doll city

Saturday, 55:[-] p.m., Ciling Central Avenue.

The puppet parade in the city is getting bigger and bigger.

Where once the living puppets could fill a long street, now an entire neighborhood is in a carnival of inhuman things on a Saturday night.

"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..."

The live puppets laughed wildly and gathered into a bright red ocean, until the end of the carnival show, the bloody carpet was spread out and the pumpkin carriage appeared.

On the tall buildings nearby, the figures in the dark all focused their eyes on the window the moment the pumpkin carriage appeared.

Coincidentally, tonight, the profile of the princess finally appeared in the exquisite car window.

"..."Red Eclipse" is not in the parade this week, but Princess Alice is so beautiful."

On the rooftop of the [-]th floor of Ciling Credit Cooperative, Xiao Yi was lying on the side of the rooftop holding a telescope, found a suitable angle, and captured the human-shaped porcelain doll in the pumpkin carriage. A sketch was quickly drawn on the paper in front of him.

In just 3 minutes, a profile sketch of a ceramic doll appeared on paper.

Cheeks like elves, small and exquisite earlobes, and long silky curly hair, the beauty displayed by the puppetry can't help but make people intoxicated even through paintings, it is simply a treasure among handicrafts.

This painting exuded a strange attraction from the moment it took shape, and everyone's eyes froze for a moment before regaining consciousness.

"Has 'Princess' become stronger?"

"Yes, that's why you can't directly use the telephoto camera to take a picture. I heard from Diana that someone captured the face of the princess last week, but because of poor mental strength, it took a few days after the picture was developed, because she couldn't resist Princess Alice. Alluring by the beauty, I ate the photos and walked into the restricted area of ​​Fuhua Plaza."

Yes, Fuhua Plaza, centered on museums, is now a restricted area for human beings.

And M82 is about to lead the rest of the team who still have hope of leaving here into the restricted area, enter the museum, and kill Princess Alice.

There are two reasons, one is that the two puppet kings are getting stronger and stronger, and it may be more difficult to challenge if they don't fight.The second is the human side. With the frustration of various actions to leave here, people began to slowly accept the new life here.

Unowned goods and luxury goods can be seen everywhere, as well as the entertainment venues in the real world that have recently flooded due to the lack of material goods. The rules of society have been rewritten, and everything has a fatal attraction.

Yan Ge has always known that the escape plan cannot be delayed, but Diana's plan is too risky, and he needs to be responsible for his team.

"...I don't recommend you go to the museum at this time."

Before Li Ya reached the third floor after a round of Tetris, the handheld game console popped up with a "sizzling" black screen, so he had to throw it aside.

"It's just previewing in advance." Because Gu Lili was almost taken away, Yan Ge kept a coffin face all day long, "Also, when can you take the initiative to share the important information?"

Li Ya is a very strange person. Everyone can see that he knows a lot of information, but unless someone is about to die, he will not say a word. It seems that he does not have the desire to leave here like other people.

Xiao Yi: "It's just the three of us tonight, tell the truth, do you want to stay and settle down?"

Li Ya glanced at Yan Ge whose eyes suddenly revealed a fierce look, and sat up straight: "I am worried every night and cannot sleep peacefully, Yan Ge can testify."

"Well, I testify that being stared at with eyes open every night is quite difficult for people to fall asleep." Yan Ge said dully. "Can you move out?"

Li Ya: "I'm used to sleeping with you, and I might recognize the bed in a different environment."

Yan Ge: "Oh? That's right. But some people say that you used to be able to sleep in the judge's seat."

Li Ya: "Fakenews."

Yan Ge: "That's what your fans said."

Li Ya: "Fakefans."

Gee.

Yan Ge slapped the sketch on his face: "If you don't want Getout, just say less about Fakewords. You must have seen this princess, how strong she is and what her abilities are, tell me quickly."

"I really don't know, it's just that I had a fight with a chance encounter on Hongshi Road. After that princess came, I left." Li Ya honestly looked at the profile portrait of Princess Alice, "But there is one thing I'm sure of. That "Red Eclipse" is very special. It was painted by Princess Alice."

