Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

Chapter 1: The tortoise and the hare race

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In May 2119 AD, humans began to turn into dolls.

People walking on the street, eating in restaurants, trying on clothes in shopping malls and just taking off half of their clothes, those poor people stopped at the moment before the change, their smiles on their faces didn't even have time to put away, they turned into a static humanoid doll.

There was no warning, and no reason to be found.

People are puzzled, scared, crazy and desperate.

They pulled up bright red banners to demonstrate, questioning whether it was a terrorist attack by a mysterious organization, or exaggerating the invasion of alien civilizations on the Internet, and some people took their families to the countryside to take refuge... They did everything they could, but The people around me are still turning into dolls one by one.

Gradually, people became numb.

Go to school when you should go to school, work when you should go to work, what life should be, or what.

But the daily TV news adds a link—

After reading the press release, the announcer will use the standard broadcasting tone to inform the audience: "If you find that someone around you has turned into a doll, please call the emergency number 123, and the relevant departments will deal with you in time..."

The so-called processing is to package the dolls and send them to scientific research institutions.

If scientists can research something, it will be fine. If they can't research something, they will wait for the family to claim it. After that, whether to bury it or put it at home as a decoration depends on the family's mood.

Bai Youwei watched the news for a while. Seeing that it was almost time, she picked up the remote control to turn off the TV, then pressed the button on the wheelchair and headed towards the restaurant.

Her legs are disabled, her parents divorced when she was a child, and they each formed a new family. Probably because they felt ashamed of their daughter, the couple never hesitated to spend money on Bai Youwei, let her live in the most luxurious villa, and hired the most expensive nanny, but they couldn't find time to accompany their daughter.

However, Bai Youwei didn't care about it.

She is used to being alone.

The restaurant clock ticks and the minute hand points to 12:10. Bai Youwei eats on time at 12 noon every day, only sooner rather than later, but now there is no dish on the table.

The surroundings were very quiet, and the ticking of the clock made this gorgeous villa even more serene.

Bai Youwei waited for a while, and smelled the smell of burning from the kitchen.

She adjusted the direction and slid over the wheelchair. With her back to her, the nanny stood stiffly beside the gas stove, her hands remained in the cooking position, but there was no movement.

The babysitter has become a doll, just now.

It's still the same face, but the material is completely different. The living flesh and blood have turned into plastic skin, glass bead eyeballs, chemical fiber hair...

The original nanny of the family went back to her hometown for refuge. The nanny in front of her has only been here for two days, and Bai Youwei has not even memorized the other party's name, but now it is like this.

She stared blankly for a while, then slid over in her wheelchair, turned off the fire, and called the emergency number 123 as the news said.

Always busy.

Bai Youwei thought about it and called her mother. The nanny is someone hired by the mother and should be able to contact the nanny's family.

The phone was connected, and there were voices, laughter, and music mixed together... She alone showed her loneliness.

Really harsh.

She made it clear in a few words, then hung up the phone.

It's quiet inside and quiet outside. The scorching sun scorched the earth, the garden pool reflected sparkling light, a hibiscus flower drooped its purple flowers and leaves under the scorching sun, everything was sparse and normal, but Bai Youwei knew that the world had already become abnormal.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of a car engine came from outside the villa.

Bai Youwei looked through the window and saw a tall man ringing the doorbell.

She thought for a moment, went to the kitchen to get a folding fruit knife, and slipped out in a wheelchair.

Across the iron gate, the man's figure is tall and straight, his appearance is stern, and under his long black eyebrows are a pair of deep and quiet eyes.

He looked vaguely familiar, but couldn't remember where he had seen it.

"Are you Weiwei?" The voice was slightly stagnant, with the strangeness of the first meeting, "I'm Shen Mo, your mother knows that something happened here, and let me pick you up."

Bai Youwei was stunned.

Shen Mo... No wonder she felt familiar just now, it turned out to be Uncle Shen's son, and he looked somewhat similar to Uncle Shen.

