Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 806

[Chapter 787 Awakening]

The sudden truth made Duncan stand in the corridor in a daze. A contradictory feeling of “this is so outrageous” and “this is so outrageous is so reasonable” went back and forth in his mind for a long time, and then he suppressed the complaints. Thoughts, attention returned to the “screen” embedded in the wall.

After watching for a moment, his expression gradually became thoughtful.

The “collision of worlds” brought about by the Great Annihilation reshaped everything, and New Hope was no exception. Part of it turned into the “Alice Mansion” floating in subspace. However, here, using the navigation key to open it After entering “another version” of Alice’s mansion, a “screen” appeared at the end of its corridor. This screen even revealed the nature of the so-called “mistress’ bedroom”…

In other words, under the navigation key In the opened Alice Mansion, part of the structure has been “restored” or “reproduced” to its original posture.

While thinking, Duncan picked up his head and looked at the exit on the other side of the corridor.

What does that garden look like now? Where is the doll sleeping in the garden?

He left the second floor of the mansion, walked down the stairs along the route in his memory, passed through the narrow corridor on the side of the main hall, and walked from those places that had always been there. There were whispers, but now there was only deathly silence. He walked outside the room and walked towards the garden.

He stopped again on the way and was caught by the door in the corridor.

There are many similar doors lined up in this corridor, but one of the doors has changed here.

It shines with silver-white metal light, and is surrounded by light blue luminous stripes, like a cabin of some large equipment. The cover was also inlaid on the classical

-style wall. Duncan came to this highly technological hatch and saw a transparent window above it.

Looking past the “observation window”, he saw that behind the door was a room filled with cold lights. Densely packed cabinet equipment was arranged on a huge platform and brackets, and there were pipelines hanging from the ceiling, connecting those with unknown purposes. installation.

The equipment in the room seemed to be still running. The lights on the surface of the devices that looked like server arrays flickered on and off. However, the thick isolation door seemed to block all sounds. The “server arrays” in the room could not be heard at all from the corridor outside. ” came the hum.

Duncan tried to push open the door in front of him, but found that it did not move at all. It seemed to be just an “illusion” fixed on the wall, and there was no such state of “opening” at all.

But looking at the scene on the facade, Duncan was thoughtful.

He thought of the whispers that often appeared in every corner of the Alice Mansion that he was familiar with, and the gentle music that came from the empty hall as if an invisible dance was being held.

…Those ghostly sounds, maybe they are the buzzing of the server array when it is running?

With some incredible associations in his heart, Duncan left the shimmering metal door and walked towards the entrance of the garden.

The long corridor always seems to have no end, much longer than in memory. The garden gate standing vaguely in the dimness is always in sight, like a “terminal” waving to people. Duncan gradually speeds up. His footsteps seemed like there was an invisible call urging him to move forward quickly.

The corridor receded beside him, and more and more “original structures” gradually appeared on the doors and continuous walls, doors shining with silver-white metal, and spaceship cabins inlaid with lights. Walls and irregularly shaped metal plates—these “old-fashioned looks” randomly appeared on the simple and elegant fronts and roofs, as if the scales of a giant dragon were peeling off, and the steel skeleton and power were suddenly exposed from the gaps between the flesh and blood… …

Then, this seemingly endless corridor finally came to an end, and the garden gate made of countless colored mosaic glasses stood quietly in front of Duncan, with the classical patterned door frame glowing slightly with light blue in his field of vision. Brilliant, a shimmering screen was suddenly embedded between the stained glass. The

Pilot 3 core server/mental center module

stood in front of this door. Duncan was stunned for a moment, and then slowly stretched out his hand.

“Garden gate .”

“It was pushed open as easily as in the memory, as if it had never been locked – and a huge dimly lit space came into Duncan’s eyes.

He saw a hall, and the end of the hall was shrouded in thick fog-like darkness. In the middle, one cannot clearly see its outline and edges, and there are many black shadows like obelisks standing in the “dense fog”, flashing with uncertain lights, and the only thing that can be clearly identified in the hall is There is a circular platform in the center.

Countless tangled pipes and cables hang down from the sky, connected to a strangely shaped raised structure on the platform. Glimmer of light flows between the cables, like fireflies gathering.

The entire structure is like a weird and incredible “tree”, with lights flowing like living creatures in every “branch” of the treetop.

