Chapter 729.
Chapter 729 Navigation
Duncan was confident in his memory – he happened to remember what the rock Dog had just thrown looked like, and now he was pretty sure that the rock in Alice’s hand was the one Dog had just thrown.
Dog himself quickly realized what had happened, and he looked at the stone in the mannequin’s hand in shock: “…… Such a coincidence? It fell out of your hand!?”
“No,” Alice immediately shook her head, a face of rightfulness, “I picked it up.”
“You …… picked it up?” Shirley instantly had a ghostly expression on her face, her eyes staring straight at the mannequin, “How did you pick it back up? According to what Dog just said, shouldn’t this thing have landed in some random place in the Profound Deep Sea?”
Alice instantly thought, seemingly pondering how to explain this process that she herself couldn’t even say she understood to Shirley, and then spoke while gesturing, “It’s just that just now when we were chatting about where the things that fell from here might have landed, I was curious about where this stone had gotten to, and then I found it, and then I picked it up by hand …… That’s it ……”
Alice said while casually making a gesture of picking up something out of thin air from the air as if it was a matter of course – but her explanation was confusing to the ears of the dog, not to mention Shirley’s inability to understand it.
Yet Duncan, standing next to her, suddenly frowned, and instantly thought of something–
When crossing that stagnant starry sky, Alice s perverse behavior ……LH-03, Navigation Host!
His complexion changed slightly, and he immediately bent down and picked up another stone from the side, and after showing it to Alice, he threw it with force into the vast darkness beyond the floating island.
As with the previous situation, the stone instantly disappeared from everyone’s sight after flying a few meters out of the floating island’s range.
Duncan looked back at Alice’s eyes, “Do you know where it went? Can you pick it up?”
As soon as his words fell, Alice had already raised her hand and handed over a small, dark stone with a happy, inviting expression on her face, “Here you go, stone!”
Although he already had some guesses in his heart, Duncan still couldn’t help but freeze for a few seconds when he saw the doll take out the stone so simply and casually – no one saw how Alice “picked” it up, not even him!
It was as if the process had been skipped – the “addressing”, “path” and “arrival” had been compressed into an unobservable time gap. The only output is the “result”.
Shirley finally couldn’t hold back her interjection: “…… Crap, just XX outrageous ……”.
Dog, on the other hand, seemed to see something in the change of expression on the captain’s face, and he turned his head quizzically: “Do you know how she did it?”
Duncan’s expression was slightly grave, and after a brief moment of hesitation, he nodded gently, “…… Alice’s other identity may be called ‘LH-03’.”
Dog froze, this time speaking in unison with Sherry, “…… Crap, just XX outrageous ……”
“…… This matter can be discussed later, and perhaps more answers can be obtained after meeting the Profound Sacred Lord,” Duncan waved his hand and did not continue on this topic, but instead dropped his gaze on Alice, “Do you have a way to get us to the ‘bottom’?”
Alice tilted her head, and then cautiously reached the edge of the broken earth while holding her head, looking down at the infinite darkness below, as well as the “starlight” that shimmered slightly in the darkness, as if she was trying to think and observe something.
After a long time, she took two steps back and pointed at the darkness outside the floating island: “Here, there are countless lines and ‘paths’, some of which connect to ‘down there’, and I think I can follow them down! …… But I don’t know how to take you guys down there.”
As soon as she spoke, Duncan stepped forward next to her, “Let me see.”
As he said that, Duncan put his hand on Alice’s shoulder, and at the same time, a phantom-like flash of ghostly green fire appeared under Alice’s eyes-
Huge, complex, almost intimidatingly amazing structures floated into Duncan’s field of vision.
He saw the world – or at least part of it – in the eyes of the mannequin.
He saw endless threads like strands of hair drifting and growing from the bottom of the deep, deep sea, connecting all the way to the stagnant, ancient starry sky above, saw countless lines crisscrossing between the stars, some merging into the lower reaches, others seeming to disappear into the depths of the starry sky out of thin air, and he saw that the darkness beyond the floating island was strewn with vaguely… … “Tubular Structures”, which were interlaced, broken, and constantly changing, like some kind of out-of-control “paths”, which were so dizzying at a glance that one couldn’t discern any pattern at all, let alone see the whole picture.
Duncan frowned, he did see the massive structure of lines and paths, but only “saw” – he could not see any pattern, and it was impossible to find the beginning and end of any of the paths in a short period of time. This mess in the deep sea in his eyes is like some kind of “encrypted data block”, like a garbled code.
However, through the connection established by the flame, he could vaguely feel Alice’s state at the moment – she did not feel the huge information in her field of vision was confusing in any way.