Forgot to mention that Uncle Shen is her mother's good friend and a business partner. In fact, Bai Youwei thinks that the term "spare tire" is more appropriate.

Bai Youwei silently put the fruit knife into his pocket and opened the courtyard door—

Shen Mo looked at the girl in front of him.

Pale complexion, long floppy hair, and a long pale blue shirtdress wrapped her from neck to feet. As her name suggests, just by looking at her, she can't help but think of words like white soft, tender, weak, and so on.

She looks very well-behaved, not as difficult as Aunt Wang said.

"Pack up and I'll take you to Yangzhou." Shen Mo said concisely.

Bai Youwei shook her head: "No."

Shen Mo was a little surprised, raised his eyebrows and said, "The city is not safe now, all those who can walk have been evacuated. You stay here without anyone to take care of you, and sooner or later you will die."

Bai Youwei lowered her head and looked at the delicate lines on her skirt, "Don't go. I'm like this, no matter where I go, it's a dead end."

Shen Mo didn't expect her to be so stubborn.

He is not good at persuading people, let alone coaxing children. He walked straight into the house, "Which room do you live in?"

Bai Youwei stared at him suspiciously, her eyes flickering, "What do you want to do?"

Shen Mo ignored her, walked around the house, found her bedroom accurately, and started packing clothes and daily necessities.

The girl followed up with a slightly aggrieved expression.

After Shen Mo finished putting on his clothes, he stood in the room and looked around for a week, asking, "Where's the medicine?"

Bai Youwei lives in a wheelchair all year round, and medicine is a necessity.

She was silent.

He simply stopped asking.

The room quickly became cluttered.

Bai Youwei sat in a wheelchair and watched him rummage through boxes, her hands clasped tightly, and her voice was very low: "You... Do you think now that you have rescued a lonely girl, you are great and great?... But do you know , you are actually hurting me."

Shen Mo stopped, his expression calm and unwavering.

Bai Youwei took a deep breath and continued: "Have you considered the consequences of forcibly taking me away?... When I arrived in Yangzhou, I was a woman and a lame man. How should I live? Do you know that I even need help with eating and going to the toilet, and when I travel far away? To wear diapers, you don't have to…”

She inhaled, "You don't know anything at all! I'm not going with you!"

At the end of the speech, the voice was hoarse, with a forbearance cry.

Shen Mo looked at her and was silent for a while, then he lowered his voice: "I really don't understand, but I at least understand one thing - you will die faster if you stay, and if you leave, there may be hope."

hope

Bai Youwei felt cold in her heart.

Even her biological parents are reluctant to see her, her life is like a walking corpse, and even if the world is as usual, she has no intention of continuing to live.

She is a hopeless wretch!

Shen Mo walked in front of Bai Youwei, his dark eyes were oppressive, and his tone was calm and firm: "Don't worry, I will send you to Yangzhou without incident."

Bai Youwei bit her lip.

She has no choice.

Shen Mo pushed Bai Youwei out of the villa and came to the off-road vehicle on the side of the road.

He picked Bai Youwei up from the wheelchair and felt that she was unbelievably light. Although she was thin, she did not hold her hands. The girl in his arms was soft.

Her face was leaning against his chest, the faint fragrance lingered, the aroma of milk rose shampoo mixed with the medicinal smell, forming a strange fragrance, an indescribable feeling.

Looking at the tense little face, he was a little soft-hearted, and comforted again: "I'll drive quickly, I'll be there in an hour and a half, someone over there will take care of you, don't worry."

Bai Youwei obviously hated his tyranny and ignored him with a straight face.

Shen Mo smiled, closed the rear door, sat in the driver's seat and turned the key—

It didn't take long for him to realize that he had miscalculated.

The situation is more serious than expected, and there are dolls on almost every road. Although the reason why people turn into dolls is not yet known, it is well known that the places where dolls appear together are high-risk areas, and everyone will avoid such roads as much as possible.

