Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 166

[Chapter 166 Lucrezia’s Pressure]

Accompanied by a series of weird noises, the clockwork figure completely stiffened and stopped like a rusted machine, and almost at the same time, Lucrezia who was in the nearby cabin noticed it An anomaly of its own creation.

The door of the cabin was suddenly pushed open, and a stack of flying colored papers was swept into the room like a whirlwind, and condensed into a human figure in the circling. I saw Luni who had slipped and leaned against the table with her head down.

“Luni?” Lucrezia walked forward quickly, and immediately found the wind-up key that fell on the floor next to her. She picked up the key, and went forward to pat the wind-up doll’s back. The mechanism box, “What happened?”

A series of intermittent creaking sounds came from Luni’s body, and after a while, some of her parts finally resumed operation, and a seriously out-of-tune and distorted voice sounded from her chest: ” The old master…is looking for you…”

With a clang, the wind-up key in Lucrezia’s hand fell to the ground.

Luni turned her head following the sound, and instinctively reached out to fumble for her wind-up key, trying to reinsert it on her back, but she only got stuck in the middle of the movement, and then there was a sound of gears idling .

Lucrezia’s complexion changed drastically. When she heard the word “Old Master”, her pupils trembled, but the malfunction sound in Luni’s body woke her up quickly. She shook her head suddenly, While forcibly suppressing the chaotic thoughts, he hugged the wind-up puppet’s shoulders: “Luni, stand by.” The

wind-up puppet slowly closed its eyes: “The order has been received, Luni is on standby.”

A moment later, Bright In the depths of the cabin of the Star, in a brightly lit cabin, Lucrezia was busy at the workbench.

This is a laboratory that can be evaluated as “complete and advanced” even if it is located in the headquarters of the Institute of Truth. The spacious room is equipped with sophisticated mechanical devices and pressure pipes for powering various equipment. Among the countless machines, auxiliary equipment covered with magic runes can be seen, as well as many crystal containers or reactors that are emitting shimmering light. More than a dozen automatic mechanism dolls are taking care of these automatically operating equipment, Let Lucrezia focus on the work in front of her.

In front of this “Sea Witch”, Luni was lying quietly on the large workbench.

The clockwork doll has been disassembled, and the shell imitating the maid’s costume is now being put aside. The skeleton made of fine gold and various mechanism components made of brass almost cover the platform. Now Luni only has her chest The above part remained intact, and this part was placed on the edge of the platform. She stared blankly at her disassembled body, blinking her eyes occasionally.

“Okay… repair…?” A slightly out-of-tune voice came from Luni’s chest.

“Don’t worry, it’s just that the transmission mechanisms are suddenly stuck and the bearings are deformed,” Lucrezia is busy without looking up, “The project is a lot, but the repair process itself is not complicated—your ‘heart’ is not affected.” damage.”

Lu Ni slowly rolled her eyes, and she saw the “heart” placed in the center of the workbench.

It was an exquisite brass ball, spliced by countless complex and precise metal pieces. It floated quietly above a pile of parts. The metal pieces on its surface changed positions from time to time, revealing the structure inside. When the ball was opened, it could be clearly seen that the inside of the ball was engraved with shiny runes, and a more slender thing was floating in the center of those runes.

It was a finger—a very slender, very fragile finger, smaller than the finger of a human child, carefully crafted by a puppeteer a hundred years ago.

That is the real core, the true essence of the mechanism doll “Luni”—the last proof that a certain doll born a hundred years ago remains in this world.

Lucrezia noticed Luni’s gaze, she looked up, and the movements of her hands suddenly stopped.

After a while, she resumed her busy work, and at the same time said as if inadvertently: “I transformed you into this look, have you ever resented?” “

Luni…why do you resent?” With a dull voice, “The hostess… gave Luni life, and Luni is… happy for it…” “

But all this was just on my own whim at the beginning-and for this moment Rising, I destroyed your original body,” Lucrezia said lightly, “For a long time at the beginning, I didn’t realize that you had real thinking ability due to the influence of the border. At that time, I only thinks you are a machine, and has carried out many ‘experimental transformations’ on you regardless of the consequences.”

