doll city

Gu Lili: "It is known that 3 boxes of apples weigh 45 kilograms. One box of pears is 5 kilograms more than one box of apples. How much does the weight of 3 boxes of pears weigh?"

Xiao Yi: "..." The boss won't mind weighing three more boxes.

Gu Lili: "A total of 129 people participated in an award ceremony. If every two people shake hands once, how many times will everyone shake hands in total?"

Xiao Yi: "..." If I were a guest, I would definitely sue the event organizer.

Gu Lili: "A certain summer camp allocates dormitories to students. For every 3 people living in one room, there are 204 more people. Every 5 people living in one room is just enough. How many dormitories are there in the summer camp? How many students?"

Xiao Yi: "..." Go ask the housekeeper, how do I know?

Gu Lili: "There is still this question..."

Xiao Yi: "Wait, are your primary school students' exercises so complicated now?"

Gu Lili scratched her head: "I also think it's very complicated, but when Xiao Gege guided me to do my homework before, he would know the answer at a glance, and said that it was my problem that I couldn't do it within 30 seconds."

"...I think it's his problem."

When Yan Ge and Yi Ziang went out to the hunting ground, Xiao Yi volunteered to help Gu Lili with today's homework. She was good at both Chinese and foreign languages, but she didn't expect that when it was her turn to do math, she looked miserable.

Gu Lili took the opportunity to hug Xiao Yi's arm and act coquettishly: "Little sister, the book says that life is short, why bother to torture each other, anyway, there is no teacher to check homework, let's play for a while and then write?"

"Uh..." Xiao Yi struggled for a while, then heard the melodious sound of a violin coming from the yard, she rolled her eyes and went out, "Can you play the violin again tomorrow? The kids are doing their homework."

Li Ya put down his piano bow, opened his eyes, and said, "Then what is the progress of your homework?"

"20%." Xiao Yi looked bitter, "I almost forgot the textbooks in elementary school, and I don't know how Yan Ge usually tutors... What is he insisting on? No teacher will collect homework."

"In order for the children to maintain a state...not to be separated from the real world." Li Ya said sincerely, "However, it is not impossible to steal a day or two of laziness."

Xiao Yi lowered her voice: "What do you mean?"

Li Ya: "You can go to the neighborhood bookstore next door to find answers to the corresponding textbooks."

Xiao Yi: "Then what if I'm in danger?"

Li Ya: "Today is Sunday, even if you are a doll, you will be lazy today. Also, you are already a mature holder of the second movement, so be more confident."

Xiao Yi volunteered to take on the job of tutoring Gu Lili's homework today. If Yan Ge came back and found that her level had regressed to below the nine-year compulsory education, she would lose her face.

Okay, anyway, there is no food in the house, so I went to the supermarket in the next block to look for fresh vegetables. The room is full of Superman nutrition, so I can't let it go.

"Then I'm going out first, and I'll be back before 10 o'clock, remember to listen to the door."

After Xiao Yi left, Gu Lili poked his head out from the door and waved to Li Ya, who briskly walked into the room and handed Gu Lili a switch.

Gu Lili was overjoyed, and when he was about to take it, Li Ya didn't give it to her: "Where's my goods?"

Gu Lili pouted, climbed onto the bookcase, and brought down an old dusty photo album.

"If brother Ge knows that I gave you this kind of photo, I will be finished..."

"It doesn't matter, you can betray me at any time."

Li Ya sat down leisurely and flipped through the photo album. On the other side, Gu Lili opened the game, but did not press the play button for a long time. She glanced at him quietly, and finally couldn't help asking.

"Brother, did Brother Ge do something dangerous?"

After what happened to Empress Ronghua last time, even though the adults were always fooling her, Gu Lili still vaguely knew what the "hunting ground" they were talking about was.

Li Ya didn't fool her, and nodded casually: "Yeah, we just have to go through some adventures that are likely to die... don't panic, at least I've done a fortune-telling this week, and he's fine."

There is a "death sign" in the family, Yan Ge repeatedly ordered Lili not to touch it, because although it can predict the future, it also has a chance of death.