Xiao Yi heard the words, as if some memories were brought back, and she realized later: "I said why it was so strange when I saw that painting "Red Eclipse", the technique of drawing it is too weird, the angle of painting, the force applied The severity is very random... What do you mean, "Red Eclipse" was not enlightened, but Princess Alice made it herself?"

Li Ya nodded: "This leads to two more questions - since the dolls made by hand are so strong, why is there only one? Why not simply create a large army of similar dolls?"

""Red Eclipse" does not have 'eyes', but it is a living doll... At least for Princess Alice, it is special." Yan Ge continued.

After the hunting ground in the art gallery ended, "Red Eclipse" was not killed by them, but was picked up by another orphan living doll. In the last few parades, "Red Eclipse" never appeared in the pumpkin again. In the position of the coachman of the carriage, he may be "rehabilitating" in the museum.

Yan Ge pressed the bridge of his nose and was silent for a while, as if he had caught a glimmer of inspiration.

"Auntie, draw "Red Eclipse"."

As a "painter", Xiao Yi certainly has the ability to never forget all the paintings. She took out the oil painting tools from the painting box and swiped the brush to start painting. This time, it took more than ten minutes to restore the "Red Eclipse" Painted details.

Out of caution, she did not draw the gorgeous bloody red lips in "Red Eclipse". What was presented on the drawing board was a graceful and luxurious lady wearing a gorgeous court dress with mature charm, only overlapping A little chloasma on the back of her hands on her belly gave away her age.

"Ah." Xiao Yi looked at her painting, trying to search for similar information from her memory, "This painting was not imagined by Princess Alice out of thin air, what she drew...is a human being."

Based on Xiao Yi's experience, she can be sure that this is a realistic painting, and the people in the painting are real.

"So who is this?"

Xiao Yi is good at drawing, but she is not so good at extracting source information from the costumes of "Red Eclipse".At present, the professional counterparts may only be Ma Zhaojun, who I met in the art museum last time, or ask Mr. Dai, who studies folklore.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, everything was silent, and the live puppets also ended their noisy night and returned to various buildings in the city.

The three of Yan Ge came out of the Ciling Credit Cooperative Building and were planning to go back to Old China Street. As soon as they drove out of the parking lot under the building, they saw a crow flying down from the street lamp and sweeping across the car window.

It didn't stay, and quickly disappeared into the night.

"...There have been more crows in the city recently." Xiao Yi in the back seat muttered softly.

The three of them drove out of the parking lot, and suddenly a large area of ​​car lights on the corner of the street shone from the other side of Central-Central Avenue.

Yan Ge immediately turned off the lights, turned the steering wheel and entered the alley next door.

Not long after, about a dozen large and small cars drove along the central avenue towards the museum.

Xiao Yi heard a loud voice from a distance: "What's going on?"

"...They're going to the museum." Li Ya listened intently, "But it seems that they didn't enter Fuhua Square, it's just outside the square."

"Come and have a look."

They are brave and bold, so they don't need to be afraid. They stopped the car and walked around this commercial street. After walking for 5 minutes, they saw many people gathered in the street outside Fuhua Plaza from a distance. The corpses were thrown into a cluster of huge bonfires, and one of them was about a woman standing on the roof of a car, giving a hoarse speech.

"...Think about it, compatriots, do you really want to go back to the real world? The big bosses have a lot of money in their hands, standing on top of our heads and drinking blood! And here, we no longer have to Worrying about food and clothing, even many of us are starting to recover from terminal illness, this is not a disaster! This is a gift from the Creator God!"

"And they, they want to destroy all of this! They want to enter the museum and offend the supreme creator god! If the god gets angry, then the ones who will be punished will be all of us!!"

"We should be grateful for staying in this paradise! Oppose the 'escape faction'! Fight for the happiness of all of us! Sacrifice these corpses, please God bless us!!"

