Chapter 153
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As they hurriedly left the road, they saw that many people in white robes had noticed the situation here and were pouring into the crowd at the end of the street.
Lian Yun and his companions lowered their hats and quickened their pace.
"ah--"
Suddenly something blocked Lian Yun's way, as if it had hit someone.
Lian Yun's heart suddenly jumped up, and he quickly raised his head to look at the other person.
Opposite her was a man who was a head taller than her, wearing a black robe and with his hat pulled down like her.
Lian Yun calmly took his men back a step.
However, the man opposite did not move, as if his computer had frozen.
Alicia's eyes were full of vigilance: "You are...?"
The other party still did not respond.
Lian Yun glanced at the people behind him, nodded, and was about to walk around the man.
The man suddenly stretched out a hand.
Although the action was slow, the intention was clear: to block their way.
Lanna frowned and was about to step forward when Yi Ke stopped him and stepped forward in his place: "Sir, what can I do for you?"
I was afraid that Lanna could not help but attack, so he pressed down his sword and pushed it back deliberately.
Lanna: ...You're waiting for an opportunity to take revenge, right?
The man opposite didn't look up, but was mumbling something in his throat, but I couldn't hear clearly.
"He's so weird." Alicia glanced at him up and down with a suspicious look.
"But...it feels familiar."
Lanna was also behind Lian Yun and said in a very soft voice, "He doesn't have the scent of a vampire."
When Lian Yun heard what the two were saying, he walked forward despite everyone's attempts to stop him and listened to what he was saying.
"……grown ups."
Lian Yun's pupils shrank slightly.
The moment she heard this name, the others with sharp hearing also heard it without exception.
The man in black robe is talking about...Sir?
Lian Yun immediately turned around: "He's not calling me, is he?"
Everyone shook their heads slowly: "Probably not——"
"Master!" The man raised his head, revealing an unfamiliar face, but he was staring at Lian Yun and speaking.
Lian Yun looked confused: "If I remember correctly, we don't know each other..."
wrong!
Lian Yun's gaze moved from his face down to the shoes on his feet.
Before leaving the auction house today, they observed the puppets pulling carts on the street for a long time and tried to communicate with them.
Although the result was not satisfactory, Lian Yun memorized their clothes out of boredom.
Apparently, their summoners didn't care whether the puppets had human rights or not, and the clothes and shoes they prepared for them were all identical, cheap goods. So cheap that Lian Yun had never seen such shoddy workmanship on the market.
Clothes only serve to cover the body.
As for their shoes, they will probably not be replaced until they are worn out and affect the speed of pulling the cart.
Lian Yun was not mistaken.
The shoes on the black-robed man in front of you are the same shoes worn by the underground puppets!
Lian Yun stared at his face for a long time before realizing that he looked familiar.
It seemed like... it was the puppet she had been trying to communicate with!
He calls himself "Sir".
Wasn’t it because I heard Lana and the others calling me that?
But how did he run out of the underground street and appear here?
Still wearing the noble black robe?
A thought flashed through Lian Yun's mind.
Maybe they don't have to go to the underground mall.
She winked at Lanna and the others, and they silently changed their route. Alicia led the way and found a narrower alley.
It was completely dark, and apart from the faint sound of noisy crowds coming from the distant sky, there was silence all around them.
Lian Yun tried to communicate with the man again, but based on the other party's intermittent voice, Lian Yun gave up this difficult method.
"You understand what I'm saying, right?" Lian Yun asked.
The man nodded and looked at him straight in the eyes.
Lian Yun breathed a sigh of relief and chose a simpler method: "Then let me ask you, how about you just nod or shake your head?"
The man nodded eagerly.
Lian Yun first brought up the question they had been discussing since their early days in town: "You've already developed your own consciousness, right? And you already know you're a puppet?"
The man still nodded.
"So you came out of the underground street to look for me?"
The man nodded firmly.
Lian Yun glanced at Lana and read the same confusion in the other's eyes.
"Since you came out to find me, you must have listened to what I said to you."
"Then why didn't you respond?"
The man's face paused, as if hesitating how to explain.
"You are...trustworthy, not...trustworthy."
A few people were pondering what he meant when Alicia suddenly spoke softly, "I think I understand."
Lian Yun's eyes lit up: "!"
