Deep Sea Ember

Chapter 13 Long-term bedridden is not good for the cervical spine

The deep sea is worthy of fear.

Alice is a doll, but she still has smart eyes that are enough to express her feelings and changes in facial expressions that are difficult to explain with common sense, so Duncan can clearly detect that kind of deep sea from the other person's expression...... Or the fear and resistance of some "things" in the deep sea, and then thinking of the spiritual world and the so-called border visions he had seen at sea before, he could easily realize that the vast sea he was in definitely hid great horror.

However, the Lost Home sailed on this boundless ocean, and the mechanical ship it had bumped into in the spirit world before also sailed in this ocean.

This couldn't help but make him curious about something more distant—what was the land in this world like? In other words, does this world have a normal land?

However, the doll in front of him could not answer her own questions, and most of Alice's memory was in a greasy state, according to Duncan's judgment, it should be some kind of seal...... or the impact of "suppression".

He still remembered the cabin situation he observed through the huge perception of the Lost Home, the mysterious runes, the religious symbolic arrangements, and the symbols engraved on the outside of Alice's "coffin" all said one thing:

the "cursed doll" must be deeply feared in the "civilized society".

Duncan glanced at the puppet lady in front of him meaningfully, and the latter returned with a calm and indifferent gaze.

"Again, you don't remember where you came from at all, and you can't remember what you have experienced in the past, right?"

"I don't remember," replied Alice earnestly, "I've been lying in this big box for as long as I can remember—though I don't know why, but it seems that there is always a group of nervous people around me, who are afraid that I will come out of it, so they use all sorts of means to seal the box, to be honest, and now in retrospect, I suddenly think that the circle of nails you drove to the lid of my box is quite friendly...... Although you added eight more shells later, at least you didn't pour lead into it anymore, right?

Duncan didn't care about Alice's trash talk this time, but then asked, "Then where did your name come from?" Who gave you that name? If you really never left the box or had contact with other people, why did you have a name? Could it be that you built it yourself?

Alice was suddenly stunned.

She seemed to be really confused, remaining in a daze for more than ten seconds, and almost just when Duncan was worried about whether the doll also had a "dead machine" setting, the doll lady resumed her activities again: "I...... I don't remember, I knew my name was Alice from the beginning, but I didn't come up with this name myself, I ......"

She muttered to herself in confusion, subconsciously holding her head with both hands, this look made Duncan's eyes jump, and he quickly shouted to stop: "Okay, forget if you don't remember, you don't have to pull your head off......"

Alice:

After that, Duncan asked the doll lady in front of him many questions, but unfortunately, most of them were fruitless.

As Miss Doll herself described, she had spent most of her conscious time grogging in that "coffin", maintaining a state of alternating between sleep and half-awake, she knew very little about the outside world, and the only knowledge came from the conversations outside the coffin that she heard half-asleep, and this trivial knowledge could hardly piece together the outline of the world for Duncan.

But even so, Duncan was not without gains - in his conversation with Alice, he determined at least a few things:

there is a power structure called "city-state" in this world, this word appears repeatedly in the story of the doll lady, almost the whole of her journey, and the end of her original journey this time is a place called "Plande" of the city-state.

It seemed to be a prosperous place, and sailors said in conversation that it "has an important place on many routes."

Secondly, Alice also has the name "Abnormal 099", and this seems to be some kind of "official" name in the civilized world, as for the name "Alice" she herself said, so far no third person seems to know it except herself and Duncan.

In the end, Alice has been being transferred from one city-state to another, and it seems that she is not the only one who has been transferred in this way, and on some trips, she has heard those in charge of "escorts" mention the words "other sealing rooms" in conversations.

Duncan boldly speculated based on this that perhaps this action of constantly moving the location of the "abnormal" itself is also a necessary means to seal the anomaly and prevent it from "getting out of trouble".

What is obvious is that the team responsible for transporting the anomaly 099 this time has gone bankrupt - because of the lost homeland that appeared out of nowhere, the "dolls" they escorted had already escaped.

I just don't know what is so terrible about this strange cursed doll, and what kind of damage she will cause if she gets out of trouble.

After all...... She looked quite harmless when she was on the Lost Home.

Frankly, Duncan was quite disappointed.

He thought he had finally found an intelligence channel that could help him understand the world, but he didn't expect that the guy lying in the coffin was as confused as himself.

But when his eyes swept over Alice, who was still sitting quietly on the wooden box, the disappointment faded a little.

At least, he now had one more person to talk to on the Lost Home—although she seemed to be a puppet, although she was terrified when her head fell, although she must have more secrets, although she occasionally popped up a little trash talk.

But she is better than the noisy goat's head painting style.

And speaking of weird dangers...... This boundless sea, this lost home, and the strange things on this ship, which one seems safe?

Even from the perspective of others, he, "Captain Duncan", seems to be the most dangerous one in the boundless sea.

Duncan exhaled, and before he knew it, his expression was a little more soothed, and he asked with a gossipy attitude, "I want to know, what will you do if I throw you off the boat again?"

Alice blinked: "Are you still stuffing shells this time?"

"No."

"Then are you still nailing it?"

"Eh...... Nope.

"Pouring lead?"

"No...... Cough, I mean, if I refuse you to stay on the boat......"

"Then I'll row back," Alice sat dignified, with a calm face, "I don't want to be swallowed up by this sea, at least you have a place to stay on this ship."

Duncan was so shocked by the doll's calmness that he didn't know whether to say whether she was honest or thick-skinned for a while, and after careful consideration, he came up with a sentence: "You can be a little more tactful......"

"Anyway, you already know the answer, don't you?" Alice smiled and said, "But if I come back, I might find a way to hide somewhere in the cabin so that you won't find out, and I won't run to the deck anymore." I have not been awake for a short time, and I didn't think about it well when I returned a few times before, but now I have experience......"

Duncan interrupted her: "My perception is all over the ship, and I can even judge where every wave crashes against the hull.

Alice's words were immediately suffocated: "Ah......"

Duncan continued to say with a calm face: "And I can also choose to destroy you directly, in a more thorough way to prevent you from continuing to pester me and my lost homeland."

The doll lady really didn't seem to think about this possibility, she subconsciously widened her eyes, and then clicked near her neck......

The headless doll hurriedly caught her head and began to press it around his neck frizzily, Duncan's atmosphere suddenly couldn't be created, he could only sigh in confusion, and after Alice put her head back, he continued: "However, I suddenly feel that it is not a bad thing to have one more crew member on this ship - if you can be honest on this ship, I can arrange a place for you."

"You said it earlier! My head was scared!

Duncan couldn't hold back the corners of his eyes after all: "So what's going on with your neck?

Alice looked innocent: "I don't know! I don't usually have that many opportunities to 'come out and move', so how do I know why my body has such a problem......"

Duncan looked at Alice silently for a few seconds, and said with a serious face: "It seems that long-term bedridden is not good for the cervical spine.

Alice: "......"

Looking at the speechless puppet lady, Duncan's mood suddenly improved a little.

"Okay, all in all, there's a new crew member on the Lost Home—come with me, I'll arrange a resting place for you."