doll city

Chapter 106

The thick fog fell, and the thin moonlight stretched the porcelain doll's shadow so long that when Yan Ge lowered his head, he could see his red eyes from the shadow.

His eyes couldn't get away from the blood-red stare, as if some invisible hand opened his eyelids, forcing him to stare at this evil god-like existence.

However, what gives them such great fear is not as terrifying as the image described in horror novels. He is beautiful and delicate, and the ingenuity that human beings spent on him can be felt from just one outline.

"Alice..."

Luca didn't seem to have the desire to talk to them, but looked sadly at the castle without Alice.

"I learned to lie from their books, telling you she's coming back — she's coming back, but not now."

"I can go to the other side of the sea to find her for you...but you will not recognize her. She no longer has a long dress inlaid with irises and rubies. Now she is just a broken skeleton."

"You and her have been separated for 50 years."

"Time will only make us full of dust, but time will take away their young faces, youthful bodies, and hearts that love you."

Every word he uttered crashed into Yan Ge's mind like a meteorite.

This doll, unlike other dolls, understands everything about human beings, including lies and death.

What was even more frightening was that under his gaze, Yan Ge felt his heart beating at an extremely bad frequency.

He opened his mouth with difficulty and heard something whispering in his throat.

【In the place where the Creator died...his name is called King of Music...】

Yan Ge trembled instinctively.

It wasn't an illusion, he clearly felt that his heart... With independent consciousness, his lungs could clearly feel the forming facial features on the surface of the organs.

His heart is oscillating.

No...he's seen it.

The scene of seeing Li Ya for the second time suddenly appeared in Yan Ge's mind - his heart was bleeding, almost no heartbeat.

"...It's just what you think, this guy has always been envious of humans having a beating heart, so every time we meet, I want to say hello to the heart directly."

The sound of Li Ya picking up the violin came from the side, and then, Yan Ge felt his eyes darken, and he was put on a pair of sunglasses, which interrupted his and Luka's shadow.

"Look down, don't look at him." Li Ya seemed to feel his heart beating, and squeezed Yan Ge's fingers, "I'll start playing in a while, you should leave first."

"Li..." The strong nausea reflected by the viscera in the chest made Yan Ge feel dizzy.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't think about it." Li Ya's voice was very calm, "Don't think about anything, just close your eyes and walk out of here..."

At this time, Luca seemed to have finished his silent mourning, the shadow on the ground moved, and Yan Ge felt that his gaze stayed on his side for a while, and then turned to Li Ya.

"Musician, will you play a piece for me?"

Li Ya seemed to have expected it long ago, and put on the strings familiarly. This time, the violin was different from before. My heart was also much quieter, and I walked out like sleepwalking.

Behind him is Luca's ethereal chant——

"Are you going to Scarborough Fair

are you going to scarborough fair

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme

Remembermetoonewholivesthere

Remember to give my regards to that girl

Sheonce was a true love of mine

She was my great love..."

……

Saturday morning.

From the moment the battle was sounded to an end, the entire perimeter of the museum was shrouded in a thick, impenetrable fog.

The impatient team began to look for yesterday's victory in the fog.

"My God, this is... so scary."

Ma Zhaojun led Xianggu's people to the peaceful Fuhua Square, where there were natural disaster-like scenes everywhere.

The earthquake yesterday changed the landscape of the entire Fuhua Square, the museum completely collapsed into ruins, and there was thick fog everywhere. Even they themselves didn't know it was east, west, north, south.

"The people in M82 must be looking for someone too. We have more people, so we can find someone faster."

Since dawn, Ma Zhaojun and his people have been searching around here for more than two hours, but they can't find the president, Yuan Boss, or M82. He has already smoked half a pack of cigarettes anxiously.

"Vice President, we found someone."

Amidst the rubble, Ma Zhaojun saw an unconscious young man lifted out by his subordinates, took a closer look, and sneered.

"It turned out to be this kid, what a coincidence, it fell into my hands."

"Isn't that killing me?"

"Forget it if you kill him, if you don't see it, don't you... huh?" Ma Zhaojun's eyes were sharp, and he reached into the pocket of the unconscious Yan Ge, and took out a small and exquisite red crystal shoe.

"what is this?"

Others don't know, but Ma Zhaojun saw the origin of this thing at a glance, and his hands trembled a little.

"This is... this is something from the Red Death King!"

The people around all of a sudden gathered around, looking at the crystal shoe with burning eyes.

"The stuff of the Puppet King, isn't that an orphan part?! My god, they killed the Red Death King?!"

Ma Zhaojun couldn't restrain his excitement, he played with it for a while, and suddenly became alert, feeling that the shoes seemed to want to bite him, so he quickly called his men to help them hold it.

