Chapter 270 – Subspace Lair Still Cozy Today
Chapter 270 – Subspace Lair Still Cozy Today
“Are you really sure this is okay?”
Looking at the large water basin placed on the dining table in front of her, Nina was still a bit uneasy, she glanced at the nervous Alice next to her, and then at the expressionless Duncan, and cooed in a small voice.
“If it doesn’t work again, then we’ll have to use the dissolver, but that stuff can be corrosive, and I don’t know if Alice’s body will be affected,” Duncan looked at the gothic doll who had changed back into her usual clothes but her neck was still fixed and motionless with an expression of dismay, “or she’ll just remain in this position.”
Alice panicked at this and hurriedly waved her hand, “Don’t, try it with boiling water first!”
Nina’s eyes moved between Alice and the water basin several times before she finally gave an oh-so-quiet sigh and slowly poked her hand into the cool water.
She controlled it very, very carefully, as if she was trying to precisely remove a grain of sand from the desert, guiding the flame that burned deep in her soul to the outside – it wasn’t easy to do such a precise maneuver as a sunshine girl with 6000 degrees of passion inside, but she had been practicing this kind of precise control whenever she had free time in these past days, and she had been practicing this precise control, and had made great progress to this day, and in only a short time, she had succeeded.
The water was boiling.
Alice turned to look at Duncan, who glanced at Alice.
Then without hesitation, he pressed the mannequin’s head into the pot of boiling water.
“Boil it more,” Duncan said helplessly while pressing Alice’s shoulders, “but stop if you’re uncomfortable.”
Alice immediately replied, “Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …… grrrrrrrrrrrr.”
Duncan thought for a moment and looked up to Nina, “I’m guessing she’s not uncomfortable.”
Nina, however, just stared blankly at the scene in front of her for a long time before she couldn’t help but mutter, “I still think this is a weird scene ……”
Duncan sighed, said this still need to say, he himself feel this picture is weird can’t look at, gloomy narrow antique store second floor, uncle and nephew two people to a gothic mannequin’s head pressed into the boiling water boil, the key is this gothic mannequin also gesture hand up, thumbs up to show that they have no problem ……
Whoever sees this scene for the first time will have to report it to the sheriff – and the second time will have to go to the church guards.
Just then, a sudden sound of footsteps came from the direction of the stairs, followed by Shirley’s voice reaching Duncan and Nina’s ears, “I’m back! Mr. Duncan, Master Morris is here again, I told him to go straight up ……”
The next second, Shirley’s figure appeared in the doorway, her voice ending abruptly.
Inside the slightly dimly lit room, Duncan and Nina were standing quietly beside a pot of boiling water, the latter’s hand still resting in the pot, maintaining the water’s boiling, while Duncan pressed his hand against Alice’s shoulder, holding the gothic doll’s head dead center in the water, while the doll was motionless at the moment, only the bubbling sound of boiling water could be heard.
Duncan and Nina looked up at the same time, their eyes glancing at Sherry in the doorway.
Immediately afterward, Maurice appeared as well, following right behind Shirley.
The scene in the kitchen-cum-dining room was also reflected in the historian’s eyes.
The old man thought for a moment, and it dawned on him – oh, it’s subspace shadows and sun debris stewing in anomaly 099.
Maurice nodded, thinking that today’s antique store was as normal as every day.
“Fucked up!” Shirley’s sluggish exclamation of surprise then finally rang out, and she nearly jumped up, looking around the room with a horrified expression on her face, but then hurriedly covered her mouth as if trying to hold down the expletive that had just come out of her mouth again, a slurred gurgle escaping her lips.
“What the hell,” Duncan immediately glared at the startled fellow, “was it your idea to have Alice pour glue into her neck?”
Shirley finally realized instantly what was going on in the scene in front of her, and her first thought was to turn her head and run, but froze under Duncan’s gaze.
“I …… I just said it off the top of my head, I didn’t think she’d really do it,” Shirley’s voice shivered straight away, “how could a normal person believe it …… “
Duncan heard, just wanted to say something, but suddenly felt Alice’s body shook, he immediately loosened his hand, and then saw Alice clattered straight up from the water basin.
Only the body.
The head was still boiling in the basin.
“Ah, it worked.” Nina said in amazement.
Alice’s body froze in place for a few seconds and began to reach out and fumble for her head, which in turn was sinking in the basin of water, making gurgling noises for help, “Help …… gurgling …… help …… gurgle ……”
Nina hurriedly scooped up Alice’s head, and somewhat clumsily helped the latter to put it back in place, and everyone at the scene breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the familiar “boing” sound.
