Deep Sea Embers

Looking at Alice's confident posture with her neck straightened out, Duncan's emotions suddenly became incoherent - and he instantly realized that this silly posture was not confident or proud, it was completely fixed and unable to move.

But Miss Doll herself didn’t seem to realize the seriousness of the matter at all. She still looked smug and happy as she handed the newspaper to Duncan. She was obviously very happy that she could successfully shop alone: ​​“Here you go, Newspaper, and I remember to give change!”

Duncan finally took the newspaper expressionlessly, and after two or three seconds, he reminded the fool: "Alice, nod."

"Huh? Why?" Alice was stunned for a moment, but she immediately chose to follow the captain's instructions. As a result, her head just shook slightly on the spot, and there was a strange sound near her neck, and she could no longer move. .

After two seconds of sluggishness, the puppet finally reacted and exclaimed: "Mr. Duncan! I can't move! Help, help!"

Duncan glanced at the doll exhausted, then turned and walked towards the antique store: "Stop yelling outside, go back and study it."

Alice followed Duncan in a panic, followed by Nina, who was also a little confused and at a loss. The three of them entered the door of the antique store. Nina, who was at the end, turned back and carefully closed the store door. Okay, I haven’t forgotten to hang up the temporary rest wooden sign.

Duncan threw the newly bought newspaper on the counter and was about to check on Alice's condition when the corner of his eye suddenly glanced at a line of headlines on the front page of the newspaper.

His attention was suddenly drawn back to the newspaper.

There is a sentence printed on it in the largest bold letters: "Use boiling water."

He began to believe that the two people upstairs had forgotten everything.

"Captain, it still doesn't work." Plande said with a sad face.

"I've deep-fried my own head, so I'm not afraid of the temperature at all," Mei Dong spread his hands, "Looking at the situation now, it's useless to wash it with cold water. There's still some hope in boiling it with boiling water."

Duncan frowned, picked up the newspaper, and glanced at the article on the front page.

Duncan sighed, threw the newspaper aside, stepped forward to untie the lace decoration around Plande's neck, and inspected the strong glue that had not yet hardened on the edges of its joints. After a moment of silence, he turned to Nina: "...Shirley, go Where is it?"

She went upstairs in confusion and saw Nina standing in the corridor with a helpless expression. He looked up at the bathroom at the end of the corridor and saw Plande poking his head in embarrassment.

According to public information, the docking of the Storm Cathedral in Alice is a normal berthing and renovation. During that period, Pope Helena will briefly visit the Alice Cathedral and discuss some church matters with the archbishop and inquisitors. There was no mention of previous historical pollution incidents or words related to the Lost Hometown at all in the newspaper.

Duncan didn't care about the Storm Goddess's belief, but he couldn't help but think about how this matter would affect him.

Duncan looked at Plande, then at Nina who was grabbing the corner of her clothes next to him, and finally sighed after a long while. "A bottle, about this big," Plande stretched out his hand to make a gesture, "I found it in your room, a big brown glass bottle."

Duncan: "?"

"So this is all you worry about after your head is glued?" Duncan glared at Alice, and then waved his hands with a tired look on his face, "Okay, don't be so gloomy. Although this glue is very strong, it is not resistant to cold or water. Soak it in cold water and it will boil in a while.”

Alice was anxiously circling around. She finally realized that pouring glue into her neck joints was not a wise move. After noticing that the captain had no time to pay attention to her, she turned to Nina for help: " Miss Nina, please help, help, help, help..."

He still remembered the message "Thank you" that the Storm Goddess suspected to have given him before. Even without this incident, he was still curious about the gods of this world. He was also curious about this storm giant that was said to cruise the boundless sea all year round. The church was quite interested.

Duncan is a bit

He rubbed his eyebrows with a headache. Things get interesting.

"You poured it all in?!" Duncan's eyes trembled visibly, "How did you manage such a big bottle?"

But Duncan obviously didn't have the same limitations as Nina in terms of thinking. He just looked up at the poor Goth doll wrapped in a bath towel not far away, then turned to Nina and said: "It's not complicated yet, whatever. Just find a big pot, and if she falls headfirst into it, you'll be there to hold her up."

"I said an hour ago that I had a headache from memorizing words, so I should go outside to get some fresh air," Nina said, shrinking her neck. "Did he abscond out of fear of crime?"

