It took a few seconds for Tirian to notice that Duncan had just mentioned his "fate" with the Frost Queen, and his astonishment was palpable.
Duncan was not surprised by this reaction. He just shook his head slightly: "My 'meeting' with her was very special. It was not in the normal timeline. You can understand that I once intervened in the gaps of history and used the perspective of a bystander.
I have met Le Nora once from my perspective - but in normal history, I have no contact with the Frost Queen."
Tirian frowned, as if he wanted to understand the meaning of these difficult words, and then his eyes flickered slightly, restraining all his emotions, and looked up at Duncan: "Why are you interested in the matter of the Frost Queen?
Is it because of that 'one-time relationship'? Or is it because of... this doll who calls herself 'Alice'? Did she tell you something?"
"Alice doesn't know anything about the Frost Queen. Her memory is as pure as a blank sheet of paper," Duncan said lightly. "I am interested in the Frost Queen because everyone says that the Frost Rebellion was due to Leigh No.
La’s conspiracy to collude with the Lost Home was exposed—don’t you think it’s normal for me to become interested after learning about this rumor?”
"...colluding with the Lost Home," Tirian's voice was low and his eyelids were drooped, making it difficult to see what his emotions were at the moment. "Yes, this is how they arranged the crime for Her Majesty Le Nora."
"Looking at your reaction, this is indeed a crime of framing," Duncan's voice came from the mirror, "So, the Frost Rebellion back then was just a complete conspiracy, and the crime of setting up Le Nora was also
Completely unfounded?"
While saying this, he observed Tirian's reaction.
But Tirian did not answer him immediately. Instead, he frowned slightly and asked, "Does this truth mean anything to you?"
"Yes," Duncan said with a serious face, "After all, from a certain perspective, I am half a party involved."
Tirian was obviously stunned for a moment, as if he could not refute his father's answer. Then he smiled helplessly and sighed, shaking his head: "There is indeed a conspiracy in that rebellion, but if you have to say it, the name used by the rebels is not complete.
It’s fiction…”
"oh?"
"The Frost Queen has never colluded with any Homeless Company, but she did... have done some research in taboo fields. Once these research plans are made public, even if there is no rebellion, it should be difficult for her to remain as the ruler of the city-state.
superior."
Duncan's eyes were deep, and after a few seconds of silence, he suddenly spoke: "It's called the 'Abyss Project,' right?"
Tirian raised his head suddenly in surprise.
"I know a lot more than you think." Duncan said calmly.
"But all the information related to the Qianyuan Plan has been destroyed, and even the traitors who exposed the plan have been liquidated and executed by the rebels..." Tirian said in disbelief, "Everyone firmly believes in this plan.
The name itself has been tainted by the curse, and the last insiders of the year have long since passed away..."
"Oh? All the information has been destroyed?" This time, Duncan felt a little surprised. He thought that this matter might be relatively confidential, but he did not expect that it was covered up to such an extreme, "Even all the insiders are dead?
"
Tirian was hesitant. He knew the situation better than anyone else, and naturally also knew the reason why this plan was buried. But after a moment of silence, he slowly spoke:
"This taboo project was tainted with so many things related to curses, subspaces and spiritual pollution that even the rebels at that time did not dare to casually talk about the information they found.
"But in fact, there was one, and only, time when the name of this plan was made public - and that was on the final execution ground, when the rebels uttered these words to pronounce the Frost Queen guilty, and that day
, an unprecedented horrific collapse occurred in the Frost City-state's Wanghai Cliff. The entire sea cliff and a quarter of the city fell into the boundless sea. Everyone who heard the words "The Abyss Plan" was not spared.
All turned into dead souls in the deep sea.
"Back then, the rebels originally prepared a series of follow-up publicity work for the 'Project Hidden Abyss'. They planned to make this matter public without revealing the taboo elements, so as to completely eliminate the Frost Queen's presence in the northern seas.
influence and emphasized the justice of this rebellion, but after the sea cliff collapse, these propaganda plans were immediately abolished - as I just said, they firmly believe that the name of the "Qianyuan Project" has been
Curse of pollution, so all information related to this project, including its name, was completely destroyed.
