Chapter 322: Difficult Communication
What Yu Sheng saw when he went over was such a confusing scene - Xiaoxiao and a few children were standing helplessly beside the vegetable patch, while the horrifying-looking artificial saint was carefully clearing the weeds in the field. The latter's metal shell was covered with a lot of dirt and grass clippings, and it seemed that she had been busy like this for quite some time.
"Uncle Yu Sheng...brother!" Xiao Xiao also saw Yu Sheng push the door open at this time, and hurried over to complain, not forgetting to change the name when greeting, "She stole our labor class homework...Who is this big sister?"
Yu Sheng was still confused at this time. He didn't know what was going on, but after hearing Xiao Xiao's words, he coughed twice and raised his hand to rub the other person's head: "Uh, it's a new guest... It's okay, you guys go play somewhere else first, I'll explain to Teacher Su later."
Xiaoxiao said "oh" half-comprehendingly, and left with the other children. At the same time, the iron doll not far away seemed to finally notice the situation here. She slowly straightened up, turned towards Yu Sheng with a pale face with an empty smile, and then stood there motionless.
Yu Sheng just faced the other party at a distance of ten meters. A silent steel puppet and a "resurrected" who had been killed twice by the other party. Neither of them broke the silence. They just let the breeze blow from the depths of the valley, blowing the leaves on the road not far away. Occasionally, they could hear the sounds of children shouting and playing, passing over the ridges of the fields with the breeze.
After a long while, Yu Sheng tried to speak to the other party: "Um, hello...can you hear me?"
He waited for a few seconds before seeing the artificial saint nod slightly.
"Can you come over?" Yu Sheng said again, "I opened up that piece of land specifically for the children in the town to take care of together - I know you want to help, but they don't seem to want this."
After a few seconds of awkward confrontation and silence, the artificial saint finally nodded again, walked out of the vegetable garden, and slowly came to Yu Sheng with some hesitation and caution.
Her posture was still as elegant as when they first met, but Yu Sheng clearly felt that the other party's reaction seemed a little slow.
With a thoughtful expression, he carefully observed the other person, trying to see some warmth belonging to a "human" from this beautiful but empty body that lacked expression and warmth. At the same time, he asked curiously, "Do you still remember me?"
The artificial saint hesitated for a while, raised her hand, pointed at Yu Sheng's arm, and then pointed at his chest.
Yu Sheng: “…”
This is a bit embarrassing.
"Uh, yes," Yu Sheng touched his nose with a smile, thinking that the other party did remember him, but this memory point was a bit outrageous, "Two knives, eight holes... Wait a minute, where's your knife?"
Only then did he notice that the hands of the iron puppet in front of him were in normal shape, and her original half-meter-long "fingertip blades" were missing for some reason.
Hearing Yu Sheng's question, the artificial saint stood there for a moment, tilting her head slightly as if trying to understand. After a while, she seemed to finally understand, and lowered her hands to both sides of her thighs - accompanied by a slight mechanical click, the secret box hidden in the leg immediately flipped open, and the sharp blade popped out and merged with her fingers.
She raised her hands, moved the sharp blades, and demonstrated them to Yu Sheng very seriously.
When Yu Sheng saw the two hands holding ten knives waving in front of him, he felt that he had to be more careful and waved his hands quickly: "Okay, okay, I understand, no need to show you - by the way, the blade of your knife is detachable?!"
The iron puppet nodded slowly, retracted the blades, and then continued to stand silently in front of Yu Sheng.
Of course, it is more likely that her body has no ability to speak at all.
Yu Sheng gradually felt a little pressure - mainly because he was not used to it.
After all, he usually has four mouths around him, just Irene. The little doll can chatter all morning without stopping over trivial matters. When he is with Hu Li, it is even more chaotic. The daily bustle of No. 66 Wutong Road is as lively as a beheading market. As a result, he has long been accustomed to the rhythm of four channels of voices (sometimes with Hu Li, five channels) around him when he speaks a word. As a result, he now meets someone who not only does not speak, but also reacts a little bit slower...
Let's put it this way, it was like suddenly changing from a 10G optical fiber to a carrier pigeon. When he was staring blankly at the artificial saint face to face, he always wondered if the person opposite him had actually crashed...
But fortunately, just when he felt that this situation of having to wait for a long time to say a word was extremely awkward, someone finally came to rescue him.
Along with the footsteps of some giant animal running towards them, a familiar sound of squeaking and screaming came from a distance: "Hey! Yu Sheng! Hu Li and I are here! What's going on? Just now you suddenly said in the mental connection that the artificial saint has woken up? Hey Hu Li, slow down, slow down! Hey, slow down...ah!"
