After Xu Ziyue repeatedly expressed that he was not dissatisfied with Jin'er, Xu Ziyue shamelessly asked Jin'er to accompany him to the place where the puppet told him to sleep tonight.
However, the puppet told Xu Ziyue that the location was in the doll hall.
To be precise, it is not in the humanoid hall, but below the humanoid hall, a basement with complete supplies for people to meet their daily needs.
On the first floor of the doll building, behind a decorative wall full of dolls, there is a long passage leading to the basement.
Fortunately, there were bright candles on both sides of this long passage, and Jin'er was around him, so he didn't feel any fear.
But the candles kept burning, and the ventilation seemed to be fine. The lengths of these candles look like new again... should someone replace them
After walking down the last flight of stairs, Xu Ziyue and Jin'er walked through a flat passage again and came to the end of the basement. There are no forks from beginning to end, that is to say, if something happens, you can't run away
Xu Ziyue retracted the dangerous thought, then stood at the door and pushed the only door.
- No push
At this time, Jin'er spoke. She said: "I don't necessarily have time to deliver the food for you, but I will remember to leave some for you in the kitchen. If it is not delivered to you, you need to go to the kitchen to eat it yourself."
Xu Ziyue nodded. In fact, he hadn't even thought about how to solve it. But now it seems there is a way. But Jin Er's "don't necessarily have time" makes him a little concerned...
Jin'er looked at the young man in front of her who had not yet fully grown into a man, and smiled, "Because, making a puppet is a delicate job."
That smile can tell that she really loves this matter, but when it is associated with what she said and those things, it makes one's hair stand on end.
"If possible, I would like to make a puppet of you, would you like it?" Jin'er raised her hand and wanted to gently stroke Xu Ziyue's cheek, but she stopped suddenly when there was still one finger left. .
With regret, she retracted the palm that suddenly drooped in a straight line from the wrist, put the candlestick aside with the other intact hand, then held the broken palm, quietly waiting for Xu Ziyue's answer.
"Your hand..." The sudden appearance of a broken hand in front of him made him panic! However, the "broken hand" is not even worried, and it seems that he is extraordinarily mentally retarded.
"It doesn't matter. Just go back and change another one." Jin'er smiled casually, then fiddled with it, breaking her palm directly.
Xu Ziyue: "... ⊙﹏⊙!"
Jin'er asked, "What's your answer?"
Xu Ziyue hugged the puppet tightly, "...I want to be human."
"Ah..." Jin'er crouched down, picked up the candlestick she brought over, and turned away without saying a word.
Xu Ziyue waited until Jin'er's back completely disappeared in this passage, and then shivered violently.
"No, this door..." Xu Ziyue turned his head to look at the door behind him that he couldn't open just now, then raised his hand to try again.
This time he pushed the door open easily.
After Xu Ziyue walked in, he surveyed the room roughly. The whole is not big, and even a little crowded. The whole room is covered with doll-related things, and there is even a workbench similar to Jin'er's studio. This workbench occupies most of the room, and the other is the bed for sleeping.
Xu Ziyue thought about it for a while. He didn't study the room first, but put the puppet and his coffin on the bed, then crouched down beside the bed, poked the puppet's forehead with his fingers, and asked: " Did you just stop me from opening the door because you didn't want her to come in? Huh?"
The little doll slowly knelt down from the standing position, then lowered his head, almost buried his face in his chest, and nodded slightly.
Xu Ziyue only felt that the blood bar above his head kept popping out[-999][-999][-999]… until it was emptied.
Xu Ziyue opened his hands, covered his face, and muttered to himself like a sigh, "You are here to beat me..."
The little doll raised his eyes, looked at Xu Ziyue quietly, and tilted his head when he saw that Xu Ziyue didn't want to continue to blame. He looked at Xu Ziyue in confusion, as if he didn't understand what he meant.
Xu Ziyue lightly stroked the constantly fluctuating mood, and then obtained a positive answer after asking the puppet whether he could move the things in this room.
Xu Ziyue saw some tools on the workbench, those should be props for making puppets. Then there are the needles and threads that will be used for sewing. According to the situation, the person who originally lived here should be a humanoid teacher.
Xu Ziyue boldly made an association, "Could this be the room where your master was made?"
The little doll's expression was a little tangled, but he still nodded.
Xu Ziyue picked up a carving knife on the workbench and looked at it, "What about others?"
The puppet looked at Xu Ziyue seriously, with a smile on his face trying to pass the level.
"Um... Can't answer? Don't want to answer? Still don't know?" Xu Ziyue looked at the candlelight in the room and saw the pattern on the handle of the carving knife... Seems familiar
Xu Ziyue blinked, remembering something.
