Chapter 134 Navigator Lh-03

That illusory voice vanished in an instant, as if it had never been there.

Alice blinked in the dark "tunnel," somewhat puzzled by what she had just heard. She wondered if she had misheard, but…

The captain had said that in these strange places, anything heard or seen should be reported immediately, even if it was just a hallucination.

So she immediately grabbed Duncan's arm. "Captain, I heard a voice just now!"

"A voice?" Duncan turned around instantly, staring at the doll's eyes in the darkness. "What kind of voice?"

Alice immediately told the captain what she had heard—including the unidentifiable short noise and the strange "name" of Lh-03, "Navigator Three."

In the dark and infinite tunnel, Duncan slowly widened his eyes, looking at the doll before him with an extraordinarily strange and astonished gaze, and then a trace of understanding suddenly appeared in his eyes.

So that's how it is… so that's how it is?!

As a series of complex and chaotic thoughts and startling conjectures flooded his mind, he instantly understood many things—and almost at the same time, he noticed some dense and magnificent lights and shadows in the corner of his eye.

Duncan turned back in astonishment, looking in the direction where the lights and shadows appeared.

The next second, he saw the "starry sky" above the vault of the Deep Sea—

Magnificent starlight appeared at the end of the "tunnel." It was a grand picture woven from thousands of stars, star-forming clouds, and high-energy radiation clouds. The Milky Way traversed the boundless darkness, and violently exploding giant celestial bodies were torn into luminous clouds spreading across the galaxy. All of this was like an endless, gorgeous, and dazzling curtain, rushing into Duncan and Alice's field of vision with almost overwhelming force!

Duncan's eyes widened instantly.

This was the "starry sky" well known to the captains sailing on the boundless sea, the starry sky located between the spirit world and the Deep Sea, but normally only observable through complex spiritual lenses—the sailors of the mortal world could only cautiously cast a glance at it through thick lenses and layers of protection, but here, the truest appearance and all the details of this starry sky were reflected in his eyes.

Duncan and Alice accelerated their "fall" towards the static starry sky. Under the traction of an invisible force, they were rapidly entering the "vault layer" above the Deep Sea.

They plunged into the "starlight" and began to pass quickly between those static celestial bodies.

After a moment of hesitation, Duncan tried to reach out to this unfamiliar starlight.

A dazzling orange-yellow star passed through his palm like a phantom—he noticed that his palm also appeared with spots of starlight, but the two obviously did not interfere with each other.

Then, he suddenly noticed that Alice beside him was unusually quiet—under normal circumstances, this doll should have been chattering when she saw such a magnificent starry sky.

However, Alice just stared at her surroundings with wide eyes, as if something had attracted all of her attention. The beautiful and dazzling starlight was reflected in her deep purple eyes, jumping with a lively brilliance—after a long while, the doll suddenly raised her hand, pointed in a certain direction, and muttered to herself as if in a dream: "Coordinates misaligned."

Duncan frowned. "What did you say?"

Alice seemed not to have heard the captain's voice. She was still staring at the surrounding starlight, and then she raised her hand again and pointed in another direction: "Coordinates misaligned."

"Coordinates misaligned." "Coordinates misaligned." "Coordinates misaligned…"

Alice spoke quickly, her eyes constantly scanning between the stars, as if trying to find some kind of "reference" that could help her find her way. Just as Duncan was about to forcibly "wake" her, she suddenly stopped, as if she had been startled awake from a daze, and turned to Duncan blankly: "…Report, navigation system malfunction."

She stopped, seemingly a little more awake than before. She patted her head and scratched her hair in confusion. "Ah… Captain, a lot of strange things suddenly popped into my head just now…"

Duncan grabbed Alice's arm, wisps of firelight wandering between his fingertips, and at the same time slowed his voice and asked softly, "What did you see?"

"Stars… there are lines between the stars, and numbers and symbols," Alice's eyes still had a trace of confusion, she answered the captain's question, but it seemed that part of her mind was still processing other things, "I should find a way to avoid those collapsing gravitational traps… but the coordinates are misaligned, we… have no safe path…"

She raised her head in confusion, looking around at the "starry sky"—the static stars seemed to record a distant voyage. In the distant past, in a vanished universe, there had been such a picture, and she had traveled here, guiding the last survivors to find a way to escape… but escape… escape what?

A spreading dark red light appeared in her mind.

