doll city

"Ah... ran away."

On a certain high platform, Li Haobai, who was sitting on the edge playing the harmonica, stopped his movements. When Yan Ge disappeared at the other side of the jellyfish gate with his amber eyes, he felt self-doubt spontaneously.

Brother Cheng, is it really effective to be a flower protector secretly?

Li Haobai fell into deep thought, and after a while, he looked up and saw Xiao Yi running over in a panic not far away, followed by a tall and carefree woman.

"..."

Li Haobai jumped off the high platform lightly, walked over unsteadily, and glanced at Diana, whose face was still a bit drunk.

"It's quite embarrassing." Li Haobai squinted and said, "Is your performance abnormal?"

"Normal performance is a coincidence."

"Coincidentally enough to be frozen?"

Diana stroked her damp hair, which smelled faintly of cool oil, and said indifferently: "I found the treasure, so be more embarrassed, not shabby."

"I thought that with your ability, you shouldn't be attacked by surprise."

Diana: "When you mentioned this, I remembered a very important thing..."

She rested her chin and thought for a while, then suddenly let out a soft "ah".

"I remembered why I lost my mind at the time - after shooting into that door, I was shocked by the orphan-level mental radiation."

Li Haobai looked up at the jellyfish door that Yan Ge just jumped into, which was constantly changing with various scenes of the amusement park, and let out a long "huh?"

"Let me confirm, is the orphan you mentioned a humanoid?"

Diana was silent for a while, and said: "In this city, there are only a few orphans in human form. I think it should be the one you think of."

Amazing.

Li Haobai pushed his sunglasses, and looked up at the direction where Yan Ge disappeared: "Then you see, is there still time for me to catch up?"

Diana: "I have to ask you, I have never fought with that thing. Tell me, how did you feel at that time?"

"My feeling is that 'he' is a monster in a living doll who doesn't have a human heart but tries to feel the pain of a human heart."

"so?"

"The ancients said: When you encounter difficulties, you will die." Li Haobai snapped his fingers, and a huge rabbit hydrogen balloon slowly floated nearby.

He held the rope of the balloon and made a goodbye gesture: "This public hunting ground is half of you, remember to leave a door for us."

"Maybe he will die." Diana said casually.

Li Haobai didn't seem to think about it, he pulled the rabbit balloon and flew slowly towards the amusement park, saying——

"Then die."

……

The distorted darkness flashed before his eyes, and in a burst of dazzling light and shadow, Yan Ge stepped onto the solid ground.

The surrounding environment suddenly switched from the noisy convention center, Yan Ge supported the wall and slowly opened his sore eyes.

"Fortunately, it didn't fall into the doll pile..."

At this time, Yan Ge's thoughts returned to his main consciousness, but his muscles seemed to be still in the habit of Joker's role. After looking at the dirty glass next to him, he found that his cheek muscles seemed to be out of control , want to laugh out loud from time to time.

Is this... what they mean by "own skills"?

Yan Ge covered his face, rubbed it hard, and slowly recovered his expression.He didn't take the time to think deeply, he observed the environment.

It seems to be in a utility room, with some doll costumes scattered around, and ladder racks, cardboard boxes, and magic props scattered in the corners.

Pushing away the debris piled up at the door, Yan Ge opened the iron door a crack, and a muffled sound of music came in from the gap, with a little sense of electricity from the era of black and white TV.

Yan Ge listened to it carefully, and felt that it sounded familiar. After carefully identifying it, he suddenly remembered that it was Shakespeare's masterpiece "Romeo and Juliet".

As an acting major, this is of course a compulsory course. It sounds like the show is being performed outside - and the actors are not human, and humans cannot make the kind of voice that seems to be filtered by old TV.

At this moment, another child's coquettish sound came from outside.

"I want to go to the bathroom, take me there..."

Yan Ge's eyes widened slightly, and through the crack of the door, he saw a green-eyed gorilla doll leading a sleepy little boy through the side door, escorting him all the way into the bathroom.

Is it a nanny doll?

Yan Ge suddenly remembered something, unloaded his backpack, took out an iron box from inside, shook it but didn't hear any movement, then opened the iron box with all his strength - once the beckoning cat inside was free, it wanted to jump He got up and ran away, but was grabbed by Yan Ge and stuffed into a prop bag.

The lucky cat slammed into the item bag, still trying to escape out the door.

