Deep Sea Embers

Alice accepted the fact that her box had been transformed into parts of the Lost Homeland very frankly, and then quickly forgot about the Frost Queen Leh Nora—the level of open-mindedness was beyond Duncan's reach.

And according to Miss Puppet herself, the reason why she is so calm is that all these are considered "external affairs" to her.

"Anyway, I'm living on this ship now, and I don't plan to leave in the future. It's no big deal if the box becomes a part of the Lost Homelander. The matter of the Frost Queen is even simpler—I don't even know her," Alice said. He sat on the lid of his wooden box again, with a happy smile on his face, "I don't know if I am her, nor what kind of person she used to be, anyway, this was all half a century ago... What is history, let it be history."

"You just need to be open-minded." Duncan just looked quietly into Alice's lavender eyes, and after a long time, he nodded slightly.

In the end, he still didn't mention the "details" in the echo to the other party, and he didn't mention what the Frost Queen Ley Nora suddenly said to herself before she was executed.

After all, even if it is mentioned, this puppet definitely doesn't know anything... It's good that she is so carefree now.

"That's it, now we have a preliminary understanding and control of your 'coffin', but whether the beheading effect of 'Anomaly 099' is also under control, we need to do some tests later," Duncan said lightly. He exhaled lightly, "I'll go first."

"Hey, Captain, go slowly~~"

After leaving Alice's room, Duncan returned to the deck. He walked slowly towards the captain's cabin full of thoughts, sorting out the problems he was currently encountering while walking.

He wanted to find out whether the "beheading" power of anomaly 099 was controllable, but he couldn't solve the problem in the end, but he accidentally touched on an old incident half a century ago...the Queen of Frost who was executed by the rebels , the accusation of colluding with the Lost Homelander, and a certain mysterious "abyss" plan, these things were circling in his mind and could not dissipate for a long time.

In addition to these, there is another thing that he is very concerned about.

Duncan reached out and took something out of his bosom.

It was a small hairpin, shaped like a silver-white feather surrounded by waves.

It's not like the stuff rough male sailors have, by any means.

When I look at it myself, I feel a distant and vague nostalgia. This hairpin... seems to have a special meaning for the once real "Captain Duncan".

Duncan was full of questions, but he knew that he couldn't ask Goat Head directly about this matter.

He put away the hairpin, and returned to the captain's cabin with a heavy heart, where the goat's head was still conscientiously controlling the ship, but to Duncan's surprise, the pigeon Ay, who was supposed to stay in the dormitory, was also with him .

The bird was standing proudly on the horns of the goat's head, arrogantly rubbing its beak with the forehead of the goat's head.

Duncan saw this scene as soon as he opened the door and entered the room, and asked curiously, "Since when did you get along so well?"

The pigeon flapped its wings, but did not speak coldly, while the goat's head creaked and turned its head, its eyes made of obsidian stared straight at Duncan: "Great captain... next time you take Ai Can I get some French fries when I'm walking in the Yiling world?"

Duncan was taken aback for a moment: "...Why did you start to come to the whole order of French fries?"

Goat's head's voice was almost trembling: "Please, just order French fries... just to shut up your pigeons..."

Duncan stared dumbfounded at the combination of the bird and the sheep. It took him a while to vaguely guess what happened, and he immediately laughed, "You finally met the natural enemy?"

"I changed seventy-six topics! Seventy-six! I have exhausted all my life's knowledge, spanning thousands of years of history, from poetry and poetry to frying and cooking, from worshiping gods to sow breeding! But all the responses I got were 'Order French fries'!" Goat's head sounded a little broken, "How do you usually deal with this pigeon?"

"It's simple, just don't talk to it. If you don't talk to it, it will quickly quiet down." Duncan spread his hands, "I guess you can't do it."

The goat's head thought for a while, then sighed: "...Then why don't you order French fries later."

Duncan was noncommittal, but just waved to Ai, and the pigeon immediately flew over and landed on his shoulder, and then he sat down on his chair, turned to the goat's head and said casually: "Half Frost City-State The ruler of centuries ago, Frost Queen Leh Nora—do you know anything about it?"

"The Queen of Frost? The one who was executed by the rebels half a century ago?" Goat's head was stunned for a moment, "I've heard about it. Speaking of which, we seem to have fought against them around there decades ago." It's like... But there's not much to talk about other than that. Why do you bring this up all of a sudden?"

