Chapter 164 Irene MK-II (but not taller)
It's true that Hu Li's argon fox welding is of very high quality. The fox fire blessed by the fairy magic (or it could be the demon magic) melts with a hissing sound, and the welding effect is more beautiful than any other welding machine. It looks beautiful with a sense of strength and value - and more importantly, she can cut and weld at the same time.
So after a moment of explanation and preparation, sparks began to fly on the alchemy platform.
Several rebars were cut into different lengths in proportion, and then placed and assembled into the outline of a puppet's skeleton according to the points marked by Yu Sheng on the alchemy table. Hu Li directed several tails to float in the air, moving flexibly like a bunch of anti-gravity mechanical arms, adjusting angles, and welding precisely. The air was filled with the smell of metal welding, and there were continuous hissing sounds. The dazzling flames illuminated Yu Sheng's face.
Irene sat next to the painting with her back to the frame, expressionless. The flash of steel welding shone on her small face. Every few seconds, she couldn't help muttering, "This is not alchemy... This is not alchemy..."
"How come it's not alchemy?" Yu Sheng had an excited look on his face. Hearing Irene's muttering, he immediately refuted, "Smelting is not refining? Metal is not gold? Refining metal can't be alchemy?"
As he spoke, he simply sat down next to Irene, raised his hand and pointed at the scene of the flames shining on the alchemy circle, and said leisurely: "How beautiful... The witchcraft of the cyber fox fairy, the alchemy of secret inheritance, and the rebar of modern industry, don't you think it's a kind of..."
“There’s a kind of abstract beauty.”
Yu Sheng thought about it and nodded: "...Indeed."
At this moment, the blazing flames finally stopped. Hu Li wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead, turned around and waved his hands happily: "My benefactor, the welding is done!"
"Well done, Hu Li!" Yu Sheng clapped his hands happily and stood up while picking up Irene. "Don't be sentimental about whether it's abstract or not. Let's get to the next step. First, take a look at the skeleton I prepared for you to see if you are satisfied."
Irene was still mumbling to herself, but she suddenly stopped after seeing the finished product.
Lying quietly in the center of the alchemy circle is a puppet skeleton welded together according to the height of a normal adult.
Irene stared at the skeleton in surprise for a long time, then suddenly came to her senses and looked up at Yu Sheng: "You...this size..."
"I promised you that I would make you a 1.67 meter tall doll," Yu Sheng put the doll on the ground with a faint smile on his face, "Now it's time to move on to the next step."
"Great!" Irene finally cheered, and her complaints just now disappeared instantly. She jumped up and hugged Yu Sheng's arm and shook it vigorously, then ran to the spirit infusion node and urged, "Hurry up and start, I want to see what you do next."
Yu Sheng just smiled and said nothing more, then began to seriously proceed to the next step of shaping the doll.
This time he did not prepare clay, dough or lotus roots. He wanted to try some bold ideas on this special "Eileen body".
He sprinkled the "alchemical materials" evenly and directly on the rebar welded skeleton and the ground around the skeleton.
Then he took out a knife, cut a wound on the back of his hand, mixed his blood with the "alchemical materials", and sprinkled it on the ground.
Under the curious gazes of Irene and Hu Li, Yu Sheng finally retreated to the outermost circle of the concentric circle. He took a deep breath, gradually concentrated his mind, then squatted down and pressed his still bleeding palm to the ground.
The platform began to tremble slightly, and slight friction and wriggling sounds came from deep in the rock, as if... the entire ground was gradually waking up.
Yu Sheng wants to use the soil and rocks of this exotic valley to shape Irene's new body.
After a few seconds of delay, the center of the "alchemical array" gradually bulged, and then the soil and rocks began to rapidly wriggle as if they had life. The grayish-white substance turned into "molten slurry" and swarmed over the molten steel skeleton, layer by layer, and made rustling sounds in the process of wriggling and converging.
Irene watched from the side and gradually opened her eyes wide.
"The soil is wriggling like a living thing..." She suddenly muttered softly, "Did he really get it out?"
The "living clay" was wriggling and taking shape at an extremely fast speed. Not long after Irene finished speaking, the body of the puppet lying in the center of the magic circle had taken shape.
Yu Sheng was still carefully carving the last part - differentiating fingers from the palm of the body and shaping the facial features.
He simply came to the magic circle, sat next to the puppet's body, touched it directly with his hands, and adjusted the appearance of the body bit by bit.
He suddenly felt that this seemed much easier to control than clay.
"He's... quite serious," Irene reached out and tugged at Hu Li's tail, muttering softly, "He had already messed up my body before, and I thought he was just fooling around."
"My benefactor has always been very serious," Hu Li looked at the puppet seriously, "but the things he usually pays attention to seem to be different from others."