The woman's voice spread, and the eyes of the hundreds of people watching began to waver. Soon, someone raised their arms and shouted, and everyone followed her and shouted slogans.

"Please forgive us, the Creator God! We are willing to sacrifice everything for blessing!"

The three people standing at the corner witnessed this scene, Xiao Yi was dumbfounded.

"Huh? Don't they know how many people die in the hunting grounds every week? This guy is trying to deceive the public!"

Yan Ge held her down: "Wait."

After the woman who gave the speech chanted the slogan, she seemed to sense something, got out of the car, and took out a crying child from the car. The child's neck was still covered with gauze, and it seemed that she had undergone intubation treatment.

"This is still a babysitter. Doesn't she know that if time keeps going backwards like this, her baby will only live for two or three years?"

Yan Ge observed for a while, and said: "Her child should have been seriously ill in the real world, but here he can return to health by going back in time."

"Ah this..."

Xiao Yi thought of Lao Qiu in M82 with the wooden parrot. When he first arrived, he had already had a stroke, but now he has fully recovered.

Yan Ge: "The people who benefit here want to continue living, while the victims want to escape. The contradiction has long existed... This is one aspect, and the other is..."

Li Ya: "If you can't beat it, you will be deified. The human self PUA is always operating."

"Correct."

When the fear that human beings endure exceeds a certain point, the protection mechanism will be automatically activated, and the brain will force the human mind to escape to the safe zone.As in Ciling's current situation that cannot be explained by science, as long as someone starts to establish a deified belief in living puppets, it will soon become the spiritual sustenance of some people.

Now these foolish people sacrifice only corpses collected from the city, and they will start to sacrifice living people after a while. No wonder Diana and the others feel that this situation cannot wait any longer.

"Let me confirm, is there anyone here who is not a materialist?"

"No."

"Then destroy the newly created evil-knowledge and we have no objections."

In any case, since they saw it, they couldn't ignore it, so as not to confuse others later.

Just when they were about to make a move, there was a sudden scream of surprise from the crowd.

"A miracle has come! The Creator God has responded to us!!!"

After the noisy kneeling crowd, Yan Ge turned over to the second floor of a nearby cafe. Looking over from the second floor, he saw a figure walking stiffly from behind the Roman-style fountain in Fuhua Square.

It was a male, about 30 years old, with tattered clothes and bloodless skin, walking step by step into the crowd of worshipers.

"It's God's messenger! God has come to save us!"

The kneeling people were so excited that they rushed towards the pale figure. At this moment, the man opened his mouth. His throat didn't move, but a baby's laughter came from his mouth.

"Hee hee...hahaha..."

"Princess, I want new clothes..."

"Not red enough...she wants new clothes!"

Amid the ghostly laughter, the man embraced a "believer" with both hands, opened his mouth wide, and swallowed half of the believer's head, sucking out all the blood in his body in an instant.

Among the stunned crowd, a fire ax flew over from behind and slashed through the chest and abdomen of the strange man!

"Are you crazy? Run!!!"

For a moment, howling and screaming sounded from all directions, and everyone started to move away crazily.

In the chaos, Yan Ge saw the strange man lying on the ground. The blood on his body seemed to be alive, and large streams gushed out of his mouth and flowed to the Roman fountain behind him, but it was not diluted with water. , but "climbed" out from the other end and drilled back to the direction of the museum.

"Is it "Red Eclipse"?"

"It's not like..."

Needless to say, Yan Ge also felt a long-lost fear—it was a huge spiritual torrent that almost covered half of the night sky above his head. He didn't think it came from the museum.

The Lord of the Red Dead, Princess Alice, is there.

The melodious piano sound came from the museum, followed by a girl's ethereal singing, slowly flowing into the bloody long night.

"Sleep, sleep,

my dear baby,

Mom loves you, mom loves you.

A bouquet of lilies and a bouquet of roses,

When you wake up, mom will give you..."

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The last passage is an original translation of the last stanza of Schubert's Lullaby.