In the middle of the gorgeous bed, the "master of the room", who had just woken up, was leaning on the pillow and looking at Duncan, an uninvited guest, with his long silver hair and purple eyes, which were so familiar.

Duncan subconsciously called out the name "Alice" - a low, hoarse, dull resonance "voice" coming directly from the chest cavity of his shell.

But then, he frowned slightly, awoke from the momentary surprise and astonishment, and looked at the lady thoughtfully.

She's not Alice - despite her exact looks, she has a very different temperament and more importantly...... Alice won't be in this place, so it's more likely to be ......

"Ray Nora," Duncan guessed the identity of the person in front of him, and with an inquiring gaze, he looked into the other's eyes and slowly spoke, "Frost Queen? ”

"I don't think I've heard that in a long time," smiled the lady who had just woken up, adjusting her position on the bed with curiosity in her eyes, "Who are you?" How did you get into this room without opening that door? ”

"Door?" Duncan frowned, and after hearing the other party mention the word "door" again, he was curious in his heart, "What door?" ”

The lady didn't speak, just raised her hand and pointed to the distance.

Duncan looked in the direction of the other's finger and saw a closed door with intricate patterns—it was clearly the door to the dormitory.

"The one who can come here is either a servant of this mansion or a guest with a key, you are obviously not a servant of the mansion, but you don't have a key in your hand either."

Duncan's heart jumped - the key! The other party just mentioned the key!

"The key you're talking about is a brass key for winding dolls?" He turned his head and calmly masked all the mood swings, "Are you really Ray Nora, the Queen of Frost?" ”

"I am," Ray Nora smiled, shaking her head slightly, "but you haven't answered my question yet—who are you?" ”

Duncan retracted the emotional changes in his eyes, and said unhurriedly as he quickly sorted out his thoughts in his head: "...... You can call me Duncan. ”

He only said his first name, but did not mention the more famous surname, but Ray Nora's eyes widened slightly when she heard it, and then a smile appeared on her face that became more and more pleasant: "Ah, it is you, the legendary Captain Duncan. It makes a lot more sense for you to get into this room, but ...... I didn't expect you to be like this. ”

Duncan was stunned for a moment, then looked down at his body.

It's still that extremely weird pitch-black human body, like a "rough blank" that the creator didn't have time to decorate the details when he created humans, and this abstract appearance is really not "friendly".

"It's just a temporary avatar," Duncan casually explained, with a little embarrassment, and then he noticed a slight disobedience in the other party's attitude, "You don't seem to be so surprised?" You already knew I was coming? ”

"I don't know, but I've lost the ability to be amazed many years ago," Rey Nora said calmly, "If you can always see too many things that you shouldn't see, and learn about all the strange and weird gestures of the world, always experience death before death comes, and get stuck in dreams before you fall asleep, then sooner or later you will lose this ability......"

She smiled, and her tone was as if she were talking about the weather: "Even if there are still unforeseen things in the world, numbness will make you feel comfortable with all the unexpected." ”

Duncan looked into Ray Nora's eyes, calmly recalling all sorts of information about the Frost Queen—

Rei Nora is said to be a natural psyker with a spiritual talent that communicates with a large number of invisible beings, and is said to be able to foresee the future and know the truth out of thin air......

Sorting out this information in his heart, Duncan's eyes did not change much, but he came to the corner of the room at random, dragged a chair to the big bed, and looked at the eyes of the Frost Queen very seriously after sitting down: "I have many questions, I hope you can answer them." ”

"I also have a lot of questions," Ray Nora smiled, "and I haven't talked to anyone for too long, and a visitor is precious to me – so if you're willing to answer my questions, I'm willing to answer yours too." ”

"Well, then you're welcome," Duncan got straight to the point, "what the hell is this place?" Why are you here? ”

"Ah, was that such a difficult question to answer in the first place......" Ree Nora frowned, as if she was really struggling with how to organize the language, before she spoke slowly, "To explain it in easier terms, this is a 'drifting place'—it's not an exact location, but a 'connection' of many locations, do you see the darkness at the end of the room?" The landscape out there sometimes takes on a different shape - the right conditions can connect it to the right 'place', but for me, its only purpose is to connect my dreams to the deep sea below the frost.