"When Bernie first became self-aware, he spoke in staccato, just like him."
Just like children, but in Alicia's opinion, they are much easier to understand than children.
Just consider their context.
"What he meant was probably that he wasn't sure whether the adults could be trusted, so he didn't respond," Alicia said tentatively.
The man nodded quickly after hearing this.
"It seems to be true." Lian Yun felt relieved a little, but she was not angry.
This at least shows that men are wary, which is good.
"Then why do you believe me?" With the help of an interpreter, Lian Yun asked boldly.
"...White robe, search."
"He said that he saw the man in white robes looking for you, and he must have guessed that you and the Magicians Association were in opposition, so he was willing to believe you. Is that what you mean?" Alicia said.
The man nodded happily.
"Discuss... discuss." This time, Lian Yun didn't need to ask any questions; the man took the initiative to speak eagerly.
Then he looked at Alicia eagerly.
Alicia was completely stunned: "..."
Translation is not just about making sentences based on words!
There were only two words, and she couldn't figure out what he meant even if she used up all her brain cells!
The man lowered his head in frustration, but after a while he encouraged himself, raised his head and began to gesture with his hands.
He pointed to the underground street, made a motion of pulling a cart, and drew a big circle.
He drew a line on the ground, pretended to step across it, and then ran back.
He unbuttoned his clothes and walked across the line again, but his first step stopped in mid-air.
He retracted his foot and shook his head.
Everyone who was forced to play the "You gesture, I guess" game: "..."
Everyone's hopes were once again placed on Alicia.
Alicia frowned beautifully, and her charming facial features had a unique beauty when she was serious.
After a while, she lived up to everyone's expectations and deduced a possibility and tried to tell everyone about it.
"The lines on the ground are the entrances and exits to the underground street. If you come out wearing a black robe, you can pass through, but without this clothing, you can't get out."
The man said Alicia's interpretation was correct.
But he still didn't say why he came to see them.
The man repeated the words he had just used: "...discuss."
He stretched out his hand, pointed at himself, and pointed at Lian Yun with his other hand.
"...discuss?" Lian Yun suddenly understood. "You want to discuss with me how to rescue them, right?"
The puppet in front of him probably got this black robe that fell on the car by chance. Fortunately, he was the puppet who awakened his own consciousness, hid the clothes, and cleverly found a way to leave the underground street.
He was also very lucky that Lian Yun chose him and said a lot of things to him, which gave him hope.
He wavered after realizing that she really wanted to free them from control and was not on the same side as those who oppressed them.
He chose to take the initiative to find Lian Yun and the others. He wanted to know - "Really...?"
Lian Yun said that he would give them freedom. Is that true?
As a puppet, his freedom does not come from breaking free from control, but from having his own growth.
Their growth is the completion of the mission and their death after the mission is accomplished.
Only in this way can they choose the direction they love and find themselves through repeated calls.
But as a puppet with initial consciousness, he gradually remembered the puppet world. He had never heard of a puppet in a certain world being summoned for such a long time.
This is far beyond the rules of puppetry.
Because no one would want the puppet under their control to develop independent consciousness.
And the person who summoned them didn't seem to care at all.
Not only do they not care whether they are dead or alive, they don't even care whether they are conscious or struggling.
They have never been treated like such "tools" before.
Under normal circumstances, even if they continue to work according to instructions, they will not develop self-awareness until they die.
And day after day, they stay in the underground streets where there is no sunlight.
This is enough to show how long this "long" is.
After spending a long time with Bernie, Lian Yun gradually understood the true meaning of puppets through occasional conversations.
They are helpers, buffs, and gains.
They live for it and never get tired of it.
Their meaning is not eternal, but temporary.
Through repeated short lives, you can gain your true life.
Especially for a first-level puppet, if it were a second-level puppet like No. 1685, it might be able to follow its own preferences and not be so painful.
The summoner wanted a large number of unconscious first-level puppets to work for him forever, which was undoubtedly the greatest torture for them.
After understanding his meaning, Lian Yun realized that he really wanted to negotiate with him, so he continued to ask, "I want to know how many of the puppets in the underground streets have developed independent consciousness like you?"
The man paused.
He stretched out his hand and drew a circle in the air, then spread it out and pointed to the larger half.
Several people looked at the seven-eighths proportion and fell silent.
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