Chapter 141
Yun Jinchu looked into her daughter's sparkling eyes. After discovering that the child had been secretly worried about losing her job and dying of poverty and starvation, even though she had a cold personality, she felt a little amused.
She didn't explain anything specifically, just waved her hand to call the civilians who were picking up and searching for dolls, asking them to help transport the things out. She would give them corresponding rewards, and then patted the child's cold forehead to remind it: "Isn't Mianmian here to look for someone?"
Of course the little doll was stunned.
That’s right! It’s not here to collect corpses, but to look for Lu Ling and Lu Yin!
Yunmian finally realized that her purpose was completely wrong. She quickly communicated with Lu Ling, determined their location, and hurried over with her mother.
The abandoned doll dump is very large. There is a guard in the front asking people to pay to enter. There is also a dilapidated and low house at the back of the deepest part.
Yun Mian came here following the guidance of Lu Ling. Under the night sky, the cottage was emitting dim light from the windows. In the quiet doll garbage dump, it was like a cottage in a fairy tale where a mysterious witch lived, tempting every adventurer passing by to push the door and enter.
Yunmian was not an adventurer, and when he pushed the door open, there was no witch in the room.
There were only two puppets and an old man with white hair and a gloomy face.
"He is the [Gravekeeper] here. You can call him Nar." After Lu Ling briefly introduced him, he looked at Yun Jinchu and added: "Nar was also a humanoid master."
Upon hearing this, Yun Jinchu looked at the old man sitting at the low table, making tea with hot water, and said in a calm voice: "Nar? If I remember correctly, the thirteenth president of the Humanoid Artist Association is called this, right?"
Under the light, she stared at Old Nar, who suddenly stopped moving, and said word by word, "If you calculate carefully, he should be about the same age as you."
Upon hearing this, Lu Ling and Lu Yin looked at Nar in astonishment. They obviously didn't know more about the other party's identity, and they didn't expect that Yun Jinchu immediately had a definite candidate just by looking at the name.
Nar hunched his back and placed cups of turbid tea on the table. After asking Yun Jinchu and Yun Mian to sit down, he stared at Yun Mian for a long time before saying to Yun Jinchu, "You are not mistaken. I am Nar, Nar Roan."
"So Mia was able to crawl out from here... It was actually your masterpiece?" Yun Jinchu looked at the other party, and felt that the fog that had been blocking his sight was slowly being dispelled.
As for the truth hidden behind the fog, it seems that it will be revealed little by little because of Nar's existence.
Nar nodded slowly, then shook his head and said slowly: "I just found a suitable body for it. I didn't do anything else."
Yun Jinchu took out a tiny shield from his sleeve and shielded all nearby electronic devices that needed signal links. Then he asked, "How did you manage to stay here for so long without being noticed by the royal family?"
"No need to hide it." Old Nar coughed twice, as if his body had reached some kind of limit, but he still insisted on the conversation. He said to the young dollmaker in front of him: "When I was the president of the association, the face and identity I used were fake."
So after he escaped death, he appeared here as a gravekeeper, guarding this puppet's cemetery for decades without arousing anyone's suspicion.
"When you were the president, you had the highest reputation among all the previous presidents. Why did you choose to use a false identity? And why did you flee?"
Yun Jinchu carefully sorted out the information in his memory, and then threw out his questions one by one, as if he was sure that the other party would answer all of them without hiding anything.
"Because it was a disaster that the puppets could not avoid." Old Nar sighed deeply: "But for the vast majority of civilians, it was the most successful and memorable change."
"...What do you mean?" Yun Jinchu frowned slightly and asked suspiciously: "How can puppets be related to civilians?"
Lu Yin and Lu Ling, who originally didn't pay much attention to the conversation between the two doll makers, also stopped what they were doing unconsciously and listened carefully to Old Nar's story with Yun Mian.
Why did their disasters become successful changes for civilians?
The puppets couldn't even protect themselves, and died in batches. Later, they were all destroyed in a centralized manner, so they have always hated the puppet masters and royal nobles. But in the midst of their suffering, how much benefit did the civilians get?
"I was personally selected by the 12th president..."
When he was young, Nar Roan was an extremely good doll maker, but there was one thing about him that would always be criticized, that is, no matter how talented he was, he was just a commoner and had to bow his head and kneel in front of the nobles. Any small noble could easily use their status to make him lie on the ground like a dog and serve them.
Nar Roan had never expected that he would be chosen by the president, then packaged as a noble and become the successor of the association.
"Nar, things are getting more and more chaotic outside recently." The old president had several deep wrinkles between his brows. He looked at him with the most complicated and frightened expression. After a long silence, he sighed and said, "I chose you. I hope you can do your best to leave a trace of fire for my children in the future."
