"cooperate?"
The man named Tian Chu walked towards him step by step. Tianchu even held a brown paper bag in his hand. He looked at the puppeteer with a puzzled expression: "What cooperation?"
"Traces of a person, traces of...you can't wait to get rid of the traces of people." The puppeteer licked his lips, and he looked at Tian Chu with a bloodthirsty gleam in his eyes, "How about you? Interested?"
Tian Chu paused, and said: "I would like to hear the details. But, you have to know—"
He shrugged and said, "I'm a very picky person, and there are not many things in this world that can interest me."
"Crow—" the puppeteer dragged his voice, and said these two words to the calm young man opposite, "Crow, the man who should have disappeared and died long ago, and I found his trace—why? So, are you interested?"
He saw with satisfaction that the fingers of the young man opposite him moved.
"... He is still as cunning and unlovable as before. I found his trace here just now. It's strange that a crow that hasn't appeared in a year has appeared in such an ordinary copy, right? "The puppeteer spread his hands and said, "Fate is really wonderful. The person who once made us both hate him deeply, but there is nothing we can do about him, has reappeared by our side at this moment. Don't tell me, is this Isn’t it the chance of revenge given to us both by fate?”
"How can you confirm that it is him, and not a false appearance in the dungeon, or a lie you fabricated?" Tian Chu sneered, "Why should I believe you? And, in this dungeon, We’re all women. Our looks themselves are skewed when we’re transsexualized.”
"I saw him in the copy of Greed—on the chessboard that will extract our souls. I saw him standing there with my own eyes. I have been looking for him for so many years. I can tell at a glance that it is a crow." Puppet The teacher said, "Why, are you going to give up this great opportunity for revenge? He almost killed you back then, and you, don't you want to kill him more than anyone else?"
Tian Chu was silent. Seeing this silence, the puppeteer knew something was going on. But he also knew that Tian Chu was a very suspicious person, and to impress him, he needed more evidence and more persuasion. and…
"And..." Tian Chu said coldly, "What good will I do if I help you?"
And... as well as Tian Chu's paranoia, he is also famous for his stinginess. The puppeteer thought about it.
After presenting more tangible evidence and giving more benefits, Tian Chu finally nodded reluctantly and reached an alliance with him: "Deal."
The puppeteer scolded the other party for being stingy in his heart. Just now, Tianchu paid him a large sum of money because he wanted something from him, but as long as he can get the crow puppet... it is worth paying for it.
"By the way," Tianchu said suddenly, "Your new puppet? That's ok, you got it all."
The puppeteer turned around, saw Xia Xingye beside him, and said with a smile, "Yeah, it took me a little effort."
"His smile is so ugly." Tian Chu shrugged and said, "Let him have a normal expression, that's right."
Tian Chu knocked on the window frame: "Remember the promise you made to me, take the crow with you, and use him as a 'work of art' to go to the 'tea party'."
"Yes." The puppeteer replied cheerfully, "but he seems to have acquired a new ability now."
"What new ability?"
"I can't see him." The puppeteer said, "but my puppet can see his trace."
"Maybe it's an invisibility function." The puppeteer shrugged.
Tian Chu looked at him and fell into deep thought.
…
The fog city in the middle of the night is still silent. Lin Huai hurt her leg and walked slowly in the streets and alleys alone.
He identified his current location by sound, touch, and the bloody handprints left during the day. Fortunately, it was night, and there were not many people still walking on the street, which greatly reduced the probability of him being hit.
Finally, he stopped in an alley off Fountain Square. In front of him was an antique shop with lights on.
It belonged to the middle-aged man he saw on the first day, an antique shop.
Lin Huai pushed open the door of the store, and closed it again after flashing in. His action touched the wind chime on the door, and the wind chime made a crisp sound.
He quickly hid in a side corner, and after a while, he heard the man's footsteps and his voice: "Just now there was a wind chime from the door, did you see anyone coming in?"
"Is anyone there?" Another female voice said, "I didn't see anything, maybe it was blown by the wind."
The man seemed suspicious. Just as Lin Huai couldn't see them, they couldn't see Lin Huai either. After a long time, the man walked back to his seat step by step.
Lin Huai crouched in the corner. He heard voices in the antique shop, but remained motionless. After a long time, he stood up... At the same time, he heard another voice!
"I heard your breathing..." It was the girl's voice, "I found you."
The girl's voice was close at hand, she seemed to be standing in front of Lin Huai, talking to Lin Huai. Lin Huai looked at the blank scene in front of her, smiled slightly, and stopped breathing.
After a long time, he heard the girl's footsteps leaving. The middle-aged man asked her in the house: "Is anyone coming in?"
"No." The girl seemed to shake her head and said.
Lin Huai was the only one left in the outer room. He started breathing again, sat on the ground, and took out the bottle of perfume from his arms.
He squinted at the bottle of perfume—what he suspected was the source of his visual impairment.