"Sure enough, it's the same as I guessed before..." The nanny doll will automatically return to the child.

Gu Lili must be here, but I don't know what kind of environment it is outside.

Judging from the experience just now on the third floor of the convention and exhibition center, ordinary living puppets also judge the target through their eyes. As long as they are well disguised, they may be able to sneak past.

Yan Ge thought for a while, then turned to look at the props behind him...

A few minutes later, a clown in a ridiculous red and blue suit, red wig and mask walks out clutching a bunch of floppy balloons.

He circled around a few times, walked in the direction of the sound and the light source, and after turning two spiral stairs, the moment he poked his head out of a small door, a cloud of fireworks shot straight up in front of him, "blooming" in midair. Explodes a giant golden flower.

Yan Ge looked up and found that he was on the second floor of a castle. Below was a huge amphitheater performed by live puppets. Directly opposite the theater, there were musical fountains with flashing lights, noisy pirate ships, roller coasters, and even far away The Ferris wheel is close at hand.

And in the dark red auditorium directly opposite the theater, there was only a small audience sitting in the first row, holding an ice cream in his hand and watching the performance on the stage, and beside her, leaning on a Sun Wukong schoolbag.

Gu Lili!

As the little parent who is mainly in charge of the little cousin's studies, Yan Ge is really a little angry, but he didn't shout out directly, because he also saw a lot of red-eyed dolls wandering nearby.

Those live dolls did not play with the children like the blue-eyed dolls. Most of them were not bright and bright, and they stayed in the darkness in a gray state, with red eyes wandering around. Some tried to get close, but they were very Quickly disappear into the shadows.

Gu Lili stared intently at the epilogue of this love tragedy on the stage. The actors were two human-shaped stands in medieval Rococo costumes. They seemed to have been transformed, and their heads were pasted with various rags. There are only two different buttons installed in the position of the eyes, but the deduction skills make them look like real people.

This is the first time for her to watch this drama seriously. When she was a child, she would always look at the picture of Yan Ge wearing a skirt and laugh so much when she was talking about it with her grandma. This time, she suddenly realized that it was actually a tragedy. .

"...here I will rest forever, and break from my world-weary mortal body the shackles of doom."

"Eyes, behold your last glance! Arms, be your last embrace! Lips, the door of your breath, with a legal kiss, make an eternal contract with death who snares all!"

"Come, bitter guide, hopeless pilot, now hasten to slam your storm-weary ship against the rocks! For my love, I drink this!"

The young figure finished the ending of the story under a glass of poisoned wine, and before it stepped into the tomb, its body burned.

I don't know where the fire came from, burning from the heart, the fiery red flame burned its gorgeous clothes, and devoured everything along its torso...

In the end, the feather top hat scorched in the flames reminded Gu Lili of Mr. Doll's silk top hat in his mind.

——If he was to perform this "Romeo" tonight, would he also end up disappearing in the fire?

Gu Lili was crying, her eyes were dazed, she stood up, walked slowly from the auditorium to the side of the stage, raised her small face and asked the burning puppet: "Does it hurt?"

She felt that the life of this living puppet seemed to be to ignite itself on the stage, and then turn it into ashes.

"Romeo", who was about to go into the tomb to reunite with Juliet in the flames, stopped. He turned his head, his button-sewn eyes were gradually scorching black, but the red light in the center was still dazzling.

For the first time, it set its "eyes" on the only audience, and with the sound of crackling and burning in its body, it made a sound like an old radio.

"Are you...are you... crying for me?"

Gu Lili felt the scorching temperature, but still stretched out her hand: "Don't burn it, okay? It hurts, it hurts."

The puppet in the flames knelt down on one knee and held out its scorched, disintegrating right hand to her.

"Then, will you love me?"

These words are like the last wish of a martyr, the downcast eyes of an angel, and the temptation of a devil.

Gu Lili has a vague feeling that as long as she nods, this "Romeo" will get some kind of powerful power, and that kind of power will make it nirvana from the fire.

The living puppet did not urge her, but patiently asked again:

"You, are you willing to love me? If you...are willing to love me, then, I will be...for you forever."

"I……"

A psychedelic look appeared in Gu Lili's eyes, and when she was about to agree, a ceramic beckoning cat suddenly jumped into her arms, and then she woke up with a loud cry.

"Don't answer!!!"

