Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 165 Call No Answer
Alice left in a happy mood, and it seemed that she could even be happy for many days, while Duncan stayed alone on the deck, looking at the wooden box containing "Neelo".

He controlled the "clone" located in the Puland city-state and left the upper city. He was riding his bicycle back to the antique store. Thea and Tirian, but nothing more.

Just like what the shop owner said, she is just an ordinary citizen after all, she just happens to live longer than human beings, and she has personally experienced some things that happened many years ago. Besides, she didn't know much about the two "Descendants of Duncan".

On the Lost Home, Duncan was lost in thought.

He actually has a pair of children in this body, even a pair of children who are still alive, and it sounds like the pair of brothers and sisters are not ordinary people - one of them once served the Frost Queen, and now he has become the biggest pirate in the cold sea The leader, and the other wandered at the border of the civilized world for a long time, engaged in some mysterious exploration activities, and was called "the witch of the sea" by the captains in awe.

Such a pair of "sons and daughters" brought Duncan only trouble and a little nervousness at the moment.

He is now the "Captain Duncan" of the Lost Home, and it seems that in the foreseeable future, he must be "Captain Duncan", so he has to find a way to maintain this identity, but if one day in the future... really What should I do if I run into that pair of siblings?
Should I show some fatherly kindness and filial piety?Or should it show ruthlessness?Should I say hello, or should I walk away coldly?

According to the store manager, the Tirian brothers and sisters had a "break" with their father 100 years ago, and the Seamist and Bright Star lost their homes with their flagships after a mysterious "family conflict" No. parted ways, this is the situation known to the world.

But what happened at that time may only be known to the three parties involved.

Duncan sighed softly.

No matter what the real situation was at the time, one thing seems to be certain, the relationship between me and the siblings seems to be beyond the filial piety of father and son or father and daughter—if we really meet, it is best to use it in the direction of family misfortune. hard...

He bent down and picked up the wooden box containing "Nilu". On the velvet lining of the box, a doll girl only tens of centimeters high was lying quietly. This little guy who was born 100 years ago is now It is the new "member" of the Lost Home.

Does "she" really have a connection with Lucrezia?In other words, beside Lucrezia, is there really still the doll named "Luni" that she bought 100 years ago?
When Duncan bought Nilu, he didn't think much about it, but now he couldn't help but become active. Holding the wooden box, he returned to the captain's cabin.

The goat's head was steering the helm as usual, and as soon as Duncan opened the door, his usual noise immediately sounded: "Ah! The great captain has returned to his loyal captain's cabin. You seem to have brought a lot of supplies from the city-state. Your loyal following Ellipsis is very concerned about the health of the food on board, if you don't mind, I will personally guide Miss Alice to become a qualified..."

"Shut up, don't mess with that puppet any more recipes, I don't want my next meal to look like a pot of vomit from a ghost demon," Duncan glared at the goat's head, "What are we doing now? Location, how far is it from Prand?"

"Oh, we're still heading towards Purland at full speed, and we've made several successful accelerations in the spirit world in the middle - it's like 'floating' on the edge of the real world, and now the Lost Country is only a few miles away from that city-state. In the next ten days' journey," the goat's head immediately said happily, "it is estimated that in the near future, you will be able to feel the obvious filling of power during the process of walking in the spirit world - the influence of the Lost Country will become your in the city-state. The biggest boost to the event..."

Duncan quietly glanced at the goat's head. The latter stopped rambling, and after two seconds of silence, he suddenly said: "The loyal first mate will always know the captain best."

"Very good," Duncan nodded, and walked towards his bedroom with the wooden box in his hand, but soon he stopped, pondering and combining words in his mind, and finally asked casually with a calm expression, "What do you say?" , if Tirian and Lucrecia see me again, how will they react?"

This is a trial after careful weighing, and it is the most normal question he has considered, the least suspicious and the one that can obtain certain information.

He didn't ask Goathead what he thought of the siblings, because such a question was too blunt, and he didn't ask about what happened between the siblings and the Lost Country, because it would reveal his own situation—the question he finally chose The method is more in line with his own identity and the relationship between himself and the goat's head.

