Duncan looked at Alice with a blank face, as if looking at a retarded person.

The echo from history in his mind has not completely dissipated, and the calm and see-through gaze of the Queen of Frost half a century ago is still lingering in his mind - but this afterimage that should have been confusing is now facing Alice, a mentally retarded puppet, not to mention, and gradually becoming a harmonious appearance in the movement of her "Bo'er Bo'er" pulling out her head.

After watching it like this for a long time, Duncan finally couldn't help it: "...... What are you doing? ”

"Ahh Captain! Alice reacted with hindsight, and quickly held her head to look at Duncan, "Oh, I always feel a few hairs caught in the neck joint......"

Duncan was expressionless: "You pull it out two more times, and it's time to name the new head again." ”

"I'm ready! If they do, they'll be called the Williams......"

Duncan struggled to control his expression and refrained from throwing the doll out of the cabin.

After a few seconds, he let out a long sigh and calmed down.

To be fair, Alice's presence does bring a bit of joy to the lifeless Lost Country, but sometimes it's too much fun...... Even the goat's head couldn't keep up with the puppet's rhythm, and Duncan couldn't figure out what was going on in the man's head most of the time.

Maybe it's solid.

Duncan's gaze swept over Alice, and he couldn't help but recall the ...... "aftersound" he had seen in that dark space before, his expression became serious, and the details seen in the aftersound made him frown slightly.

He was sure that it was the legendary Frost Queen Ray Nora, who was executed by the rebels half a century ago, and that she was the "prototype" of the doll Alice mentioned in the background materials of Anomaly 099, and that he saw the scene of the "execution", and the trigger for it was undoubtedly from the "puppet coffin" in front of him.

The spirit fire created a connection between him and the coffin.

But what is the essence of those images? Is the "coffin" consciously telling him something? Is it some passively recorded "image"? Is it the memory of Anomaly 099? Is it a real fragment of history, or is there an "illusion" that is distorted and corrected to a certain extent?

He remembered the young queen's calm gaze looking at him, and recalled the other party's soft plea—

"Whoever you are, don't pollute history."

To whom is this phrase addressed? Did you really say it to yourself? Does this sentence really transcend time and space? Or is it just a vision of the coffin reacting to its own "visit"? And after the queen said this, there was a slightly frightened voice under the guillotine, asking who she was talking to......

This sequential reaction is so real, even so real that it makes people shudder.

As for the end of the "aftersound", the voices that came from the darkness also made Duncan pay special attention.

The Frost Queen was executed by the rebels, and one of her "crimes" turned out to be "trying to bring the Lost Country into the real world" and "building a second Lost Land", as well as a "Hidden Abyss" plan, which seems to have caused the Queen's rebellion and leave...... But he had never heard the goat's head mention these things!

Goathead often recited to him some "great deeds of the Lost Country", such as how many ships were swallowed on which route, and how much commotion was caused in which city-state, although eight out of ten of his words were not very reliable, but if there was really a city-state ruler who had "colluded" with the Lost Country, then he would have said it long ago - that thing had to be made up 3,000 words for nothing, let alone such a big thing!

Unless...... This incident is fake, just a crime made up by the rebels to the queen.

"Captain? Captain, are you alright? ”

Alice's voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Duncan's thoughts.

Duncan exhaled softly, forcibly suppressing the chaotic thoughts in his mind, he glanced at Alice, trying to find a little shadow of "Frost Queen Ray Nora" from this guy, but quickly shook his head: "It's okay, I just saw a little 'record' kept in the coffin." ”

"Records?" Alice's eyes widened in curiosity, "What kind of record is it?" ”

"The decapitation of the Frost Queen half a century ago," Duncan said lightly, "I met her—exactly like you, indeed. ”

Alice immediately subconsciously touched her neck, the puppet lady didn't know whether to feel nervous or to feel that this matter was unremarkable, and she struggled for a long time before finally holding back her words: "Could it be that I am really the frost queen?" After being decapitated, he didn't die, but was affected by extraordinary power to become what he is now? ”

Duncan thought for a long time, and said honestly: "If you don't talk and don't move, just lie quietly in this box, I really think so." ”

Alice reacted, but didn't.

