Chapter 163 Irene Strengthening Plan
The hair dryer was humming. Irene sat cross-legged on the coffee table, holding the edge of the table with both hands to prevent herself from being blown away, waiting for Yu Sheng to help her blow dry her hair.
When the hair dryer was turned to the front, she would suddenly raise her head and open her mouth to face the wind, and then say "Ah wow wow wow wow wow", having a lot of fun.
Sometimes Yu Sheng really doubts what is going on in this puppet's mind.
"Stop playing around," he had to hold down Irene's head when she used the hair dryer for the third time, "Ah wow wow," and sighed helplessly, "Just dry the last bit... Okay, that's it, that's about it."
"Thank you~" Irene raised her hand and scratched her hair, then watched Yu Sheng pack up the hair dryer and suddenly asked, "What happened? Why do you seem absent-minded?"
Yu Sheng paused and exhaled softly: "It's nothing, I just met Little Red Riding Hood in my dream and chatted with her for a few words."
"Meeting Little Red Riding Hood in a dream?" Irene was confused at first, but soon realized, "Ah! Your weird dream, the one where you met Hu Li last time... Little Red Riding Hood also went in?!"
"Yes, and unlike Hu Li's time, she was awake when she went in," Yu Sheng said casually, but did not mention what he saw in Little Red Riding Hood's memory, "... I plan to go to the Black Forest again tonight."
Irene blinked but said nothing, just looked at Yu Sheng.
"Little Red Riding Hood's condition has now reached the 'late stage'. Basically, every time she dreams, she falls into the Black Forest," Yu Shengze continued, "I should be able to help her in the past, and if I'm lucky, maybe I can catch the 'wolf grandmother' she is facing, or meet the 'hunter' again... She will become an adult next month, so there is not much time left."
"Hey, you actually called meeting the wolf grandma 'good luck', you are worthy of it," Irene finally sighed, "Well, you can open the door and go in any time now... take me and Hu Li with you? We will probably have to fight if we go in."
"Hu Li must be brought along," Yu Sheng nodded, but then he hesitated, "As for you..."
When Irene saw the other party's reaction, she immediately stood up from the coffee table: "What's wrong with me! I have played a key role so many times! You..."
"I'm just worried that you won't be able to survive head-on and get killed by the wolves," Yu Sheng sighed helplessly. He seemed to be thinking about something, but he nodded in the end. "But it's true. I need your auxiliary ability. Your silk thread might be very useful when dealing with those invisible wolves."
Irene was finally satisfied: "That's good enough."
Little dolls are always easy to please.
Yu Sheng smiled, then took out his cell phone and typed a private message to Little Red Riding Hood on "Border Communication": "Send me a message before you go to bed tonight."
Irene leaned over to look at the phone screen. After seeing Yu Sheng send the message, she suddenly said, "What you said is weird. It seems like you are harassing a little girl..."
"How can you talk like that?" Yu Sheng immediately turned his head and glared at the puppet, "And why did you wait until I sent the message before speaking?"
Irene turned her head away: "I just realized it..."
Yu Sheng didn’t believe it at all, and at this moment, the phone in his hand suddenly vibrated, and then a private message popped up: Little Red Riding Hood: “……???”
Two seconds later, the other party sent another message: "Why?"
Yu Sheng thought about it, and when he looked up, he saw Irene staring at him again, so he swallowed back the long list of explanations that he had been preparing in his mind, and edited three short words in his reply: "Black Forest."
This time, it took a long time for Little Red Riding Hood to respond. She seemed to have spent a long time trying to organize her words, but in the end, she only sent a few short words: "OK... and thank you."
Yu Sheng put away his phone, leaned back on the sofa, and took a long breath.
Irene looked at him curiously, "What's next? Are we just going to wait until night?"
Yu Sheng did not say anything, but looked at the little doll in front of him thoughtfully, which made the latter feel a little scared: "Hey, why are you looking at me? I didn't say anything wrong..."
"I have to strengthen you." Yu Sheng suddenly said.
Irene: “…Ah?”
"The Black Forest is very dangerous. You don't know that you haven't come into contact with the biggest 'Evil Wolf'. From the perspective of direct threat, that thing is probably more powerful than the original 'Hunger'. Your silk thread may be able to control it, but your body definitely can't withstand it." Yu Sheng's expression became serious. When his tone was serious, even Irene finally put away her usual heartless look. "After all, no matter how powerful Hu Li is, there is only one of her. If you, the auxiliary, can't stand up... then the Evil Wolf will become particularly difficult to deal with."
