With countless questions and guesses in his mind, Duncan kept the brass key close to him, and Alice waited obediently beside him, her eyes moving around like a child expecting a secret.
[Do you feel anything different now? ] Duncan asked, looking into Alice's eyes.
[Different feeling?] Alice tilted her head and raised her hand to touch her back. After a while, she shook her head. Just now, she felt a little itchy at the keyhole, but it’s not itchy now.]
Duncan frowned upon hearing this: [Nothing else? That's it?] [Nothing else]
Alice answered honestly, and then showed a curious look, "Is there anything? You look so serious. Have you figured out the key?"
Duncan frowned, and after a moment's hesitation, he finally sorted out his thoughts and words, sat down on the bed opposite the doll, and spoke seriously: [You may feel that only a moment has passed, but I have been in a strange place for a long time - it is a huge old mansion, and its name is "Alice Mansion"]
The puppet opened its eyes wider and wider, listening to Chuan Chang's story in surprise and confusion.
Duncan did not hide his experience in Alice Mansion. He told the puppet lady everything he saw and heard there, and then mentioned what he saw and heard in the deep sea, including his meeting with the Frost Queen, Lenoir.
Of course, he knew that Alice might only understand part of it, or even understand the part vaguely, and could only remember a limited amount, but he still chose to tell everything.
Because this is something she should know - you can't just hide it from her with the mentality of "she won't understand anyway", this is the minimum respect.
Alice was stunned to the end, and it was not until Duncan finished speaking and more than ten seconds later that the puppet came to its senses. Wow.
Then she scratched her hair, with confusion and a little apology on her face: [I didn’t quite understand what you said, and my head felt dizzy. I’m sorry, Captain, you spent so much effort to help me figure out these things, but I seem to be 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 like this, so he smiled and shook his head, [Even I feel that these things are full of mysteries - there are too many clues and they are too scattered. It is obviously still a long way to go before the final fog is torn apart.]
Alice nodded half-heartedly, then thought about it carefully for a moment, and suddenly became curious: [Are there a lot of people in that mansion? And none of them have a leader?]
[I only saw one person who claimed to be a butler, but according to that butler, there were indeed many people in the mansion, but they were all hiding.]
Duncan recalled and said, "In addition, from my observation, those should be headless."
Alice frowned, and while thinking hard, she muttered: Could it be related to my "new first" ability
It is possible that some of the servants are the souls of those you have beheaded.
Of course, Duncan also thought of this direction, but then he changed the subject. According to some information revealed by the butler, there are a large number of drifting souls gathered in the mansion. They seem to be some kind of exiles who accept the protection of the mansion. These servants are not likely to be beheaded...]
He paused, thought for a moment, and then continued: [Perhaps, it is your guillotine ability that makes the souls gathered in the mansion appear headless, regardless of their specific "source of energy."]
[oh·]
Alice seemed to understand, and then she seemed to think of something, "What about the 'Frost Queen'? Did she really disappear just like that?"
[The room has indeed disappeared.] Duncan nodded. It seemed that just as she said, when the ancient god's tentacles that served as the connection point were destroyed, the drifting land would lose its restraints. He suddenly stopped as if he had untied a rope, with a thoughtful look on his face.
[Ship?]
Alice looked at Duncan in confusion, [Why are you suddenly silent? ]
She asked twice in a row before Duncan raised his head from his contemplation, his tone solemn: [I wonder if the "drifting place" Lenora mentioned refers to her room, or the entire Alice Mansion.
[ah?]
Alice didn't react immediately, [Is there any difference? ]
If the drifting area refers to the entire Alice Mansion, then when the connection point is burned by me,
It should be the entire mansion, not a single room on the second floor; if the drifting place refers only to the room where she sleeps, then what is the relationship between that room and the entire mansion
In other words, isn’t the “connection” between her room and the entire mansion a connecting point
Duncan paused here, then raised his hand and pointed at Alice. "More importantly, after I turned the clockwork key in you, I entered Alice's mansion. Obviously, the connection between that mansion and Price is the strongest. You two should even have some kind of one-hearted 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 she couldn't. But her strength was always sincerity: [What are you talking about? ]
[The room where Lady Frost was sleeping was torn out from the main part of the mansion. There were obvious signs of damage on the green edge. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but just now it suddenly occurred to me... Lenora might have hidden something from me.]
