Deep Sea Embers Chapter 98: Alice doesn’t know anything

Imagine this picture: You are on a creaking ghost ship, pushing open a wooden door in the deepest corridor, dim oil lamps are gently shaking, flickering in the light, wearing a gothic dress The headless puppet sits in front of the dressing mirror, the puppet holds his head in his hands, the head turns to you, and slowly reveals a stiff smile...

Duncan felt that if he hadn't been on this ship for so many days and knew Alice so well, he would have drawn his gun A in a blink of an eye.

Alice didn't know how evil she had made the atmosphere just now. She obediently pressed her head back to her neck with a "Boom", her reaction quickly regained sensitivity, and she greeted Duncan with a bright smile: "Good evening, Captain! Are you looking for me?"

Duncan finally calmed down and looked at the doll suspiciously for a long time: "What are you doing here? Why does Goathead say you count your hair in the cabin?"

Alice moved her neck from side to side, and then used her fingers to gently straighten the slightly messy hair. The expression on her face was a little embarrassed: "Just... see how much hair is left."

Duncan looked at the doll as if he were mentally retarded, and then he finally noticed something on the edge of the table: it was a spool of spool that didn't know it was tossing out, and there were several silver-white hair wrapped around the spool. , the origin of the hair is obvious...

Duncan's expressionless face: "..."

Alice noticed the captain's gaze, she immediately picked up the spool, and explained to Duncan with a serious face: "Look, this one is called Miffy, this one is called Perry, this one is called Fimi Ya, there is this one, the name is..."

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

"Leave a memory," Alice said solemnly, with a little sadness in her solemnity, "Didn't you say, I'm a puppet, and puppets won't grow their own hair... in case they fall out one day? When it's over, I can still hold the list and reminisce about the good times when I was with them..."

Duncan made this puppet a little confused, and even forgot what he was here for for a while, he was stunned for a long time before he said, "I just said it casually at the time, you don't need to take it to heart... ...No wonder you've been in the cabin for the past two days, and you've been doing this every day? Counting your hair while naming the hair that falls out?"

Alice nodded harmlessly: "Hmm."

Duncan frowned and sighed after a while: "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: "Are you going to tie someone up and take them to the boat?"

Duncan glared at her: "...I'll buy you a few wigs for your spare! Boundless sea moves the natural disaster and runs the human city-state to kidnap a puppet master?"

"It wouldn't be a good idea for a mobile natural disaster to infiltrate a human city-state to buy a wig..." Alice subconsciously mumbled, but just swallowed halfway through her muttering, "Ah, I won't say it, hehe..."

"Don't be silly," Duncan suddenly felt a burst of strength, he waved his hand, and finally remembered the real purpose of his coming here, "Forget it, let you forget about it when you interrupt - Alice, sit down , I came to you on business."

Alice knew this was not a joke when she saw the serious expression on the captain's face. She quickly suppressed her pleasing smile, and while putting away the spool, she quickly sat down on the wooden box beside the bed - sitting upright, with both hands Overlapped on the knee, full of elegance and dignified.

Duncan sighed. For some reason, he was always easily broken in front of Alice - even when he first came to this world, he could remain indifferent and calm in front of the goat head, and even Possessing an open-minded sacrificial body, he can also hold back his expression when facing the corpse on the ground, but only in the face of this too evil doll, his expression and momentum are always wandering between collapse and failure. on the verge of collapse.

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

He hooked his fingers to the side, and a chair in the room creaking immediately ran behind him, he sat down on the chair, tried to restore his expression to the sullen majesty, and looked into Alice's eyes .

"Lee Nora, what's your impression of this name?"

"Lee Nora?" Alice blinked, her face unfeigned puzzled, "Haven't heard of it... Sounds like a woman? And there is a sense of elegance and nobility... Your acquaintance ?"

"It should be your 'acquaintance' in theory, but you say you don't know... well, I believe," Duncan's answer to Alice was not too surprising, he continued, "What about Frost City-State? Are you familiar with it? Do you have any impressions?"

"City of Frost? I heard about it when I was in the box. It seems to be a city-state on the cold sea, and there is a place called Cold Harbor, which is the gateway to Frost and the central sea," Alice thought for a while. , "But I don't know the specifics, I just heard the name."

"What about the 'Alice Guillotine'?"

The doll looked confused: "I know Alice, I'm called Alice - but what is a guillotine?"

Duncan asked several questions in a row like this, but received similar responses.

And this is basically what he expected.

Alice is confused about all of this, just like what she said on the first day of meeting, she doesn't know her past at all, she doesn't know the truth behind "abnormal 099", she never understands that frost city-state, Not to mention the Queen of Frost who died half a century ago.

Even if she looks exactly like the 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 reaction when she heard these "keywords" - now the test is over, The puppet is still the same silly puppet.

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

So... maybe what I should pay attention to is not the doll, but the "coffin"?

Duncan's eyes slowly sharpened, and his attention fell on Alice's ornate heavy wooden box.

The ornate wooden box that once housed the doll is still in the room, and Alice now sits firmly on it.

Alice likes her suitcase so much that she uses it as a stool, a locker, and sometimes sleeps in it—even though the room has a normal bed.

"You open the box and let me see," Duncan said.

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

Duncan stepped forward to look.

The wooden box is lined with soft red velvet, and there are a few clutter in the corners: a comb, a hair spool, a small mirror, and a few metal trinkets.

"I found it on the ship, in another cabin," Alice explained carefully, pointing to the junk in the corner of the box, "I asked Mr. Goat Head, and he said these are unowned , I... can I keep them? I think they are beautiful..."

Duncan looked at the old trinkets.

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

That's the residence permit that the Lost Homes used to belong to the world.

"It's for you, keep it," Duncan nodded, but then his eyes suddenly noticed a small object in the junk pile, and he couldn't help reaching out to pick it up, "This thing... …”

It was a small hairpin, so delicate that it didn't look like something that would appear on the Lost Homes~IndoMTL.com~ It was shaped like a silvery feather with a few waves on the edge, although after a century Time, still as new as ever - this is very different from those old objects.

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

There's even a name that's almost blurted out.

But he couldn't recall the name he was about to blurt out.

Duncan blinked. He was a little stunned. He didn't know what the feelings that suddenly emerged from the bottom of his heart were all about, but gradually, he understood.

As soon as he came to this ship, he knew the name "Duncan Abnomar"... He just came into contact with the "echo" left in his body again!

He looked down at the hairpin in his hand, thinking about how such a delicate and small thing could "resonate" with the biggest natural disaster on 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 said to Alice after recovering, but then he felt that it seemed a bit cold to Miss Doll, and added, "I will go to the city later when I have a chance. Bought you some new ones—these are old."

"Really?!" Alice suddenly showed a surprised expression, "You are so kind, Captain!"

"Don't be too busy boasting," Duncan shook his head and put away the card, "I haven't finished the business yet... Alice, I want to tell you something next, it's about your 'essence' ', you have to listen carefully."

(It's time to push the book~ This time it is Toad's new book "The Legend of the Immortals", the indescribable world of immortality, Toad's book should not need to be introduced too much, in short, just read it~)