Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 99

[Chapter 99 Alice Knows Nothing]

Imagine this picture: you are on a creaking ghost ship, you push open a wooden door at the bottom of the corridor, and the dim oil lamp is flickering and flickering in the light , a headless puppet wearing a gothic dress is sitting in front of the vanity mirror. The puppet is holding its own head in its hands. The head is turned towards you, slowly showing a stiff smile…

Duncan felt that if he hadn’t been on this boat already After so many days, and being so familiar with Alice, at this time he has already drawn his gun and went up.

Alice didn’t know how evil she had made the atmosphere just now. She obediently pressed her head back on her neck with a “Bo’er”, her reaction quickly regained her sensitivity, and she greeted Duncan with a bright smile: “Captain, evening! Okay! Are you looking for me?”

Duncan finally settled down, and looked at the doll suspiciously for a long time: “What are you doing here? Why did the goat head say that you are counting hairs in the cabin?”

Alice moved left and right After rubbing his neck, he used his fingers to gently smooth out the slightly messy hair. The expression on his face was a little embarrassed: “Just… see how much hair is left.”

Duncan looked at the doll as if he were mentally handicapped. Then, he finally noticed something on the edge of the table: it was a spool that was tumbling out from nowhere, and a few silver-white hairs were wrapped around the spool, and the source of the hairs was obvious… Duncan said with a blank expression, “

… …”

Alice noticed the captain’s sight, she immediately picked up the spool, and explained to Duncan seriously: “Look, this one is called Miffy, this one is called Perry, and this one is called Fimia , and this one, the name is…”

Duncan was finally shocked: “You even named every hair you lost?!” “

Keep a memory,” Alice said solemnly, and then With a little sadness, “Didn’t you say that I am a doll, and the doll can’t grow its own hair… In case the hair falls out one day, I can still take the list and recall the good times when I was with them …”

Duncan was a little confused by the puppet, and for a moment he even forgot what he was doing here. He was stunned for a long time before he choked out a sentence: “I just said it casually at the time, you don’t have to take it to heart… No wonder what you said You have been staying in the cabin for the past two days, cooperating and doing this every day? Counting hairs and naming the hairs that fall out?”

Alice nodded harmlessly: “Yeah.”

Duncan sullenly, After a long while, I sighed: “Okay, I’ll look for you in the city-state later, to see if there are craftsmen who are good at this field who can help you…”

Alice was taken aback: “You want to tie people up and take them to the boat?”

Duncan glared at her: “…I’ll buy you some wigs for later use! Is it plausible that the boundless sea moves natural disasters to run to human city-states and kidnap a puppeteer?

” …” Alice muttered subconsciously, but she quickly swallowed it back after muttering halfway, “Ah, I won’t say it, hehe…” “Don’t be stupid, hehe,”

Duncan suddenly felt a burst of strength, he waved his hand, and finally remembered My real purpose of coming here is, “Forget it, I’ll forget about it if you interrupt your business—Alice, sit down, I’m here to see you for business.” Alice saw the serious

expression of the captain and knew that this was not When he was joking, he quickly restrained his ingratiating smile, and while putting away the spool, he quickly sat down on the wooden box beside the bed—sitting upright, with his hands folded on his knees, full of elegance and dignity.

Duncan sighed. For some reason, he was always easily lost in front of Alice—even when he first came to this world, he could remain indifferent and calm in front of the goat’s head, and even possessed A sacrificial person with a bright heart can hold his expression when he is faced with remains all over the floor, but only when facing this overly evil puppet, his expression and momentum are always wandering on the verge of collapsing or not collapsing superior.

Thinking about it carefully, this is probably the power of the style of painting – Alice’s style of painting is really hard to hold back.

He ticked his fingers to the side, and a chair in the room creaked immediately behind him. He sat down on the chair, tried to restore his gloomy and majestic expression, and looked into Alice’s eyes.

“Lee Nora, what impression do you have of the name?”

“Lee Nora?” Alice blinked, her face full of confusion, “I’ve never heard of it…it sounds like a woman? And There is an elegant and noble feeling… your acquaintance?”

