Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 161

[Chapter 161 The Most Outstanding Puppeteer]

On the Lost Home, the bright sun is shining on the newly scrubbed upper deck, and a circle of green flames is gradually dissipating above the deck. Alice stands beside the clearing, looking at the deck I was stunned by the pile of things that appeared on the screen.

“This… this… what is this?!”

Miss Puppet exclaimed in surprise, and just as she finished speaking, Duncan’s voice came from not far away: “Stuttering as if his head fell off —Have you never seen pots, pans, melons, fruits and vegetables?”

Alice turned her head with a stiff neck, glanced at Duncan, then at the pile of supplies that suddenly appeared on the deck, pondered for a while, and said confidently Akimbo: “I haven’t seen it!”   Duncan

: “…?

“

Startled, then patted his forehead: “…I forgot, well, what you said is true, in a way, you are even more illiterate than Shirley.”

Alice was about to step forward to study the sudden What is the purpose of a lot of things sent by Ai Yi? After hearing Duncan’s words, he turned his head suspiciously: “Shirley? Who is it?

” Seeing her,” Duncan thought for a while, “I think we have a relationship with her.” “

Oh.” Alice said with an oh, and quickly put this matter behind her, and then she came to the deck again. Next to a large pile of supplies, they circled around.

“This is flour… This is meat? It’s really different from the dried meat on the boat… This is a vegetable leaf? It feels so fragile and cold… What is this round… ah, it’s broken… …”

“Don’t make trouble for your eggs!” Duncan saw that this puppet lacking common sense had a tendency to cause trouble, and hurried forward to pat off the other’s fumbling hands, “I use these to improve the conditions on the ship. “

“Hey…” Alice let out a trademark laugh, and withdrew her hand a little embarrassedly, “I’m just a little curious–I’ve only heard of many things.”

Duncan looked at the doll helplessly, but felt in his heart. Kind of understand this guy.

Alice has a lot of “innate knowledge” in her head (if she has such an organ in her head), she knows how to communicate with people, knows a lot of things that exist in the world, and even accumulated “by listening” to voices outside the box. The first impression of this world, but she has been in a sealed state after all. Strictly speaking, it was not long ago that she really came into contact with this world, and when she came out, she came into contact with the Lost Country, which is definitely not suitable for a novice village. “Opening Stage”.

She is so lacking in understanding of the real world.

Some time ago, all she had access to was the things on the Lost Homelander, and the limited space and objects on the ship were easy for her to adapt to, but now, Duncan brought a lot of new gadgets from the human city-state to this ship. In front of the doll.

Even a piece of green vegetables and a bag of flour are incredible objects to Alice.

“The human city-state is really an incredible place…” Miss Doll looked at the piles of things on the deck and the colorful packaging, and sighed sincerely, “It must be much bigger than the ship, right?

” It’s very big, but it’s much smaller than the Infinite Sea.” Duncan replied casually, looking into Alice’s eyes full of surprise and expectation, and once again remembered what he had promised to the other party.

He said that he would take Alice to see the city-state.

“I will solve the troubles of the city-state as soon as possible, and figure out your secret,” he said seriously to the puppet in front of him, “you just wait patiently during this time.” Alice suddenly showed a brilliant

look Smile: “Okay.”

As always, he looked heartless.

But just looking at this heartless puppet, Duncan’s accumulated anxiety in the city-state of Pland calmed down a little bit. He breathed a sigh of relief and pointed to the things on the deck: “Come with me Move them all to the kitchen—the pile of sundries next to it should be sent to the captain’s cabin.”

“Oh, good!” Alice immediately agreed, and then said as she stepped forward to help, “I’ll use them for dinner tonight. Do you?”

Duncan turned back suspiciously: “Yes, yes…but will you?”

