Chapter 484 Weird Things

The living doll named Marin left with her "clockwork maid" and left her contact information for Yu Sheng when she left.

Before leaving, she took Yu Sheng to a secluded place and talked about the "Eileen" doll that disappeared more than 3,000 years ago. She said that after returning, she would continue to investigate the information about the doll in the matrix network dedicated to the Alice doll, and continue to collect any clues that might be related to the "bad omen".

According to her, in today's "Garden" network, there is very little information about "Eileen" who disappeared 3,700 years ago. The main reason is that it is too old. The "Garden" matrix has undergone countless rounds of iterative upgrades and node transformations in the past 3,000 years, and even the entire network has been reshaped at the level of no less than ten times. During these upgrades, some data that is too old and no one has accessed may have already sunk into some "information black domain". It cannot be searched by conventional methods at all, and everything can only be done by luck.

Of course, for Sheng, being able to hear this information today is already a great gain.

The black luxury car turned around the distant intersection and disappeared on the streets of the old city. Yu Sheng turned back to the house and saw a little doll sitting on the coffee table watching TV with the remote control in his hand.

The show on TV was still one of low-quality, meaningless variety shows. A group of guests with exaggerated acting skills were performing an abstract program with no coordination and the script was obvious at a glance. However, Irene was watching it intently, craning her neck as if she wanted to drill into the screen. Even the ominous planet circling around her head seemed to be affected and moved much slower than usual.

Another Irene was sitting cross-legged on the armrest of the sofa, fiddling with her phone watch with great interest, but it was unclear whether she had figured it out or not.

Yu Sheng walked over, sat on the sofa, and looked at the little doll on the armrest thoughtfully. The latter just raised his eyelids and continued to work.

After a few minutes, Irene finally couldn't help but raise her head, staring at Yu Sheng with her scarlet eyes: "Why are you looking at me?"

Yu Sheng thought about it, raised his hand and pressed the doll's head: "It's different from what I thought."

Irene: "What's the difference? Suddenly, such a strange sentence popped up..."

"You finally contacted the sisters in Alice's Cottage—but you still stayed here," Yu Sheng said slowly. "If I had just met you not long ago, I would have thought you were going to leave."

Irene stopped what she was doing, looked at Yu Sheng in a daze, then suddenly raised her head, grabbed Yu Sheng's fingers and bit them.

Yu Sheng yelled and jumped up, swinging the little doll in his hand vigorously: "Hey, hey, let go! Let go! Don't bite!"

Irene turned over and used her hands and feet to hang herself from Yu Sheng's arm, firmly fixed like an octopus. She looked up and glared, "Where do you want me to go? The 'hut' has been moved to the edge of the known universe. The garden is a network that can only be connected remotely. I don't have the secret key. I don't know any of the bases that Marlene mentioned. I don't even know the other Alice dolls - where should I go?"

"I was talking about the time when I first met you," Yu Sheng rubbed his fingers as he sat back on the sofa, looking at the little doll still hanging on his arm with a look of confusion. "I was talking about my thoughts at that time."

Irene didn't continue her rambling, but suddenly fell into deep thought. After a long while, she raised her head thoughtfully and muttered to herself, "Yeah, I wanted to 'go back' at first...but I just can't stop thinking about it. Now that I think about it, I don't even know where to go...where should I go back to?"

The little doll climbed down from Yu Sheng's arm, sat on the armrest beside her, swaying her body, and suddenly felt a little confused - after the thing she had always dreamed of was finally realized, she found that she seemed to have never thought carefully about the subsequent development of this matter. Even the matter of "finding other Alice dolls" itself seemed to be different from what she had originally imagined.

Seeing this usually heartless little thing suddenly fall into such confusion, Yu Sheng was a little at a loss as to what to do. After hesitating for a long time, he reached out and poked the little doll: "Well, if you can't figure it out, just stop thinking about it for now..."

Irene: “Okay!”

Then she immediately perked up, flipped open the dial of her phone watch, and boasted happily: "Look, Yusheng! I can take pictures like this!"

Yu Sheng: “…”

No, isn't this a bit too persuasive?!

He was still in a daze when he saw a ball of silver-white fur swaying over from the side. Hu Li's voice reached his ears: "My benefactor, why are you in a daze? It's not the first day she has been like this."

Yu Sheng thought about it and said, "...Okay, that's right."

…

"Someone sneaked into the kitchen of the 'castle'? And ate, took things, and broke the kettle?"

In the fairy tale town, Little Red Riding Hood frowned slightly and looked at Rapunzel who came to report to her.

