In Breeze Harbor, the faint "sunlight" diffused from the sea, covering the entire city-state under the "night". The information carried in the light flowed silently throughout the entire sea, but there was only one puppet who could understand this information.

To be honest, even Duncan found this a bit unbelievable.

So how much is the world in this doll's eyes different from what ordinary people know? Is the sky blue in her eyes? Are the leaves green in her eyes? What kind of outlines do humans have in her eyes, and what kind of waves are on the sea?

And even if she described what she saw—were the colors, sounds, and shapes she described really the same as ordinary people would perceive them?

This seems to be a mystery that will always be cyclical and can never be solved.

Alice turned her head, the glow of the gas lamp reflected in her beautiful big eyes. She looked at Duncan with some doubt and some worry. After a long time, she whispered: "Captain, the things I saw are really useful, right?"

Duncan's chaotic thoughts gradually converged, and he did not let those messy associations continue. He suddenly agreed with something Alice had said before - some annoying questions that were destined to have no answers should just not be thought about.

So he smiled, his expression gradually relaxed: "Of course it is useful - then besides this information, what else did you see? I mean, after the sun went out, did you 'see' anything different from usual?"

Alice quickly understood what Duncan meant. She frowned slightly, recalled it seriously, turned her head and looked around, and after a while she spoke uncertainly: "If I have to say it, it's that I always feel a buzzing sound..."

Duncan frowned. "Buzz?"

"Hmm, buzzing, a very light sound, and I can't really tell if it's a real 'sound'. I just feel like there's this kind of movement, ringing in my head non-stop, but if you don't pay close attention you'll ignore it," Alice explained with gestures, and pointed out the window, "The sound will be even stronger when you see the 'sunlight'..."

Duncan nodded slightly, and after a moment asked again: "Did you hear this humming sound when the sun went out last time? Did you see the 'information' about the 'Observer Effect Stabilization Anchor'?"

"No," Alice held her head and shook it, "I only saw and heard it when I arrived at Breeze Harbor this time..."

Listening to the puppet's story, Duncan couldn't help but fall into thought -

According to Lucrecia, just now, another set of observation equipment in Breeze Harbor received a weak signal from the extinguished sun, and its characteristics were exactly the same as the signal released by the "luminous geometric body". In other words, during the period of extinction, the main body of Anomaly 001 had actually been "broadcasting" reports of "Observer Effect Stabilization Anchor Failure". However, Alice said that she did not "see" these contents during the last time the sun went out, and it was only after she arrived at Breeze Harbor that she read the fault information from the "sunlight" here... Why is this?

Was it because the malfunction when the sun went out last time was not so serious, so the main body of Anomaly 001 did not report the malfunction? If this is the explanation, then the situation is more serious than everyone expected, because it means that the entire system has deteriorated further - a rapid deterioration in such a short period of time.

The living room fell into silence. Lucrecia, Morris and others gathered around. They listened to the conversation between Duncan and Alice, and watched the changes in Duncan's expression with some worry. After a while, Nina couldn't help but speak: "Uncle Duncan, do you know what the 'Observer Effect Stabilization Anchor' means?"

Duncan opened his mouth, but suddenly he was stuck.

In this world, explaining the concepts of planets and the universe to people is already an extremely difficult task. How can he explain the more abstract "observer effect"? How to explain those incredible phenomena between the macroscopic and microscopic worlds?

And more importantly - can the observer theory that I know really be applied here?

He raised his head with a subtle expression and looked at the world outside the window.

"I can roughly guess some of it, but it deviates greatly from the 'Observer Theory' that I know. It should happen in the microscopic world, not..."

He hesitated and stopped.

If another name of Anomaly 001 is really the "Observer Effect Stabilization Anchor", then does this explain the true mechanism of this ancient anomaly of "suppressing pollution" and "stabilizing order"?

Unconsciously, he thought of the truth of the Great Annihilation, the conflicts at the bottom of all things in the world, and the various extraordinary phenomena around the world caused by cognitive pollution. If the microscopic world is the "cornerstone of order" of every universe, then when these cornerstones collide and annihilate each other, mixing into a pot of extremely chaotic and complex "information soup"...will the observer effect really be limited to the microscopic world?

At the moment when the mathematical laws of each universe were torn apart, when the material structure of all things was completely annihilated and all were reduced to basic information elements, perhaps the concepts of "micro" and "macro" had already disappeared!

