Chapter 486 – Alice’s Secret

Chapter 486 Alice’s Secret
Silence fell in the room.

This oppressive silence lasted for an unknown period of time before Duncan suddenly broke the silence, “All earthly beings are the children of the Ancient Gods – I’m afraid that even the craziest of the Annihilationists have never uttered such a deviant conclusion.”

“It is an incredible thing to hear the words ‘deviant’ from you,” Rae Nora gazed into Duncan’s eyes with a wry smile, “and yet that is indeed the ultimate Truth – as you saw in that scene in the deep, the ‘creation theory’ that the Annihilationists speak of is not a falsehood, perhaps they are having trouble understanding it, but at least one thing is true… …This world of ours was created by the Ancient God based on some kind of grand ‘blueprint’, and in this creation process …… His flesh and blood is the foundation of all things.”

Duncan was silent for a few seconds before he slowly spoke as if talking to himself, “The Profound Holy Lord used himself as the raw material and molded everything above the surface of the sea according to the ‘blueprint’ in the deep sea, and its ‘flesh and blood’ naturally existed inside everything. And due to some kind of ‘mistake’, those ‘flesh and blood’ that had been molded into earthly things were revitalized, and so the Ancient God awakened from the ‘blueprints’ of the flesh and blood of mortals and city-states – this is where the Cold God awakened – this is where the Cold God awakened. awakened from the ‘blueprints’ of mortal flesh and city-states – is this the truth of the Frost Crisis?”

Rei Nora slowly nodded, her voice soft, “Reproduction and creation, is the authority of the Profound Holy Lord, who can evolve all things with Himself, and thus took on the work of Genesis, but it is obvious that after a long time, the blueprints of the beginning have begun to have problems, and it is also possible that the ‘Creator’ as the source ‘ went wrong, and He began to awaken from His creation – in the form of ‘false copies’ that kept awakening. Frost was the first, but won’t be the last ……”

Even with Duncan’s power of determination, it was difficult to control the shocking waves in his heart after hearing these frightening and horrifying words – the Ancient God would gradually awaken from the earthly beings and even the earthly creatures, and if one looked at it only from the angle of bizarre and horrifying, the frightening degree of this matter even exceeded that of the black sun that was hanging high in the sky above the city-state of Prand!

“All this you knew when you communicated with …… ‘Him’ in your nightmares?” It took Duncan a great deal of effort to control the wildly churning thoughts in his mind, and while maintaining his composure, he turned his head to look at the dark depths at the end of the room, at the huge “pillar” that stood silently in the darkness, and said.

“As an incomplete copy, He can’t tell me anything, but I can learn a lot from Him,” said Rei Nora, “I know what you are trying to say – human wisdom is weak, and even if we face the truth, our limited perception and thinking will not be able to understand it. , our limited perception and thinking can’t fully and accurately understand what we see, so I’m not sure that what I’m saying is 100% ‘true’, it’s just what I’ve learned through my own perception and understanding from the fragmented ‘thinking’ of an ancient god. ‘ What I have comprehended from …… is just for your reference only.”

Duncan didn’t respond for a moment, he was lost in long thought, and after an indeterminate amount of time he snapped back, “What exactly is ‘Alice’? Is she the shell you used for your resurrection?”

“Alice?” Rae Nora frowned upon hearing the name but the doubt in her eyes didn’t look like a fake, “Who is Alice?”

“…… It seems you don’t know the name, I thought this knowledge of her originated from you,” Duncan carefully confirmed the subtle change in Rae Nora’s demeanor before withdrawing his scrutinizing gaze, “She’s a human doll that Possessing the exact same likeness as you, years ago, after you were …… ‘executed’, the Frost Men salvaged a vessel on the Cold Sea, and Alice slept in that vessel-” Duncan said. -She was once known as Anomaly 099, but now she is my crew.”

Rae Nora listened quietly to Duncan’s description, her expression gradually thoughtful, and after a long moment, she suddenly revealed a wisp of a smile, “Ah, so that’s how it is ……”

“So?” Duncan noticed the word instantly, “What does that mean?”

“I’ve been dreaming, all sorts of dreams, like sinking and floating on a sea strewn with fog, most of the time I’m wrapped in cold and darkness, falling asleep with that fragmented murmuring, it’s hard to even tell if the dreaming self is a human soul or a clone of an ancient god muddled in the deep sea, but sometimes …… dry land, rocking cabins, and some nervous, whispering strangers appear in my dreams ……”

As she spoke, she slowly raised her head and looked at Duncan with a smile.

“And in recent times, the frequency of the second type of dream has been on the rise significantly, and the whispering strangers in that dream have turned into a number of …… strange but amusing objects that jostle and jostle with me, while yet another trusting gaze, always watching from the borders of the dream world …… You cared for the doll who called herself ‘Alice,’ didn’t you?”

