doll city

Chapter 28 Lion Dance (7)

"I'm so stupid, really." Xiao Yi hugged the pillars in the corridor, and raised her dull eyes, "I only knew that I was not good at mathematics at that time, so I believed my dad I chose art students evilly, I didn’t know that learning to draw would cost my life, if I had known this, what kind of illustrator should I be, I should be engaged in music.”

Li Haobai: "I'm the kind of person who makes music. Believe me, persuading people to learn the piano is detrimental to virtue."

Xiao Yi: "Then I should learn acting, how to draw..."

Yan Ge remembered the motto of his classmates at the Film Academy - it's really shameless to persuade people to perform.

"Let me explain again that there is some inevitability between Luca's invitation and the person he invites. The 'finishing' of the lion head is the most important part of it. Even if other people have this responsibility, they don't have the ability."

So, we have to persecute the one who learns painting first.

Xiao Yi turned her head and stared at the human head in the yard with bloodstains seven or eight meters long, and said with tears in her eyes: "Our relationship should not be so tight that our lives are entrusted to each other."

Li Haobai: "After this time, we will be determined to that extent. How old are you older than us? From now on, we will call you Xiao Yi in our mouths and your aunt in our hearts. We will be your nephews."

Yan Ge: "You subjectively think that Auntie should not involve other people."

Li Haobai: "The nephew's family members are also fine."

Yan Ge didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"

Xiao Yi, who had been promoted to a higher level of seniority, looked at the two people resentfully, thinking over and over between greedy for life and fear of death and dying together, and finally gritted her teeth and reluctantly agreed.

"I don't care, I can draw, you have to be present!" Her tone of grievance was like the last trust she gave to the person holding the seat when she was riding a bicycle for the first time.

Yan Ge: "Be more confident."

Xiao Yi: "You asked me to solo the plaster statue last time!"

At this time, the people from Jungle No. 1 also came to the yard. Cao Zhi hugged Nana who was still a little confused and said something. After seeing Xiao Yi, he let go of Nana and asked with concern. : "Why are your eyes red, could it be that someone bullied you?"

Xiao Yi quickly let go of the pillar, took off her glasses and rubbed the corners of her eyes: "It's okay, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, Mr. Cao, if you want to help, why don't you stay in the yard tonight and deal with the puppets together. "

It was only then that Cao Zhi realized that Yan Ge was standing in the yard with all his beard and tail. He frowned after hearing what they said about what happened last night and what they inferred tonight.

"You guys are too unsympathetic, how can you let girls take the lead?"

Yan Ge: "If you are better at painting than her, you can replace her."

Cao Zhi looked at him gloomyly: "I have doubts about your judgment. You are making random speculations about what you said. We have no reason to risk our lives for nothing based on unfounded speculation. I just think this arrangement is too much." I'm rash. Also, isn't there an oil lamp tonight? That means there are still two safe spots..."

Yan Ge: "Not anymore."

Cao Zhi: "What?"

Yan Ge pointed to a pile of broken glass in the corner: "I had a premonition that you were going to have internal strife over the ownership of the oil lamp, so I broke the lamp before you woke up."

So cruel!Forcibly tied to a boat, to die together.

Cao Zhi was so angry: "You must be sick! Why do you let other people die with you?!"

Yan Ge then asked again: "Then let me ask you for the second time, as a B-level free exploration team, what more reasonable plan does your group have?"

Cao Zhi got stuck again, and they stayed in the house for the past two days without any information.It's not that they are incapable, it's mainly because there is Li Haobai who opened the second movement in the hunting ground this time. They reserve their strength in the hope that Li Haobai can lead them through the hunting ground, and they can also take the opportunity to collect some of these human intelligence.

Seeing that Cao Zhi was questioned, Yan Ge said with a stern expression: "So far, your group has not put forward any valuable insights and attempts. If you just want to mess around, you have to act like you want to mess around, listen to the arrangement and then shut up .”

When Yan Ge said this, he was doing the most precise experiment like a machine calmed down to a few degrees below zero.This is the step he has been doing instinctively since he came to this city——

Go hunting for the first time, collect information, learn knowledge.

Go through the hunting ground for the second time and observe how others operate.

Going through the hunting ground for the third time, trying to control the team and arrange human resources.

If this is to be done in the future, personnel arrangements are necessary, and he must consider establishing a free exploration team with a reasonable division of labor.

And this hunting ground is the first attempt.

Relying on his father's prestige, Cao Zhi has never suffered any grievances since he came to Puppet City, let alone being face-to-face like this. Do you want to listen to an unknown pawn?"

Yan Ge: "He's insane, listen to me now."

Li Haobai nodded while tossing the suona: "I listen to him."

Cao Zhi was furious, but worried that Yan Ge had a gun, he couldn't attack for a while. While listening to his arrangement, Uncle Yuan approached and whispered:

"Young master, I think the one with the surname Li is a little strange. Before I came here, I heard from an informant that there seems to be something wrong in the East District. Some people saw this man murder many living puppets, but then escaped... Do you think he is Hurt."

With a move in Cao Zhi's heart, he finally grasped the source of the unnatural feeling on Li Haobai's body since he entered the hunting ground - the strong men in the second movement have the ability to use their strength to overcome ingenuity, but in the lion dance hall, they Hasn't shown any of the assertiveness it should have.

Is it because he is not as strong as in the legend, or has he fought against a powerful hand-made puppet before he came?

...Or even Orphan Grade?