The entire universe was redshifting… the stars were disintegrating, physical space was collapsing… the structure of matter was falling apart… the servo system was emitting a critical collapse screech…

The spaceship was about to disintegrate, the navigation cabin was on fire… activate disaster backup.

Alice's eyes widened suddenly, and the chaotic and noisy information in her mind seemed to be smoothed out by some powerful force in an instant. She shook her head, and as the joints in her neck loosened slightly, she forgot about the mess in her head just now.

Warm flames were burning quietly beside her, and the power from the flames gradually stabilized her mind. She turned her head and saw the captain standing beside her, casting a concerned look: "Alice, don't let your imagination run wild."

Alice thought for a while, and shook her head in confusion. "Captain, I seem to have seen something… but I forgot!"

"…I know, but it's okay, forget it if you forget it," Duncan said softly, patting Alice's arm. "We'll go find the answer."

"…Oh." Alice nodded as if she understood.

Duncan didn't say anything more, just cautiously maintaining the flames to protect Alice's mind, while casting a solemn gaze into the depths of this galaxy.

A series of intelligence appeared in his mind, and finally gradually connected into a line—

There was a static "holographic snapshot" of the stars here. For a long time in the past, it had been floating in the "vault" layer of the Deep Sea, providing "navigation" for navigators all over the world;

The master of the Deep Sea, the Deep Sea Lord, was called Navigator One, numbered Lh-01;

When Alice entered the "black gate," she briefly heard a voice calling her Lh-03, Navigator Three;

The God of Wisdom, Raheem, whose real name was Lh-02, Navigator Two, whose image in the scriptures gave Duncan the feeling of a large server with countless lights flashing on the surface;

Ten thousand years ago, a spaceship called the New Hope crashed into this "world ruin." It seemed to have tried to escape the end of its home universe, but in the final stage of the voyage, it disintegrated and split into three parts…

Three parts, which could correspond to three modular "hosts"…

Duncan took a light breath, allowing the storm of thoughts in his mind to gradually calm down, and glanced at the doll who was honestly following beside him.

Now… he finally knew what the Deep Sea Lord's replica had stuffed into this doll's body back in the Cold Sea.

The starlight in front of him had gradually reached the end—the depths of the vault layer were countless broken floating islands floating in the dark chaotic space.

The Deep Sea.

A pitch-black skeletal limb with countless jagged barbs fell from the sky, firmly pinning a mass of deformed flesh that was galloping on the ground and constantly swelling and shrinking on the surface to a stone.

The Deep Sea demon, called the "Fear Demon," let out a series of ear-piercing and terrifying screams, but no matter how hard it struggled, it could not break free from the skeletal limb. Almost in the blink of an eye, it withered rapidly like a punctured balloon, and countless turbid smoke and dust evaporated and dissipated from its surface, and the remaining part turned into viscous flowing "slurry," which was quickly absorbed by the skeletal limb.

The towering skeletal limb curved upwards, and in the center of the twelve symmetrical limbs, a huge Deep Sea demon retaining part of the human female form slowly raised its head.

Shirley's gaze swept calmly across the many wrecks on this barren land—torn Deep Sea hounds, death birds struggling and jumping on the ground, smoke and dust jellyfish and Fear Demons gradually melting into slurry, and the black skull floating crookedly in the sky, the red light in its eye sockets flickering on and off.

More Deep Sea demons were gathering in the distance, looking somewhat hesitant.

Deep Sea demons have no hearts, but even demons without hearts have some instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages when the threat reaches a certain level—at least, their purpose in gathering here was not to serve as food for a more powerful demon.

Shirley moved her twelve long limbs, as if walking on the ground with curved bone wings. She slowly walked to the end of the barren plain, and from time to time, severely injured demons were pierced by her "long feet" because they could not dodge in time, turning into nourishment absorbed by the limbs.

In the beginning, she would be full of disgust for this, and would try to pick clean ground as much as possible, and avoid "eating" these disgusting slurries as much as possible.

But now she didn't care so much anymore.

"Shirley… relax…"

She just murmured softly, walking among countless severely injured demons, heading in a direction she thought was right.

The scarred black skull flew to the side in near terror, avoiding the direction of this "strange intruder's" advance.

However, Shirley didn't even look at this skull for a second.

She just muttered and continued to walk forward slowly: "…Don't be afraid."

The demons on the plain made way in fear.

(End of this chapter)