After confirming that Alice had no response to all of the "keywords" and had no knowledge of the ability to "decapitate", Duncan decided to tell the confused cursed puppet what he had just learned.

Because he already had a vague conjecture at this time: maybe the key to the anomaly of the anomaly 099-puppet coffin was not actually Alice's puppet...... Rather, it was her "coffin".

In the gentle wind and waves of the endless sea, the cabin gently swayed with the wind and waves, and the glow of the oil lamps swayed, the ghost captain slowly recounted the past and present life of the puppet's coffin—and then almost shrunk the puppet into a ball.

Duncan looked at Alice, who was already sitting on the corner of the bed, with her back against the wall and holding her head, expressionless: "Are you so nervous?" ”

"This ...... That sounds really scary! Alice's tone changed, like an ordinary human girl who had just finished listening to a ghost story, "What indiscriminate beheading, what range will only stop when it dies, what constantly expanding the scope of the territory...... This, this, this...... I don't know that! ”

"I'm sure you really don't know," Duncan glanced at Alice, "but this is indeed information about the anomaly 099-puppet coffin." ”

Alice held her head and looked at Duncan with a stiff neck: "That's ......"

"So I have two conjectures now, first, the above-mentioned 'decapitation' deeds may be your ability to unconsciously activate, because you are an anomaly, and your power is most likely only a passive range effect, even if it is your previous 'sleeping' state, it will not affect the occurrence of the decapitation effect."

Duncan said, slowly getting up from his chair, and he came to the ornate wooden box, touching it with the tip of his sword.

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

"Coffin...... You mean my box? Alice's eyes widened slowly, and her gaze subconsciously fell on the wooden box next to the bed with Duncan's movements, and the puppet seemed to react at this time: "What do you mean......"

"Anomaly 099's full name is 'Puppet Coffin'...... In other words, you and your wooden crate add up to the complete 'Anomaly 099', and when I first met you, I subconsciously thought you were the 'dominant part'...... Because I didn't know the full name of 'puppet coffin' at the time," Duncan said as he pondered his chin as he touched his chin, "and now think about it, the word 'puppet coffin'...... The focus itself seems to be on the second half? ”

Alice blinked, her head was quite spinning, and finally she slapped her face: "Oh! I came with this box! ”

Duncan glanced at the missing puppet with an expressionless face: "...... 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 glanced at her wooden box with a heavy heart, and her tone was a little worried: "So to say that...... My box keeps 'decapitating'? But I've lived here for so long, and I don't think it's so evil and dangerous...... And I don't feel any special power in it......"

"Nonsense, you're part of the whole of Anomaly 099, can you relate to your feelings?" Duncan frowned, "And you touch your neck, I suspect that the reason why your head falls off every once in a while is because you have been sleeping in this box for a long time!" ”

Alice suddenly felt that what the captain said was right, and her expression immediately became complicated, but then she was a little confused: "But if you want to say that...... 'decapitation' is the inherent attribute of my coffin, so it has been on the ship for so long, why haven't you seen its ability to activate?" ”

As soon as she said this, she met Duncan's faint gaze, and Miss Doll, who realized it later, suddenly felt a wordless pressure pound on her head—she had been on the ship for a while, and then she suddenly remembered what kind of person the captain was in front of her.

Duncan just stared at the doll silently, waiting for Alice to shrink into a smaller ball before he said quietly, "The only humanoid creature on this ship besides you is me, ......what do you mean?"

"It doesn't mean anything!" Alice almost jumped up, and quickly waved her hand and said, "Listen to my quibbles, I mean this box ......"

"I didn't say what I was going to do to you," Duncan looked at her helplessly, "You're a crew member of the Lost now, and I'm your protector of the endless seas, so you don't have to be so afraid—can you sit still?" It looks like I've done something to you. ”

Alice let out an oh and slowly moved back to the edge of the bed, but Duncan's heart was filled with other thoughts because of Alice's interruption - yes, no matter whether the main body of the puppet coffin is a puppet or a coffin, Anomaly 099 has been on the Lost Country for so long, long beyond the cycle of each of its "verifications", and this anomaly has always been harmless to humans and animals...... Obviously, this is due to repression.

So is it the Lost Country or the "captain" himself?

Duncan looked down at his hands.

He knew that he had a very 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 first sight, and make the "dog", who was a ghostly demon, hold his tail, he didn't know what the essence of this power was, but this did not prevent him from gradually having a certain understanding of his own particularity.

On the other hand, the Lost Country is the fifth-highest anomaly in the Infinite Sea—a "vision," not an anomaly.

This means that as long as it is within the range of the Lost Country, there is a "field" that is in effect 24 hours a day, constantly exerting influence on all targets within range.

With the suppression of the captain + ship, Anomaly 099 is naturally harmless to humans and animals, but if he really takes Alice to the city-state of Poland according to the plan...... Then the situation is likely to get out of hand.

Therefore, he had to figure out a series of things - was the subject of Anomaly 099's effect the puppet Alice, or the wooden box? Is it the captain himself who is suppressing Anomaly 099, or is it the Lost Country? If Alice is separated from the wooden box, will the effects of Anomaly 099 still appear? If it is the captain of the ship who produces the suppression effect, then what is the suppression distance?

His train of thought stretched—

If it was the "coffin" that produced the decapitation effect, would it be safe to bring Alice alone to the city-state of Purland? If the "coffin" is an anomaly that can be detached, can its own flames affect it alone? If the chest is completely dominated by flames, will it be equivalent to controlling the original uncontrolled decapitation effect? Like using flames to control Aye and the brass compass?

Duncan had a long list of questions in his head, and these questions gradually developed into a complex set of controlled testing schemes, but at the end of the scheme, he was frustrated to find one thing:

He lacked many of the necessary conditions to conduct the test.

The Lost Country was not a qualified testing ground, as the Ghost Ship's power would interfere with the accuracy of the results, and he did not have a suitable test target - as Anomaly 099's decapitation effect was more Kryptonite...... The life of the Krypton "tester".

Duncan looked up at Alice, who was sitting honestly on the edge of the bed—Miss Doll was looking at her favorite wooden box with some sorrow, and all the tangled in her heart seemed to be imprinted on her face.

As if noticing the captain's gaze, Alice suddenly broke the silence and whispered, "From the day I became conscious...... I've always lived in this box, it's my bed, it's my home, it's my shelter, and I feel safe when I sleep in it. ”

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

"I now know why those humans are so afraid," Alice reached out and gently stroked her wooden box, "they are afraid of 'us'." ”

"I was planning to take you to the city-state of Poland on my next spiritual walk," Duncan said in a deep voice, "I need a helper over there. ”

Alice's eyes seemed to light up for a moment, but then they dimmed: "Ah, that's not going to work......"

"The plan has been postponed, but it hasn't been canceled," Duncan's expression and tone didn't change much, "We just need more time to confirm your ...... 'you' power and grasp the conditions for this 'decapitation' effect to take effect." The human city-states on land can seal and even use a variety of anomalies through various tricks, but this is the Lost Country, and we can do even more. ”

Alice glanced at Duncan quizzically, and from the captain's calm, deep gaze, she realized that this was not an empty word of comfort.

"Do you have a plan?"

Duncan thought for a moment, lifted his fingertips, and lit a faint flame.

"First, we may need a little fire."