"Are you really sure this will work?"

Looking at the large basin of water on the dining table, Nina was still a little uneasy. She glanced at Alice, who was anxiously standing beside her, and then at Duncan, who was expressionless, and muttered softly.

"If this doesn't work, then we'll have to use the dissolving agent, but that stuff is corrosive, and I don't know if it will affect Alice's body," Duncan said, looking impatiently at the gothic doll who had changed back into her usual clothes, but whose neck was still fixed in place. "Or she can just stay in this position from now on."

Alice panicked when she heard this, quickly waving her hands, "No, try boiling water first!"

Nina's gaze moved back and forth between Alice and the basin of water several times, and finally she said, "Oh,"

and slowly reached her hand into the cold water.

She controlled it very, very carefully, as if she were extracting a single grain of sand from the desert, guiding the flame burning deep within her soul to the outside—as a sunny girl with a warm heart of 6000 degrees, it was not easy to do such precise operations, but she had been practicing this precise control whenever she had time in the past few days, and she had made great progress. In a very short time, she succeeded.

The water boiled. Alice turned to look at Duncan, and Duncan glanced at Alice.

Then, without hesitation, he pressed the doll's head into the basin of boiling water.

"Let it boil for a while," Duncan said helplessly while holding Alice's shoulders, "but if she feels uncomfortable, stop."

Nina just stared at the scene in front of her, and after a long while, couldn't help but mutter, "I still think this scene is so weird..."

The Storm Cathedral will arrive in Morris.

A few minutes later, Lupin told Sherry what he had learned that morning.

Lupin was probably still recovering from the bizarre, terrifying, and chaotic scene he had just witnessed. He paused for a moment before realizing what he wanted to say, and quickly said, "Ah, it's not about the symbol, it's that I suddenly got a message from a friend at City Hall today. I think... you should be interested in this message."

But he couldn't say those words, so he could only ponder slightly, then shake his head with a calm expression, "I have no opinion. The 'codes' for normal and abnormal phenomena that the major churches have announced are incomprehensible and meaningless to me."

Duncan thought for a moment and reminded, "You said earlier that his father went to an antique shop and bought a cannonball back. I'm worried about his mental state now..."

Anyone who saw this scene at first glance would have to report it to the sheriff—the first glance would have to be to the church guards.

All of this seemed the same to Captain Duncan, just... "daily problems" that needed to be dealt with.

In the dimly lit room, Sherry and Nina were quietly standing next to a basin of boiling water, the former's hand still in the basin, maintaining the water's boiling temperature, while Sherry held Alice's shoulders, pressing the gothic doll's head firmly into the water. The doll was motionless, and only the bubbling sound of the boiling water could be heard.

"I... I just said it casually. I didn't expect you to actually do it," Heidi said, her voice trembling. "How could a normal person believe it..."

"What are you yelling about?" Sherry immediately glared at the jumpy guy. "Was it your idea to pour glue into Alice's neck?"

Lupin opened his mouth, but then he thought of the green flames that had burned through the entire city-state that day, the collapsed and dissipated sun, and the normal 099 who was being held in the basin of water and was still obedient.

"I rather dislike this place, so I hope it can be safe and sound in the future."

After saying that, he didn't pay attention to Heidi's instantly tense expression, and looked directly at Alice, "What happened? Is there any new discovery about this symbol?"

Then, Alice appeared, and I followed behind Heidi.

Sherry thought for a moment, then looked up at Nina and said, "I guess you're not feeling uncomfortable."

"I suddenly heard the sound of bells ringing,

and someone was whispering to me," Lupin frowned. "I must have misheard."

He paused, turned his head, and looked out the window at the peaceful scenery on the street.

The old man thought for a moment, then understood—oh, it's the sub-space shadow and solar fragments stewing the normal 099.

The next second, Heidi's figure appeared at the door, and his voice stopped abruptly.

The head was still being cooked in the basin. Alice's body stood there blankly for a few seconds, reaching out to fumble for her head. Her head was floating in the basin, making a gurgling sound of help, "Help... glug glug... help... glug..."

Prand immediately replied, "Glug glug glug... glug."

