Deep Sea Embers

After hearing the captain's instructions, Alice immediately started thinking very seriously - and then looked into Duncan's eyes more seriously: "What is the escape cabin?"

Duncan was not surprised at all by this. He should panic only when the doll lady really stops losing her chain. But the current situation is not a big problem, because after several incidents, he has confirmed that "Ellie" "Si" may be confused about many things,

But the execution status of "Pilot 3" has actually always been online. The ancient and powerful space navigation system is in Alice's "instinct".

Now all it takes is for Alice's "instinct" to realize that a part of the bungalow is missing - theoretically.

"That's the missing part of this Alice Mansion, but you don't have to understand what it is," Duncan said casually when seeing the doll still looking at him curiously with wide eyes, "Do you remember that I told you What did you say about the Frost Queen?"

Alice thought for a while: "Which one? There are many, but I don't seem to remember them all -

Leigh Nora took away a room from your "mansion". That room is the escape cabin I'm talking about. Now she's riding the escape cabin to the ashes at the edge of the world. I need to locate her Position," Duncan explained patiently, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand it now, I will try to guide you to 'understand' the process."

Alice listened as if she understood, but after the captain finished speaking, she nodded quickly: "Oh, what should I do now?"

"You stay here, continue to sit under this 'tree', just like you did when you analyzed the route of the external barrier, and maintain 'contact' with this mansion," Duncan said, raising his right hand and speaking. A cluster of green flames soaked with starlight burned quietly in the palm of his hand. He handed the flame to the puppet in front of him, "Take it, it will build an extra bridge between you and me." I continued Next, I have to go to the "defective" part of the mansion to perform marking. If the situation meets my judgment, I should be able to 'intervene' the operation of Pilot 3 through this method and transmit the data to your 'system core' through an external bridge. inside."

Alice said "Oh" and immediately nodded happily and agreed: "Yeah, okay!"

As she spoke, she reached out without hesitation and grabbed the flame handed over by the captain - a wonderful warm touch came from the palm of her hand, and the illusory flame seemed to suddenly become real, swaying gently in her hand. With.

Alice carefully held the small fire and grabbed her "drawing board" with the other hand. She turned back to the "data tree" made of countless cables and pipes, and sat on the platform. He stood down, raised his head and showed a bright smile: "I'm ready!"

Duncan smiled and nodded, then turned and left the hall - he passed through the ornate little door that originally connected the garden and the depths of the mansion, and passed through the long corridor with many locked rooms and the sound of servers beeping. Corridor, passing through the stairs and hall, and soon came to the deepest part of the corridor on the second floor of the mansion: the "breaking point" between the escape capsule and the main body of the spacecraft.

The end of the corridor is still the same as when he left last time. The floor, roof and walls are in a state of fragmentation as if they were torn apart by an invisible force. Beyond the breaking point is an endless and deep dark space, so deep that it seems that you can see it just by looking at it. Let people "fall" in.

Duncan ignored the darkness outside the crack. He came to a certain wall on the side of the corridor with a clear goal. Soon, he found what he was looking for near the crack, which was a "melt" on the wall. The display screen was still looping with warning information about the illegal release of the escape capsule.

"Next, it's time to verify the conjecture." Duncan came to the display screen, took a gentle breath, and slowly closed his eyes, "Let me "see" what this place really looks like."

A ray of deep starlight escaped from the gap in his slightly closed eyes - he carefully controlled his increasingly restless "essence", understood his own power, and tried to release the anti-singularity without completely releasing it. In this case, open your own: "another pair of eyes".

Duncan slowly opened Zhou Ming's eyes. Starlight burst out from those eyes. At this moment, the eternal stars suddenly recalled how they should move. Where the stars were filled, he saw the other side of Alice's mansion.

The astonishingly large Ark spaceship floated in the boundless dark chaotic space. Only one-third of the torn starship's structure remained. He stood at the end of a connecting corridor in the middle of the spacecraft, with silver-gray and silver-white alloys. The structure replaced the original dark-toned floors and walls in the mansion corridor. Various warning lights were flashing in the distance, and in front of him were the burnt and fused escape cabin brackets.

