The illusory voice vanished in an instant, as if it had never existed.

Alice blinked in the dark "tunnel", a little puzzled by what she had just heard, she suspected that she had just heard it wrong, but ......

The captain had said that in such a strange place, whatever you hear or see should be said immediately, even if it is a visual and auditory hallucination.

So she immediately grabbed Duncan's arm hard: "Captain, I heard a voice just now!" ”

"Voice?" Duncan instantly turned his head and looked into the puppet's eyes in the dark, "What sound?" ”

Alice immediately told the captain what she had heard, including the short, unrecognizable noise, and the strange "name" of LH-03, the Pilot III.

In the dark and infinite tunnel, Duncan's eyes slowly widened, and he looked at the puppet in front of him with a strange and stunned gaze, and then a flash of realization suddenly appeared in his eyes.

So that's it...... How could it be?!

With a barrage of confusing thoughts and astonishing conjectures, he figured out many things in an instant—and almost at the same time, he noticed some dense and magnificent light and shadow in the corner of his eye.

Duncan jerked back in astonishment, looking in the direction of the light.

In the next second, he saw the "starry sky" located on the dome of the deep sea-

At the end of the tunnel, a magnificent starlight appeared in the "tunnel", a magnificent picture of thousands of stars, nebulae and high-energy radiation clouds, the galaxy stretched across the infinite darkness, and the violent explosion of giant celestial bodies was torn into glowing clouds spreading between galaxies, all of which were like an endless gorgeous and brilliant curtain, almost overwhelmingly rushed into Duncan and Alice's field of vision!

Duncan's eyes widened instantly.

This is the "starry sky" that the captains who sail on the infinite seas are familiar with, the starry picture that lies between the spirit world and the deep sea, but can only be observed through a complex spiritual lens under normal circumstances—the seafarers of the earthly world can only cautiously glance at it through thick lenses and layers of protection, but here, the most real appearance and all the details of this starry sky are reflected in his eyes.

Duncan and Alice accelerated towards the stagnant starry sky, and under the pull of an invisible force, they were quickly entering the "dome" above the deep sea.

They fell into the "starlight" and began to pass swiftly between the stagnant celestial bodies.

After a moment of hesitation, Duncan tried to reach out to the strange starlight.

A dazzling orange-yellow star passed through his palm like a phantom—he noticed that a little starlight appeared on his palm at the same time, but the two clearly did not interfere with each other.

Then, he suddenly noticed that Alice beside him was unusually quiet—under normal circumstances, the puppet should have been babbling at the sight of such a magnificent starry sky.

However, Alice only stared around with wide eyes, as if she had been attracted by something, and the magnificent starlight was reflected in her deep purple eyes, dancing with a smart brilliance—and after a while, the puppet suddenly raised her hand, pointed in a certain direction, and said to herself like a dream, "The coordinates are inaccurate." ”

Duncan frowned, "What did you say?" ”

Alice didn't seem to hear the captain's voice, she still stared at the starlight around her, and then raised her hand to look in the other direction: "The coordinates are inaccurate." ”

"The coordinates are out of alignment." "The coordinates are out of alignment." "Coordinate Misalignment ......"

Alice said quickly, her eyes constantly swept between the stars, as if trying to find some kind of "reference" that could help her find her direction, and just as Duncan was about to forcibly "wake her up", she suddenly stopped again, as if awakened from a nightmarish dream, and turned to Duncan in a daze: "...... Reports, navigation system failures. ”

She stopped, as if she was a little more awake than just now, she patted her head with her hand, and scratched her hair in confusion: "Ah...... Captain, it seems like a lot of strange things popped up in my head just now......"

Duncan grabbed Alice's arm with his backhand, wisps of fire roaming around his fingertips, and at the same time slowed his voice and asked softly, "What do you see?" ”

"Stars...... There are lines between the stars, and numbers and symbols," Alice still had a blank look in her eyes, answering the captain's question, but her head still seemed to be partially prescribing to something else, "I should find a way to avoid those gravitational traps that are collapsing...... But the coordinates are inaccurate, and we ...... There is no safe path ......"

She looked up in bewilderment and looked around at the "starry sky" around her—the stars in a state of stasis seemed to record a distant voyage from the distant past, in some extinct universe, through which she had traversed, guiding the last of the refugees to find a way to escape...... But flee ...... What is it to flee from?

