Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 12

[Chapter 12 Ghost Captain and the Cursed Doll]

On both sides of the large nautical table, Duncan, the captain of the Lost Country, sits facing the cursed doll Alice.

The atmosphere between the two (although neither of them may be human) can be called rapport.

The puppet lady who claimed to be “Alice” still looked a little nervous. Although the ghost captain in front of her had promised her temporary safety, in front of Duncan’s natural pressure +10 face, even a cursed puppet would be too nervous. Obviously uneasy.

She was sitting on the lid of her coffin maintaining a dignified manner at the moment, but her fingers quietly pinching together and grabbing the hem of the skirt revealed her uneasiness.

Duncan was silent for a while, observing the…”lady” in front of him in thought.

A puppet driven by an unknown power, a “supernatural entity” that is obviously not flesh and blood, but can walk and even have a certain body temperature, if it is placed in his hometown, it will be close to science—and At least three and a half episodes.

Duncan didn’t know what kind of existence a puppet like Alice belonged to in this world, but during the past few days with the goat’s head, he also learned some information on the sidelines. He knew that although there are “extraordinary visions” in this world , but all kinds of supernatural things are not ordinary and visible things, and the lady doll in front of me…

Duncan guessed that she should belong to some kind of special existence even in this strange and unusual world.

His guesses were not without merit—the mechanically powered ship that collided head-on with the Lost Country was new and had a well-trained crew, and he had seen it with his own eyes, despite the conditions of great fear, Many sailors on the ship also stick to their respective positions, and there are a large number of cabins and items whose purpose cannot be understood inside the ship. Many items are depicted with complex rune marks, and the style of those marks is similar to that of Alice. The symbols on the surface of the “coffin” are very similar…

In other words, the purpose of such a cutting-edge ship’s voyage is very likely to escort…or “escort” Alice, the cursed doll.

Duncan adjusted his posture on the seat, and stared at Alice with comfortable but serious eyes – there is no doubt that there is an extra “guest” on his boat.

But from another angle, this lady doll doesn’t seem to be a scary character, she seems to be quite timid.

After all, she didn’t say anything when she first met her, she was so frightened that she lost her head.

“Excuse me…” Probably because Duncan’s long silence and gaze brought too much pressure, Alice finally couldn’t help but speak, “And…” “Where are you

from?” Duncan finally retracted the statement. The man stared under pressure, and asked in a more peaceful tone.

Alice was obviously stunned for a moment, as if she was reflecting the meaning of Duncan’s question, and after a few seconds, she tapped her finger on the gorgeous wooden box under her body: “From here.” Duncan’s expression became a little stiff for a moment:

” …”

“Of course I know that you were lying in this box before,” he coughed twice, “but what I’m asking is where you come from—place, understand? Do you have a hometown? Or some kind of Something that can be called the place of departure?”

Alice thought about it again, and shook her head calmly: “I can’t remember.” “

Can’t remember?”

“Where did the doll come from?” Alice folded her hands Folding it on my lap, I replied dignifiedly and earnestly, “Most of my memories are lying in the box. I lay here and was transported from one place to another. Occasionally, I can vaguely feel Seeing people walking or guarding outside the box… Ah, I still remember some whispered conversations, those who guarded outside my wooden box, they talked about something in a scared and nervous tone…” Duncan raised his

eyebrows : “Talk about something? What are they talking about around you?”

“Just some boring stuff.”

“But I’m curious.” Duncan said seriously – he believed that those things might really be just trivial things, but now he really needs to do everything possible to understand the world, even if it’s the noisy chatter of ordinary people in this world also good.

“…well, the one I hear most often is a name, Anomaly 099—they seem to use that to refer to me and my crate, but I don’t really like it, I have a name,” Alice recalled Said, “Other than that, I occasionally heard them talking about seals and curses, but most of them are blurred. I would sleep when I was in the box, and I didn’t pay much attention to what was going on outside.

” He spoke slowly, and then seemed to think of something suddenly, and added: “But I still remember what I heard recently, it should be before I came to your boat, those voices talking outside the wooden box frequently raised Going to a place, the Puland City-State, that seems to be their destination…it should be my destination too?” “

Pulland City-State?” Duncan kept his eyes introverted, and silently recorded the name in his heart.

He finally learned something useful again, although he didn’t know when this useful information would come in handy.

Then he raised his head and looked at the lady puppet in front of him again: “What else?” “

Besides that, I just sleep most of the time, Captain,” the lady puppet said solemnly, “When You are locked in a big coffin-like box, and you are surrounded by dizzy whispers, what else can you do if you don’t sleep? Do you sit up in the coffin?” Duncan’s mouth twitched

. for a moment.

She has a dignified demeanor and is an elegant beauty when her head is still on her head, but in fact she can not only paddle the coffin board to ride the wind and waves, but also suddenly burst out trash talk that chokes people to death.

He quickly built a new image of Miss Alice in his mind.

But on the surface, he still maintains the image of the calm and majestic Captain Duncan, he just hummed noncommittally and then said: “So, apart from being drowsy in the wooden box, you don’t know anything about the outside world. , you can neither tell me the changes in the world today, nor tell me where any port or city-state is.” “I’m afraid

so, Captain,” Miss Doll nodded solemnly, followed by a sudden reaction Coming over, he opened his eyes slightly, and looked at Duncan quite nervously, “So… are you going to throw me overboard again? Because I’m worthless?” Before Duncan could speak, Alice said

again : “Okay, I understand, this is your ship after all, but can you not put shells in the box this time? Seriously… eight shells are a little too much…” It can be seen that this

person Miss Ou is not in a very good mood – but she doesn’t dare to show it.

Duncan was also very embarrassed. He was mainly embarrassed that when he stuffed the cannonballs into the box at the beginning, he didn’t think about the situation of calmly discussing the matter with the person concerned. At that time, he only regarded Alice lying in the box as a standard horror. The cursed puppet in the film, all the pictures that popped up in his mind were towards this style of painting… How could he have thought that this cursed puppet didn’t come out of the curse, but came out of the courtyard?

So the preparations made in the early stage to fight against the horrible curse have now become embarrassing.

But Duncan is good because he has a thicker skin, and the majestic and gloomy face is carved on his face like a knife and an axe. As long as the peripheral nerves are not short-circuited, he can still hold it, so he forcibly ignored the eight shell belts The embarrassment came, but I just shook my head calmly: “I haven’t decided whether to throw you off the boat, after all, you always seem to have a way to get back on the boat, I’m just curious, why do you insist on throwing you over and over again? Back to the Lost Home? It can be seen that you are actually afraid of me and this ship—in that case, why don’t you stay away from this danger?”

“Is this ship called Lost Homeland? Well, I am indeed a little… afraid of you and your ship, but compared to this, isn’t the depths of the sea more dangerous?” The puppet lady quietly stared at the ghost in front of her. Captain, in her field of vision, behind this tall man was a boundless dark void, which overlapped with the real scene in the cabin, as if the two worlds were forcibly superimposed, but compared to this huge Seeing the suffocating shadow of nothingness, those things from the “deeper” part of the infinite sea made her, as anomaly 099, feel more dangerous, “In this world, is there anything more frightening than the deep sea?”

( Damn!)

(End of this chapter)