The old president loved dolls so much that he never sold any of the dolls he made. He affectionately called those dolls his own children.
Nar Roan was a solitary dollmaker who devoted himself to making lifelike dolls. At that time, he couldn't even understand what the old president meant when he said "the outside world is becoming more and more chaotic."
But soon, he found out.
A large number of workers and the poor began to march in rebellion. They stopped working and going to school. They shouted for equal human rights. They were actively fighting for the greatest equality and freedom for their lives which were full of suffering due to their status.
Nar Roan thought that the souls of these people must be burning hot, but this heat could easily burn the innocent puppets.
The royal family began to amend various laws to give the poor a certain degree of relaxation and freedom, and correspondingly tighten the originally unbridled rights of the nobles.
Civilians cannot be whipped or executed at will, and even civilians have the right to sue nobles in the national court.
Human beings are always easily satisfied and appeased. Even though everyone knows that commoners can never enjoy the same status and rights as nobles, as long as they are given a little bit of sweet relief... they will feel that the equality they have worked so hard to earn is above all else.
But the greatest loss to the nobles was simply the loss of their own "toys".
Thus, the dolls that were originally loved and cherished became high-class toys that replaced the lowly common people.
So that was called the "golden age" of puppets, because a large number of lifelike puppets were produced almost on an assembly line, and their lives were not protected by any national laws. As long as one could afford them, they could be driven to do anything at will.
Countless puppets silently became "high-class slaves" who replaced commoners to serve the nobles. Because puppets had an even lower status than cats, dogs and other animals, they only needed a sales contract, and their lives could be completely controlled by humans.
They bear the pain that their original class of humans deserve, they kneel at the feet of royal nobles for them to vent their anger and entertainment, they are not human, and humans do not allow them to have the self-respect that only humans have.
The slogans of all the doll shops on the street changed from calling them "precious companion life dolls" to "the most advanced and obedient toys."
Their blank souls at birth and bodies that can be customized at will are their biggest selling points. As long as you have money, you can customize and train the dolls you like most and that suit you best.
At that time, as popular among the aristocracy as the lifelike dolls was a thick "Puppet Training Manual", which recorded in detail what kind of personality and characteristics the puppet owner could shape his or her puppet through guidance.
No one can refuse to transform a blank, pure and ignorant life bit by bit into the desired appearance. For the nobles who have been at the top of power for a long time, it is definitely an "art game" that will make them obsessed and addicted.
Just like freely splashing paint with brushes and paints on white paper, no matter how poor the final product is, it is a living "work of art" with a soul.
It is much more advanced than a real black mass smeared on paper. Such a "work" is worthy of the nobles' competition and showing off. They even set up the so-called "Puppet Competition" for it at a sky-high price.
Just like he used to treat civilians as prey in archery competitions, he treated the puppets as toys for the game. He judged the merits and demerits of each puppet from a high position, and casually decided their life and death, as well as the degree of pain inflicted on them.
“Our association is no longer the only choice for custom-made dolls.”
Old Nar coughed heavily and took a long time to speak before he continued slowly: "We only need to provide the best puppet templates, and the puppeteers employed by the nobles can make similar puppets.
At the same time, they put the same pure hearts into the chest cavities of these puppets with the same appearance, and then little by little they trained and educated the puppets to have different personalities and souls, and then held a puppet competition for half a month.
All puppets eliminated within this half month will be destroyed on the spot, burned into charcoal bit by bit in front of the other puppets, and then dug out and discarded as the source of heart crystals or distributed to civilians watching the game as [gifts]."
"Later... I resigned as the president and tried to collect the destroyed hearts, but I found that the royal family's actions were faster and more covert than mine. I was almost discovered by them."
Old Nar said to the three puppets who were listening intently, "Ninety percent of the crystal resources in the country are almost all in the hands of the royal family. The king destroyed all the puppets openly, but they have been trying to make the puppet that they used to drive in the beginning."
Yun Jinchu thought of what Nogai had said before about the relationship between the royal family and puppets. His clear eyes narrowed slightly and he said softly, "Are you talking about the special puppet that can control the hearts of all puppets?"
"Yes, it was because of the accidental death of that doll that the doll master was able to make another similar doll. That is why the royal family hastily and decisively decided to destroy all the dolls overnight, severing all the inheritance of the doll master."
Because they know better than anyone how they obtained their royal status.
They were extremely afraid of the emergence of another humanoid maker who would subvert the royal family's status.
Just like the ancestor who climbed up the throne step by step from a commoner because of the special doll.
All the corresponding backgrounds of this world are completely set by the author.
This is an additional update of 14,000 nutrient solution.
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