Duncan was very confident in his memory - he happened to remember the appearance of the stone that Agou had just thrown, and now, he was also very sure that the stone in Alice's hand was the one that Agou had just thrown.

Agou himself soon realized what had happened. He looked at the stone in the puppet's hand in astonishment: "...What a coincidence? It fell into your hands?!"

"No," Alice immediately shook her head, as if it was a matter of course, "I picked it up."

"You... picked it up?" Shirley suddenly looked as if she had seen a ghost, staring at the puppet. "How did you pick it up? According to what Agou said just now, shouldn't this thing have fallen somewhere random in the deep sea?"

Alice immediately started thinking, as if she was thinking about how to explain to Shirley this process that she herself couldn't explain, and then she gestured and said, "Just now when we were talking about where something that fell from here might land, I was curious about where this stone was, and then I found it, and then I picked it up... just like that..."

As Alice spoke, she casually made a gesture of picking up something from the air, as if it was a matter of course - but her explanation was not only incomprehensible to Shirley, but also confusing to the dog.

However, Duncan, who was standing next to him, suddenly frowned and thought of something -

Alice's abnormal behavior when traveling through the stagnant starry sky...LH-03, navigation host!

His expression changed slightly, and he immediately bent down and picked up another stone from the side. After Alice looked at it, he threw it hard into the darkness outside the floating island.

Just like the previous situation, the stone disappeared from everyone's sight in an instant after flying several meters out of the floating island.

Duncan looked back into Alice's eyes. "Do you know where it went? Can you get it back?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Alice raised her hand and handed him a small black stone, with a happy expression on her face: "Here you go, stone!"

Although he already had some guesses in his mind, Duncan couldn't help but be stunned for a few seconds when he saw the puppet take out the stone so easily and casually - no one saw how Alice "picked" it up, not even him!

It is as if this process has been skipped directly - "addressing", "path" and "arrival" are all compressed into an unobservable time gap, and only the "result" is output.

Shirley at the side finally couldn't hold back her interjection: "...Fuck, it's so outrageous..."

Agou seemed to have noticed something from the change in the captain's expression. He turned his head in confusion and asked, "Do you know how she did it?"

Duncan's expression was a little serious. After a brief hesitation, he nodded gently: "...Alice's other identity may be called 'LH-03'."

Agou was stunned. This time he said in unison with Shirley: "...Fuck, this is so outrageous..."

"...We can discuss this later. Perhaps we can get more answers after meeting the Lord of the Deep." Duncan waved his hand and did not continue on this topic. Instead, he looked at Alice and said, "Do you have a way to get us to the 'bottom'?"

Alice tilted her head, then supported her head and carefully walked to the edge of the broken earth. She looked down at the endless darkness below and the faintly twinkling "starlight" in the darkness, as if she was trying to think and observe something.

After a long while, she took two steps back and pointed at the vast darkness outside the floating island: "Here, there are countless lines and 'paths', some of which connect to 'the bottom'. I think we can go down along them... but I don't know how to lead you down."

As soon as she finished speaking, Duncan next to her stepped forward and said, "Let me see."

As he spoke, Duncan placed his hand on Alice's shoulder. At the same time, a phantom green light appeared in Alice's eyes.

A huge, complex, almost awe-inspiring structure emerged into Duncan's vision.

He saw the world as the puppet saw it—at least part of it.

He saw endless thin lines like hair growing from the bottom of the deep sea, connecting to the stagnant ancient starry sky above. He saw countless lines crisscrossing the starry sky, some merging into the bottom, while others seemed to disappear into the depths of the starry sky. He also saw vague... "tubular structures" in the darkness outside the floating island. They crisscrossed, broke, and kept changing, like some kind of out-of-control "path". It was dizzying to look at it, and it was impossible to discern any pattern, let alone see the whole picture.

Duncan frowned. He did see the huge structure of lines and paths, but he only "saw" it - he could not discern any pattern from it, and it was impossible for him to find the starting point and end point of any of the paths in a short period of time. In his eyes, this mess in the deep sea was like some kind of "encrypted data block", just like garbled code.

