Chapter 159 At Home
After passing through the gate and returning home, No. 66 Wutong Road still looked familiar - the things were cheap but very useful, the decoration was a bit old but still spacious, the room was warm, the lights were on and the windows were bright, the old TV was still on, Irene was sitting at the table, concentrating on watching a meaningless variety show, while the other Irene ran into the living room as soon as she entered the house, climbed onto the coffee table, picked up the remote control, turned on another TV, and started watching her urban drama.
To be honest, this little doll is quite admirable - when Yu Sheng looks at those idiotic things, he feels his brain trembling, but she can actually split herself into two and still maintain her sanity... no wonder she has a bad brain.
Hu Li ran to the kitchen and washed her hands obediently. She came back holding half a sausage in her mouth and strolled to the living room. She took out the old mobile phone that Yu Sheng gave her and continued to study how to use it.
Yu Sheng changed his clothes and heard the sounds of entertainment programs on TV, Irene's complaints about the idiotic scenes on TV and her laughter, and occasionally Hu Li's complaints that the dolls were too loud. He looked at the scene in the living room and felt a sense of disbelief.
He had lived in this big house for two or three months, and during most of these two or three months, he was thinking about when he could leave this place and return to the real home in his memory, but now, at this moment, in these few minutes, he actually felt... that he was already standing at home.
This place was familiar and comforting.
Irene jumped from the coffee table to the sofa and found a comfortable position among the cushions. After a while, she suddenly raised her arms and turned to complain to Hu Li: "When will your hair loss stop? The sofa is full of hair from your tail. There are even some in my joints."
"There's nothing we can do. We fox demons are like this," Hu Li responded to the puppet's complaints while fiddling with his phone and chewing on a sausage. "It will be fine in two months..."
Erin looked up in confusion as she pulled fox fur out of her ball joint: "You won't lose it in two months?"
"You should get used to it."
Irene jumped up on the spot, turned around and yelled: "...Yusheng, why don't you take care of this stupid fox?"
Listening to the puppet's angry complaints, Yu Sheng couldn't help but smile. He suddenly felt that such a day was pretty good. Then he walked over and sat between the puppet and the fox, enjoying this moment of comfort and temporarily separating the two.
Hu Li happily moved over on the sofa and put his tail on Yu Sheng's leg: "My benefactor, I'll give you a tail!"
Then Yu Sheng heard a series of crackling sounds, and his arms and legs felt as painful as if they were pricked by needles.
The crackling static electricity is the flowers blooming in winter, and the flower language means it’s time to turn on the humidifier.
Yu Sheng was shocked at the time. He had finally adapted to the fact that the fox at home would shed hair. Today, the weather was dry, and he discovered that not only did the fox shed hair, but it also generated static electricity in winter. There was no mention of this in the many stories about foxes throughout the ages! ? Hu Li did not react. Her other tails were still rubbing against the sofa. Occasionally, there was a crackling sound between the tails, and blue light flashed, like a thunder cultivator.
Yu Sheng was trembling from the electric shock. He reached out and pressed the fox girl's tail. He was surprised and said helplessly: "Your tail... can also generate static electricity?"
"Yes," Hu Li nodded, "It's really beautiful at night when the lights are turned off. If you rub it hard, it can crackle for several minutes!"
Yu Sheng was amazed, and then he said hesitantly: "I don't have any problem with you losing hair in winter, but don't you monsters have a spell to remove static electricity in winter?"
"Yes."
"and you……"
“I haven’t learned it yet.”
Yu Sheng suddenly didn't know what to do next, and then he began to carefully stroke Hu Li's tail (it still felt a little electric occasionally, but it felt really good). At the same time, he began to think about various reliable or unreliable ideas, including buying a few large humidifiers, putting grounded slippers on Hu Li, and combing Hu Li's tail with a wet comb. Slowly, he began to feel sleepy.
He got up too early today, and he had been busy recently, so his sleep was not very good. At this moment, when the feeling of relaxation came out, he couldn't stop feeling sleepy.
He drooped his eyelids and sighed softly in relaxation, and in a trance, some of the things he talked about with Baili Qing echoed in his mind again - about Hu Li's origins, and the unknown outside the world.
"Hu Li," Yu Sheng suddenly said, his voice still a little confused, "Are you happy living here?"
Hu Li was stunned for a moment, then looked up at Yu Sheng who seemed to be dozing off. After thinking blankly for a moment, the fox girl finally showed a pure smile on her face: "I'm happy."
"Oh, that's great, as long as you are happy..." Yu Sheng yawned, adjusted his position on the sofa, and lay down, "I'm a little sleepy, I'll take a nap, and I'll cook for you when I wake up."
Hu Li let out an "oh", and when she looked down again, Yu Sheng had already fallen asleep with his head resting on her tail.