"This thing is a bit evil, don't kill this kid yet, take him back to the stronghold to question carefully what happened, everyone, close the team first!"

In any case, this is a great reward. When I go back and find out how to use this orphaned part, I am afraid that the original boss will have to sit on an equal footing with him when he returns.

Ma Zhaojun thought about the future, took down the cigarette butt from his mouth, and pressed it on the nearby porcelain statue.

A local subordinate next to him discovered that it was the eldest statue of Ciling, and reminded him: "Boss, this is not good. I heard that the old statue is the patron saint of the local area. You looked around and shattered it." It hasn't fallen yet, so I'm afraid there are some weirdos."

Ma Zhaojun disagrees: "If you want to live, you should live sooner. At this time, it is still a dead thing, which means that these old things are waste. Times have changed, and now who remembers this outdated monkey, what are you afraid of..."

……

"Give me freedom."

"who are you?"

"I am you, I have the same independent personality as you, and I want to...live."

"Let you go, and I will die."

"Let me go, you will let go of all human flaws and become the ultimate 'slave'."

"……To shut up."

Elephant Valley No. 4 stronghold, dungeon.

The three card-playing guards looked at the young man in the cell for the tenth time today, and they had doubts about each other.

"After three injections, he calmed down, and he hasn't laid down yet. Is he sick?"

"That's right, like a vegetative person, sitting there and staring at us all the time, it's weird."

The guard walked to the prison door and knocked on the iron railing: "Hey, can you hear me? Do you still want to eat?"

The people inside still didn't respond. When the guards were hesitating whether to give him some nutrient solution, there was a noise of children outside the dungeon.

"Hey, is it really that fun?"

"Yeah, I can eat anything, even live puppets, it's amazing...Hey, open the door for me quickly! I want to feed my pets!"

There was a sound of banging on the door from outside. The guards glanced at each other, and they all saw annoyance in each other's eyes. They turned around and had to put on a stiff smile, and went to the iron gate outside.

"...Little Master, Boss Ma is locked up inside and has confessed who he wants to interrogate. It's really not good..."

"If I tell you to drive, you can drive! Be careful, I told my uncle to feed you to my pet!!!"

After a sigh, the guard had to unlock the door, and the iron door was roughly pushed open by a group of children, each dragging a tattered toy in their hands.

Upon closer inspection, they were not toys, but various live dolls, most of them were tattered, and some were even dismembered.

As Ma Zhaojun's only little nephew here, Xu Xu lives a lawless life here, because he doesn't have to go to school, and every day someone gives him gifts in different ways to pass the time.

None of Ma Zhaojun's subordinates didn't bother this brat, but they didn't dare to offend Ma Zhaojun, so they could only coax him.

"...Damn child, I really hope that one day he will go outside and be bitten to death by a living doll." One of the guards spat in a low voice.

"He's a child, and a living doll won't hurt him."

"It's really his uncle's bad luck. We are so careful that our puppets beat us every day, but this kind of brat who beats his nanny puppets is still protected."

"Speaking of his nanny living doll... that doll snake, it's really miserable. It's been a few months, and I want to drill into the stronghold every day, just want to see this dead child. I finally saw it, and was killed by the dead child again. Shut up in a dungeon to perform some snake-eating game..."

The guard's comments faded away, and Yan Ge's pupils rolled across a wall.

He turned his face slightly, and saw himself in the glass through the dim light.

The skin is white, it seems that because of the deep contact with Alice's heart, the whole person's face presents a ceramic texture.

Cold, beautiful, like a puppet on a string.

But also because of the complete cooling of this emotion, Yan Ge felt that the heart that had been transformed into a living puppet by the influence of Luca in his chest was gradually recovering and returning to his own body at this moment.

He remembered that when he saw Li Ya for the second time, his heart should have been taken away by the puppet.

So for a long time, Li Ya kept himself in the state of a walking dead in the role of "performer" to ensure that he would not die.

Then he may be the first person to escape the heart of Luca's puppet.

"Alice..." Yan Ge murmured silently, "Is this your gift?"

At that time, he had a vague feeling that Alice might have given him something, but he had no memory of it.

Close your eyes and feel your limbs recovering from the stiffness. At a certain moment, the iron railing in front of you was violently smashed, and a soda can smashed in from outside the railing, hitting his knee.

"Hey! Hey, are you alive or dead? You can't be a cripple, right?"

What caught my eye was a proud little boy in overalls, and behind him were three or five children, knocking on the iron railing with plastic toy swords and the like.

Very familiar.

Yan Ge couldn't speak yet, but it didn't stop him from thinking about the child—he had saved the child's life in the second hunting ground he went to.

