Duncan looked at Alice expressionlessly, as if he was looking at a mentally retarded person.
The echoes from history in his mind had not yet completely dissipated, and the calm, all-seeing gaze of the Frost Queen half a century ago still lingered in his mind - but this afterimage, which should have made him think in a confused manner, now hit Alice, the mentally retarded puppet, head-on, and not only smashed it to pieces, but was also gradually turning into a joke as she made the sound of "Bo'er Bo'er Bo'er" pulling her head out.
After watching for a long time, Duncan finally couldn't help it: "... ... What are you doing?"
"Ah! Captain!" Alice realized it belatedly and quickly held her head with one hand and looked at Duncan, "Oh, I always feel like there are a few hairs stuck in the neck joint..." Duncan said expressionlessly: "If you pull them out a few more times, you will have to name the new hair again."
"I've got them ready! If they fall off, call the Williams-house..."
Duncan took great effort to control his expression and restrain himself from throwing the doll out of the cabin.
After a few seconds, he let out a long sigh and his mood gradually calmed down.
To be fair, Alice's appearance did bring a bit of joy to the lifeless Shiduo, but sometimes it was too joyful... /Goat Head couldn't always keep up with the rhythm of this puppet, and Duncan couldn't figure out what the structure of this guy's head was most of the time.
Maybe it's solid.
Duncan's eyes swept over Alice, and he couldn't help but recall what he had seen in that dark space before... "Reverberation." His expression became serious, and the details he saw in the reverberation made him frown slightly.
He was certain that it was the legendary Frost Queen Fanola who was executed by the rebels half a century ago. She was the "prototype" of the puppet Alice mentioned in the background information of Anomaly 099. He saw the scene of the "execution", and the opportunity for it was undoubtedly derived from the "puppet coffin" in front of him.
The spiritual fire established a connection between him and the coffin.
But what was the nature of those images? Was the "coffin" telling him something consciously? Were they some passively recorded "images"? Were they the memories of Anomaly 09? Were they real historical fragments, or were they "illusions" with some distortion or correction? The young queen's calm gaze towards him emerged in his mind, and he recalled her soft request -
“Whoever you are, please don’t pollute history.”
Who was this sentence said to? Was it really said to herself? Did this sentence really transcend time and space? Or was it just an illusion created by the coffin that was reacting to her "visit"? And after the queen said this, there was a slightly frightened voice under the guillotine, asking who she was talking to...
This series of reactions are so real, even so real that it makes people feel a little chilly.
As for the sounds coming from the darkness at the end of the "reverberation", Duncan was also particularly concerned.
The Frost Queen was executed by the rebels. One of her "crimes" was "trying to bring the Lost Homeland into the real world" and "building a second Lost Homeland". There was also a "submarine expansion" plan, which seemed to be the reason why the queen was deserted by her friends and relatives... But he had never heard Goat Head mention these things!
Goathead often told him about the "great deeds of the Lost Homeland", such as how many ships it had swallowed on the Eye Route and how much turmoil it had caused in a certain city. Although eight out of ten of his words were not very reliable, if there really was a ruler of a city-state who had "colluded" with the Lost Homeland, he would have said it long ago - that guy would make up three thousand words for no reason, let alone such a big thing!
Unless... ..this matter is false and is just a crime fabricated by the rebels against the queen.
"Captain? Captain, are you okay?"
Alice's voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Duncan's wandering thoughts.
Duncan exhaled softly, forcibly suppressing the chaotic thoughts in his mind. He glanced at Alice, trying to find some shadow of "Frost Queen Lenora" in this guy, but soon shook his head.
“It’s okay, I just saw
A little "record" preserved in the coffin. "
“Records?” Alice opened her eyes wide with curiosity. “What kind of records?”
"Half a century ago, the Frost Queen was beheaded," Duncan said calmly, "I saw her - she looked exactly like you."
