Chapter 789 Analysis of the Star Map and Uninvited Guests

Alice looked excited.

Now she was observing everything in this place with wide eyes. If Duncan hadn't stopped her, she might have even run into the black mist at the end of the hall. She pulled Duncan and asked about this and that, from the things on the ceiling. The cable hanging down to the outside of the door not far away - with Duncan's very patient explanation, she has figured out that this is inside the "Alice Mansion", and it is a "special Alice Mansion" , and this incredible experience was obviously regarded by her as an interesting "adventure".

"It's amazing...it turns out that Alice's mansion looks like this," Miss Doll smiled happily and walked around the platform where she sat at the beginning. "Is this really my house? Is it so big? That's it. It's a pity that I can't move in..."

"First, this is only a part of Alice's Mansion. Strictly speaking, it should be a hall inside," Duncan looked at the puppets surrounding him and couldn't help but remind him, "Second, there is another Alice's Mansion. Not like this, there is a garden at the corresponding location - I judge that using different keys to open the door will lead to different Alice Mansion. "

"Oh..." Alice nodded while listening, not sure if she really listened.

Duncan's eyes quickly fell on the drawing board held in Alice's arms.

Before Alice woke up, the drawing board was held in the arms of the doll, and she is still holding it subconsciously - Duncan still clearly remembers that in "another version of Alice's Mansion" In the movie, the drawing board held in the arms of the doll in the garden depicts the scene of "Doomsday Red Shift". So what will be on this drawing board here?

"Alice, bring me your drawing board." He said suddenly.

"Drawing board?" The puppet was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted. Then belatedly, he realized that he was holding something in his arms, and quickly ran over and handed the drawing board to the captain, "Here!"

Duncan took the drawing board, turned it to the front, and then gradually frowned.

The front of the "drawing board" was a screen, full of a lot of lines and symbols that even he couldn't understand, and there were countless dense and constantly refreshing data flowing around those lines and symbols, as if every moment They are all undergoing extremely complex calculations and reorganization.

Duncan frowned as he watched these, and suddenly vaguely guessed something in his heart. At this time, Alice came over curiously, squeezed her head next to Duncan's shoulder and looked at the content on the "drawing board", and suddenly made a pull. A long sigh: "Oh..."

Duncan immediately looked up: "Do you know what this is?"

"Position, our current coordinates relative to the overall space-time structure of the shelter," Alice said without thinking, and then before the captain could continue to ask, she added confidently, "What do I mean?"

Duncan: "..."

He found that since he awakened Alice here, the words spoken by this doll made him increasingly confused as to how to proceed!

But Alice's response at least confirmed his suspicion: This is the route!

The "route" opened by the navigation key handed over to him by Queen Leviathan is indeed on the "doll" sleeping in the mansion, which is this "drawing board"!

The puppet on the side was curiously observing the changes in Duncan's expression. At this time, he tilted his head in confusion: "Captain? Why are you ignoring me?"

"Alice," Duncan suddenly woke up from his thoughts and looked at the puppet lady in front of him seriously, "If you are right, this is the 'route' to the various nodes of the external barrier. You know how to 'use' it." It?"

Alice was stunned when she heard this. She took the drawing board from Duncan's hand with some hesitation, and slid her fingers on the "screen" that was constantly refreshing data and lines. After a while, she whispered as if talking to herself. Said: "I seem to... know? But it seems that I need to study it..."

She frowned and raised her head: "I feel like the 'how to use' is in my heart, and I can activate something by instinct, but this requires a process... Don't worry, it won't take long."

When the puppet explained this, Duncan suddenly noticed something. He immediately looked up and saw that the "tree" composed of countless cable ducts connecting the dome and the platform was moving——

Countless flowing shimmers of light quickly became bright and active among its "branches", and many cables originally hidden in the darkness appeared on the edge of its "canopy" as if emerging out of thin air, and moved towards the dark surroundings of the hall. Extending in the fog, a low buzzing sound came from the fog, as if something was starting up and gradually increasing its power...

The puppet's fingers slid over the lines and symbols on the drawing board, and the rapidly flowing data emerged from around her, floating in the air like a ghost. She gradually stopped talking, as if all her "attention" was immersed in the work thread. middle.

Duncan suddenly heard a voice. It was Alice's voice, but it did not come from the mouth of the doll, but came directly from some "broadcasting device" above the hall:

"The host is starting...the star map is being analyzed. The star map is authorized from...Pilot One..."

