This is the first time since the reunion, Lucrecia has seen such a complex, heavy, and warm expression on her "father's" face, and her father has also smiled at her before this, and has also shown many human behaviors, but for some reason, she always feels that there is a faint sense of disobedience behind those smiles and words and deeds, and she always feels that it is the "kind appearance" that her father tried to disguise after losing his memory due to subspace

This sense of disobedience made her always faintly uneasy, but at this moment, she finally saw some heartfelt emotion on the other party's face, an apology, and an incomprehensible regret from others, but she didn't know if this apology was for herself.

I still don't know enough, the witch lady sighed softly.

I thought I was more or less catching up with you.

The Lost Country ended up falling into subspace, and it's a good thing you didn't catch up.

Duncan shook his head, then took one last look at the moon that was floating silently, turned and walked to the bridge away from the platform, and went back to Lucy first.

Lucretia was a little surprised, "Aren't you going to study it a little longer?"

"I'm not an academic, and I don't have the professional research methods and equipment." Duncan waved his hand, "I'm here just to think."

It's just a matter of seeing it with your own eyes, but how to uncover its secrets depends on professional scholars. ”

Speaking of this, he paused, and added, "I will stay in Breezehaven during this time, and I will keep an eye on your progress on the moon, and if there are other elves and Taran." El has to tell me the same thing as the first time.

"I understand." Lucrecia nodded in response, then she hesitated and asked, "I can tell Sara about your arrival. Is Mel the ruling palace? Of course, I won't just reveal it to more people......"

"You feel free." Duncan nodded.

Tell anyone you want, and their reaction to it has nothing to do with me.

Lucretia lowered her head slightly, "Yes."

A moment later, a swirling and diffusing flame door of the Lost Homeland, which was staying on the surface of the sea somewhere outside the luminous geometry, suddenly appeared on the foredeck, and the door opened with a crackling sound of human flames, and Duncan's figure stepped out of it, and Alice, who was scrubbing the deck with a large mop and several other mops, suddenly ran over happily: "The ship is back."

Duncan waved away the flames behind him, looked at the goth doll in front of him with a mop in his hand and a happy smile on his face, and nodded simply: "Well, it's back."

"Did it go well?" Alice casually threw the mop aside and looked at the captain happily, "You've been there for a long time, a long time, have you talked a lot with Miss Lucrecia?" Did you go, which side of the 'ball'? What is it..."

"Ah......" The mop that was thrown aside by Alice suddenly jumped up, knocked the head of the elated puppet lady with a wooden pole, and then jumped on the deck and ran to the bucket to wash herself, Alice covered her head and looked at Duncan blankly and aggrievedly: "Why did it hit me?" Almost knocked me out. ”

Duncan looked at this puppet lady with simple and clear emotions, looked at her smile just now and the trouble at the moment, and unconsciously, the sense of boredom and loss accumulated in her heart quietly dissipated a little, but Alice was still aggrieved.

"You'd better check to see if it's a deck wash mop, maybe it's working in a restaurant." Duncan laughed.

Reaching out and pressing Alice's head, he asked curiously, "Besides, I've always wanted to ask you, why do you insist on washing the deck by yourself with the mop and bucket on this ship?"

"I'll help." Alice straightened her chest, "How tired they are from wiping themselves." ”

The corners of Duncan's eyes twitched, and he silently turned his gaze, looking at the mops and buckets not far away who were quickly cleaning the deck, as if he was afraid that if he took a step too slowly, he would be caught by some of the "helpers", and after a moment of silence, he shook his head: "You're happy...

.... It's good for you to be happy. ”

Alice nodded in confusion, and then she saw it

Duncan turned around, as if preparing to go back to the boat's room, she couldn't help but speak: "Boat, are you going back to rest?"

"Well, I'm a little tired."

"Captain...."Alice looked a little uneasy, she walked over and tugged at Duncan's sleeve, "Are you alright?"

"Why do you ask?" Duncan paused in confusion and turned his head to look at the not-so-intelligent puppet.

"Because you've been sighing a lot these two days, and you've spent more time in the boat's room than you've been outside, Miss Nina thinks you're on your mind, but she's too embarrassed to ask you." Alice replied honestly.

