Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 100

[Chapter 100 The first step in testing and mastering]

After confirming that Alice did not respond to all the “keywords” and that she had no information about the ability of “beheading”, Duncan decided to tell her what he had just learned. Confused curse doll.

Because at this time, he had already vaguely guessed: perhaps the key to the anomaly of Anomaly 099-Doll’s Coffin is actually not Alice, the doll… but her “coffin”.

The wind and waves on the boundless sea are gentle, the cabin is shaking gently with the wind and waves, and in the swaying light of the oil lamp, the ghost captain slowly tells the past and present life of the doll’s coffin – and then the doll almost shrinks into a ball in fright.

Duncan looked at Alice who was already sitting on the corner of the bed with her back against the wall holding her head expressionlessly, “Why are you so nervous?” “

This… this sounds really scary!” Alice’s tone changed It’s like an ordinary human girl who just heard a ghost story, “What is beheading indiscriminately, what is the range of death before stopping, what is the continuous expansion of the territory… I don’t know this at all! “

I believe you really don’t know now,” Duncan glanced at Alice, “but it’s indeed information about anomalous 099-doll’s coffin.”

Alice looked at Duncan with a stiff neck while supporting her head: “Then… …” “

So now I have two conjectures. First, the above-mentioned ‘beheading’ deed may be your ability to activate unconsciously, because you are an anomaly, and your power is most likely just a passive area effect, even if it is Your previous ‘sleep’ state does not affect the decapitation effect.”

Duncan said, slowly getting up from the chair, he came to the gorgeous wooden box, and touched the box with the front end of the long sword in his hand.

“Secondly, the ‘beheading’ power of the puppet’s coffin may not come from your puppet, but from your ‘coffin’.”

“The coffin… you mean my box?” Alice slowly widened her eyes, her eyes subconsciously followed Duncan’s movements and landed on the wooden box beside the bed. Responding: “You mean…”

“The full name of Abnormal 099 is ‘Puppet Coffin’… In other words, you and your wooden box together are the complete ‘Anomaly 099’, and I am in When I saw you for the first time, I subconsciously thought that you were the ‘leading part’… because I didn’t know the full name of ‘doll coffin’ at that time,” Duncan said while rubbing his chin, thinking, “Now that I think about it carefully, the word ‘doll coffin’… seems to focus on the second half?”

Alice blinked her eyes, went through a lot of thinking in her head, and finally slapped her hands: “Oh! I am This box comes with it!”

Duncan glanced at the heartless doll expressionlessly: “…you don’t have to say it in such a proud tone.”

Alice didn’t seem to hear the teasing in Duncan’s tone, she just He glanced at his wooden box with a heavy heart, and said in a worried tone, “Then… my box has been ‘beheaded’ by people? But I’ve lived in it for so long, and I don’t think it’s so evil and dangerous. …And I didn’t feel it has any special power…”

“Nonsense, you are a part of the whole anomaly 099, can your feelings be used as a reference?” Duncan frowned, “And you touch your neck, I I suspect that the reason why your head falls off every now and then is because you slept in this box for a long time!”

Alice immediately felt that what the captain said was right, and her expression immediately became complicated, but then she was a little confused: “If you want to say that …’Decapitation’ is an inherent attribute of my coffin, so it has been on the ship for such a long time, why haven’t its abilities been activated?” As soon as she said this, she met

Duncan’s gloomy gaze The puppet lady felt a silent pressure on her head after she realized that she had lived on the ship for a while and then suddenly recalled what kind of character the captain in front of her was. .

