doll city

"Red eyes and red wedding dress,

Her red dancing shoes are red.

Mom said she was beautiful enough to freeze time,

The perfect wedding belongs to the Red King of the Dead..."

On the long street at midnight, behind the singing plaster statues, all kinds of grotesque objects, plush toys, mannequins, and even specimens of beasts...crowded on both sides of the procession, blood-red eyes are especially obvious in the dark, accompanying them The more or less bloodstains on his body are simply a picture of hell.

"...will they last all night like this?"

"No, it's only every Saturday night. On Sunday... something inexplicable will happen tomorrow night, and you'll find out tomorrow."

Neither of these two people seemed to want to talk about what would happen tomorrow, but judging from their reactions, this incident should not be fatal, so Yan Ge continued to focus on the street.

After about ten minutes or so, the parade team reached the middle and back stage, and dozens of bronze knights appeared like rustling, and even bronze angels with bows and arrows also appeared from the corner of the street and flew low.

Yan Ge judged from Li Haobai's reaction when he sat up slightly, that this was the main event.

The noise at the front of the parade seemed to be choked by an invisible hand. The living puppets stood respectfully and orderly on both sides of the road. Those with heads bowed their heads respectfully, and those without heads kept their eyes humble attached to the concrete floor.

"Where is the sound of water coming from?" Xiao Yi suddenly heard something flowing towards this block.

After a while, Li Haobai suddenly said: "Today is rare, 'she' won't join the parade every time."

After finishing speaking, the entire night in Ciling fell silent, and the commotion of the live puppets also disappeared.

This kind of silence made Yan Ge's hairs stand on end, and then he saw an inexplicable scene.

The street lights flickered, and in the depths of the darkness, a viscous oil-like liquid that covered half of the street flowed and rolled on the ground as if alive, but it did not contaminate the dust on the ground at all. Yan Ge of the props immediately recognized the color of the liquid, which is often called "blood red".

When he saw the blood plasma spreading throughout the street, like everyone else, Yan Ge felt that every cell in his body was trembling, even the blood in his body seemed to be resonated, trembling and chilling uncontrollably.

He intuitively felt that it was the blood of the same kind.

It seemed that it would not solidify, and it was spread on the ground like a carpet. Even if it flooded the other live puppets on both sides of the road who were like pilgrims, it did not leave a drop of blood on them, but flowed silkily.

Behind the carpet of blood, there are bronze angels with solemn expressions, holding on to the crystal chandeliers and floating around, surrounded by a carriage pulled by a red skeleton - it is a pearl-colored car about two meters high. The pumpkin-shaped carriage, inlaid with pearls, gold, gemstones and other precious things, drove across the long street dazzlingly.

Sitting in the driver's seat of the pumpkin carriage turned out to be an oil painting of a figure in a gold-rimmed wooden frame.Yan Ge saw through the binoculars that the painting on the painting was a lady with only a blood-red lip on her face. She had no eyes, eyebrows and nose. At first, she thought the painting was a dead thing. But I saw the red lips smiling, and even showing fine white teeth from time to time.

So red... as red as blood...

"I've never seen this color number before." Xiao Yi muttered suddenly, upon hearing this, Yan Ge suddenly came back to his senses, and unexpectedly found that half of his body had already protruded from the edge of the roof.

If it wasn't for the barbed wire protection on the side of the roof, the frightened person might accidentally fall down and fall into a pulp.

"That painting is called 'Red Eclipse', don't stare at it for too long, especially for men, it's better to walk around." As if responding to their questions, Li Haobai explained, "There is always a powerful person around the boss. Bodyguard, 'Red Eclipse' is such a role."

Yan Ge's thoughts calmed down immediately, and he moved the target of the telescope to the pearl-colored pumpkin carriage.

The carriage was not moving slowly, and Yan Ge moved the binoculars to the glass of the carriage behind the 'Red Eclipse'. Through the half-covered lace curtains, he could vaguely see the thick red velvet interior and a quiet figure inside.

It was a petite girl with long golden hair and a small and smooth jaw, which was incomparably exquisite.But if you take a closer look, you can feel that the proportion of 'her' palm and face is not natural, just like a doll.

He must have seen this doll.

For a moment, Yan Ge recalled his vague impression, and said slowly: "She is the one in the museum—"

The doll is so delicate that it seems to have a soul, so that Yan Ge can't help but silently use "she" to describe it.

"...the 'Red King of the Dead' sung by the doll, Princess Alice."

Judging from his previous behavior of questioning the plaster statue "Mr. Poclain", this should be the goal of Li Haobai, but at this time he did not act rashly, watching the pumpkin carriage and the blood carpet disappear at the end of the street. Finally, he slacked off again, jumped off the roof and swayed to the pot of instant noodles that was bubbling and smelling.

He tilted his head and was about to speak when Yan Ge said, "I cooked your portion."

Li Haobai: "Brother policeman, what I mean is, can you serve me a bowl?"

Yan Ge: "..."

