In the middle of the gorgeous bed, the "room owner" who had just woken up was leaning on the pillow and looking at Duncan, the uninvited guest, with curious eyes. The long silver hair and purple eyes were so familiar.
Duncan subconsciously called out the name "Alice" - a low and hoarse "voice" like a dull resonance came directly from the chest of his body.
But then, he frowned slightly, woke up from the sudden surprise and shock, and looked at the lady thoughtfully.
She is not Alice - although her appearance is exactly the same, her temperament is completely different. More importantly... Alice will not appear in this place, so the greater possibility is...
"Lei Nora," Duncan guessed the identity of the person in front of him. With a questioning look, he looked into the other person's eyes and slowly said, "Frost Queen?"
"It seems that I haven't heard this title for a long time," the lady who had just woken up smiled. She adjusted her posture on the bed, with curiosity in her eyes. "Who are you? How do you do it without opening the door?"
Without the door, can you enter this room directly?"
"Door?" Duncan frowned. After hearing the word "door" mentioned again, he became curious, "What door?"
The lady didn't speak, she just raised her finger and pointed not far away.
Duncan looked in the direction of the other person's finger and saw a closed door with complicated patterns - that was obviously the door to this dormitory.
"Anyone who can come here is either a servant of this mansion or a guest holding 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 suddenly jumped - the key! The other party just mentioned the key!
"The key you are talking about is a brass key used to wind up dolls?" He turned around, his tone calm to cover up all his emotional fluctuations, "Are you really the Frost Queen Le Nora?
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"I am indeed," Le Nora smiled and shook her head slightly, "but you haven't answered my question yet - who are you?"
Duncan suppressed the emotional changes in his eyes, and while quickly sorting out his thoughts in his mind, he said unhurriedly: "...You can call me Duncan."
He only said his own name, but did not mention the more famous surname. However, Le Nora's eyes widened slightly after hearing it, and then an increasingly happy smile appeared on her face: "Ah, it turns out
It's you - the legendary Captain Duncan. It makes more sense for you to enter this room, but... I didn't expect you to be in this posture."
Duncan was startled when he heard this, then lowered his head and looked at his body.
It is still that extremely weird pitch-black body, like a "rough blank" that the Creator did not have time to polish the details when creating human beings. This abstract appearance cannot really be called a "friendly face."
"This is just a temporary avatar," Duncan explained casually with a little embarrassment, and then he noticed a slight violation in the other party's attitude, "You don't seem that surprised? You already knew I would come.
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"I don't know, but I lost the ability to be 'surprised' many years ago," Leigh Nora said calmly, "If you always see too many things you shouldn't see, learn about the world
All kinds of weird and weird postures, always experiencing death before death comes, and being trapped in dreams before falling asleep, then sooner or later you will lose this ability..."
She smiled, her tone as calm as if she were talking about the weather: "Even if there are still unpredictable things in the world, numbness will make you be calm about all accidents."
Duncan looked into Le Nora's eyes and recalled various information related to the Frost Queen in a calm manner——
It is said that Leigh Nora is a natural psychic. Her spiritual talent can communicate with a large number of invisible existences. It is said that she can even predict the future and know the truth out of thin air...
While sorting out this information in his mind, there was no change in Duncan's eyes. Instead, he casually came to the corner of the room, pulled a chair to the big bed, sat down and looked at the Frost Queen seriously.
Eyes: "I have many questions and I hope you can answer them."
"I also have many questions," Leigh Nora smiled. "I haven't talked to anyone for too long. A visitor is very precious to me - so if you are willing to answer my questions, I will also be willing to answer yours."
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"Okay, you're welcome," Duncan said straight to the point, "Where is this place? Why are you here?"
"Ah, was it such a difficult question to answer from the beginning..." Leigh Nora frowned, as if she was really worried about how to organize her words, and then she slowly spoke, "Explain it in easier-to-understand terms, here
It is a 'drifting place' - it is not an exact place, but a 'connection' of many places. Do you see the darkness at the end of the room? The scenery outside sometimes changes to something else - appropriate
The conditions allow it to connect to the appropriate 'place', but for me, its only function is to connect my dreams to the deep sea below the frost.