In this city, the most powerful orphan-level living dolls are undoubtedly Luca and Princess Alice. Below them, there are some other wandering in the city at the same level. The existence of counterbalance is collectively referred to as the orphan level.

There is no unified standard for judging orphans. They usually have two or more special abilities with similar concepts. The image is mainly humanoid, with both the beauty of creation and the corresponding legend.

Most people have never seen the orphan level, but it is said that after opening the second movement, some special ability users can sense the existence of the orphan level living doll, in view of the fact that Li was wanted by the A-level organization before There is no doubt that he is this kind of person.

Perhaps this is an opportunity. For Li Haobai, the A-level organizations have offered a very high price. If they can take the opportunity to win him this time, then Jungle No. 1 may be able to produce a second advanced second movement. strong.

"...The above is the arrangement after zero o'clock. If I fail this time, I will be the first victim to face the evil of Guan Gong's statue. If I die tonight, starting tomorrow, the next victim will be drawn by lot."

Yan Ge spoke unhurriedly, as if it was a trivial matter.

Dai Chengze's eyes were red, Xiao Yi's face was sad, only the people from Jungle No. 1 sneered.

"It's nice to say, why..."

"Of course, if you have other objections—" Yan Ge pinched the bridge of his nose, and looked at the person in Jungle No. 1 with cold eyes, "I'm happy to change this order of death."

……

11 points.

All participants in the Lion Dance Hall hunting grounds gathered in the yard.

Xiao Yi was very nervous at first, but when she picked up the paintbrush, her heart calmed down. While observing the paint level of the other eye of the lion head, she was typing a draft, and after a while, she became confident.

One minute later, the door of the East Wing opened with a creak, and Mrs. Zhao appeared on time. Under the eyes of the people in the courtyard, who were looking at or terrified, she walked slowly into the Lion Dance Hall step by step.

Unlike the last time when she put the pen directly in Yan Ge's hand, this time she stood quietly behind Xiao Yi, watching her dip in the color little by little, drawing even and perfect eyes, and even painted the same gold leaf.

At a certain moment, the lion's head moved, its big eyes blinked, it flew up lightly, and landed on the heads of Yan Ge and Xiao Yi who were the closest, and the two quickly became the most skilled lion dancers.

This time, the lion seemed to be more spiritual than last night. It shook its head and tail, whether it was lying on its stomach or shaking its head, its eyes were fixed on Mrs. Zhao without blinking, and it even approached slowly, rubbing against Zhao like a big cat. Old lady's palm.

Mrs. Zhao's eyes were still drooping and did not open, letting the lion move back and forth.After a while, she slowly backed out and returned to the grand teacher's chair in the middle of the courtyard, in front of the plum blossom pile.

The glorious picture of the Zhao family in the Republic of China once again descended like a tidal wave. This time, both the picture and the sound have been qualitatively improved.

Yan Ge couldn't help substituting himself into the Southern Lion of the Zhao family. He felt that he had also been on the Nine Layers of Stakes, and had also attracted thousands of people... Therefore, he also felt more deeply the desolation of the Zhao family.

"Miss Zhao, you also know the current situation...Which one has spare money to hire a lion dance team."

"This is the Nanshi Zhao family in the Republic of China. How did it fall into such a dilapidated state?"

"Mom, don't guard the lion. The old yard doesn't even have a heater. How can people live in it?"

"What are you talking about...does anyone watch lions these days?"

In the next thirty years, the last group of young people who grew up in the Lion Dance Hall rushed to the high-rise buildings where the feasting and feasting took place, and only Mrs. Zhao was left alone.

Sometimes she would turn on the old TV with a few rows of snowflakes dotted horizontally from time to time, watching the lions at the gala on the TV, eating half-cold dumplings with a smile, and touching the half-finished lion's head to herself.

"They danced well, but not as good as ours (They danced well, but not as good as ours)."

But the buzzing large construction vehicles came with money and steel forests, and they came without warning and as a matter of course.

The real estate manager with a professional smile on his face said a lot of things Mrs. Zhao couldn't understand, and hurried to the next one.

The neighbors spit and left with satisfactory compensation for the demolition. Only the old lady Zhao guarded the huge lion dance hall, watching the huge mechanical arm approaching day after day.

She was sick, and when she called her child, she heard the child say that the business pressure has been heavy these days, and she must go home to see her next week, but she changed her words and said that it was just a cough, and she would be fine tomorrow.

After putting down the phone, she had no strength left.

"I really want to watch the lion wake up again..." She leaned against the plum blossom pile that had stood for a hundred years, and slowly ran towards the long dream she had been yearning for for many years.

Three days later, the real estate manager who came to lobby found Mrs. Zhao's cold body. Her children, distant relatives, and former neighbors rushed over to put on the most decent shroud for her. Shatter the roof tiles.

There have not been so many people in the Lion Dance Hall for decades, but no one came to see the lions.

But the lion woke up at this moment.

——The guests are coming, hurry up and have a look, they are coming to see the lion.

"it……"

While moving around, Yan Ge stepped on the ninth section of the plum blossom stake, and said in a difficult voice: "This lion, after it becomes a living puppet, doesn't know that its master is dead."

The low sound of the beating heart that should not exist as a dead thing was not any language at all, it was just a will, but it was clearly conveyed into Yan Ge's ears.

"Ling Wang, the existence that bestows life on creation, please hear my voice..."

"I want to have limbs, I want to fulfill her wish..."

"I want to wake up the lion for the last time for her again."