Everything was well organized in her eyes, and the network of misplaced paths and lines in the darkness of that starry sky could drive scholars all over the world crazy, but to her …… it seemed that at any instant, she could calculate the beginning and end of any path.
Even right here and now, she was calculating nonstop – a vast arithmetic activity that even she could not perceive was roaring through the bottom of her mind without a moment’s rest.
Duncan blinked, and in the background of the myriad lines that permeated the entirety of the ethereal depths, he was in a trance as he saw Alice suddenly turn her head, and she smiled faintly, not speaking, but her voice came directly into his ears-
“Welcome to the New Hope’s navigation database, which stores hundreds of millions of gravitational features and calibration parameters between the stars, and can deduce the relative position change of any celestial body in deep space in real time, so as to calibrate the star map …… We will penetrate &$ over the stars, at the end of the &$ speed of light Arriving at our new home ()*&*()%…… we will survive %# and rebuild *& the old) *world ……~*&”
As if some kind of system broadcast like a gentle female voice gradually colored with murmurs, the delayed and out-of-tune vocal lines gradually appeared to be blurred, and came to an abrupt end at some imperceptible moment.
Alice was still seriously observing the dark space beyond the floating island, and she apparently didn’t turn around or open her mouth. Duncan raised his hand, dispersing the flame that had linked him to Alice.
The dizzying lines and tubular paths in the field of vision vanished instantly.
Alice turned her head and smiled happily, “You saw it all, Captain, didn’t you? Was I right?”
“I saw it, but I’m afraid you’re the only one who can do the rest of the ‘navigating’,” Duncan inhaled softly and looked at the mannequin with a serious face, “You take us down.”
Alice froze for a moment and hurriedly spoke up, “But I don’t know how to lead anyone ……”
“It’s okay, I know, we’ll follow you – you just have to trust your judgment and move forward without hesitation. Can it be done?”
Looking at the Captain’s extraordinarily earnest and serious expression, Alice couldn’t help but feel a little nervous, but she finally nodded, her expression following suit, “Well, I can!”
Duncan nodded slightly, then took half a step back and opened his hands.
A ghostly green flame rose up into the air, hovering and rising, and gradually spreading out in all directions with him at the center, and then spreading over in the direction of Sherry, Dog and Alice.
He recalled his experience when he “fused” with Ai, and then reminded him in his heart, “Sherry, relax, don’t be afraid.”
“I …… am not afraid!” Sherry’s voice immediately came from the side, “It’s Dog who’s afraid!”
A Dog’s bones are like turning on the vibration mode, shaking while his mouth is hard: “You don’t don’t don’t bullshit ah, I I I’m relaxing, the captain of the ship he he …… he knows it all!”
Duncan laughed and shook his head, in the rising flames, his eyes went to the mannequins in front of him, “Alice, let’s go.”
Alice nodded, then without hesitation, turned and walked towards the boundless void beyond the floating island-
A blazing ghostly green flame disappeared into the pounding darkness.
At the same time, deep within the Holy Land Island in the Reality Dimension, Lucrecia and Maurice, who were vigilantly guarding the black gate, heard a strange, low rumble at the same time.
The sound seemed to come from the depths of the gate, penetrating through the slowly undulating layer of the “doorway” that was as slow as mercury and as black as mud, and reverberating through the cavern in layers and layers.
In a momentary trance, Morris felt as if he heard a series of vague words, and he could only distinguish a few of them: “LH-03…… reconnect ……”
“Did you hear anyone talking?” The old scholar instantly snapped out of his trance and turned his head to look at the “Witch of the Sea” on the side.
“No,” Lucrecia said immediately, while staring intently at the dark door whose surface was constantly writhing, “but I feel …… as if something is about to come out of here. ”
Almost at the same instant, Morris also felt those auras filled with malice and madness, certain chaotic and wild existences seemed to have finally discovered this rift to the reality dimension and began to lean this way.
Maurice had to suppress his doubts for the time being, and immediately afterward, he saw an entity emerge from that writhing darkness – a twisted and grotesque spectral demon struggling and squeezing its way out of the gate and stepping into the reality dimension.
Lucrecia instantly raised the “baton” in her hand and transformed it into a black scythe that shimmered with cold light, while Maurice suddenly froze at the sight of the demon’s form.
It was the first time he had seen a demon invading the dimension of reality that looked like this.
After a moment of dismay, he and Lucrecia looked at each other face to face.
“…… How come this suicidal bird only has one leg?”
“I don’t know …… Let’s get it dead first.”
“Also.”
(End of chapter)