doll city

"...My old grandson is here too! Huh! Ha!"

It was another boring morning, Gu Lili took a broom in the yard and began to imitate Monkey King and dance around.

All the homework for the winter vacation is done, and there are no friends of the same age to play with, except for teaching the Lucky Cat nanny to draw ghost cards, the whole cub is idle and moldy.

In the past, I could still learn from Teacher Dai in the first grade of junior high school, until Yan Ge and the others brought back a diary that day, and Teacher Dai was not free, and spent all day in the room looking up information and doing research, not knowing what he was doing.

After playing around for a while, Gu Lili wanted to eat some snacks, and said "potato chips, potato chips~" in his mouth. As soon as he arrived in the living room, he saw Li Ya shaking that Yan Ge again to prevent her from touching it. The "death sign".

"Didn't my brother say don't smoke it? If you win the dead lottery, it will be gone." Gu Lili got to know him well, and sat down with potato chips in his mouth, "What if I get unlucky and win?"

While speaking, one of the brass sticks had already been shaken out. Gu Lili had sharp eyes and saw the word "Er" engraved on the end of the stick at a glance.

The potato chips in her mouth fell to the ground: "You, you—"

Although Gu Lili had never seen what a death sign looked like, the word "evil" was obviously a bad omen.

But Li Ya seemed to be okay, picked up the brass stick and stuffed it back into the stick, making a "shh" gesture.

"It's okay, anyway, it's not the first time I got it."

Gu Lili was a little silly: "Huh?"

"There is a misunderstanding here. The death sign is not fatal. It is just a preview of how a person will die in the future in the form of a clue picture. For example, if I die on the hospital bed, I will see the bed, The doctor's hallucination, but whether he will die tomorrow or live to die at the age of 99, I don't know."

After listening to Li Ya's explanation, Gu Lili had a half-knowledge, only knew that this thing wasn't going to kill him immediately, so he continued to eat potato chips: "Then, what did you see?"

"I saw it..." Li Ya half closed his eyes, recalled it, and described, "Dragon."

Gu Lili half straightened up: "What kind of dragon? Can it breathe fire?"

"How to describe it..."

It was an indescribably large 'dragon'. It emerged from the ground, and its body easily broke a building several hundred meters high.

It can devour everything with one mouth, and all the creations of human civilization become part of it under its encroachment.

All human intrigues are crushed into the gravel of time in front of it.

"...It's also interesting, isn't it? I thought it was Luka who I faced in the end."

Gu Lili didn't understand very well, and was about to ask, when the sound of Yan Ge's footsteps coming down the stairs came from far away, she immediately jumped off the stool and obediently swept the floor.

"Ms. Dai seems to have found a clue to Princess Alice, you..."

Yan Ge pushed the door open and came in, his eyes swept over the obviously passive death lottery on the table, his brows froze slightly.

"Didn't you say to put this thing away? What if the child gets it?"

Li Ya smiled and nodded, Gu Lili next to him pouted, "I didn't play around, I finished my homework..."

Yan Ge: "Okay, then I will find a new lesson for you when I come back tomorrow."

Gu Lili: "Hello!"

Gu Lili's protest was completely ignored, because at this time Teacher Dai went downstairs with a tired face and two dark circles under his eyes, with a small blackboard that he often used under his arm.

The members of "Broken Chapter" came to sit down at the Eight Immortals table in the living room one after another, and started the meeting again.

"...The president of M82 borrowed Xiao Xiao to treat her uncle in the morning, and he may not be back until tomorrow. Zi Ang will make a meeting record for her later. In short, the focus of this discussion is Princess Alice's diary."

Mentioning this, Teacher Dai wiped his glasses, still feeling terrified for a while—Yang Ge's behavior to steal the diary under the eyelids of the puppet king can be said to be very crazy.

None of Ciling's existing teams dared to do that at that time, so Yan Ge did it and escaped successfully.

Living up to expectations, he also extracted some useful information from the diary.

"...First of all, as you can see, the content of the diary is not much, just some simple journals, a total of 120 diaries, [-] of which mentioned 'mother'."

If you just look at the diary, this princess is like a mother girl:

Mom bought me a new dress/bought new jewelry/took me to a tea party/took me to a dinner/took me to a prom... I like my mom the most.

Moreover, some grammar uses the grammar of the last century, mixed with some Latin. Teacher Dai was afraid of missing any important information, so he read one head and two big ones. It took two days and two nights to sort out the background of Princess Alice. .