“No!” Alice said naturally, “But I can ask Mr. Goathead for advice, he said he is good at cooking It’s amazing, and he has more than 90% of the culinary secrets in the world…” “

If he dares to say it, you can believe it!” Duncan’s eyes suddenly widened, “You better not harm the ingredients I managed to get here, dinner I’ll do it, if you really want to learn how to cook something that people can eat, just watch how I do it, don’t learn from that goat head—he doesn’t even have a digestive tract.” “Oh…”

Alice Nodded, then glanced at Ai, who was pacing on the deck next to him, and rolled his eyes, “Is Ai still going to ‘over there’ later?” “Of course, there are still

things to let It will be delivered.”

“Are you still shopping?” Alice asked curiously, “What else do you want to buy?”

Duncan turned his head and looked into the eyes of Miss Doll, and after a while, a faint smile appeared on his face.

“I’m shopping for you.”

Alice: “…?”

…

Plender City-State, in the “Rose Figure Hall”.

Duncan felt that this kind old elf lady might have misunderstood him, but he didn’t mean to explain.

The main reason is that I can’t explain it—how can I tell people? Say that there is really a doll with a soul, emotions, sorrows and joys in your home, and this doll is suffering from the problem of thinning hair recently? It is optimistic to say that the old lady will go to the church to report…

In the eyes of the owner of the “Rose Doll Hall”, Duncan has become a “confidant” who really loves dolls and is willing to devote a lot of energy to this aspect——in the upper class of Puland, people who buy dolls There are many, and there are many people who are sincerely keen on collecting, but few people show such heartfelt concern for dolls like this gentleman today, which gave her a feeling, as if the other party mentioned When talking about my “doll”, I am not talking about an “item”, but a living person, even a “friend” that this gentleman cares about very much.

Many puppeteers don’t necessarily have this attitude.

The two chatted happily. Duncan finally heard a lot of knowledge about dolls from a professional (although I don’t know how much of this knowledge can be applied to Alice), and the owner of the doll hall obviously It’s been a long time since I met such a congenial customer. After a chat, the old lady couldn’t help but sighed with a smile: “I have lived in this city for three or four hundred years, and the consul alone killed seventeen of them. , I have met countless human beings – but almost none of them can really understand “dolls”… Well, it may sound uncomfortable to you when I say this, but in my opinion, human beings are indeed more than elves. You need to be indifferent to many species.”

“I don’t know much about elf society,” Duncan said, trying to guide the other party to talk more about elves, “but I heard… in the elf city-state of Lightwind Harbor , gathering the most outstanding craftsmen in the world? The unique handicraft skills of elves are famous all over the world…” “

Elves are indeed good at delicate handicrafts. We are born to be a race that is very sensitive to mathematics and art-so this world is famous Most of the puppet masters are also elves,” the old woman said frankly, with a sense of pride in her tone, but then she changed the subject, “But when it comes to the profession of puppeteers, many of them come from other races.” My peers have a prejudice against elves… Some people often say that elves are not so talented in craftsmanship. The reason why we can produce so many puppet masters is because the life span is long enough, and a little bit of ‘grinding’ is all. …”

Duncan was a little at a loss as to how to answer this topic: “This… well, peers are enemies, and it seems to be the same everywhere, so what do you think of these evaluations?”

The old woman laughed: “Me? I think they are right!”

Duncan: “…?”

“I think they are right,” the old woman emphasized again, with a happy smile on her face , “Anyway, every year on the Day of the Dead, I have to go to the graves of a few old colleagues to say hello, and tell them ‘you are right’—if you have the ability, get up and beat me!” Duncan: ”   …

“

Are all elves like this! Why did he feel that there was something wrong with this style of painting? !

“Oh… just joking,” the old woman probably noticed the expression on Duncan’s face, and then shook her head, “Actually, there are so many enemies, everyone has been friends with each other in such a short period of time. It’s just a traveling companion, and if we really want to talk about the puppet maker… I always think that the most outstanding puppeteer in the world is by no means a certain ‘master’ among the elves, but a human being.” “A human

being ?” Duncan asked casually.

“Yeah, probably not many ordinary humans know this name anymore…” The old woman said slowly with a little emotion, “Her name is Lucrezia Abnomar, she is the famous The daughter of ‘Captain Duncan’, the most outstanding puppeteer I’ve ever seen…”

Duncan: “?!”

(End of this chapter)