Chapter 567 Gradually Getting Back on Track—But the Track Itself Was Crooked
Yu Sheng quietly retreated, without disturbing the puppet who was sitting on the roof enjoying the view.
He waited patiently by the large table in the attic, and after a while he heard a slight noise from the roof. Eileen tiptoed back through the ventilation window.
The little doll backed up, her legs dangling in mid-air after she came in, and then dragged the frying pan in as well. She pulled the pan handle with considerable effort with one arm, and with the other hand she gripped the window frame and slowly lowered it—and then she hung there.
Yu Sheng didn't know how she crawled out, but it was clear that she hadn't considered the way back when she did.
"Oh no...oh no, something's happened!" came the little creature's panicked voice from the window. "Someone help me...Yu Sheng! Yu Sheng!"
Yu Sheng walked over, both amused and exasperated, and casually pulled Eileen down from the window, turning her to face him: "How did you get up there?"
"Yu Sheng, you really were nearby! I knew I could sense you getting closer..." The little doll saw Yu Sheng's face and immediately smiled happily, then looked smug, "I stacked the other three bodies together! Then the other bodies went to the room to play games, I forgot about that when I came down..."
Yu Sheng rubbed the little thing's head and casually put her on the ground.
"Is everything arranged in the valley?" Eileen asked, looking up as she held her frying pan. "What about that pointy-eared guy? And the group from Shuji?"
Yu Sheng raised his eyebrows: "You have four regiments of bodies in the valley, do you still need to ask me about the situation there?"
Eileen then belatedly scratched her head: "Oh, I guess so... Oh, I wasn't paying attention! I usually leave those mass-produced bodies running in the background, with a script, you know what a script is..."
The familiar chatter started again. The quiet little doll sitting on the roof admiring the scenery just now seemed unreal, but Yu Sheng laughed as he listened to the little one's incessant chatter. After she rambled on about things like AFK farming, scripts, creating a guild by herself, and alt accounts, he finally said, "Did you forget something?"
Eileen, who was talking excitedly, was stunned by what she heard and looked up blankly: "...Huh?"
Yu Sheng glanced at the little creature and strode towards the stairs: "Your body, which you just found, is still inside the fox's tail."
Eileen suddenly realized what was happening and quickly scurried after him on her short legs: "Hey, wait for me! Are you going to fix my body now? Shall we start now? Let me tell you, I was 1.97 meters tall back in the day..."
“I’ll go downstairs and cook first. Hu Li is still hungry—we’ll talk after we eat,” Yu Sheng said as he walked. “Besides, this time I’m not the one fixing it for you. I think we need to contact a real ‘professional’ for this.”
Eileen, carrying a frying pan, was hopping down the stairs behind Yu Sheng when she heard his words and didn't react for a moment: "A professional? Who?"
“You forgot? There’s still a legitimate ‘Alice Doll’ in Boundary City,” Yu Sheng said casually. “That ‘messenger’ named Marlene should have professional doll restoration equipment. You’ve finally managed to get your original body back, so I think we shouldn’t try the old-fashioned alchemy methods. It’s best to use professional methods if possible; the success rate might be higher.”
Eileen's eyes lit up immediately: "That's right! I still have a sister here on this border! I wonder how she fared when the fighting broke out in the city..."
“It should be fine. According to Baili Qing, the ‘urban area’ and ‘suburbs’ of Jiecheng look connected, but they are actually almost two separate spaces. The previous invasions mainly occurred in the city,” Yu Sheng said, waving his hand. “Anyway, don’t think too much about it. I’ll cook first and then call her after I’m done—it’s still early, she shouldn’t be asleep yet.”
Eileen: "Oh, okay...wait a minute! Can't we just go to the Secret Service cafeteria for a free meal? Why do we have to cook for ourselves?"
“…That makes sense,” Yu Sheng thought about it and agreed, then added with a hint of doubt, “Wait a minute, is your mind sharper than before?”
The little doll immediately perked up upon hearing this: "Yes, really? Hehe..."
Then, in her excitement, she forgot to watch where she was going (or perhaps the pot was obstructing her view), and as she was jumping down one step, she missed a step, and with a series of screams, she and the pot tumbled down the stairs...
Standing in the middle of the stairs watching this scene, Yu Sheng decided to retract his judgment that "Eileen's mind has become sharper."
Then he went downstairs and called out to the fox girl on the sofa, who was watching TV and waiting for her meal while hugging her tail: "Let's go! Let's freeload at the Secret Service cafeteria today!"
The moment the word "cafeteria" was uttered, the giant fox demon on the sofa leaped into the air, a streak of white light flashing towards them...
