Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 723

[Chapter 705 Dolls and Dolls and Dolls]

In the restaurant on the upper deck, Duncan and Lucretia sat side by side, each with a straight face, while the two joint overlords who had just replaced their heads sat on the chairs opposite them. Above – Rune looked a little nervous and uneasy, while Alice looked as bright as ever, even looking like she hadn’t had enough fun.

After holding it in for a few seconds, Duncan finally spoke first: “Is it fun?”

Luni lowered her head nervously and fiddled with her fingers, while Alice immediately nodded happily: “It’s fun, Captain! You don’t know , it turns out that our interfaces are all the same size…”

The corner of Duncan’s eyes suddenly trembled, and then he noticed the small movements of Lu Ni’s fingers. He felt that this movement was a bit familiar inexplicably, and after a moment of confusion, he looked thoughtfully. The “Witch of the Sea” next to her: “Did you do something wrong when you were a child? Did you also like to pick your fingers?”

“Well… that happened when I was very young…” Lucretia did not expect that the topic would suddenly drop. On his own, he was stunned for a moment, and then his expression became slightly strange, “You…you still remember these?” “

…I don’t remember, but there are still some familiar feelings,” Duncan shook his head gently, and then He coughed twice and turned his gaze back to the two puppets, “Who came up with the idea first?”

This time the two puppets finally answered in unison: “Shirley!”

Duncan: “…?”

After a moment, Duncan and Lucretia were still sitting on the bench in the restaurant with a straight face, but this time, in addition to the two joint bullies, there was also Shirley sitting across from them.

Agou was lying on the floor next to Shirley, trying hard to hold his head while muttering in a low voice: “Don’t look at me, it’s none of my business. I tried to persuade you not to hold him back…”

Duncan looked at He glanced at the grumbling Agou, and then his eyes fell on Shirley, and he recalled the incident when she tricked Alice into pouring super glue into her neck, and she couldn’t help but sigh in her heart – after all, she still had to watch this carefully, lest she The guy who is not in chaos in the world…

“You said you gave them some bad ideas when you were free,” Duncan sighed and looked at Shirley helplessly, “We are sailing in the spiritual world, which is not as good as land – what if they really I got dizzy and fell into the sea. Are you responsible for fishing it out?”

Shirley was shrinking her neck in a familiar manner and pretending to accept criticism. After hearing the captain’s words, her eyes suddenly lit up: “Does that mean you can play like this on land? !”

Duncan: “…Do you want to listen to what you are saying?”

Shirley smiled awkwardly, but then her smile began to change. She leaned forward with a playful smile and muttered: “You can’t blame me, Captain, Think about it, didn’t you have this idea when you saw the two of them? The two dolls that can take off their heads still use the same kind of joints. According to the old man’s words… they just have the spirit of exploration, right? Don’t you want to try…?”

Shirley’s words sounded like a very tempting subspace p*u*s*y to a curious person. Duncan’s eyebrows couldn’t help but twitch, but just as he was about to speak, he heard something next to him. There was an inaudible murmur: “It seems to make sense…”

Duncan’s expression suddenly became a little subtle, and he turned to look in the direction where the murmur came from – Lucretia raised her head in embarrassment and reacted. Then he quickly made up for it: “Of course this kind of behavior is not worth promoting. The experiment must be based on caution and safety…”

Duncan finally tried hard to control the expression on his face, maintaining a calm and serious look and pretending to ignore it. Lucretia muttered just now, and then sighed, her eyes falling on the two joint bullies opposite: “Don’t play like this in the future, at least don’t play like this on the boat – it’s not safe. Remember?”

“Hey, I know, Captain!” “Yes, old master.” “

You go back to the house and stay. If you really don’t want to do your homework, you can read a book, even a picture book.” Duncan waved to Shirley again, “We will We are about to leave the spirit world, and then we will enter the eternal curtain. Before that, don’t make any trouble.”

Shirley lowered her head and honestly agreed: “Oh, okay, Captain…”

The restaurant finally became quiet, and the snow Li left with Agou, while Alice dragged Luni to a corner of the restaurant, muttering something about what they were talking about – at least they each had their own heads.

Duncan glanced at the direction they left, shook his head and sighed, but for some reason, he felt a little relaxed and happy in his heart.

It seemed that he hadn’t breathed a sigh of relief like this for a long time since the Qingfeng Harbor incident.

But Lucretia’s slightly uneasy voice came from the side: “Are you…angry?”

Duncan did not look back: “Why do you say that?”

“…We are going to the border next to investigate the cultists. Holy Land, this is a dangerous and serious matter, but Luni is causing trouble for you at this time…” She

was halfway through, but Duncan suddenly interrupted her: “Is that when you were a child?”

