Chapter 99: Alice knows nothing.
Chapter 99: Alice Knows Nothing
Imagine this picture: you’re on a creaking ghost ship, pushing open a wooden door in the deepest part of the corridor, dim oil lamps are gently swaying, in the flickering light, headless dolls in gothic gowns are sitting in front of a vanity mirror, the dolls are holding their own heads in their hands, and that head is turned towards you, slowly revealing a stiff smile ……
Duncan felt that if he hadn’t already been on this ship for so many days, and was so familiar with Alice, he would have taken an instantaneous step and drawn his gun A up at this point.
Alice, however, didn’t know at all how evil she had just made the atmosphere, she obediently pressed her head back to her neck with a “boing” sound, and her reflexes quickly regained their sensitivity, and greeted Duncan with a bright smile: “Good evening, Captain! You wanted to see me?”
Duncan then settled down, suspiciously looked up and down this doll for a long time: “What are you doing here? Why did Goathead say you were in the cabin counting your hair?”
Alice moved her neck from side to side, and gently smoothed her slightly disheveled hair with her fingers, and the expression on her face looked a little embarrassed, “Just …… seeing how much hair is left.”
Duncan looked at the mannequin as if he were a retard, and then finally noticed the same thing on the edge of the table: it was a spool of thread that had tumbled out of nowhere, with a few silvery-white strands of hair wrapped around it, and the source of the hair was obvious ……
Duncan’s face was expressionless: “……”
Alice, on the other hand, notices the captain’s sight, and she immediately picks up the spool of thread and explains to Duncan with a serious face, “Look, this one is called Miffy, this one is called Perry, this one is called Phimia, and there’s this one, the name is ……”
Duncan finally exclaimed, “You even named every hair you lost?!”
“To keep a souvenir,” Alice looked solemn, solemn with a little sadness, “Didn’t you say, I’m a doll, and dolls don’t grow their own hair …… In case it falls out someday, I can still take the list and reminisce Recall the good times with them ……”
Duncan let this mannequin to make a little bit of blind, and even for a moment have forgotten what he came here for, dumbfounded half a day before stifling a sentence: “I was just casually said, you don’t have to take it to heart …… That said, no wonder these two days you always stayed in the cabin, so every day is doing this? Counting hair while giving names to the hair that falls off?”
Alistair nodded harmlessly, “Uh huh.”
Duncan tensed his face and sighed after a long time, “Well, I’ll look around the city-state for you later and see if there’s any artisans who specialize in this field who can help you ……”
Alice was taken aback, “You’re going to tie someone up and bring them to the ship?”
Duncan glared at her, “…… I’ll get you a couple wigs to spare! Is it decent for the Boundless Sea Mobile Plague of Heaven to run a human city-state and kidnap a dollmaker?”
“Then it’s not very decent for a mobile cataclysm to infiltrate a human city-state to buy wigs ……” Alice subconsciously muttered, but hurriedly swallowed it back just as she was halfway through the muttering, “Ahh I won’t talk about it, heh heh ……”
“Don’t be silly hehehe,” Duncan suddenly felt a burst of energy, he waved his hand, but also finally remembered the real purpose of his own over here, “Forget it, let you interrupt the main thing are forgotten – Alice, you sit down, I came to find you are I’m here to see you.”
Alice knew that this was not a time for joking as soon as she looked at the captain’s serious expression, and hurriedly collected that ingratiating smile, while putting away the spools of thread, she quickly sat down on the wooden box beside the bed – sitting in a straight posture, with her hands folded on her knees, completely elegant and dignified.
Duncan, on the other hand, sighed, for some reason, he was always easily broken in front of Alice – even at the very beginning when he came to this world, he was able to remain cold and calm in front of the goat head, and even when he possessed the body of a sacrifice with an open chest to face the remains of the floor he was able to tense up his expression, but the only thing he could do was to face this overly Evil mannequin, his expression and aura always wandered on the edge of collapsing or not collapsing.
Come to think of it, this is probably the power of the style of painting – Alice this style of painting, it is really hard to let people tense.
He hooked his finger towards the side, and a chair in the room immediately creaked and ran behind him, and he sat down on it, trying to get his expression back to grim majesty, and gazed into Alice’s eyes.
“Rae Nora, does that name ring a bell?”
“Rae Nora?” Alice blinked, her face an unfaked confusion, “Never heard of it …… Sounds like a female? And there’s a sense of elegance and nobility …… your acquaintance?”