Duncan looked calmly into the eyes of the goat's head, and he knew that the "first mate" was not lying.

Goat's head really doesn't know about the Frost Queen, and the Lost Country has no contact with that Frost City.

Not only was there no contact, the Lost Homeland even had conflicts with the guards of that city-state—just like conflicts with other city-states and ships on other routes.

Since the Lost Country has never been an ally of the Frost City-State in Goat's Head's memory, it means that the charges placed on the Frost Queen by the rebels half a century ago are completely fictional.

Of course, it may be too early to draw this conclusion. After all, it is an old incident half a century ago. There may be many twists and turns in the buried history. The mate may have been telling the truth, but it wasn't necessarily the whole truth that he knew - it just wasn't important.

Duncan also has no intention of reversing the case of the Frost Queen half a century ago. He only wants to know about the Lost Country and Alice.

"Did you know? Alice's appearance is exactly the same as the Frost Queen half a century ago - the so-called anomaly 099 is most likely born after the executed Frost Queen was cursed by the boundless sea," he teased with his fingers The pigeon on the shoulder said casually, "And the main 'crime' that the Frost Queen was executed by the rebels back then was collusion with the Lost Country."

The goat's head froze for a moment.

Duncan rarely froze when he saw this guy.

"Collude with the Lost Country?! Those stupid human beings in the city-state even have to make up such a ridiculous reason for betraying their own monarch?" After several seconds, the goat's head finally laughed loudly. He obviously felt that this matter It's extremely ridiculous, "Don't blame me for laughing too loudly, those human beings are really too stupid and weak, they are afraid that even if they fall out of the house, they will blame the curse of the Lost Country! This 'crime' fabricated is too outrageous Already!"

Speaking of this, he paused, and then continued: "But you said that Miss Alice looks a lot like the Frost Queen? This is really...unbelievable, if Miss Alice is really transformed from the Frost Queen ...then this matter is full of irony."

"Yeah, it would be ironic if they really had such a connection," Duncan leaned back, leaning back in a comfortable position, "The Queen of Frost never contacted the Lost Homeland before her death, but The rebels accused her of colluding with the Lost Home, and today, half a century later, Alice really became a crew member of the Lost Home—the crimes that the rebels insisted on back then have come true across time and space. gone."

"No wonder you rushed to find Miss Alice as soon as you came back. It turned out that you found the key information about anomaly 099." Goat's head immediately flattered, "You really deserve to be the great Captain Duncan. Every time you travel, you will be rewarded. ! This reminds me of a sentence said by a navigator, or it may be a..."

Duncan immediately glared at the goat's head, and casually took the pigeon off his shoulders and placed it in front of the goat's head: "You two talk."

Goat Head: "...!?"

...

In the central cathedral of the Puland city-state, Fan Na handed over a document she had just signed to her entourage: "Send this document to the Western Church—this is the last search warrant."

The young guard warrior took the document: "Yes, Inquisitor."

Fanna exhaled lightly, moving her neck that was a little stiff from handling the paperwork, feeling that dealing with the pen was more tiring than wielding a huge sword to fight against heretics.

On the edge of the table, the oil lamp is burning quietly, and the green smoke is rising from the copper incense burner. These two things are necessary protective measures when dealing with documents at night-even in a sacred cathedral, there should be some protection Still have to have.

"Hopefully there will be no more trouble tonight."

The young lady judge couldn't help mumbling while stretching herself.

As if in response to her muttering, just as Fan Na finished speaking, a slightly hasty and sharp bell sound suddenly came from the direction of the main building of the church!

The guardian soldier who had just picked up the document and had not had time to leave the room stopped immediately when he heard the bell. He glanced out of the window in doubt, and then looked at his boss who had just stretched halfway: "The bell rings at night... …What happened?"

"It's the bell calling for listening," Fanna quickly discerned the message conveyed by the bell, and her expression suddenly became serious. "Seven short beeps in a row, from the 'Tomb of the Unknown King'...could it be the discovery of a new anomalies or visions?"

(Oops, I forgot to post a testimonial when it was put on the shelf. I will add one more: it’s on the shelf, it’s on the shelf, it’s on the shelf.)