doll city

Chapter 62

"Get it away?"

When Yan Ge came out with scallion pancakes and soy milk, the yard was quiet for a long time.

Xiao Yi sniffed the scent of scallion pancakes, and pouted her nose vigorously: "Well, he got away with some method, that guy is going on and on, he's getting bored to death."

Li Ya, who probably knew the cause and effect, said to Yan Ge very seriously: "There are a lot of dubious people in society now, boys should remember to protect themselves when they are outside, and don't take anyone home casually."

Yan Ge: "It makes sense, I hope you will also reflect on this truth."

Li Ya deeply felt that what Master Lu said was right, the road to marriage was really long and difficult, and he was filled with emotions. When he lowered his head and saw Yan Ge doing his part, he felt that the future was bright again.

"You don't need to look outside, since I have a pair of chopsticks, I am a part of this family. When do you think it would be more appropriate for me to transfer my household registration here—"

"This is for your brother. Haven't you forgotten that you have a cousin?"

Yan Ge slapped the account on his desk, and there was an angry big bloody character written on the account:

【Pooh. 】

"Don't worry, little brother." Li Ya propped his chin and said to the wallet, "Brother just came here today, didn't he go out last night to find someone to help reshape his body for you."

Yi Ziang replied: Cut the nonsense and talk about the steps in detail.

"After thinking about it, your state is no different from being dead. The effect of the 'Twilight Handbook' makes you a memory that can be thought about. I just need to make a body for you. For this reason, I went to find a 'wax figure' last night. The craftsman and the woodcarver want to make a body for you... but their conditions are rather harsh, one wants me to join their team and make them an A-level, and the other wants to advance to the third movement."

Li Ya took a bite of the scallion pancake, chewed it strangely for a while, praised Yan Ge's craftsmanship, and then continued:

"You know that I can't agree to the above two conditions, so I thought, it's better to raise a painter... Didn't you like to hide under the covers and watch the painted skin movie when you were young, that kind of paper body painting."

At this moment, Xiao Yi, who didn't know the seriousness of the matter, raised her head with puffed cheeks: "What, drawing a person can be used as a body after drawing it? Is it the magic brush Ma Liang?"

"Yes, the hope of the whole village is pinned on you." Li Ya looked sincere, "You should have all the skills, Mrs. Liuli Xiao?"

Xiao Yi almost choked to death: "I'm not ready yet! And... I think it's better to take it easy, it's weird for you people of the second rank to advance."

Li Ya will not talk about the existences above the second level that I have seen so far. I have been a little nervous since I saw it for the first time. Yan Ge showed schizophrenic acting skills last night, Xiao Yi was really a little scared.

"Don't be so nervous, those symptoms are not caused by promotion, those people have a problem with their brains... And from my experience, it is easier for people with a little mental tendency to advance."

Xiao Yi looked up at the sky: "I'm not sick, I'm fine, at most a little... procrastination."

The common ills of contemporary youth are that manuscripts can be handed in before deadline, and work can be done tomorrow if it can be done tomorrow.

"Is it just procrastination? Then your symptoms are quite healthy. Why don't you think about the good things? If you are successful, then the paper man husband and wife you have loved so far will all come back to life from your pen." Yet?"

Xiao Yisi thought about it, pondered over and over again, and slapped her thigh: "It's done!"

Yan Ge, who was sitting on the side, looked at them speechlessly, finished his breakfast silently, wiped his mouth and cleaned up the dishes, turned over the small blackboard on which Dai Chengze had drawn the message of Empress Ronghua before, and started the first chapter of "Broken Chapter" a meeting.

"Then, while we are making our next advancement plan, can we talk about this city and how to escape from this city? Also, I want to make a formal confirmation...Everyone here , are they all 'escapers'?"

This is a very critical issue. Escapers represent a very difficult path, and the process must be at the cost of their lives.

"Ms. Dai came later, so I may not know the situation. Let me explain the crisis first." Xiao Yi, who had found a little fighting spirit, raised her hand and spoke, "I oppose those 'An Jia faction'. They talk nicely about the human Eden, But actually thinking about it, it’s not feasible.”

"We who draw comics are actually creators. After a little thought, we can deduce that such a faulty ecology that is disordered, uncontrollable, and controlled by a small number of people as the top of the food chain is impossible. Long-term—the most direct is to form an organization like Gu’s.”

In the Xianggu organization, a small number of capable people control absolute force, constantly absorbing and annexing other forces. Ordinary people have become the targets of their exploitation. If the population will increase in the future and the survival resources will be squeezed, ordinary people will be exploited horribly. layer.

One of the fatal attractions of their obsession with making their home here... is that older people, after being integrated into this place, will turn back time and become younger.

For example, a 70-year-old old man with declining functions in all aspects, after being assimilated by this city, will return to his youth over time, and he will live decades longer out of thin air, and it will be a healthy and youthful life.

If you think about it, you will know that it is impossible for them to give up this great temptation.

On the contrary, children are facing the crisis of death—they are blessed by living puppets, but as the stage of early human beings who are most likely to be shaped into three views and implanted in their thoughts, they assimilate faster.