The TV volume was instantly turned down to the lowest setting.
Irene came over from the side, poked her head to look at Yu Sheng who had fallen asleep, and muttered: "Why didn't you ask me by the way..."
Hu Li thought for a moment and said seriously, "Maybe you look too happy normally, so my benefactor thought there was no need to ask."
Irene immediately bared her teeth at Hu Li, then looked down at Yu Sheng and said, "Well, he's had a hard time these past two days. Humans are troublesome creatures. When they're stressed, they can't sleep, and when they can't sleep, they're stressed. It's better for him to be able to eat and sleep than to suffer from insomnia."
Hu Li nodded, then looked up at the clock on the opposite wall. He didn't know what he was thinking, but a hint of eagerness suddenly appeared on his face: "Hey, it's almost time to cook."
Irene was startled and immediately widened her eyes: "You only care about eating! He just fell asleep! Didn't you say you can eat after he wakes up..."
"I know," Hu Li waved his hand to interrupt the puppet, "So... why don't we go cook? It's hard for my benefactor to cook every day, so I won't let him cook today..."
"I think the main reason why he has a hard time cooking is because of you," Irene immediately rolled her eyes, "and you sound nice, but can you cook?"
Hu Li immediately puffed out his chest confidently: "I watched from the side every day, and I learned it all!"
"You were just eating secretly. When did you learn this?" Irene looked at him suspiciously. However, her eyes were already wavering. After trying to pretend to be serious for a few seconds, she moved forward again. "It's not impossible... Although you are not very reliable, I am blessed by the puppet ancestor after all. The puppets in our Alice's House have their own cooking skills in the kitchen... I'll cover for you."
"Okay!" Hu Li immediately smiled and was about to get up happily, but she soon remembered that one of her tails was still being used as a pillow by Yu Sheng, so she reached out and pulled that tail off. Then she thought about it, and pulled out two more tails from her body and covered Yu Sheng with them like a quilt.
There was a series of crackling noises coming from under the big furry tail, and Yu Sheng shivered twice on the spot - but he didn't wake up.
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Irene was dumbfounded watching from the side, and couldn't help but sigh: "He is really sleepy..."
Then she saw Hu Li still pulling his tail down, and quickly waved her hands: "Enough, enough! F*ck, do you care about him or do you want to electrocute him!?"
"I want to spread it on the floor next to him, in case he falls asleep and turns over and falls off the sofa." Hu Li said without raising his head as he spread his tail on the ground.
Irene looked at the fox tails that had been rubbing on the sofa for a long time and had been fully charged and were scattered on the ground in an orderly manner. For a moment, she didn't know whether it would be painful if Yu Sheng really turned over and fell on the ground or fell in these tails blessed by the static electricity of the Five Thunders Righteous Law. After thinking about it carefully, it might still be painful to fall on the ground.
After all, she is a puppet and she doesn't conduct electricity.
Then the two girls, one who dropped out of elementary school and the other who graduated from prenatal education and took correspondence courses in kindergarten, ran to the kitchen to cook with full confidence.
Yu Sheng, who was sleeping soundly on the sofa, knew nothing about this.
His consciousness had long since sunk into dreams, and at this moment he was experiencing ups and downs in a series of bizarre illusions and chaotic memories.
Just like his completely empty thoughts rolling back and forth on a lake that was rolling with the wind, Yu Sheng did not find this experience uncomfortable. He vaguely knew that he seemed to be dreaming, and he enjoyed the process of not having to control his thoughts and just letting his consciousness relax.
Then, after an unknown amount of time, he suddenly felt that his "small boat" of consciousness, which was surging on the lake of his mind like a small boat, had reached the shore.
The chaotic illusion faded from his mind, and a stable landscape emerged before Yu Sheng's eyes.
He saw an endless grey wilderness shrouded in dim skylight - unknown weeds spread and covered the wilderness, the clouds were low, everything was quiet, and there was an occasional breeze, but the sound of the wind sounded hollow. There was also a small hill standing quietly at the end of the wilderness, it didn't look very far away, but it inexplicably gave him a feeling... it seemed like he would never get there.
Yu Sheng stood quietly in the middle of the grass. He was stunned for a while before he suddenly realized that he had seen this place before.
This was his dream, and it happened more than once - once, he even saw Hu Li's "dream projection" here.
Yu Sheng frowned.
He didn't know why he had entered this strange dream again, but since the same scene appeared in his dreams so many times, there must be something wrong with this matter itself - after all, he had been dealing with wrong things recently.
Another breeze blew, and in the hollow sound of the wind, he suddenly heard a distant, vague sound, but a sound that definitely shouldn't appear here.
It was a faint wolf howl.
(End of this chapter)
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