Alice turned her head from side to side, and realized that although her neck was still a bit stiff, she was able to turn it, and immediately looked at Duncan with a happy expression: “Captain! I can move again hey!” “You take her to dry her hair, and her collar is wet, dry her,” Duncan sighed and looked up to Nina, followed by a glance at Shirley, who was full of panic, wanting to run but not daring to do so, with little goodwill, “Go back and copy the alphabet twenty times, and each of the new words twenty times each .”
After saying that, he didn’t care about Shirley’s instantly sky-scraping expression, and looked directly at Morris, “What happened? Is it something new about that symbol?”
Morris may not have gotten out of that weird and thrilling and chicken-feeding scene just now, froze for a moment before reacting and hurriedly opened his mouth, “Ah, it’s not about the symbol, it’s that I suddenly got a piece of news from my friend in the city hall today, and I think …… you would be interested in this news. ”
“News from City Hall?” Duncan frowned, “Tell me more about it.”
A few minutes later, Maurice told Duncan what he had only learned early this morning.
“Vision-Planet ……” At the dining table, Duncan repeated the word with a slightly stony expression, and then looked at Maurice immediately afterward, “When will this news be publicized?”
“Undecided for the time being, but it should be in the next few days,” Morris nodded, “Judging from common sense, right now, the city-state of Prand is still in the aftermath of that previous disaster, most of the citizens’ acceptance is still very strong, and at this time, the transformation of the city-state into a vision is announced as one of the conclusions of the disaster’s aftermath , it probably won’t cause too much serious chaos yet – whereas if we wait until the city-state is completely calm and everyone has been living smoothly for a long time before announcing it, then it might turn into a new round of chaos.”
Duncan nodded softly and didn’t say anything, but his mind couldn’t help but recall the news he had just read in the newspaper.
Storm Cathedral to arrive in Prand.
The changes in the directory of anomalies and visions were released outwardly by the major churches as the source, so the Storm Cathedral must have been the first to learn of the situation.
“It is unusual for a city-state to be transformed into an anomaly and still functioning as normal, but even more unusual is the fact that this newly minted anomaly is not numbered,” Maurice added, “What do you …… have to say about this? ”
Duncan, of course, had noticed the lack of numbering on this upstart vision, but what could he have to say about it? His attainments in the occult were actually not as good as Dog’s ……
But that couldn’t be said out loud, so he could only ponder a little, and then shook his head with a bland expression, “I don’t have any opinion on it, the ‘coding’ of the anomalies and visions that the major churches have published out is neither comprehensible to me, nor does it make sense.”
“This ……”
Maurice opened his mouth, but immediately afterward, he thought of the green flames that had burned through the entire city-state that day, the black sun that had disintegrated and perished, and the anomaly 099 that had just been held down in a basin of water and was still honest.
All of this seems to be the same to Captain Duncan, all of them are …… slightly need to deal with the “daily problems”.
One does not need to care what the name of every speck of dust one cleans daily is.
“Well, it really doesn’t make sense to you,” the old scholar looked at Duncan with some awe, and then he hesitated for a moment before slowly organizing his words, “Also, although there shouldn’t be any doubt, I would like to make sure that Prender was indeed transformed by your hand into a visionary, right?”
Duncan sidled his face slightly, “Any questions?”
“No, I have no doubts, I am just curious as to what your subsequent arrangements are for this city-state,” Maurice said while organizing his words, wanting to get his thoughts across as clearly and without ambiguity as possible, “You transformed it into a vision, and were trying to ……”
“I have no intention of ruling the fate of this city-state or meddling in anyone’s future,” Duncan shook his head gently without waiting for Maurice to finish, “If I must say ……”
He paused, turning his head to look out the window at the placid landscape of the streets.
“I kinda like this place, so I hope it will be peaceful in the future as well.”
……
Inside the Storm Cathedral, Vanna, who was talking to Heidi, suddenly stopped and looked back with some confusion.
“What’s wrong?” Heidi looked at her best friend curiously.
“I just seemed to suddenly hear bells ringing and someone whispering to me,” Vanna frowned, “like I misheard them.”
“Definitely misheard, I didn’t hear anything,” Heidi waved her hand, “You’ve been under too much stress lately, do you need me to give you ……”
“No need!” Vanna did not wait for Heidi to finish but hurriedly interrupted, “I feel that my mental state is quite good, and really encountered any problem I will also solve it by myself, you know, the magi are half a spiritual physician.”
“Well, if you don’t need it, you don’t need to be so nervous,” Heidi muttered somewhat helplessly, “Right, where was I?”
Vanna thought for a moment and reminded, “Just now you said your father went to an antique store and came back with a shell, and now you’re worried about his mental state ……”
(I’ve also confirmed that I have an infection and am having a hard time getting up to write, so I have a couple chapters saved for emergencies, so I’ll post them for now, and hopefully I’ll be able to regain some of my spirits before they run out. Also, there’s plenty of medicine on my side right now, thanks for your concern.)
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