However, she quickly put this doubt behind her, and instead looked at her "coffin" very seriously: "Then after you burned it with ...... 'fire', did it change anything?" Have you managed to get it under control? ”

Duncan then refocused his attention on the wooden box, carefully perceiving the remaining connection between himself and the wooden box.

The fire has faded, but the traces of the fire remain.

In the invisible perception, he could clearly "see" the imprint he had left in the coffin, and felt the slightest connection between himself and it, which was somewhat similar to the connection between him and the mutated sun emblem, but more complex and subtle.

Aside from the great mystery of the information contained in the coffin, he did succeed in establishing a connection with the thing, but unlike the simple structure of the Sun Emblem, he had no clue how to control it.

He didn't even feel that there was an option to "control" this thing.

He could only be sure of one thing: the coffin was now very stable and ...... "tamed".

After the flames blow, it seems to have been completely "domesticated", as if it were ...... Part of the Lost Country.

"I'm not sure, maybe we'll need to do further testing to see if it's safe, and then we'll need more testing to determine if the 'decapitation' effect is from the coffin or from you," Duncan shook his head, "but for what I feel at the moment, it's 'compliant' now, just like the other items on the Lost Land......"

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the puppet beside him.

"Now it's all about you—do you feel anything out of the ordinary?"

Alice pointed at herself curiously: "Me? I don't, why do you ask? ”

"You and your wooden box are one, and you add up to 'Anomaly 099', and now that I have usurped the authority of the coffin with flames, your puppet may be affected to a certain extent," Duncan looked at Alice very seriously, he knew that the puppet was slow to react, and he gradually got used to telling her what was wrong, "Move your body, tell me if something is wrong." ”

Alice reacted with hindsight, and quickly got up to check herself, she ran around the room twice, jumped on the spot, and finally returned to the wooden box, and hooked her finger at her wooden box.

The wooden box does not move.

"It'...... It's disobedient! Alice was shocked, and finally found a big problem, "I used to make it float as soon as I made it!" ”

Duncan's heart moved—he did seem to sense some response from the coffin as Alice gestured to the wooden box, but ......

The coffin was waiting for his orders.

His eyebrows jumped, and he was suddenly a little embarrassed: "Maybe...... It's because after coming into contact with the spirit fire, this coffin has come to regard me as a higher 'master'. ”

Alice looked at the captain in front of her in a daze, and then her expression visibly aggrieved.

"But it's okay, I can lift my restrictions on it," Duncan felt even more embarrassed at the puppet's aggrieved expression, and quickly waved his hand, "It will still obey your orders." ”

Alice was stunned, then turned her head and hooked her finger at the wooden box—this time, she finally saw that the wooden box had once again responded to her command, as usual.

Miss Doll immediately smiled, and immediately pounced on the lid of the wooden box after letting it fall back to the ground: "Great! I thought you weren't going to be obedient in the future! ”

Duncan looked at the puppet lady who had quickly switched emotions with a subtle expression, and held back for a long time before he said, "Sometimes...... I really envy your open-minded attitude towards life. ”

Alice was stunned when she heard the captain's words, and reacted for a long time, but she didn't react......

"Forget it, it's good if you're happy," Duncan sighed, "Are you sure there's nothing wrong with you?" ”

"No," Alice looked down at herself, "there was nothing uncomfortable at all, and ...... Instead it feels like it's better than before? ”

"Better than before?"

"I can't say it, I just think it...... The body is relaxed? And a sense of peace of mind? Alice thought for a moment, trying to find the words to describe her feelings, "It's a bit like the peace of mind I used to feel when I was lying in the box, but now I feel just as relieved when I'm standing outside the box......"

The doll thought while talking, and finally without waiting for Duncan to help her analyze, she herself was already quite open-minded and waved her hand: "It doesn't matter, it's not a bad thing anyway!" ”

(End of chapter)