Chapter 13: Prolonged bed rest is bad for the cervical spine

Chapter 13 Prolonged bed rest is bad for the cervical spine

The deep sea is something to be feared.

Alice is a doll, but she still has enough to express the feelings of the soulful eyes and difficult to use common sense to explain the change of expression, so Duncan can obviously from the other side of the color of the face to detect that kind of for the deep sea …… or in the deep sea in some of the “things” fear and resistance. Fear and resistance, and then associated with his previous in the sea to see the spirit world and the so-called border vision, he can easily realize – he is in this ocean sea, absolutely hidden a great terror.

However, the Lost Country ship was sailing on this boundless ocean, and the mechanical ship that he had crashed into in the Spirit World before was also sailing on this ocean.

This couldn’t help but make him curious about something even more distant – the land in this world, what was it like? Or rather, did normal land exist in this world?
However, the doll in front of him could not answer his own question, Alice remembered most of the time in a drowsy state, according to Duncan’s judgment, that should be some kind of seal …… or “suppression” of the impact.

He also remembers that when he and the mechanical ship met, through the Lost Country’s huge perception of the ship’s cabin situation, those arcane and mysterious runes, religious symbolism rich arrangement, as well as Alice’s “casket” outside the inscribed symbols do not indicate a thing:

This “cursed mannequin” must have been deeply feared in “civilized society”.

Duncan gave the doll lady a meaningful look, which was returned by the latter with an open and calm gaze.

“Just to confirm, you have no memory of where you came from or what you’ve been through in the past, correct?”

“No,” replied Alice earnestly, “I have been lying in this big box for as long as I can remember-though I don’t know why, but it seems that I am always surrounded by a group of nervous people who are Fearing that I would come out of it, they sealed the box in various ways, to be honest, now recalling memories I actually suddenly feel that the circle of nails you nailed on the lid of my box before was quite friendly …… Although you added eight more shells later, but at least you didn’t fill the inside with lead again, right?”

Duncan, however, didn’t care about Alice’s trash talk this time, but went on to ask, “And where did your name come from? Who gave you that name? If you really never leave the box or come into contact with anyone else, why do you have a name? Could it be that you gave it to yourself?”

Alice suddenly froze.

She seemed to be in a real daze, and remained frozen for more than ten seconds. Almost as soon as Duncan was worried that the doll had a “dead” setting, the doll lady resumed her activity: “I… …don’t remember, I knew my name was Alice from the beginning, but I didn’t give it to myself. ……”

She mumbled confusedly, her hands subconsciously held her head, this appearance made the corner of Duncan’s eyes jump, and hurriedly shouted to stop: “Well, don’t remember even if you don’t remember, you don’t need to pull your head off ……”

Alice: “……”

After this, Duncan asked many more questions to the doll lady in front of him, however, unfortunately, most of them had little result.

As Ms. Doll herself said, she had spent most of her conscious life in the “casket”, maintaining a state of alternating sleep and half-awake, she knew very little about the outside world, and the only knowledge she had came from the conversations she heard outside the casket when she was half-asleep and half-awake, and this trivial knowledge was almost impossible for Duncan to piece together. knowledge could barely piece together the outlines of the world for Duncan.

But even so, Duncan was not unproductive – in his conversation with Alice, he had determined at least a few things:
There is a power structure in this world known as the “city-states”, a word that appears repeatedly in Ms. Doll’s narration and constitutes almost the entirety of her journey, and the original endpoint of her journey was a city-state known as “Prand”.

It seemed to be a prosperous place, and sailors spoke of it as “having an important position on many routes.”

Secondly, Alice also had the name “Anomaly 099”, and that seemed to be some kind of “official” name for the civilized world, but as for the name “Alice”, as she called it herself, so far it was not used by anyone except herself and Duncan. As for the name “Alice”, so far, except for herself and Duncan, it seems that there is no third person who knows it at all.