A diffuse dark red glow came to her mind.

The entire universe is redshifting...... The stars are disintegrating, and the physical space is collapsing...... The structure of matter falls apart...... The servo system emits a howl of critical collapse......

The ship is about to disintegrate, and the navigation module has caught fire...... Start a disaster backup.

Alice's eyes widened suddenly, the chaotic and noisy information in her mind seemed to be erased by some powerful force in an instant, she shook her head, and while her neck joint loosened slightly, she forgot the mess in her head just now.

The warm flame burned silently beside her, and the power from the flame gradually stabilized her mind, and she turned her head to see the captain standing beside her, and cast a concerned look: "Alice, don't think nonsense yet. ”

Alice thought for a moment and shook her head a little confused: "Captain, I seem to have seen something just now...... But I forgot! ”

“…… I know, but it's okay, forget it," Duncan whispered, patting Alice's arm, "and we'll find out." ”

“…… Oh. Alice nodded in understanding.

Duncan didn't say anything more, but carefully maintained the flame to protect Alice's mind as he looked solemnly into the depths of the galaxy.

A series of pieces of information came to his mind, and finally gradually became a thread-

There is a "holographic snapshot" of a stationary star, which has been floating in the "dome" layer of the deep sea for a long time, and has provided "navigation" for navigators of the whole world;

The master of the deep sea, the Holy Lord of the Depths, is known as Pilot One, numbered LH-01;

As Alice entered the "Black Gate", she briefly heard a voice that addressed her as LH-03, Pilot Three;

The god of wisdom, Lachem, whose real name is LH-02, Pilot II, is portrayed in the texts as Duncan's image of a large server with countless lights flashing on its surface;

10,000 years ago, a spaceship known as New Hope crashed into the "ruins of the world", seemingly trying to escape the end of its home universe, but in the final stages of its voyage it disintegrated and split into three parts......

The three parts can correspond to the three modular "hosts......

Duncan exhaled softly, calming the stormy thoughts in his mind, and glanced at the puppet that was honestly following him.

Right now...... He finally knew that in the Frosty Depths, the clone of the Dark Lord had stuffed something into the puppet's body.

The starlight in front of me had gradually come to an end—in the depths of the dome, there were countless broken floating islands floating in the dark and chaotic space.

Deep sea.

A pitch-black skeletal arthropod with countless hideous barbs descended from the sky, nailing to the stone a mass of deformed flesh that was running wildly across the earth, with a surface that was constantly expanding and shrinking.

The dark demon known as the "Dreaddemon" let out a series of piercing and terrifying howls, but no matter how much it struggled, it could not break free from the skeleton arthropod, and almost in the blink of an eye, it quickly dried up like a punctured balloon, countless cloudy smoke and dust evaporated from its surface, and the remaining parts turned into sticky and flowing "mud", which was quickly absorbed by the bone arthropod.

The towering skeleton arthropods bent upward, and in the center of the twelve symmetrical arthropods, a part of the human female form and the huge body of the ghostly demon was slowly raising its head.

Shirley's gaze calmly swept over the wreckage of the barren land—the shredded greyhounds, the dead birds struggling and jumping on the ground, the soot jellyfish and the dreaddemons that were melting into mud, and the black skull that floated crookedly in the sky, the red light in its sockets.

More ghostly demons gathered farther away, looking a little hesitant.

Dark demons don't have hearts, but even demons that don't have hearts have some instincts to seek advantage and avoid harm when the threat reaches a certain level - at least, they don't gather here to serve as food for a more powerful demon.

Shirley moved twelve long arthropods, as if walking on the ground with curved bone wings, and she slowly walked towards the end of the barren plain, and from time to time a badly injured demon was impaled by her "long feet" because she could not dodge, turning into nourishment absorbed by the arthropods.

At first, she will be full of disgust for this, and will try to pick up clean ground to avoid "eating" the disgusting mud as much as possible.

But now she doesn't care so much.

"Shirley...... Relaxing......"

She just grunted softly, walking between the countless battered demons in a direction she thought was right.

The scarred black skull flew to the side almost in fear, dodging the direction of the "strange intruder".

However, Shirley's gaze was not fixed on this skull for even a second.

She just muttered and continued to walk slowly forward: "...... Don't be afraid. ”

The demons of the plains made a way in fear.

(End of chapter)