Chapter 304 He is the cannon fodder ex-boyfriend (12)
Chapter 304 He is the cannon fodder ex-boyfriend (12)
There didn't seem to be anything unusual in Happy Town during the day.
It's like a simple, real small town where everyone is happy.
After breakfast, people started to appear on the roadside and in the streets.
But Si Cen noticed something noteworthy at a glance.
Everyone who goes out carries a puppet with them.
They entered the town quite late yesterday, and there were few people around. Both sides were in a hurry at that time. The players thought that the townspeople were carrying children, but today it seems that they were actually carrying dolls.
In arms, in strollers, in strollers...
A variety of puppets.
And the people who bring the dolls are all alone.
There won't be any situation like a family of three.
They are both men and women, and each of them is relaxed, with happiness on their faces. They treat their dolls as if they were real children, caring for them with tenderness and patience.
And when they meet Si Cen on the road, they will first notice the doll in his arms.
When seeing the exquisite and lifelike appearance of the dolls, every townsman's eyes sparkled with a strange look.
Like envy, like jealousy...
"You've taken such good care of your baby, haven't you? You must love him very much?"
Si Cen looked at the woman who was stopping him and gazing at the doll in his arms with envy.
This woman also held a doll in her arms.
This doll is a cloth doll, and it should be filled with cotton inside, very similar to the cotton dolls that are popular in some of the worlds he has been to.
This kind of doll is cute, but it has nothing to do with realism.
"Can you tell me how you feed your baby? My baby is still too fragile, and I want to take better care of him." The woman said this while staring at Si Cen's doll.
She was just like a normal person. She met another mother who was a parent in the community downstairs and discussed parenting tips with her.
However, Si Cen felt that her gaze as she stared at his doll was gradually becoming greedy.
The smell of the emotion of wanting to snatch the doll away immediately at all costs was very obvious to Si Cen, and this desperation included the jealousy that made the woman want to kill him if necessary.
"When the puppeteer made the puppet for you, didn't he tell you how to feed it?" Si Cen asked back.
Who would have thought that after hearing the word "puppet master", fear quickly filled the woman's eyes, and she trembled several times. Then she hugged her puppet tightly and quickly retreated, "I'm sorry, I offended you. I remember that I should coax my baby to take a nap. Goodbye."
She ran away quickly.
Si Cen:?
Si Cen lowered his head and met the eyes of the little doll in his arms, "Your..." He seemed to have pondered for a while but couldn't think of how to address the maker of the doll, so he simply didn't address him, "He is so notorious here that everyone turns pale at the mention of him?"
Si Cen raised the corners of his lips as if he found it interesting, "Not bad, very much like me~"
It's worthy of being the meal ticket picked by the big devil himself.
The doll couldn't speak and still looked at him with that smiling expression.
Si Cen didn't care and quickly put this little episode behind him, but he also noticed that more and more townspeople were always setting their eyes on his puppet.
Although he was not afraid, he found it annoying.
Finally, I strolled to the doll shop, pushed open the glass door and walked in.
The puppeteer was sitting in his comfortably furnished living room drinking tea. When he saw him come in, he waved to him.
There is an inexplicable feeling of familiarity.
It was as if they had spent countless days and nights together like this.
Si Cen frowned and walked over to sit next to the puppeteer.
The puppeteer raised his hand and poured a cup of tea, pushed it in front of him with his fingers, and took the opportunity to take a look at the puppet that Si Cen was holding.
"You fed him."
He said with an affirmative tone, then immediately disagreed, "You don't have to feed him. It's enough for him to be with you."
Enough of what?
Enough to move? Enough to become more and more alive, enough for him to finally... come alive and be reborn?
Si Cen didn't ask, he actually didn't care much.
He stuffed the doll into Liu Yun's arms, picked up the teacup and took a sip, then sighed softly, collapsed on the sofa like a boneless person, closed his eyes and said, "Don't move, just sit next to me."
Liu Yun didn't move anymore, but he sat more loosely, with one hand reaching out to the top of the sofa back behind Si Cen, as if he was hugging him.
A faint and strange fragrance that only Si Cen could smell emanated and spread.
The corners of Si Cen's eyes were visibly spreading with crimson.
If he opened his eyes at this moment, Liu Yun thought his pupils would undoubtedly be a similar color.
When he is satisfied, he can't help but reveal some inhuman traits.
In fact, it is a very contented little demon.
*
About an hour later, Si Cen opened his eyes again.
The tea in front of him was still steaming, but Liu Yun was no longer by his side.
The little doll sat in the place where Liu Yun originally sat, with a very bossy posture, and looked up at Si Cen, appearing very well-behaved.
Si Cen tapped the little doll's forehead and reached out to pick him up.
He did not specifically check whether Liu Yun was there or where he was. He just said, "He's gone."
He walked out of the doll shop in a very cool manner.
In the puppet shop's workshop, the puppeteer, who was dressed in white but stained with blood, paused for a moment when he heard the young man say "Gone".
He seemed to have calmed down all of a sudden, and through the white mask, a hint of warmth flashed in his dark eyes for the first time.
He smiled at the "child" lying on his workbench, covered in wounds and blood, who looked like he would die in the next second, "You are so lucky. I am in a good mood now, so I will let you live one more time."
He put down the carving knife in his hand.
*
Si Cen was very considerate and arrived on time at the meeting place agreed upon by Shao Jinyun and others.
There is a large square in the center of the town.
The square was very empty. Apart from a large fountain in the middle and a disc-shaped sculpture whose meaning was unclear, there was nothing else.
Even the townspeople don't seem to like coming near here.
Players can choose to talk here to avoid being eavesdropped to a great extent.
"You're still carrying this thing... Is it true that our conversation won't be leaked?"
Zhao Shuangshuang looked at the doll Liu Zhi was holding, looking wary and a little scared.
Liu Zhi said, "I observed them all night last night. It seems that they can't go out alone, and they can't talk. It should be fine."
Zhao Shuangshuang wanted to say something, but when she saw Si Cen, who was also leisurely holding the doll, she finally shut up.
"Let me first tell you the information I have obtained. Everyone in this town has a puppet. They treat the puppets more like their own children and are very caring for them. Moreover, they are very wary and even reject people who do not have puppets," said Chen Yinan.
"I noticed that there were no couples or husband and wife in this town. I almost walked around the town, and all I saw were people and dolls... and I didn't see a single child." said a male player.
So they saw so many things last night...were they all puppets?
"There is another very serious problem. Outside the town, the road we came here on is gone."
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