Deep Sea Embers Chapter 26: Starless Night

Seriously, Duncan suddenly found that when the pigeon on his shoulder spoke, it was difficult for him to walk even with a nerve thicker than a pillar.

At this moment, he desperately wished he could put a parrot on his shoulder like a normal pirate captain - what about a monkey?

But he has already pushed open the door to the chart room, and it is impossible to turn his head back at this time.

In the room of Chen Fang's nautical table, the goat head was happily chanting the twelfth legend about sea fish stew. The sound of the captain's bedroom opening the door finally interrupted the noisy guy, and his dark wooden head immediately disappeared. Turning in Duncan's direction, his tone rose in delight: "Ah, Captain! You're finally out--I have to tell you, Miss Alice is a wonderful person to talk to, and I haven't had such a good chat with anyone in years. , you know..."

Duncan directly ignored the loud pressing of the goat head, and immediately looked at the victim opposite the sailing table, and then saw the headless puppet sitting upright on the chair, with his hand in his hand. Holding his head, he pressed his ear firmly at the same time.

Even so, Alice's eyes were still sloppy as if she had taken twelve advanced math lessons, and even Duncan didn't respond when he walked in front of her.

Duncan: "..."

"She pulled her head off herself," Goat Head explained before Duncan could speak, "although I don't know why she did it..."

How powerful is the goat's head's babble, it can force a cursed puppet to pull its head out to fight against the sound waves? !

While Duncan was shocked, the goat head who said hi finally noticed a strange guy brought out by the captain. His wooden head turned slightly, and his dark eyes suddenly stared at Duncan's shoulder. Dove on top: "Huh? Captain, this is on your shoulder..."

"It's called Ay, and it's my pet from now on," Duncan said succinctly, using as few sentences as possible to avoid possible loopholes, while watching Goathead's reaction to this.

"Your pet?" Goat's head froze for a moment, and then he seemed to be thinking about something on his own, "Ah, the Lost Homes did sense that you temporarily left the ship just now... You are going to carry out spiritual activities. Have you walked in the world? This is the trophy you brought back from your walk in the spirit world"

Walking in the spirit world?

A word he had never heard before suddenly popped up, and Duncan thought of the brass compass in the captain's quarters, the writing left by the real Captain Duncan, and the wonder of the soul's shuttle projecting into the distance. The experience, he vaguely corresponded to it in his heart, and after feeling that his guesses were almost inseparable, he nodded indifferently: "It's just a little distraction."

Duncan's voice fell, and the goat head complimented unexpectedly: "Ah! He is indeed a great Captain Duncan, even a simple walk in the spirit world can bring back the spoils - this is a A pigeon? It must be something special to be your pet? You even hang your compass on it? Is it... ah, of course, you are always right, but this pigeon has What's special? Could it be..."

Duncan heard something euphemistic in the compliment of the goat head, and a move in his mind realized that the goat head apparently knew the brass compass now hanging on Ay's chest, and that this compass was very important to the real Captain Duncan. Words are obviously very important - so important that they shouldn't be placed casually on a new "pet".

But even if he notices something wrong, he can't do anything about it, because the compass is now "tied" to the dove, and even... according to the control feedback of the fire of the spirit body, the dove seems to be at the moment. It is like the body of the compass!

Duncan thought quickly in his heart, but he still maintained an unwavering expression on his face, and it was such a stunned effort that Ay, who was squatting on his shoulders, suddenly let out a loud cooing. With a cooing sound, it flapped its wings and flew to the head of the goat.

The dark eyes of the goat's head stared at the pigeon for a moment, and the latter tilted his head in a pretentious manner and pecked the face of the goat's head with his mouth shell: "Can you charge Q coins?"

Duncan: "..."

"An anomaly with intellect?!" The goat head was obviously stunned, but then he reacted in a very surprised tone, "This pigeon can speak?!"

Duncan immediately reminded politely next to him: "You can speak too."