Once taken away by the backward time... People like Gu Lili only have a few years to live.

This is exactly what Yan Ge has been worrying about for a long time, and he has long been mentally prepared for it. He wrote on the blackboard:

1. Take anti-class differentiation, anti-feudal exploitation and restoration, and protect children as the guiding ideology.

"Sixiu has studied well." Xiao Yi continued, "What do you think, Teacher Dai?"

Dai Chengze was silent for a while, and said: "To be honest, I'm a little scared, but I agree with Xiao Xiao's statement that only the civilized world is the place we will ultimately pursue."

Yi Ziang also typed in the notebook: I believe we will be able to escape.

"Since everyone has the same pursuit in this regard, the second question—" Yan Gedao, "There are two most popular theories about how to escape, one is to collect the remaining 'movements', the first, second and third movements I don’t know if there will be any later, so I won’t make a routine for the time being. Let’s talk about the second statement—just like all games must be cleared, kill the two final bosses, and the answer will naturally be revealed.”

At this moment, Li Ya laughed and said, "It's not two bosses, it's just one boss."

What Yan Ge was waiting for was his speech, and he also believed that his message was the most important part.

"How to say?"

"It's a long story, let me first talk about the strangeness of this city—"

Li Ya moved over with the stool together, squeezed to Yan Ge's side, took away the chalk from his hand, and wrote wild handwriting like a signature on the blackboard.

"I speculate that there are at least two core anomalies in this city - 1. Reversal of time, 2. Puppetization of objects. At first glance, the scope is very wide, and it is just an established phenomenon, but from the previous hunting grounds We can learn that..."

"These two abnormalities are the 'abilities' of those two bosses."

Yan Ge's mind suddenly brightened.

He thought of the lion in the Lion Awakening Hall, and the paper dolls in Paper Man Alley, they all once... prayed to Luca and Princess Alice for life.

"These puppets were not activated by themselves, but were they 'enlightened'?"

"Bingo~" Looking around at the more serious faces of the crowd, Li Ya continued, "Alice and Luca, like the heart of this city, they give life to living puppets, so that they can repay kindness and revenge Revenge can be said to be the root of all evil. Therefore, the simplest and most reliable guess - killing them is the way to escape from here."

"As for the information about these two bosses, let me first talk about Princess Alice. The goal is very clear. She is in the museum in the city center. She will appear occasionally during the live puppet parade every Saturday night. Every time there is a guard There are many, and there is a high-level orphan living doll to protect her, even if you face her directly, you must reach the third level. Preliminary estimates, once the siege starts, 80% of the current human camp must be invested."

"Secondly—Luka, he always wanders around the city alone. If you meet him, as long as you don't look at him, you will usually forget it quickly."

Yan Ge suddenly fell silent. He could hardly recall how his spirit was crushed when he faced Luka. He only remembered the sense of reality close to death at that time.

Uncommunicable, unobservable, and unconfrontable.

After a while, he finally said: "Aren't the large number of dolls in the playground where Gu Lili is his subordinate?"

"He just stayed there for a while, and he won't stay for long-he will randomly appear in various places in this city, creating new 'hunting grounds'."

hunting ground.

When everyone heard this keyword, they suddenly became serious.

"I understand what you mean." Yan Ge took a deep breath and said, "The only boss you mentioned is not Princess Alice, but Luca."

Li Ya nodded slightly, sitting out of shape: "And I largely suspect that Alice, the Red Death King, was 'inspired' by Luca. They may come from the same kiln of porcelain clay, so they have different abilities. Nearby places can give life to other puppets."

Yan Ge remembered the information about the plaster statue of Molière in the hunting ground for the first time, and said, "You have done a second-hand investigation and found that it is too difficult to kill the actor Luka, so the next best thing is to kill Alice. Is the princess all right?"

"My brother and I have been to many hunting grounds. We pried out some clues from the mouths of those puppets—they all believed that Luka's feelings for the princess belonged to the same degree. If the princess died, Luka's Life ends instantly."

Living puppets can't tell lies, which is very feasible.

Yan Ge asked, "How much do you know about their origins?"

Li Ya then took out a Book of Changes, and spread out the cover of the old newspaper on the reverse side: "Maybe I have to ask you about this matter. Coincidentally, I just found new evidence when I went to calculate the marriage this morning——Princess Alice This porcelain doll is not an imported product, but a product of the Porcelain King Gu's family decades ago."

Yan Ge caught a glimpse of the news in the newspaper that the Porcelain King Gu's family had collapsed overnight, and was stunned for a moment.

"Grandma..."

……

Yan Ge's mother died of illness very early, and she grew up beside her grandmother.

Ever since he was a child, he felt that his grandma, Gu Yueyuan, was different from other grandmothers in the neighborhood.

Compared with the working women in the neighbor's house, grandma does a lot of housework, but whenever she goes out, she always dresses up elegantly. She wears a silk cheongsam in summer and a small cloak and long skirt in winter. Her hair ranges from jet black to silver gray , what each period of time engraves on her body is not a mark, but a decoration.

