Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 805

[Chapter 786: Another Alice Mansion?]

Having cooperated several times, Alice showed the keyhole on her back with ease, and sat on the bed obediently, waiting for the captain to turn the clockwork key.

Duncan took the brass key with the ring handle and slowly brought it close to Alice’s clockwork hole, but at this moment, he suddenly heard the puppet speak: “Captain, I have a question.

Duncan immediately He stopped what he was doing: “Question?”

“You said that this key is the route to the other three god’s ‘nodes’ on the outer barrier, right? And I’m still that… Pilot Three, right? In other words, as long as there is a route, I can take you to far away places, even to the end of the world…

Alice said, her tone was a little hesitant, as if time couldn’t think of the right words. Duncan did not rush to express his thoughts, but waited patiently. After a while, the puppet finally seemed to straighten out his thoughts and continued: “Then tell me

, are there any other routes? Or, Without this new key, can I try to take you somewhere else?

Duncan felt a little confused: …Why did you suddenly think of this?”

“I just…suddenly became a little curious about myself,” Ellie Si said slowly, “I have never thought about this issue before. I am very satisfied with being busy on the ship every day and doing something I like, but it seems that everyone except me… Everyone knows what they want to do, so the one who called… Oh, a sense of mission, everyone seems to have a sense of mission, but I don’t…

The doll suddenly stopped and thought about it seriously. : “Should I have it too?”

…There is nothing wrong with this,” Duncan shook his head, “But I don’t stop you from thinking more about yourself and understanding yourself. Understanding yourself is a part of growing up. , is a good thing.

“Dolls also grow?” Alice was curious.

“Yes, as long as you are willing, anyone can grow. You have grown a lot now than when you first got on the ship. Gaining more knowledge is growth, knowing more people is also growth. Going to more places, seeing more people Scenery, these are all growth. As long as you are different today than you were yesterday, it is a kind of growth for you.”

Alice said in confusion, then thought about it and suddenly felt very happy. He suddenly thought of something: “Ah, so I forgot a few words I learned yesterday this morning. Is it growth?”

Duncan suddenly fell silent: …

Alice: “Captain? Captain, why don’t you speak?

” ..I will be careless in what I say.” Duncan looked at Alice’s back expressionlessly, trying to focus on the keyhole, “You have to understand dialectically. “

Alice thought for a while and didn’t understand because she didn’t know what “dialectic” meant.

But she felt that the captain was right, so she nodded happily: “Okay, then I have no problem! I’m ready. Wind it up!”

Duncan took a gentle breath, quickly calmed down his thoughts, and then carefully inserted the brass key into the keyhole of the doll. A

familiar clicking sound sounded, The clockwork key slid into the keyhole as if being actively attracted. Then, the complex and gorgeous patterns around the keyhole lit up slightly and the clockwork key began to rotate on its own, making a slight clicking sound.

The next second, Duncan. He felt the familiar dizziness and reset of perception coming from all directions, and then the darkness descended like a curtain, covering everything around him, and then a cool touch hit his face. He seemed to have passed through an invisible door, and in In the darkness, the fragments of light and shadow quickly reorganized and gradually stabilized into a spacious, gorgeous but dark and strange place.

Duncan quickly woke up from his trance, and immediately opened his eyes and looked around after breaking away from the dizziness

. In the gorgeous huge bungalow, there is an extremely spacious living room, a corridor covered with dark red carpets, a spiral staircase leading to the second floor, a tall and narrow Gothic spire window, and a window hanging high from the ceiling that seems to be shaking slightly. The gloomy chandelier.

But almost instantly, he realized that the surrounding environment was different from the Alice Mansion in his memory. The lights were darker, and the pale light emitted by the candles was like a limited range of gauze. Covering a small area, most corners of the bungalow are shrouded in darkness; the roof is even more dilapidated, and the mottled and peeling domes even vaguely reveal a skeleton-like structure in some places, but there are only a few gaps between the skeletons. You can see a chaos of gray and white.

-A more gloomy and weird atmosphere enveloped this place than the Alice Mansion in my memory. Even the dark corners close at hand seemed to hide countless invisible lurkers, watching the intruders with cold and empty eyes. Duncan frowned and noticed

that

he was standing on a platform on the second floor of the mansion. Through the edge of the platform, he could see the hall on the first floor and the spiral staircase leading to the hall. After thinking about it, he decided not to go to the first floor, but turned and walked towards the corridor leading to the deepest part of the second floor. And the moment he turned around and stepped forward, he suddenly noticed another “unusual”

quiet and empty

place here.

