Chapter 562 "Recycling"
Three thousand seven hundred years ago, the blonde Eileen, who had chased the "ominous sign" to this place, and the mysterious ancient doll—that shattered body lay not far from the corpse of the ominous god, exactly the same as the one Yu Sheng had seen in his illusion.
The previous battlefield environment was too chaotic, and the spatial rifts spreading around the Ominous God Corpse distorted a large area of spacetime. When Yu Sheng flew over the sky, he didn't have time to carefully observe other places in the square, which is why he only found her now.
Hu Li placed the small doll on the ground. The doll looked at the broken body in front of it with a somewhat subtle expression. After a while, it raised its hand and scratched its head: "It feels strange. Seeing my 'corpse' broken on the ground like this, and I can't even remember what I looked like back then... This face looks a bit unfamiliar."
“Actually, she looks a lot like you,” Hu Li said earnestly. “It’s just that the hair and eye colors are different. She’s blonde and blue-eyed… Oh, and her figure seems to be a bit better than yours now.”
Eileen jumped up on the spot: "You silly fox, I'll fight you to the death!"
Hu Li raised her hand and pressed down the little doll that had jumped halfway: "Body shape! I talked about body shape! I didn't say height!"
"...Yes, is that so?"
Yu Sheng ignored the commotion around him. After silently observing the broken body for a while, he stepped to the torso of the blond doll and carefully picked up its head.
A crisp sound, like porcelain shattering, reached his ears. The doll's neck snapped, and he held its golden head in his hands. Its eyes, which had been half-open, finally closed slowly.
The little doll next to him seemed to freeze for a moment, then immediately yelled, "Hey! Yu Sheng, be gentle! You've knocked my head off!"
“This thing was already broken,” Yu Sheng quickly explained, but as soon as he said it, he felt a little awkward. “Wait, this topic sounds a bit strange.”
Eileen, hands on her hips: "You actually think things are weird? I've been watching you courting death all the time and I haven't said a word..."
"Alright, alright," Yu Sheng waved his hand, "We've finally found your original body. Quickly gather all these pieces together and we'll repair it to see if it's still usable. Hu Li, may I borrow your tail to put all these things in?"
The fox civet looked delighted: "Yes, my benefactor!"
Then the group started picking up the broken doll fragments from the ground—the large pieces were fine, but the smaller fragments required extra care. As Eileen picked them up, she reminded everyone, "Don't miss any of these small pieces. Try to piece them together as completely as possible. The more complete they are, the higher the chance of repairing them... Hey, Yu Sheng, you stepped on my finger!"
As Hu Li picked up the tiny doll fragments, she muttered to herself, "I thought you could just 'drill' into the body after finding it and come back to life. Turns out you have to put it back together yourself..."
“Nonsense! It’s broken like this, how could it be used directly?” Eileen hugged her arm, looked up at Hu Li with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot, “Do you think everyone is like you, with a bunch of parts that can be plugged in and used immediately…”
The raccoon corrected him earnestly, "Only my ears and tail can be plucked off!"
"Tch... Ouch, you almost stepped on my foot with that C-clip! Watch out!"
Bai Liqing was helping out from the side, and her usually expressionless face seemed to be breaking down at this moment. Listening to the noisy commotion around her and looking at the scene of a group of people collecting pieces of the "corpse" in front of her—including the person involved herself—she finally couldn't help but lean closer to Yu Sheng: "Are you guys... always this 'lively'?"
“This is nothing. You’ll see when all four of Eileen’s ‘main units’ are together,” Yu Sheng laughed. “If it happens to coincide with Hu Li’s mealtime, it will be even more lively. Compared to that, the current situation is like a silent play.”
Baili Qing's eyes widened slightly, then she subconsciously glanced at Luna, who was silently picking up the broken pieces with her head down, and said with a sigh, "In the end, it turns out that this 'artificial saintess' is the most down-to-earth and quiet..."
Yu Sheng thought for a moment, his expression somewhat subtle: "...It's hard to say."
Baili Qing paused for a moment, clearly puzzled as to why the other party would say such a thing. Just then, Luna seemed to have discovered something else. She pulled something out from a pile of collapsed stones and carried it toward Yu Sheng: "Found it, a strange thing."
Yu Sheng's attention was immediately diverted. He looked down at Luna's hand and was shocked.
That thing was dark and imposing, with a cold and intimidating aura. It had a round mouth and a long handle, and was heavy. Its material was neither stone, wood, nor iron, and it was impossible to tell what it was made of. However, it had been placed next to the corpse of a god for more than three thousand years without showing any signs of corrosion or deformation. You could tell at a glance that it was no ordinary item!
It's just that the shape is a bit strange—it looks like a frying pan.
Okay, so it's a frying pan...
Several pairs of eyes immediately focused on Luna's hand. Yu Sheng was only stunned for a moment before he remembered what the Alice doll named "Marlene" had mentioned to him. Then, Eileen next to him also reacted. The little doll jumped up and hugged the pot, hanging on Luna's arms, as happy as could be: "This is mine! This is mine!"