Shen Mo started to detour for more than an hour, and finally reached the highway intersection.

The highway is also not smooth.

Looking around, it was full of cars. There were probably 60 or 70 cars. They were parked in the middle of the road. Some cars collided into a ball.

At the end of the convoy, there were many people who had just arrived on the highway like them. Those people stood outside the car, craning their necks, hesitating whether to continue forward.

Shen Mo got out of the car to inquire about the situation.

Bai Youwei was lying by the car window, listening to those people talking:

"What should I do? Are you still going?"

"Let's go? There are dolls in front of us, how do we get there?"

"Don't go, are you waiting to die here? The nearest cities are Yangzhou and Taizhou, and no one has turned into a doll!"

"What about other roads, are there dolls on other roads?"

"We'll all be trapped to death if this goes on..."

"Husband, what should we do?" a long-haired woman whimpered, "it must be the end of the world... we will all die..."

Her husband also seemed to have no idea, smoking irritably, unable to say a word of comfort.

Bai Youwei listened to it for a while, and felt that it was meaningless, so she closed the car window to be quiet.

Shen Mo returned to the car, and Bai Youwei asked him, "Will you turn into a doll from here?"

Shen Mo thought for a while, "Look at the situation first, if it doesn't work, find another way."

Bai Youwei didn't trust him very much, and whispered: "There are also dolls on other roads."

At this time, there was movement ahead.

Everyone was surprised, and when they looked up, they saw a blue pickup moving forward slowly, with a hint of probing. When the other cars saw this, they followed slowly, keeping a short distance.

Looks like someone can't wait.

After all, there is no safe place in the city, and there are dolls on almost every road. If you want to get out of the city, you must take risks.

The driver of the blue pickup truck was a strong bald man. Holding the steering wheel, he carefully drove past several cars with dolls. He found no abnormality, and subconsciously accelerated the speed.

When he reached a safe open space, he stuck his head out of the car and waved to the person behind him: "This road can be walked!"

The atmosphere was excited by this sentence, and the cars behind followed one after another.

Someone smiled and greeted the bald man in front: "Dude, thanks to you this time!"

Others also smiled lightly.

"It seems to be fine." Shen Mo started the car and followed the convoy.

Bai Youwei said "Oh" neither salty nor light.

On the highway, cars drove by at tortoise speed, and everyone was extremely cautious.

Bai Youwei lay quietly by the car window.

As the car moved forward, she saw one after another humanoid dolls, they were like models in a fashion store, their eyes were blank and their postures were stiff...

Turning his head, there were two dolls sitting in a red car opposite, a man was driving, and a woman was sitting in the co-pilot. The woman's belly was bulging high, obviously a pregnant woman.

Bai Youwei couldn't help thinking: Has the child in her belly also become a little doll? Is it also the skin of plastic, the eyeball of glass beads, and the hair of chemical fiber? What happened to them when they turned into dolls? Is it possible that the body cannot move, but the consciousness is awake

The thought made her shudder.

She looked away and didn't look anymore.

"Ding! Welcome to the doll game! The theme of this game is 'The Tortoise and the Hare', and the rules are as follows:

One, refuse the game to become a doll!

Second, the game fails and becomes a doll!

Three, game clearance reward dolls! …”

An unfamiliar voice sounded in his ears, the sound quality was as beautiful as the sounds of nature, and Bai Youwei was stunned.

"Hey, did you hear..." She was about to ask Shen Mo in front of her, but a layer of mist appeared in her vision. The next moment, blue sky and white clouds, and endless green grass!

what happened? !

Bai Youwei stared at the scene in front of her in amazement.

She was sitting in Shen Mo's car a second ago, but now she is sitting on the green lawn!

And the same goes for fellow riders! Everyone stared at the runway outside the lawn, where a giant banner was prominently hung, with four extremely exaggerated characters printed on it—

Tortoise, Rabbit, Race, Run!

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