doll city

——Is this a figure you made?Very nice.

——Haha~ So you are not so dull, Xueba.

The first time Huo Longlong made friends in junior high school was because his classmates discovered that he was making a small figurine of a very popular anime character at that time.

Before that, he had almost no friends of the same age—even if he had, his mother would repeatedly check the level of his friends, and would not allow him to associate with him if he had poor academic performance, was playful, or even just because he was a girl.

[Anyway, these friends will be driven away by mother, forget it]

Huo Longlong no longer took the initiative to talk to anyone, and studied alone every day. His classmates thought he was indifferent, and gradually stopped talking to him, until someone discovered that he had this interest.

"You are amazing! How can you know everything! This week, there is a super~big manga exhibition in the convention center, and there is also a selection of self-made figures. Everyone is going, do you want to participate in the competition!"

It was a joy to be recognized.

Huo Longlong has been running wearily on the road prescribed by his mother for too long, this is the first time he stopped to see the scenery around him.

The reason why I made this cheongsam doll was because it was the image in my mother’s wedding photo——

Mom was wearing a cheongsam, smiling sweetly and happily.

It was the only smile that Huo Longlong had seen for so many years that did not scare him.

However, she was shattered.

"You lost your points just by doing these and these boring things! When you are playing, think about whether other people are learning? Can't you let your mother save some time?!"

"I'm warning you, Huo Longlong, this is just the first one, if I see you doing these ghost things in the future, I'll smash them one at a time!"

His mother smashed all the hopes he had pinned on it, and squeezed out the last lingering warmth.

Huo Longlong thought it was over for him, but...he never thought that the thing he had placed all the good expectations in his short half life...it could speak.

It has thoughts and feelings... It will listen to him, and at this time, stand up and prevent him from leaving this world.

"……why?"

Huo Longlong had many questions, he stared blankly at the villain in front of him - the ten eyes on her face had already been closed, leaving only one beautiful face.

It's on the side of the movie screen, and they're back in reality.

"wake up."

Yan Ge rubbed his eyes, the back of his head left the backrest, and looked at Huo Longlong standing beside him.

"It's called 'Living Puppet'. In short, it doesn't want you, the person who created it, to die, so it asked for help from a big devil named 'Ling Wang', and created this 'hunting ground' with the power of the big devil."

Huo Longlong walked over in a daze, the cheongsam man on the screen was still looking at him sadly.

"I don't understand..." Huo Longlong's mind was in a mess, "Why does it want to save me?"

Because of love?

Yan Ge recalled many hunting grounds. He wanted to use materialistic logic to explain, but after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't find an adjective other than "love" between living puppets and humans.

"Let me explain."

Yi Ziang rubbed his forehead and said, "The way it saved you was very clumsy. In order to save you alone, its original plan was to guide us, the accompanying guests, to commit suicide in front of you one by one, so that you would have fear of death and give up suicide. idea."

"Me?" Huo Longlong was stunned, "It wants you to experience what I have experienced... those?"

That's it.

We are nothing more than ordinary puppets made of fat, sugar, and water. They don't have any moral values. Killing us is just the most ordinary "dismantling" in their eyes.

Just like what humans do to objects in life every day, it is commonplace.

In order to save Huo Longlong and other people, kill them as soon as they are killed. They don't even have subjective malice.

"...living puppets do not feel the weight of life, and are completely insensitive to the life and death of human beings, except for the one and only person they love."

Yan Ge looked up at Huo Longlong, and said word by word.

"This is not coercion, you still have the right to control your own life, but I must tell you that when you die, it will die too."

Huo Longlong is a gentle child, just by looking at it, he can connect his mind and understand its thoughts.

"Can't it live well?"

"'A living puppet born because of you will eventually die with you'." Yi Ziang murmured this sentence, and whispered to Yan Ge with a little surprise on his face, "This is what Li Ya said. Said."

It seems that Li Ya often speaks from the perspective of a living puppet...something that only a living puppet can understand.

They are all described accurately.

Yan Ge turned his eyes to Huo Longlong again.

