Chapter 564 – Visiting the Garden Again

Chapter 564 – Visiting the Garden Again
As always, Alice never took the Captain’s word with unconditional confidence – she hadn’t even wondered why Duncan suddenly wanted to use that key again, and had happily agreed to do so.

Still, Duncan explained to the mannequin very carefully, “I’m going to enter that ‘Alice’s Mansion’ again to confirm some suspicions about the ‘Old World’.”

Alice nodded her head, although she didn’t really understand what the “Old World” was in the Captain’s words, she knew that it was a very serious matter.

Having already been through this once, she quickly found a comfortable place to sit down, and then turned around to reveal the keyhole in her back.

“In fact, I was talking to Nina, asking her to help me alter the back of my clothes to see if I could make a hole in the keyhole,” the doll said happily as she waited for the captain to “wind up” herself, “but she was worried about my keyhole. But she’s worried about my keyhole getting sand and dirt and other debris …… I think she’s over-worried, I’m not going to roll around on the ground, so how could the keyhole get sand in it?”

“It’s usually better to keep it out of the way,” Duncan said casually, “Who knows if this precision structure will be fragile, I wouldn’t know how to fix it if something got in and jammed it.”

“Miss Lucrecia might be able to fix it, she’s the one who fixed Luni …… But you’re right, it’s better to be careful, Luni’s head took forever to fix ……”

The silver haired mannequin chimed in, talking like a normal person chatting about family matters about how they all sounded too weird and evil to the ears of onlookers, Duncan couldn’t help but have a faint smile on his face when he listened to it, he then shook his head with a grin as he picked up the peculiar brass key and carefully inserted it into Alice’s keyhole, just like he did the last time.

A familiar clicking sound came from the key as it began to turn on its own, Duncan settled down slightly, and in the next second he felt the light and shadows shift before his eyes, his senses rapidly orienting and reshaping.

Moments later, he opened his eyes in the darkness, adjusting to the changes in his five senses after the change in environment, and after the scene in front of him quickly stabilized, the strange “garden” shrouded in cartoon skies and lush greenery reappeared in front of his eyes.

The silver-haired gothic doll that looked exactly like Alice was still quietly leaning against the pillar in the center of the garden, sleeping among the vines and thorns, and the drawing board in the doll’s hand was the same as before, with no change in its position or form.

Duncan blinked, and at the first opportunity did not move hastily, but cautiously confirmed his surroundings and compared them to the scene he remembered.

Half a minute later, he confirmed that there were no abnormalities in the surroundings, and that everything remained the same as when he left – he even had a feeling that it was as if the time in this “public house” had been suspended during his absence, and it was only when he returned that the time here began to move again. He even had a feeling as if time had been suspended in this “public house” during his absence, and it was not until he returned that time began to move again.

…… This is probably not an illusion.

Duncan recalled the strange “headless butler” had told himself, Alice public house special time rules, the heart pondered.

After a moment’s thought, he raised his head and looked up at the “sky” above the garden.

The last time he came here, a lot of his energy was attracted by all kinds of weird and bizarre scenes in the public house, and there were heaps of questions in his mind, so his limited energy was scattered everywhere, so even though the sky of the garden attracted his attention, he didn’t look too closely at those bizarre cartoon graffiti.

And this time, he looked extraordinarily hard.

Clouds as if drawn by children’s crayons floated against the background of a light blue sky, exaggerated lines of “sunlight” passed between the clouds, and the “sun”, painted in golden yellow, emitted rays of light and heat as he had seen last time, sustaining the vitality of the garden. The sun, painted in golden yellow, emits light and heat as it did last time, keeping the garden alive.

Still “childlike”, still “childlike” in an eerie way.

Duncan suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly.

He scrutinized the golden-colored sun, and this time, he finally noticed a detail that he had overlooked before – the “graffiti sun”.

There was no runic circle structure around the “graffiti sun”!
“No wonder …… no wonder the last time I looked at it, I felt there was something wrong, but I couldn’t tell ……”

Duncan muttered, the expression on his face changed slightly, he finally recognized the weird graffiti in the sky to bring his biggest sense of dissonance from where: it was a normal round of the sun, despite the abstract and simple strokes, but it is undoubtedly his familiar “sun”!
But it was precisely because he was so familiar with it that he failed to notice the obvious “abnormality” at the last glance – if a “native” like Maurice or Vanna had come over, he would have been afraid to see it at first sight. “If Maurice or Vanna were to come over, I’m afraid they would have recognized something wrong at first glance.

Duncan’s eyebrows furrowed a little, after confirming that the sky was a “normal sun”, the hidden secrets of this “Alice’s Mansion” seemed to be quietly lifting a corner to him.