In other words, can I take advantage of this opportunity to collect any information?

"Just pull out the head and put it upside down, pour the glue in, shake it, and then put it on directly," Alice said with a cry in her voice, "Shirley said it was secure, and then Miss Doll came out,

His whole body was wet and he was wrapped in a bath towel, but his head was still steady.

He gestured as he spoke. Even though she was excellent at school, Nina still felt that her imagination could not keep up with reality.

But soon, the sounds upstairs became quiet, and then there was a burst of hurried footsteps running to the stairs, and Nina's voice came: "Uncle Duncan! No! Come and see Look, it can’t be removed at all!”

The antique shop was very quiet, and the movements of Nina and Alice in the bathroom on the second floor were even vaguely transmitted. The clearest thing was the sound of Nina making a fuss: Duncan stared at the opponent in stunned silence.

Fang, he could feel that this beautiful doll was in grief, but the doll had no tears to shed, and all the sadness could only flow in her empty heart - these words felt poetic and picturesque, and he must have ignored the "doll" The reason she was so distraught was that she had her head stuck shut with glue."

Nina imagined it for a moment, and she had a scene in her mind, but her tone became particularly firm: "I always feel that Miss Alice is a bit pitiful..."

"Think of a way," Alice seemed to be crying slowly, holding her head with both hands, "Miss Nina, didn't you learn how to repair some machinery, then you can repair your steam core, you can repair me ah."

"Sister Alice, there is a keyhole in your back, huh? You don't know what it is for?"

Cathedral of Storms? The mysterious "Sea Headquarters" of the Deep Sea Church? Is the messenger of the Storm Goddess Gmorna coming to this city because of previous historical pollution incidents? Or for the Lost Home Number? Or maybe both?

"I don't know how to repair the doll!" Nina was also very anxious, and finally turned to Duncan for help, "Uncle, please think of a way, Miss Alice's head is completely glued..."

"Miss Alice, is it true that you can't rotate your wrist 180 degrees?!"

The sun fragment took the puppet with its head stuck and ran upstairs. Duncan sighed helplessly and picked up the newspaper he had put aside just now.

"Is there a problem with water entering the keyhole? Oh, this is not what I considered..."

On the other hand, he was also curious about whether the Supreme Spokesperson of the Storm Goddess, who must have come here, would find something strange about the city-state of Purand, and whether he would discover his "subspace shadow" hidden in the city-state.

"Ah?" Nina was immediately startled, "Really?! Sister Alice can bear it..."

The most common thing on her mind right now is skipping class." Duncan sighed and shook his head, "No, it hasn't dried completely yet. It took at least half an hour. This is quick glue. Now use brute force. It can't be pulled out. "

Mei Dong finally put down the newspaper in his hand, turned around and glanced at the two girls who were making a fuss next to Xiu, and his eyes fell on Pulande: "How much glue did he put in, and what kind of glue was it?"

"What should I do?" Alice looked at Duncan at a loss. "I... I have to take off my head when I comb my hair. I won't comb my hair with my head on."

nina

She was also a little panicked. She stepped forward and grabbed Alice's head and shook it from side to side. She found that the glue had completely solidified: "It can't be pulled off! It looks like it's quick-drying glue!"

But even if the newspapers didn't mention it, anyone with a discerning eye would know that the Pope of the Deep Sea was here for these two major events.

Duncan immediately felt like he had been rescued, and Nina, who was following him anxiously, also reacted immediately and hurriedly stepped forward to hold Alice's hand: "I'll take you to the bathroom now. I'm very slow to heat the hot water now!"

Duncan put down the newspaper, sat down at the counter, and rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"Hey! These joints are so powerful and beautiful!

"It's not loose at all," Nina muttered, "it took me a long time to wash it with cold water."

"Poor Hammer!" Duncan finally couldn't hold it back and swore in an unprecedented way, "You let an illiterate fool into pouring a whole bottle of glue into the joint. This will give you a long memory!"

Nina's eyes seemed a little blurry. She thought hard about the operation process for a long time, and then said with some hesitation: "There is boiling water. I can get it out quickly, but we don't have such a big pot at home. There are also pots that can boil the whole body." A bathtub to soak in. If you want to submerge your head in water, at least Miss Alice has to squat in the water, right?"