Xiao Yi hissed, came out to complain and said: "You have hands and feet, why don't you take care of them yourself, your personality is not yours, so you have no obligation to take care of it so carefully."

After being scolded, Li Haobai adjusted his glasses and explained: "If I touch electrical and mechanical products, there is a half-possibility that accidents will occur."

Seeing "who are you bluffing" on Xiao Yi's face, Li Haobai spread his hands, laughed, and didn't say any more. As soon as he held the saucepan with his hand, sparks burst out from the latch.Seeing this, Li Haobai threw out the pot with pins and wires with great experience, and the pot exploded with a bang before it hit the ground.

"..."

Yan Ge was amazed, and took another look at Teaching Building No. [-], which was killed before, and asked, "Does your skill have such side effects?"

"If you have the opportunity to open the 'Second Movement', you will also experience it." Li Haobai glanced regretfully at the smoking wreckage in the distance, gave up the idea of ​​supper, and walked away with the last bag of potato chips.

The second movement?Refers to those 'lyrics' obtained when killing a living doll?

[The resentment of the forest melts into iron armor] - Gain strength, and the skin and bones become as tough as wood;

【Hydra gazes in the dark night】——The object of gaze will be petrified.

In addition to the different skills they refer to, Yan Ge carefully chewed the meaning of these two sentences. Out of the intuition of a liberal arts student, he always felt that the two sentences had neither cohesion nor rhyme, as if something was missing in the middle.

movement?

Yan Ge was slightly stunned: "The names of these 'skills' are all lyrics... come from the same song?"

"All the weird skills of this city come from it. The most widely circulated saying is-like collecting Dragon Balls, gather all the lyrics, sing them in some form, and then you can go out." Li Haobai Picking up his violin case, he spread his hands again, "But this kind of statement can only be used as a more reliable spiritual sustenance, at least it has not been confirmed by living people."

As if he finally found a light spot like a lighthouse in the boundless fog of fear, Yan Ge raised his head and said——

"But no one has proven it wrong either, has they?"

"Very optimistic. If we were in a normal world, I would really like to know you now." Li Haobai picked up a piece of potato chips and waved his hand at Yange, "The parade is over, I have to leave .If there is any fate in the hunting ground next week, see you again."

——The implication is that they don't want to be teammates.

Yan Ge didn't have any idea, after all, the other party helped him so much, he could stay or stay at will, and he didn't try to keep him after he thanked him in a low voice.

"There are many friends and many paths away from home. I had such a happy chat just now. I thought that everyone is old Two-dimensional. Let's get to know each other... It's a slow walk." Xiao Yi shook her head regretfully.

Yan Ge stayed on the roof for a while longer, until Li Haobai walked to the gate of the campus downstairs, picked up a bicycle, and didn't know how to unlock it directly, and he just rode on The bicycle left the No. [-] Middle School and disappeared into the night.

……wack.

After Yan Ge finished his evaluation, he suddenly saw black clouds flying in the distance of the city, which turned out to be a large flock of crows.

They split into dozens of streams and penetrated into various buildings, even the Ninth Middle School was no exception.Yan Ge watched those crows, like the sharpest scavengers, pouring into Teaching Building No. 1 with their wings fluttering. Soon, they picked up something in their mouths or grasped the ground, converging into a dark tide, and flying to the north .

"They..." Yan Ge organized his words, and said with some difficulty, "Where do you want to take the corpse?"

Xiao Yi didn't answer, she stared blankly at the corpse disappearing into the night, and slowly breathed out a suppressed cold air.

"I take back what I said about making friends just now, at least I don't want one day... to see my friends even have their bodies taken away by them."

……

Yan Ge didn't fall asleep until it was almost dawn, and it was already seven in the morning when he opened his eyes. When he saw the student dormitory around him, he realized with regret that this was indeed not a dream.

After such a terrifying night, it is not bad to be able to sleep for three hours.

Turn on the fully charged mobile phone to see, there is still no signal.Yan Ge sat on the bed and sorted out his thoughts. Suddenly, he felt a gaze falling on him. When he looked up, he saw a rabbit alarm clock in the corner of the opposite bed, and the eyes of the rabbit on it were looking at him.

[Hydra stares at the dark night——]

Yan Ge's eyes widened, but he didn't think it would have any effect. Instead, the dial of the alarm clock on the rabbit's belly rang terribly in fright. He jumped off the bed, then spun around the ground, and fell out with his buttocks out of the spring battery, and fled out of the corridor in a panic.

Your battery is dead...

Yan Ge watched the rabbit jump up, open the door and run away, feeling like a dream.

Oh, the eyes are green, as they say, green eyes don't attack people.

Yan Ge scratched the hair on the ear side, and information about red-eyed dolls, blue-eyed dolls, skills, and night parades slowly filled every corner of his mind.

Really not a dream.

Even thinking of the missing Gu Lili, although Yan Ge had heard that the dolls here would not attack children, he couldn't help but feel heavy in his heart, and simply packed up and walked out of the student dormitory.

