doll city

When Li Haobai appeared, the four people in Jungle No. 1 were stunned.

As a B-level exploration team, they know the people on the wanted list like the back of their hands, especially Li Haobai, who is already a big star, except for the autistic school student like Yan Ge who doesn't chase stars, it's too easy to identify.

The members of Jungle No. 1 Expedition Team instantly forgot the conflict with Yan Ge, they are not stupid, there are plenty of opportunities in the hunting ground, there is no need to fight with others in the car.

Li Haobai wears earphones on his ears, and what he is holding in his hand is a Walkman in the 00s that has long since disappeared from the market. He does not know what he is listening to, and shakes his head slightly, playing with a coin in his hand. At the back of the car, he put a coin into the coin slot in confusion, and then walked slowly to the back seat.

The newcomer also quickly walked to a seat in the back row and sat down alone, looking very panicked.

"...Speaking of which, before I came here, I quite liked listening to your songs." Huang Mao was also very courageous, knowing that the people from M82 and Xianggu were looking for Li Haobai, but when he saw Li Haobai approaching, he still Reach out to get acquainted.

"I've bought all of your albums, so I'm half a fan. Get to know Cao Zhi."

I don't know if it's because the sound in the earphones is too loud or what. Li Haobai didn't seem to hear it at all. He ignored Huang Maocaozhi and passed by Huangmao Caozhi. He walked naturally to the last row and sat Yan Ge and Xiao Yi was in the middle, and after sitting down, he nudged Yan Ge lightly with his elbow, and handed him a piece of chocolate.

Xiao Yi:?

Xiao Yi over there has a question mark on her face, and Cao Zhi's expression on this side is a little ugly. Under normal circumstances, he would definitely give him some color, but the other party has already started the second movement, even if his father brings the whole team over, It may not be possible to get anything good from him.

The second movement and the first movement are no longer at the same level. Their abilities are no longer limited to power, speed, healing, and petrification, which everyone can understand, but another strange level...

His father warned him from time to time: Don't easily provoke any strong second movement.

Cao Zhi sat down, opened the hand held by the woman behind him, and said unwillingly: "We all want to cooperate in the hunting ground, don't make the relationship so stiff. You two... what is the relationship?"

Seeing Li's good or bad attitude, he naturally sat next to Yan Ge. He had to test out the relationship between the two of them, so as not to be too hostile to them.

what relationship?This question has stuck with him, and now he is talking about an old classmate?Yan Ge couldn't remember again, it wasn't a good time.

Li Haobai was silent for a while, glanced at Yan Ge's contemplative profile, and replied rigorously: "First rule out the relationship between father and son..."

Xiao Yi: ...

Xiao Yi: Why use the method of elimination first!

"Can you be more direct." Yan Ge took the time to remind, and continued to look down at the invitation.

"Yes." Li Haobai explained to them politely, "We are ordinary friends."

other people:"……"

Li Haobai: "Don't think too much about it."

Xiao Yi asked Yan Ge: "Is it appropriate for him to say that?"

"Huh?" Yan Ge was analyzing the information of the Lion Dance Hall, and he couldn't hear any problems under the state of absolutely rational thinking. "From the literal understanding, is there any problem?"

Xiao Yi: "Give me a deep understanding!"

I stopped playing, you boys are weird.

Listening to their conversation, the new young man realized that he was probably the only one in it, without those weird super powers, and the amount of information was insufficient, so he cautiously asked Xiao Yi, who seemed to be more talkative.

"May I ask this young lady, what is the purpose of this so-called 'hunting ground' we went to?"

Newcomers have such a period of confusion, Xiao Yi sighed, briefly explained Ciling's current situation to him, and asked him the origin of his name.

The man's tension eased a lot. He drank the mineral water Xiao Yi gave him, calmed down, and introduced himself: "My name is Dai Chengze. When I was handing in the report at the Cultural Relics Bureau at noon today, I suddenly found that there was no one there. There was almost no one there. I was bitten to death by a horse-shaped root vulture. Fortunately, a lady on a motorcycle passed by and rescued me. She also told me that Ciling is no longer the Ciling it used to be. Oh yes, my real occupation is... a folklorist. "

"What? A folklorist?" Xiao Yi, who has read many books, was instantly awed. "What is your research direction?"

Dai Chengze said: "Uh, it's mainly some folk culture. Recently, I'm studying mystical worship and totems."

Xiao Yi couldn't help moving away from him, and the same old netizen Li Haobai next to him said what she wanted to say: "What a big flag."