To put it bluntly, he shouldn't care about the child's self-destructive tendencies, because he really needs an experiment to prove the law that "the love of living puppets all ends in martyrdom".

After Huo Longlong died, his cheongsam villain would die too.

In this way, he can basically launch——

"Alice and Luca, if they really love each other, as long as one is killed, the other will die at the same time."

Yan Ge quietly looked at Huo Longlong's profile, and he deduced from every subtle expression on Huo Longlong's face that he was hesitating and struggling with himself.

At this moment, the living puppet on the screen stood up, the color of its body was a little bit dark, the screen changed from pitch black to dark blue, and with the sound of the surging tide, the picture gradually revealed and became a deep sea.

Huo Longlong's palm pressed against the screen became wet, exuding a smell of sea water.

He doesn't even need to go back to the real world, just walk into the screen, it's the deep seabed, where his puppet will sleep forever with him.

"Whether it's life or death, it will accompany you." Yan Ge said neutral words, but his fingers were tightly folded, "The game is over, you can choose now."

"I……"

The turbulent deep sea is in front of Huo Longlong, as if it wants to suck him in.

He looked at the little figure that was gradually being swallowed by the gray black, and after a long time, he stretched out his hand, passed through the zero-degree deep sea on the screen, and touched it.

That's what he made with ordinary mud and spent many sleepless nights...the only thing in this world that belongs to him.

"Take me away," he said.

Yan Ge clenched his fingers and closed his eyes, but he heard the child whisper again.

"Take me home, I think, and see you tomorrow morning."

He still walked into the deep sea, but swam to the surface, choosing to take another look at the moonlight in the world.

11 points.

The real world, Sanguo Street.

A woman asked anxiously on the street if she had seen her child. After a long, long time, when she was about to pull out her mobile phone to call the police, she saw her dirty son on the way home.

He held a tattered little man in a cheongsam in his arms.

The woman wanted hysterically to yell, to scold, to make him realize how terribly wrong he had been.

"Where did you go?! Do you know that you have an exam tomorrow!"

"I don't want to go to the exam tomorrow."

"Huh? What are you talking about—"

"I'm not talking crazy, because the exam is not as important as my life, I need to rest, I want to go to the movies, I want to travel, I want to play games for a while, after my negative emotions subside, I will go back to school Continue studying."

The child looked down at the equally dirty cheongsam figure, as if seeing a smile on its face.

Afterwards, he also smiled, calmly facing the dull mother.

"...Mom, this is puberty, you have to get used to changing for me, not me."

……

Ciling East District, Bar Street.

"Shrimp paste, half a slice of frozen duck, instant noodles, egg noodles, tomato soup base, two cans of Coke...forget it, and toilet paper..."

After searching the small supermarket in the next block, Xiao Yi pushed the supermarket trolley to the street.

The moonlight is very good tonight, which makes her feel a little homesick for no reason.

Before I was sad for a while, the sound of rock music came from the other side of the street.

This neighborhood is unexpectedly... lively, probably there is some stronghold of a B-level team nearby, Xiao Yi looked from a distance, and the bar on the corner diagonally opposite the supermarket was actually open.

And from time to time, one or two hangover people walk out of the door.

"...Human beings can enjoy themselves wherever they go, bully." Xiao Yi was not interested, and lifted the supplies in the plastic bag to the battery car that she rode out. When she was loading it, a red convertible luxury car passed by her It drove past with a "swipe", splashing some mud ideas.

No eyesight?

Xiao Yi raised her eyebrows and was about to start cursing when she was sitting on the battery car, but she saw the convertible car reversed, and a coquettishly dressed man in a fur trench coat looked at her in astonishment.

"Xiaoyi, are you... still alive?"

CNM, Liang Xing.

Xiao Yi burst into a foul language in her heart.

She still remembers the first night when she was swallowed into this ghostly place. She clearly planned to save the dog fiance, but he locked her in the hotel room and ran for his life.

Xiao Yi thought the dog was dead, but she didn't expect to see him like this, he seems to be doing well?

