Deep Sea Embers

The world in Alice's eyes seems to have been completely different from that of ordinary people from the beginning - but until today, no one has discovered this.

Not even Alice herself noticed this.

Duncan learned from Vanna about the battle that took place in the alley, and Alice's performance in that battle - from the time she noticed the hidden enemy through the "floating thread" to the time she would...

An Annihilation cultist who tried to escape turned into a smashed porcelain doll. The whole process surprised Duncan.

Now, all eyes were on the doll lady who was confused from beginning to end.

"...So you can't see the line, ah..." No matter how slow Alice was, she realized what was going on. She scratched her head and looked innocent, "I thought this was common sense. , after all, everyone has that thing floating on their heads and limbs..."

Duncan stared into Alice's eyes with a very serious expression: "Let me confirm again, everyone has a 'thread,' right?"

"Yes, everyone—but not you, Captain," Alice replied immediately.

Duncan thought for a while and asked again:

"...Is it my true body that doesn't have it, or does my current body not have it either?"

"You don't have the body you have now," Alice answered honestly, and then added, "Neither does the body you had in Pland..."

Duncan nodded slightly, his thoughts racing in his mind, and all kinds of conjectures coming and going.

Since the visitor left, tranquility has returned to the cemetery, and nothing unusual has disturbed the deceased. However, neither the guards of the cemetery nor the guards sent by the church relaxed after that.

"...Where are they hiding?

The wind and snow were very strong in the second half of the night, and the howling wind and neat snowflakes seemed to foreshadow something.

"Perhaps... the coffin and the doll have represented different powers from the beginning. The former is a symbol of death, so it has the ability to be simple and crude beheading, while the latter is the manipulation of human-shaped objects. This is in line with the 'doll'. "Positioning," Duncan said unhurriedly, "It's just that Alice before was part of the contents of the coffin, so the combination of Quilt 099 fully exhibits the characteristics of the coffin, and now...the doll has become In the main part of normal 099, your original abilities are released."

"Tonight's situation shows one thing. The replicas in the city are indeed the work of these Annihilation cultists. Moreover, these cultists are not only acting in secret, but also secretly paying attention to the replicas they released into the city - This kind of observation is very much like collecting data.”

The old guard tightened his coat.

At the same time, the thoughts in his heart did not calm down.

Miss Doll finally laughed and swayed around with a particularly happy look: "This is great. I see everyone is so serious suddenly, I thought it was very..."

Duncan was more or less filled with emotion. He had spent a lot of time with Alice, and it was precisely because of the time he spent together that he got used to the noisy doll on the boat, and got used to her running around in front of him all day long but being harmless. Appearance - He had almost forgotten that before this doll became the cook on the Lost Home, it was first anomaly numbered 099, a strange thing that emerged from the cold deep sea after the death of the Frost Queen. .

Alice obviously didn't have so many thoughts. She just kept turning her eyes around as Vanna and others were talking, looking at this and that. It took a long time before she could barely understand some of the current situation, and her face But he looked a little uneasy and cast his gaze cautiously: "...Captain, have I done something bad?"

Duncan just reached out his hand and gently pressed Alice's hair.

In the middle of the night, a "snatch" was sent to the caretaker's hut through a high-pressure steam pipe. The message came from the city hall. The content was very strange-it asked all extraordinary guards in the city to be vigilant, but it did not explain what exactly they should be wary of.

Alice seemed a little confused.

The wind got stronger and the second snow started to fall.

Thousands of snowflakes fell in the night, and the streets in the distance became hazy as if they were hidden in fog.

Everything as far as the eye can see is covered with thick snow, and the streets in the distance blur the outlines and boundaries under the thick snow and become completely white.

"It doesn't matter, I will take action, but first you have to know which sewer they are hiding in," Vanna said casually, "It's meaningless to kill a few believers or priests, or even destroy a few security points, Plande The experience proves this.”

