On either side of the large nautical table, Duncan, the captain of the Lost Land, sits facing the cursed puppet Alice.

The atmosphere between the two (though neither of them may be human) is anything but harmonious.

Miss Doll, who calls herself "Alice", still looks a little nervous, and even the cursed doll can't rest in front of Duncan's naturally coercive +10 face, even the cursed puppet can't rest in front of her.

She was sitting on the lid of her coffin with a dignified demeanor at the moment, but the fingers that quietly pinched together and grabbed the hem of her skirt revealed her uneasiness.

Duncan was silent for a moment, contemplating the ...... "lady" in front of him.

A puppet driven by an unknown force, a "supernatural individual" who is obviously not flesh and blood, but can be said to be able to walk and even have a certain body temperature, if this is placed in his hometown, it is necessary to get closer to science - and at least three and a half episodes.

Duncan didn't know what kind of existence a puppet like Alice belonged to in this world, but in the past few days with the goat's head, he also learned some information, he knew that although there were "extraordinary visions" in this world, all kinds of extraordinary things were not ordinary and visible, and the puppet lady in front of him ......

Duncan guessed that she should belong to some kind of special existence even in this strange and abnormal world.

His suspicions were not unfounded—the mechanically powered ship that collided head-on with the Lost was new, and it had a well-trained crew of seafarers, and he had seen with his own eyes that many of the sailors on board were holding their posts despite the great fear, and that there were a large number of unintelligible cabins and objects inside the ship, many of which were depicted with intricate runic markings that closely resembled the symbols on the surface of Alice's "coffin......

In other words, the purpose of such a cutting-edge ship is most likely to be to escort ...... Or "escort" Alice, the cursed doll.

Duncan shifted his posture in his seat and looked at Alice with a comfortable but serious gaze—there was no doubt that he had an amazing "guest" on his ship.

But from another point of view, this puppet lady doesn't seem to be a terrible character, and she seems to be quite timid.

After all, she hadn't said anything when she met her side just now, and her head was scared off.

"May I ask ......" Probably because Duncan's long silence and gaze brought too much pressure, Alice finally couldn't help but speak, "And ......"

"Where are you from?" Duncan finally withdrew his stressful gaze and asked in a calmer tone.

Alice was visibly stunned for a moment, as if to reflect the meaning of Duncan's question, and after a few seconds, she gently tapped her finger on the gorgeous wooden box under her body: "From here." ”

Duncan's expression instantly stiffened: "......"

"Of course I know you're lying in this box," he coughed lightly, "but I'm asking where you're from—where, you see?" Do you have a hometown? Or something that could be called a starting point? ”

Alice thought about it again and shook her head very calmly: "I can't remember." ”

"Can't remember?"

"Where did the puppets come from?" Alice folded her hands on her lap and replied dignified and earnestly, "Most of my memories are lying in the box, where I lay and was transported from one place to another, occasionally vaguely feeling someone walking or guarding outside the box...... Ah, I remember some whispered conversations, the men who were guarding outside my wooden box, talking about something in a frightened and nervous tone......"

Duncan raised an eyebrow: "Talk about something?" What are they talking about around you? ”

"It's just a bit of a boring chore."

"But I was curious." Duncan said seriously—he believed that it might really be just boring trivia, but now he really needed to learn about the world in any way he could, even if it was the noisy gossip of ordinary people.

“…… Well, the most common thing to hear is a name, Anomaly 099 - they seem to use this to refer to me and my wooden box, but I don't really like it, I have a name," Alice said as she recalled, "and I occasionally heard them talking about seals and curses or something, but most of them were vaguely remembered. I sleep when I'm in the box and don't pay much attention to what's going on outside. ”

The puppet spoke unhurriedly, and then as if suddenly remembered something, added: "But I remember what I've heard lately, it must have been before I came to your ship, and the voices of those conversations outside the wooden box frequently mentioned a place, the city-state of Plain, which seemed to be their destination...... Should it be my destination too? ”

"The city-state of Purland?" Duncan's eyes were reserved, and he silently wrote down the name in his mind.

He finally learned something useful, though he didn't know when it would come in handy.

Then he raised his head and looked at the puppet lady in front of him again: "What else?" ”

"Besides, I spend most of my time sleeping, Captain," said Miss Doll solemnly, "what can you do without sleeping when you're locked in a large coffin-like box, with a groggy murmur creeping into your ears all around?" Do you sit up in a coffin? ”

The corners of Duncan's mouth twitched.

has a dignified demeanor, and when her head doesn't fall off, she is an elegant beauty, but in fact, she will not only ride the coffin board to ride the wind and waves, but also suddenly pop out trash talk that chokes people to death.

He quickly built a new image of Miss Alice in his mind.

But he still maintained the image of a calm and dignified Captain Duncan on the surface, but he hummed noncommittally and continued: "So, you know nothing about the outside world except that you are groggy in a wooden box, and you can tell me how the world is now, nor where any port or city-state is. ”

"I'm afraid so, Your Excellency," Miss Doll nodded solemnly, then stared at Duncan nervously as if she had suddenly reacted, her eyes widened slightly, "so...... Are you going to throw me off the ship again? Because I'm worthless? ”

Before Duncan could speak, he heard Alice say again: "Okay, I understand, this is your ship after all, but can you stop stuffing shells into the box this time?" Seriously...... Eight shells is a little too much......"

It could be seen that the puppet lady was not in a very good mood - but she didn't dare to have a seizure.

Duncan was also embarrassed, mainly embarrassed that he had not thought about the situation of having to discuss the matter calmly with the person concerned when he stuffed the cannonballs into the box in the first place—at that time, he only thought of Alice lying in the box as a cursed doll from a standard horror movie, and the images that came to his mind were all towards this style of painting...... How could he have thought that this cursed puppet didn't come out of the curse, but TM came out of the courtyard?

So the preparations made in the early stage to fight the terrifying curse have now become all embarrassing.

However, Duncan's good thing is that his face is thicker, and that majestic and gloomy face is engraved on his face like a knife and axe, as long as the peripheral nerves are not short-circuited, he can still be tense, so he forcibly ignored the embarrassment caused by the eight cannonballs, but Yun Qingfeng shook his head lightly: "I haven't thought about whether to throw you off the ship, after all, you always seem to have a way to return to the ship, I'm just a little curious, why do you have to go back to the Lost Country again and again?" You can see that you are afraid of me, and you are afraid of this ship—why not stay away from this danger? ”

"Is this ship called the Lost Country? Well, I do have a bit of ...... I'm afraid of you and your ship, but isn't the depths of the sea more dangerous than this? Miss Doll stared silently at the ghost captain in front of her, in her field of vision, behind the tall man was an infinite darkness of nothingness, that darkness overlapped with the real scene in the cabin, as if the two worlds were forcibly superimposed, but compared to the suffocating shadow of nothingness, those things that came from the "deeper" part of the infinite sea made her feel more dangerous as Anomaly 099, "Is there anything more terrifying in this world than the deep sea?" ”

(Oh yes!) ）