Deep Sea Embers Chapter 99: Step 1 of Testing and Mastering

After confirming that Alice did not respond to all "keywords" and had no information about the ability of "decapitation", Duncan decided to tell the confused cursed puppet what he had just learned. .

Because at this time, he had a faint conjecture: maybe the key to the anomalous 099-Doll Coffin is not the doll Alice... but her "coffin".

The wind and waves on the boundless sea were gentle, the cabin swayed gently with the wind and waves, and in the swaying glow of the oil lamp, the ghost captain slowly recounted the past and present of the doll's coffin - and then almost shrunk the doll into a ball.

Duncan stared blankly at Alice, who was already sitting at the corner of the bed, leaning against the wall and holding her head: "Why are you so nervous?"

"This... this sounds really scary!" Alice's tone changed, like an ordinary human girl who had just heard a ghost story, "What is indiscriminate beheading, and only when all the people die within a certain range? Stop, what's the constant expansion of the territory... this, this... this I don't know at all!"

"I believe now that you really don't know," Duncan glanced at Alice, "but this is indeed information about the anomalous 099-Doll Coffin."

Alice held her head and looked at Duncan with a stiff neck: "Then..."

"So I have two guesses now. First, the above-mentioned 'decapitation' deed may be an ability that you activated unconsciously, because you are an anomaly, and your power is most likely just a passive area effect, even if It is your previous 'sleeping' state, and it does not affect the occurrence of the decapitation effect."

Duncan said, and slowly got up from his chair. He came to the ornate wooden box and touched the box with the end of his long sword.

"Second, the 'decapitation' power of the doll's coffin may not come from your doll, but from your 'coffin'."

"The coffin... You mean my box?" Alice's eyes slowly widened, and her eyes fell on the wooden box beside the bed subconsciously with Duncan's movements. Only then did I react: "You mean..."

"The full name of Anomaly 099 is 'Doll Coffin'... In other words, you and your wooden box add up to the complete 'Anomaly 099', and when I first saw you , subconsciously thinking that you are the 'leading part'...because I didn't know the full name of 'Doll's Coffin' at the time," Duncan touched his chin and said while thinking, "Think about it now, 'People' The word "coffin"... itself seems to focus on the second half?"

Alice blinked her eyes, her head was spinning for a while, and finally slapped her hand: "Oh! I came with this box!"

Duncan glanced blankly at the heartless puppet: "...you don't have to say it in such a proud tone."

Alice didn't seem to hear the teasing in Duncan's tone, she just glanced at her wooden box with a worried tone: "So...my box has been 'beheading' people? But I've lived here for so long, and I didn't feel it was so evil and dangerous...and I didn't feel it had any special power..."

"Nonsense, you are part of the whole anomaly 099, can you refer to your feelings?" Duncan frowned, "And you touched your neck, I suspect the reason why your head fell off every few minutes is because of It's been a long sleep in this box!"

Alice immediately felt that the captain was right, and her expression immediately became complicated, but then she was a little confused: "But if you want to say that... 'decapitation' is the inherent property of my coffin, then it is placed on the boat. It's been so long, how come I haven't seen its ability activated?"

As soon as she said these words, she met Duncan's gaze, and the doll lady, who realized it later, suddenly felt a wordless pressure hit her head-she had lived on the boat for a while. After slackening, I suddenly recalled what kind of character the captain in front of him was.

Duncan just stared at the doll silently, waiting for Alice to shrink into a smaller ball before he said quietly: "The only humanoid creature on this ship other than you is me, what do you mean..."

"It doesn't mean anything!" Alice almost jumped up, and said while waving her hand, "You listen to my quibble, I mean this box..."

"I didn't say what I would do to you," Duncan looked at her helplessly, "You are now a crew member of the Homeless, and I am your protector on the boundless sea, so you don't have to be so afraid— Can you sit down? It looks like I've done something to you."

Alice snorted and slowly moved back to the bedside, but Duncan's heart had other thoughts because of Alice's interruption - yes, it doesn't matter whether the main body of the doll's coffin is a human being It's still a coffin. Anomaly 099 has been on the homeless ship for so long, and it has already exceeded its "check" cycle each time, and this anomaly always presents a state of harmlessness to humans and animals... Obviously, this is due to suppress.

So, was it the Lost Homes or the "captain" who suppressed it?

Duncan looked down at his hands.

He knew that he possessed a very powerful power, which not only allowed him to completely occupy the life of the cultist named "Ron", but was even so powerful and strange that Alice, a high-ranking anomaly, could shudder at first sight. The extent to which he shivered and made "Agou", a secluded demon, pick up his tail, he still didn't know what the essence of this power was, but it didn't prevent him from gradually gaining a certain understanding of his own uniqueness.

Homeless, on the other hand, is the fifth-ranked vision of the Boundless Sea—a "vision", not an anomaly.

This means that as long as it is within the range of Homeless, there is a "field" that is in effect 24 hours a day, constantly exerting influence on all targets within the range.

With the suppression of the captain and the ship, Anomaly 099 is naturally harmless to humans and animals, but if he really brings Alice to the city-state of Pland according to the plan...the situation is likely to get out of control.

Therefore, he has to figure out a series of things - is the subject of the anomaly 099's effect the doll Alice, or this wooden box? Is it the captain who suppressed the anomaly 099, or the Lost Homes? If Alice is separated from the wooden box, will the effect of abnormal 099 still appear? If it is your own captain who produces the suppressing effect, what is the suppressing distance?

His line of thought expands——

If it is the "coffin" that produces the decapitation effect, is it safe to bring Alice to the city-state of Pland by herself? If the "coffin" is an anomalous element that can be separated, can its own flame also affect it alone? If you completely dominate this box with flames, is it equivalent to controlling the previously uncontrolled decapitation effect? Like using fire to control Ay and the brass compass?

Duncan had a lot of questions in his mind, and these questions gradually formed a complex control test plan, but at the end of the plan, he found one thing with dismay:

He lacks many of the requisites for testing.

Homeless is not a qualified testing ground, because the power of the ghost ship will interfere with the accuracy of the results, and he does not have a suitable test target-because the decapitation effect of anomaly 099 is more than life... Krypton "tester" Destiny~IndoMTL.com~ Duncan raised his head and looked at Alice who was sitting honestly beside the bed——Miss Doll was looking at her favorite wooden box with some sadness, and all the entanglements in her heart seemed to be imprinted on it. face.

Seeming to notice the captain's sight, Alice suddenly broke the silence, she whispered: "Since the day I became conscious... I have been living in this box, it is my bed, it is my My home is my sanctuary, and when I sleep in it, I feel safe.”

Duncan didn't speak, just stared at the puppet in front of him.

"I know now why those humans are so afraid," Alice reached out and stroked her wooden box lightly, "they are afraid of 'us'."

"I was originally planning to take you to the city-state of Pland on the next spiritual walk," Duncan said in a deep voice, "I need a help there."

Alice's eyes seemed to light up, but then they dimmed: "Ah, that's not going to work..."

"The plan has been postponed, but it has not been cancelled," Duncan's expression and tone did not change much, "We just need more time to confirm you... 'you' power, master the effect of this 'decapitation' effect. Conditions. Human city-states on land can seal or even use a variety of abnormal objects through various tricky methods, and here is the Lost Homes, we can do more things.”

Alice gave Duncan a puzzled look, and from the calm, deep gaze of the captain, she realized that this was not a comforting empty word.

"Do you have plans?"

Duncan thought for a moment, raised his fingertips, and lit a cluster of faint flames.

"First, we may need a little fire."