Chapter 1 The Room's Master

In the center of the gorgeous large bed, the newly awakened "room's master" was leaning against the pillows, curiously examining Duncan, the uninvited guest. Her silvery white hair and violet eyes were so familiar.

Duncan subconsciously called out the name "Alice" – a low, hoarse "voice," like a muffled resonance, came directly from the chest of this body.

But then, he frowned slightly, recovering from the momentary surprise and astonishment, and looked thoughtfully at the woman.

She was not Alice – although the appearance was identical, the temperament was completely different, and more importantly… Alice would not appear in this place, so the greater possibility was…

"Leila Nora," Duncan guessed the identity of the person before him. With a questioning gaze, he slowly opened his mouth, looking into her eyes, "The Frost Queen?"

"It seems it has been a long time since I heard that title," the newly awakened woman smiled. She adjusted her posture on the bed, her eyes filled with curiosity. "Who are you? How did you enter this room directly without opening that door?"

"Door?" Duncan frowned. Hearing the word "door" again, curiosity welled up in his heart. "What door?"

The woman did not speak, but simply raised her finger and pointed not far away.

Duncan followed the direction of her finger and saw a closed door decorated with intricate patterns – it was obviously the door to this bedroom.

"Those who can come here are either servants of this mansion, or guests holding keys. You are clearly not a servant of the mansion, but you do not have a key in your hand either."

"You know that the 'rebel government' would build a new submersible after… your death?" The Frost Queen was somewhat surprised. "As far as I know, the 'Abyss Plan' was the source of that rebellion, and they also used it as a pretext… to 'execute' you."

"Submersible?" Leila Nora frowned, but quickly seemed to guess something. "Ah, it seems that they really secretly built a new one…"

"All of this will continue until the last Duncan person dies, or this darkness dissipates."

It is said that Leila Nora was a natural psychic, whose spiritual talent could communicate with a large number of invisible beings. It is said that she could even predict the future and know the truth out of thin air…

She smiled, her淡然tone as if discussing the weather: "Even if there are still unpredictable things in the world, 麻木will allow you to face all accidents calmly."

Just then, Leila Nora's voice came from across, interrupting his train of thought: "Now it's my turn to ask questions."

The suspended conjecture was confirmed, and a large pile of orderly thoughts instantly flooded his mind. In the blink of an eye, the Frost Queen associated it with a series of events that had occurred in the Boundless Sea during this period.

So the most likely scenario is… a replica of the ancient god ran through the "city-state original blueprint" in the deep sea, and the power it released caused a series of subsequent events? And the source of all this… was it because the "Abyssal Saint Master" had completely lost control?

The Frost Queen thought of the consecutive accidents in Prand and Duncan under the protection of the Storm God and the Death God, and thought of the already malfunctioning anomaly 001… this obvious, large-scale system gradually malfunctioning…

…Is it not a sign that the entire world is "out of control"?

The huge "pillar" in the deep sea was indeed not the main body of the Abyssal Saint Master, but just a replica that appeared in the real world for some unknown reason!

"No need," the Frost Queen shook her head. "Continue, why am I here?"

Sorting out this information in her heart, there was no change in the Frost Queen's eyes. Instead, she casually went to a corner of the room, pulled a chair to the front of the large bed, sat down, and looked very seriously into the eyes of the Duncan Queen: "I have many questions, and I hope you can answer them."

"The key you are talking about, is it a brass key used to wind up a doll?" He turned his head, his calm tone concealing all emotional fluctuations. "Are you really Duncan Queen Leila Nora?"

"I also have many questions," Leila Nora smiled, "I haven't talked to anyone for too long, a visitor is precious to me – so if you are willing to answer my questions, I am also willing to answer yours."

The Frost Queen did not speak for a while, just quietly looked at the former queen.

"I just didn't expect that the one who came down on the submersible would be… the legendary Captain Frost, and also a Captain Frost who has obviously gained sanity. It seems that my successors are a bit more extreme than I was back then?"

Does this mean that after the replica in the real world appeared, the Abyssal Saint Master was not out of control? Was its state constantly deteriorating over the long years to the present?

So if this line of thinking continues…

…What about the other gods? If the "horrible evil gods" in the eyes of the world are actually deteriorating from a stable state to a state of losing control, then what is the situation of the "Seven Gods" in the mortal world? Will they lose control? Or… have they actually gradually lost control?