And his mother died in that hunting ground.

Xu Xu also felt that this person looked familiar, so he called out twice. Seeing that he was dumbfounded, he quickly lost interest, pointed at Yan Ge and said to the guard: "Get him out, my pet will not be able to live in that small cell soon. Alright, come here instead."

"This..." The guard showed embarrassment. "This centaur boss has other uses, and it might be disposed of in two days, or else, young master, wait a little longer?"

Xu Xu kicked his eyes and scratched at the guard: "I want it! I want him to get out now! If you don't listen to me, I will call my mother to burn this place today!"

……his mom?still alive?

Yan Ge looked at the boy silently, remembering that M82 had sent people out of the city's fringes before—it could be said to be dead, but he didn't die in a real sense. It can only be said that a memory and ability.

As long as you can't get out of the maze of living puppets, even if you die, you will be pulled in again.

And the next time, I don't know which time period it will be.

At this moment, a woman's voice came from outside.

"Xuxu? Oh, why do you keep coming to such a dirty place, come here quickly, mom picked out a cart of new toys and dolls for you."

Xu Xu curled his lips, snorted, and left with a group of his fans.

……

tick tock...

The electronic watch stopped at 09:30, the shift time, and the three guards went out to smoke a cigarette. By the way, they complained for a while about today's bad boy. After about 15 minutes, the guard on the night shift came in. As soon as the door was opened, Just heard a snort.

The guard was startled.

"Young master?! How did you get into the cell?!"

"Xu Xu" stomped his feet: "He ran away long ago! He locked me inside, and I told you not to listen, are you all dead?!"

The guard was so frightened that he hurriedly took the key and opened the door: "I'll go and inform them right away—woo!"

Before he could finish speaking, he was hacked and passed out.

The shadow of "Xu Xu" blurred for a while, revealing Yan Ge's tall and tall figure.

"The real prisoner..." Yan Ge muttered to himself, his figure became blurred again, and he "interpreted" the appearance of a guard. When he went out, he passed by a smaller cell outside and paused slightly.

There is a bloated, slowly wriggling tattered doll in the cell. It can be vaguely seen through the fabric that it has been shattered into a fishing net. This is Xu Xu's former nanny living doll. , to accompany him and protect his greedy snake.

But now it no longer has the cute look it had at the beginning. Its mouth is completely split, its body is bloated and coiled together, and a lot of sundries are stuffed into it—some are soda cans, some are toy cars, and some... It is a fragment of another live doll.

"Do you want to come out?" Because of Alice's strength, Yan Ge's mood has been very calm, and his tone has not fluctuated. He sent the key over, but saw the greedy snake automatically opened its mouth.

Its green eyes had lost the freshness and self-awareness of other blue-eyed puppets.

Yan Ge opened the cell door and said, "I'm sorry I can't take you with me. Some human beings are not worthy of love. If you are still conscious, just leave."

After a long, long time, the night was dark.

The greedy snake squirmed in the darkness, and the light in its green eyes went out.

The metal in its belly swayed, as if a small gramophone was slowly turning.

"It's the breath of the princess...Xu Xu."

It finally left the cell, climbed up the steps, squirmed into the air vent without a sound, squirmed little by little, and followed that bit of breath, to the largest villa in Xianggu's stronghold.

In the vent, it saw a woman coaxing Xu Xu.

"Don't lose your temper, mom can give you something better tomorrow, but don't mess with the red crystal slipper in the lockbox, mom will give you new clothes tomorrow, okay?"

The woman managed to coax Xu Xu to sleep. As soon as the front foot went out, Xu Xu jumped off the bed with the back foot and threw away the pillow angrily.

Somehow, ever since he saw Ma Zhaojun holding that crystal slipper, he wanted it very much.

This desire is more attractive than any of my toys, and it is simply uncontrollable.

"Don't take it one way or another, isn't the password just my birthday, I'm the eldest grandson..."

Xu Xu grumbled out of his room, avoided the dozing servant, and came to Ma Zhaojun's bedroom.

Ma Zhaojun seemed to be busy outside tonight and didn't come back, so he unscrupulously opened the combination lock.

The password box was full of guns and bullets. Xu Xu pushed aside the pile of things and grabbed the red crystal shoe.

"It's so beautiful...what's written on it?" Xu Xu recognized the letters carved on the shoe, "ALi...ce?"

As soon as Xu Xu finished reading, the back of his head felt a chill. He turned his head pale, and a shadow that almost touched the ceiling enveloped him.

The snake had blood-red eyes, raised its python-like body high, opened its mouth wide enough to almost swallow a person, and the gramophone in its body creaked and released a terrifying sound.

"Xu Xu... I... I'm hungry..."