"Need I explain what the deep sea beneath the frost means?"

"No," Duncan shook his head, "you go on, why are you here?" ”

"Okay, looks like you already know what's in the depths," Ree Nora exhaled softly, "I'm here to embrace a dream, to make sure that the presence of the deep sea continues to sleep." ”

Duncan's eyes were serious: "Secluded Holy Lord? ”

“…… Looks like you know more than I thought," Renora gave Duncan a quiet look, "but you're wrong, as much as he does come from the 'Creeping King', the being in the deep is not really a ghostly lord, it's technically a replica. ”

For a moment, Duncan remembered a phrase he had seen earlier in the eerie "dark space"—the cluster controller had begun to copy itself.

The huge "pillar" in the deep sea was indeed not the essence of the Netherworld Holy Lord, but just a replica that appeared in the real world for some reason!

So the most accurate scenario is...... The clone of the Old God runs through the "primordial blueprint of the city-state" in the deep sea, and the power it exudes leads to a series of events that follow? And the source of all this...... Is it because the "Secluded Holy Lord" is completely out of control?

Is it possible to think that before the appearance of this replica in the real world, the Netherworld Lord was not actually out of control? Has He been in a deteriorating state over the years?

So if this idea continues to be extended...... What about the other gods? If the "terrible evil gods" in the eyes of the world are actually from stable and deteriorating to out of control, then what is the situation of the "four gods" in the earthly world? Will they get out of control? Or is it ...... Are they actually starting to spiral out of control?

Duncan thought of the successive accidents of Prand and Frost, who were blessed by the Goddess of Storm and the God of Death, and of the malfunctioning Vision001...... This is a situation where the obvious, large system gradually fails...... Is it a sign that the whole world is "out of control"?

The unresolved conjecture was confirmed, and a large number of chaotic thoughts flooded into his mind, and Duncan thought of a series of events that had taken place in the Infinite Sea during this time.

And just then, Ray Nora's voice came from the other side, interrupting his brainstorming: "Now it's my turn to ask." ”

Duncan quickly gathered his thoughts and gathered his thoughts: "You ask." ”

"How did you get here?" Ray Nora had curiosity in her eyes.

"In the deep sea below the frost—I found that 'replica' and found an 'entrance' at the point where it broke in," Duncan didn't hide, "as for how I got to this depth...... It's a submersible that rides in a frost city-state. ”

"Submersibles?" Ray Nora frowned, but soon she seemed to guess something, "Ah, it looks like they did secretly make a new ......"

"You know the 'rebel junta' will be in you...... Building a new submersible after you die? Duncan was a little surprised, "As far as I know, the 'Abyss Project' is the source of that rebellion, and they also 'executed' you in the name ...... this name." ”

"They will," Rei Nora just smiled, "because they're frost people." ”

Duncan didn't speak for a moment, just looked at the former queen quietly.

The latter calmly continued: "The Frost People never die silently and meekly, and when the darkest hour comes, we will burn everything to survive, so when my plan for the abyss gets out of control and the city-state is in an existential crisis, there will definitely be rebels who will rise up and overthrow me to ensure the survival of more people, and when they discover the secrets of the deep sea, they will definitely build submersibles like me and try to solve this problem."

"They're going to improve the machine, they're going to slow down their plans, they're going to learn from my radical lessons, they're going to do it all in a gentler way, and if they still fail, then a new rebel army will emerge, and their successors will cut off the heads of the incompetent and try to do it the other way...... Continue to challenge the icy darkness of the deep sea. ”

"This will continue until the last Frost Man dies, or this darkness dissipates."

She looked up and looked calmly into Duncan's eyes—the only ones that had a hint of humanity on the latter's eerie "rough" shell.

"I just didn't expect to be ...... in a submersible The legendary Captain Duncan, and also a Captain Duncan who has clearly gained his senses. It seems that my successor is a little more extreme than I was back then? ”

“…… They failed," Duncan said after a few seconds of silence, shaking his head slightly, "a catastrophe has destroyed the city-state government, and they failed to restart the Abyss project before the situation gets out of hand—the only good news is that the disaster has finally subsided, and that submersible is the 'trophy' we found after the situation has calmed down." ”

(End of chapter)