The Creation of the World hung high in the night sky, the cold wind blew across the endless sea, the small waves floated softly around it, and the boat swayed like a dream before dawn.

But Alice didn't really know what "dreaming" was—she had been asleep for a long, long time, but she had never really dreamed like a human, but she guessed that dreaming should be something like this.

Floating in a big, big place, my thoughts drifted with it.

She looked up and saw only the sea in the distance, and the distant lights of the Lost Country were like a small candle floating on the sea, which even gave her the feeling that the whole world had disappeared, and that all that was left was herself, the boat beneath her, and the boundless sea.

Oh, and the three last preachers on the other side who are tied up with flowers.

Miss Doll withdrew her gaze into the distance, and looked curiously at the cultists who were tied up in front of her.

These are humans, the very bad kind - Alice doesn't know any humans, but she knows that there are good people and bad people in humans, good people do good things, Captain Duncan will praise them, and sometimes help them, and bad people will do very bad things, and Captain Duncan will despise them, and sometimes report them, and these three ...... It's the kind that the captain doesn't like the most.

They believe in subspace, follow malevolent beliefs, and can kill anyone for their own imaginary cause, even attacking a poor little girl who lives with a dog, and if the defenders of the city-state find them, they will not hesitate to shoot them in the streets, and if the sailors of the sea find them, they will hang them on masts—even the most vicious pirates will stuff these madmen into wooden crates and throw them into the sea, in order to invoke the protection of the Storm Goddess.

But now they were tied up, and they were so quiet that there was no madness to go out of control—Alice remembered the scary look they had when they first arrived on the ship, as if they had taken the wrong medicine.

Now, as time goes on, these end-of-life preachers are becoming more and more honest.

"Are you afraid?" After holding it for a long time, Alice finally couldn't help but speak, she was really uncomfortable here, even though she knew that this was a "safety test" that she had to carry out in order to be able to operate in the human city-state, this feeling of floating on the endless sea still made her heart down.

One of the last preachers answered the puppet's voice, his thin, skeletal head slowly lifted up and stared into Alice's eyes: "Stupid filth, clumsy shell...... Your soul is pale and hollow, and the subspace will not take ......"

Alice was stunned for a moment, and it took a few seconds to react: "Hey, why are you scolding!" ”

The last missionaries on the other side only let out a series of hoarse and ugly laughter, and they didn't seem to have the slightest fear of the world's feared "Anomaly 099".

Or, as they claim, they have long since detached themselves from the concept of life and death, and no longer care about death in the real world.

Alice had to sulk herself, but after a while, she shook her head again: "I'm not angry anymore. ”

The other last preacher looked up at her and said nothing.

Alice said to herself: "I shouldn't be angry, you can complain, after all, it is you who are tied up now, not me, and it is you and not me who are going to do this kind of head-off test...... And you've all been reduced to this, and I'm a big man, and I'm going to allow you to say a few words freely. ”

The last missionaries sat in silence in the cabin, listening to the puppet's chatter, as if completely muffled out the latter's voice, but after a while Alice noticed that there were some "small movements" of these people—

They looked at each other's heads quietly, moving their necks from time to time, occasionally glancing cautiously at this side, their eyes puzzled.

Alice thought about it and thought that the people might be wondering why their heads were still on their necks.

These cultists obviously knew about Anomaly 099, and they might not be afraid of death, but they were still curious - they couldn't understand their own survival after being in close proximity to Anomaly 099 for so long.

"Actually, I'm a little scared," said Alice suddenly, "I'm afraid that your head will fall off suddenly—the captain said I have the ability to behead people, and I was startled when I first heard it. Human beings are different from me, and human beings can't go back when their heads fall off......"

A flapping of wings suddenly came from above, and Alice looked curiously in the direction from which the sound came, and saw that the pigeon Ai Yin suddenly flew into the distance, and then after a while, it flew again from the direction of the Lost Country, and green flames rose from its body.

