Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 545

[Chapter 543 Alice’s Simple Theory]

This was the first time since the “reunion” that Lucretia saw such a complex, heavy, and warm expression on her “father’s” face.

Before that, her father had also smiled at her and shown many humane behaviors, but for some reason, she always felt that there was a vague sense of disobedience behind those smiles and words and deeds. She tried hard to pretend to be “friendly” after losing her memory due to the space. This sense of inconsistency made her always uneasy.

However, at this moment, she finally saw some kind of heartfelt emotion on the other person’s face – an apology and a regret that was difficult for others to understand.

But she didn’t know if this apology was for herself.

“I still don’t know enough,” the witch lady sighed softly, “I thought I had more or less caught up with you.” “…The

Homeless Ship finally fell into the subspace, and you didn’t catch up. Come on, this is a good thing.” Duncan shook his head, then took one last look at the quietly floating “moon”, turned and walked towards the connecting bridge away from the platform, “Go back first, Lucy.” Lucretia was a little

bit Surprised: “Aren’t you going to study it for a while?”

“I’m not a scholar, and I don’t have professional research methods and equipment.” Duncan waved his hand, “I just want to see it with my own eyes, but what should I do? Uncovering its secrets depends on professional scholars.”

After saying this, he paused and added: “I will stay in Qingfeng Port during this period, and I will pay attention to your work on the ‘Moon’ at any time. progress. In addition, if the same thing as Taran El happens to other elves, please tell me as soon as possible.” “

I understand,” Lucretia nodded immediately in response, then she hesitated, and then Asked, “About your arrival…can I tell Archon Sarah Mel? Of course, I will not disclose it to more people casually…”

“It’s up to you,” Duncan nodded, “You can tell whoever you want – their reaction to this has nothing to do with me.”

Lucretia lowered her head slightly: “Yes.”

After a moment, Zheng paused. On the Lost Home somewhere on the sea surface outside the luminous geometry, a door of rotating and spreading flames suddenly appeared on the front deck.

The door opened with the crackling sound of flames, and Duncan’s figure stepped out – Alice, who was holding a big mop next to her and scrubbing the deck with several other mops, immediately ran over happily: ” The captain is back!”

Duncan waved his hand to disperse the flames behind him. Looking at the Gothic doll in front of him with a mop in his hand and a happy smile on his face, he nodded simply: “Yes, he’s back. “

Did it go well?” Alice threw the mop aside and looked at the captain happily, “You have been there for a long time. Did you talk a lot with Miss Lucretia? You went to that ‘ball’ Side? What does it look like…ah!”

The mop thrown aside by Alice suddenly jumped up, hit the head of the cheerful puppet lady hard with a wooden pole, and then jumped on the deck to run to the bucket. I went to wash myself.

Alice covered her head and looked at Duncan confused and aggrieved: “Why did it hit me?! It almost killed me…”

Duncan looked at the doll lady with simple and clear emotions, and looked at her smile and smile just now. The trouble at this moment, unknowingly, the annoyance and sense of loss accumulated in my heart quietly dissipated a little.

Alice was still aggrieved.

“…You’d better check to see if that’s the mop used to scrub the deck. Maybe it ‘works’ in the restaurant,” Duncan laughed, reached out and pressed Alice’s head, and then asked curiously He said, “Also, I’ve been wanting to ask you – the mop and bucket on this boat can clean it by yourself, why do you insist on washing the deck yourself?” “I’ll help!”

Alice puffed up her chest confidently, ” How tired they are of wiping themselves!”

Duncan’s eyes trembled, and he turned his gaze silently, looking at the mops and buckets not far away who were cleaning the deck quickly, as if they were afraid that if they were a step too late, some doll would catch them “helping”. After a moment of silence, he shook his head: “As long as you are happy… you are happy.”

Alice nodded vaguely, and then saw Duncan turning around, as if preparing to return to the captain’s cabin, she couldn’t help but said: “Captain, you have to go back and rest. “

…Well, I’m a little tired.”

“Captain…” Alice still looked a little worried. She walked over and tugged on Duncan’s sleeve, “Are you okay?”

” Why do you ask?” Duncan stopped in confusion and turned to look at the not-so-smart doll.

“Because you have been sighing a lot in the past two days, and you have spent more time in the captain’s cabin than outside – Miss Nina feels that you have something on your mind, but she is embarrassed to ask you,” Alice answered honestly, “In addition, you looked very bad when you came back just now, as if… you had a lot of things that you were holding back in your heart. But now you look better than before.” Duncan looked at the doll in front of him in surprise

.