Luni did not respond to her mistress, but suddenly said after a moment of silence: “Your emotions are tense, you have Something on my mind——under normal circumstances, the hostess would not suddenly say such inexplicable words.”

Lucrezia was silent for two or three seconds: “…Do you remember what you said just now? When I just arrived at the restaurant, After waking you up.”

“…Memory retrieval failed, Luni doesn’t remember.” “

You told me that the ‘Old Master’ was looking for me.”

A series of strange noises came from the wind-up doll’s chest, but Not because of a glitch, but because of confused thinking.

“You really don’t remember?” Lucrezia raised her head and looked into Luni’s eyes quietly.

“Memory retrieval failed, Luni doesn’t remember.”

“…It seems that my terrible father doesn’t want me to have any chance to spy on him in reverse,” Lucrezia said with a complicated look on her face. With a smile on her face, she slowly removed a set of deformed gears, her tone was a bit erratic, “He just sent a unilateral signal, telling me…he knows where the Bright Star is, and he knows how to find me…”

“You’re scared.”

“Scared to death—but more of a…sadness than fear.”

“Sadness? Why?”

Lucrezia looked into Luni’s eyes, and shook her head after a long time: “This is too complicated emotion for you, I’m afraid you still can’t understand it now.” “Okay, Luni will try to understand in the

future ” replied the clockwork doll, and then asked again, “Do you think the old master is giving you some kind of warning?” “…

I don’t know, but it really looks like a warning,” Lu said. Kelecia said softly, “It’s even like some kind of announcement before the hunt… He has returned from the subspace, and he is even more elusive than the last time he returned. Maybe I should remind my brother…” “

You Indeed, Mr. Tirian should be reminded that he has already set off for Purand, and the consul of Purland said that the Lost Country is approaching that city-state.”

Lucrecia nodded lightly, and did not repeat Say nothing more, just continue to bow your head and be busy.

…

Duncan carefully put “Nilu” into the antique wooden box, and put the feather-shaped hairpin back into the drawer.

Then he looked at the wooden box where “Nilu” was stored and became worried.

As a grown man, he always felt that there was something wrong with having a girly doll in his bedroom.

But he couldn’t think of any better place than to put it in his bedroom.

Although the first test failed to achieve any results, and did not find any clues pointing to the supernatural from the “Nilu” doll, this is something related to “Lucrecia” after all. Determined whether she could be of any use in the future, he dared not place the doll casually out of his sight.

After struggling for a while, Duncan still sighed, and temporarily put the box of “Nilu” beside his bed.

“If you really have something special, show your hands as soon as possible.” He looked at the gorgeous classical wooden box and shook his head lightly, “Don’t be like Alice, who has to be thrown into the sea to perform coffin charge .”

Of course the wooden box didn’t respond, but Duncan didn’t care.

He came to the window and glanced at the sky outside.

Night had fallen, and the pale, dim gleam of the Creation of the World shone on the great sea.

The powerful exorcism power brought by the sun has subsided in the real world, and those distorted, ominous, and corrosive forces are gradually rising in the whole world. At this time, human beings will enter dreams to avoid the world’s interference with reason.

But as far as Duncan is concerned… he has never felt any discomfort in the night, and he has never seen those shadows that make ordinary people fear.

Night is when his mind is sharpest.

He returned to the desk, quietly spread out a piece of white paper, and took a pen from the side.

These are all things just bought from the Puland city-state.

After pondering for a while, he wrote lines on the paper: In

1889, fragments of the sun appeared and sparked the Pradesh fire;

a “reality” that was destroyed by the fire was hidden under the curtain of the factory in the sixth block; the

community church in the sixth block There is a distorted time and space that is suspected to be a closed loop, and two diametrically opposite realities are superimposed in the church; the

source of Agou’s “humanity” is unknown, but it is obviously not affected by the power of sun fragments

; Affected by space rifts, the nuns in the underground sanctuary are suspected to have died in the process of fighting against the subspace invasion…

(End of this chapter)