Deep Sea Embers

In the middle of that gorgeous big bed, the "room owner" who just woke up was leaning on the pillow, and looked at Duncan, the unexpected guest, with curious eyes, but the long silver hair and purple eyes were so familiar.

Duncan subconsciously called out the name "Alice"—the low, hoarse, resonant "voice" came directly from the chest cavity of his body.

But immediately after, he frowned slightly, woke up from the sudden surprise and astonishment, and looked at the lady thoughtfully.

She is not Alice—even though she looks exactly the same, she has a completely different temperament. More importantly...Alice will not appear in this place, so the greater possibility is...

"Lee Nora," Duncan guessed the identity of the person in front of him. With a questioning look, he looked into the other person's eyes and slowly said, "The Frost Queen?"

"It seems that I haven't heard this name for a long time," the lady who just woke up smiled. She adjusted her posture leaning on the bed, with curiosity in her eyes, "Who are you? How did you not open that door?" Without the door, did you enter this room directly?"

"Door?" Duncan frowned, and when he heard the word "door" mentioned again, he became curious, "What kind of door?"

The lady didn't speak, just raised her finger and pointed not far away.

Duncan looked in the direction of the other's fingers, and saw a closed door with intricate patterns - that was obviously the door of this bedroom.

"The ones who can come here are either the servants of this mansion, or the guests with the keys. You are obviously not the servants of the mansion, but you don't have the keys either."

Duncan's heart skipped a beat—the key! The other party just mentioned the key!

"The key you mentioned is a brass key used to wind up the doll?" He turned his head, his tone calmly covering up all the emotional fluctuations, "Are you really Frost Queen Leh Nora? "

"I do," Leigh Nora smiled and shook her head slightly, "but you haven't answered my question—who are you?"

Duncan restrained the emotional changes in his eyes, and while quickly sorting out his thoughts in his head, he said unhurriedly: "...you can call me Duncan."

He only said his own name, but did not mention the more famous surname, but Lei Nora opened her eyes slightly after hearing it, and then a more cheerful smile appeared on her face: "Ah, so It's you—the legendary Captain Duncan. It's more reasonable for you to enter this room, but... I didn't expect you to be in this posture."

Duncan was taken aback when he heard the words, then looked down at his body.

It is still the extremely weird pitch-black human body, just like the "rough body" that the creator did not have time to modify the details when creating human beings. This abstract appearance is really not "friendly face".

"This is just an avatar for temporary use," Duncan explained casually with some embarrassment, and then he noticed a little incongruity in the other party's attitude, "You don't seem so surprised? You already knew I would come ?”

"I don't know, but I lost the ability to 'surprise' many years ago," Lei Nora said calmly. All kinds of unimaginable and treacherous postures, always experiencing death before death, and being trapped in a dream before falling asleep, then you will lose this ability sooner or later..."

She smiled, her indifferent tone seemed to be talking about the weather: "Even if there are still unpredictable things in the world, numbness will allow you to face all accidents calmly."

Duncan looked into Lei Nora's eyes, and recalled all kinds of information related to the Frost Queen in a calm manner—

Le Nora is said to be a born psyker whose spiritual gift is able to communicate with a multitude of unseen beings. It is said that she can even foresee the future and know the truth out of thin air...

While sorting out the information in his mind, there was no change in Duncan's eyes. Instead, he casually came to a corner of the room, dragged a chair to the big bed, and sat down to look at the Frost Queen seriously. Eyes: "I have many questions that I hope you can answer."

"I have a lot of questions, too," Leigh Nora smiled. "I haven't talked to anyone in too long, and a visitor means a lot to me—so if you'd answer my questions, I'd answer yours too." of."

"Okay, then I won't be polite," Duncan cut straight to the point, "What the hell is this place? Why are you here?"

"Ah, is it such a difficult question to answer at the beginning..." Lei Nora frowned, as if she was really worried about how to organize her words, and then she said slowly, "Explain in easier-to-understand words, here It's a 'drifting place' - it's not an exact place, but a 'connection' of many places, do you see the darkness at the end of the room? The scenery outside sometimes changes to something else - suitable The conditions can make it connect to a suitable 'place', but for me, its only function is to connect my dreams to the deep sea under the frost.