However, through the connection established by the flame, he could vaguely sense Alice's current state - she did not feel any confusion at all about the huge amount of information in her field of vision.

Everything seemed in order in her eyes. The chaotic paths in the starry sky and the network of lines in the darkness could drive scholars all over the world crazy, but to her... it seemed that at any moment, she could calculate the beginning and end of any path.

Even at this moment, she was still calculating - a huge calculation activity that she herself could not even detect was running non-stop at the bottom of her mind.

Duncan blinked. In the background of countless lines that permeated the entire deep sea, he vaguely saw Alice suddenly turn her head. She smiled faintly and did not speak, but her voice went straight into his ears -

"Welcome to the New Hope Navigation Database, which stores billions of gravitational features and calibration parameters between stars, and can deduce the relative position changes of any celestial body in deep space in real time, so as to calibrate the star map... We will travel through the stars and reach our new home at the end of the speed of light () * & * ()%... We will survive and rebuild the old world... ~ * &"

The gentle female voice, as if broadcast through some system, was gradually filled with noise, the delayed and out-of-tune voice gradually became blurred, and stopped abruptly at some imperceptible moment.

Alice was still conscientiously observing the dark space outside the floating island. She obviously did not look back and did not speak.

Duncan raised his hand and dissipated the flame that connected him to Alice.

The dizzying array of lines and tubular paths in the field of vision disappeared in an instant.

Alice turned around and smiled happily: "Captain, you saw it all, right? Am I right?"

"I see, but I'm afraid only you can complete the next 'navigation'." Duncan took a deep breath and looked at the puppet seriously, "You lead us down."

Alice was stunned for a moment, and quickly said: "But I don't know how to lead people..."

"It's okay. I know. We will catch up with you. Just trust your own judgment and move forward without hesitation. Can you do that?"

Alice couldn't help but feel a little nervous when she saw the captain's serious expression, but she finally nodded and said seriously, "Yes, I can do it!"

Duncan nodded slightly, then took a half step back and opened his arms.

A dark green flame rose into the air, swirled upward, and gradually spread out in all directions with him as the center, and then spread towards Shirley, Agou and Alice.

He recalled his experience of "merging" with Ai, and then quietly reminded himself: "Shirley, relax, don't be afraid."

"I... I'm not afraid!" Shirley's voice came from the side immediately, "It's Agou who is afraid!"

Ah Gou's bones seemed to be on vibration mode. He was shaking while saying stubbornly, "Don't, don't, don't talk nonsense. I'm relaxing. The captain...he knows everything!"

Duncan smiled and shook his head. In the rising flames, he looked at the puppet in front of him: "Alice, let's go."

Alice nodded, then turned around without hesitation and walked towards the boundless void outside the floating island.

A ball of blazing green flame disappeared into the encroaching darkness.

At the same time, deep in the Holy Island of the real dimension, Lucrecia and Morris, who were vigilantly guarding the black door, heard a strange, low roar at the same time.

The sound seemed to come from deep within the gate, penetrating the "door" that was slowly undulating like mercury and as dark as mud, and echoed in the cave layer by layer.

In a moment of trance, Morris seemed to hear a series of vague words, and he could only distinguish a few words: "LH-03... reconnect..."

“Did you hear who’s talking?” The old scholar suddenly woke up from his trance and turned to look at the “Sea Witch” beside him.

“No,” Lucrecia said immediately, staring at the dark door that was constantly moving, “but I feel… something is coming out from here.”

Almost at the same moment, Morris also felt the auras filled with malice and madness. Some chaotic and frenzied existences seemed to have finally discovered the rift leading to the real dimension and began to move towards it.

Morris had to temporarily suppress the doubts in his heart, and then he saw an entity appear in the wriggling darkness—a twisted and grotesque dark demon struggled to squeeze out of the gate and stepped into the real dimension.

Lucrecia instantly raised the "baton" in her hand and transformed it into a black sickle that flashed with cold light, while Morris was suddenly stunned when he saw the demon's form.

This was the first time he saw a demon invading the real dimension look like this.

After a moment of surprise, he and Lucrecia looked at each other.

"...Why does this death bird have only one leg?"

"I don't know... Kill him first."

"Too."