A big hole was blown out of the escape hatch in front, which looked shocking. "Lee Nora definitely didn't leave quietly as she said when she left." Duncan only looked at the broken pipes, brackets and ends. After taking one look at the shell of the exploded spaceship, the corner of his mouth trembled, "How did she blow up this place without completely understanding what it was? "

Of course, no one in the empty spaceship corridor could answer his questions. After all, the only "owner" and "victim" of this place didn't even know what an escape cabin was. Duncan just shook his head after sighing, and then put it in again. His attention was focused on the flickering display.

Now, he has seen the entire device - it is part of the external release system of the escape capsule, and is fixed on a bent bracket. The entire bracket has been severely twisted and damaged, and its internal pipelines are even exposed, but it is obviously still intact. can operate normally.

Duncan put his hand on the device, preparing to use his own flame to "read" the data here and transmit it to Alice. This was his idea, simple and crude.

Alice's current state is that she cannot understand the "essence" of her mansion, and therefore cannot sense the system failure here. The instinct of the "Pilot 3" system is still there, but it does not respond because Alice cannot read the signal. So what Duncan has to do is to weld a flying wire between Alice and the "fault point" in the mansion.

Of course he himself doesn't understand the principle of this spaceship - but most mobile phone repairers don't know the specific structure inside the chip. Anyway, as long as the flying wires are welded and it can run, it will be fine.

Flying line craftsmanship is shocking.

The flames burned quietly and began to gradually penetrate into the escape cabin release system.

At this moment, Duncan suddenly saw something out of the corner of his eye.

A mass of black-gray metallic luster, a substance that was constantly surging and undulating like mud, flowed out from some nearby device grids and pipes at some point!

The weird muddy substance accumulated and flowed on the floor, slowly approaching him, making a creepy low noise. However, just when Duncan was alert and ready to do something, the muddy substance suddenly appeared not far away. Stopped, as if watching or judging something.

Duncan verified it and suddenly realized that he was the "cleaner" of Alice's mansion! That weird shadow used to repel "invading foreign objects"!

Is this thing part of the maintenance system of New Hope? Some kind of "damage control" device? Nanomachine fleet?

While Duncan continued to penetrate the data into the escape cabin system, many thoughts came to his mind. At this moment, he saw the "nano mud" crawling a few steps towards him.

There was no animosity whatsoever.

Under Duncan's careful gaze, the nanomachine cluster slowly differentiated into a tentacle-like "limb". It used this limb to knock the curved bracket of the release system, as if to demonstrate something to Duncan, and moved a A broken cable ripped out of the bracket.

Duncan had a strange expression: "You mean, let me connect from here?"

The mud separated into another limb, swinging up and down in the air.

Once Duncan confirmed it, he hesitantly spread his flames to the damaged cable.

Mud shook his two limbs with satisfaction, then collapsed into liquid again, making a gurgling sound while slowly drilling towards a crack in the nearby wall.

Duncan:

"

This thing can actually communicate and think? !

While he was stunned, the mud had completely left. Then, he heard Alice's voice coming from the spiritual connection: "Captain! The drawing board is on! The drawing board is on! I I seem to have figured out where the 'escape hatch' is! "

'There are one hundred and seventy-six people here now - all the 'awakened' ones are here," Helena led Vana and Lucretia across the connecting bridge in the center of the residential area while walking As he said, "This was originally part of the port power plant. After more and more people "awoke", the people who woke up first and were in better condition spontaneously gathered here and built a camp here. "

Fanna stopped on the connecting bridge, holding on to the railings and looking down at the temporary residential areas built based on the original facilities of the power plant.

The voice of the female pope continued after a moment: "We will soon expand a living area with better conditions - the dormitory next to the power plant. It is still occupied by the "trance compatriots", we We cannot expel them violently, and we must avoid conflicts with them as much as possible. But now there are more and more people awakening in that area. When the majority of people are awakened, we can expand the main scope of activities. "

"It's unimaginable," Lucretia on the side couldn't help but say after a moment of silence, "the world has become like this.

"Get used to it as soon as possible. The current city-state is what it will look like after it has been magnified a thousand times," Helena said softly. The female pope who personally stationed at the lighthouse in her incarnation turned her head and looked at Vanna and Lucretia, "As for now it's your turn, tell me about the end of the world."