"Need me to explain to you what the deep sea under the frost means?"

"No need," Duncan shook his head, "Go on, why are you here?"

"Okay, it looks like you already know what's in the deep sea," Lei Nora exhaled softly, "I'm embracing a dream here to ensure that the existence in the deep sea can continue to sleep."

Duncan's eyes were serious: "Holy Lord Youshen?"

"...It seems that you know more than I imagined," Lenora quietly glanced at Duncan, "but you are wrong, even though he did come from the 'King of Creeping', the deep sea The existence in it is not the real Holy Lord Youshen, strictly speaking, it is just a copy."

For a moment, Duncan recalled a sentence he saw in that weird "dark space" before - the cluster controller has begun to replicate itself.

The huge "pillar" in the deep sea is indeed not the body of the Lord Youyuan, but just a copy that appeared in the real world for some reason!

So the most accurate situation is... the replica of the ancient god penetrated the "primitive blueprint of the city-state" in the deep sea, and the power released by it led to a series of subsequent events? And the source of all this...is because of the complete loss of control of the "Sacred Lord of the Deep"?

Is it possible to think this way: before the appearance of this clone in the real world, the Youshen Holy Lord actually did not lose control? Has He been deteriorating continuously over the long years to the present?

So if this line of thinking continues... What about other gods? If the "terrible evil gods" in the eyes of the world are actually deteriorating from stable to out of control, then what about the "four gods" in the world? Will they get out of hand? Or... are they actually getting out of control?

Duncan thought of the successive accidents of Pland and Frost under the blessing of the Goddess of Storms and the God of Death, and of Vision 001, which has already malfunctioned... This obvious situation of gradual failure of large-scale systems...is it the whole world? All in the "out of control" performance?

The unresolved conjectures were confirmed, and a lot of chaotic thoughts flooded into his mind in an instant. In the blink of an eye, Duncan thought of a series of events that happened in the boundless sea during this period.

At this moment, Lei Nora's voice came from the opposite side, interrupting his brainstorming: "Now it's my turn to ask questions."

Duncan quickly restrained his thoughts and organized his thoughts: "You ask."

"How did you get here?" Leigh Nora had curiosity in her eyes.

"In the deep sea below Frost—I found the 'replica', and found an 'entrance' at its breaking point," Duncan didn't hide, "As for how I got so deep The place where... is to ride the submersible of the Frost City State."

"Submersible?" Lei Nora frowned, but soon she seemed to have guessed something, "Ah, it seems that they secretly built a new one..."

"Do you know that the 'Rebel Government' will build new submersibles after you... die?" Duncan was a little surprised, "As far as I know, the 'Abyss Project' is the source of that rebellion, and they are also in the name of it ...'executed' you."

"They will," Le Nora just smiled, "because they're Frostmen."

Duncan didn't speak for a while, just looked at the former queen quietly.

The latter continued calmly: "Frost people never die silently and docilely. When the darkest hour comes, we will burn everything in order to survive. From time to time, there will be rebels who will rise up and overthrow me to ensure the survival of more people, and when they discover the secrets in the deep sea, they will definitely build submersibles like me to try to solve this problem.

"They'll improve their machines, they'll slow down their plans, they'll take my radical lessons and do it all in a more benign and harmless way, and if they still fail like this, then a new rebel will emerge and the successor will cut The head of an incompetent person, and then try another way...continue to challenge the icy darkness in the deep sea."

"This will continue until the last Frostman dies, or the darkness dissipates."

She raised her head and stared calmly at Duncan's eyes—on the latter's strange and frightening "rough" body, only those eyes had a little bit of human brilliance.

"I just didn't expect that the person who came down from the submersible would be... the legendary Captain Duncan, and a Captain Duncan who had obviously gained his sanity. It seems that my successor is a little more extreme than I was back then?"

"...they failed," Duncan was silent for a few seconds, shaking his head slightly, "a disaster destroyed the city-state government, and they failed to restart the plan before the situation got out of control—the only good news is that the disaster Eventually calmed down, and the submersible was the 'trophy' we found after the situation calmed down."