The Frost Queen's heart suddenly skipped a beat – the key! The other party just mentioned the key!

“…We failed," the Frost Queen was silent for a few seconds, then gently shook her head and said, "A disaster destroyed the city-state government, and we failed to restart the Abyss Plan after the situation got out of control – the only good news is that the disaster finally subsided, and that submersible was a 'trophy' we found after the situation calmed down."

“…It seems that you know more than I imagined," Leila Nora quietly glanced at the Frost Queen, "But you are wrong. Although it does come from that 'Crawling King', the existence in the deep sea is not the real Abyssal Saint Master. To be precise, it's just a copy."

"This is just a temporary avatar," the Frost Queen explained casually with a little embarrassment. Immediately afterwards, she noticed a slight disharmony in the other party's attitude, "You don't seem that surprised? You knew I would come?"

The Frost Queen restrained the emotional changes in her eyes, and while slowly sorting out her thoughts in her mind, she slowly opened her mouth: “…You can call me Frost."

"I don't know, but I lost the ability to be 'surprised' many years ago," Leila Nora replied, "If you can always see too many things you shouldn't see, understand all kinds of incredible and strange postures in this world, always experience death before death comes, and be trapped in dreams after falling asleep, then you will lose that ability sooner or later…”

"In the deep sea below Duncan – I found this 'replica' and discovered an 'entrance' that can enter here at its fracture point," Duncan did not hide anything, "As for how I came to such a deep place… by Duncan city-state's submersible."

"You really are," Leila Nora smiled and gently shook her head, "But you still haven't answered my question – who are you?"

The Frost Queen was startled when she heard this, and then lowered her head to look at her body.

The Frost Queen quickly restrained her thoughts and sorted out her thoughts: "Ask away."

Duncan's eyes were serious: "Abyssal Saint Master?"

She raised her head and stared intensely into the Frost Queen's eyes – on the latter's eerie and horrifying "rough" body, only those eyes carried a trace of humanity.

"How did you come here?" Leila Nora asked with curiosity in her eyes.

"We will improve the machines, slow down the plan, learn from my radical lessons, and do all of this in a gentler and more harmless way, and if we still fail, then new rebels will appear, successors will cut off the heads of the incompetent, and then try another way… continue to challenge this cold darkness in the deep sea."

"We will," Leila Nora simply smiled, "Because we are Duncan people."

She only said her name, without mentioning the more famous surname, but Leila Nora's eyes widened slightly when she heard it, and then an even more pleasant smile appeared on her face: "Ah, so it's you – the legendary Captain Duncan. It's much more reasonable for you to enter this room, but… I really didn't expect you to be in this form."

It was still the extremely strange jet-black human body, like a "rough" that the creator did not have time to modify the details when creating humans. This abstract appearance was really not "friendly."

The latter continued to reply: "Duncan people never die in silence and submission. When the darkest moment comes, you will burn everything to survive. So when my Abyss Plan gets out of control and the city-state falls into a crisis of survival, there will definitely be rebels who will rise up and overthrow me to ensure the survival of more people. And when we discover the secrets in the deep sea, you will definitely build a submersible like me and try to solve this problem.

"Do you need me to explain to you what the deep sea below Duncan means?"

"Ah, is it such a difficult question to answer from the start…?" Leila Nora frowned, seemingly really struggling to organize her words, before slowly opening her mouth, "To explain in a simpler way, this is a 'drifting place' – it is not an exact location, but a connection of many locations. Did you see the darkness at the end of the room? The scenery inside sometimes changes into other appearances – suitable conditions can allow it to connect to suitable 'places', but for me, its only function is to connect my dreams to the deep sea below Duncan."

In an instant, Duncan recalled a sentence he saw in that strange "dark space" before – the cluster controller has replicated itself.

"Okay, it looks like you already know what's in the deep sea," Leila Nora breathed a sigh of relief. "I am here to embrace a dream, to ensure that the existence in that deep sea can continue to sleep."

"Okay, then I won't be polite," Duncan went straight to the point, "What exactly is this place? Why are you here?"

Duncan looked into Leila Nora's eyes, recalling all the information related to this Duncan Queen under her calm attitude-