Chapter 105 Unit 2
The sun has risen, and the morning sunlight has completely dispelled the darkness in the attic. Faintly coming from outside the window are the increasing voices of people and cars on the street, as well as the chirping sounds of unknown birds calling on the nearby roofs.
But all this did not interrupt Yu Sheng's concentration.
He was holding a puppet head that was almost finished - it was still a ball of hard clay - and was carefully using a knitting needle to press out the outlines of the eyes and nose on its surface. It took him a long time to complete this step, and he even reworked it several times. Finally, he achieved a relatively satisfactory level before the clay became completely hard and unsuitable for operation.
In fact, it still cannot be called perfect, and it is certainly incomparable to the models made by real professionals, but Yu Sheng feels that the little head in front of him will at least not be described as extremely ugly by Irene. At least... the little doll should not cry when it gets in?
With a slightly smug smile on his face, he looked up at the candles on the table and found that most of them had burned out.
It seems that the "face makeup" step is destined to not be completed before the candle burns out. Being able to complete the body parts of the doll is already good enough for him now.
But Yu Sheng was not too disappointed. After all, in addition to doing experiments, he was just practicing. It would be good to get familiar with the whole process a few more times before doing the next formal body work on Irene. The doll itself didn't really care whether to put on makeup or not.
After all, Irene herself can make her face look very beautiful.
Yu Sheng exhaled lightly, took the puppet torso he had just made, and prepared to place it on the focus of the alchemical array in the center of the table - since it was a practice process, he had to do the whole set, even if Irene was not here now, he had to complete this ritual.
But after placing the torso in the center of the table, he couldn't help but frown.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the clay had a slight... strange "elasticity" and a slight heat.
But when Yu Sheng looked at it carefully again and reached out to touch it, the strange feeling disappeared again, and it turned into an ordinary clay creation, and the surface was slightly dry.
Is it because I didn’t get enough sleep at night that I feel dazed?
This thought came to Yu Sheng's mind, but he did not simply dismiss his doubts. Instead, he connected the other parts of the doll to the torso using a small amount of clay mixed with softener and water, while carefully observing the changes in this "body".
He quickly completed the assembly process. A rough puppet body lay quietly in the center of the "alchemical array" composed of concentric circles and connecting lines. Candles burned quietly around it. Except for the lack of Irene's oil painting as the "source of the soul", the puppet-making ritual was complete.
Yu Sheng stared at the body in front of him, and at a certain moment, he felt as if he was dazzled.
Then, he saw the body's chest begin to rise and fall slightly.
It was very faint, but it was really rising and falling, as if a tiny life was sleeping in that lump of clay, not yet awake, but already "existing".
Yu Sheng's eyes widened instantly. After a second or two of sluggishness, he finally realized what had happened. He immediately stepped forward and gently touched the "breathing" puppet with his hand: "Wake up, wake up... Are you really alive?"
However, the puppet's body did not respond to him as he expected. Although the rise and fall of its chest had become completely obvious and stable, its entire "activation" process seemed to have stopped there, and there was no sign of further awakening.
It's like it's just an empty shell, waiting for something to fill it.
Yu Sheng took a deep breath, then shook his head vigorously, turned around and shouted towards the stairs leading downstairs: "Erin! Erin, are you awake? Come up and see what I have done..."
Yu Sheng stopped shouting halfway because he saw movement on the table out of the corner of his eye.
The moment he called out the name "Eileen", the doll's body suddenly changed, as if it had completed the most critical step of the ritual. The body first tensed up suddenly, and then a layer of skin color representing vitality and activity quickly appeared on the limbs. It began to grow hair frantically, and its facial features quickly became vivid and three-dimensional. Fresh colors appeared, followed by the familiar black dress. It took only a few seconds for an "Eileen" to lie in front of Yu Sheng and slowly open her eyes.
Yu Sheng stared at the scene in amazement. Then, he saw that "Eileen", who was a lump of clay just a moment ago, suddenly woke up from her daze. The little doll sat up suddenly and turned to look at Yu Sheng: "What are you yelling for! I was sleeping and you..."