“In theory it should be an ‘acquaintance’ of yours, but you said you didn’t recognize …… well, I’m sure,” Duncan wasn’t too surprised by Alice’s answer, and he continued, asking “What about the Frost City State? Are you familiar with it? Does it ring any bells?”
“The Frost City State? I’ve heard of it when I was in the box, it seems like it’s a city-state on the Cold Sea, and there’s also a place called Cold Harbor, which is the gateway between Frost and the central sea,” Alice thought for a moment, “but I don’t know the specifics, and I’ve only heard the name.”
“What about ‘Alice’s Guillotine’?”
The doll looked confused, “Alice I know, I’m just Alice – but what’s a guillotine?”
Duncan then asked several questions in quick succession, getting much the same response.
And this was basically what he expected. Alice was as confused about all this as she had been on the first day of the meeting, she had no idea about her past, she didn’t know the truth behind “Anomaly 099”, she hadn’t known about the Frost City-State, and she hadn’t heard of the Frost Queen, who had died half a century ago.
Even if she looks exactly like the Frost Queen.
Duncan didn’t expect much of a positive response to these questions, he just wanted to see if Alice would have any special reaction when she heard these “key words” – now that the test is over, the doll is still the same as it was before.
He believed that this timid doll would not dare to disguise her true reaction in front of him – her intelligence should not support her to carry out this kind of high-end operation.
So …… perhaps he should not be concerned about the doll, but the “casket”?
Duncan’s eyes slowly sharpened, and his attention fell on Alice’s ornate, heavy wooden box.
The ornate wooden box that had been used to house the mannequins was still in the room, and Alice was now sitting firmly on top of it.
Alice loved this chest of hers, she used it as a stool and a storage cabinet, and sometimes slept in it – even though the room had a normal bed.
“You open the chest so I can see it.” Duncan said.
Alice felt a little puzzled, but quickly hopped down from the chest and casually opened the wooden box.
Duncan stepped forward to look at it.
The wooden chest was lined with soft red velvet, and there was a little bit of miscellany piled up in the corners: a comb, a spool of thread for winding hair, a small mirror, and a couple of small trinkets made of metal.
“I found these from the ship, in one of the other cabins,” Alice explained carefully, pointing to the miscellany in the corner of the chest, “I asked Mr. Goathead about them, and he said they were unclaimed, so can I …… keep them? I think they’re beautiful ……”
Duncan looked at the aged trinkets.
Perhaps there had been people on this ship a century ago who wore them in their hair and on their chests.
It was a leftover proof that the Lost Country had once belonged to the earth.
“Here you go, keep it,” Duncan nodded, but immediately afterward his eyes suddenly noticed a small object in the clutter, and he couldn’t help but reach out and pick it up, “This …… “
It was a small hairpin, too delicate to be on the Lost Country, shaped like a silvery-white feather and edged with a few crushed waves, and still as new as ever, despite a century of time – a far cry from those antiquated objects.
Duncan frowned, for some reason, at the sight of this hairpin, his heart was vaguely a little …… nostalgic.
There was even a name that almost came out of his mouth.
But he could never recall what that name that was going to come out of his mouth was.
Duncan blinked, slightly staggered, wondering what this sudden emotion that had surfaced from the back of his mind was all about, but gradually it dawned on him.
Just as he knew the name “Duncan Abnormale” from the first moment he arrived on the ship,……, he had just come into contact with the remnants of his own body’s “echoes” once again!
He looked down at the hairpin in his hand, wondering how such a small and delicate object could have “resonated” with the greatest natural disaster on the infinite sea, but soon Alice’s voice snapped him out of his thoughts: “Captain? Captain ……”
“I’m sorry, you can’t have this hairpin,” Duncan said back to Alice, but then he thought it seemed a bit cold for Miss Doll and added, “I’ll go to the city-state sometime afterward and get you some new ones- -These things are pretty old.”
“Really?!” Alice instantly showed a surprised expression, “Captain you’re so kind!”
“Don’t be too busy to praise it first,” Duncan shook his head and casually put the hair card away, “the main thing is not yet finished …… Alice, next I want to tell you something, it concerns your ‘essence’ ‘, you need to listen carefully.”
(Time to push the book~ This time it’s Toad’s new book “The Legend of the Alien Immortals”, the unnameable world of fairy cultivation, Toad’s book shouldn’t need to be introduced too much, in short, just read it~)
(End of this chapter)