"Do you want me to explain to you what that deep sea beneath the frost means?"
"No need," Duncan shook his head, "continue, why are you here?"
"Okay, it seems that you already know what is in the deep sea," Leigh Nora breathed out softly, "I am embracing a dream here to ensure that the beings in the deep sea can continue to sleep."
Duncan's eyes were serious: "Holy Lord Netherworld?"
"...It seems that you know more than I thought," Lenora glanced at Duncan quietly, "But you are wrong. Although He did come from the 'Creep King', the deep sea
The existence in it is not the real Holy Lord of the Deep, strictly speaking, it is just a copy."
For a moment, Duncan recalled what he had seen in the strange "dark space" before - the cluster controller had begun to copy itself.
The huge "pillar" in the deep sea is indeed not the true body of Holy Lord Netherworld, but is just a copy that appears in the real world for unknown reasons!
So the most accurate situation is... the copy of the ancient god penetrated the "original blueprint of the city-state" in the deep sea, and the power it released led to a series of subsequent events? And the source of all this... is because of the "Secret Saint"
"Lord" is completely out of control?
Is it possible to think that before this copy appeared in the real world, Holy Lord Netherworld was actually not out of control? His condition has continued to deteriorate over the long years to this point?
So if this idea continues... what about other gods? If the "terrible evil gods" in the eyes of the world are actually deteriorating from stable to out of control, then what is the situation of the "four gods" in the world? What will happen to them?
Are they out of control? Or...they have actually begun to gradually lose control?
Duncan thought of the accidents that happened one after another to Plande and Hanshuang, who were protected by the Goddess of Storm and Death, and of Vision 001 that had malfunctioned... Could this obvious situation of gradual failure of a large system be the whole world?
Are they all "out of control"?
The unresolved conjecture was confirmed, and a lot of chaotic thoughts suddenly flooded into his mind. In the blink of an eye, Duncan thought of a series of events that happened on the boundless sea during this period.
At this moment, Le Nora's voice came from the opposite side again, interrupting his brainstorming: "Now it's my turn to ask the question."
Duncan quickly stopped his thoughts and organized his thoughts: "Just ask."
"How did you get here?" Leigh Nora's eyes were filled with curiosity.
"In the deep sea under the frost - I found the 'replica' and found an 'entrance' at its breaking point to enter here," Duncan did not hide, "As for how I came to such a deep
The place... is to ride on the submersible of the Frost City State."
"Submersible?" Le Nora frowned, but soon she seemed to have guessed something, "Ah, it seems they have secretly built a new one..."
"Did you know that the 'Rebel Government' will build a new submersible after you... die?" Duncan was a little surprised. "As far as I know, the 'Abyss Project' was the source of that rebellion, and they also used it as their name.
...'executed' you."
"They will," Le Nora just smiled, "because they are frost people."
Duncan didn't speak for a while, just looked at the former queen quietly.
The latter continued calmly: "Frost people will never die silently and meekly. When the darkest moment comes, we will burn everything to survive, so when my submerged plan goes out of control and the city-state falls into an existential crisis.
When the time comes, rebels will definitely 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 will improve their machines, they will slow down their plans, they will learn from my radical lessons and do it all in a more gentle and harmless way, and if they still fail, then new rebels will emerge and their successors will be cut down
The head of an incompetent person, and then try another way...continue to challenge the cold darkness in the deep sea."
"This will continue until the last Frostman dies or this darkness dissipates."
She raised her head and stared calmly into Duncan's eyes - in the latter's weird and terrifying "rough" body, only those eyes had some brilliance of humanity.
"I just didn't expect that the one who came down in the submersible would be...the legendary Captain Duncan, and a Captain Duncan who had obviously gained his mind. It seems that my successor is a little more extreme than I was?"
"...They failed," Duncan was silent for a few seconds and shook his head slightly. "A disaster destroyed the city-state government. They failed to restart the submersible plan before the situation got out of control. The only good news is that the disaster
It was eventually calmed down, and the submersible was the 'trophy' we found after the situation calmed down."