Pigeon Ai also took two steps on the table, and while walking away, she muttered to herself: "Is it like a word, is it like a word..."

Upon seeing this, Duncan rubbed his fingertips, and with the sudden jump of green flames, the pigeon pacing on the table disappeared into the air in the blink of an eye, and returned to his shoulder in the next instant.

"Yes, it is a psychic anomaly, and it is directly controlled by me," Duncan nodded to the goat's head, "Is there any problem?"

Goathead hurriedly replied: "Ah...of course not, of course not, so there is no problem at all - everything is in the hands of the great Captain Duncan."

Duncan ignored the goat's head, quickly ending the topic and then focused on Alice, who was still holding his head in a daze - perhaps the previous experience of open-mindedness had further strengthened his nerves. Ren, maybe he got used to it after watching it a few times. At this time, he didn't think it was too evil when he looked at Alice holding her hair in a daze. Instead, he thought this guy was a little... cute.

He reached out and patted Miss Doll's shoulder: "Wake up, wake up, wake up."

Alice's body suddenly jolted, as if awakened from a long nightmare, and then the head that she held in her hands opened and closed her mouth and said, "Ship...boat...ship..."

Duncan: "You put your head on first."

Only then did Alice react, and hurriedly put her head back to its original position. After the joints closed with a click, her voice finally returned to smoothness: "Ah, Captain, are you back? It seems to have happened just now... Mr. Goat Head finished speaking. ?"

The goat head on the table immediately said, "No, we just talked about some legends about sea fish stew, this topic can be..."

Duncan succinctly: "Shut up."

"Oh."

Alice on the side trembled very clearly the moment the goat head opened her mouth, and a dignified cursed puppet had a horrified expression on her face, even if the goat head was honestly under the captain's order in the next second Closing her mouth, she still looked at the direction of the sailing table with lingering fears.

Duncan suspects that this puppet lady won't step into the captain's room for quite some time to come.

Thinking of this, he finally asked curiously: "You came to me, what's the matter?"

"I..." Alice's expression was a little dull, as if her initial visit to the captain's room had been forgotten after a conversation with Goat Head, but after a few seconds she still reacted, "Ah yes Now, I just want to ask, is there a place to take a bath on the boat? My wooden box was in the sea before, and now my joints are a little... not very comfortable."

Speaking of the end, the expression on Miss Doll's face was obviously a little embarrassing, but in fact it should be Duncan who was more embarrassed than her - after all, her box was thrown off the ship by Duncan before~IndoMTL.com~ and also threw it away several times.

The embarrassment flashed in his heart, and Duncan tried his best to keep the expression on his face unchanged, and his tone was flat: "Just for this?"

Alice sits cautiously in the chair: "Just...for this."

"For many ocean-going ships, fresh water is an extremely valuable resource, and taking a bath is a luxury that requires restraint," Duncan said solemnly, but then suddenly smiled, "But you Fortunately, Homeless is not an ordinary ship, and fresh water is not a problem here. Come with me, there is a bathing place in the cabin below the middle deck, and to get there you must first cross the upper deck."

Alice stood up immediately—she really didn't want to be there for a second with the goat's head.

Duncan glanced back at Goathead before leaving the room: "You stay at the helm."

After the explanation, he got up and pushed open the door of the captain's room, and brought Alice to the deck.

Now the night has fallen.

The night sky is clear on the endless sea.

This is the first time Duncan has stood under the clear skies of the world after days of cloudy clouds.

He stopped suddenly and looked up at the sky, staring at the night without moving.

The night sky is dark and starless, and there are no celestial bodies.

The only thing that can be seen is a faint gray-white "crack" that seems to have torn the entire sky. The cracks slowly escaped outward, like bloodstains that spread out in a pool of deep water.

This "pale scar" across the sky illuminates the entire boundless sea, more than twice as bright as the moonlight in Duncan's memory.