A familiar shout interrupted Gu Lili's voice, and then a colorful clown suddenly fell from the top of the stage, punching the burning puppet to pieces.

Afterwards, the clown turned around, picked up Gu Lili and her schoolbag, and ran out of the theater.

"Brother Xiao Ge!" Gu Lili's eyes widened, and then he was ecstatic, "So I'm not the only one who was chosen!"

"...I'll settle the score with you later."

Yan Ge was covered in cold sweat, he could already feel the spiritual radiation that was gradually expanding from the flame doll, and he almost had another hand-made human doll.

He almost went straight to the gate of the amusement park at the fastest speed, and soon arrived at the position of the Ferris wheel. Just when the jellyfish gate loomed at the end of the road in the distance, the twelve o'clock musical bell suddenly played The paradise sounded everywhere, and hundreds of red and green interlaced light spots appeared in the surrounding darkness.

The powerful spiritual radiation merged into a torrent, and live puppets from various places took to the streets and spontaneously formed a parade.

Like a carnival party.

Two big squirrel dolls jumped and ran past, paused when they passed by Yan Ge, their red eyes stared at the "clown" for a moment, then moved to Gu Lili, paused, and then left.

There were other live puppets approaching, but they didn't stay too long, and gradually joined the night parade in the amusement park.

"Brother Ge." Gu Lili rolled his eyes and tugged at his sleeve, "Take me with you, they won't let you go."

"No, you have to follow me." The old cousin was worried. Yan Ge estimated the distance. There were too many red-eyed dolls in the direction of the main entrance. He didn't dare to take Gu Lili to take the risk directly. Instead of attacking him directly, it's better to pretend to be their kind first.

Moreover, his "own skills" seem to have this characteristic-he can imitate and perform all the characters, and of course, he can also disguise his breath as a living doll.

Looking for the "feeling" of acting as a puppet in his mind, Yan Ge's "popularity" faded a little, he put Gu Lili down, and said firmly: "Follow them to join the parade first, and then go out after finding an opportunity. "

Gu Lili took his hand obediently, saw that he was walking stiffly like a model in a shopping mall, and whispered: "Little brother, did you sprain your leg?"

Yan Ge thought of all the hard work he had done to find her along the way, and said coldly: "Your brother has suffered so much to find you."

Gu Lili: "It can be seen."

Yan Ge glanced down at her, and his eyes fell on her bulging cheeks, "What are you eating?"

Gu Lili glanced at the large strawberry cookie ice cream that had just been handed over by a passerby, and replied honestly, "I'm eating sweets."

Yan Ge: "..."

Gu Lili stretched out the ice cream: "Do you want to have a bite?"

Yan Ge, who had eaten compressed biscuits for two days, was speechless for a while, and said again: "No, besides... did grandma teach you not to eat things given by strangers."

Gu Lili objected: "But it was given by the strange big toy."

"You are not allowed to eat anything given by a stranger."

Just as he was considering whether to question Gu Lili if he had been used to eating junk food by his puppets in the past two days, suddenly, a black crow flew past his eyes.

Yan Ge stood where he was - he didn't want to stop by himself, but was held in place by a sudden spiritual radiation.

--what is this?

Yan Ge unexpectedly found that he was awake, but he couldn't struggle at all. In his gradually dilated pupils, amidst the shadows of living puppets, he saw a retrograde humanoid living doll.

The crow landed on the shoulder of the living doll. Leaning on a gem-studded cane, he walked through the bizarre parade step by step, and stopped when he was five steps away from Yan Ge.

However, he did not speak to Yan Ge, but bowed slightly, and whispered to Gu Lili: "We met again, did you like that drama?"

"Mr. 'Luca'!"

Gu Lili didn't feel Yan Ge's abnormality, and rushed forward excitedly, but she lowered her head again when she remembered the sexy doll.

"Sorry, I didn't expect it to burn myself... just because I wanted to see that scene."

Luca turned sideways slightly, looking in the direction of the Burgtheater, his voice seemed to be separated by a thick fog.

"He burned himself up, hoping someone would love him - but you don't have to beat yourself up, even if you didn't love him, he put on a great show."

Luca...

Yan Ge tapped the name between his teeth, his heart felt cold.

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The author has something to say:

After going through untold hardships, Yan Ge came to Gu Lili's side.

Gu Lili: Brother Xiaoge, are you here to save me? ! ! !

Yan Ge: No, it is you who want to save me

Gu Lili:?