He put down the carving knife, then walked over to the bed and picked up the little doll sitting obediently.
"Forget it, go to bed. It's been most of the night."
Xu Ziyue lay down with the doll in his arms, then pulled the blanket on the bed to cover him.
The little doll curled up obediently in Xu Ziyue's arms, and then opened his eyes wide to look at Xu Ziyue's chest. After being noticed by Xu Ziyue, he was patted on the back of the head by Xu Ziyue, and then he obediently closed his eyes.
Under the dim candlelight, there was a soft soothing voice: "It's time to sleep."
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The next day, Xu Ziyue, who was not disturbed by anyone, didn't know when he slept.
But the emptiness in his stomach when he woke up told him that he must have slept for a long time.
Xu Ziyue checked the room again and found nothing useful.
Then he walked out of the basement of the doll in his arms and saw the dim sky outside.
The sky here is almost night except during the day. There is no sun to see, and there is no wall clock in the hotel. Xu Ziyue doesn't even know what time it is.
When he left the dolls hall, Xu Ziyue looked back at the dolls. They were looking at him, as if they were not looking at him.
Xu Ziyue shuddered, pushed open the door of the doll pavilion and walked out.
Xu Ziyue actually didn't want to go back to the hotel, but Naihe only seemed to find food there. And he didn't expect to see Lu Xiuyang turn into a puppet.
In order to avoid Yan Shi and the others, Xu Ziyue was sneaking back to the hotel. Although he thinks he has done nothing wrong, from the perspective of Yan Shi and the others, everything is wrong. Not to mention that there were so many people on Yan Shi's side that Xu Ziyue couldn't even fight head-on.
Originally, he planned to dodge the moment he heard Lu Xiuyang's voice, but Lu Xiuyang's voice was so strange that Xu Ziyue couldn't help sticking out half of his head at the door of the hotel and looked inside.
"Uh... uh huh—"
Lu Xiuyang kept making meaningless roars from his throat, and he was using one hand to cover his arm with the other... His arm seemed to be squeezed by something sharp and let out a roar. A high-pitched screeching sound.
"Crack-"
"Uh-"
Lu Xiuyang's voice suddenly stopped. And his squeezed arm was suddenly cut to the ground with a sharp cut. But the strange thing was that there was no blood at the cut of his broken arm, and the ground was clean... and the interface of the broken arm that hit the ground happened to be facing Xu Ziyue at the door.
Xu Ziyue's eyesight wasn't good, but it wasn't too bad either.
So he could see clearly the cut in the arm wrapped by the sleeve of the clothes. The edge of the fracture is like a porcelain-like appliance, with a bloodless piece of meat wrapped in the middle, and an arm model made of a resin mold like a doll on the periphery.
Just like the corpse Xu Ziyue saw before.
Yan Shi and the others had no time to pay attention to their surroundings, so Xu Ziyue was completely undiscovered. He crouched down quietly, then retracted back behind the wall.
Lu Xiuyang's body fell to the ground, and then the footsteps of Jin'er walking to Yan Shi's side...
Xu Ziyue heard Jin'er's voice.
"This is the doll you lost, and it is also your companion. I helped you find it back."
Then he heard the exact same voice as Lu Xiuyang just now.
But this time, the one who spoke was the doll that was sent back by Jin'er and was exactly the same as Lu Xiuyang.
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"Are you hungry?"
Jin'er put her hands on her knees, bent down, and looked at Xu Ziyue who was squatting at the door.
Xu Ziyue shuddered, then raised his head.
Seeing how Xu Ziyue was looking into the hotel, Jin'er said, "The two of them went upstairs just now." Jin'er smiled, "That companion was thrown away by them. But I sent them back to their room again. ."
Xu Ziyue: "..." I can already imagine the expressions of Yan Shi and Hu Beijia.
Jin'er looked at Xu Ziyue in confusion and asked, "Why don't you speak?"
The more Xu Zi thought about it, he felt that it was really bad not to speak. He also needs to talk to ease his tight little heart.
So he picked a question and asked: "So that's the meaning of the letter 'you will kill you' in the previous envelope? Everything that is imposed on his doll will be reflected back to himself?"
"That's because they don't cherish the puppets." Jin'er stood up straight, "But you won't."
"Oh..." Who makes the puppet look good.
Jin'er looked at Xu Ziyue, who was still standing still, "Why are you still squatting here? Didn't you come to eat?"
Xu Ziyue twitched the corners of his mouth with difficulty, then squeezed out a smile, "I, my legs are numb..."
The author has something to say: Let the finishing touches begin!
Because I'm too tired to go home... The last post will be posted tomorrow. Today, we can only keep the daily updates of both sides and update QAQ
—2019.01.05