Chapter 767: Before the Voyage
Chapter 764 – Before the Voyage
The sailor became a special new resident of the “Witch’s Mansion” – but his arrival didn’t seem to affect the day-to-day operations of the mansion in the slightest.
Most of the time, this dry corpse can stay in one place like a real corpse, he doesn’t need to eat, he doesn’t need to sleep, if no one talks to him he can even stay silent for two or three days in a row, he always stays in his quiet corner as if he is thinking about something, and finds a place to stay for a whole day without moving in the middle of the day.
This made the other people in the house almost forget that there was such a new “guest” here.
Only when Luni cleaned up would she have a few words with this corpse, and the main content of the exchange was just a few words— “Ah you move to the side.
“Ah you move to the side.” “Hey.” “Alright, you move back.” “Oh.”
Days went by like this, and on the third day, the mistress of the house finally couldn’t help herself – Lucrecia found “Sailor” in the basement storeroom, who was lying in the pile of debris and pretending to be a corpse: “I’ve heard that Father described you as not being like this on the White Oak, jumping up and down every day, why are you so quiet here?”
“Quieter, isn’t it?” The sailor sat up from the middle of a pile of clutter and gazed into the witch’s eyes in the darkness, “From what I’ve heard, you’re the one who likes the quiet.”
Lucrecia froze for a moment, “Rather …… not bad. No, what I’m about to say ……”
But her words were interrupted just as she was in mid-sentence.
“I’m building up my strength for the voyage,” the sailor snapped, the dry corpse’s eyes somehow serious, “We’re about to have a historic voyage, ma’am, and though the captain hasn’t said so, you should know his plans- -then I’ll have to get in shape for the next few days. The captain told me to get plenty of rest for the next few days, and then to remember as much as I can about the ‘Sea Song’, which I’ve been doing for the last two days.”
Few people dared to act in such a lazy and impolite manner in front of the “Witch of the Sea”-Lucrecia’s eyebrows raised involuntarily for a moment, but she quickly returned to her usual expressionless look, “Father always has his way.”
……
Lucrecia’s expression finally changed a bit subtly, she looked at the dryad silently for two or three seconds, and finally twisted her head without hesitation, “Lie down.”
Lucrecia quietly looked at the dry corpse for a while, finally withdrawing her gaze, she turned around and walked towards the door, “The Radiant Star is always ready for a long voyage.”
“You are still resisting, I can see that you are shaken,” said the sailor calmly, “I probably know what you are resisting …… but still, please prepare yourself, this may be the greatest voyage ever made, and it may also be the last voyage, and at least this time, you have the option of sailing with your father ……”
As she spoke, she rose from her reclining chair and came over to Duncan.
But immediately after noticing the gaze coming from the direction of the desk, the doll opened her eyes and she looked at Duncan with a happy smile on her face, “Captain! Have you finished writing?”
The sailor slumped back in his clutter and smacked his lips noncommittally before suddenly changing his tone, “And you? Is your Radiant Star ready to sail?”
“Help me pick up my lumbar spine and shoulders ……” The sailor continued to maintain that cocky position lying in the clutter, unable to move a muscle, “I just stretched too far on my lazy back and yanked my joints down ……”
Duncan stopped writing in his hand and looked up to the side – the night was still young outside the window, while bright electric lights illuminated the study, and Alice was sitting quietly in a reclining chair near the window, the light spilling over the mannequin’s shoulders, her eyes half-closed as if she was about to drift off into a deep sleep.
The sailor thought for a moment, “…… I have been with you for three days, and just to-day I have said so many more …… Well, I won t say any more.”
“Captain Kalani is a good man, the mess hall on the Sea Song is terrible, the crew of the second shift are always bickering, and on top of that it’s fog, fog that never ends,” the sailor stretched out, and those dried and twisted joints made a series of horrible sounds as if they were going to be pulled right off, and then he collapsed backward, and lay back down in the clutter, again. “To your dismay, I don’t recall anything to do with the ‘course’, although the Captain seems to have a lot of faith in me ……”
“Voyage ……” Lucrecia’s expression changed imperceptibly for a moment, but recovered immediately, “And what have you recalled?”
“Not sleepy, not sleepy!” Alice immediately waved her hands before her gaze involuntarily fell on the captain’s diary out of curiosity, “This is your diary? Erm …… how come I can’t read a single word ……”
Duncan smiled and shook his head, not explaining anything but just asking casually, “Are you going to try writing a journal?”
A calm, yet hugely pressurized gaze caused the dryad to shut his mouth.
“Finished writing,” Duncan said casually, not putting away his journal, but spreading it out on the table in a big way just like that – because he knew that no one in the world could read what he had written down, “Sleepy Go to your room and rest if you are, you don’t have to stay with me all the time.”
Lucrecia stopped and turned back in confusion, “What else?”
