Chapter 42 Excited Irene
In a rented house deep in Wutong Road in the old city, a strong man nearly two meters tall was curled up on a single sofa that seemed a bit cramped for him, with his head down, carefully maintaining his equipment.
It was a beam dagger. The dark red handle was inlaid with tiny teardrop-shaped crystals. The crystals were connected into a line that ran through the entire body. The entire handle was obviously tailor-made according to the user's situation, and it looked particularly suitable in the sturdy man's broad palm.
The sturdy man turned his palm over, rotated the dagger in his palm a few times, and activated it casually. With a slight buzzing sound, a bright light blue blade suddenly lit up, drawing a scorching arc in the air.
"Take it easy, don't scratch the coffee table - I'll have to file a report with the bureau and pay compensation later," Li Lin took out a pocket watch and fiddled with it, looking up at Xu Jiali across from him, "...This thing is pretty cool."
"Isn't it cool? I paid for it with my life," the burly man chuckled with a proud look on his face, "I rescued an Algrade nobleman from the 'Windmill' at depth L-3 - single-handedly, and he gave it to me afterwards. This thing was custom-made by the best casting craftsmen and the best golden crystal. It can even be used as a knight's medal in the Algrade territory."
Li Lin was a little curious: "What's the use?"
"... No need to queue up to buy tickets for transportation within the atmosphere, green channel at the hospital, free admission to the zoo - only on holidays."
Li Lin was a little stunned. "It's quite... practical. I thought those mysterious Algrad people had to pay attention to a lot of rituals and symbolism in everything they did."
"They are usually quite weird, but they still have to live their lives, right?" Xu Jiali shrugged, and then complained a little, "Well, it's still a bit troublesome to operate at the border. A lot of equipment is not allowed to be brought over. I also have a chainsaw sword, but it was evaluated as a potential hazard before I came here, and it's still locked in the customs cabinet..."
Li Lin thought about it and was about to speak when he suddenly felt something. Then he and Xu Jiali, who had the same feeling, looked towards the window of the rental house.
As the night gradually darkened, a figure appeared on the windowsill at some point - it was a petite girl in a dark red coat, leaning against the window frame in a rather dangerous posture, with one leg hanging outside the windowsill.
She looked at the two men in the room curiously: "So, during this period of time, you two are the responsible 'commissioners' of this block?"
"You are..." Li Lin frowned and vaguely guessed the other party's identity.
"Just call me Little Red Riding Hood," the girl sitting on the windowsill waved her hand, "I'm from 'Fairy Tale'. I was hired by your bureau to help you in this area during this time."
"Oh, I know you," Li Lin thought to himself, and a polite smile appeared on his face. "These past two days, I've often heard our captain mention you and your investigation of this area. My name is Li Lin, and I'm an operations officer of the Second Brigade of the Council's Special Service Bureau."
On the other side, Xu Jiali looked up and down at the girl on the windowsill and said in a muffled voice: "There may be a 'big guy' hiding here. I thought you would send Snow White or the 'king'. Of course, I am not questioning your wolf pack."
Unlike Li Lin, who was still a newcomer, it was obviously not the first time that Xu Jiali met Little Red Riding Hood.
"Snow White's destructive power is a bit excessive here - we may not encounter a high-risk entity yet," Little Red Riding Hood said casually, "I have been active in this area of the city, and recently I have been investigating the anomalies on Wutong Road, so I am more familiar with it. It's okay, Snow White will be here soon anyway. If we really encounter a 'big guy', she will be here at your beck and call."
As the girl spoke, she stood up from the windowsill and waved to the two people in the room: "I came here just to say hello to you. You should all have my contact information. Call me if you have any questions. Bye~"
The next second, the girl's figure suddenly turned into a melting shadow. The shadow vaguely had the shape of a wolf. It jumped down from the windowsill and melted into the night in the blink of an eye.
Li Lin and Xu Jiali were left looking at each other in the rental house.
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After dinner, Yu Sheng sat on the sofa with his eyes closed, listening to the clacking sound running around between the living room and the dining room, sometimes on the right, sometimes on the left, and then circling around the sofa.
He opened his eyes and saw Irene running around the living room and dining room. The 66.6-cm-tall doll was carrying a painting frame that was almost as tall as itself, and was running all over the floor as fast as a little rocket.
After Irene started circling the sofa for the fourth time, Yu Sheng couldn't help it anymore: "Can't you take a break? And take a break from your shoes."
