Chapter 835 The Real Appearance of the Mansion

After hearing the captain's order, Alice immediately thought seriously - and then looked into Duncan's eyes more seriously: "What is the escape pod?"

Duncan was not surprised at all. He would panic if this doll lady really failed to make any mistakes one day - but the current situation was not a big problem, because after several incidents, he had confirmed that "Alice" might be confused about many things, but the operation status of "Pilot No. 3" was actually still online. The ancient and powerful space navigation system... was in Alice's "instinct".

Now all we need to do is let Alice's "instinct" realize that a part of this house is missing - in theory.

"That's the missing part of this 'Alice Mansion', but you don't have to understand what it is," Duncan said casually when he saw the doll still looking at him curiously with wide eyes, "Do you remember what I told you about the Frost Queen?"

Alice thought for a moment: "Which one? There are many, but I don't seem to remember them all..."

"Lennora took a room from your 'mansion'. That room is what I called the escape pod. Now she's 'riding' the escape pod to the ash zone at the edge of the world. I need to locate her," Duncan explained patiently, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand now. I will try to guide you to 'understand' this process."

Alice listened vaguely, but nodded quickly after the captain finished speaking: "Oh, what should I do now?"

"You stay here and continue to sit in this 'tree' Next, just like when you analyzed the route of the external barrier, keep in touch with this mansion," Duncan said, raising his right hand. A cluster of green flames stained with starlight burned quietly in his palm. He handed the flame to the puppet in front of him, "Take it, it will build an extra "bridge" between you and me. Next, I will go to the "missing" part of the mansion to perform the marking. If the situation is in line with my judgment, I should be able to "intervene" in the operation of Pilot No. 3 through this method, and transmit the data to your "system core" through the external bridge. "

Alice said "Oh" and immediately nodded happily and agreed: "Well, OK!"

As she spoke, she reached out and grabbed the flame handed over by the captain without hesitation-a wonderful warm touch came from the palm of her hand, and the illusory flame seemed to suddenly have a sense of reality, shaking gently in her hand.

Alice carefully held the small fire, and with her other hand she held her "drawing board". She turned back to the "data tree" made of countless cables and pipes, sat down on the platform, raised her head and smiled brightly: "I'm ready!"

Duncan smiled and nodded, then turned and left the hall - he walked through the gorgeous little door that originally connected the garden and the depths of the mansion, through the long corridor with many locked rooms and the humming of servers, through the stairs and the hall, and soon came to the deepest part of the corridor on the second floor of the mansion: the "breaking point" between the escape pod and the main body of the spacecraft.

The end of the corridor was still the same as when he left last time. The floor, roof and walls seemed to be torn apart by an invisible force. Beyond the breaking point was an endless and deep dark space, so deep that it seemed that one could "fall" into it with just one look.

Duncan ignored the darkness outside the crack. He came to a wall on one side of the corridor with a clear goal, and soon found what he was looking for near the crack.

It was a display screen "fused" into the wall, which was still displaying warning messages about the illegal release of the escape pod in a loop.

"... Next, it's time to verify the hypothesis..." Duncan came to the display screen, took a breath, and slowly closed his eyes, "Let me 'see'... the real appearance here."

A line of deep starlight escaped from the gap between his slightly closed eyes - he carefully controlled his increasingly restless "essence", understood his own power, and tried to open his... "other eyes" without completely releasing the anti-singularity.

Duncan slowly opened Zhou Ming's eyes.

Starlight burst out from those eyes, as if the ancient stars suddenly remembered how to operate at this moment, and in the place where the starlight was diffused, he saw... the other side of Alice Mansion.

The astonishingly large Ark spaceship floated in the boundless dark chaotic space. The torn starship was left with only one-third of its structure. He stood at the end of a connecting corridor in the middle of the spaceship. The silver-gray and silver-white alloy structure replaced the dark-toned floor and wall in the original corridor of the mansion. Various warning lights were flashing in the distance, and in front of him was the burnt and melted escape pod bracket.

A big hole was blown open in the escape pod release port in front, which looked shocking.