Rapunzel nodded repeatedly. "Yes! And since the day before yesterday, people have been discovering that things in the kitchen and cafeteria have been stolen—from the cakes in the cupboard to the semi-finished products in the freezer. Even the potatoes, scallions, and turnips stored in the warehouse have been stolen. The thief was so arrogant that he even drank half a bottle of soy sauce..."

Little Red Riding Hood was fine listening to the first part of Rapunzel's report, but when she heard the last sentence, her eyelids couldn't help but twitch, and her face had a subtle expression: "Half a bottle of soy sauce? Are you sure?"

"Why aren't you sure?" Rapunzel put her hands on her hips. "I just bought that soy sauce! It's been in the kitchen for just one day and there's already half a bottle left!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the mermaid who had come to eat melons beside her rubbed her chin and muttered, "...Sister Fox hasn't come these past two days?"

"She doesn't have to eat secretly when she comes! She always comes to eat openly," Rapunzel waved her hand, "and if she really came, how could there be half a bottle of soy sauce left?"

"It can't be a rat infestation. The 'King' is guarding the place, and where would rats come from?" the mermaid frowned. "It's even more impossible that it was one of our own... No, after all, how could someone sneak in? We're in a foreign land!"

Rapunzel shook her head. "How would I know?"

"Take me there first," Little Red Riding Hood interrupted the conversation between Long Hair and the mermaid. She hesitated for a moment and then instructed the mermaid, "Go to the Security Department and tell Mr. Yun... I always feel that under normal circumstances, no 'outsiders' should be allowed into the town."

"Oh, okay!"

A moment later, Little Red Riding Hood followed Rapunzel to the town's cafeteria and saw the scene in the kitchen that had obviously been visited by uninvited guests.

The cupboards were in a mess, the eggs in the refrigerator were swept out, the large barrels storing rice and flour showed signs of being violently opened, and even the seasoning jars seemed to have been turned over.

"Ah, this..." Rapunzel, who led the way, was also a little stunned when she saw the situation in the kitchen. "It seems to be even more messy?"

Little Red Riding Hood frowned and sniffed at the same time, as if she had noticed something, but before she could say anything, a streak of light flashed into the kitchen.

Yun Qingzi stepped out from the stream of light. "Just now, Yu girl came to me and said there were thieves in the town. I came to see what's going on—how can thieves break into this place?"

"Mr. Yun, you've arrived just in time!" Rapunzel immediately went over to him. "Look, there must be someone here..."

As she spoke, Yun Qingzi had already scanned the entire kitchen. The old man's expression was puzzled for a moment, then became a little subtle: "Ah, this... there really is a 'little' guy coming in. That's interesting."

Rapunzel was stunned. "Ah? You found it already?"

"It's no wonder you couldn't find her—the little girl who got in here is quite skilled, and more importantly, her abilities are completely different from yours," Yun Qingzi waved his hand cheerfully. "Don't panic, she's not a bad person. I know where she's hiding. Follow me."

Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood looked at each other and immediately followed Yun Qingzi.

The two of them rode on the shadow wolf summoned by Little Red Riding Hood and followed Yun Qingzi out of the town. Then they walked upstream along the small river outside the town and soon arrived at a small woods not far from the town.

Yun Qingzi stood in the clearing in the forest, looked around, and then waved to a seemingly empty place: "Come out."

The next second, a large patch of hidden bushes and a chaotic pile of stones suddenly appeared on the empty space that seemed to be empty. There was also a rustling sound coming from the stone nest. Rapunzel stared at the scene in amazement, and then she saw a black shadow rising from behind the bushes -

A huge snake head rose from between the bushes and gravel. It was a black python that was almost as thick as a human. Then the python lowered its head towards Yun Qingzi and ran out from its hiding place obediently.

It really ran out - because under the half snake body were two long legs.

Yun Qingzi still kept his hands raised at this time. The old man probably didn't expect that the big snake would appear in such a shape, and he was a little confused on the spot.

Rapunzel looked at Yun Qingzi, then at the half-human, half-snake creature standing on the ground. After a moment of thought, she shouted, "...There's something weird!!"

"There's something strange!" The big snake was frightened and screamed, then began to look around, "Where is the strange thing?!"

Rapunzel almost jumped up: "I said you aaaaaaa——"

"You said I..." The big snake continued to scream, but finally reacted halfway through and quickly looked down at himself.

"Oh shit, it's the other way around—"

Before she finished speaking, she fell to the ground, and then with a "bang", the evil mist dissipated, and the snake demon turned into a human body with the upper half and a snake tail at the lower half.

Long Hair & Little Red Riding Hood & Yun Qingzi: “…?”

"Well, I just learned it recently, I wasn't familiar with it," Snake Princess stuck out her tongue, looking quite embarrassed, "I'm getting better now."

(End of this chapter)