But she had just taken half a step when the sailor called out to her, “Hey, you wait, there’s something else ……”
Lucrecia didn’t respond, just frowned a little.
“Has anyone ever told you that you talk too much.”
“Me?” Alice was stunned, but quickly shook her head, “I don’t know how to do that …… I don’t know what to memorize, and that requires knowing a lot of words, right ……”
Duncan smiled, “Just write down something you think is meaningful or interesting, writing a diary doesn’t require a lot of words, the vocabulary you have now should be enough – if you really don’t know how to do it, you can draw it down.”
The mannequin listened quietly, and some light seemed to gradually flood into his eyes.
“I can draw!” She said happily.
Though the upper limit of what she meant by ‘being able to draw’ was being able to tell if it was a man, a woman, a human, or a dog – ever since Duncan had taught her the basics of drawing, she had always been proud of the fact that she was ‘able to draw’. draw.”
Duncan just smiled, then reached into his desk and fished out a new journal, slipping a pencil into it and handing it to the figure in front of him. “Here you go, I brought this from the ship,” he said, “You can jot down anything you want to remember in it.”
Alice gladly accepted the Captain’s “new gift” and flipped through the blank journal, then plopped down directly beside the desk as if she was about to write something in it, but just as she picked up her pencil she thought of something new and looked up at Duncan, “Why do you suddenly want me to keep a journal?”
Duncan froze for a moment, he did not expect the mannequin to suddenly ask this question, after a short period of reflection, he nodded, “We will soon be leaving, this time to a faraway place, the journey may see a variety of things …… Memories are fleeting, if you do not want to miss the scenery of the trip, it is It is necessary to record them securely.”
Alice listened to the captain’s words in a seemingly unintelligible way, not knowing what the doll was thinking at the moment, and only after a few seconds did she nod her head “oh”, then lowered her head, and very carefully used a pencil to write a few words on the diary’s title page– “Alice’s Diary”. “Alice’s Diary”.
“Finished writing!” She happily showed the Captain the name she had just written on.
The line of letters was crooked, but it really had been the best she had written since she had learned to read and write with Duncan.
“Very good,” Duncan smiled and nodded, but then couldn’t resist a reminder, “but this diary stuff isn’t normally something you’d show to just anyone, you’ll want to keep it safe ……”
Alice cocked her head and pointed to Duncan’s journal on the desk, “But you showed it to me.”
Duncan’s expression froze, “…… That’s because I know you can’t read the words on it.”
“…… Oh,” Alice scratched her hair and looked at her journal again with a bit of a tangle, “Is it not okay to show it to you?”
“No,” Duncan said seriously, but he noticed the tangle and bemusement in the doll’s expression immediately afterward, and added after a moment’s thought, “But if there is some content that you would very much like to share with me, it’s okay – Beyond that, I don’t read it, it’s your secret.”
The mannequin then cheered up again, “Good!”
Duncan felt only a little helpless, but anyway, having the mannequin interrupt like that made him feel a lot better.
Alice didn’t think about it that much, but she could feel that the captain’s mood was getting better, which made her happy, she watched Duncan put away the diary on the table, and thought about it and casually asked, “Captain, are we going to the border next?”
Duncan gave the mannequin an unexpected look.
“Miss Vanna told me,” Alice said immediately, “She also said that we’re leaving in a couple of days – and that we should take enough food and water on board this time, as the place we’re going to could be very special ……”
Duncan nodded softly, “Yes, it’s going to be special …… It’s a place where even I don’t know exactly what it’s going to look like or what’s going to happen.”
“…… Farther than that ‘Holy Land Island’ before?”
“Farther than that.”
“Oh–“
Alice stretched her voice, as if trying to imagine what a place farther away than Holy Land Island would look like, but she couldn’t.
“Aren’t you worried?” Duncan looked curiously at the figure in front of him, and he didn’t seem to see any uneasiness in the other man’s clear gaze.
Alice held her head and shook it vigorously.
Duncan thought about it and deliberately made things a bit more serious: “We may get lost beyond the border, we may encounter a time break, and even if we are well prepared, we may not be able to return for a long, long time …… or, simply, we may not be able to return.”
Alice, however, still shook her head, and then a smile suddenly blossomed-
“Don’t you be afraid, I will bring you back.”
“You? Bring me back?”
“Uh-huh!”
Duncan laughed miserably and helplessly, “How are you going to bring me back?”
“I don’t know!” Alice replied without hesitation.
Duncan: “……”
He looked somewhat helplessly at the doll in front of him, who always seemed to be sparse, and at the extraordinarily confident smile on the other man’s face despite his obvious head of mush.
But all of a sudden he seemed to think of something, and when he looked at Alice again, that helpless expression took on a trace of thoughtfulness ……
(End of chapter)