Yan Ge often heard from neighbors that the Gu family's pottery used to be Ciling's signature.But every time he wanted to write a story about his grandma when he was writing a composition, his grandma always smiled and prevaricated and asked him to write about his father, a scientist.

"When your grandma was the eldest lady, they were all arranged marriages. She and your grandpa didn't have a smooth life. She doesn't like to mention the things back then."

The second aunt had warned Yan Ge like this for a while, and she vaguely revealed the meaning... Even their children have a lot of opinions on their grandfather.

So Yan Ge didn't dare to inquire about it these years, but from the dusty antique treasures in his grandma's underground warehouse, he can get a glimpse of how glorious the Ciling Gu family was back then.

"Here is grandma's warehouse."

Moving away the goldfish bowl in the backyard, Yan Ge pointed to a small door leading to the ground in the corner of the yard.

At the end of the chat, Yan Ge himself never expected that the clues of this puppet city could be found in his home, and immediately thought of his grandma's secret warehouse.

In fact, when he lived in No. 32, Old Porcelain Street, he had already come to see it once, but he hadn't advanced to the rank at that time, and the warehouse sounded very quiet, and it was locked tightly, so he didn't open it. once.

"It's not like there's an orphan living doll or something, right? I've only patronized a velvet flower lady, so we shouldn't be so unlucky..." Xiao Yi shrank back cowardly.

"Orphan level is not enough to fill the streets. Last night was pure bad luck." Yan Ge has reached the second level, and he can already vaguely sense the strength of the aura emanating from a living doll. If it is really the type of Ronghua empress Yes, they could already feel it when they stood at the door.

The lock on the door was easily torn off, the warehouse door opened, and a narrow wooden staircase led to the dark cellar.

Yan Ge didn't have a flashlight, and was the first to go down, familiar with the way: "Be careful of the fifth step, it's a little slope, it's easy to slip."

He was the first to go down into the cellar, and reached out his hand to grab a light switch rope in the dark place. When he pulled it, there was a soft snap, and the old yellow light bulbs lit up one by one.

"Wow..." Xiao Yi couldn't help admiring, "It must be three hundred pings?"

As far as the eye can see, countless porcelains are displayed on rows of exhibition racks, ancient, modern, modern... from the rare ones, down to the Wukong plastic mask in the streets and alleys, it can almost become a history museum.

"Strange thing." After Li Ya came down, he first released a circle of mental radiation detection, and the feedback he got surprised him, "There are so many things, there are no live puppets in this warehouse."

Maybe the place wasn't visited by Luca.

Just as Yan Ge was thinking about it, he suddenly heard Dai Chengze yell strangely, and hesitantly approached the workbench next to him.

Mr. Dai stammered and pointed to the vase with newspaper rolls inserted casually on the workbench: "This... is this Junhong plum vase the real thing? Then, the Ru kiln sky blue bowl is also the real thing?"

"You have a good eye." Yan Ge said: "The plum vase is real, but the one from Ru Kiln is not, it is an imitation from the Republic of China. There are some my grandma's dowry mixed in here, you can pay attention when looking for clues. Auntie, lift your feet, even though the cat rice bowl is an imitation, it is also an imitation from the late Qing Dynasty, and our family Yingduan doesn’t eat anything except the rice in that bowl.”

Xiao Yi almost jumped up, shrinking tightly: "Your grandma's house is full of national treasures, it's too outrageous, I dare not touch it, if it is smashed, I won't be able to pay for it if I sell it."

Now and then, Yan Ge remembered that with his grandmother's character, he definitely didn't care too much about these things, and said: "The clues still need to be found, and there is no way to accidentally smash them. After all, the lives of living people are more important."

The warehouse was too big, so the four of them dispersed to find clues.

Half way through Yan Ge's search, he suddenly remembered that his grandma had the habit of keeping a diary. He thought that there might be news about those puppets in the diary, so he walked towards the northeast corner. On the way, he suddenly saw Li Ya standing motionless in front of a wall. Curious, he walked over.

"What's the matter...huh?"

Li Ya looked at the painting on the wall in front of him—it was not so much a painting as it was a large glass photo frame, inside which was a lace dress inlaid with pearls and ribbons.

"Do you miss it?"

He took a few steps back, tilted his head to look at the skirt, then turned his head to look at Yan Ge, his gaze went from bottom to top, and finally fixed on his face.

"I had a first love when I was a child... No, it should be said to be the object of unrequited love."

"He played the role of Juliet on the stage of the school celebration, and he was wearing this dress at the time."

"There were 98 school days that year, and I wrote him 98 love letters ... and he didn't reply to me at all."

Yan Ge's eyes widened slightly. In the corner of the glass photo frame was an old photo of a party in Ciling No. [-] Middle School. In the corner, he saw a familiar face.

It was a poor student at the end of the crane, a frequent visitor on the school gate late arrival list.

Yan Ge said with some difficulty: "It's you..."

"It's me." Li Ya took off his glasses and said bluntly, "Long time no see, first love."