The goat's head was obviously taken aback, and his voice was heard by Duncan after hesitating for a long time: "You mean...your children...sorry, Captain, I don't know if I should talk about your family affairs, because you are very Don't mention them to me, but if you have to say it, you have to say..."

Goat's head, who is usually very sharp-tongued, hesitated several times before finally continuing: "If I have to say it, I think there may be another fight between us and Tirian, just like the one in Frost. After all, he I always like to use artillery to solve problems, but as for Miss Lucrezia...she will probably stay far away..."

Duncan was noncommittal, but suddenly, he realized two things!

First, he remembered that Goat's Head once revealed that the Lost Homeland "had a battle" with someone near Frost City, and that battle was actually fought against Tirian!

Second, Goat's head's initial reaction was very strange, and he specifically emphasized that Duncan rarely mentioned the siblings to him... Judging from this sentence, could it be that this Goat's head has never really gotten along with the siblings? ?His understanding of the pair of brothers and sisters can only rely on Duncan's "mention"?
Wasn't this guy on the Lost Home from the start? !
Duncan's eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn't show anything on his face. He just nodded to show that he heard the reply from the goat's head, and then he continued to walk calmly and returned to his dormitory.

The thick oak door was closed behind him, blocking the view of the goat's head in the chart room, and gradually calming down Duncan's mood.

He took a long breath, took "Nilu" out of the wooden box, and put it on his desk. He stared at the doll for several minutes, and finally said hello to her: "Hi, I Call Duncan."

Of course the puppet didn't respond.

She's really just a puppet.

Duncan suddenly felt that his behavior was a bit stupid. He smiled awkwardly, and said to himself that fortunately, no one on this ship had the courage to spy on the situation in the captain's bedroom. Then he opened the drawer at hand and took out something from it.

It was a small and delicate hairpin, shaped like waves and feathers.

This is the "old thing" Alice found out from the cabin.

Duncan stared at the small hairpin quietly, just like before, the strange sense of nostalgia once again permeated from the bottom of his heart.

This seems to be the only ray of "humanity" left by the original owner of this body, remaining in his heart in the form of faint emotional fragments.

"I'm afraid this really belongs to Lucrezia..." Duncan said softly to himself, "Is it a gift that I couldn't send out, or is it the only souvenir left on this ship after she left..."

He slowly picked up the hairpin and flipped it gently in the sunlight, which shone through the window and cast a bright glow on the silver edge of the hairpin.

A cluster of small green flames diffused from Duncan's fingertips, submerging the hairpin in the blink of an eye, and then the flames flowed in the air again, wrapping around the body of the puppet "Nilu".

Duncan calmed down and tried to feel whether there was any extraordinary power left inside these two things, or even a little bit of "connection" that could point to "far away".

However, the flames faded quickly, and neither the doll nor the hairpin responded.

Is it because they are really just ordinary things, or is it because Lucrezia is currently at the border of the civilized world, and the distance is so far away that the "connection" remaining in these two items has been so weak that even the spirit body can To the extent that even fire cannot catch it?

Duncan frowned, diffused the flames again, and at the same time, with a state of mind that he couldn't even explain clearly, he tried to call: "Lucrecia... Lucy?"

He had adopted the nickname of Lucrezia—perhaps, this nickname would create a stronger connection than the formal name?
Nothing happened.

Duncan waited for a long time, and finally extinguished the flame in disappointment.

At the same time, in the remote border land, on the edge of the eternal curtain, the clockwork puppet "Luni" who was wiping the table suddenly stopped.

This "engineering creation", which has been remodeled countless times by Lucrezia, is now almost an "alchemy life", and there is a series of harsh roars of gears and bearings rotating crazily, followed by "creaking" Ga” noise.

The clockwork key on Luni's back popped out with a click and fell to the ground, while the alloy-enhanced arm drooped stiffly, and a wisp of blue smoke slowly emerged from the opening seam on the back of the maid's shell...

(End of this chapter)