This was the first time since their reunion that Lucretia saw such a complicated, heavy, and warm expression on her "father's" face. Before that, her father had also smiled at her and shown such a warm expression. She saw many humanistic actions, but for some reason, she always felt that there was a vague sense of inconsistency behind those smiles and words and deeds. She always felt that they were the "kind appearance" that her father tried hard to disguise after losing his memory due to subspace.
This sense of violation made her feel uneasy, but at this moment, she finally saw some kind of heartfelt emotion on the other person's face, an apology, and a regret that was difficult for others to understand, but she didn't know what this apology was. Is it for yourself?
I still don't understand enough, the witch lady sighed softly.
I thought I had more or less caught up with you.
The Homeless eventually fell into the warp and you didn't catch up, which was a good thing.
Duncan shook his head, then took one last look at the quietly floating moon, turned around and walked towards the connecting bridge leaving the platform. Lucy, go back first.
Lucretia was a little surprised: "Aren't you going to study it for a while?"
"I'm not a scholar, and I don't have professional research methods or equipment." Duncan waved his hand, "I just came here to think about it.
Just see it with your own eyes, but how to reveal its secrets depends on professional scholars. "
Having said this, he paused and then added: "I will stay in Qingfeng Port during this period. I will keep an eye on your progress on the moon. In addition, if anything happens to other elves, Tallan. El. You have to tell me the same thing as soon as possible.
"I understand." Lucretia immediately nodded in response, then she hesitated and asked, "Can I tell Sarah Mel the Palace about your arrival? Of course I won't give it to more people casually. disclose……"
"As you wish." Duncan nodded.
You can tell whoever you want, their reaction to it has nothing to do with me.
Lucretia lowered her head slightly: "Yes."
A moment later, the Homeless Ship, which was staying on the sea surface somewhere outside the luminous geometry, suddenly appeared on the front deck with a rotating and spreading flame door. The door opened with the crackling sound of human flames, and Duncan's figure stepped out of it, standing next to him. Alice, who was scrubbing the deck with a big mop and several other mops, immediately ran over happily: "The boat is back."
Duncan waved his hand to disperse the flames behind him. Looking at the Gothic doll in front of him with a mop in his hand and a happy smile on his face, he simply nodded: "Well, I'm back."
"Did it go well?" Alice threw the mop aside and looked at the captain happily, "You've been there for a long time. Did you talk a lot with Miss Lucretia? You went, what's that 'ball'? Which way? What is it..."
"Ah..." The mop that Alice had thrown aside suddenly jumped up, hit the cheerful puppet lady on the head with a wooden pole, and then jumped on the deck and ran to wash herself in the bucket. Now, Alice covered her head and looked at Duncan blankly and aggrievedly: "Why did it hit me? It almost killed me."
Duncan looked at the doll lady with simple and clear emotions, his smile just now and her troubles at the moment. Unknowingly, the boredom and loss accumulated in his heart quietly dissipated a little, but Alice was still aggrieved.
"You'd better check to see if that's a deck mop, maybe it works in the restaurant." Duncan laughed.
He stretched out his hand and pressed Alice's head, and then asked curiously, "Also, I have always wanted to ask you. The mop and bucket on this ship can clean it by themselves. Why do you insist on washing the deck yourself?"
"Let me help." Alice raised her chest confidently, "They are so tired from wiping themselves."
Duncan's eyes trembled, and he silently turned his gaze, looking at the mops and buckets not far away who were cleaning the deck quickly, as if they were afraid that someone would catch them "helping" if they took a step too late. After a moment of silence, he shook his head: "You happy...
....As long as you are happy. "
Alice nodded confusedly, and then saw
Duncan turned around and seemed ready to go back to the cabin. She couldn't help but said: "Chuang, are you going back to rest?"
"Well, I'm a little tired."
"Captain..." Alice looked a little worried. She walked over and tugged on Duncan's sleeve, "Are you okay?"
"Why do you ask?" Duncan stopped in confusion and turned to look at the not-so-smart puppet.
"Because you have been sighing a lot in the past two days, and you have spent more time in the cabin than outside. Miss Nina feels that you have something on your mind, but she is embarrassed to ask you." Alice answered honestly.
"In addition, you looked very bad when you came back just now, as if... you had a lot of things that you had been holding back in your heart. But now you look better than before."