Finally, Alice had been moved from city-state to city-state, and it seemed that she was not the only “anomaly” to be moved in this way, and during some of her journeys she had heard those in charge of the “escorts” mention in conversation that The words “other Seals” were mentioned in the conversations of those responsible for “escorting” them on certain journeys.

Duncan guessed that the action of moving the anomalies around was itself a necessary means of sealing the anomalies and preventing them from escaping.

And obviously, this time the team responsible for transporting the anomaly 099 was in bad luck – because of the unexpected appearance of the Lost Country, the “doll” they were transporting had already escaped from the trap.

They just don’t know what kind of horror this strange cursed doll has, and what kind of destruction it will cause if it gets out of the trap.

After all,……, she looked quite harmless when she stayed on the Lost Country ship.

Frankly, Duncan was quite disappointed.

He had thought he had finally found a source of information that could help him understand the world, but he hadn’t realized that the guy lying in that coffin was as confused as he was.

However, when he swept his eyes over Alice, who was still sitting quietly on the wooden crate again, this disappointment faded a little bit.

At least he now had someone else to talk to on the Lost Country – even though she seemed to be a mannequin, even though it was scary when her head fell off, even though she definitely had more secrets, and even though she occasionally popped out with a bit of trash talk. But she was always more normal than that noisy goat-head drawing.

And speaking of creepy and dangerous …… this infinite sea, this Lost Country ship, the strange and weird things on this ship, which one looks safe?

Even from the perspective of others, this “Captain Duncan” seems to be the most dangerous one on the infinite sea.

Duncan breathed out, unconsciously, his expression soothed a little, and with a kind of small talk attitude asked: “I want to know, if I throw you off the ship again, what will you do?”

Alice blinked, “And stuff the shells this time?”

“No.”

“And nails?”

“Uh …… no.”

“Lead?”

“No …… ahem, I mean, if I refuse you to stay in the boat ……”

“Then I’ll row back again,” Alice sat demurely and spoke with a straight face, “I don’t want to be swallowed up by this sea, and you at least have a place to land on this boat.”

Duncan was so shocked by the doll’s candor that for a moment he didn’t know whether to call her honest or cheeky, and deliberated before venturing, “You could have been more euphemistic ……”

“You already know the answer anyway, don’t you?” Alice smiled, “But if I come back again, I’ll probably find a way to hide somewhere in the cabin from you, and won’t run out onto the deck with a big grin. I’ve only been awake for a short time yet, and I didn’t think things through too well on my previous few returns, but now I have experience ……”

Duncan interrupted her, “My senses are all over the ship, I can even tell where each wave is lapping against the hull.”

Alice’s later words were instantly stifled, “Ah ……”

Duncan continued again with a calm face, “And I also have the option of destroying you outright, a more thorough way to avoid you continuing to haunt me and my Lost Country ship.”

Miss Mannequin didn’t really seem to have thought about this possibility as her eyes subconsciously widened before a click near her neck ……

The headless mannequin caught her head in her hands and began to furtively press it towards her neck, and Duncan couldn’t create the atmosphere anymore, he could only sigh in tears and laughter, and waited for Alice to settle her head back down before he continued, “But I suddenly feel that one more crew member on this ship wouldn’t be a bad thing- -If you can be honest on this ship, I can arrange a place for you.”

“You should have said so! I’m scared out of my head!”

Duncan couldn’t resist shaking the corners of his eyes after all, “So what’s going on with that neck of yours?”

Alice looked innocent, “I don’t know! It’s not like I usually get that many chances to ‘get out and move around’, so how would I know why my body has such a problem ……”

Duncan silently looked at Alice for a few seconds and said with a serious face, “It seems that prolonged bed rest is bad for the cervical spine.”

Alice: “……”

Looking at Ms. Doll with a speechless face, Duncan’s mood suddenly got a little better.

“Well, all in all, there’s a new crew member on the Lost Country – come with me, I’ll arrange a resting place for you.”

(End of chapter)