Chapter 37 The First Step in Preparing the Body
Yu Sheng was a little surprised to hear Irene's request. He didn't know why the other party brought up this matter so solemnly at this time.
They had indeed discussed the matter of making a body for the doll in the painting more than once before, but they had never finalized it. On the one hand, it was because Yu Sheng and Irene lacked trust and understanding of each other, and on the other hand, there were too many messy things going on right now, and Yu Sheng had no time to think about Irene's physical condition.
But now seeing the extremely serious expression on Miss Doll's face, Yu Sheng realized that she did not bring up this matter on a whim or out of caprice.
He looked at Irene questioningly.
"I want to go with you," Irene's answer was also simple, "Just to have someone to look after you."
"Are you sure?" Yu Sheng's expression was a little subtle, "Of course I don't doubt your ability..."
"Listen," Irene interrupted Yu Sheng. She moved closer to the edge of the frame, her face occupying almost two-thirds of the picture. Her tone was extremely serious. "I'm not kidding you. Although I don't know how you plan to deal with that 'entity', judging from the fact that you can bring back 'local specialties' from it, you should have some skills. I won't ask what your specific skills are, but you have to know that when dealing with foreign lands, just relying on 'fighting skills' is not enough, at least not when dealing with a difficult entity like 'hunger'."
As she spoke, she stepped back a little. "Build me a body so I can regain some freedom of movement. It doesn't matter if it's a little rough. As long as I'm free from the constraints of this damn painting, I'll be able to do a lot. Although I can't recover all my strength, I'm definitely much stronger than ordinary investigators or so-called spirit detectives or alien hunters. Even if I've forgotten a lot of knowledge, I still have the instincts of a living puppet."
Yu Sheng looked at Irene steadily, and Irene also looked at Yu Sheng with her scarlet eyes.
"I can help you, Yusheng," Irene said seriously, "We have already cooperated once when we went to Hu Li's dream."
This time, Yu Sheng thought about it longer than ever before, and then he had to admit that Irene was right.
All he wanted to do was go back to the valley and get rid of the "Entity-Hunger" there, but he also knew that the chances of him destroying the monster by himself were really low - of course, he was not afraid of death, and in the process of devouring the "Entity-Hunger" he had gradually become stronger, but this kind of strengthening obviously had an upper limit, and "Hunger"... was not easy to destroy.
Relying on continuous deaths to "drag corpses" to wear out the monster might be a solution, but this is obviously a bad idea. It would definitely be good if there was a helper who was better at fighting and understood some supernatural powers.
Just give Irene some credit and let her out of this picture.
This trust was established long before they fell into Hu Li's dream together, woke up from the dream and vomited on each other.
"It seems I have to go to the city center," Yu Sheng exhaled softly and sat back in his chair. "Materials such as clay wigs need to be bought in special handmade shops. There are no such shops in the old city."
The doll girl in the painting blinked, and when she realized what was happening, she immediately showed a look of surprise: "You...you agreed?!"
"If you don't have high requirements for body quality and trust my craftsmanship," Yu Sheng waved his hand, "I can give it a try."
"It's not a high requirement. Just a human-like shape will do. I can reshape it myself - as long as you don't make any mistakes during the 'alchemy' part," Irene said hurriedly, as if she was afraid that Yu Sheng would regret it if she spoke too late. After she finished speaking, she thought for a moment and turned her face away with a subtle expression, "and... and if you really can't buy the right materials..."
Yu Sheng looked curious: "What if we can't buy the right materials?"
“…You can also use dough.”
Yu Sheng was stunned for two or three seconds, and finally revealed the most shocked expression since he met Irene: "Ah?!"
Irene explained in a low voice: "The materials are just a medium. What really works is the alchemy part, your blood and my soul..."
Yu Sheng was completely confused: "Oh no... I know you should settle for the second best, but isn't this too bad?!"
Irene thought about it and decided to act harmless to the student in order to get away with it.
She passed.
But Yu Sheng still decided to go out and buy some things.
"I'd better go buy some real clay. It will take a lot to make a body for you, so I'd better not mess with the food. Besides, I have other things to buy," Yu Sheng exhaled, and said casually as he stood up, "Just stay at home and watch TV. If anything happens, call me remotely - if the TV freezes again, just wait for me to come back."
As he said that, he picked up the remote control and turned on the TV for Irene. Irene in the picture frame nodded obediently: "Oh...then come back soon."