"... When Le Nora left, she was definitely not as 'quietly leaving' as she said," Duncan only glanced at the broken pipelines, brackets and the blown-up spaceship shell at the end, and his mouth trembled, "... How did she blow this place up when she had no idea what it was?"

Of course, no one in the empty spaceship corridor could answer his question. After all, the only "owner" and "victim" of this place didn't even know what an escape pod was. Duncan just shook his head after sighing, and then focused his attention on the flickering display screen again.

Now, he has seen the whole picture of the device - it is part of the escape capsule's external release system, fixed on a curved bracket. The entire bracket has been severely twisted and damaged, and its internal pipelines are even exposed, but it is obviously still working normally.

Duncan put his hand on the device, ready to use his flame to "read" the data here and transmit it to Alice - this is his idea, simple and crude.

Alice is currently in a state where she cannot understand the "essence" of her mansion, so she cannot perceive the system failure here. The instinct of the "Pilot No. 3" system is still there, but it does not respond because Alice cannot read the signal, so what Duncan has to do is to weld a flying wire between Alice and the "fault point" of this mansion.

He himself certainly does not understand the principle of this spacecraft - but most mobile phone repairmen do not know the specific structure of the chip inside, anyway, as long as the flying wire is welded and it can run, it's fine.

The flying wire process is shocking.

The flame burned quietly and began to gradually penetrate into the escape capsule release system.

And at this moment, Duncan suddenly saw something out of the corner of his eye.

A mass... a substance with a black-gray metallic luster, surging and undulating like mud, flowing out from some nearby equipment grids and pipes at some point!

The strange mud material accumulated on the floor, flowing, slowly approaching him, making a creepy low noise, but just when Duncan was alert and ready to do something, the mud suddenly stopped not far away, as if watching or judging something.

Duncan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized-

It was the "cleaner" in Alice's mansion! The strange shadow used to expel "invading foreign objects"!

...Is this thing part of the New Hope maintenance system? Some kind of "damage control" device? Nanomachine group?

While Duncan maintained the data penetration of the escape pod system, many ideas popped up in his mind, and at this moment, he saw the "nano mud" crawling towards him a few steps.

There was no hostility.

Under Duncan's cautious gaze, the nanomachine group slowly differentiated into a "limb" like a tentacle. It used this limb to knock on the bent bracket of the release system, as if to demonstrate something to Duncan, and pulled a broken cable out of the bracket.

Duncan's expression was strange: "...You mean, let me connect from here?"

The mud differentiated into another limb, swinging up and down in the air.

Duncan was startled, and hesitantly spread his flame to the broken cable.

The mud shook its two limbs with satisfaction, and then limp into liquid again, making a gurgling sound while slowly drilling towards a crack in the nearby wall.

Duncan: "..."

This thing can actually communicate and think? !

While he was in a daze, the mud had completely disappeared. Then, he heard Alice's voice coming from the mental connection: "Captain! The drawing board is lit! The drawing board is lit! I think I figured out where the 'escape pod' is!"

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"There are 176 people here now - all those who have 'woke up' are here," Helena said as she led Vanna and Lucrecia across the connecting bridge in the center of the residential area, "This was originally part of the port power plant. After more and more people 'awoke', the first people who woke up and were in better condition gathered here spontaneously and built a camp here."

Vanna stopped on the connecting bridge, holding the railing and looking down at the temporary residential areas built based on the original facilities of the power plant.

The voice of the pope continued after a moment: "We will soon expand a living area with better conditions - the dormitory next to the power plant. Now it is still occupied by the 'dazed compatriots'. We cannot expel them violently, and we must avoid conflicts with them as much as possible. But now more and more people are awakening in that area. When the awakened people occupy the majority, we can expand the main range of activities there."

"...It's hard to imagine," Lucrecia on the side couldn't help but speak after a moment of silence, "The world has become like this..."

"Adapt as soon as possible. The current city-state is what it looks like after it has been magnified thousands of times," Helena said softly. The pope, who was stationed in the lighthouse in the form of an incarnation, turned her head and looked at Vanna and Lucrecia, "As for now...it's your turn. Tell me about the end of the world."