During the two seconds of staring at each other, Liang Xing obviously remembered that he had abandoned his fiancée. After a moment of regret, the charming woman in the co-pilot tugged at his sleeve.

"Brother Liang, didn't you mean to take me to the bar to meet the boss?"

"Oh, oh." Liang Xing gave her the car keys and got out of the car by himself, "Bar is not far ahead, you go to the car and wait for me, I'll be right there."

The charming woman glanced at Xiao Yi, seeming to see something, but the car key sneered and sat in the main driver.

"It's different now, 'stray cats' are everywhere, it's time for a change, Brother Liang." She said something and drove away.

stray cat?Say me?

The corner of Xiao Yi's mouth twitched. Seeing that Liang Xing wanted to come over, she rolled her eyes, put the plastic bag on the scooter, and rode in the direction of Old Porcelain Street.

Before she had ridden ten meters, Liang Xing's figure flashed in front of her and stopped her.

"Xiaoyi, wait a minute and listen to my explanation."

"Tsk." Xiao Yi pressed the brake and said expressionlessly, "If you say a few more words, I'm going to swear, get out of the way."

Liang Xing looked at his ex-fiancee in front of him, wearing a knitted cardigan and rustic sneakers, her face was pale, she seemed to be recovering from a serious illness, and she was a little thinner than before, with black-rimmed glasses on her face, she looked very petite and pitiful.

At that time, he pursued Xiao Yi just because she was cute. Now when he saw her coming out to search for supplies in the middle of the night, he immediately decided that she must not be doing well, and she might be sleeping on the street tonight.

"Okay, if you don't want to listen to me, then don't talk about it." Liang Xing straightened his collar, and said, "If you survived these two months, you should know how dangerous this ghost place is. At that time, I was too frightened to separate from you, but the situation is different now, and I can completely protect you."

Xiao Yi: "Huh? You?"

She raised her eyebrows and looked at this guy, and she could feel that the other party should have one to three first-movement skills, but definitely no second-level skills.

Liang Xing mistakenly thought she was surprised, and immediately became a little proud: "To tell you the truth, this block belongs to a B-level team I am in now, and I have become the manager of this bar street. You follow me, you Parents will also rest assured..."

Xiao Yi thought this guy was quite interesting, hehehe said, "Which B-level team are you in?"

Liang Xing: "Jungle No. 1."

Oh……

Xiao Yi tried her best to recall, and then remembered, is this team the team whose captain was robbed by Li Ya, whose son was beaten by Yan Ge, and finally died of bad luck?

Xiao Yi inquired about the current situation of the team by the way: "Then who is your captain now?"

"It's an old man surnamed Cao, you probably don't know him." Liang Xing thought she had let go of her guard, and walked over to open her hands, "Xiaoyi, stop making trouble, come with me and let me protect you, I will definitely take you Be spoiled like a princess."

Xiao Yi got goosebumps all over the floor, was silent for a second, and suddenly said ah, pointing behind him: "There are live puppets!"

As soon as Liang Xing turned his head, Xiao Yi turned on the horsepower, and drifted around a corner on the battery scooter to get rid of him.

In the wind, Xiao Yi was still swearing: "See you again, you bastard!"

Liang Xing didn't hear clearly, he chased after two steps, stopped in annoyance, remembered the direction Xiao Yi left, and walked slowly towards the bar street.

The beauty who just took over the luxury car was already waiting at the door of the bar. When she saw him coming, she wanted to make a joke, but her eyes widened when she saw his face.

"Why don't you go in? Wait for me?" Liang Xing was in a frustrated mood, as if he had been beaten up when he saw a woman, and he showed a coquettish smile.

But soon he found that the beautiful woman's face was wrong, she stammered and pointed at his face and said:

"Your face...why is it painted as an Avatar?"

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The author has something to say:

When does a person mature?

I think it is when you have the quality of "kindness" that you are mature.

Because this quality means that you start to think from the perspective of others, have a sense of justice, and have good expectations for the future.

Studying hard and living hard are also derivatives of this quality

Therefore, people with the quality of "kindness" have the power to control their own lives, so be more confident.