Irene had a thoughtful expression on her face, while Yu Sheng raised his head and glanced at the sky outside the window.
"It's still early, and there's still time to prepare for tonight's action... We have to go out."
"Where are you going?" Irene asked subconsciously.
"The valley is a good place," Yu Sheng said, and then turned to look at the fox girl who had come over. "Hu Li, come upstairs with me first. We'll go upstairs and get something."
"good!"
A moment later, a big door connected the living room of No. 66 Wutong Road with the valley. Yu Sheng took Hu Li and Irene (the one with intact clothes) through the door and came to the large platform in the center of the valley.
"Let's do this," Yu Sheng looked around and picked a place seemingly at random, then pointed to the empty space next to him, "Hu Li, put your things here."
The fox girl nodded, then rummaged through her tail and began to dump things on the ground—ceremony candles (ordinary candles bought from a small supermarket), rose oil that probably didn’t contain rose ingredients, unbranded essential oil that might be made from pigments and fragrances, tea powder that had expired, and some unused bottles and jars…
Finally, she pulled the tail off and shook it in mid-air. Then she saw a distortion in the air, followed by a series of harsh clanging noises, and several rebars fell out...
Irene was stunned and looked at Yu Sheng in a daze: "...You are not really going to use rebar and cement to make a body for me?!"
"Why not? I told you I'll strengthen it," Yu Sheng replied as a matter of course, but then he added, "Of course, rebar can be used, but let's forget about cement. The main reason is that I tried it last time and found that cement is different from clay. You need to make a shell and pour it in advance before it can be formed. It's hard to control... That's why I chose this place. There are enough materials in this valley, and most importantly, the materials here are easy for me to 'control'."
Irene listened to Yu Sheng's thoughts and her lips trembled: "Is this really possible?"
Yu Sheng nodded: "Anyway, as long as the skeleton is strong, the strength will definitely be greatly improved - that's what I understand."
"That's not what I'm talking about..." Irene muttered, but halfway through her words she only sighed, "Forget it, do whatever you want."
She didn't even need to say anything, Yu Sheng had already started to make trouble.
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He did not laboriously draw any alchemical symbols or arrays on the table as he had done on the "alchemical table" in his attic at home.
He just stood in the open space and stretched out his hand towards the flat ground.
A slight sound of stones rubbing against each other came from the ground, and a series of scratches extended from under Yu Sheng's feet, and began to spread rapidly, interweaving, and closing.
The "magic circle" required to refine the puppet was formed in just a few breaths.
Yu Sheng concentrated on controlling the process, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.
Yes, that’s how it should be used. It should have been used a long time ago.
He lowered his head and met Irene's shocked gaze.
"This is quite convenient!" the little doll couldn't help but sigh.
"That's right. I should have made use of this place earlier." Yu Sheng smiled cheerfully and began to ask Hu Li for help. Together, they quickly arranged the candles for the ceremony. Then he built a temporary wall around the open space to prevent the wind in the valley from blowing out the candles. He then picked up Irene, who was carrying the picture frame, and placed her on a specific node of the magic circle on the ground.
The preparations were quickly completed, and Yu Sheng's eyes fell on the rebars.
“Next, we need to make them into the skeletons of the puppets,” he said softly.
Irene looked up at him and said, "Yeah, then you start."
Yu Sheng rubbed his chin with his fingers, looking serious: "...I forgot to buy a welding gun."
Irene was stunned for two seconds: "..."
Then the puppet jumped up and was about to fly up and bite someone: "Then what on earth are you doing all these preparations for? You've got the steel bars, why don't you get a welding gun?!"
Yu Sheng frantically fended off the puppet's jumping attack while quickly explaining: "Isn't this my negligence? Who needs a welding gun when making a puppet..."
"Who the hell uses rebar when making dolls?" Irene was furious. "You can think of using rebar to make alchemical dolls, but you can't think of a welding torch!?"
The first and second in command of the hotel fell into a serious internal quarrel in the blink of an eye. The two of them fought like a hot kiln on the spot. However, just when Irene finally succeeded in biting Yu Sheng's hand, a sudden flash of light beside her interrupted their actions.
Yu Sheng turned his head in surprise and saw that Hu Li had just cut a steel bar with a dazzling and focused fox fire, and then put two steel bars together and melted them together with the flame at the tip of its tail.
After a while, Hu Li held the welded steel bar in one hand and his tail in the other, and looked up at Yu Sheng expectantly: "My benefactor, do you think this will work?"
Yu Sheng: "…What the hell is this argon fox welding!"
(End of this chapter)
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