Yu Sheng was struck by what Marlene had said about the "terrifying darkness," and he subconsciously looked toward the door at the end of the second-floor corridor.
He wasn't sure how this living doll sensed and assessed the "unknown components" inside Eileen, but one thing was obvious: this genuine Alice doll saw through Eileen's situation far better than ordinary people did. Professional matters were best left to professionals. At last, a long-standing problem had finally been resolved.
The good news was that Eileen really was an "Alice doll." Her sisters, her memories, and her "homeland" all truly existed.
The bad news was... not all of them did.
By now, Yu Sheng was almost certain that the "terrifying darkness" inside her had come from the mysterious "Omen Goddess."
"Do the records of 'Alice's Cabin' contain any information about the title 'Omen Goddess'?" He raised his head and broke the silence with a solemn expression.
Marlene immediately caught on. "...That's the source of the 'darkness'?"
Yu Sheng nodded lightly.
Marlene didn't speak for a moment. Her eyes suddenly grew somewhat vacant as she stood motionless, while an almost imperceptible hum came from inside her body. Only after a while did she "wake up" again. Frowning slightly, she shook her head. "There are no records of it in the Matrix Network."
She quickly added, "But it's possible that the information is stored in the local databases of some remote nodes. If it carries a risk of memetic contamination, the relevant data would be automatically intercepted at the point of publication by the 'Coffin' system. I've already issued a wide-area inquiry through the Garden Network to see whether any other sisters have encountered intelligence possibly related to it, but there hasn't been a response yet."
Yu Sheng didn't know much about the internal workings