In the boundless sea, the “sun” is a man-made celestial body with a double runic circle, this is a common knowledge recognized by the world, and no one in the world knows the “fact” that has remained unchanged for 10,000 years from the era of the deep sea to the present time! No one in the world knows what the “real sun” looks like, even those Sunists who claimed to believe in the real Sun God depicted only a twisted and horrible creature of the ancient gods in their preaching–

Then who left this “normal sun” or “original sun” in Alice’s mansion ……?
“Alice, the doll, was “born” after the Frost Queen, Rei Nora, fell into the deep sea, so why would the depths of the Alice Mansion, which is connected to her, record the appearance of the “sun” before the Age of Annihilation? “before the Age of Annihilation?

And if we consider the “World Aggregation Theory”‘s speculation on the Great Annihilation, that the Age of the Deep Sea was formed by the accumulation and remodeling of countless remnants of the old world, then this “primitive sun” recorded in Alice’s public house… …which Old World does it belong to?
Does it represent a star from one of the old worlds? Or is it just an abstract symbol?

For some reason, Duncan’s mind was on that fat pigeon.

His brow furrowed and he shook his head, reorganizing the convoluted information in his mind over and over again, when suddenly another clue came to him – the

Alice’s birth. It was true that her image was copied from the Frost Queen Rae Nora, but her original body, the Hearse, was also an incorrect copy of “Alice’s Guillotine” – as it turned out, for Anomaly 099’s “Shaper”, the source of the copy was the “Shaper”, and the source of the copy was the “Shaper”. As it turns out, for Anomaly 099’s “Shaper”, the source and process of copying itself is not important, whether it is a great human being or a piece of hard wood, it is only the initial “material”, what really matters is the “Shaper” itself! What really matters is the “shaper” himself.

It was the “wrong copy” of the Profound Holy Lord that created Anomaly 099.

Then can we think that this so-called “Alice’s Mansion” is also the “creation” of the Profound Holy Lord’s erroneous duplicate body? And by extension, even the erroneous duplicate of the Profound Holy Lord should have retained a large amount of information of the “main body”, so some of the “things” in this Alice Mansion might have its origin directly referring to that “ancient god” who was stranded in the Profound Sea! “Duncan looked up.
Duncan raised his head and scrutinized the abstract and simple sun, as well as the clouds and sunlight around it.

…… These graffiti like images are part of the “memories” that the Profound Holy Lord unintentionally leaked out, or some kind of “message” that he consciously conveyed to the outside world?

The more Duncan thought about it, the more he realized that it was very possible, because one thing was certain:
The real appearance of the “original sun” only exists in the time before the great annihilation of the node, the secret of this Alice’s public house, should also be able to trace back to that time before the node, and on the basis of the current information …… there are only the four gods, as well as the world’s deep those mysterious Only the four gods, as well as those mysterious “ancient gods” in the depths of the world can have a certain understanding of the world before the great annihilation.

Duncan’s heart moved, he lowered his head and saw the drawing board in the hands of the mannequin.

After a moment’s hesitation, he bent down, carefully maneuvered around the surrounding thorns, and slowly pulled the panel out of the doll’s hand.

The front of the panel still depicted the eerie swirls, twisted stars, and ominous dark red glow, while on the border of the back of the panel, the familiar words were still inscribed on it:

“…… Messengers bring news from afar, that the chosen clan has picked up the lost stars of the distant past and forged them into a crown of blessing – the Third Long Night is over.”

The chosen clan picked up the lost ancient stars and forged them into a crown of blessing.

Duncan’s gaze lingered long on these words.

It described the process by which the ancient Cretan clans, led by the King of the Creeps, built Vision 001 and raised it into the sky.

When he first entered the garden and saw this line of text, he could not understand what it meant.

But now, he suddenly realized something.

He thought of the ten-meter-diameter “moon” – a “part” that had fallen off from the runic circle of Vision 001.

The runic circle that bound the sun could be seen as a brilliant “crown”.

And the “moon” …… distorted and compressed by unknown forces naturally fits the description of a “lost ancient star”.

A slight sound suddenly came from the depths of the garden, waking Duncan from his contemplation.

He raised his head sharply and looked in the direction of the sound.

There was nothing but lush vegetation there, dim shadows between the lush bushes and the shade of the shorter trees.

But Duncan was certain that he had heard something.

This is the deepest part of Alice’s mansion, according to the headless butler’s statement, even the senior servants in the mansion are not qualified to step into this place at will – only the mistress Alice and the existence called “the gardener” will come in here. The “gardener” seems to have stopped appearing a long time ago.

An intruder? Or has the Gardener returned?

Duncan frowned slowly as he tucked the panel back into the doll’s arms and cautiously walked towards the lush shrubbery.

“Clatter …… rustle ……”

A soft sound once again came from somewhere in the shadows.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught something–

A shadow, as if it were a slippery and bizarre tentacle, was weaving and wriggling through the darkness at the edge of the garden!
(End of chapter)