Deep Sea Embers Chapter 256: The bell is ringing

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Tirion returned to the room and ordered his subordinates to leave, but his mood did not calm down with the silence of the room.

The long conversation with “Father” still lingers in his mind, and all kinds of memories about the Abyss Project seem to haunt his heart uncontrollably. The diving equipment is always cold and rainy on the sea cliff, the silent platform guards, the priests praying in the rainy night, the brightly lit coastal laboratory always gives people a gloomy feeling, and the Frost Queen always looks out Looking at the sea, eyes that hide all secrets.

Tirian shook his head. For some reason, he suddenly thought of the puppet that claimed to be “Alice”—anomaly 023 that had completely broken away from the seal and moved freely in the world.

A “controlled” anomaly, a puppet that can think and communicate like a human being, and even has its own emotions…

She is so similar to the Frost Queen, but she is definitely not the Queen herself—although her existence and the process of this world are indeed very reminiscent of some kind of “return” of the Queen, but Tirian can feel that, Inside that puppet… is not the slightest bit of Re Nora’s will.

If I have to say it, Tirian thinks that “Alice” is more like a “replica” whose appearance is perfectly restored, but which is completely distorted inside.

Just like those “No. 3 submersibles” that surfaced one after another at the beginning.

Tirian’s eyes suddenly changed slightly, and he felt a little hot because of the associations that emerged in his mind.

I sat in the room, poured myself a glass of strong wine, and relied on the power of alcohol to cool down my hot thoughts again and soothe my restless heart. After a while, I felt a little better. First, look at this suitcase next to the bed.

After a little firmness, he took the box to the table, opened the lid, and activated these simple lenses and the crystal located in the center of the lens group.

“About that part, he can basically find it outside the public information of the Explorers Association, but there is one detail..

It’s not on the record, but it might be of interest to you.

As he spoke, he stopped suddenly. He seemed to have thought of something, the expression on his face changed suddenly, and then he observed the distance of the crystal ball with flickering eyes.

He pondered for a few seconds: “At that time…he happened to be in the sea area where the incident happened, but the normal 023 that was salvaged at first was not the Bright Star, but a ship named ‘Charvin, offshore fishing vessel,

To be specific, when he received the distress signal from the Charvin and found the fishing boat drifting out of control, this was not the first scene, so it is not certain that 023 was just salvaged normally. What was the scene at that time–I can only tell you what it was like on the Charlemagne. “

“But it looks like he hit the city wall violently with his head,” Tirian frowned slightly, “without a run-up acceleration of 200 meters and a resolute head-butt impact, he couldn’t fall like this—he was attacked now.”

It took a while before he saw Lucrezia’s figure looming in the middle of these flickering spots, as well as the other party’s indistinct voice. When it became clear, my sister’s voice reached my ears: “Can you hear me?”

“It’s normal now,” Tirian nodded, “Why is there more interference from his side than before… What is this around him? Is it sunlight? It looks weird…”

“About the situation when normal 023 was first discovered, he was there,” Tirian stared at his sister, “I want to know some of the most real situation from him. You know, he and my The fleet never approached Frost, we missed the original scene”

“He became interested in some old things about Frost,” Tirian said casually, “but you don’t have to worry about that. He came to me to inquire about something else—normally 023, you should know, right?”

“This information is also very unexpected,” Lucrezia said softly, under the inexplicable golden light, her eyes seemed to be shining slightly, “You mean, father… from the coffin In’ release, normal 023, let this

A safe and normal person is free to move around outside, while the latter is willing to follow his father?

Can you even talk to him? “

“Xunzhong…” Lucrezia’s voice came from the crystal ball, “I heard a short chime. If I remember correctly, this is the bell representing the summons from the Tomb of Famous Kings” ? ! “

Tirian knew that his sister was often active at the border, where strange phenomena often happened, and most of the time it was safe, but Lucrecia could always save the day——but he still couldn’t help feeling a little worry.