"How do you know that my English name is Flagg?" Dai Chengze slowly lowered his guard, "It seems that we are really destined, I think I can trust you. If I can return to the real world, I will definitely marry my fiancée." Before going back to my hometown to get married, tell me about this adventure.”

"..." This may be a ruthless person.

Yan Ge put down the invitation card and looked at the staffing again—in fact, he always had an intuition that Luca's invitation card had a certain allocation tendency in selecting the invitees. For example, the No. [-] Middle School last time had drama majors, Art majors are good enough to handle all the puzzles, but so many people died because of improper use.

And this time?

Yan Ge looked around the entire carriage: Xiao Yi is most likely a painter, Li Haobai is a musician, he himself is an actor, there is also a group of expeditions, and a folklorist.

what can they doHow to cooperate?

"You don't have to think so much." Li Haobai took off his earphones and said briskly, "Just let nature take its course."

Yan Ge propped his chin and looked at Li Haobai from the reflection of the glass window. He always felt that Li Haobai was crazier than when he met last time.

"Why? I thought you'd make me think more."

"Because I feel that you have accumulated a lot of 'emotions', many of which are negative. If you don't release them properly, when you enter the second movement, while gaining more power than others, there will also be It's a big trouble." After Li Haobai finished speaking, he put his earphones back on and fiddled with the old-fashioned Walkman cassette.

"..." Yan Ge didn't speak anymore, as the bus started, the light of the street scene outside the window flashed in his eyes frame by frame.

……

The night-view buildings outside were getting lower and lower. Half an hour later, the Maoxiong bus drove into the old city with eight passengers.

Not long after, they saw the iconic archway building of Wuyue Zhenren Temple.

After passing the archway, the narrow road was completely crowded by a row of dilapidated vans and three-wheelers pulling coal on the right.Fortunately, Mao Xiong, who was the driver, was very qualified as a driver. He drove very smoothly and drove in very quickly.

The whole street smelled of mildew and dust, and there was not a single decent street lamp. After driving through the potholed streets with difficulty, the few light sources I saw were only dim yellow light bulbs, and some were simply wrapped around gray cement poles. , a section protruding from the cobweb-covered electric wire, burning feebly the last life of the filament.

On the streets on both sides, the gates of every house, big or small, new or old, are pasted with couplets and door god paintings according to the old Ciling people's habit, but because this area is going to be rebuilt this year, most of the people have moved away. After a year of printing, most of these New Year paintings have faded to pink, and at first glance they are missing heads and feet.

"It's too quiet." Sitting next to Yan Ge, Li Haobai suddenly said something.

Yan Ge immediately realized what he meant.

Although he has little experience, the last time he took the bus, including the second time on the way to Tingxi Commercial Building, he would more or less meet some wandering dolls. In comparison, this Wuyue Zhenren Temple Old Street is too quiet .

Is it true that there is not even a live doll?Or are they all hidden?

Yan Ge leaned against the glass car window, looking out of the window, looking at the shrine of night travel at the entrance of a courtyard house.

The small arm-high ceramic statue has not been enshrined for a long time, quietly hidden in the night.

Ciling is famous all over the world for its ceramics. Almost all the statues enshrined are made of ceramics, which is a feature that almost everyone in the local area knows.

They are motionless, so there should be no live couples.

Soon, the bus stopped under a tall old mulberry tree.

This is a quiet street. The tall temple about 200 meters away is the legendary Wuyue Zhenren Temple, but half of the road is piled up with some construction waste. It seems that at this point in time, the construction team has already started demolition works.

Fortunately, the "Lion Wake Hall" has not yet started.

From the outside, it looks like a large courtyard with three entrances. There are stone steps covered with weeds between the bare stone piers on both sides. A plaque with the words "Lion Awakening Hall" written on a black background and red paint hangs obliquely, and the ancient musty smell from the inside can be smelled from five meters away.

"The words '9 messengers please listen patiently' written on the invitation card should refer to nine people, and the rest will not be another newcomer who got lost on the road?" It seems that similar newcomers missed the hunting ground before and died It was a silent thing, but I didn't have time to confirm it at this time.

"Forget it, let's talk about our skills first." Huang Mao Cao Zhi has been observing Li Haobai, and seeing that the other party doesn't seem to intend to integrate into them, he plans to set the leadership first, "Reintroduce, the four of us One is 'Jungle No. 1', with two 'Senjia', two 'Ghosts of Ancestors', this is Nana, and the movement is 'Hydra Gazing in the Dark Night'."

He focused on introducing the young woman named Nana behind him. The latter's complexion was not very good, and she turned around and took out the makeup mirror to touch up her makeup.

