Deep Sea Embers

To be honest, Duncan suddenly found that when the pigeon on his shoulder spoke, even with a nerve thicker than a pillar, it was difficult for him to walk calmly.

At this moment, he wished so much that he could have a parrot on his shoulder like a normal pirate captain—how about a monkey?

But he had already opened the door leading to the chart room, and it was impossible to turn his head back at this time.

In the room where the nautical table was placed, the goat's head was chatting cheerfully about the twelfth legend of sea fish stew. The sound of the captain's bedroom door finally interrupted the chattering guy, and his black, wooden head immediately turned to Duncan's. direction, with a raised tone of voice that seemed very pleasant: "Ah, Captain! You are finally out--I want to tell you that Miss Alice is such an excellent conversation partner. I haven't had such a good time chatting with people for many years. You Know……"

Duncan ignored the goat's head's loud urging, but immediately looked at the victim on the opposite side of the navigation table, and then saw the headless puppet sitting upright on the chair, holding himself in his hands. head, while pressing his ears firmly.

Even so, Alice's eyes were still slack, as if she had taken twelve advanced math classes, and she didn't even respond when Duncan walked in front of her.

Duncan: "..."

"She pulled her head off herself," Goat's Head explained before Duncan could speak, "although I don't know why she did it..."

How powerful is the goat-headed babble, that it can force a cursed doll to pull its head off to fight against the sound wave? !

While Duncan was shocked, the goat's head who said he was happy finally noticed a strange guy brought out by the captain. His wooden head turned slightly, and his dark eyes suddenly stared at the pigeon on Duncan's shoulder. : "Huh? Captain, this is on your shoulder..."

"It's called Ai, and it's my pet from now on." Duncan said succinctly, using as few sentences as possible to avoid possible loopholes, and at the same time observing the reaction of the goat head after hearing this.

"Your pet?" Goat's head was obviously stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to think about something on his own, "Ah, just now the Lost Country did sense that you left the ship temporarily...you are going to walk in the spirit world Is this the spoil you brought back from your walk in the spirit world?"

Walking in the spirit world?

A word that had never been heard before popped up suddenly, and Duncan thought of the brass compass placed in the captain's bedroom, the handwriting left by the real Captain Duncan, and the wonderful experience of the soul traveling and projecting into the distance. He faintly corresponded to it in his heart, and after feeling that he guessed pretty well, he nodded calmly: "It's just a little relaxation."

As soon as Duncan finished speaking, the goat's head immediately complimented him as expected: "Ah! Really worthy of the great Captain Duncan, even a simple walk in the spirit world can bring back spoils - is this a pigeon? There must be something special about being your pet? You even attached your compass to it? Is that... oh sure, you're always right, but what's so special about this pigeon? Could it be..."

Duncan heard something euphemistic in the goat's head's compliment, and with a twitch he realized that the goat's head clearly knew the brass compass that was now hanging on Aye's chest, and that this compass was obviously very special to the real Captain Duncan. Important - so important that it shouldn't be placed on a new "pet" casually.

But even if he noticed something wrong, he could do nothing, because the compass was "tied" to the pigeon now, and even... Judging from the control feedback of the fire of the spirit body, the pigeon seemed to be the compass at this moment Like the body!

Duncan thought quickly in his heart, but his face still maintained an unwavering expression, and just in such a dazed moment, Ai, who was originally squatting on his shoulder obediently, suddenly let out a loud cooing sound, Immediately afterwards, it flapped its wings and flew in front of the goat's head.

The goat's head's dark eyes stared at the pigeon for an instant, and the latter tilted his head in a serious manner, pecking at the face of the goat's head with his beak: "Do you want to charge Q coins?"

Duncan: "..."

"Anomaly with intelligence?!" The goat's head was also obviously stunned, but then he reacted, and his tone was extremely surprised, "This pigeon can actually talk?!"

Duncan immediately reminded me tactfully: "You can also talk."

Pigeon Ai also took two steps on the table, walking away while muttering to himself: "Is it like a word? Is it like a word..."

Upon seeing this, Duncan rubbed his fingertips, and with the sudden jump of the green flame, the pigeon pacing on the table disappeared into the air in the blink of an eye, and returned to his shoulder in the next instant.

"Yes, an anomaly with intelligence, and it's under my direct control," Duncan nodded at the goat's head, "Is there any problem?"

The goat head quickly replied: "Ah...of course not, of course not, then there will be no problem at all—everything is under the control of the great Captain Duncan."

Duncan stopped talking about the goat's head, and after quickly ending the topic, he focused on Alice who was still holding her head in a daze—perhaps the previous open-minded experience further strengthened his nerves, and also Maybe it was because he got used to it after watching it a few times. He didn't think it was too evil when he saw Alice holding her hair in a daze. Instead, he thought this guy was a little...cute.

He reached out and patted Miss Doll on the shoulder: "Wake up, wake up."

Alice's body trembled suddenly, as if waking up from a long nightmare, and then the head held in her hands opened and closed its mouth and made a sound: "Boat...ship...ship..."

Duncan: "You connect the head first."

Only then did Alice come to her senses, and hurriedly put her head back to its original position. After the joints closed with a click, her voice finally became smooth again: "Ah, Captain, you're back? It seems to have happened just now... Mr. Goathead finished?"

The goat head on the table immediately said: "No, we just talked about some legends about sea fish stew, this topic can be next time..."

Duncan said succinctly: "Shut up."

"oh."

Alice on the side trembled visibly the moment the goat's head opened its mouth, and a cursing puppet showed a horrified expression on its face, even though the goat's head obediently closed under the captain's order in the next second Mouth, she still looked in the direction of the navigation table with lingering fear.

Duncan doubted that this doll lady would not step into the captain's cabin for quite a long time in the future.

Thinking of this, he finally asked curiously: "You came to see me, what's the matter?"

"I..." Alice's expression was a little dull, as if her original goal of visiting the captain's cabin had been forgotten after a conversation with the goat's head, but she still realized after a few seconds, "Oh, yes, I I just want to ask, is there a place where I can take a bath on the boat? My wooden box has been in sea water before, and now I feel that my joints are a little...uncomfortable."

In the end, the expression on Miss Doll's face was obviously a bit embarrassed, but in fact, it should be Duncan who was more embarrassed than her - after all, Duncan threw her box overboard before.

And threw it several times.

Embarrassment flashed across his heart, and Duncan tried his best to maintain the same expression on his face, and his tone was flat: "Just for this?"

Alice sat on the chair stiffly: "Just...just for this."

"For many ocean-going ships, fresh water is an extremely precious resource, and bathing is a luxury that requires restraint," Duncan said solemnly at first, but then suddenly smiled, "But you are lucky, The Lost Country is not an ordinary ship, and fresh water is not a problem here. Come with me, there is a bathing place in the cabin below the middle deck, and to get there, you have to go through the upper deck first."

Alice stood up immediately - she really didn't want to stay in the place where the goat's head was placed for a second.

Duncan looked back at the goat head before leaving the room: "You continue to steer."

After explaining, he got up and pushed open the door of the captain's cabin, and brought Alice to the deck.

Night had fallen by now.

The night sky over the boundless sea is clear.

This was the first time Duncan stood under the clear night sky of this world after days of cloudy clouds.

He stopped suddenly, looked up at the sky, and stared at the night without moving.

The night sky is dark and starless, without any celestial bodies.

The only thing that can be seen is a faint gray-white "crack" that seems to tear the entire sky. Slowly dissipating outward, like bloodstains in a pool of deep water.

This "pale scar" across the sky illuminated the entire Boundless Sea, more than twice as bright as the moonlight in Duncan's memory.