The so-called "drifting place" should theoretically refer to the entire Alice Mansion, and that mansion is closely connected with you. From what I have observed, it does not have the tendency to be a "drifting place", so it is very likely that Leigh Nora took the opportunity of me burning the ancient god's tentacles and taking advantage of the opportunity when some kind of connection was weakened to forcibly separate her room from the main body of the mansion.
Alice continued to try to understand, but this time, she finally understood most of it. You mean the Frost Queen took advantage of your setting the fire to run away from her room? Just like taking advantage of the fog to run away from the lifeboat on the ship
Duncan was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the puppet in surprise: [Your metaphor is subtle and makes sense. How did you come up with it? ]
Mr. Goat Head has told me many stories about this, about how mutinous sailors would take advantage of the heavy fog to steal the lifeboats, wine barrels, cheese, and salted fish on the ship, and then the wise and brave captain would cross the entire ocean to snatch the stolen salted fish back. Do you want to catch the Frost Queen who stole the room
Duncan was stunned for a moment, and waited until Alice finished speaking before curling his lips in a strange expression: [Let's not talk about why the mutinous crew stole the salted fish, and why I crossed the entire Infinite Ocean to snatch a salted fish back - where can I find it? Besides, the Frost Queen escaped, and you should be the one to catch her, because she stole your room - you are the mistress of Alice's mansion. ]
[Yes.] Alice thought about it and simply agreed with this truth, then shook her head, [Then I won't catch her. After all, the room originally belonged to her. But why did she do this? Didn't you just say that once the drifting ground loses its restraints, it will fly around and may even fall into the subspace, just like exile - isn't this a terrible thing?]
Duncan pondered, and slowly spoke: [What is it... ..]
He recalled the Lenora he had met, the Frost Queen who seemed to have been in shackles since birth, crowned in shackles, overthrown in mirror shackles, and even imprisoned in nightmares even after falling into the deep sea.
She said she had always slept in the cage, even though the bars were later removed, and now she had escaped and taken her cage with her.
[Maybe it’s ‘freedom’. ] Duncan said softly.
But is it just for freedom
The pointer on the dial on the control panel was shaking rapidly, and the shaking was becoming more and more obvious as it approached the water surface. Through the thick glass porthole, some light shining from above could be vaguely seen in the deep and boundless "sea" outside.
Sunlight appeared in the water column - a sign that the submersible was rapidly approaching the surface.
However, the gradually filling light could not completely dispel the depressing impression left by the deep sea - as if there was still something in the vast "darkness" below the submersible, constantly floating up and escaping, extending invisible tentacles, and stretching its arms upwards, trying to retain the uninvited guests who had entered the deep sea.
Duncan told himself during the ascent: Those things were still lingering in his mind - thrilling, bizarre, strange, and shocking to his three views.
Whether it's the soul of the Frost Queen who has coexisted with the ancient gods in the deep sea for fifty years, or the terrifying possibilities hidden in all things in the world, they are enough to make a person with a strong mind and devout faith feel a deep chill in the sun.
All things in the world are descendants of the ancient gods. The flesh and blood of the ancient gods exist in all living things and are gradually awakening.
Even in the most blasphemous, heretical and filthy books, no one would dare to record such remarks.
Even the craziest Annihilation Cultists only dabbled in theories like [The Creation of the World by the Holy Lord of the Deep].
The sunlight from the sea grew brighter, but the dead body could not feel any warmth.
Agatha clasped her hands in front of her chest, silently calling out Bartok's name, wanting to pray to her own god, but she couldn't calm down no matter what.