Luna stammered, "Okay, here you go."
Then she put Eileen, pot and all, on the ground—at least she didn't just throw her.
The little doll struggled to grip the handle of the frying pan, and after several attempts, finally found a suitable grip. It then held the pan high and waved it happily to Yu Sheng: "Yu Sheng, look! Marlene said that every Alice doll should have its own frying pan, and now I have one too!"
Then she happily held the pot and started spinning around Yu Sheng, laughing and giggling as she ran, radiating an excitement and joy that she herself couldn't quite explain—those intertwined memories were mixed in her mind, but she didn't care which part belonged to Eileen and which part was the omen; she just felt very happy, and in her happiness, she didn't even consider what this strange pot was for.
Yu Sheng was quite happy, mainly because watching a 66.6-centimeter-tall doll running around on the ground holding a pot that was almost as tall as her was a very funny thing, especially when she finally managed to throw herself off the ground on the third lap—after all, the pot was almost as heavy as her.
But the excited little doll was not disappointed at all. It still hugged the pot like it was something precious, and even thanked Luna, which was quite rare for it.
Then the group collected all the doll fragments they could find and stored them all inside Hu Li's tail.
“There shouldn’t be any missing,” Yu Sheng said, looking around and clapping his hands. “If there are any, they’re all at the powder level, so they shouldn’t affect the overall integrity of the body.”
“It’s okay, leaving a small gap won’t matter. We’ll fix it during the ‘spirit infusion’ process,” Eileen said, sitting on Yu Sheng’s shoulders with her frying pan in her arms, beaming with joy. “Once this original body is repaired, I’ll definitely be back to normal. Then I’ll let you see for yourself my tall stature of 1.78 meters and those long legs…”
Yu Sheng turned his head and glanced at the little doll: "Aren't you 1.67 meters tall?"
Eileen: "Oh, it's all pretty much the same. I'll just wear high heels and a hat..."
Yu Sheng ignored the girl's excited ramblings, simply patted her head, and then focused his gaze on the "ancient mechanism" in the center of the square that had ceased to function.
After a brief hesitation, he stepped toward that direction.
Eileen knew Yu Sheng's style all too well, and she guessed what was going on as soon as she saw the situation: "Ah...you're not going to take this back, are you?!"
Hu Li, who was standing nearby, understood perfectly: "Our benefactor won't feel at ease if he doesn't take some local specialties back with him."
Luna nodded in agreement: "Yes, that's right."
Yu Sheng pretended not to hear the murmurs beside him, and silently walked to the now quiet floating Rubik's Cube, reaching out to press his hand on one corner of it.
With the "knowledge" flowing into his mind, he seemed to know naturally what to do.
Strands of red emerged from the mysterious patterns on the surface of the Rubik's Cube, carrying a dim fluorescence, flowing through the device like breathing.
A deep, pleasant hum came from deep within the device.
Yu Sheng's consciousness gradually sank, and in his daze, he seemed to see again the enormous phantom in that chaotic space—energy glands, imaginary number computing units, living runes, superstring structures...
The Boundary Bridge in reality no longer exists. The accumulated errors over three thousand years have long exceeded its limits. After the remnant power of the Goddess of Omens dissipated, the Boundary Bridge naturally collapsed at the information level, and its material structure in this universe naturally vanished as well—Yu Sheng witnessed this process firsthand and is very certain of it.
Strangely, he could still "feel" the remaining "control mechanism" of the boundary bridge by touching it.
Perhaps it was because his blood had soaked into the Boundary Bridge and recorded enough information, or perhaps it was because the "knowledge" the Goddess of Omens had conveyed to him contained enough information related to the Boundary Bridge, that Yu Sheng could now clearly feel that the "bridge" was in his mind—he didn't understand it, but he could see it at any time.
It's like a blueprint preserved in memory.
This strange situation seems quite different from when we resolved the Ankaela and the celestial crisis.
Yu Sheng frowned, carefully sensing this incredible situation, and then gradually began to understand it all.
At the same time, noticing the thoughtful expression on Yu Sheng's face, even Eileen, who had been chattering away, subconsciously quieted down.
Then she saw Yu Sheng take his hand off the huge Rubik's Cube.
The red patterns on the surface of the Rubik's Cube flashed twice quickly, and then began to collapse silently, as if it had undergone billions of years of weathering in an instant. This seemingly indestructible "creation of angels" turned into wisps of rising dust in a few seconds. Then, even the three pillars standing around the cube collapsed silently.
Eileen stared wide-eyed at the scene. At first, she felt inexplicably sad because she felt that the last remnants of the Boundary Bridge were about to disappear. The ominous part of her heart was saddened by this. But the next second, she saw the dissipating smoke and dust quickly turn blood red, swirling around like a blood mist, and then being "absorbed" by Yu Sheng all at once.
The sadness that had just surfaced from the bottom of my heart and I hadn't yet figured out instantly turned into a head full of question marks.
"...Yu Sheng, why do you eat everything?!"
(End of this chapter)
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