Duncan looked at the doll in front of him with some surprise. He did not expect that Alice, who usually looked careless and confused, would actually observe and notice these things. He did not expect that she would just grab him and take these things. Having said all that, maybe it's because she doesn't think much about things that she doesn't know how to hesitate and hesitate? Some vague associations emerged in Duncan's mind, but he looked at the puppet in front of him who still looked worried and confused.
But he didn't know what to say. After all, even when facing the knowledgeable Lucrecia, there were too many things that he couldn't explain clearly, "You don't understand."
. "After a moment of silence, Duncan shook his head and said, "The matter is very complicated, so complicated that it can't be explained to anyone. Not even you, not even Morris can understand it! "
But Alice just blinked and said without hesitation: "Then you can tell me."
Duncan couldn't laugh or cry: "Didn't I just say that you are
I don’t understand…”
"But I don't understand a lot of things you usually say." Alice said matter-of-factly, "I don't understand a lot of things, but you still tell me. I'm very good at listening to what others say. , I will listen whether you understand or not.”
Duncan's expression suddenly became a little subtle. Listening to this silly doll's straightforward and even proud magical logic, he couldn't find a point to refute for a while. Alice was still looking straight at the boat in front of her. .
She didn't think it was a shame that she usually didn't understand many things, nor did she think there was anything wrong with what she was saying at the moment. She thought about it, she was curious, so she said it. If there was something on her mind, she would just say it. Well, this is how everything works in Alice's uncomplicated worldview.
She suddenly ran away, ran not far away, picked up a large wooden barrel that was half her height, and placed it on the deck near the guardrail of the ship. Then she picked up another one and placed it next to the large wooden barrel. She had quick hands and feet. He climbed onto the wooden barrel and waved to Duncan with a smile: "Chuanchang, please sit down too. Miss Vanna said, take a breath of wind and look at the sea, you will be in a good mood."
Duncan hesitated for a moment, then suddenly laughed. This doll was trying hard, using her limited knowledge and experience, to think of ways to make Ban Chang feel better. Duncan walked over and sat side by side with Alice. On the barrel, his mood did not change because of the sea breeze, but his mood did get a little better. "
"Alice."
"Um?"
"Let me ask you a question." Duncan thought. At first, he tried hard to think about how to make Alice understand the concepts of "moon" and "starry sky", but now he suddenly realized that he didn't actually have to explain these complicated concepts to her. matter.
"If you live in a place, and there is something unique to the place where you live, it can never come from anywhere else, and it can never belong to anywhere else. As long as you see this thing, you will know where it comes from. …”
Alice thought for a while and said curiously, "It's like I'm living on the Lost Home and you are the only captain of the Lost Home?"
Duncan was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly: "Your metaphor is not quite right...but it can be understood in this way."
"Oh, what then?"
"Then you're out of there and you can't go back."
Duncan's tone suddenly became a little lower.
You have arrived in a very distant and unfamiliar place. Everything here is different from home. You have been living here for a while and want to find your way home, but suddenly
, you saw that 'thing', that thing that in theory can only appear in your hometown, and should not be seen in a foreign land under any circumstances...
Duncan's words fell silent, but Alice was still thinking blankly. But after thinking for a while, she suddenly laughed, "Then I must have returned to the Lost Home."
"Back to the Lost Home?"
Well, it can be understood that you are the only captain of the Lost Home. One day I was sent far away from the Lost Home and could not find my way back to the ship, but you suddenly appeared in my presence again. In front of you, then I must have gone home. After all, wherever you are, there is the lost home number. "
The puppet smiled happily and looked at Duncan with confidence, "What you said can only appear in
Hometown, and now it appears in front of you, that means you are at home now. "
Alice finished her theory and then sat on the barrel
He turned around slowly, put his hands on his chin, and leaned forward with a bright smile on his face: "Captain, is this a brain teaser?" Duncan was a little confused, and he looked at the wooden tree opposite him blankly. When the sea breeze blows from the side of the doll lady on the barrel, Alice's silver-white hair will fly, just like her always bright and cheerful mood, and then he laughs. "
Yes, it was a brainteaser, and now we've all figured it out.
He jumped down from the barrel, smiled and said to Alice, "There is another thing."
"Um?"
Your posture is unstable, and Alice, who is still leaning forward and supporting her chin with both hands, was stunned when she heard this, "Huh?"
The next second, she heard a slight click from her neck.
"Bo'er..."
With two gurgles and gurgles, Alice fell to the ground twice. Immediately afterwards, her signature stammering voice came from the deck... "Captain, help...help...help."
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