Deep Sea Embers

For Fan Na, what happened in the past two days always seemed to carry an unreal filter. Her life has undergone earth-shaking changes. The changes are as big as an absurd dream, so that she often doubts Whether she has fallen into hallucinations without knowing it—and at this moment, her self-doubt finally reached its peak.

She actually saw Mr. Morris standing in front of her with a smile on his face.

The young judge suddenly closed his eyes, and tapped his forehead vigorously. When he opened his eyes again, he found that Morris was still there—a tall figure was beside the old gentleman.

It was the ghost captain with a gloomy and majestic expression.

"Welcome aboard, Vanna," Morris said, "I know you have a lot of questions..."

Fan Na opened her mouth, but before she was about to say something, she suddenly heard a "bang" sound from beside her. She didn't feel the slightest threat from the sound, but she was still startled. Turning his head subconsciously, he saw a large group of colorful papers and ribbons rushing towards him - a beautiful lady with long silver-white hair reaching her waist was staring blankly at this side, and the paper tube in her hand was still A little smoke from burning gunpowder came out.

Fanna: "...?"

Before she could react, she saw the silver-haired lady happily took the second paper tube from the side, fiddled with it in front of her, lifted it and pulled the string on the paper tube.

Seeing this, Fan Na hurriedly reminded: "Ah! You take it the other way..."

Her reminder was one step late.

The small amount of gunpowder preloaded in the paper tube exploded, and the silver-haired woman was directly covered by the streamers and paper scraps sprayed out of the tube. She subconsciously leaned back suddenly, and then heard a strange "bo'er" With a sound, a head rolled down onto the deck under Fanna's gaze.

Fan Na's eyes widened in an instant, because of her concentration, she almost jumped up at this moment, and then, she heard an exclamation from behind: "Ah! Uncle Duncan! Alice's head came back again!" Lost!"

The next second, a girl who looked like a high school student rushed over from the side, frantically chasing the rolling head on the deck, and then another girl with a giant black dog in her hand ran from the other direction Come out, and while helping to catch up, shouted: "I said earlier that it would be unreliable for her to hold it!"

"You don't dare to hold me!"

"That can't let Alice do it alone...ah, my head fell under the stairs!"

"Hook, where is the hook... just find a stick..."

"I found the rope, throw it down and throw it down...Miss Alice, hold on to it yourself, I'll pull you up!"

The deck was extremely lively in an instant. The two girls jumped up and down chasing a head that was rolling around, while the silver-haired woman who lost her head was walking around in a daze. Sighing unceasingly, the special smell left after the ribbon canister was launched still remained in the air.

Fan Na was in a state of bewilderment that was rare in her life. She stared at the scene of flying dogs and dogs on the deck with her eyes wide open. A few colored paper ribbons were hanging on her hair and shoulders. She seemed to vaguely understand what happened just now. , but I feel that I might as well not understand.

It was a welcoming ceremony--it would have been quite a joyous occasion if it hadn't happened aboard the Lost.

"Look, I told you that I have a group of very troublesome crew members," the gloomy and dignified Captain Duncan finally spoke, and his voice finally woke Fanna from her stupor, "There is always a crew on this ship. It's such a mess—but from another perspective, your life here shouldn't be boring."

Fan Na's face was expressionless—even though there seemed to be thousands of complicated thoughts rumbling and bursting deep in her heart, she really didn't know what kind of reaction should be on her face.

She raised her head, looked at the scene on the deck, and saw that Nina and Shirley had already "fished" that head out of the gap in the stairs, and at this moment were hurriedly "returning it to its original place", a fat pigeon She flew over from nowhere, shouting inexplicable sentences like "Little Hammer Forty, Little Hammer Forty", and she finally recognized the appearance of the silver-haired woman and remembered where she was. I have seen such a face before.

It's in an antique shop downtown.

At that time, the other party had blond hair - thinking about it now, it should be a disguise.

She looked at Shirley, at Nina, and at the old Mr. Morris who was spreading his hands helplessly towards her, and finally understood everything.

The whole world has quietly changed, she just didn't know it until now.