Although he knew Alice's current ability and roughly deduced that "the doll and the coffin have their own symbols", this did not mean that all the mysteries were solved. On the contrary, it only made him more aware. The doll in front of you hides more secrets.

"Yes, her original name was Doll Coffin," Vanna nodded immediately, guessing what Duncan meant, "Are you trying to say that Alice's power is also related to this change?"

As expected, it is worthy of being numbered within a hundred digits - although it is still very poor on the Lost Home Number.

For some reason, he suddenly remembered the words spoken by the Annihilation cultist who appeared after the explosion of the Haiyan -

The steam pipes above the block are emitting white mist. The heat energy from the steam core is being transported to key nodes everywhere to melt the ice and snow in the pipe network hub and power station. Large snowplows are also driven out, and these are billowing. The big thing with black smoke and a low roar rumbled through the streets, clearing important traffic lines.

It snowed almost all night, until the sun rose, the afterglow of the creation of the world dissipated in the sun, and the golden-red glow spread along the streets into the city, and the snowflakes gradually stopped.

But he's completely different from any other clone that's ever appeared - and there's a reason for that.

"No, it's a good thing," Duncan immediately shook his head, "You are strong and you protect yourself very well. The cultists are by no means innocent."

Duncan looked at the doll quietly,

After a long time, a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "It's a good thing."

In a sense, she and these weird and twisted "replicas" are actually of the same origin.

"In my experience, this is preparation for a larger operation. The replica in the city is just the beginning, and the erosion on Dagger Island is probably just another larger testing ground," Duncan nodded, " They also tried to transport the pollution from Dagger Island to Frost Island. Although this action was blocked, it shows that their actions have reached a very critical stage. "

All this time, I thought that the powerful power of Anomaly 099 had disappeared.

After Alice's wooden box was "transformed", she was nothing more than a strange cursed doll that could move and think. She was also naive, cowardly and naive, but I didn't expect that she would behave like this today. How can I say that he has such a weird ability...

She shook a little too much and her head almost fell off.

As he spoke, he raised his gaze. Between the gaps in the bandages, he looked through the dirty window next to him and towards the rows of spiers and eaves of Hanshuang.

"So that's a good thing," Vanna said with a smile. "Having power is never a bad thing - losing control is trouble. Now you can help me more, Alice."

"This damn weather..."

In Alice's eyes, people all over the world have "threads" floating on their bodies, except for herself, and neither does the body she occupies... Therefore, this so-called "thread" is not connected between flesh and blood. physically, but symbolizes something more essential? Is it a soul? Or personality?

"You can control it, right?"

Duncan asked.

The heavy and solemn wrought iron gate of the cemetery creaked open. The old guard in a thick coat hung the hook used to fix the gate on the fence and glanced at the streets in the direction of the city.

Duncan was thinking here, his eyes never leaving Alice's face. Finally, even this slow doll felt awkward. She subconsciously twisted her neck: "Captain... you keep staring at me... I'm so nervous." ”

"This..." Ellie

Si thought for a moment and raised her hand to make a famous gesture, "Is this a bad thing about my ability?"

"The coffin and the doll each have different powers..." Morris, who had never spoken at the side, muttered loudly, "This is a very possible conjecture."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Duncan reacted immediately, blinked to stop his eyes from being so full of pressure, and then turned to look at Vanna next to him thoughtfully, "As far as I know, Alice is now The official name was changed to Anomaly 099-Doll, right?”

Agatha seemed to have received some intelligence shortly after this. She sent a small team to Hearth Street. These guards have not returned yet.

"Yes," Alice waved her hand, "It's very simple."

When I'm close enough, I can easily "catch" the threads on other people's bodies and use them to restrain or attack them. What's going on with this ability? Is it an ability that I never showed as Anomaly 099 from the beginning, or is it a mutation that occurred after she became a member of the Lost Home?

Duncan shook his head, temporarily suppressing the complicated thoughts in his heart, and looked up at Vanna.