"That's why I'm particularly curious...how did you learn about the 'Abyss Project'?"
Tirian finally stopped avoiding and looked directly into Duncan's eyes. After hearing the plan half a century ago from the other party, the thoughts in his heart couldn't calm down. For a moment, he even really began to doubt.
There was some "collusion" between the Frost Queen and the Homeless Ship back then.
"I said that I have 'watched' some things in the cracks of history," Duncan said calmly, and asked again, "So, what exactly is the Qianyu Plan? Why is this plan so secretive and taboo that even
You...seem to still have a little fear when you mention it?"
Tirian's face was serious and he was silent for a long time before finally speaking in a low and slow voice: "Simply speaking, it is an exploration plan - but unlike those explorers who explore new routes at the borders of civilization, the Abyss Plan explores the deep sea.
.”
"Exploring the deep sea?" Duncan frowned, "You mean the spiritual world, the deep and the subspace? But if it is just research in these fields, there should be no word 'taboo', although it is indeed very dangerous.
But this aspect of occult research has always been carried out legally in various city-states, and the Academy of Truth even has a special research group..."
"I'm not referring to the 'deep sea' in the occult concept," Tirian shook his head slightly, "I'm talking about the deep sea in the real sense, the deep sea in the natural realm - one is right in front of all of us,
But everyone pretends not to see it, doesn’t touch it, and doesn’t dare to touch it.”
As Tirian spoke, he suddenly asked a question: "Father, have you ever thought about this question? What does it look like under our city-state, under these isolated islands in the sea that carry the entire civilization today?"
Duncan said nothing.
But beneath his calm appearance, there was a sudden wave of turmoil in his heart.
He really hasn't thought about this issue, or... he didn't even realize that this was an issue that needed to be considered before!
In this world, people have become accustomed to using terms such as "spirit world", "deep sea" and "subspace" to refer to the "depth" of the world, and this structural model can indeed explain this world to a certain extent.
The way it operates today, but in fact, this model is only an interpretation based on "occult concepts". Strictly speaking, it only describes the "dimensional" structure of the world, not the "physical structure" of the real world.
!
What Tirian is talking about at this moment is obviously not the dimensional model based on the concept of mysticism. He is referring to the physical concept of the body of water downwards from the sea surface.
Corresponding to the classic model of "reality-spiritual world-deepness-subspace", the "deep sea" mentioned by Tirian is actually on the first layer of the model: the reality dimension. However, this is the "deep sea" that is only located on the first layer.
, but it seems to be a complete blank in human cognition.
Duncan never considered this issue because he had a preconceived set of "common sense". He took it for granted that beneath the city-state there must be geological structures raised in the sea, such as mountains in the sea, or raised craters, and further down, of course, there were
It should be something like the seabed, but at this time, he carefully recalled all the knowledge he had come into contact with after coming to this world, and found... Human beings have never understood the underwater world more than two hundred meters deep.
Research!
"Obviously, you haven't considered this issue either," Tirian's voice suddenly came, interrupting Duncan's thinking, "And before I met the Frost Queen, I had never considered this issue - the boundless sea covers
The entire world and our city-state are isolated islands floating on the sea. The protection of the gods has laid a solid foundation for the real world. The illumination of Vision 001 has brought us a safe and stable day. As for what is under the water...
...Why should we pay attention? The spiritual world, the deep, the subspace...the 'deep sea areas' in these 'dimensions' are enough to give us a headache."
Tirian said, shaking his head slightly.
"But Her Majesty Leigh Nora told me that this issue is very important, as important as the secrets of the 'spiritual world', 'deep', and 'subspace'. It is right under our feet, right under the city-state and the sea, right under our
In the real world, there is such a vast unknown area, and she is a person full of exploration spirit. She cannot accept that such a large area under her control is shrouded in unknown."