As he spoke, Yu Sheng finally completed his final adjustments.
It happened faster and smoother than he had imagined.
The doll made of steel, mud and rock lies quietly on the ground. Although it has not yet awakened, it has a girlish figure and... an atmosphere of "vitality" that seems as if it will come alive at any time.
"Let me think about how I did it last time..." Yu Sheng muttered, recalling the experience of creating "Body No. 2" for Irene last time, "Guide the infusion of spirits, yes, guide the infusion of spirits first, and bring him back to life..."
He reached out and gently pressed on the puppet's forehead.
"Wake up."
The rock began to bounce.
"It's time to come alive."
The soil undulates slightly.
"Are you ready to open your eyes—"
The steel skeleton slowly moved, and the soulless body made a faint breathing sound - life appeared.
"Eileen." Yu Sheng called softly.
"Huh?" The little puppet standing next to her answered subconsciously, and the next second, she felt her consciousness quickly pulled out of her body... After a part of it was pulled out, a new "link" appeared in her perception. The brief and unavoidable dislocation of perception made her temporarily confused. She didn't see the situation around her clearly, and only heard Yu Sheng's unexpected "Huh?" Hu Li seemed to exclaim beside her, and then she knew nothing.
But in just these two seconds of disconnection, Irene successfully entered and took over her new "body". She tried to open her eyes and confirmed the existence of the third perspective.
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“It worked!” The little puppet was stunned for a moment, then shouted happily in the center of the magic circle, then stretched out his hands and climbed up, put his hands on his hips and looked up at Yu Sheng and Hu Li, “It turned out that it worked after such a fooling around, Yu Sheng, you have a talent for alchemy. Look at me, I’m 1.67 meters tall…”
The little doll suddenly froze, feeling that something was wrong.
Yu Sheng looks very tall, and Hu Li also looks very tall.
She lowered her head blankly, glanced at the ground which was very close to her, and then saw the appearance of her new body from the eyes of another body outside the magic circle. After a moment, she finally realized what was wrong.
"Why is it still so high? Huh?!"
"I don't know," Yu Sheng looked even more confused than her. "One second before you opened your eyes, his body was still 1.67 meters tall, and then he visibly began to shrink. Before I could react, he was only half a meter tall... Hu Li can testify that I didn't do anything."
The fox girl next to him nodded immediately: "I testify, benefactor did nothing! You shrunk by yourself!"
Irene stood there blankly, not saying a word for a long time. Just when Yu Sheng began to worry that the doll might have suffered too much damage, she suddenly started to yell frantically, "No, why... why?! Didn't you mold a 1.67 meter tall body? Didn't you start to come alive... How come it's only half a meter tall after I got in?! Why?"
Yu Sheng silently took several steps back, came to Hu Li and whispered: "I think we should not stimulate it for the time being..."
Before he could finish his words, the other Irene who was originally standing at the outer edge of the magic circle had already turned her head and took a deep breath: "—Why? Ahhhh!"
Yu Sheng turned to Hu Li and sighed, "I forgot there was another one here."
Then the two Irenes circled around the magic circle, and then circled around Yu Sheng, muttering about how fate was unfair and how it was difficult to be a puppet. They jumped up and down and screamed, suspecting that Yu Sheng had some skill or even began to suspect that there was something wrong with his soul. After six or seven circles, Yu Sheng's head was buzzing - he thought that even if an investigator listened to the ancient gods' mumbling, it would probably be the same experience...
When the little dolls made their tenth circle, Hu Li couldn't help it anymore. She used her tail to roll up the two little dolls together and said, "Erin, you guys are so noisy..."
The two 66.6 cm tall dolls were tangled up in the fox's tail and couldn't move. They could only mutter a few words to each other, and then looked at Yu Sheng with despair.
"Will I only be this tall in my lifetime?" Irene said with a sad face as she carried the picture frame on her back.
"Why on earth is this happening..." Rebar Irene was about to cry.
"It's just a temporary failure, just a temporary one..." Yu Sheng didn't know how to comfort the unfortunate puppet, so he could only make up a story. "Look, I've figured out so many weird alchemical methods, maybe I can make you a body with normal proportions someday. The shrinkage this time might be related to the materials, or it might be because the rose oil is unreliable... I won't buy it from the five-dollar store next time."
Irene (rebar version) was stunned for a moment, then reacted. She quickly broke free from Hu Li's tail and threw herself directly onto Yu Sheng's arm: "Five-Yuan-Store?! You said last time you bought it from a ten-Yuan-Store!"
The next second, Yu Sheng experienced how this angry little puppet was different from the previous ones——
Rebar is really strong.
Those two little claws tighten like a vise!
(End of this chapter)
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