And at the roots of this weird and confusing “tree”, the puppet

She

was sitting quietly on the edge of the platform.

But she didn’t speak, and she didn’t react to the uninvited guests who walked into the hall. The doll that was exactly like Alice just sat quietly on the center platform, in her arms. Holding a white drawing board tightly, her unfocused eyes looked straight in the direction of the door.

She seemed to have been waiting in this “standby” posture for a long time.

Duncan took a gentle breath and cautiously walked towards the person sitting there .

The puppet at the root of the “Cable Tree” took a step forward.

When he passed a certain distance, the puppet finally responded.

She turned her head slightly, and her eyes seemed to shift from the big one to Duncan.

However, the reaction was just that .

That’s all, the doll still didn’t speak, had no expression, and didn’t even focus on her eyes. She just quietly followed Duncan’s footsteps and fine-tuned her gaze, just like a real doll without any vitality or thinking. The doll has the most basic “motion tracking” function.

However, watching this scene, Duncan felt a little weird in his heart –

this silly doll finally showed some weird and scary characteristics according to the normal settings.

He came to the puppet, looked down at the other person, and the puppet raised its head expressionlessly, slowly adjusting its eyes to follow Duncan’s movements.

“There is no way.

“

“The doll suddenly said.

Her sudden voice echoed in the hall shrouded in black fog like an echo.

Duncan was thinking about how to communicate with this “awakened” doll, and when he heard the other party suddenly speaking, he Startled for a moment, he subconsciously said: “There is no road? There is no road?”

“We are guiding the New Hope to jump to a safe space…

The puppet turned its head stiffly and slowly, its eyes seemed to be tracking the hidden people. On the server in the black mist, or some old images that have long since disappeared in this place, a monotonous and hollow voice came from her mouth, echoing around,

“Guide the jump to the focus of gravity… The jump engine is disabled, the star map Fault…Standard starlight deviation…Cannot find the identification point, destination analysis failed…There is no way…

She seemed to be startled suddenly, her eyes slowly opened wide, as if she woke up from a nightmare ——— —

“There is no way out. Pilot 3 apologizes to all the crew of the spacecraft. There is no way out. I apologize. There is no way out. I apologize. There is no way out…”

The puppet suddenly began to repeat continuously, apologizing and broadcasting as if it suddenly fell into some kind of stuck state. A low noise suddenly came from the thick fog in all directions, and the puppet raised its head again, confused. The ground was looking for something in the darkness

, and his tone became more and more urgent: “There is no road, there is no road, there is no road, there is no…

The noise turned into a harsh roar, and something huge was trembling and falling in the black mist. , there was a strange vibration in the entire hall, but at the moment when the doll seemed to be losing control, Duncan suddenly held her shoulders in desperation –

“Alice!”

He shouted almost subconsciously. Said, – while pressing the doll’s shoulders hard – he repeated: Alice – can you hear me?!”

The doll stopped abruptly, as if to respond to the sound coming into its ears. Reacting to the name, she turned her head sluggishly, and there seemed to be some intelligence in her lifeless eyes.

The piercing whistling and shaking around the hall gradually subsided.

“Captain…Captain…”

She looked into Duncan’s eyes and said with a somewhat stuck voice, like a severely rusted and aging robot being restarted.

Then she turned her head left and right, as if she was “adapting” to something, and then her voice became smoother: “Captain, are you hungry?”

Duncan: ….

…..How can you be so stupid?” The first thing you remember when you wake up is this?!

“I’m not hungry, and now is not the time to eat,” Duncan quickly adjusted his mentality. He didn’t expect that he could actually “wake up” Alice here. Consciousness, it still felt incredible at this time, “You…look around, do you know what state you are in now?”

Alice then raised her head belatedly, realizing that this did not seem to be the familiar loss. On the township number.

She was stunned for a moment, and when she turned to look at Duncan, her eyes were obviously at a loss: “Where is this place?”

Duncan thought for a moment, and the main direction of his thinking was how to explain “New Hope” to this fool. What is the “core server room” that the navigation cabin reproduces after the observer’s cognitive reshaping? After a moment, he nodded and grabbed Alice’s shoulder.

“This is the world of your brain.

Alice looked confused: “But I don’t have a brain?”

Duncan:…

After a moment of blankness and speechlessness, he glared: “Just pretend that you do!”

… oh.