Gu Lili gave Li Ya a strange look, and said, "Brother, aren't you afraid of death?"

Li Ya hummed for a long time, and replied with his face propped up: "You stopped me - if the concept of 'fear' is a derivative of 'pain', then I, who can't feel 'pain', should not be afraid." dead."

Gu Lili understood the last sentence, and said with a frown, "Then if brother Ge died, wouldn't you be afraid?"

"..."

afraid?

In fact, his thoughts about life and death have gradually begun to blur, which is the result of being highly eroded by the rules of this city.

They know the puppets, they kill the puppets, they become puppets... It's a road to the abyss, and everyone will be martyred.

Unaware of Li Ya's silence, Gu Lili hugged his knees and said in a muffled voice: "Anyway, I'm afraid that he will leave me just like that... I don't know if Mom and Dad will rush to look for me now, and Grandma, I want to go back, I want to go back with brother Ge to meet them."

Li Ya looked down at the photo in his hand.

The boy in the white shirt had cold brows and eyes, like a piece of burning ice.

He pasted the old photos on his heart that hadn't beat for a long time, whispering silently.

"If that's his wish too..."

……

"It is known that 3 boxes of apples weigh 45 kilograms. One box of pears is 5 kilograms more than one box of apples. How much does the weight of 3 boxes of pears weigh? ... What is this?!"

On the hunting ground, after seeking help from her boyfriend to no avail, the woman returned to her desk annoyed. She did not do well in school, and she was even more confused when she read these exercises after leaving school for many years.

The sling on the top of the head dangled and brushed the ends of her hair, the woman was a little anxious, and she couldn't help but think of the desperate voice of the greasy man next door just now.

Want to die, want to die, want to die...

Just as this thought was lingering in his mind, the iron door clicked open.

"Three boxes of pears weigh 60 kilograms."

Yan Ge walked in, didn't say much, took a piece of paper full of answers and put it on her desk, then turned around and left immediately, stopping to look back before leaving.

"Make sure to copy the answer, will you?"

The woman nodded blankly, then stood up and tried to follow him away: "Are you here to save me?"

"I said it at the beginning, we will try our best to protect you, as long as you are obedient." Yan Ge continued, "Don't leave here, there is no exit outside."

After he finished speaking, counting the tense time, he quickly came to the last two remaining rooms. He had just inserted the paper key into the keyhole, and when he looked up, he saw the junior high school student who was the youngest among them standing in front of the door.

"Big brother, don't worry about me, those questions are very simple." Huo Longlong said.

Yan Ge confirmed, "You can?"

"It's all... the questions I've done." Huo Longlong said in a faint voice, "The uncle next door is a little abnormal. He has been bumping into the wall. He hasn't made a sound for a long time now."

Yan Ge moved his ears and heard the slight noise next door, and immediately rushed over to open the iron door as quickly as possible.

The greasy man had already stuffed his head into the sling, his face was blue and purple, and he looked like he was going to die at any time.

Yan Ge was not polite, he kicked open the door, immediately launched a teleportation and rushed to the table, punched him directly from the rope, kicked him aside and began to sit on his seat and rustle and write. examination paper.

"If you want to die after 12 o'clock, there is absolutely no negotiator to disturb you."

No, there are still negotiating experts, and there is a lot of nonsense... It's a pity that that guy is just an ordinary bastard, and he won't meddle in other people's business.

It happened to be 7 seconds to the countdown of the 40-minute time limit. Yan Ge finished copying the paper, quickly locked the door and teleported back to his room, and locked himself in the room in the last three seconds.

In 7 minutes, it was 7 minutes, and my mother appeared in the corridor.

This time, she was dragging a long, sharp-edged kitchen knife, making harsh noises on the ground as she walked.

"Good kids~" Her accent was even a little sweet, "You're all done, done, right?"

Behind her, there was a large cauldron, which seemed to hold five or six people.

