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Chapter 257 The bell rings

Tirian returned to the room and ordered his men to leave, but his mood did not calm down as the room became quiet.

The long conversation with his "father" still lingered in his mind, and various memories of the Abyss Project seemed to linger in his mind uncontrollably. From time to time, fragments of half a century ago flashed before his eyes - rough diving equipment.

, the sea cliff where there is always cold rain, the silent platform guards, the low prayers of priests in the rainy night, the brightly lit but always eerie coastal laboratory, and the Frost Queen who always looks out at the sea.

, a gaze that buries all the secrets.

Tirian shook his head. For some reason, he suddenly thought of the doll who called himself "Alice" - Anomaly 099 who had completely broken away from the seal and moved freely in the world.

A "controlled" anomaly, a doll that can think and communicate like a human being, and even has its own emotions and joys...

She is so similar to the Frost Queen, but she is definitely not the queen herself - although her existence and appearance are indeed easy to think of as some kind of "return" of the queen, Tirian can feel that the doll

There is... no trace of Le Nora's will in her body.

If anything, Tirian feels that "Alice" is more like... a "replica" that is extremely restored in appearance but completely distorted inwardly.

Just like those "Submersible No. 3" that surfaced one after another.

Tirian's eyes suddenly changed slightly, and he felt slightly cold due to the associations that emerged in his mind.

He sat in the room, poured himself a glass of strong wine, and relied on the power of alcohol to warm his cold mind and soothe his restless soul. After a while, he felt a little better, and then he raised his head and looked

To the exquisite suitcase placed next to the bed.

After a slight hesitation, he took the box to the table, opened the lid, and activated the complex lenses and the crystal located in the center of the lens group.

The crystal ball brightened, and a large number of flashing light spots appeared inside, and a disturbing noise came from it.

After a while, he saw Lucretia's figure faintly emerging among the flickering lights, and the other party's vague voice. After another two or three minutes, the voice and image barely became clear.

, my sister’s voice came into my ears: “Can you hear it?”

"It's clear now," Tirian nodded, "Why is there more interference there than before... What is that around you? Sunlight? It looks a little weird..."

He noticed that there seemed to be streaks of light golden light floating in the background behind Lucretia. It looked like a brilliant sunset shining into the room through the window, but the texture of the light was far warmer and brighter than the sunset.

Moreover, the distribution and diffusion of its light also give people a feeling that is not like sunlight, which is particularly interesting.

Tirian knew that his sister often moved around the border, and there were often strange phenomena happening there, which were often dangerous, but Lucretia could always avert danger - but he still couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"Ah, I picked up some strange things at the border, but I have checked them carefully and they are not harmful," Lucretia replied very calmly, "That thing may have fallen from the sky and can project images."

It emits a very large-scale glow...I am using the Brilliant Star to drag that thing back for study."

Tirian frowned subconsciously: "You always pick up strange things at the border. Have you forgotten the last time you were dragged directly into the depths of the spirit world by a cloud of human-shaped smoke?"

"I will be careful. I have always been careful - it's just that there will be accidents occasionally. Accidents are inevitable when exploring," Lucretia waved her hand, and then she seemed to suddenly discover something and stared closely.

Tirian's face, "Brother, what happened to your face and head?"

"...I fell down."

"But it looks like you hit the city wall violently with your head." Lucretia frowned slightly. "Without a two-hundred-meter run-up acceleration and a resolute headbutt, you wouldn't have fallen like this - you were attacked.

Already."

Tirian's expression stiffened for a moment, and then he shook his head helplessly: "Sometimes I really don't wish you were so smart."

"Who attacked you?" Lucretia didn't pay attention to Tirian's interruption, her expression was particularly serious, "You are in the city-state of Purand, there are no enemies of yours there, and the city-state authorities will not sit back and watch the 'guests'

Attacked...ah, you didn't admit that you were attacked just now, you even said that you fell..."

Lucretia suddenly stopped as she spoke. She seemed to have thought of something, her expression suddenly changed, and then she looked around the crystal ball with twinkling eyes.

Tirian knew what was going on as soon as he saw her expression, and shook his head before he spoke: "Don't be nervous, he's not here."

"Really...he beat me?" Lucretia opened her eyes wide in shock, "Wait, didn't you mean that he was not in the city-state? And why did he..."

