Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 812

[Chapter 793 Temporary Communication]

The surrounding atmosphere seemed to have changed quietly – something, some very large “structure”, was taking shape near the Lost Home.

Duncan stood on the edge of the stern bridge, keeping an eye on Alice’s situation, but suddenly he seemed to feel something, and then he and Vanna raised their heads in unison and looked up at the sky.

A vague and huge “phantom” is slowly emerging in the dim skylight and mist.

The phantom seemed to be a loose aggregation of many fragmented large masses, and had a roughly fusiform overall outline. It seemed to be torn off from a larger entity, and its central part could even be vaguely Distinguish the broken connection structure!

The scale of the entire phantom can be described as astonishing. Through the distant fog, Duncan and Vanna could not even judge the size of the thing, nor did they know how far away it was from the Lost Home. Far high in the sky, but the pressure brought by just a phantom can already make people feel breathless.

Vanna stood on the deck as if she had been struck by a petrification spell, raising her head and staring blankly at the huge phantom hidden in the clouds and skylight. After an unknown amount of time, she muttered to herself in astonishment:. That’s…what!”

Duncan suddenly turned his attention to the puppet that was holding the steering wheel – he saw Alice still standing there quietly, but the puppet’s eyes had changed at some point. Drooping, her eyes were half-closed as if she was about to fall asleep, and her soul seemed to be no longer in this body,

while countless vague “lines” extended from her body,

perhaps because of the “vision” she had shared many times. Duncan vaguely saw those almost transparent lines – they hung down from the sky, densely packed, like a giant tree with an amazing structure, or an inverted cone that gathered one by one. One end of them was obviously connected to the one in the sky. A huge phantom, and at the other end they all gathered behind the doll…

Alice felt like she had had a long and weird dream. In the dream, she was a ship——a A big ship sailing among the stars.

She carries many people’s expectations and futures. She sets sail from a cocoon of time that is gradually being swallowed up. She leaves her home port behind and

the stars never stop at her again.

Behind her, erupted like a tide, and then extinguished like an ebbing tide. The structure of space and time collapsed in her transition path, and a terrifying phenomenon like red shift chased among the collapsing stars like a nightmare. With her footsteps, she shuttles through the collapsing world, as if she is running in a cave that is constantly collapsing and narrowing. The deadly gravitational collapse trap and rampant ray storm are like falling rocks in the cave, splashing like rain…

She kept calculating and revising all the time. She looked for a way out among the stars, and planned the path to escape from the “Collapse Cave” in the star map that gathered the wisdom of millions of people. Every person on the star map The landmarks are all misaligned, and everything in the universe has deviated from its original trajectory. First it was the position of the stars, then it was the laws of matter, and then… it was “calculation” itself.

There is no way, there is no way ahead .

, unable to navigate, the “calculation” process itself has failed, the shield collapsed, the structure dissolved… .Shrill alarms, the database is offline, the ecological cabin is on fire…. The thinking reaction of the “passenger” disappears into the boundless darkness.

Everything ended with a violent flash and explosion.

Then

, Pilot 3 woke up from a series of errors and felt that he had been in a long and weird dream

. The dolls were busy all day long on a weird ghost ship, cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, and playing with some weird things….

The ship was sailing in a sea of scorching ashes. , even the ship itself seems to be condensed from some kind of ashes, and there are several… “individuals” who are also derived from ashes living on that ship. Sometimes, the ship will dock next to the island – those are some The huge lumps floating in the ashes were sintered into strange shapes, and they maintained an unknown “operation” in the sea of ashes.

There were many things on those islands, and there were many noises, imitated by the ashes. The life that has passed away emits an intellectual voice. Sometimes, Pilot 3 will feel that those voices and appearances are a bit familiar, just like some of the data stored in his memory bank, and this “sense of familiarity” always makes him feel a little… ……”sad”.

But the “doll” lived happily in that dream. She made friends with the ashes. All the ashes were the same in her eyes. She wandered around the world after the burning as if she had a fulfilling “life”. She has a body that mimics other Ashes. That body allows her to run, jump, and laugh like other Ashes.

And in that dream filled with ashes, there was only one entity, an individual that was not ashes.

It was a starry sky that had never died – a group of stars like a river flowing in a sea of scorching ashes.

Alice/Pilot Three opened her eyes suddenly.

She found herself floating in darkness, with many hazy outlines and lines floating around her. That was the navigation cabin of the New Hope, the place in her “memory”.

“Mr. Goathead? Miss Agatha?”

Alice looked around uneasily. She still remembered what she was doing before, but when the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness, the two familiar figures disappeared from sight at some point. .

“Where have you been?” she called anxiously, taking steps in the darkness, but after a long time without receiving a response, she stopped in frustration, “Did I mess up again?”

A light suddenly appeared at the end of the darkness, interrupting her mutterings.