She suddenly stopped again, as if she realized something was wrong. This "new body" turned its neck stiffly and looked around in a strange posture.
"Wait, where did this come from? I'm not in the bedroom... Wait, something's wrong. Why... I don't feel anything in this body? I... I feel dizzy..."
The little doll spoke in a daze and panic, and subconsciously wanted to stand up from the table and walk towards Yu Sheng, but as soon as he stood up, he felt dizzy, and his body swayed twice before slowly falling from the edge of the table: "Hey - I can't keep my balance! I have double vision! I have double vision now... pull me up, pull me down..."
Before she finished speaking, Yu Sheng had already reacted. He quickly stepped forward and caught the doll that was falling from the table. But before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he heard a "bang" coming from downstairs.
Irene's screams reached Yu Sheng's ears at the same time: "Oh my god——"
One clear and loud voice came from the puppet body in front of him, and the other was distant and vague, coming from downstairs.
"Yu Sheng, Yu Sheng, what happened? Why do I have two visions now? I am in two places? No, that's not right, why..." Yu Sheng heard the puppet in his hand speak in a panic, "Why do I have two bodies now?!"
The situation was completely beyond Yu Sheng's expectations, but at this time he also realized what had happened. After forcing himself to shake off the disbelief in his heart, he ran quickly to the stairs with the "new Irene" in his arms, went down to the second floor, and ran back to his bedroom.
The little doll in his arms clutched his arm tightly, as if afraid of falling.
As soon as he opened the door, Yu Sheng saw Irene who was holding on to the bedside table and trying to keep her balance, and the latter also raised her head almost at the same time.
The doll in his arms and the doll standing on the floor holding onto the bedside table looked at each other.
"……Wow!"
Two mouths spoke in unison.
"I have two bodies!"
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Still speaking in unison.
Yu Sheng was so confused at this time. He looked at the two identical dolls in doubt and hesitated for a long time before he uttered, "Erin? Are they really you?"
"Yes." The two puppets nodded at the same time.
"No, I mean, is it that you only have one consciousness?" Yu Sheng felt that this was ambiguous, and quickly added, "One consciousness in two bodies? Or are there two Irenes?"
"One," the two puppets spoke at the same time, but this time Irene reacted quickly. The puppet in Yu Sheng's arms suddenly closed his mouth, and the puppet standing on the ground opposite him raised his hand and pointed at himself, "It's just me, but... suddenly there is an extra body."
As she spoke, she tried to loosen her hand that was holding onto the bedside table, and stood there shakily for a few seconds, covering her head. "Oh mom, I finally stood up... I was so dizzy that I almost vomited, you know? I didn't react at first, I just felt like I woke up in the attic, and then I opened my eyes on the bed, and two visions and two sets of perceptions came at me all at once. As soon as I stood up, I fell off the table and the bed at the same time. Luckily you caught one of them..."
As soon as Irene stood firm, she started talking nonstop. Halfway through her speech, she seemed to remember something and looked up at Yu Sheng: "Wait, Yu Sheng, why are there two bodies popping up? And... I am in both of them at the same time?"
Yu Sheng's face tensed up all of a sudden, and an indescribable embarrassment flowed from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. When he rushed down, he didn't even have time to think about how to explain this magical phenomenon to the puppet. Now, after holding it in for a long time, he finally said, "...I want to say that there is a puppet growing in our attic due to dampness. Do you believe me?"
Irene stared at Yu Sheng in amazement: "...Yes, really?"
Yu Sheng: “……?”
How could this girl really believe it?!
After seeing the puppet's reaction, Yu Sheng felt really embarrassed for fooling around. He had no choice but to go to the bedside, put "No. 2 Irene" on the bed, then tried to straighten his expression and slowly said, "It's like this. I couldn't sleep at night, and suddenly I had some scientific research spirit, so I went upstairs to do a small experiment..."
Yu Sheng told the "victim" in detail the process of making a "spare body" for Irene, and even forgot to add some information about his mental journey when he did these things.
The little doll's expression changed from confusion, to surprise, then to confusion again, and finally to madness.
"Yusheng, you uncle!!"
(End of this chapter)
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