Alice immediately touched her neck subconsciously. Miss Doll didn't know whether she should feel nervous or feel that this matter was ordinary. After struggling for a long time, she finally uttered: "Could it be that I am really the Frost Queen? After being beheaded, I didn't die, but was affected by extraordinary power and became what I am now?"
Duncan thought for a long time and told the truth: "If you don't talk, don't move, and just lie quietly in this box, I will really think so." Alice reacted for a moment, but didn't respond.
But she quickly put this doubt behind her, and instead looked at her "coffin" very seriously: "After you burned it with the "fire", did it change in any way? Did you successfully control it?" Duncan then turned his attention back to the wooden box, and carefully sensed the remaining connection between himself and the box.
The fire has faded, but the traces it left remain forever.
In his invisible perception, he could clearly "see" the mark he left in the coffin, and feel the subtle connection between him and it, which was somewhat similar to the connection between him and the mutant sun emblem, but more complicated and subtle. Putting aside the huge mystery brought to him by the information recorded in the coffin, he did successfully establish a connection with this thing, but unlike the simple structure of the sun micro-mark, he had no idea how to control the coffin.
He couldn't even feel that there was an option to "control" this thing.
He could only be sure of one thing: the coffin was now very stable, very... "docile".
After the flames passed over it, it seemed to have been completely "tamed", as if...a part of the Shiduo.
"I'm not sure. Maybe we need to do further tests to know if it is safe. Then we need more tests to determine whether the "decapitation" effect comes from the coffin or from you." Duncan shook his head. "But from what I feel now, it is very "obedient", just like other items on the Shiduo..."
—As he spoke, he turned to look at the puppet beside him.
"The key now is you - do you feel anything unusual?"
Alice pointed at herself curiously: "Me? I don't have any, why are you asking?"
"You and your wooden box are originally one. Together, you are "Anomaly 099". Now I have used fire to usurp the authority of the coffin. You, the puppet, may be affected to a certain extent," Duncan looked at Alice seriously. He knew that this puppet was slow to react, so he gradually got used to telling her everything. "Move your body and tell me if there is anything wrong."
Alice realized it belatedly and quickly stood up to check herself. She ran around the room twice, jumped on the spot, and finally returned to the wooden box and hooked her finger at it. The wooden box did not move at all.
"It... it's not listening!" Alice was shocked, and finally found the big problem, "It turns out that I can make it float up as long as I give it an order!" Duncan's mind moved - when Alice hooked her finger at the wooden box, he seemed to feel that the coffin had some response, but...
The coffin awaits his orders.
His eyebrows twitched, and he suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "Maybe... ....after coming into contact with the spiritual fire, this coffin has regarded me as a "master" of a higher level." Alice stared at the captain in front of her in amazement, and then her expression became visibly aggrieved.
"But it doesn't matter. I can remove the restrictions I placed on it." Duncan felt even more embarrassed when he saw the puppet's aggrieved expression, and quickly waved his hand, "It will still obey your orders."
Alice was stunned for a moment, then turned her head and hooked her finger at her wooden box - this time, she finally saw that the wooden box responded to her command again, just like usual.
Miss Doll smiled brightly, letting the wooden box fall to the ground and immediately jumped over to hold its lid: "Great! I thought you would never listen again!" Duncan looked at Miss Doll with a subtle expression, and after a long pause, he said: "Sometimes... I really envy your open-minded attitude towards life."
Alice was stunned after hearing what the captain said, and then took a long time to react, but still couldn't react...
"Forget it, as long as you are happy," Duncan sighed, "Are you sure there is nothing wrong with you?"
“No,” Alice looked down at herself, “I don’t feel uncomfortable at all, and… I feel better than before?” “Better than before?”
I can't explain it, I just feel...relaxing? And a sense of peace and security?" Alice thought for a moment, trying to find words to describe her feelings, "It's a bit like the sense of security I had when I was lying in the box before.
But now I'm standing in the box
Outside the house, I feel just as safe... "
The puppet was thinking as she spoke, and before Duncan could help her analyze, she waved her hand with a broad-minded attitude: "It doesn't matter, it's not a bad thing anyway!"