Deep Sea Embers

After confirming that Alice did not respond to all the "key words" and had no information about the ability of "beheading" at all, Duncan decided to tell this confused cursed doll what he had just learned.

Because at this time, he had already vaguely guessed: perhaps the key to the anomaly of Anomaly 099-Doll's Coffin is actually not Alice, the doll... but her "coffin".

The wind and waves on the boundless sea are gentle, the cabin is shaking gently with the wind and waves, and in the swaying light of the oil lamp, the ghost captain slowly tells the past and present life of the doll's coffin - and then the doll almost shrinks into a ball in fright.

Duncan looked at Alice who was already sitting on the corner of the bed with her back against the wall holding her head expressionlessly: "Why are you so nervous?"

"This... this sounds really scary!" Alice's tone changed, like an ordinary human girl who just heard a ghost story, "What kind of indiscriminate beheading, what range will you stop when you die, what? Constantly expanding the scope of the territory... I don't know this at all!"

"I now believe that you really don't know," Duncan glanced at Alice, "but it is indeed information about anomaly 099-doll's coffin."

Alice supported her head and looked at Duncan with a stiff neck: "Then..."

"So I have two conjectures now. First, the above-mentioned 'beheading' deed may be your ability to activate unconsciously, because you are an anomaly, and your power is most likely just a passive area effect, even if it was you before. The 'sleep' state does not affect the decapitation effect."

As Duncan said, he slowly got up from the chair. He came to the gorgeous wooden box, and touched the box with the front end of the long sword in his hand.

"Secondly, the 'beheading' power of the puppet's coffin may not come from your puppet, but from your 'coffin'."

"The coffin... you mean my box?" Alice slowly widened her eyes, her eyes subconsciously followed Duncan's movements and landed on the wooden box beside the bed. Response: "You mean..."

"The full name of Abnormality 099 is 'Doll Coffin'... In other words, you and your wooden box add up to the complete 'Anomaly 099', and when I first saw you, I subconsciously I think you are the 'leading part' of it...Because I didn't know the full name of 'Doll Coffin' at that time," Duncan rubbed his chin and said while thinking, "Now think about it, 'Doll Coffin' The word... itself seems to focus on the second half?"

Alice blinked her eyes, and after a lot of running in her head, she finally slapped her hands: "Oh! I came with this box!"

Duncan glanced at the heartless puppet expressionlessly: "...you don't have to say it in such a proud tone."

Alice didn't seem to hear the teasing in Duncan's tone, she just looked at her wooden box with a heavy heart, and her tone was a little worried: "So...my box has been 'decapitated' by people? I've lived here for so long, and I didn't think it was so evil and dangerous... and I didn't feel that it had any special power..."

"Nonsense, you are part of the whole anomaly 099, can you refer to your feelings?" Duncan frowned, "And you touch your neck, I suspect that the reason why your head falls off every now and then is in this box Sleeping for a long time!"

Alice immediately felt that what the captain said was right, and her expression immediately became complicated, but then she was a little confused: "If you want to say this...'beheading' is an inherent attribute of my coffin, so it has been placed on the ship for so long Why haven't you seen its ability activated?"

As soon as she said this, she met Duncan's gloomy gaze, and the doll girl felt a wordless pressure on her head after belatedly—she had been relaxed after living on the ship for a while, Only then did he suddenly recall what kind of character the captain in front of him was.

Duncan just watched the puppet silently, and waited for Alice to shrink into a smaller ball before saying quietly: "The only humanoid creature on this boat besides you is me, what do you mean..."

"It doesn't mean anything!" Alice almost jumped up, and quickly said while waving her hands, "Listen to me, I mean this box..."

"I didn't say what to do with you," Duncan looked at her helplessly, "You are now a crew member of the Lost Home, and I am your protector on the boundless sea, so you don't have to be so afraid—can you be good? Sitting? It looks like I've done something to you."

Alice just let out an oh, and slowly moved back to the side of the bed, but because of Alice's interruption, Duncan had other thoughts in his heart—yes, no matter whether the main body of the puppet coffin is a puppet or a coffin , Anomaly 099 has been on the Lost Homelander for so long, it has already exceeded the cycle of each "test" it performs, and this anomaly has always shown a harmless state to humans and animals... Obviously, this is due to being suppressed.

So the one who suppressed it was the Lost Homelander, or the "captain" himself?

Duncan looked down at his hands.

He knew that he possessed quite a powerful power, which not only allowed him to completely occupy the life of the cultist named "Ron", but was even so powerful and weird that it could make Alice, a high-ranking anomaly, tremble at the first sight, making him As a deep demon, "Agou" tucks his tail, he still doesn't know what the nature of this power is, but this does not prevent him from gradually gaining a certain understanding of his own uniqueness.

On the other hand, the Lost Homeland is the fifth-ranked vision in the Boundless Sea—it is a "vision", not an anomaly.

This means that as long as it is within the range of the Lost Home, there is a 24-hour uninterrupted "field" that is constantly exerting influence on all targets within the range.

With the suppression of the captain and the ship, Anomaly 099 is naturally harmless to humans and animals, but if he really takes Alice to the city-state of Purdue as planned...then the situation is likely to get out of control.

Therefore, he had to figure out a series of things—is the subject of abnormality 099 producing the effect, the puppet Alice, or the wooden box? Is it the captain who suppressed Anomaly 099, or the Lost Homelander? If Alice is separated from the wooden box, will the effect of anomaly 099 still appear? If it is the captain who produces the suppressing effect, what is the suppressing distance?

His thoughts spread out——

If it was the "coffin" that produced the beheading effect, would it be safe for me to bring Alice alone to the city-state of Purdue? If the "coffin" is an abnormal element that can be separated, can one's own flame also affect it independently? If you use flames to completely dominate this box, is it equivalent to controlling the original uncontrolled beheading effect? Like using fire to control Ay and the brass compass?

A lot of questions were listed in Duncan's mind, and these questions gradually formed a set of complicated control test plan, but at the end of the plan, he found one thing in frustration:

He lacks many of the necessary conditions for testing.

Lost Homeland is not a qualified test site, because the power of the ghost ship will interfere with the accuracy of the results, and he has no suitable test target—because the decapitation effect of anomaly 099 is more life-threatening...the life of the "tester".

Duncan raised his head and looked at Alice who was sitting obediently by the bed—the doll girl was looking at her most beloved wooden box with some sadness, and all the entanglements in her heart seemed to be printed on her face.

As if noticing the captain's sight, Alice suddenly broke the silence, she whispered: "From the day I became conscious... I have been living in this box, it is my bed, it is my home, It’s also my sanctuary, and I feel safe sleeping in it.”

Duncan didn't speak, just quietly looked at the puppet in front of him.

"Now I know why those humans are so afraid." Alice stretched out her hand and stroked her wooden box lightly. "They are afraid of 'us'."

"I was originally planning to take you to the city-state of Purdue when I walk in the spirit world next time," Duncan said in a deep voice, "I need a helper over there."

Alice's eyes seemed to light up for a moment, but then dimmed: "Ah, this is not very good..."

"The plan has been postponed, but it has not been cancelled." Duncan's expression and tone did not change much. "We just need more time to confirm your...'your' strength, and master the conditions for this 'beheading' effect to take effect. Land The human city-states on the planet can seal or even use a variety of abnormal objects through various tricks, but here is the Lost Country, we can do more things."

Alice glanced at Duncan suspiciously, and from the calm and deep eyes of the captain, she realized that these were not empty words of comfort.

"Do you have a plan?"

Duncan thought for a while, raised his fingertips, and lit a cluster of faint flames.

"First, we might need a little fire."