He didn’t expect that Alice, who usually looked careless and confused, would actually observe and notice these things, and he didn’t expect that she would just grab him and say all these things – maybe it was because of her

usual If you don’t have many things on your mind, why don’t you know how to hesitate and hesitate?

Some obscure associations emerged in Duncan’s mind, but looking at the doll in front of him who still looked worried and confused, he didn’t know what to say.

After all, even facing the knowledgeable Lucretia, there were too many things that he couldn’t explain clearly.

“You can’t understand.” After a moment of silence, Duncan shook his head. “It’s very complicated. It’s so complicated that it can’t be explained to anyone. Even Maurice, let alone you, can’t understand it.” But Alice just

said He blinked and said without hesitation: “Then you can tell me.”

Duncan couldn’t laugh or cry: “Didn’t I just say that you don’t understand…” “

But I don’t understand many of the things you usually say,” Alice said matter-of-factly, “I understand many things. I don’t understand, but you will still tell me – I am very suitable for listening to people talking about things. I will listen whether I understand…”

Duncan’s expression suddenly became a little subtle. Hearing this silly doll’s straightforward and even somewhat “proud” magical logic, he couldn’t find anything to refute for a while.

Alice was still looking straight at the “captain” in front of her. She didn’t feel that it was a shame that she usually didn’t understand many things, nor did she feel that there was anything wrong with what she said at the moment – she thought, she She was curious, so she spoke up.

If you have something on your mind, just say it—that’s how everything works in Alice’s uncomplicated worldview.

She suddenly ran away, ran not far away, picked up a large wooden barrel that was half her height, and placed it on the deck near the guardrail of the ship. Then she picked up another one and placed it next to the large wooden barrel.

She climbed up to the wooden barrel quickly, smiled and waved to Duncan: “Captain, please sit down too – Miss Vanna said, blow the wind and look at the sea, you will be in a good mood.” Duncan hesitated

. After a while, he suddenly laughed.

This doll is working hard, trying to use her limited knowledge and experience to find ways to make the “captain” feel better.

Duncan walked over and sat on the barrel side by side with Alice.

His mood didn’t change because of the sea breeze – but he did feel a little better.

“Alice.”

“Huh?”

“Let me ask you a question,” Duncan thought. At first, he tried hard to think about how to make Alice understand the concepts of “moon” and “starry sky”, but now he suddenly found himself In fact, there is no need to explain these complicated things to her, “If you live in a place, and there is one thing that is unique to the place where you live – it can never come from elsewhere, and it can never belong to anywhere else, as long as When you see this thing, you know where it comes from…”

Alice thought for a moment and then curiously said: “It’s like I’m living on the Lost Home and you are the only captain of the Lost Home?”

Duncan was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly: “Your metaphor is not quite right…but it can be understood in this way.” “

Oh, what then?”

“…Then, you left there, and you can’t go back.” Duncan’s tone suddenly became a little lower, “You have arrived in a very distant and strange place. Everything here is different from home. You have lived here for a while and want to find your way home, but suddenly, you I saw that ‘thing’ – that thing that in theory can only appear in your hometown and should not be seen in a foreign land under any circumstances…” Duncan

trailed off, but Alice was still thinking blankly. But after thinking for a while, she suddenly laughed.

“Then I must have returned to the Lost Home!”

“Back to the Lost Home?”

“What you said can be understood this way – you are the only captain of the Lost Home, and one day I was sent to the Lost Home My hometown is far away, and I can’t find my way back to the ship, but you suddenly appear in front of me again – then I must have gone home! After all, wherever you are, that’s my hometown.” The puppet is

happy He smiled and looked at Duncan confidently.

“You said, that thing can only appear in ‘hometown’, and now that it appears in front of you, that means you are at home now!”

Alice completed her theory, and then turned around on the big wooden barrel. He turned over, put his hands on his chin, and leaned forward with a bright smile on his face:

“Captain, is this a brain teaser?”

Duncan was a little dazed.

He stared blankly at the doll lady on the barrel opposite. When the sea breeze blew from the side, Alice’s silver-white hair flew up, just like her always bright and cheerful mood.

Then he laughed.

“Yes, that’s a brainteaser – now we’re all around,” he jumped down from the barrel and said to Alice with a smile, “and there’s something else.”

“Huh?”

“Your posture is unstable.”

Alice, who was still leaning forward and supporting her chin with both hands, was stunned when

she heard the words: “Huh?” The next second, she heard a slight sound suddenly coming from her neck. There is a soft click sound.

“Boo-er–“

With two gurgles, Alice fell to the ground twice. Then, her signature stuttering voice came from the deck-

“Captain, help, help… help. …”

(End of chapter)