"As we mentioned earlier, Princess Alice was auctioned off overseas. According to the details of the lives of the ladies mentioned in her diary, it can be known that her 'mother' should be Mary of the Principality of Santa Naloka. Countess."

"Holy... what principality?"

Teacher Dai adjusted his glasses, wrote the words "Mary Lady" on the blackboard, and continued: "It doesn't matter what the principality is, anyway, you know that it is a small country ruled by a duchess. It is worth noting that, This Countess Mary used to have a terrible nickname called 'The Bloody Grand Duke'."

Only Li Ya showed a slightly dazed expression.

"Have you seen it?" Yan Ge asked.

"When I was performing abroad, I went to that small country to travel. The wine named after the bloody grand duke was sold everywhere in the scenic spots. I heard the locals brag that it was made from the blood of a young girl."

"That's right." Dai Chengze tapped on the blackboard, "This Countess Mary was very beautiful when she was young, she loved oil painting, and often asked painters to paint her portraits. It's just that time flies, and as she gets older, the Countess is no longer beautiful. The artist is often executed on the grounds that the artist painted her old..."

... In ancient times, the head was lost, but now the hair is lost, and it is too difficult for the painter.

"More than that, some nobles in Europe who believed in black magic at that time believed that taking human blood to make skin care products could keep youth forever. Lady Mary was the most enthusiastic person among them. In her territory, there were often teenagers The girl disappeared, and the farmers knew that it was Countess Mary who was harming the people, and amidst the public outrage, one day, Countess Mary was ambushed on her way out in a carriage..."

As soon as Yan Ge's pen tip stopped, the cold touch of Princess Alice at that time and her words of attachment to "mother" seemed to remain on his back.

——She wanted to find a red wedding dress worthy of me for my wedding, and set off for a far, far place.

"... Angry serfs swarmed up, burned the 'Bloody Grand Duke' alive, captured her castle, and found a lot of bones in her cellar, which were the people who had disappeared before. After that, The army of the royal family came to suppress the uprising and took over all the inheritance of Countess Mary. According to my speculation, the ceramic doll of Princess Alice should have been collected into the museum by the royal families of other principalities during the turmoil.”

Until the time came to modern times, this doll, which was once drifting overseas, returned to China and the place where she was born because of the world tour.

"There is no doubt that "Red Eclipse" is a living doll made by Princess Alice based on her impression of Lady Mary."

Yi Ziang tapped his pen and said: "Then let me say something meaningful, this... Countess Mary is bloodthirsty, so Princess Alice's abilities are mostly about 'blood'. To a certain extent, it stems from the human being it loves?"

"So far, so to speak."

"Ok, then I probably know it. If we face Princess Alice, we may have to face a super doubled version of "Red Eclipse." Yi Ziang wrote in his notebook, muttering Can't stop, "This highlights the significance of my aunt. If you really want to fight with the Red King of Death, you have to let her paint our blood green."

Li Ya turned his head: "Is it useful?"

Yi Ziang: "Talking is better than nothing, at least we won't be regarded as the primary target by "Red Eclipse". Also, please carry your ancestral violin at the bottom of the box anytime and anywhere during this time, and do it well when it's time for you to perform." Performing arts, don't follow Brother Yan all day like a ghost behind the scenes."

Li Ya: "Did you have a lot of opinions on me recently?"

Yi Ziang: "A lot? Not a lot. I'm just annoyed by the fact that we don't follow the basic rules."

They discussed that they would still participate in the museum battle on November 11, even if they were paddling along the sidelines, they also wanted to witness what kind of monster it was that brought them here.

The "Lancet" in Yan Ge's hand has been verified to be a very terrifying part-it can cut off the joints of all living things, even the model villains made of super-hard alloys, Liu With a light stroke of the leaf knife, it can easily cut off its hands and feet.

Coupled with today's understanding of Princess Alice, hope does not seem so slim.

At this time, someone knocked on the door, and it was Tang Yuan who came to visit.

He looked a little tired, and took out a folder like an insurance salesman.

"This is M82's offensive plan. Take a look. If you can accept it, I hope you can officially join."

The attack plan was pretty much the same as what Yan Ge and the others had imagined, but Diana made it more thoughtfully, even simulating how long it would take in the plan.

"Although I have said it many times, I still want to emphasize it again. We really have no way out." Tang Yuan scratched his head, "There is reliable news that the president of Xianggu, the original boss, has entered the third level. , he can easily cause the people within 100 meters around him to produce a mutation similar to zombification, it can be said that he alone is a legion."