In the midst of a sudden storm of thoughts, Duncan muttered to himself unconsciously: "...the specific manifestation of information pollution and law conflicts at the bottom of all things...is actually the observer effect in the macro world out of control?"

Maurice and Lucrecia looked at each other, and after a few seconds they turned their heads at the same time: "...Ah?"

"...I'll try to explain to you what the observer effect is and some of my conjectures about it later, but it will take a lot of time and energy." Duncan waved his hand quickly, "Right now I want to figure out another problem."

Lucrecia immediately spoke up: "Another question?!"

Duncan nodded and looked at the Gothic doll standing next to him, which had a harmless look on its face (mainly because it didn't react).

"Have you ever wondered why Alice can see and understand these 'signals'?"

"Yeah!" Shirley at the side reacted instantly (mainly because this was the only question she could understand so far), "She can't say she can'see', after all, only she can see those 'lines' - but how did she understand? There are so many experts and scholars in the city-state, and no one can figure out this thing even if their hair falls out!"

Vanna keenly noticed the serious and thoughtful expression on Duncan's face when he asked this question: "Do you already have an answer?"

Duncan nodded slowly after hearing this. After a moment of thinking and organizing his words, he mentioned the contents of the "Book of Blasphemy":

"You should remember that according to the book, after two failed creations, it was the 'Crawling King' who successfully completed the creation during the third long night and opened the Deep Sea Age."

Vanna nodded immediately: "Well, of course we remember this."

"The 'construction' of Vision 001 was also in the same era," Duncan continued with a serious expression. "The Creeping King asked the Crete clan to be his assistants, and designed and built the 'Sun' with them. The Creeping King is the 'Lord of the Deep' as we know it - do you remember how Alice was born?"

"Oh, I know this!" Shirley understood immediately, "The replica of the Deep Saint was rubbed out by hand at the bottom of the sea!"

Everyone reacted.

Their eyes all fell on Alice.

Alice listened blankly to the discussion beside them, and only now vaguely followed everyone's thoughts. After confirming that she was not the one who messed up anything, she didn't know what she was thinking, and a smug and happy look appeared on her face.

"...We have always known that Alice is actually a 'creature of the Abyss' in a sense, but most of the time, we only noticed the connection between her and the Frost Queen, Renoir, and ignored the fact that her connection with the Lord of the Abyss is the key point," Duncan looked at the puppet, who seemed to be proud for some reason, with a subtle expression, and thought of the scene in the mansion garden where he accidentally established a connection with the Lord of the Abyss. "Now it seems that this connection may be more important than we thought. At least one thing is certain now, she can understand the 'system language' used by the Lord of the Abyss in that 'Blueprint of Creation'..."

Nina thought for a moment: "Just like a punch analyzer can read the paper tape output by a differential engine?"

“…That’s fine with me.”

Alice looked at Duncan, then at the others around her, as if she had some questions to ask, but suddenly she frowned again, as if she heard or saw something. After a moment, she suddenly said, "The system has restarted."

Duncan looked up instantly, and almost at the same time as Alice's voice fell, a low and illusory roar suddenly entered everyone's mind.

Along with this low roar that seemed to fill the entire world in an instant, Duncan noticed a ray of rosy clouds appearing in the sky outside the window.

The sun, which had previously sunk to near the sea level and gone out and stagnated there, lit up again.

Shirley was the first to run to the window, craning her head to look at the scene on the street outside. She saw the rays of light passing over the roofs of the buildings, and a team of knowledge guards who were on guard at the intersection were looking up at the sky in surprise.

Residents hiding in their homes nearby reacted and opened their windows to look at what was happening outside.

Shirley waved happily at the window, greeting a neighbor who appeared at another window not far away, but she received no response - everyone's attention was focused on the sky which had just been glowing again.

Then, faint cheers came from somewhere, and after a while, the sound of a loudspeaker broadcast was heard at the street intersection. The broadcast mentioned the news that the sun had come out again, and reminded residents not to leave their homes rashly for the time being, as night would soon fall and tonight's martial law would continue until the sun rose as usual the next day.

Duncan listened to the faint broadcast coming from outside the window, watched the glow of the sunset fade away from the sky little by little, and let out a sigh of relief.

The sun rises as usual...now, even that has become an uncertain thing.