Yu Sheng agreed, put on his coat, and walked towards the entrance.
Holding the door handle, the first thing he did was to calm himself down. After making sure that there would be no volcanic craters, meteorite showers, sulfur lakes, little green men holding lightsabers, and elf sisters with mechanical modifications outside the door, he took a deep breath, pushed open the door, and walked smoothly to the old street of Wutong Road.
Yu Sheng suddenly found this matter very interesting.
It was easy for him to go to the end of the world (regardless of whether he could come back or whether he would die), but it was much more difficult for him to open the door and walk to the street...
Walking on the way to the bus stop, Yu Sheng looked around casually.
He didn't know from when on, but his mentality had changed a little while walking in this huge and unfamiliar city. The depression and uneasiness of the past few days quietly subsided. Walking on this street that could not be considered his "hometown", he felt not only calmness in his heart, but also a little...excitement and expectation.
Even the sky, which was once dazzlingly bright, now looked pleasant and sunny.
There were vendors selling things at the intersection, a few pedestrians passing by, and a child who had gotten into some sort of trouble running by the side of the street screaming, with adults following behind him cursing as they ran.
Yu Sheng wondered, could there be any of those "professionals" that Irene mentioned? Those who were protecting the city from the dark and fighting against the aliens, did anyone notice that there was something "wrong" hidden in this peaceful and tranquil old town? He even started to speculate which of the pedestrians on the roadside looked strange, which looked like plainclothes, and which looked like a detective or investigator from the spirit world.
The uncle selling pancakes at the intersection looks a bit like him, but today he has replaced him with a poor one; the aunt hanging clothes on the balcony opposite is also a possibility, but I haven't seen her before; could the naughty kid who ran over just now yelling be him? I heard from Irene that the detective in the spirit world also has a "magic trick" to change his appearance, which is magical...
Anyway, the energetic young man next to him wearing a vest, dyed yellow hair, squatting on the ground with his cell phone playing loudly is definitely not him. He doesn't look like him at all.
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Yu Sheng was humming a little tune as he walked through the old street and passed by Li Lin, who was wearing a vest and dyed yellow hair (wig) and squatting on the ground with his cell phone playing loudly.
After a while, Xu Jiali (male), who was nearly two meters tall, walked onto the street, glanced down at Li Lin who was following him, then squatted down, lit a cigarette, and squatted with him like a spirited guy.
"Is this outfit of yours reliable?" Xu Jiali asked.
"Very reliable," Li Lin said casually, "I used to wear this when I was out on the field, and my colleagues at the pancake stand were exposed, but I wasn't - I also have a set of 2D combat uniforms, which are more concealed. Once I pinned down a border smuggler, and he didn't believe that a 2D guy was a spy for the Secret Service."
The sturdy man was stunned: "What is a two-dimensional battle suit? It sounds like a force field type power armor? Aren't you not allowed to use that stuff in the border area?"
"...I can't explain it to you clearly," Li Lin said with a look of disgust, moving to the side, "Stay away from me, you are too big, don't expose me."
"That's impossible. I look more like a vagrant than you," the sturdy man curled his lips. "But you, you didn't find anything in the whole morning, right? To be honest, I doubt that even if there is something hidden in this place, it is unlikely to be a 'person'. It is most likely a strange entity or an alien erosion point. That is more in line with the clues you have found here so far. Damn it, there was such a big commotion in Jiecheng last night. I don't know what the situation is in the bureau now. The two of us have to waste time here like idiots, staring at something we don't know..."
Li Lin didn't bother to pay attention to the burly man. He took out a large power bank and put it on his mobile phone, then chose to turn up the volume of the phone's external speaker.
Two or three hours later, Yu Sheng had bought everything he wanted in a shopping mall in the city.
Now, he dragged his bags to a deserted place and began to fall into thought.
He bought a lot of things - the weight was not a problem for him now, but it would still be troublesome to carry them all the way back on the bus.
So, he had a bold idea.
He thought it was well worth a try.
Yu Sheng raised his head and confirmed again that no one was paying attention. Then he silently reached out his hand and reached into the air beside him - the door took shape in his hand.
Three seconds later, in a hidden "depth" deep inside Jiecheng, countless operators, clerks, captains and their director Baili Qing, who had been working overtime to the point of blurring their minds, were ejected from their chairs at the sound of a sudden alarm...
Yu Sheng went home carrying several large plastic bags.
(End of this chapter)
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