In the corridor, I happened to meet Xiao Yi who had just washed up.

She slept in the dormitory's room next door last night. At this time, her eyes were sleepy, and she said with a toothbrush in her mouth, "It's so early? Go find your little sister?"

During the chat yesterday, I learned that the red-eyed puppets like to be dark. During the day, they usually hide in various buildings and rarely wander the streets. It is much safer to go out to find people at this time.

Xiao Yi also understood Yan Ge's mood very well, and suggested: "I was just about to tell you, wait for me a little longer, let's go to Ciling Central Park, which can be said to be the current trading market. You can next Entrust, let the established organizations in the city help you inquire about... the rewards, most of them are going to the hunting grounds for others or helping others."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yi added: "This is us human beings, no matter where we are, we must do business."

... No wonder people like Sun Ye want to acquire an extra skill. Having a skill is beneficial in terms of improving survival rate and quality of life.

After 15 minutes, Yan Ge followed Xiao Yi and left the dormitory building.On the way out, apart from seeing Confucius dozing off with his head tilted behind the teaching building, the nightmare of the massacre last night seemed to have never existed.

One last look at the broken glass at the door of No. 1 teaching building, there was nothing left except for a little mottled blood.

Yan Ge stood silently for a while, then turned and left.As soon as I got out of the school gate, I saw three or five people lingering around. Seeing them, their eyes lit up, and they ran over from across the road to ask.

"Excuse me, is the hunting ground here unlocked?"

Yan Ge was stunned, remembering what Li Haobai said last night, after solving the mystery of the hunting ground, the hunting ground would not be invaded by live puppets from now on, nodded: I just wanted to say something, thought for a while, then changed my words: "We also came here in the morning. After looking at it, there should be no red-eyed dolls inside, but you should check carefully if you want to explore."

What happened last night taught him a lesson. People with skills are like rational puppets, and people can be deceived.At least without a comprehensive understanding of this place, he didn't want to casually tell others that he had passed the test of the hunting ground and got the skills.

The man was slightly disappointed, nodded and said: "It's good to have something to eat, thank you."

After finishing speaking, he took out a whistle from his pocket and blew it twice, and then four or five tall and strong men came from various streets and alleys of this street. A good backpack zipper reveals a lot of food packaging bags.

Xiao Yi gave Yan Ge a piece of bread with ham sausage in tomato sauce for breakfast, then turned around and grabbed the person just now and asked: "Brother, I heard people say that the big live puppets in many places have not been cleared yet, eat It should be enough, has it reached the point where we need to hoard food?"

food?

Food and other supplies are a problem in all escape works, but Ciling is located in a delta with well-developed river transportation. Even if you don't look at the city's reserves, there are many large warehouses and ships in the eastern port.Judging from the sights seen along the way, there should be no food crisis in the short term.

"No, our hunting ground last week was a newly built library, and the nearest business district is here, that is..." The man hesitated, pointing to the street behind, "Listen to those who occupy the safe area in the city. The gang said that there was a very dangerous living doll wandering here recently, and it killed three people in one day yesterday, all in the same way, hitting the wall to death, making the whole wall look like ketchup was splashed on it."

Hearing this, Yan Ge looked down at the tomato ham bread with a bite in his hand, stopped eating temporarily, and asked, "What kind of puppet is it?"

The man spread his hands: "I don't know, but it's definitely not an ordinary kid. Some witnesses said that the last unlucky guy was still dancing before he died."

"..." It turns out that not only the live puppets in the hunting grounds have such special characteristics, but also the live puppets wandering outside.

"So we want to stock up on more food and try not to go out next week. Generally speaking, this kind of doll in the wild will not hang around in one area for two days, so as not to die inexplicably before it's the hunting ground. "

After speaking, the man hurried into the school.

Although the weather was gloomy, it was daytime after all. Although, as the man said, there were strange legends about the murder of puppets in the streets, there were still many people going in and out of various supermarkets to collect the supplies and equipment they needed.

Not far away, Yan Ge saw a medium-sized supermarket.

The door of the supermarket was broken, and there was a pile of shopping carts parked at the door, with some food and daily necessities scattered inside.

In fact, there should not be too many people in the urban area, and the supplies are still plentiful, but it cannot be ruled out that as more and more safe areas are unlocked, the "gangs" they call will gradually occupy and control these places.

After all, if it is really impossible to get out for ten or eight years in the future, according to the inertia of human beings, a social system must be established, and the establishment of all systems starts with controlling materials.

At this time, Xiao Yi seemed to think of something, stopped and looked at the travel agency across the street and said: "The central square is a bit far away, I have to get a map, so as not to get lost before dark and not come back. If you want to get some necessities , it’s in the small supermarket over there, just call if you need anything.”

This urban area was planned differently every year, and Yan Ge didn't remember the terrain very much, so he agreed to her proposal and turned around to go to the supermarket diagonally across the commercial street.

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