Alice's eyes on the world seem to have been very different from ordinary people from the beginning - and yet, until today, no one has discovered this.

Not even Alice herself found out about it.

Duncan learns from Vanna about the battle that took place in the alley and how Alice behaved in that battle—from the moment she senses a hidden enemy through the "floating thread" to the moment she turns an escaped Annihilator into a shattered porcelain doll.

Now, all eyes are on Miss Doll, who has been confused from beginning to end.

“…… So you can't see the 'line'......" Alice was sluggish and reacted to what was going on, she scratched her head and looked innocent, "I thought it was common sense, after all, everyone has that thing floating on their heads and limbs......"

Duncan stared at Alice's eyes with an extraordinarily serious expression: "Let me confirm again, it's all people who have 'threads', right?" ”

"Yes, everyone—but you don't, Captain." Alice replied immediately.

Duncan thought for a moment and asked, "...... Is my body not there, or is my body not having it now? ”

"You don't have this body now," Alice replied honestly, and then added, "Your body in Prand doesn't ...... either"

Duncan nodded slightly, his thoughts racing, and all kinds of conjectures came and went.

In Alice's eyes, there are floating "threads" on people all over the world, but she doesn't have them, and the shell she occupies doesn't have them...... So, this so-called "thread" is not connected to flesh and blood, but symbolizes something more essential? Is it the soul? Or is it personality?

What about her ability to easily "catch" the threads on other people's bodies when she is close enough to restrain or attack her opponents? Was it the abilities she had from the beginning as Anomaly 099 that she didn't show, or was it the mutation that came after she became a member of the Lost Country?

Duncan thought about it, her eyes never left Alice's face, and finally even the sluggish doll felt awkward, and she subconsciously twisted her neck: "Captain...... You've been staring at me...... I blame the nervousness. ”

"Oh, I'm sorry," Duncan reacted suddenly, blinking to make his gaze less stressed, and then turned his head thoughtfully to look at Fanna next to him, "As far as I know, Alice's current 'official name' has been changed to Anomaly 099-Doll, right?" ”

"Yes, her original name was a puppet corpse," Vanna nodded immediately, already guessing what Duncan meant, "You mean to say that Alice's power is also related to this change?" ”

"Perhaps...... The corpse and the puppet represent different powers from the beginning, the former is a symbol of death, so it has the ability to decapitate simply and crudely, while the latter is the manipulation of humanoid objects, which is in line with the positioning of the 'puppet'," Duncan said unhurriedly, "It's just that Alice belonged to the 'contents' of the coffin before, so the 'combination' of Anomaly 099 completely presents the characteristics of the coffin, and now it ...... The doll has become the 'main part' of Anomaly 099, and her original abilities have been unleashed. ”

"Coffins and dolls have different powers......" Morris, who had not spoken, muttered softly, "It's quite possible." ”

Duncan felt a little emotional.

All along, he thought that the powerful power of Anomaly 099 was gone—after Alice's wooden box was "transformed", she was just a somewhat weird, able to move and think cursed doll, and she was a bit of a fool, but he didn't expect her to show such strange abilities today, how to say......

Sure enough, it is worthy of the number within 100 digits - although it is still very good to put it on the lost number.

Alice obviously didn't have so many ideas, she just kept turning her gaze around as Duncan and the others talked, looking at this and that, and it took a long time to barely understand some of the current situation, but her face showed a little uneasy, and she cautiously cast her gaze: "...... Captain, have I done something bad? ”

"No, it's a good thing," Duncan shook his head at once, "you're brave and you've protected yourself well, cultists are never innocent." ”

"Then ......," Alice thought for a moment, raising her hand and gesturing, "Is my ability a bad thing?" ”

Duncan looked at the doll quietly for a long time before a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "It's a good thing." ”

Alice didn't seem to understand.

"You can control it, right?" Duncan asked.

"Yes," Alice said, waving her hand, "it's easy. ”

"So it's a good thing," Duncan said with a laugh, "it's never a bad thing to have power—losing control is the problem." You can help me even more now, Alice. ”

Miss Doll finally laughed, and dangled from side to side with a particularly happy look: "That's great, I see that everyone is so serious all of a sudden, and I thought things were terrible......"

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

She was shaking a little harder, and her head was about to fall off.

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

Although he knew Alice's current ability and roughly deduced that "the puppet and the coffin have their own symbols", this does not mean that all the mysteries have been solved, on the contrary, it only makes him more aware of the fact that the puppet in front of him hides more secrets.

He had been with Alice for a long time, and it was because of these days that he had become accustomed to the noise of the doll on the ship, and to the harmless appearance of her running around in front of him all day long - he had almost forgotten that before this doll became the cook lady on the Lost Place, it was first the anomaly number 099, a strange thing that floated up from this cold deep sea after the death of the Frost Queen.

In a sense, she is actually cognate with those weirdly distorted "replicas".

But she's very different from all the other replicas that have appeared so far – and it can't be without a reason behind it.

For some reason, he suddenly remembered a sentence that the Annihilation Cultist who appeared after the explosion of the Petrel had said-

"If it weren't for that queen......"

Duncan shook his head, put down the chaos in his mind for a moment, and looked up at Vanna.

"Tonight's situation shows one thing, the 'replicas' in the city are indeed the hands and feet of the Annihilation Cultists, and those cultists are not only acting in the shadows, but also secretly watching the replicas they have released into the city - this observation is very much like collecting some data."

"In my experience, this is a preparation for a bigger operation, and now that the replica in the city is just the beginning, the erosion on Dagger Island is likely to be another bigger testing ground," Vanna nodded, "They also tried to transport the pollution from Dagger Island to Frost Island, and although this operation was stopped, it already indicates that their operation has reached a critical stage." ”

"It doesn't matter, I'll do it—but I first need to know which gutter they're hiding," Duncan said casually, "There's no point in killing a few cultists or priests, or even destroying a few assembly points, as Purland's experience has proven." ”

As he spoke, he lifted his gaze, and through the gap in the bandages, his gaze cast through the dirty window beside him to the frosty spires and eaves.

“…… Where are you hiding? ”

The wind became stronger, and the second snow began to fall, and the snowflakes fell in the night, and the distant streets seemed to be hazy as if they were hidden in the fog.

The snow fell almost overnight, until the sun rose and the afterglow of the Creation of the World dissipated in the sunlight, and the golden glow spread along the streets into the city, and the fluttering snowflakes gradually stopped.

The grave's heavy, solemn wrought-iron gate creaked open, and the old warden, dressed in a thick coat, hung the hook to secure the gate to the fence and glanced at the street in the direction of the city.

Everything that came into view was covered in a thick layer of snow, and the streets in the distance were blurred in outlines and borders under the thick snow, and became white.

White fog is rising from steam pipes above the block, heat from the steam core is being transported to key points to melt snow and ice from the network hubs and power stations, and large snow plows are being turned on, and these big white smoke and low roars rumble through the streets to clear vital traffic lines.

Ever since the visitor left, the cemetery had been quiet and nothing unusual had disturbed the deceased, but neither the cemetery guards nor the Church's guards had relented.

In the middle of the night, a "messenger" was delivered to the Keeper's Lodge via a high-pressure steam pipe, with the strange content of asking all the transcendent guards in the city to be vigilant, without stating what exactly to be wary of.

Agatha seemed to have received some information shortly after that, and she sent a small team to Fireplace Street, where the guards had not yet returned.

In the second half of the night, the wind and snow were very strong, and the howling wind and the chaotic snowflakes seemed to indicate something.

The old guard tightened his coat.

"What the hell is the weather......"

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