Yu Sheng quickly looked back and saw a giant white fox running wildly from the direction of the portal platform, raising a cloud of dust. When it was very close, it finally realized to slow down, so it supported itself with its two front paws and tilted its whole body horizontally. Its nine tails swung over like auxiliary nozzles to perform an instant recoil braking - it really worked, and the fox stopped instantly, while the four Irenes flew into the sky with their fangs and claws bared like catapults.
Fortunately, Yu Sheng reacted quickly and rushed forward to catch the little doll.
But they only caught one, and the remaining three evenly poked their heads down into the vegetable garden - the No. 1 unit carrying the picture frame flew the farthest, because the oil painting behind her acted as a glider.
The scene was silent for two seconds. Yu Sheng lowered his head to look at Irene in his arms. Irene also raised her head dazedly and the two looked at each other.
The next second, the puppet in his arms leaped up with a roar, jumped onto the ground and rushed towards the big white fox that was walking towards him at a leisurely pace: "Silly fox, you did it on purpose! Usually when you were with Yu Sheng, you used your tail to block him!"
Yu Sheng stretched out his hand to stop them but failed. At this moment, he saw from the corner of his eye that the artificial saint who had been standing there suddenly reacted again. The iron puppet looked around, as if thinking about something seriously, and then walked towards the vegetable field, pulling out the Irenes who were still buried in the soil and struggling with their short legs one by one. After pulling them out, he did not forget to shake off the soil, and then tucked the little puppets who were still struggling desperately under his arms...
After a while she came back and placed the three little dolls neatly on the ground in front of Yu Sheng.
For some reason, Yu Sheng thought of the radishes neatly piled on the ground.
However, the scolding from these "carrots" was really nasty. As soon as the three Irenes landed on the ground, they started jumping up and down and spitting foul language. They also had to find time to shake out the dirt in their hair and clothes. After struggling for a long time, they looked up and saw C-shaped buckle standing beside them, looking down at them. The smile on the latter's face was like a mockery, which made Irene feel like the sky was falling. "Shame! I am the living puppet of the great Alice... I will never let you go, stupid fox!"
Hu Li in fox form also came over at this time. Irene, the only one who was caught by Yu Sheng before, was hanging in the air by a tuft of fur on her chin, which made her feel a little awkward, but she didn't dare to shake her head directly. She could only use her front paws to gently touch the little doll that was still trying to pull a tuft of fur off: "Next time, I will use my pocket money to buy you a new skirt."
Irene let go instantly: "Okay."
Thus, a grudge was resolved.
As for Yu Sheng, in just such a short time, he felt that the familiar atmosphere had returned, and the noise of the chickens and dogs beside his ears made him feel comfortable all over...
He turned his head and saw that the artificial saint was still standing there. The sudden appearance of Irene and Hu Li did not seem to cause any reaction from her. But soon, Yu Sheng noticed that her posture seemed a little more restrained than before. She seemed to be... at a loss? Or a little nervous? At this time, Irene (one of them) finally focused her attention on the iron doll. She walked over with a proud look and raised her head: "Hey! C-shaped buckle!"
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However, there was no response from the other party.
The little doll turned his head and looked at Yu Sheng: "Yu Sheng, why is she ignoring me?"
Yu Sheng quickly explained: "She seems to be a little slow in reacting."
"Yes, really?" Irene was stunned for a moment, then turned her head away. Sure enough, she saw the artificial saint lowering her head, as if responding to her greeting.
"Okay, it looks like there might be some sequelae? Or maybe it's related to the mental tearing?" Irene was very open-minded. She muttered a few words and put aside the details. She introduced herself to the other party, "My name is Irene! I'm the second in command of the 'Inn'! The big fox next to me is called Hu Li, and he's the third in command of the inn - did you understand? Oh, and this one is Yu Sheng, our boss!"
The artificial saint lowered her head, and after a while, she slowly nodded, as if she really understood what Irene meant.
Irene turned to look at Hu Li beside her: "Hey silly fox, why are you still in this state? Why don't you change back?"
Hu Li did not respond, but looked at the artificial saint carefully for a few more times, as if he was judging something. Finally, he said "oh", and accompanied by a burst of light rising, he changed from the form of a fox demon to his usual human form.
"Hello." She greeted the iron doll in front of her politely.
The artificial saint nodded in response.
"Why don't you speak?" Irene finally realized that something was wrong with the other party. "You can't speak?"
The artificial saint hesitated for a moment, nodded slightly, but then shook her head.
Irene was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Yu Sheng: "Why is it so difficult to communicate?"
"That's what happened just now," Yu Sheng spread his hands helplessly, "Maybe it's just like you said, it's a sequelae."
As he spoke, he raised his head and glanced at the place not far away.
More and more children came to watch the fun.
"This isn't the place to talk, let's go home and study it."
(End of this chapter)
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