Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 564 Revisiting the Garden
Just like before, Alice always had unconditional trust in the captain's words—she didn't even wonder why Duncan suddenly wanted to use that key again, so she happily agreed.

But Duncan explained to the puppet seriously: "I want to enter that 'Alice Mansion' again to confirm some conjectures about the 'Old World'."

Alice nodded her head. Although she didn't quite understand what the "old world" the captain was talking about, she knew it was a very serious matter.

Because she had already had the experience of cooperating once, this time she quickly found a comfortable and stable place to sit down, and then turned around to reveal the keyhole on her back.

"Actually, I discussed with Nina before, and asked her to help me change the back of my clothes, to see if I could make a hole through the keyhole." While waiting for the captain to "wind up" himself, the doll was still She said happily, "But she is worried that sand, dust and other debris will get into my keyhole... I think she is too worried, and I won't roll on the ground. How could sand get into the keyhole?"

"It's better to block it normally," Duncan said casually. "No one knows whether this precise structure will be very fragile. If something gets stuck, I don't know how to fix it."

"Miss Lucrezia might be able to repair it, Luni was the one who repaired it... But you are right, it's better to be careful, Luni's head has been repaired for a long time..."

The silver-haired puppet was muttering, just like ordinary people chatting about family affairs, talking about these things that are too weird and evil for others to hear. Duncan couldn't help showing a faint smile on his face, and then he shook his head with a smile , picked up the peculiar brass key, and carefully inserted it into Alice's keyhole like last time.

The familiar clicking sound came, and the key began to turn by itself. Duncan calmed down slightly, and in the next second, he felt the light and shadow in front of him changing, and his perception was rapidly reorienting and reshaping.

After a while, he opened his eyes in the dark, adapting to the changes in the five senses after the environment change. After the scene in front of him quickly stabilized, the strange lush "garden" covered by the cartoon sky appeared before his eyes again.

The silver-haired Gothic doll, exactly like Alice, was still quietly leaning against the pillar in the center of the garden, sleeping in the flower vines and thorn bushes. The drawing board in the doll's hand was also the same as before, with no change in position or shape.

Duncan blinked, and didn't move rashly at the first moment, but carefully checked the surrounding situation and compared it with the scene in his memory.

Half a minute later, he confirmed that there was nothing abnormal around him, and everything remained the same as when he left—he even had a feeling that time in this "mansion" was suspended until he returned , and here's where time starts ticking again.

...this is most likely not an illusion.

Duncan recalled what the peculiar "headless butler" once told him about the special time rules in Alice's mansion, and he was thoughtful.

After thinking for a moment, he raised his head and looked up at the "sky" above the garden.

When he came here last time, a lot of his energy was attracted by all kinds of weird and weird scenes in the mansion, and he had piles of questions in his mind, and his limited energy was scattered everywhere, so that even though the garden The sky caught his attention, and he didn't pay too close attention to the eerie cartoon doodles.

But this time, he took it very seriously.

It seems that the clouds drawn by children's crayons are floating against the light blue sky background, exaggerated "sunshine" lines pass between the clouds, and the "sun" painted with golden yellow paint is as seen last time, It emits light and heat, maintaining the vitality in the garden.

Still full of "childlike fun", still full of weirdness in "childlike fun".

Duncan suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly.

He carefully observed the golden sun. This time, he finally noticed a detail that he had overlooked before——

Around that round of "Graffiti Sun", there is no rune ring structure!
"No wonder... no wonder I felt something was wrong when I looked at it last time, but I couldn't tell..."

Duncan muttered, the expression on his face changed slightly, and he finally confirmed where the most discordant feeling of the sky presented in this weird graffiti came from: it was a normal sun, although the brushstrokes were abstract and simple, But it is undoubtedly the "sun" that I am familiar with!
But it is precisely because I am too familiar with it that I failed to notice this obvious "abnormality" when I took a quick look at it last time-if "indigenous residents" like Morris or Fanna came over, I am afraid that it would be the first time. Eyes will feel wrong.

Duncan frowned a little bit. After confirming that the sky was a "normal sun", the secret hidden in this "Alice's mansion" seemed to be quietly revealing a corner to him.

