Deep Sea Ember

Chapter 22 Crew Code

Alice stopped at the door of the captain's room.

Miss Doll raised her head and looked at the dark oak door in front of her, and noticed a line of words written on the door frame in beautiful floral letters: Gate of the Lost People.

Of course, there was nothing strange about such a line of words appearing on the door frame of the captain's room of the Lost Home, but Alice still frowned subconsciously - she was not curious about this door, but why she knew "words".

She had no memory of learning words, in fact, she did not have any memory of "learning", nor did she remember where she had accumulated experience of being outside and talking to people, but this knowledge naturally existed in her mind.

She can read the letters on the door frame of the captain's room, and she can also understand the purpose of the various furnishings in the room, and it is impossible to learn these things just by lying in a wooden box and listening to the people outside - so where does this knowledge come from?

Before today, Alice had never considered this question, but for some reason, after talking to the "Captain Duncan", the concept of "curiosity" suddenly appeared in the doll's mind, which was supposed to always operate calmly.

She recalled carefully, and the change seemed to have occurred after Duncan asked about the origin of the name "Alice"...... At that moment, she questioned some things that were taken for granted in her mind, and began to try to recall the origin of her name, and then something in her mind loosened.

Alice didn't know if this loosening was good or bad, but she didn't like this confused feeling, so she quickly shook her head, put aside the doubts in her heart, and adjusted her mentality at the door of the captain's cabin, then put her hand on the handle of the oak door and pushed it forward slightly.

The door pattern did not move.

Alice was stunned for a moment, and tried to push again, but felt that the wooden door was unshakable as if it were poured with steel as a whole.

Then, just as she was about to try again, a voice suddenly came out of the captain's cabin—the voice was hoarse and low, as if coming from a piece of rotten wood: "The door is out, ma'am."

It was not Captain Duncan's voice, Alice was startled, but she quickly reacted, and with a hurried "oh" before pulling the door out—this time, the door opened very lightly.

It was only then that she remembered that the captain had indeed pulled the door outward when he had brought her here.

It seemed that the "knowledge of life" that appeared out of thin air in his mind was just knowledge after all, and he still lacked real survival experience after sleeping in a wooden box all year round - Alice reflected on it for a moment, and then carefully poked her head into the captain's cabin.

The

captain's room was empty, the eye-catching nautical table was quietly under the light, the surface of the chart on the table was glowing with a thin mist, and the dark wooden carved goat's head was turning its gaze from the edge of the table, a pair of eyes carved from obsidian stared at her hollowly.

"Please come in, ma'am, the captain is busy, you can wait for him here for a while," the goathead spoke, more polite than Alice had imagined, "Also, try to avoid such a probing gesture, it will make some of the overly neurosensitive guys on the Lost Home feel like they are being hated, and it will be troublesome to appease them—and if your head falls off again, I don't have hands, I can't help you pick it up......

really talked! This wood carving is really talking!

Although Captain Duncan had said before that the goat's head on the sailing table could speak, suddenly hearing a wooden carving crackling and saying that so many things still stunned Alice, she reacted for a moment and replied consciously: "Ah, okay, but my head doesn't fall off that easily, and I was still specially ...... the last time I installed it." Wait, you said that there are some neurosensitive ...... on the Lost Home. Is there still ...... on this ship?"

Alice realized the information revealed in the goathead's words just now, she suddenly looked around with surprise and nervousness, at this moment, she seemed to feel that everything on the captain's room, and even the entire Lost Home, shook in the dark and turned into a "strange thing" like that strange goathead, and the goat's voice came into her ears immediately: "Isn't this strange? It takes a lot of manpower to make such a huge ship run, do you think the great Captain Duncan will wash the deck himself?"

Although Alice's mind that had just woken up and was not very bright felt that there was something wrong with this matter, she could only nod after thinking for a long time: "That's what I said...... So there are a lot of ...... like you on the Lost Home"

"The captain has only one loyal lieutenant, and the rest are a group of people who are not very smart, you don't have to think about communicating with them - they have no interest in communicating with people," Goat Head interrupted her without waiting for Alice to finish speaking, "But considering that you are a newcomer on the ship, it is normal that there are many truths and rules that you don't understand, as Captain Duncan's most loyal first mate and second mate and ......, I need to tell you some common sense that you must know to survive on this ship, after all, the captain will not condescend to explain this kind of thing to the newcomer...... Ma'am, are you ready?"

Alice listened in a daze, she had forgotten her original purpose of coming to the captain's room, she only felt that the goat head in front of her was a large string of crackling every time she opened her mouth, and after opening her mouth three or two times, the rhythm of this conversation was completely out of her side, especially when the other party suddenly popped out a large string of titles just now, she felt that her whole head was buzzing, and at this time she could only subconsciously nod her head when the other party's voice fell: "Ah, ah, okay...... Okay?" "

Very good, then here are a few rules that the crew of the Lost Homeland must know, which will help the newcomers adapt to the environment more quickly and fully accept the blessings from the Lost and the great Captain Duncan on the dangerous and boundless seas......"

The goathead was obviously satisfied with Alice's answer, and he shook his wooden head as he spoke, with obvious pride in his tone -

"First, Captain Duncan is the absolute master of the Lost Home, and Captain Duncan is always right, even if the reality conflicts with Captain Duncan's language, Captain Duncan's judgment shall prevail.

"Second, any crew member can only move in the areas allowed by Captain Duncan, and Captain Duncan has not ordered the open areas, and must not step into the half-step, because those areas do not exist.

"Third, if you step into an unauthorized area and you are lucky enough to survive temporarily, you must stay where you are, wait for Captain Duncan to bring you back, or wait for death in peace - you are absolutely not allowed to return without permission, because you are not returning to the Lost Home.

"Fourth, the Lost Home is always on the right course, don't question the captain's sailing plan, if you find that the scenery around the Lost Home is different from what you expected, or if you find that the Lost Home has fallen into a 'deeper' sea, then this is part of a normal sailing plan.

"Fifth, the captain will occasionally leave the ship, but he will definitely return, and while the captain is away, the Lost will continue to sail normally, but all crew members must not approach the bridge at the stern - the rudder system will be insecure when the captain leaves, and the stern cable will hang all daredevils who show 'usurpation'.

"Sixth, on the Lost Home, there are only six basic rules for crew members.

"Seventh, the door of the captain's room opens outward."

Goathead seemed to have popularized "common sense" to new crew members more than once, and he said these rules very smoothly and naturally, but Alice immediately noticed something was wrong when she heard the last two: "Wait, Mr. Goathead, you just said the sixth rule......"

"Sixth, on the Lost Home, there are only six basic rules for crew." Goathead immediately replied, and when he mentioned these basic rules, he did not flinch his feet.

Alice was a little suspicious for a moment whether something was wrong with herself or the "first mate" in front of her: "But you also mentioned the seventh ...... just now."

"Seventh, the door of the captain's room opens out." The goat's head replied very naturally.

Alice looked at the dark goathead wood carving on the table in a daze, and after doubting her ears, she began to doubt her own brain - but soon she realized that she didn't have a brain, so she confirmed it again: "These two ...... Isn't it contradictory?"

"No contradiction."

Listening to Goathead's firm answer, looking at the other party's empty and dark eyes, Alice opened her mouth, but suddenly swallowed all her doubts back.