Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 705 Dolls and Dolls and Dolls

  In the dining room on the upper deck, Duncan and Lucretia were sitting side by side, each with a straight face. The two joint overlords who had just replaced their heads were sitting on the chairs opposite them - Luni looked a little nervous. , Alice's face was as bright as ever, and she even looked 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 corners of Duncan's eyes suddenly trembled, and then he noticed the small movements of Luni's fingers. He felt that this movement was familiar to him inexplicably. After a moment of confusion, he looked at the "Sea Witch" beside him thoughtfully: "When you were a child Do you like to pick your fingers even if you do something wrong?"

  "Uh... that happened when I was very young..." Lucretia didn't expect that the topic would suddenly fall on her. She was stunned for a moment, and then her expression became slightly strange, "You... you still remember These?"

  "...I don't remember, but there are still some familiar feelings," Duncan shook his head slightly, then coughed twice and turned his attention to the two puppets again, "Who came up with the idea first?"

  This time the two dolls finally answered in unison: "Shirley!"

  Duncan: "...?"

  A moment later, Duncan and Lucretia were still sitting on the bench in the restaurant with serious faces, 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 softly: "Don't look at me, it's none of my business. I tried to persuade you but I didn't hold him back..."

  Duncan glanced at the muttering Agou, then his eyes fell on Shirley, and then he recalled the incident when she tricked Alice into pouring super glue into her neck, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart - after all, he still had to watch more carefully. This guy who is afraid of chaos in the world...

  "You said you had nothing to do to give them any bad ideas," Duncan sighed and looked at Shirley helplessly, "We are sailing in the spiritual world, which is not like land - in case they really get dizzy and fall into the sea, you are responsible for going out. Fish for it?"

  Shirley was shrinking her neck in a familiar manner, pretending to accept the criticism. When she heard the captain's words, her eyes suddenly lit up: "Does this 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? This is a doll that can take off its head, but it still uses the same kind of joints. According to the old man...it's about the spirit of exploration, right? Don't you want to try it...?"

  To a curious person, Shirley's words sounded like a very tempting subspace pussy. Duncan's eyebrows couldn't help but jump. But just as he was about to speak, he heard an inaudible voice coming from beside him. murmured: "It seems to make sense..."

  Duncan's expression suddenly became a little subtle, and he turned to look in the direction where the muttering came from - Lucretia raised her head in embarrassment, and quickly made amends after realizing it: "Of course this kind of behavior is not worth promoting, the experiment must be established Under the premise of being cautious and safe..."

  Duncan took a lot of effort to finally control the expression on his face, maintaining a calm and serious look and pretending to ignore Lucretia's muttering just now, and then sighed, and his eyes fell on the two joint overlords opposite: " Don’t do that again, at least not on the boat – it’s not safe. Remember?”

  "Hey, I know, Captain!" "Yes, old master."

  "You go back to the room and stay. If you really don't want to do your homework, you can just read a book, even a picture book." Duncan waved to Shirley again, "We are about to leave the spiritual world, and then we will enter the eternal curtain, where Please stop making trouble before."

  Shirley lowered her head and agreed honestly: "Oh, okay Captain..."

  The restaurant finally became quiet, and Shirley left with Agou, while Alice dragged Luni to a corner of the restaurant, muttering about something 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 didn't 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..."

  When she was halfway through speaking, Duncan suddenly interrupted her: "Is that when you were a child?"

  Lucretia 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, she just pursed her lips. After a while, she whispered: "...Luni is the first doll I made. I...put some of my soul into it." The parts that tend to cause her to make mistakes are sealed in her body. Although in most cases these sealed souls will not affect her operation, but occasionally, it will cause her to behave weirdly."      So Rune seems calm and reliable most of the time, but when she's with Alice, does she become lively?"

  "...Yes, it seems that this will cause her to make mistakes - at least increase the chance of making mistakes."

  Duncan looked back at Lucretia: "Is this level of 'making a mistake' a problem?"

  Lucretia was silent for a few seconds and replied softly: "At the border, it is easy to die if you make a mistake."

  Duncan didn't speak for a while, but looked thoughtfully at the two dolls who were chatting happily in the distance. After a while, he said calmly: "You can make mistakes when you are around me."

  Lucretia seemed to be in a daze 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 introducing some interesting things on the ship to Rune, at least the interesting things she knew, and Rune was listening 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", she has probably never met anyone of her kind who can communicate like this like Alice.

  The two dolls seemed to be getting along very happily.

  At this moment, Duncan seemed to suddenly remember something: "By the way, there is something I have been delaying..."

  As he spoke, he casually waved in the air. Ai Yi, who was eating French fries on a table not far away, disappeared instantly. The next second, a spinning ring of green fire appeared next to Duncan. , the latter reached out to explore the fire ring, took out something from it, and placed it on the dining table in front of him.

  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 was delayed, and now I just happen to see Alice and Luni together... Take it, it can be regarded as reuniting their 'sisters'."

  Lucretia's expression seemed a little strange. She took the wooden box and carefully took the three-point doll named "Nelu" out of the box. She placed her on the table and let her lean against the wooden box. Sitting down, my 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 store holding hands. Luni and Nilu sat quietly in the display window, and the warm sunshine shone on their delicate hair and The dress is like a hazy veil.

  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 pointed 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. Then she climbed up stiffly, stumbled into the exquisite wooden box, and grabbed the lid of the wooden box on the side, trying hard to lift the lid. Cover.

  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. 'Woke up' for the first time."

  "...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 this chapter)