In the boundless sea, the "sun" is a man-made celestial body with double rune circles. This is common knowledge recognized by the world. It is a "fact" that has not changed for 1 years since the deep sea age. No one in the world knows " What does the real sun look like, even those Sun Cultists who claim to believe in the real sun god, what they portrayed when they preached is just a twisted and terrifying ancient god creature——

So this "normal sun" or "primordial sun" in Alice's mansion...who will stay?
The doll "Alice" was "born" after the Frost Queen Leh Nora fell into the deep sea, so why does the "sun" before the era of annihilation be recorded in the depths of Alice's mansion connected to her? look like?

And if we take into account the "world aggregation theory"'s speculation about the great annihilation, the deep-sea age is formed by the accumulation and reshaping of countless old world wreckage, then the "primordial sun" recorded in Alice's mansion... should be Which old world does it belong to?
Does it represent some star in some old world?Or is it just an abstract symbol?

For some reason, what Duncan thought of at this moment was that chubby pigeon.

He frowned, shook his head, and reorganized the intricate information in his mind again and again. Suddenly, another clue appeared in his mind——

The birth of Alice.

Her image is indeed copied from Frost Queen Leh Nora, but her original body coffin is also a false copy of "Alice Guillotine"-it turns out that for the "shaper" of abnormal 099, The source and process of reproduction are not important. Whether it is a great human being or a piece of hard wood, they are just the initial "material". What really matters is the "shaper" himself.

Anomaly 099 was created by the "false copy" of Lord Youshen.

Then, can it be considered that this so-called "Alice's mansion" is actually the "creation" of the wrong copy of the Holy Lord Youshen--and if it is further extended, even the wrong copy of the Holy Lord Youshen should still be preserved. A lot of information about the "ontology", so the source of some "things" in this Alice mansion may be the "ancient god" stranded in the deep sea?
Duncan raised his head and looked carefully at the abstract and simple sun, as well as the clouds and sunlight around the sun.

...Are these graffiti-like pictures a part of the "memory" accidentally leaked by the Holy Lord Yousu, or some kind of "information" consciously conveyed to the outside world?

The more Duncan thought about it, the more likely it was, because one thing was certain:
The true appearance of the "Primordial Sun" only existed at the time point before the Great Annihilation. The secret of this Alice Mansion should also be traced back to before that time point. And judging from the information currently available... Only the Four Gods, And those mysterious and strange "ancient gods" deep in the world can have a certain understanding of the world before the Great Annihilation.

Duncan's heart moved, he lowered his head, and saw the drawing board in the puppet's hand.

After a slight hesitation, he bent down, carefully bypassed the surrounding thorns, and slowly pulled the drawing board out of the puppet's hand.

The front of the drawing board still depicts the weird vortex, distorted stars, and ominous dark red light, while on the frame on the back of the drawing board, familiar words are still engraved on it:

"...messengers brought news from afar, the chosen clan picked up the lost ancient stars and forged them into blessed crowns—the third long night is over."

The chosen clan picks up the lost ancient stars and forges them into crowns of blessing.

Duncan's eyes stayed on this sentence for a long time.

This is a description of the process by which the ancient Cretan clan, led by the "Creep King", built Vision 001 and raised it into the sky.

When he first entered the garden and saw this line of text, he couldn't understand what it meant.

But now, he suddenly realized something.

He thought of the "moon" with a diameter of ten meters - it was a "part" that fell off from the rune circle of vision 001.

The rune ring that binds the sun can be regarded as a brilliant "crown".

And the "moon" distorted and compressed by unknown forces... naturally fits the description of "the lost ancient star".

Some slight sounds suddenly came from the depths of the garden, waking Duncan out of his contemplation.

He suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound.

There was nothing but lush vegetation, dim shadows between the lush bushes and the shadows of the dwarf trees.

But Duncan can be sure that he really "heard" something just now.

This is the deepest part of Alice's mansion. According to the headless butler, even the high-ranking servants in the mansion are not qualified to step here at will - only the hostess Alice and the existence called "gardener" will Come in here, but that "gardener" seems to have ceased to be around a long time ago.

Intruder?Or is the "gardener" back?

Duncan frowned slowly. He casually stuffed the drawing board back into the doll's arms, and walked cautiously towards the lush bushes.

"Wow... swish..."

A slight sound came from somewhere in the shadows again.

Suddenly, the corner of his eye caught something——

A shadow, like a slippery and weird tentacle, is crawling back and forth in the darkness at the edge of the garden!
(End of this chapter)