Duncan looked at this scene in amazement but not unexpectedly. Some expectation vaguely emerged in his heart at some point, but at this moment, a noise suddenly reached his ears, followed by the flowing water on the "tree". The brightness and the hum of equipment in all directions quickly dimmed.

"Parsing paused...Unauthorized access detected."

Duncan's eyes changed slightly for a moment, and then he saw that Alice seemed stunned for a moment, and then she raised her head as if she had woken up: "Captain, there is a knock on the door!"

Someone knocking on the door? !

Duncan reacted immediately, and almost at the same time, he heard the sound of knocking on the door - the knocking sound was not loud, but it seemed to ignore the distance and attenuation, and it came directly and clearly into his ears from a very far away place. inside.

The person who knocked on the door was very patient, and the rhythm was repeated with mechanical precision.

Alice jumped down from the platform holding the drawing board, and came to Duncan nervously: "Captain, do you want to open the door?"

"...Follow me," Duncan thought for a moment and said with a serious expression, and then reminded him, "Hold the drawing board and don't let it escape your hand."

"okay!"

Alice agreed in a panic, followed the captain's footsteps, and quickly walked towards the door not far away.

The two left the dimly lit navigation hall, and under the leadership of Duncan, they stepped into the extremely long corridor, passing through silent rooms and hallways, and quickly headed towards the main hall on the first floor of the mansion.

The knocking on the door still continued patiently, as if knocking directly to the bottom of people's hearts.

Duncan inexplicably thought of the knock on the door he heard in his bachelor's apartment, and of the Frost Queen who came to visit through the thick fog - and then temporarily put this irrelevant association behind him.

Alice hugged the drawing board and almost trotted behind the captain. She looked at the corridors, narrow windows and wooden doors that led to unknown places around her in amazement. She seemed to be full of questions, but she didn't care. Don't open your mouth.

This building was so huge that if the captain hadn't led the way, she thought she might even get lost here.

Then, they finally arrived at the main hall of the mansion.

The gloomy and towering door stood like a giant at the end of the dark red carpet, and knocks on the door kept coming from outside, bang, bang, bang.

Duncan frowned and brought the puppet to the door.

He tried to sense the breath outside the door, but he felt that there was only nothingness outside. He did not feel hostility, nor danger - not even a specific "existence".

The knock on the door seemed to be urging. In the midst of weighing and hesitating, Duncan put his hand on the door.

He recalled what the headless butler said to him——

"Never open the door, there is doom outside."

Alice stood nervously behind the captain, obediently hugging the drawing board in her arms tightly, looking at the gloomy and towering door.

A creaking sound reached her ears.

Duncan pushed the door open cautiously with force in his hands - and then he found that the door was lighter than he thought.

Unlocked, not rusty, despite the creaking sound, the door was as light as a feather - and as the door opened, a ray of sunlight suddenly pierced the darkness, passed through the door, and reflected Duncan and Alice. In eyes.

A brilliant sun was burning in nothingness. The bright and fierce sunlight shone on the exterior wall and main entrance of Alice Mansion, but this fierce sunlight did not hurt anyone's eyes.

Duncan felt a sense of familiarity from the sunlight, and then he saw the magnificent sun wheel slowly turning in his field of vision - the corona was fading away, and beneath the burning shell was the true face of the ancient god.

Countless pale and dying tentacles and swollen flesh and blood piled up into stars, supporting the burning shell. A huge one eye was surrounded by tentacles, slowly adjusting its angle and watching the two figures standing at the door of the mansion.

The creeping sun disk, the black sun, the "real sun god" in the mouth of the Sun Cultists - it is knocking on the door.

"I almost gave up," before Duncan spoke, a weak voice reached his ears first. The ancient god, who was burned by the sun's corona, said with layers of tremors, "I'm about to leave."

Duncan looked expressionlessly (actually because he was in a daze due to the accident) and stared at the "ancient god" floating in nothingness, whose specific distance and size could not be judged with the naked eye. After a while, he said: "... …The house is very big, and it takes a long time to walk from the inside to the door after hearing the knock.”

After he finished speaking, Alice next to her also nodded: "Yes, it's big! We ran in the corridor for a long time!"

The deformed sun fell silent, and it took several seconds before he spoke again: "Well, that makes sense."