Luke Lecia didn’t react for a moment: “…huh?”

“Luni,” Duncan raised his hand and pointed at the wind-up doll who was talking to Alice in the distance and showing a happy smile from time to time. “What were you like when you were a child? I mean in terms of personality.”

Lucretia didn’t speak for a while, just pursed her lips. After a while, she whispered: “…Luni is the first one I made. A doll, I… sealed in her body some parts of my soul that could easily lead me to make mistakes. Although in most cases these sealed souls will not affect her operation, occasionally, they will Let her behave weirdly.”

“So Rune seems calm and reliable most of the time, but when she’s with Alice, she becomes lively?” “

…Yes, it seems that this will cause her to make mistakes – at least to improve The chance of making a mistake.”

Duncan looked back at Lucretia and asked: “Is this level of ‘making a mistake’ a problem?”

Lucretia was silent for a few seconds and replied softly: “At the border, making mistakes It’s easy to die.”

Duncan didn’t speak for a while, but looked thoughtfully at the two puppets in the distance who were chatting happily. After a while, he said calmly: “When you are by my side , you can make mistakes.”

Lucrecia seemed a little dazed for a moment. She opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn’t say anything. She just looked in the direction of her father’s gaze:

Alice seemed to be looking in the direction of her father. Introducing some interesting things on the ship to Luni, at least the interesting things she knew, and Luni listened with interest – Alice rarely chatted so speculatively with people other than the captain, and Luni… As the “first mate” on the Brilliant Star and a servant of the “Sea Witch”, I have probably never met anyone of the same kind who can communicate like this like Alice.

The two dolls seemed to be getting along very happily.

And at this moment, Duncan seemed to suddenly remember something: “By the way, there is something I have been delaying…”

As he said this, he waved in the air and was eating potatoes on the table not far away. The strip of Ai disappeared in an instant, and the next second, a constantly rotating ring of green fire appeared next to Duncan. The latter stretched out his hand to explore the ring of fire and took out something from it. On the table in front of you.

Lucretia looked at the thing with some surprise – it was an exquisite wooden box about seventy centimeters long. Apart from its exquisite and simple workmanship, it seemed to have nothing special about it.

But gradually, she felt a long-lost… familiarity and kindness from this wooden box.

“This is Nilu,” Duncan opened the wooden box, and an exquisite three-pointed doll appeared in front of Lucretia. “I said I would give it to you a long time ago, but there are too many things going on during this time. It’s been delayed, and now I just see Alice and Luni together… Take it, it can be regarded as reuniting their ‘sisters’.”

Lucrecia’s expression seemed a little strange, she took the wooden box, carefully He took the three-dimensional doll named “Nilu” out of the box, placed her on the table, and let her sit leaning against the wooden box, but her thoughts seemed to drift away gradually –

on that distant afternoon, Accompanied by the crisp sound of wind chimes, she and her brother walked into the doll shop hand in hand. Luni and Nilu sat quietly in the window, and the warm sunshine shone on their exquisite hair and dresses, like a layer of Hazy yarn.

At that time, she could only take one of them.

But those were already the few warm memories she had of her childhood – and in those warm days, the “sun” was something destined to rise in the sky the next day.

The “Witch” was slightly in a trance, and in the trance, the little doll sitting on the table leaning on the wooden box slowly turned its head and showed a hollow smile to her.

Lucretia woke up from her trance and saw the little doll still sitting quietly on the table, its head obediently tilted to the side, and its soulless body was empty.

She stretched out her hand and put her finger on the doll’s forehead: “Go back to sleep.”

The doll’s body suddenly shook, as if it had been injected with a moment of life, and then she climbed up stiffly, stumbling into the delicate In the wooden box, he grabbed the lid of the wooden box on the side and tried hard to close the lid.

But her strength was too little.

Duncan pushed it aside and closed the lid of the doll.

“Thank you.” A small voice sounded from the box, and then it was quiet again.

“It’s amazing.” Duncan raised his head and said to Lucretia in surprise.

“We are entering the border, and many things have become active,” Lucretia said. “Injecting souls into some things in advance can prevent some uninvited guests from ‘smuggling’-Luni was the first to do this many years ago. This is the first time I ‘wake up’.”

“…It’s time to come up and get some air.” Duncan nodded and slowly stood up from behind the table as he spoke.

Following his movements, the Lost Home began to gradually rise from the depths of the spiritual world. Outside the porthole of the restaurant, the sky was gradually brightening.

The shadows entrenched in the spiritual world gradually faded from all directions.

(End of chapter)