Irene quickly ran to Yu Sheng, her face full of excitement: "I don't want to! I can't stop at all! I can run everywhere, run everywhere! Look, I can even climb onto the coffee table and jump down from it!"
Before he finished speaking, the puppet ran away again. It first ran half a circle around the sofa, then used its hands and feet to climb onto the coffee table in front of Yu Sheng, and then took a few steps to jump from the coffee table to Yu Sheng's legs. Just as the latter was about to raise his hand to catch the guy running around on the ground, Irene had already jumped forward flexibly and jumped from the sofa to the floor again...
Then she ran to the TV cabinet in the living room, climbed up with great effort, stood on tiptoe and reached up, and successfully pressed the switch of the TV.
Miss Doll cheered and turned to look at Yu Sheng with excitement: "I can still reach the TV switch! From now on, when you are not at home, I can also turn off the power and restart the TV myself!"
Yu Sheng rolled his eyes and raised his head helplessly: "Okay, okay, congratulations, you are awesome."
The next second, he felt something flash in the corner of his eye - Irene ran back quickly from the TV cabinet, she grabbed the sofa cover with one hand and Yu Sheng's trouser leg with the other, and climbed onto the sofa in a few seconds and sat next to Yu Sheng.
The small doll is not even as big as a pillow when it sits cross-legged on the sofa.
The painting stood behind her, and its proportions made it look like a wall.
But Irene had gotten used to the existence of the picture frame with amazing adaptability. Whether she was running with it on her back, climbing up and down with it on her back, or even sitting on the sofa with it on her back, it did not affect her movements at all - occasionally there would be some inevitable bumps and bruises, but the doll did not seem to care at all.
This made Yu Sheng feel very surprised.
"Don't you think it's inconvenient to carry it with you?" He couldn't help but ask curiously, "To be fair, if you ask me to carry a door panel around all day, I might not be able to adapt as quickly as you..."
"I think it's fine," Irene happily swayed on the sofa. Although she turned on the TV, she obviously couldn't focus on it at all. "Although I was a little uncomfortable at the beginning, I completely got used to its weight and size after running two laps. And how should I put it..."
The puppet suddenly stopped, as if searching for the right words. After a few seconds, it spoke hesitantly, "It's like... a sense of security. When I carry it, I feel safe and assured. Have you ever had that feeling? When you sleep, you must lean your back against the wall, or against a pile of quilts."
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"I know what you mean, but it still feels... incredible," Yu Sheng looked at the little doll beside him, "I thought you would be very resistant to this painting. After all, this thing has sealed you for so many years, and now you have to carry it all the time."
"That's true," Irene thought for a moment and nodded slightly, but soon she smiled again, "But there's a saying that goes, if you're lucky, you'll be happy. As long as today is better than yesterday, there's nothing to complain about."
"It's 'Now that we are here, we should make the best of it...'" Yu Sheng corrected.
"That's about the same thing," Irene waved her hand in a casual manner. She seemed to have finally calmed down from the excitement of running non-stop just now. Now she remembered the business. "Okay, I've almost adapted to my new body. It's time to discuss the matter of the fox..."
Yu Sheng nodded, but soon frowned slightly, looking at the little doll that was only as high as his knees: "Are you still going to go with me?"
Irene said as a matter of course: "Go ahead, it's all agreed upon."
"In this state?" Yu Sheng tried to be more tactful, but he couldn't say it tactfully, so he just said it bluntly, "Can you still fight? If you kick my knee now, I'll have to jump up..."
"I'll kick you to pieces! What's wrong with being small?" Irene was a little furious. "Who told you that I can't fight like this?"
Upon seeing this, Yu Sheng hurriedly gave him some words of comfort.
Fortunately, Irene's temper always came and went quickly. She soon calmed down, leaned back on the sofa, and hugged her chest with her hands: "But what you said is true. I am in this state now... I am still somewhat affected in a head-on fight. You can't expect a 60-centimeter-tall puppet to block bullets for you, right..."
At this point, she shook her head and suddenly changed her tone: "But don't worry, the puppet is not only capable of direct combat, I have many other abilities - even if I only have this level of 'freedom' now, there are still many things I can do."
She raised her hand and held it in front of him as if she was going to show him something.
Strands of pitch-black silk threads spread out from her fingertips, like strange spider silk, as if with independent life, winding and growing in the air, interweaving into a web.
"The puppet's abilities are huge!"
Irene looked very proud.
(End of this chapter)
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