“In theory, it should be your ‘acquaintance’, but you said you don’t know… Well, I believe it,” Duncan was not very surprised by Alice’s answer, he Then he asked, “What about the Frost City? Are you familiar with it? Do you have any impression?”

“The Frost City? I heard it when I was in the box. It seems to be a city on the cold sea, and there is a city called Lenggang The place is the gateway to Frost and the Central Sea,” Alice thought for a while, “but I don’t know the details, and I’ve only heard the name.” ” What   about

the ‘Alice Guillotine’?”

Confused: “I know Alice, my name is Alice—but what is the guillotine?”

Duncan asked several questions in succession, but the responses he got were similar.

And this was basically what he expected.

Alice was confused about all of this, just like what she said on the first day they met, she didn’t know her past at all, she didn’t know the truth behind “Anomaly 099”, she never knew about that frosty city-state, let alone listened to it. Speaking of the Frost Queen who died half a century ago.

Even if her appearance is exactly the same as that Frost Queen.

Duncan didn’t expect to get many positive answers when he asked these questions. He just wanted to try and see if Alice would have any special reactions when he heard these “key words” – now that the test is over, the doll is still It’s that silly doll.

He believed that this timid puppet didn’t dare to fake a real reaction in front of him-her intelligence should not support her to perform such high-end operations.

So… maybe what I should pay attention to is not the doll, but the “coffin”?

Duncan’s eyes gradually became sharper, and his attention fell on Alice’s gorgeous and heavy wooden box.

The ornate wooden box in which the doll had once been contained was still in the room, and Alice sat securely on it now.

Alice loved her trunk, which she used as a stool and a locker, and sometimes slept in it – even though there were normal beds in the room.

“You open the box and let me see it,” Duncan said.

Alice felt a little puzzled, but she quickly jumped off the box and opened the wooden box casually.

Duncan stepped forward to look.

The wooden box was lined with soft red velvet, and there were a few miscellaneous things in the corner: a comb, a spool of hair, a small mirror, and a few metal trinkets.

“I found it from the ship, in another cabin,” Alice pointed to the sundries in the corner of the box, and explained carefully, “I asked Mr. Goathead, and he said that these are unowned items, I… …Can I keep them? I think they are beautiful…”

Duncan looked at the worn trinkets.

Perhaps a century ago, someone on this ship also wore them on the ends of their hair and on their chests.

That is the proof that the Lost Homeland once belonged to the world.

“Give it to you, keep it,” Duncan nodded, but then his gaze suddenly noticed a small object in the pile of sundries, and he couldn’t help but reach out to pick it up, “This thing…”

That It is a small hairpin, delicate and not like something that would appear on the Lost Homelander. It is shaped like a piece of silver-white feather, with some broken waves dotted on the edge. Although it has passed through a century, it is still brand new—this One point is very different from those old objects.

Duncan frowned. For some reason, when he saw the issued card, he felt a little…nostalgic.

There was even a name that almost came out of my mouth.

But he still couldn’t recall what the name that was about to blurt out was.

Duncan blinked, he was a little astonished, he didn’t know what was going on with the emotion that suddenly emerged from the bottom of his heart, but gradually, he came to understand.

It was as if he had known the name “Duncan Abnomar” the first time he came aboard the ship… He just came into contact with the remaining “echo” in his body again just now!

He looked down at the hairpin in his hand, thinking how such a delicate and small thing could “resonate” with the biggest natural disaster in the boundless sea, but soon, Alice’s voice woke him up from his thoughts: “Captain? Captain You…”

“Sorry, I can’t give you this card,” Duncan recovered and said to Alice, but then he felt that this seemed a bit cold to Miss Puppet, so he added, “I will go to you later if I have a chance. The city-state will buy you some new ones—these things are very old.”

“Really?!” Alice suddenly showed a surprised expression, “It’s very kind of you, Captain!”

“Stop praising,” Duncan shook his head , put away the issuing card casually, “I haven’t finished the business yet…Alice, I’m going to tell you something next, it’s about your ‘essence’, you have to listen carefully.” (Time to push the book ~

this The second is Hama’s new book “Biography of Strange Immortals”, the indescribable world of cultivating immortals. Hama’s book should not be introduced too much, anyway, just read it~)

(End of this chapter)