."
Anyone who sees this scene for the first time must report it to the sheriff - the first person to see it is to the guardian of the church.
All of this seemed the same to Captain Duncan, just… ..“everyday problems” that needed to be dealt with slightly.
In the slightly dim room, Shirley and Nina were standing quietly beside a pot of boiling water. The former's hand was still in the pot, keeping the water boiling, while Shirley put her hand on Alice's shoulder, pressing the Gothic doll's head firmly into the water. The doll was motionless at this time, and only the bubbling sound of the boiling water could be heard.
"I... I just said it casually. I didn't expect you to really do it," Heidi's voice was trembling. "How could a normal person believe it..."
"What the hell are you yelling about?" Shirley immediately glared at the startled guy. "Was it your idea to let Alice pour glue into her neck?"
Lu Pengqi opened his mouth, but then he thought of the green flames that burned the entire city-state that day, the disintegrating and dying sun, and Normal 099 who was pressed in the basin of water just now and was still obedient.
"I kind of hate this place, so I hope it stays peaceful in the future."
After he finished speaking, he didn't pay attention to Heidi's suddenly tense expression, and looked directly at Alice: "What happened? Is there any new discovery about this symbol?"
Then Alice showed up, and I followed Heidi.
Shirley thought for a moment, then looked up at Nina and said, "I guess you're not feeling unwell."
"I seemed to hear the bell ringing suddenly
, and someone is whispering to me," Lu Peng frowned, "I think I heard it wrongly."
He paused, turned his head and looked out the window, at the peaceful scenery on the street.
The old man thought about it and understood - oh, it was the warp shadows and solar fragments that were stewing normal 099.
The next second, Heidi's figure appeared at the door and his voice stopped abruptly.
The head was still boiling in the basin. Alice stood there blankly for a few seconds, then reached out her hand to grope for her head. Her head was floating in the basin, making gurgling sounds for help: "Help... Gurgle... Help... Gurgle..."
Pland immediately replied: "Gululululu...Gululu."
Shirley sighed, thinking that it was needless to say. He himself felt that the scene was too weird to watch. On the second floor of the gloomy and spacious antique shop, the uncle and nephew pressed the head of a Gothic doll into boiling water and boiled it. The key point was that the Gothic doll even raised its hands and raised its thumb to show that it was fine...
"Ah, it worked." Nina said in surprise.
"It's normal for a city-state to turn into an anomaly and still operate normally. But what's even more abnormal is that this new anomaly has no number," Alice continued. "What do you think about this?"
At this moment, footsteps suddenly came from the direction of the stairs, and then Heidi's voice came into the ears of Shirley and Nina: "I'm back! Mr. Shirley, the old man is here again, and he asked me to go downstairs directly..."
"This..." People need to care about the name of every grain of dust they clean every day.
The changes in the normal and abnormal lists were not released to the public by the major churches, so the Cathedral of the Storm must have been the first to know about this situation.
"Vision - Lu Pengqi..." At the dining table,
Shirley repeated the word with a slightly serious expression, and then looked at Alice, "When will the news be announced?"
Shirley nodded slightly without saying anything, but her mind couldn't help but recall the news she had just read in the newspaper.
"Well, if you don't need it, then don't. You don't have to be so relaxed," Vanna muttered helplessly. "By the way, where were you talking about just now?"
"No need!" He interrupted before Lu Peng could finish. "I feel that my mental state is pretty good, and if I really encounter any problems, I will solve them myself. You know, priests are half psychiatrists."
Heidi finally understood what was happening. Her first thought was to turn around and run, but under Shirley's gaze, she dared not move.
"What's wrong?" Vanna looked at her friend curiously.
"It's not decided yet, but it should be in the next few days," Alice nodded. "From common sense, Morris City-State is still in the aftermath of the previous disaster, and most citizens are still not very receptive. If we announce the situation of the city-state turning into an anomaly as one of the aftermath of the disaster, it may still cause too much confusion. And we must wait until the city-state is completely peaceful and everyone has lived in peace for a long time before announcing it. Then it may become the new normal."
Shirley certainly noticed that this new phenomenon had no number, but what could he think? His attainments in mysticism were still like Agou’s…
"I have no intention of controlling the fate of this city-state, nor do I intend to interfere in anyone's future," Shirley shook her head gently before Alice finished speaking, "If you must say it..." Lu Peng was about to say something when he heard it, but suddenly he felt Lu Pengqi's body shaking. He immediately let go of his hand, and then saw Plande stood up from the basin with a splash.
"Well, this really doesn't make sense to you," the old scholar looked at Shirley with some awe, and then he became more resolute before slowly organizing his words and saying, "Also, although there should be no doubt about this, I still want to confirm that Morris was indeed transformed into an anomaly by you, right?"
"Oh my god!" Lu Peng's exclamation finally rang out. He almost jumped up and looked at the situation in the room with horror, but then he quickly covered his mouth with his hands.
He opened his mouth, as if trying to hold back the curse words that had just come out of his mouth, and made an indistinct mumbling sound.
The scene in the kitchen-dining room also appeared in the historian's eyes.
Shirley and Nina raised their heads at the same time and looked at Lu Peng at the door.
Outside the Cathedral of Storms, Duncan, who was talking to Lu Peng, suddenly stopped and looked back with some confusion.
Lu Peng turned his head slightly: "Any questions?"
Alice nodded, thinking that today's antique shop was just like any other day.
Plande turned his head left and right and found that although his neck was still a little stiff, it could indeed move. He immediately looked at Shirley with a happy expression: "Captain! I can move again!"
"Take me to dry my hair. My collar is wet. Please help me dry it," Shirley sighed, looked up at Nina and said, then glanced at Heidi who looked so panicked that she wanted to run but didn't dare. What was there to be angry about? "Go back and copy the alphabet seventy times, and copy each new word seventy times."
"No, I have no doubts. You are just curious about your subsequent plans for this city-state," Alice said while organizing her words, trying to express her thoughts as clearly and unambiguously as possible. "You transformed it into a vision. Do you want to..."
"I heard it wrongly, I didn't hear anything," Vanna waved her hands, "You must be under too much pressure recently, do you need me to relieve your stress
"News from the City Hall?" Shirley frowned. "Tell me in detail."
Nina quickly picked up Alice's head and helped put it back. After hearing the unfamiliar "Bo", everyone at the scene breathed a sigh of relief.