Ai Yin circled twice on the sea near the boat, and the dark green flames rose into the air, and in the grand flame vortex, a gorgeous wooden box appeared out of thin air, and then fell on the surface of the sea next to it with a thud.

"My box!" Alice's eyes widened suddenly, and she cried out in surprise, and then the words "sweep out" came to her mind, and her head almost fell off her neck—but then she noticed that there seemed to be a note on the wooden box, and quickly paddled twice with the oar at hand, leaned over and took the note down, and saw a line written on it:

"The guillotine ability may also be related to your wooden crate, which is also sent for testing. Other: You're thinking I'm going to get you off the ship again - don't be foolish, come back as soon as you're done with the test. ”

Alice picked up the note and looked at it upside down several times, but found that she didn't understand it.

She was illiterate......

But soon she saw something else on the back of the note, a scribbled stick figure of her rowing back to the Lost Land, with a smiling expression at the end.

Miss Doll understood—no matter what was written on the front of the note, the captain had no intention of driving her away.

She put her mind at ease, put away the note seriously, and then scooped up the wooden box from the sea, and threw the box, which was actually quite heavy, on the boat with one hand, and then looked up at the few cultists opposite: "Are you hungry?" ”

The preachers did not respond, and she did not care, but muttered to herself, "Although the captain said that you are innocent of death, he also said that if you can really complete the test and not die, he will not kill you—he will get you back into the city-state and use ...... What's it called......"

Miss Doll was a little stuck, and she struggled to remember what the captain had said to herself: "Oh, to show the concern of the zealous citizens for the safety of the city-state...... He said you're worth at least seven bikes. What is a bicycle? ”

"Subspace will give us warmth...... The subspace will give us peace...... The subspace will bless all the perished, and after all the end has come as promised...... one of the last preachers muttered, as if in response to Alice's rambling, as if to just make some kind of blasphemous prayer, "We walk in the end, forsake this cursed flesh, and our minds will cross that wall and open our eyes again in the new world......"

"Huh?" Alice was confused, "What are you talking about?" ”

The last preachers no longer responded to her, and they did not respond since.

After that, until dawn, they were just there with their heads down, muttering about things related to subspace, muttering about the end of a long river of time, the end of a certain destined and deserved end, in the undulating waves, except for the movement of the waves crashing against the plank, only these madmen were left to mutter.

This is an atmosphere that can make ordinary people creepy, and the content of its prayers can make the undetermined people be cursed and entangled by the shadows from the depths of the world, but Alice only feels noisy.

She got the little note from the captain, so she was no longer afraid of the drift, and now she was bored.

But this boring time is finally over.

A ray of morning light suddenly appeared on the distant sea, and in the morning light, the creation of the world in the sky quickly faded and turned into a slump, and the sun, which was locked by the double runes, gradually surfaced from the sea and leaped into the sky.

It's dawn.

Alice didn't behead anyone.

Miss Doll looked at the sunrise with delight, she stood up from the wooden box, and turned her head to look at the cultists: "Hey! It's dawn! You're still alive! We can go back! ”

However, the three Last Ministers did not respond to her, they just remained in the cabin, their heads bowed and muttering softly, calling for the "attention" of the subspace one last time in the brief darkness before the sunlight was about to pour into the cabin.

It wasn't until Alice reminded him again that one of them finally looked up, and the cultist was a little stunned when he glanced at the sunlight that was gradually spreading, but gradually a strange smile appeared on his face.

"Oh, our day is over......" the madman sighed softly, then slowly turned his head to look at Alice's jewel-perfect eyes, and his smile was strangely mixed with madness and calm, "Doll, we'll meet again someday." ”

"Huh?" Alice was stunned, "What do you mean by that?" You can still run out of thin air......"

The sun is spreading.

The figures of the three last preachers disappeared silently into the morning light, like vanishing apparitions of yesterday.

"......You can't run away," Alice said this half sentence under inertia, glaring, "You really ran away?" ”

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