Now in the entire foggy city, all living things cannot see him, and only dead things can see him—for example, a few puppets of the puppeteer. But now, the puppeteer is chasing him like a pervert, trying to make him into a puppet... This is really a huge disadvantage for him.
However, during the battle with the puppet master just now, Lin Huai made a very strange discovery: he, who had not been able to see anyone for a whole day, could actually see the blurred shadow of the puppet master during the battle just now. Although, as the battle time grew, the little shadow he saw gradually blurred and even disappeared. At that time, the puppeteer himself clearly saw his traces with his own eyes.
But when he passed the high platform during the day, the puppeteer clearly couldn't see him with his own eyes.
And when he was fighting just now, the only difference from the daytime is...
Lin Huai opened the bottle of perfume and sniffed gently. What permeates in the perfume is still a very strange aroma.
He closed his eyes, then carefully dipped and dabbed a little perfume on his neck with his fingers.
At that moment, his eyes suddenly became dizzy. After a short period of dizziness passed and she stood up straight, Lin Huai put the perfume back in her pocket and walked carefully to the inner room of the antique shop.
The light in the inner room was on, and Lin Huai carefully looked inside through the blurred glass.
In the inner room, the little girl whom he hadn't seen just now was sitting inside looking at the book in her hand!
That being the case, everything is clear!
Although I don't know the specific reason, this bottle of perfume seems to have taken away his own vision, so the taste of the perfume has also changed. And when he applied the perfume to himself, his eyesight would recover briefly as the scent of the perfume emanated.
Before, the puppet master in his vision appeared and finally disappeared because the scent of the perfume became weaker and weaker. After the perfume was completely evaporated, his eyesight also disappeared.
Questions have been answered and new solutions have been found. Lin Huai's suddenly bright mood did not relax because of this, because...
In the inner room, there is only the little girl alone!
"I was wondering which kitten it was that sneaked into the antique shop in the middle of the night." The soft voice of the middle-aged man sounded from behind Lin Huai's neck, "So it's here."
Lin Huai didn't look back. He saw the little girl in the inner room and heard voices outside. She put down the book and walked outside. Behind him, the middle-aged man sighed and said, "How did you slip in? The door? The window? Where were you hiding just now?"
"Forget it, it's not important." The middle-aged man smiled secretly, "The tea party will be the night after tomorrow. I originally wanted to keep you for a while, but since you have seen her, it is very important to keep you."
"Don't be afraid." He grabbed Lin Huai's arm and coaxed, "It won't hurt very much, and you can get eternity here soon."
As he said that, he suddenly leaned over and sniffed Lin Huai's neck, with an abnormal intoxication and fanaticism on his face: "You are so beautiful... this scent... it reminds me of the first time I saw The clock is a big handmade clock made by an old craftsman. Unfortunately, it was smashed by my violent mother. As a price, after going to Blue City to study clock making technology for five years, I gave her Made my first timepiece...I still remember the joy of that time and the smell of you reminds me of it...I dare say you would be the best work of art!"
Severe pain came from Lin Huai's arm. The man seemed to be too excited, and his strength also surpassed that of ordinary people.
At this moment, the little girl opened the door and came out from the inner room. She also had a smile similar to that of a middle-aged man: "We will grind your bones into the most beautiful clock parts, and your skull will be the best pendulum..."
Lin Huai turned to look at the middle-aged man: "Really?"
The middle-aged man froze for a moment, for some reason, he felt that something was wrong with this scene.
But before he could make a sound, he heard his sister's scream: "Ah!!"
She widened her eyes, as if extremely terrified: "What the hell are you?? Brother, leave him!!"
Middle-aged man:
He took a closer look before he understood the shocking scene. And Lin Huai also smiled at him at this moment. He took his hand out of the middle-aged man's hand, turned back to his body and said, "I'm sorry, you held my hand just now, and I couldn't turn it around."
Middle-aged man: ...
Only then did he realize that when Lin Huai just turned his head, he turned his head around his neck a full 180 degrees!
"Magic?! What magic?" He wondered, "How did you do it just now? You only turned your head, but didn't turn your body... Is it magic? You know magic?"
Lin Huai did not reply to his words.
Before the two caught up again, he lowered his body and picked up the cane that was placed by the middle-aged man, and swung it across. All the antiques placed on the display shelves fell down due to his actions, staggered, and shattered into pieces.
Any collector would be heartbroken to see this scene.
The next moment, he threw away his cane and ran out of the antique shop!
The middle-aged man roared angrily, and chased after him. His eyes were red, and it seemed that something had changed, and the muscles all over his body stood out. . The little girl hurriedly picked up the things on the ground.
Lin Huai walked through the streets and alleys, but the middle-aged man kept chasing him. Seeing a pedestrian appearing in the corner, Lin Huai shouted and chased after him: "Help me! Something has changed here..."
His next words got stuck in his throat.
The man in front of him, wearing a cloak and holding huge scissors, was turning around and looking at him gloomily.
Lin Huai stopped and tried to smile at him.
"Good evening, Jack," he said, "I'm the ROSE you met on the Titanic."