"Also, you came back with a bad face, as if you were ...... There are a lot of things that I have been holding on to my heart, but now your face is better than before. ”

Duncan looked at the puppet in front of him with some surprise, he didn't expect that Alice, who usually looked heartless and confused, would actually watch and notice these things, let alone that she would just grab herself like this and say all these words, or maybe it was because she didn't think much about things that she didn't know how to hesitate and hesitate? Some incoherent associations came to Duncan's mind, but he looked at the puppet in front of him who was still worried and confused.

He didn't know what to say, after all, even in the face of the knowledgeable Lucrecia, he couldn't explain too much, "You don't understand."

。 After a moment of silence, Duncan shook his head, "It's complicated, so complicated that it can't be explained to anyone, let alone you, even Morris probably can't understand it!" ”

Alice just blinked, and said without hesitation: "Then you can also tell me about it."

Duncan couldn't help but laugh: "Didn't I just say it, you are."

I don't understand ......."

"But I didn't understand a lot of what you usually say." Alice looked natural, "I don't understand a lot of things, but you can still tell me, I'm very suitable for listening to people, I will listen to it if I don't understand it." ”

Duncan's expression suddenly became a little subtle, listening to the magical logic of this simple puppet so straightforward and even a little proud, he didn't find a place to refute it for a while, and Alice still looked directly at the boat in front of him.

She didn't feel that it was a shame that she didn't understand many things, nor did she feel that there was anything wrong with what she was saying at the moment, she thought about it, she was curious, so she said it, if there is something in her heart, just say it, in Alice's uncomplicated worldview, this is how everything works.

She ran away suddenly, ran to a short distance and picked up a large wooden barrel that was half her height, and put it on the deck near the guardrail on the side of the ship, and then carried another one, and placed it next to the big wooden barrel just now, she climbed onto the barrel with her hands and feet, and beckoned to Duncan with a smile: "Boat Chang, you can also sit down, Miss Vanna said, blow the wind, look at the sea, and you will be in a good mood."

Duncan hesitated for a moment, and suddenly laughed, the puppet was trying to use her limited knowledge and experience to find a way to make Ban Chang's mood a little better, Duncan walked over and sat side by side with Alice on the barrel, his mood did not change because of the sea breeze, but his mood did change a little better. ”

"Alice."

"Huh?"

"Let me ask you a question." Duncan pondered, at first, he had struggled to figure out how to make Alice understand the concepts of "moon" and "starry sky", but now he suddenly realized that he didn't really need to explain these complicated things to her.

"If you live in a place, and there is something that is unique to the place where you live, it can never come from somewhere else, and it can never belong somewhere else, just see this thing, and you know that it came from there......"

Alice thought for a moment and spoke curiously, "Like I live on the Lost Country now, and you're the only captain of the Lost Country?" ”

Duncan was stunned for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Your analogy is not quite right..... But it's almost so understandable. ”

"Oh, and then?"

"And then, you got out of there, and you can't go back."

Duncan's tone suddenly became a little lower.

You've arrived in a very distant and strange place, where everything is different from home, where you have lived for a while and want to find your way home, but suddenly

You see that 'thing', something that can theoretically only appear in your hometown, and should not be seen in a foreign land anyway......

Duncan's words fell, but Alice was still thinking blankly, but after thinking for a while, she suddenly laughed, "Then I must have returned to the Lost Country." ”

"Back to the Lost Country?"

Well, you can be understood in this way, you are the only captain of the Lost Country, one day I was sent far away from the Lost Country, and I couldn't find my way back to the ship, but you suddenly appeared in front of me again, then I must have gone home, after all, where you are, which is the Lost Country. ”

The doll smiled happily and looked at Duncan Ken with a confident expression, "You said, that thing can only be present."

Hometown, and now it appears in front of you, it means that you are at home now. ”

Alice finished her theory and subsequently on the large wooden barrel

Turning around, his hands on his chin, leaning forward with a big smile on his face: "Captain, is this a brain teaser?" Duncan was a little dazed, he looked at the puppet lady on the barrel opposite, and when the sea breeze blew, Alice's silver-white hair flew up, like her ever-bright and cheerful mood, and then he laughed. ”

Yes, it was a brain teaser, and now we've all turned it.

He jumped off the barrel and said to Alice with a smile, "There's one more thing. ”

"Huh?"

Alice, who was still leaning forward and supporting her chin with both hands, was stunned for a moment, "Huh?"

The next second, she heard a slight click on her neck.

"Bo'er ......"

With a cluck, Alice fell to the ground in two parts, and then her signature, stammering ......, "Captain, ......help" came from the deck. Save...... save

……”