Duncan just stared at the puppet silently, and waited for Alice to shrink into a smaller ball before saying quietly: “The only humanoid creature on this boat besides you is me, what do you mean…” “What do you mean

? No!” Alice was about to jump up, and quickly said while waving her hands, “Listen to me, I mean this box…” “I didn’t say what to do with

you,” Duncan looked at her helplessly, ” You are now the crew of the Lost Home, and I am your protector on the boundless sea, so you don’t have to be so afraid—can you sit still? It looks like I have done something to you.” Alice

said Oh, and slowly moved back to the side of the bed, but because of Alice’s interruption, Duncan had other thoughts in his heart-yes, no matter whether the main body of the doll’s coffin is a doll or a coffin, abnormality 099 does not matter. After staying on the Lost Home for so long, it has already exceeded the cycle of each “test” it performs, and this anomaly has always shown a harmless state to humans and animals… Obviously, this is due to being suppressed.

So the one who suppressed it was the Lost Homelander, or the “captain” himself?

Duncan looked down at his hands.

He knew that he possessed quite a powerful power, which not only allowed him to completely occupy the life of the cultist named “Ron”, but was even so powerful and weird that it could make Alice, a high-ranking anomaly, tremble at the first sight, making him As a deep demon, “Agou” tucks his tail, he still doesn’t know what the nature of this power is, but this does not prevent him from gradually gaining a certain understanding of his own uniqueness.

On the other hand, the Lost Homeland is the fifth-ranked vision in the Boundless Sea—it is a “vision”, not an anomaly.

This means that as long as it is within the range of the Lost Home, there is a 24-hour uninterrupted “field” that is constantly exerting influence on all targets within the range.

With the suppression of the captain and the ship, Anomaly 099 is naturally harmless to humans and animals, but if he really takes Alice to the city-state of Purdue as planned…then the situation is likely to get out of control.

Therefore, he had to figure out a series of things—is the subject of abnormality 099 producing the effect, the puppet Alice, or the wooden box? Is it the captain who suppressed Anomaly 099, or the Lost Homelander? If Alice is separated from the wooden box, will the effect of anomaly 099 still appear? If it is the captain who produces the suppressing effect, what is the suppressing distance?

His thoughts extended—

if it was the “coffin” that produced the decapitation effect, would it be safe for him to bring Alice alone to the city-state of Purdue? If the “coffin” is an abnormal element that can be separated, can one’s own flame also affect it independently? If you use flames to completely dominate this box, is it equivalent to controlling the original uncontrolled beheading effect? Like using fire to control Ay and the brass compass?

At the end of Duncan’s dismayed discovery of a sea of questions in his mind, which in turn formed a complex controlled-testing program: he lacked many of the prerequisites for testing

.

Lost Homeland is not a qualified test site, because the power of the ghost ship will interfere with the accuracy of the results, and he has no suitable test target—because the decapitation effect of anomaly 099 is more life-threatening… the life of the “tester”.

Duncan raised his head and looked at Alice who was sitting obediently by the bed—the doll girl was looking at her most beloved wooden box with some sadness, and all the entanglements in her heart seemed to be printed on her face.

As if noticing the captain’s sight, Alice suddenly broke the silence, she whispered: “From the day I became conscious… I have been living in this box, it is my bed, it is my home, It is also my shelter, and when I sleep in it, I will feel very safe.”

Duncan didn’t speak, but just quietly looked at the doll in front of him.

“Now I know why those humans are so afraid,” Alice stretched out her hand and stroked her wooden box gently, “They are afraid of ‘us’.” “I was planning to walk in the spirit world next time.

” It’s time to take you to the city-state of Purdue,” Duncan said in a deep voice, “I need a helper over there.”

Alice’s eyes seemed to light up for a moment, but then dimmed immediately: “Ah, this is not going to work…” “The

plan has been postponed, but it has not been cancelled.” Duncan’s expression and tone did not change much, “We just need to More time to confirm your…’Your’ strength, master the conditions for this ‘beheading’ effect to take effect. Human city-states on land can seal or even use a variety of abnormal objects through various tricks, and here is the landless No, there are more things we can do.”

Alice glanced at Duncan suspiciously, and from the captain’s calm and deep eyes, she realized that these were not empty words of consolation.

“Do you have a plan?”

Duncan thought for a while, raised his fingertips, and lit a cluster of faint flames.

“First, we may need a little fire.”

(End of chapter)