Real life is different from weird stories. The biggest difference is that living in reality you have to consider a lot of real and trivial details——
Does the moving cursed doll need joint maintenance? Will Alice's frequent disassembly of joints cause her to suddenly scatter when walking in the future? Have the bacon and dry cheese on the ghost ship expired?
Do superheroes who socialize during the day and fight evil forces at night sleep? Do the evil forces who fight superheroes usually go to the supermarket to buy things?
This is never told to you in the story. The people in the story always come and go like the wind in white clothes. The cursed doll in the story only needs to suddenly pop out of its corners to scare people, just like in the story.
The Ghost Captain never had to worry about having only century-old bacon and hard cheese on board.
In reality, the Cursed Doll was scratched all over after soaking in sea water, and even after taking a bath, he had to think about how to deal with the salt particles in the joints...
Duncan sighed as he stood outside the cabin, realizing more clearly that surviving on this ship for a long time seemed to require more than just determination.
He also had to consider a lot of practical issues, especially after the crew was increased.
There are actually not many living supplies on the ghost ship, and Duncan knows this very well.
This ship has an unlimited supply of fresh water, but the unlimited supply is only fresh water. The ingredients stored in the food warehouse will not be automatically replenished after consumption, and the only food available there is bacon jerky and hard cheese.
Although none of them showed signs of decay due to the special nature of the Lost Home, Duncan still had reasonable suspicion that they had been stored for at least a century.
In addition, there are no replacement clothes suitable for Alice's body shape on this ship (although the cursed doll did not mention the need for this), and there is nothing that can be used for entertainment - not even a chess set or a set of chess pieces.
Vice poker.
The boundless sea is vast, but it is difficult for the Homeless Ship to obtain real supplies from this vast sea. The ship does not seem to have a reliable "home port" to stay for repairs, nor does it have the ability to communicate with civilized city-states on land.
of channels.
Goat Head didn't seem to care about this problem at all, but Duncan had already started to think seriously at this moment - he wanted to find a way to improve the current lack of supplies on the Homeless Ship.
Furthermore, he is also considering how to establish contact with the "city-states" on land.
Drifting blindly on the sea forever is an extremely inefficient method of exploration. Information about this world must be obtained from land. This is Duncan's deepest experience after "walking in the spirit world".
Putting this aside, even for his own physical and mental health, he must try to get more in touch with the "city-states" on the land and the civilized society of this world - otherwise he is really worried about what he will do after the long drift.
He will really become a twisted, gloomy, and lonely ghost captain.
Thinking of this, Duncan turned his head slightly and looked at the pigeon Ai who was squatting on his shoulder and preening his feathers.
His eyes mainly fell on the brass compass on Ai's chest.
Pigeon tilted his head and looked at his "master", and suddenly said: "Open a branch base! Lay out a carpet of germs! Do you know how to operate it?"
Duncan was a little silent for a while. This pigeon was nervous most of the time, but the words it occasionally said were so appropriate, and even so precise that one couldn't help but suspect that it was very wise and foolish.
At present, it seems that walking in the spirit world is the only feasible means of "traveling" to land city-states.
Although this method seems to have too many uncertainties, and mysterious accidents like "Ai" have occurred since the last time it was used, Duncan knows that he will soon carry out his next spiritual walk - not only
In order to collect intelligence on land, it is also to verify and master a very useful capability as soon as possible.
As important as walking in the spirit world is the "special ability" of Pigeon Ai to bring back a ceremonial knife from a distant land.
If it can bring back a knife, can it bring back more things? What are the rules and limitations of the items this bird can carry? Can this process be controlled artificially?
After thinking for a moment, Duncan decided to ask the pigeon directly: "Do you know how you brought that knife back?"
Pigeon thought for a while and said in a deep tone: "You need more crystal mines."
Duncan: "..."
He decided to give up communicating with the pigeon for the time being. It would be more reliable to wait until the next time he performs a spiritual world walk to try it himself.
…
In the cabin, Alice finally figured out how to use the water pipe, and roughly figured out how to take a bath.
On the ghost ship with limited conditions, she could only take a cold shower, but for a doll, this was not a problem at all.
But before jumping into the tub, Alice decided to greet everyone in the cabin first.
She patted the huge oak barrel and knocked on the pillars supporting the cabin. She kicked the floor under her feet with her toes, then stood up and pulled the ropes and hooks hanging from the roof.
"Hello, my name is Alice," she greeted these cold things happily, just like she greeted the goat-headed gentleman before, "I will live on this ship from now on."
Nothing in the cabin responded to her greeting, but Alice didn't care at all.
Goat Head said that the Lost Home is alive, and many things on this ship are alive.
Although none of them seems to have real "intelligence" like the goat head, or even the ability to communicate, this does not prevent Alice from treating the entire Lost Home as a "neighbor" who needs greetings.
Homeless is a living thing, and so is she.
Convinced that her greeting was polite and appropriate, Alice felt even happier. Then she took off her gorgeous dress and climbed into the oak barrel that was already filled with water.
The first step is to take off the head and rinse it - the joints in the neck are not very strong anyway.
Miss Doll thinks her plan is very reasonable.
…
Late at night, the city-state of Puland finally ended its hustle and bustle all day long. Under the pale clear light of the night sky, this prosperous "Pearl on the Sea" gradually fell into sleep.
But in the quiet darkness, there are night watchmen watching the city after sleeping.
On the "Big Bell Tower", the tallest building in the city-state of Puland, a young lady with long gray hair and an unusually tall figure was standing in front of the window overlooking the city.
This lady's facial features are very beautiful, but there is a striking scar across her left eye that is daunting. She is taller than the average man, and she is wearing silver-gray light armor and a war skirt. She has obviously gone through a lot of trouble.
Through exercise, the muscles of her limbs are full and the lines are well-proportioned. Next to her, within easy reach, is a giant sword that exudes a faint silver glow - the hilt of the giant sword is engraved with a symbol that symbolizes the waves.
Wen, there is also a shimmer of light floating on the blade like water waves.
Behind the lady, the sound of mechanical operation continued to come - the movement of the large bell tower was running smoothly driven by the steam engine. The complex and precise gear and connecting rod structure penetrated the roof and floor, driving the four dials and hidden dials upstairs.
The mimetic planetarium deep in the building is constantly in operation.
Judging from the sound, this huge and sophisticated machine is running in very good condition, and no evil power has invaded the sacred steam core.
But Judge Vanna still felt vaguely uneasy in her heart, a bad premonition that something was about to happen or had already happened, and that she was destined to be powerless to prevent it, which made her constantly irritated.
The sound of footsteps came from the direction of the stairs. The gray-haired woman in front of the window turned around. She saw a priest wearing a sea priest robe walking up from the stairs. The priest was holding a clean copper incense burner in his hand.
Smoke was slowly wrapping around him.
The priest came to the movement column in the center of the room, took down the old incense burner that was originally hung on the column guardrail, and replaced it with a new one. He observed the smoke escaping from the incense burner and confirmed that there was no smoke.
Floating around the rotating gears and connecting rods, he muttered the name of the Storm Goddess in a low voice, and turned to look at the gray-haired lady standing in front of the window.???.
"Good night, Your Majesty the Judge - are you keeping vigil in person again?"
"I always have a bad feeling, and it's always been the case in the past few days - especially tonight."
"Bad premonition? Where did it come from?" The priest raised his head, with worry in his deep eyes, "Has the goddess given you a omen?"
"It's not that clear information," the young female inquisitor shook her head, "I just have a vague feeling... that something is approaching this city."
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