"How many 'secrets' are there?" The corners of Fan Na's mouth finally trembled, and she regained her ability to speak. She looked at Morris. This respected scholar was an elder she had known since she was a child. The other party appeared on this ghost ship. It was the most unbelievable scene for her today, but at this moment, this elder is also the only person she can think of asking, "Since when did you..."

"Actually, it's not that long—it's just a little bit earlier than you," Morris smiled gently, and nodded slightly, "Heidi didn't know about it."

"Ah, she really doesn't seem to know—she's still complaining to me today, saying that you suddenly went out to run errands without explaining the situation to her," Fan Na said in a complicated tone, "Who would have thought...you would And so it appeared to me, on board the Lost Home."

"It seems that I left in a bit of a hurry," Morris nodded, "I should bring her some northern local products as a gift later."

Fan Na pursed her lips, then turned her head to look at the owner of the ship.

"What's the next 'surprise'?" She said helplessly, what happened after passing through the flame gate has completely disrupted the psychological construction she started this morning, she has never felt this way in her life At a loss and flustered, "Tell me in advance, so I can be mentally prepared."

Before Duncan could speak, Nina had already rushed over excitedly, and happily said to Fanna: "There is a dinner party tonight! Welcome to the dinner party for the new crew members!"

"There is very delicious fish soup!" Shirley also yelled from the side, "The captain caught the fish himself."

"And then there's the deck barbecue!" Nina immediately added, "There's fish, there's beef, and there's wheat juice!"

"You can't drink alcohol," Duncan's voice immediately came from behind Nina, "even if you call it 'wheat juice'."

Nina's expression drooped suddenly: "...Isn't it okay at all?"

"The sweet cider last time was already at its limit," Duncan said with a straight face, "beer is still too early for you."

"oh."

Fan Na looked at Nina, then at Duncan, and finally sighed softly after a long time: "So, there is really something wrong with that antique shop - but I didn't find anything."

"We have been operating legally. Although the goods are not genuine, the prices are real," Duncan said with a half-smile, "As for you not finding anything... it's actually a good thing, you know what I mean."

"Yes, His Majesty the Pope reminded me to suppress the urge to spy when I'm by your side." Fan Na sighed again, and looked at the ugly giant bone dog next to Shirley, "If I'm not mistaken, Is this a deep hound? Is this little girl a summoner who lives with the deep demon?"

Agou shook his head suddenly: "Ah, yes, yes."

Fan Na was taken aback: "...this demon can talk?!"

"Not only can it speak, but it can even spell its own name and add and subtract within 100," Duncan said casually. "Among the crew members of the Lost Home, they are considered to have a relatively high level of education."

Fan Na was stunned, and then looked at Alice who was moving her neck not far away. She had discovered the details of the other's joints just now, and now she was thinking: "A puppet, could it be that..."

"Anomaly 099, the former name was Doll's Coffin, but now you seem to call her 'Doll' directly, but she has her real name, you should already know it, just call her Alice here," Duncan said lightly Said, and then added, "Don't worry, she's safe now."

"Hello!" Alice smiled and waved, with a harmless smile on her face, "I didn't scare you just now, did I?"

Fan Na touched her neck subconsciously, and then smiled a little stiffly, as a response to the cursed puppet's greeting.

Shirley ran to the side again at this time, found a paper tube with colorful packaging from a wooden barrel, and happily ran over holding it up: "Alice, Alice! There is another one here! Do you want to... "

"Stop messing with that thing!" Duncan glared at Shirley, "So who bought this thing? Why didn't it appear on the shopping list?"

"I..." Nina shrank her neck suddenly, and said cautiously, "I bought it with my pocket money."

Duncan was silent for a while, then turned his head to look at Alice: "They will give you weird things for you to play with in the future, so please tell me first."

Alice nodded while picking small pieces of colored paper from her hair: "Oh."

Fan Na sighed deeply again.

She came to Morris and lowered her voice: "It's always been like this here?"

"Always, from all I know," said Maurice in the same low voice, "and sometimes it's even more lively—especially when Miss Alice has some new idea."

Fanna: "..."