, no one – he did not see the headless mansion maids and attendants, nor heard any noise from the servants, nor did he see the headless housekeeper.

He still remembered that in the previous “Alice Mansion” .

It is also very empty, but from time to time I can still see headless servants hurriedly walking through the entrances and corridors. Even in seemingly empty rooms and halls, I can always hear whispers and the sound of objects colliding. Sometimes you can even hear vague music that sounds like a dance going on. Although these sounds are more eerie and eerie when placed in an empty bungalow, at least they are “lively” movements, but there is no such

sound at all.

, as quiet as…dead.

Duncan gradually increased his vigilance and walked towards the second-floor corridor.

Only his monotonous and slightly hollow footsteps echoed in the entire huge building

. He stopped in front of the entrance to the corridor leading to the “Mistress’s Bedroom” and looked up at the nearest wall. Then his eyes suddenly stopped on a painting.

There were many oil paintings hanging on the walls of “Alice Mansion”. He still remembered those. Most of the oil paintings were abstract and gloomy, with large swaths of color painted with scenes that seemed like prophecies or historical records. Some of the oil paintings even depicted the disintegration of New Hope

and the “doomsday red shift” scene, but here, he suddenly discovered those The oil painting… has been replaced.

The hanging painting closest to him is a pile of simple and abstract shapes

with childish pencil lines on the white paper, which outlines the appearance of Shirley holding a chain and shaking the dog.

Duncan: . …

After a few seconds of wordless silence, he suddenly felt that the eerie atmosphere in the mansion had dissipated a little, and then he noticed another hanging painting next to him with a messy line drawing of an unshaven, bearded man. The “Captain” in the big hat…

He even felt that the atmosphere in this bungalow was beginning to feel warm.

This was indeed the “Alice Mansion”, and certain details in the bungalow reflected the memories and daily life of the doll lady. From some angles, it seems to be even more closely related to “Doll Alice” than the “normal version” of the bungalow.

At least the normal version of the bungalow will not carry all the members of the Lost Home. Abstract painting.

Duncan smiled helplessly.He walked deeper into the corridor.

As expected, he saw the huge “hole” at the end of the corridor.

The part that used to be the “mistress’ bedroom” disappeared out of thin air.

The room that Lenora had “carried away” was also an empty space here. ,

Duncan stopped in front of the broken ground at the end of the corridor, lowered his head and thought for a while.

It seems that this is still the “Alice Mansion” that I know, but… it is “another version”. If you

wind up Alice with a different key, you will enter the same “Alice Mansion”. Different “copies”?

What is the connection between this bungalow with a more gloomy atmosphere and that seems to have been abandoned for a longer time and the “route”?

Duncan silently thought about where to start in order to find the connection with this weird bungalow. There were clues about the “route”, and then he naturally thought of the garden and the doll sleeping among the thorns in the garden.

But just when he turned around and was about to head to the garden, a flash of light in the corner of his eye made him suddenly stop.

The outline of the light in the flash made Duncan’s heart suddenly move. He immediately stepped in front of the shiny thing, stretched out his hand to brush the shadows covering the air like a black veil, and the darkness receded as if it had substance. He saw the appearance of the thing clearly. It was something that was very awkward no matter how you looked at it.

A LCD-like “screen

” was “embedded” on the wall at the end of the corridor, with a silver-white metallic texture. The frame was “fused” into the wall panel in some strange way, and the screen-like surface was glowing slightly, with text and flashing red frames dancing on it.

Duncan stared at the text on the “screen” .

At one glance, he immediately realized that they were the same thing as the words on the device that he had seen in the cave hallucination of “Holy Land Island”. And then, the meaning of the words was directly presented to him in the form of information.

The core escape capsule

was released offline illegally and the operation was unauthorized. Duncan stared blankly at the words for a few seconds, and finally slowly came to his senses, then turned to look at the broken fracture and the “big hole” at

the

end of the corridor. , I went back and forth between “New Hope Navigation Section” and “Alice Mansion” in my mind, and finally understood an obvious fact that I didn’t understand until today. The

co-author Frost Queen is the New Hope. The escape capsule drove away…

No wonder she was able to drive her “house” to the end of the world. That thing was the escape capsule of the spaceship!