"He is indeed not here. He is one of his current subordinates." Tirian rubbed his forehead with some depression. "Don't worry, we did not have a conflict. This injury... is just a small accident. He wants to talk to me about it."

Something happened and I was too vigilant."

"'Subordinate'?!" Lucretia was startled, and instinctively wanted to ask how strong that subordinate was, and what kind of weapon could be used to beat the "Steel Admiral" into a pig's head, but then she

Then he noticed the second half of Tirian's words, and his eyes changed, "...he came to talk to you again so soon, what happened?"

"He has become interested in some old things about Hanshuang," Tirian said casually, "But you don't have to worry about this. I'm looking for you to find out some other information - Anomaly 099. You should know about it, right?"

"Of course I do. I also know that the thing was hijacked by the Homeless Ship. This matter was spread throughout the Explorers Association, and not long after that, the Church of the Deep Sea issued a notice that the name of Anomaly 099 came from the 'Doll'

The coffin has become a 'doll'... Many people have uneasy speculations about this."

Tirian raised his eyelids and looked into Lucretia's eyes solemnly: "Then do you know why its name changed from 'Doll Coffin' to 'Doll'?"

Lucretia frowned nicely, and she seemed to vaguely react to something.

"I've seen her," Tirian breathed out and did not continue to tell the truth, "that 'doll', she called herself 'Alice', and she has woken up from the coffin and is currently serving her father, just like the rumors.

That doll looks exactly like the Frost Queen, but her personality... is very unexpected."

"This information is also very unexpected," Lucretia said softly. Under the inexplicable golden light, her eyes seemed to flash slightly, "You mean, my father...'released' the anomaly from the coffin.

099. Let that dangerous anomaly roam freely outside, but the latter willingly follows her father? Can she even talk to you?"

"It sounds incredible, but it's absolutely true," Tirian nodded. "She can speak, think, and have feelings like a human being. Even... I think the relationship between her and her father is pretty good, but I dare not

Determine whether this is 'friendship' that humans can understand. After all, one of them is a ghost returning from the subspace, and the other is an 'abnormal object' numbered within a hundred."

Lucretia didn't speak. After a moment of silence, she raised her head: "Then what do you want to ask?"

"Regarding the situation when Anomaly 099 was first discovered, you were at the scene," Tirian looked at his sister, "I want to know some of the most realistic situations from you. You know, my fleet and I never

Close to the frost, we missed the original scene."

Lucretia pondered for a few seconds: "Back then... I did happen to be in the sea area where the incident occurred, but the one that initially salvaged Anomaly 099 was not the Brilliant Star, but a ship named 'Charvin'

Offshore fishing boat, strictly speaking, when I received the distress signal from the Chalvin and found the fishing boat drifting out of control, it was already the second scene, so I was not sure that Anomaly 099 had just been salvaged.

What was the scene at that time - I can only tell you the scene on the Chalvin at that time."

Lucretia paused, recalling the scenes she had seen.

"When I found the ship, there were almost no people alive on it. Eleven of the twelve crew members, including the captain, had been beheaded - only one sailor who was frightened and half crazy was left, confused and confused.

The ground described to me the 'cursed wooden box' they salvaged.

"He said they couldn't abandon the box because it was alive and moving around the ship, and they couldn't destroy the box because it was so powerful and strong that sailors armed with self-defense weapons couldn't handle it...

"About this part, you can basically find it in the public information of the Explorers Association, but there is one detail... that is not recorded in the information, but you may be interested.

"In the first half hour after Anomaly 099 was salvaged, the sailors of the Chalvin heard several slight rattling sounds coming from the box. It sounded... as if something was inside.

forming."

"A slight rattling sound..." Tirian frowned and muttered softly. Then he seemed to want to ask something else, but just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by a slightly urgent bell that suddenly came from the window.

What he wanted to say.

He raised his head in surprise and heard the bell ringing clearly and urgently in the darkening sky. After carefully distinguishing it for a moment, he muttered to himself uncertainly: "It's not a dusk bell...it sounds like

It's 'Xun Zhong'."

"The Swift Bell..." Lucretia's voice came from the crystal ball, "I heard seven short tolls. If I remember correctly, this is the bell that represents the message from the 'Tomb of the Unknown King'?!"


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