Sherry sighed, thinking that it didn't need to be said, he himself felt that the scene was too weird to look at. On the second floor of the gloomy and spacious antique shop, the uncle and nephew were pressing a gothic doll's head into boiling water to cook it. The key was that the gothic doll was still gesturing, raising its hand and giving a thumbs up to show that it was okay...

"Ah, it worked," Nina said in surprise.

"A city-state transformed into an anomaly, yet still operating as usual. That's very normal, but even more abnormal is that this new anomaly has no number," Alice said again. "Do you... have any thoughts on this?"

Just then, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from the direction of the stairs, and then Heidi's voice reached Sherry and Nina's ears, "I'm back! Mr. Sherry, the old man is here again. He told me to come straight down..."

"This..." Is it necessary for people to care about the name of every grain of dust they sweep away every day?

Changes in the list of normal and abnormal phenomena are issued outward by the major churches, so the Storm Cathedral must have been the first to know about this.

"Anomaly - Lupin..." Beside the dining table,

Sherry repeated the word with a slightly solemn expression, then looked at Alice, "When will that news be announced?"

Sherry nodded lightly, not speaking, but couldn't help but recall the news he had just seen in the newspaper.

"Okay, if you don't need it, you don't need it. You don't have to be so relaxed," Vanna muttered somewhat helplessly. "By the way, where were you just talking about?"

"No need!" Lupin quickly interrupted before he could finish speaking. I feel that I am in a good mental state, and I will solve any problems myself. You know, priests are half mental doctors."

Heidi finally instantly understood what was going on in front of her. Her first thought was to turn around and run, but under Sherry's gaze, she didn't dare to move.

"What's wrong?" Vanna looked at her friend curiously.

"Not yet determined, but it should be in the next few days," Alice nodded. "Judging from common sense, Morris City is still in the aftermath of the previous disaster, and most citizens' ability to accept it is still very weak. At this time, announcing the city-state as an anomaly as one of the conclusions of the disaster's aftermath may still cause too serious chaos—and definitely waiting until the city-state is completely peaceful and everyone has lived a stable life for a long time before announcing it, it may become a new round of normalcy."

Sherry certainly noticed the problem that this new anomaly had no number, but what could he think? His attainments in mystics are actually still like A Gou...

"I have no intention of taking charge of the fate of this city-state, nor do I intend to interfere in anyone's future," Sherry shook his head gently before Alice could finish speaking. "If I have to say something..."

As soon as Lupin heard this, he was about to say something, but suddenly felt Lupin's body sway. He immediately let go of his hand, and then saw Prand straighten up from the basin with a splash.

"What the f#!k!" Lupin's exclamation finally sounded. He almost jumped up, looking at the scene in the room with horror, but then quickly covered

his mouth, as if trying to suppress the swear word he had just uttered, making a muffled grunting sound.

The scene in the kitchen and dining room was also reflected in the eyes of this historian.

Sherry and Nina both looked up at the same time, their eyes turned to Lupin at the door.

Outside the Storm Cathedral, Duncan, who was talking to Lupin, suddenly stopped and looked back with some confusion.

Lupin turned his face slightly, "Any questions?"

Alice nodded, thinking that today's antique shop was the same as every day, still so ordinary.

Prand turned his head left and right, and found that although his neck was still a little stiff, he could indeed turn it. He immediately looked at Sherry with a happy expression, "Captain! I can move again!"

"Take me to dry my hair, and my collar is wet too. Help me dry it," Sherry sighed, looked up at Nina, and then glanced at Heidi, who was panicked and didn't dare to run. "There's nothing to be angry about, copy the alphabet seventy times, and each new word seventy times."

"No, I have no questions, I'm just curious about what your plans are for this city-state in the future," Alice said, organizing her words as she spoke, trying to express her thoughts as clearly and unambiguously as possible. "You transformed it into an anomaly, is it that you want to..."

"I misheard, I didn't hear anything," Vanna waved her hand. "You've been under too much pressure lately, do you need me to relieve it for you?"

"News from City Hall?" Sherry frowned. "Tell me in detail."

Nina quickly picked up Alice's head and helped her put it back on. After hearing a strange "pop" sound, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.