Clearly, the girl was starving and exhausted after the fierce battle.
A few minutes later, the all-out battle began at the Secret Service's First Dining Hall.
While Hu Li was busy devouring the food, Yu Sheng dialed the phone number left to him by the "Alice Doll Envoy".
The phone rang for a while before it was finally answered. Yu Sheng felt that the sound from the receiver was a little noisy, and then a few seconds later he heard the voice of the doll lady.
Marlene's voice was as elegant and poised as ever: "Good night—esteemed 'Angel Hunter' sir, is there anything I can do for you?"
Yu Sheng was even a little touched by the elegant and polite greeting from the other side. He subconsciously looked up at the little doll standing on the table, pushing around the empty plate that Hu Li had licked, grumbling about Hu Li's big appetite while making a silly, noisy noise. He thought to himself that he didn't have any high expectations—if only Eileen could spare even half a bit of manners from her sisters, things wouldn't be like this now, where three sentences could send someone's blood pressure soaring to two hundred...
He glanced at her for a moment, and Eileen suddenly stopped, pointing in their direction: "What are you looking at? Did the call go through?"
Yu Sheng sighed and got straight to the point on the phone: "We've found Eileen's original body."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for two or three seconds.
“Ah, so it was that matter,” Marlene seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, appearing unsurprised. “After learning that you had resolved the ‘Ominous’ crisis, I guessed you would contact me—let me guess, is it because you want my help to repair that body?”
“That’s right,” Yu Sheng said. “I’ve been using ‘primitive alchemy’ to create a body for Eileen, but her original body might not be able to withstand such recklessness. The condition of that body… is not good. We hope to try the ‘professional techniques’ of Alice’s Hut.”
“The Alice dolls from 3,700 years ago… are very different from the bodies we use now,” Marlene said cautiously. “But in theory, modern systems are compatible with the past, and the ‘Garden’ network also stores the basic data of the bodies of each generation of Alice dolls. I can give it a try, but I can’t guarantee a 100% success rate.”
“It’s good enough to even give it a try,” Yu Sheng immediately said, “Then…”
“I’ll have Mary drive to pick you up,” Marlene said. “Are you home now?”
"We are now with the Secret Service."
As Yu Sheng spoke, he glanced up at the fox girl across the table. The fox's ears twitched, and it immediately lifted its head from the large bowl, looking at him with bright, sparkling eyes. Then, the fox girl suddenly broke into a radiant smile, grabbed a chicken leg from the plate, and handed it across the table: "My benefactor, have some!"
Yu Sheng took the chicken leg, but hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "Replenish the ammunition for the first firepower unit of the inn."
After agreeing on the time and place to meet, Yu Sheng hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief.
He told Eileen about Marlene's reply that "success is not guaranteed," but the little doll didn't seem to care much—she seemed to be still immersed in the excitement of being able to repair her original body, or perhaps she had too much trust in her "Alice sisters," or more likely, after obtaining four less-than-successful bodies in a row, she had now lowered her expectations for the future.
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Just then, Yu Sheng suddenly had a thought and subconsciously looked up in a certain direction beside him.
A figure appeared there at some unknown time.
It looked like Baili Qing, but for some reason, when Yu Sheng glanced at it, it seemed like several blurry shadows overlapping each other. Although it looked like the female director, he always felt that there were blurry shadows all around her.
For a moment, Yu Sheng thought he was just too tired from "welding" the Ominous Temple to the valley, and that's why his eyes were blurry. He rubbed his eyes hard and said, "Hey, Baili Qing? Why do I see double?"
As a result of rubbing his eyes, Baili Qing's figure simply turned into a very faint illusion in his vision. In the depths of the illusion, there was only another pair of rather familiar light gray eyes looking at him.
The faint "phantom" spoke: "I am Baili Xue."
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then saw Baili Qing, who was almost transparent, raise her finger and make a "shh" gesture to her lips.
“I didn’t expect you to see through it at a glance—we sisters have used this trick many times and it’s never had any problems,” Baili Xue said as she sat down next to her. “Just think of me as your older sister—I’m temporarily taking over her job, and most people here are kept in the dark.”
Yu Sheng blinked, surprised that Baili Xue had this trick up her sleeve. After a brief expression of surprise, he asked curiously, "Didn't your sister already come back? I thought that given her personality, she would have gone back to work immediately..."
“Her horn is stuck and she can’t retract it,” Baili Xue said casually. “The horn of a colorless dragon cannot be ‘covered’ by conventional means, so she’s sulking at home now.”
Yu Sheng: "...?"
(End of this chapter)
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