The sound of swallowing saliva could be heard from almost every room, and the rooms were opened one by one, and everyone stood with their heads pressed against the wall, allowing mother to stretch out her hand from the door opening and take away the test papers.

My mother didn't read it, and every test paper disappeared when it touched it. In this way, eight consecutive test papers did not show any killing intent, and the hearts of the others gradually settled down.

What Yan Ge did was undoubtedly a perfect test paper.

But among them, Yan Ge is most worried about the junior high school student. Although he said that he can handle those questions, he does not understand the other party after all. If he does even one question wrong, he may become one of the eleven students. The "laggards" among people.

Looking at the way "mother" came in dragging a knife, if it was a team of ordinary people, it would have already begun to boil people at this stage.

"Mom." Yan Ge said suddenly, "Can you reward us first?"

Mom stopped opening the door for a while, and smiled: "Of course, you are the best child, and of course mom will not begrudge rewards, but next time, mom hopes you will be more humble."

"I see." Yan Ge nodded slightly, and took the third box his mother gave him.

"...Brother Yan." Yi Ziang's dignified voice came from the next room, "We can't wait until all ten tests are finished. According to this rule, the next test is 6 minutes, and the time is getting tighter and tighter. In the last 3 Minutes, 2 minutes, 1 minute tests, it is impossible to save everyone."

Brother Yan had the same thoughts as him, and said, "Wait for the fragments of the next photo first. If the next test is hopeless, we will consider breaking through with violence."

"The clues are too weak..." Yi Ziang shook his head, watched as Yan Ge opened the box and took out the third fragment.

"Bring over the previous one."

The three fragments put together a rough picture—it was a seaside pier, a police car was beside it with red and blue lights on, a gray-haired woman knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, beside her knees, there was a faint A dead man covered with a white cloth.

"...Is this just an ordinary incident of falling into the sea?" Yi Ziang scratched his chin and said, "Even if the rest of the photos are collected, what can it explain?"

Yan Ge suddenly said coldly: "...It's all related to death."

He observed the side face of the woman in the photo, and from his slave's perspective, he could clearly analyze that it was not pure pain.

More, like remorse.

But why does she regret it?

"The man who fell into the sea committed suicide." Yan Ge murmured, it seemed that there was a layer of fog that was being pushed away little by little.

Yi Ziang suddenly thought of something, opened his mouth and said, "Brother Yan, do you still remember what the doll is for..."

At this moment, when mother checked Huo Longlong's place, she suddenly let out a furious scream.

"You—why! Hand in a blank paper?!"

Yan Ge's eyes widened.

He saw his mother pinch Huo Longlong, pull him out of the room, bring it to his eyes, and said loudly in an almost shrill voice——

"Mom worked so hard for you to study, and this is how you repay your mother? Such a simple question, why can't you do it when others can?! Tell me, why!"

Huo Longlong raised a face that had almost lost all blood, and said slowly: "Yes, it's very simple, but I don't want to do it."

No reason, just don't want to do it.

Like he doesn't want to live anymore.

The ten eyes on the mother's face focused on Huo Longlong at the same time, the red eyes trembling, and the sharp blade was raised high, as if it was going to pierce his skull in the next second.

"Good boy..." Mom's voice lowered, "You should know that the outside world is very chaotic and scary. If you are not good enough, it is better to die at home instead of being covered in bruises outside in the future... Okay? Like this , at least you can be with your mother."

"It doesn't matter..." Huo Longlong did not show any pain from the beginning to the end, and he could even be said to have accepted the fact of death peacefully, "If it is possible, I beg you, if this is a nightmare that must kill someone , just kill me and let them go."

The point of Xueliang's knife was aimed at Huo Longlong, and the mother's ten eyes seemed to be dripping with blood.

"You, want to save them?"

Huo Longlong closed his eyes: "Yes, I don't know what kind of monster you are. If you need it, then eat me. Let me at least finally experience the feeling of saving people."

Just like the heroes in the comics, but...maybe it looks silly to others.

"But."

Yan Ge's figure suddenly appeared on his mother's shoulder.

"The only thing she wants to save is you from the beginning to the end."