Tang Yuan's team seemed to have suffered a lot from this, but he didn't want to talk about it, and only thought about the museum battle.

Yan Gezai read the plan carefully and took a deep breath.

"Don't worry, we will participate. However, I have a new idea. Maybe it is not necessary to kill the two puppet kings. Killing one "Red Eclipse" is enough."

"What do you mean?"

Yan Ge walked to the blackboard, picked up Dai Chengze's chalk, and drew arrows between the three names of Hong Xi, Princess Alice, and Luca.

"You all know that living dolls die with their loved ones, and based on our new information, I bet Princess Alice loves 'mother' more than Luca, so..."

Therefore, if "Red Eclipse" is killed, Princess Alice will die, and Luca, who loves the princess so much, will also disappear due to the chain effect.

"If you think this idea is feasible, then 'Broken Chapter' can participate in this decisive battle."

……

M82 station, six floors underground dungeon.

Different from the militarized management above, there is an elegantly decorated room here.

European-style bookshelves, an afternoon tea table full of refreshments, and a charcoal-burning fireplace, a mature-looking elegant gentleman leaned on the tiger sofa, flipping through a vivid picture album in his hand.

"Thank you, I haven't seen her for too long, and I forgot a lot of things."

During the long-lost relaxation time, Xiao Yi held black tea and sat opposite the gentleman Leon, so leisurely that she had the illusion of returning to reality.

"Where, where... how do you feel today? Do you have any thoughts of returning to normal?"

"It's hard for me to answer when you say that." Leon smiled kindly, "As one of all things, my existence is perfectly normal. The difference from you is that I am not so afraid of death."

It's useless at all...

Xiao Yi cursed desperately.

The agreement with Diana is that she will help Diana's Uncle Leon retrieve some memories of the past, see if he can still be saved, and don't think about pulling people to become a hero sacrifice with him all day long.

But it had little effect. Instead, he was fed chicken soup by Leon for a whole day, and he suspected that if he stayed like this, he would almost become a Buddha.

"Then have you thought about what to do in the future? Do you just stay like this?" Xiao Yi asked depressedly.

Leon thought for a while, and said: "My goal has always been clear, to sacrifice myself for everyone and become a hero. As long as you experience it, you will feel that your value has been sublimated..."

"Okay, okay." If it wasn't for the second level, Xiao Yi was really afraid of getting herself involved, and said, "Then have you ever thought that if you keep going like this, you will become a living puppet?" There is a difference, when you think of your dead wife..."

According to the iron law here, once the living puppet realizes that the beloved is dead, it will instantly lose all will to live.

"I love her." Leon held the album tenderly, and the words he said were like poetry.

"From the day she passed away, my life was dry.

I can't see spring, summer, autumn and winter, and I don't know joy, anger, sorrow, and joy.

The world is gray in my eyes, and the face of death is much friendlier.

So I went to the battlefields, to the slums, to everything that led to tragedy.

Where I fell, there is my graveyard, where I meet her. "

"..."

Xiao Yi was speechless, like a helpless psychiatrist, she couldn't find any weak line of defense in Leon's psychology.

Maybe he was right, he looked so happy after all.

At this moment, the door opened, and Diana walked in with a relaxed smile. Seeing Leon like that seemed to be expected.

"Uncle, if you really don't want to return to human society... In order to prevent you from preaching in my team, I will ask you to choose the bullet model you like."

Leon raised the teapot as if he didn't hear it: "Drink black tea? Diana."

"I like to drink vodka, thank you." Diana nodded to her uncle, and then waved to Xiao Yi, "About the attack on the museum... your captain has made a new discovery."

Xiao Yi pricked up her ears and listened. Thinking of Yan Ge's trespass into the museum that day, she said in surprise, "Is there such an operation? It's like lighting firecrackers. The first one explodes and the second one explodes?"

"So when the time comes, I may have to ask you to color our blood, painter."

Xiao Yi glanced at her bitterly, and twitched the corners of her mouth: "Don't worry, I will paint you the greenest."

"what."

After Xiao Yi went out, Leon who was pouring black tea rarely called Diana's name.

"Diana, I think I need to give you a piece of advice."

Diana looked back at him.

Leon took a sip of black tea, but he didn't respond to the hot red tea, just like a puppet. When the aftertaste was most appropriate, he said:

"Don't think of the form of love too narrowly, you will make a very serious mistake."