“He said we couldn’t drop the box because it was alive and moving around on the ship, and we couldn’t destroy it because it was so strong and so strong that sailors with self-defense weapons couldn’t handle it …

“Who attacked you?” Lucrezia didn’t care about Tirian’s interruption, her expression was extremely serious, “I’m in the city-state of Purand, and there is no enemy for you here, and the city-state authorities will not sit idly by ‘Guest, you were attacked…ah, you still denied that you were attacked just now, and you said that you fell…”

Tirian knew what was going on when he saw her expression, and shook his head before she could speak: “Don’t be heavy, I’m not there.”

During the normal half hour after 023 was salvaged, the sailors of the Charlene once heard several slight clicking sounds from the box, which sounded… as if there was Something is taking shape inside. “

“Slight clicking sound…” Tirian frowned and muttered heavily, and then he seemed to want to ask something, but just as he was about to speak, a sudden, slightly hurried voice came from outside the window The sound of the bell interrupted what he was about to say.

Tirian’s expression stiffened one by one

After a while, I shook my head helplessly: “Sometimes I really wish you were so smart.”

“Ah, I picked up some strange things at the border, but I just checked them and they are not harmful,” Lucrezia replied indifferently, “This thing may have fallen from the sky , will project a very wide range of light…..

He is using the Bright Star to tow this thing back to study. “

“Subordinates?!” Lou Alicia was taken aback, and instinctively wanted to ask how strong this subordinate was, and what weapon was used to beat the “Steel Lieutenant General” into a pig’s head, but then she Then I noticed the second part of Tirian’s words, and my eyes changed… He talked to you again so soon, what happened? “

“When he found the ship, there were almost no living people on board. Eleven of the twelve crew members, including the captain, were beheaded—only one sailor was frightened and half crazy , described to him the ‘cursed wooden box’ they salvaged upside down.

“He saw you,” breathed Tirian, not continuing to pretend, “this ‘doll,’ he calls himself ‘Weng Pingshan,’ and has not yet awakened from his coffin, and is currently serving his father, As rumored, this doll looks exactly like the Frost Queen, but its personality… is very unexpected.”

Lucrezia frowned beautifully, and he seemed to have vaguely realized something.

He raised his head in surprise, and heard the bell ringing muddily and quickly in the gradually darkening sky. After carefully distinguishing it for a moment, he murmured to himself uncertainly: “It’s not the evening bell… ..Sounds like Xun Zhong.”

“Of course I know, I also know that this thing was robbed by the Lost Homelander. The coffin of a ‘doll, turned into a ‘doll… Many people have uneasy speculation about this.”

“Really…he did it?” Lucrezia’s eyes widened in astonishment, “Wait, didn’t you say that he is not in the city-state? And why would he…”

“… I fell down.”

He noticed that there seemed to be streaks of light golden light floating in the background behind Lucrezia. It looked like a dim sunset glow pouring into the room through the window, but the texture of this light was far cooler than the sunset glow. , dark, and the distribution and diffusion of its light also give people a feeling that is paradoxical to sunlight

, which is very interesting.

Lucrezia did not speak, after a moment of silence ~IndoMTL.com~ she raised her head: “Then what is he trying to ask?”

Tirian raised his eyelids and looked into Lucrecia’s eyes solemnly: “Then do you know why its name changed from ‘Doll Coffin to ‘Doll,’?”

“I will be careful, you have always been very careful—it’s just that there will be some accidents occasionally, adventures, accidents are inevitable,” Lucrezia waved her hand, and then she seemed to suddenly discover something , staring at Tirian’s face, “Brother, what happened to your face and head?”

Lucrezia paused, recalling the scenes she had seen.

“It sounds unbelievable, but it’s true,” Tirian nodded, “She can talk, she can think, she has emotions like a human, and even… I think the relationship between her and her father is still Not bad, but I’m not sure if it’s a ‘friendship’ that humans can’t understand, after all, one of us is a ghost returning from the subspace, and the other is a ‘normal thing’ with a number within a hundred.”

Tirian frowned subconsciously: “You always pick up strange things at the border, have you forgotten the last time you were dragged directly into the depths of the spirit world by a puff of human-shaped smoke?”

“It’s true that I’m not here, I’m one of my subordinates now,” Tirian rubbed his forehead depressingly, “Worry, we didn’t have a conflict, this hurt… just some small accidents, He wanted to talk to me about something, and he was overly guarded.”

The crystal ball darkened, a large number of flickering light spots appeared inside, and disturbing noises came out.

       

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