Alice raised her head in surprise and looked in the direction of the light.

She saw a tall rectangular shadow, with a red light like a giant’s one-eye embedded in the upper part of the shadow, and many flickering lights floating on both sides and behind the shadow, like countless lurking creatures in the darkness. Eye.

Alice was startled for a moment, and subconsciously wanted to walk over there – but the moment this idea came up, she felt her eyes blur.

By the time she reacted, she had already arrived in front of the tall shadow with red lights.

The darkness blocked her eyes like a veil, making it difficult for her to see the details of the shadow, but she still quickly recognized the other person – or in other words, it was the part of her that belonged to “Pilot Three” that recognized the other person.

“Pilot No. 2?” She said in surprise, saying the unfamiliar name in her own voice, as if she had known the other person for a long time.

“Pilot 3…Long time no see,” the tall rectangular shadow said, his voice seemed to be carrying the noise caused by interference, “It seems that Pilot 1 has indeed achieved success…however, how did it achieve it?” There is a certain deviation from my calculation, but I am still happy to read your identification signal again.

“Did you bring me here?” Alice thought for a while and tried to formulate a question. She felt that it was a big question. A bunch of messy thoughts were fighting in his head. Fortunately, he didn’t have a brain in his head, otherwise he would have been destroyed by those thoughts, “How am I going to go back?”

Pilot 2 was silent for a few seconds.

Alice’s reaction seemed to deviate from its “calculation” again.

But soon, those lights flickered again, and the voice of Pilot 2 reached the puppet’s ears: “I just want to see you in advance to confirm whether your condition is stable – the navigation key I made for you is a A bold attempt, it is based on my calculation and understanding of the current state of the world. I am not sure whether it can really work. After all… In order to avoid mutual contamination, I have not communicated with Pilot One for a long time. Have had direct communication.”

Alice opened her eyes wide and listened carefully to what Pilot 2 was telling her. Then she frowned and thought for a moment: …What do you mean?

Pilot 2 was silent for a few seconds again. This time, even the red color on its surface was not visible. The lights dimmed together.

Alice didn’t rush her, she just stared at the light in front of her with wide eyes.

After a while, the light finally became bright again.

….In the last text message received, Pilot One said that one of the ‘split bodies’ it released had found a very talented ‘carrier’ in the shelter, which was enough to carry what you left behind back then. Backup data, but why is your current operation performance so… inconsistent with my calculations?

Alice thought for a while, looked at the other party seriously: “Are you saying I’m stupid?

Pilot 2 every time The silence seemed deafening:” …

“Although I don’t know what you want to say, it sounds like it has something to do with the ‘copying’ of the Frost Queen, right?” Alice said casually. Of course she is not stupid, at least. She was still able to react to this matter,

“I don’t know what happened specifically, but the captain said that there was something wrong with the operation of the clone of the Holy Lord Netherworld, and the copy target was wrong…

She stopped when she said this After stopping, he looked at the light with some curiosity: “Is the problem big?

The red light on the surface of Pilot 2 slowly flickered on and off, as if it was thinking, and as if it was simply emptying the thread of thinking. After a while, Yes, its slightly noisy voice broke the silence: “No, if it is just to perform navigation tasks, it is enough. “Oh, that’s good.” When Alice heard this, she suddenly became happy,

“The captain asked me to take the helm. I was still worried. If you can’t do it well on your own,

it’s enough to complete the task.

…Don’t you feel sorry?” The red light dimmed slightly, “You have forgotten many things. Originally, you had the fastest processing speed and multi-thread response capability among us. You were once used to measure the entire universe. Scale, but now trapped in such a…. shell.

Alice blinked.

What the other person said was always a bit incomprehensible, but she felt that she…understood it.

So this time she thought carefully before answering.

“I don’t think so.” After a long time, she shook her head gently, “I couldn’t find the road before, but now I know where the road is, so I don’t regret it. Besides, I still have a lot of things to do every day, so I don’t care. It’s not a pity.”

The red light of Pilot 2 gradually dimmed, and then gradually turned brighter.

It seemed to be thinking too, and it took a while before responding: “If that’s the case, that’s fine.

In the darkness, the tall rectangular shadow seemed to be fading away.

“Are you leaving?” Alice asked quickly.

…This is just a temporary communication established with the help of the navigation key. I cannot communicate with the outside world for too long.” In the darkness, the voice of Pilot 2 has begun to be a little blurry, “We will meet again, I am very happy… …Reading your identification signal again.

Alice smiled happily.

Although she didn’t know exactly what happened, she could feel that she was also happy.

“Then we

are happy. “

See you later.” She waved her hand to the darkness that was getting thicker and waved vigorously, “The captain, I, and everyone are going to find you together!”

There was no response from the darkness, only a short buzz.