"Xiao Yi, the skill is 'build a city wall with the flesh and blood of a craftsman'." Xiao Yi blinked her eyes, concealing Xu Dela's petrification.

"Yang Ge, there are the first three skills, among which Senjia comes from a Seiko-grade living doll."

They coincidentally concealed the ability of Xu Dela petrification. After all, this ability consumes a lot of face. Even if it is used on one person, it will be lost for two or three seconds. hole card.

Cao Zhi paid attention to Yan Ge, then looked at Li Haobai, and asked the question everyone wanted to know: "What about you? Boss, let us see it."

"I'm very strong." Li Haobai said slowly, leaning on the doorpost, "but it's easy to play out of order."

"..."

Everyone was speechless for a while, and finally Dai Chengze stood up slightly, adjusted his glasses and said, "I'm a newcomer, I haven't experienced skills or anything, I have some research on traditional culture, and I will try not to hold you back."

People on both sides had good impressions of Dai Chengze, Xiao Yi said: "Teacher Dai... I'll call you teacher, since you are researching homestays, do you have any opinions on this place?"

Dai Chengze said politely, "I haven't been here before, but I went to Wuyue Zhenren Temple as a consultant for the Cultural Relics Bureau. The local people should know that the historical relics of Ciling were very important to Ciling during the Battle of Liangchuan. Destructive, after the current situation stabilized, and because the technology was not in place at that time, the restoration of cultural relics in this old street failed, and there was almost no archaeological value..."

"What are you talking about these old sayings, why don't you see what is famous about this lion dance hall, survival is the most important thing." Cao Zhi found a stone pier and sat down, "The façade is dilapidated, but the dismounting stone is quite big. "

Dai Chengze walked in front of the Lion Dance Hall, and was attracted by the two stone pillars at the door. He squeezed his glasses and looked down: "This is not the dismounting stone, it should be two stone lions... Oh, no, Ciling is here to burn porcelain." For the sake of tradition, looking at these small broken pieces of porcelain, according to the regulations, there should be two red-colored ceramic lions here, a male and a female, why are there no more?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Haobai stood up straight away, went to the door and knocked on it.

"Hey! Usually the door will open automatically when the time is up. What if the puppet is startled?!" Cao Zhi yelled loudly, and was about to stop him when suddenly the lights in the distance disappeared a little.

"Hello... Teacher Dai." Xiao Yi swallowed, her throat a little hoarse, "You said, are the two porcelain lions at the door made by 'handwork'?"

"Of course, ceramics from more than a hundred years ago are not as good as today's machinists. If this lion is well preserved, it will be regarded as half an antique now." Dai Chengze said casually, but suddenly felt the atmosphere dignified, and looked up. , except for him, everyone stared at the place where the lights disappeared.

Dai Chengze couldn't help lowering his voice: "What, what's wrong?"

"Handmade, antique, or two." Not only Cao Zhi, but also Uncle Yuan, who was good at strength, was also stiff at this moment.

"More than that, there should be three." Yan Ge had already walked to the door, "I remember a template used for ceramic lions in Ciling, one male and one female, and there is a cub under the female lion's paw."

What is more terrifying than Seiko-grade live dolls is handmade-grade dolls, which also have the bonus of antiques. For three such live dolls, the ratings judged by various organizations in Ciling require a second movement expert, and a Only a team of 30 capable users can suppress it.

Footsteps sounded in the darkness. It sounded like they were walking gracefully, but every step they took seemed to be conveyed by unknown energy wrapped in a great deterrent aura.

"Spiritual radiation..." Cao Zhi squeezed out the words between his teeth, his face was filled with fear, "It's a handmade doll."

Mental radiation.

This is the second time Yan Ge has heard this word. It is not difficult to understand that it is probably something similar to "aura" emitted by the living doll. The stronger the living doll, the stronger the spiritual radiation.

There are also some special living puppets whose powerful spiritual radiation is not just simple to frighten people, but also subtly influence people's behavior.

...For example, this widowed desire dance shoe on his feet.

Just when everyone started to think about escaping, the door of the Lion Dance Hall creaked open. Li Haobai and Yan Ge walked in first, followed by other people in the yard hurriedly. Covering the gate, separated the red glow in the ceramic lion's eyes in the darkness.

"Huh..." Xiao Yi let out a long breath, "Fortunately, the door opened in time."

"It wasn't in time, someone opened the door for us." Li Haobai dialed the volume button of the Walkman and said, "Look to the left."

Everyone looked to one side, behind the pillars in the corridor behind the door, at some point, there was an old lady with a fair face in a brand new brown Tang suit standing.