“There are not many people in this world she can trust, and there are not many people in this world I can trust,” Duncan looked seriously at the “Frost Queen” in front of him, and did not relax a little because of the gentle smile of the other party at the moment,” There are many things that have been ‘copied’ from this out-of-control sea, there are sunken ships, there are shipwrecked sailors, but the ‘Executed Queen’ is the most special of them all, it’s a mannequin with an ego… …But judging by your attitude, you don’t know anything about it?”

Rei Nora, however, seemed not to notice Duncan’s serious to almost stern eyes, she just slightly frowned, as if she was thinking hard, and gradually revealed a gaze that seemed to have thought of something, and then closed her eyes again as if she had felt it carefully for a while, and only then reopened her eyes and looked at Duncan again with a slightly odd look, “That mannequin called itself ‘ Alice’, right?”

Duncan frowned, “That’s right, what’s the problem?”

“And …… what if I said that the doll wasn’t actually a ‘copy’ of me?” Rae Nora said seriously, “Or not exactly a copy of me?”

“…… What do you mean by that?”

“Is there a possibility that ……”-Rae Nora paused, as if trying to be serious, but there was always a bit of a twist in her demeanor-“that Alice Guillotine- -The point isn’t Alice, it’s Guillotine ……”

Duncan: “……?”

“Actually, I don’t really want to recall this,” Rae Nora said, with a somewhat odd expression as she raised her hand and touched the back of her neck, “Did you know that when the Insurrectionists first executed me, they used an instrument of torture known as the ‘Alice Guillotine ‘ instrument of torture ……” Duncan’s mind finally flashed, he understood what the “Frost Queen” wanted to say.

But he thought he might as well not understand.

“You mean you suspect that ‘Alice’ was actually copied by this runaway sea from that ‘guillotine’, not from you …… “

Duncan said subconsciously, but then involuntarily stopped in mid-sentence, muttering to himself in confusion, “But it’s not right, she looks exactly like you ……”

“Mistaken duplicates, Mr. Captain,” Rae Nora, however, clearly had her answer, shaking her head and turning her head to look out into the dark depths at the end of the room, “A crippled, mistaken duplicate of the Ancient God caused this runaway sea, and thus mistaken duplicates are the norm in this runaway sea –When a decapitated queen and a guillotine simultaneously sank into the deep sea, and accurately landed in the ‘perception’ area of the Ancient God’s tentacles because of my advance arrangements, perhaps it triggered something . . marvelous changes, mixing and reorganizing, duplicating and complementing, plus a little …… mystical field processing.”

She paused at this point, her gaze complex as she looked at the Ancient God’s Touch that stood in the darkness.

“Obviously, He can’t tell ……”

Silence fell over the room once again.

But this time the silence was very different from earlier.

It was only after several minutes of this uncomfortable silence that Duncan finally broke the silence with an exclamation, “So, in a sense He is raising a placenta ……”

Rae Nora opened her mouth, and only after a few seconds of stupefaction did she venture, “An unprecedented but apt analogy, worthy of you ……”

Duncan sighed helplessly, what could he say? In this dark and boundless deep sea, the direction of things has completely exceeded everyone’s expectations, the ancient god’s incomprehensible and unnameable is practically reflected in every aspect, to use a not-so-appropriate analogy – between protecting the big and the small, the ancient god chose to protect the placenta… …

But at least he’d figured out one thing…

Why did that silly doll think her name was “Alice”?
Because she really is Alice Guillotine.

Since coming to this world, Duncan had seen countless evil things, but even among those incredibly evil things, this was definitely the most evil.

“Look on the bright side, at least there’s one thing you don’t need to worry about,” Rae Nora noticed Duncan’s poor mood and soothed him, “Alice is not a shell for my resurrection – in fact, from the beginning, I never thought about the so-called ‘resurrection’. thought about the so-called ‘resurrection’.”

Listening to the Frost Queen’s words, Duncan turned his head to look at her again, and had to make an effort to adjust his mind, forcing the lingering sense of dissonance in his heart to the back of his mind, and bringing the topic back on track, “So …… what about that key you mentioned in the beginning? What about the keyhole behind Alice’s back? None of this was your arrangement?”

“I don’t know what ‘keyhole’ you’re referring to, but if the key you’re referring to is a clockwork key made of brass, then it is indeed the one I left with the Consul of the Citadel, and is the necessary item for normal access to this room, as I mentioned to you earlier,” Rae -Nora was frank in her manner, followed by a turn of phrase, “but I am not the creator of that key, much less its first bearer.”

Duncan was stunned, his eyes changing slightly, “…… You were not the first holder of the key? Then where did you get it from?”

“It was a gift from a friend,” Rae Nora said matter-of-factly, “a knowledgeable and kindly old man.”

(End of chapter)