Chapter 571 Sister, your glue isn't sticky!
Although Eileen is usually timid and loud, often making a fuss over nothing, this is the first time Yu Sheng has seen the little thing's face look so... panicked.
The blonde doll-like body lying on the platform remained motionless, its eyes closed and showing no signs of life. Eileen's attempts to control it were unresponsive, and she tried several more times with the same result.
“That shouldn’t be the case…” Even Marlene felt a little confused. “The repair process itself went smoothly. Even if the consciousness reconnection failed, Maris should at least have read the error signal… Is something missing?”
Yu Sheng frowned as he looked at the little doll standing somewhat helplessly on the platform. Suddenly, he thought of something: "Wait, shouldn't we bring your painting too?"
Eileen paused for a moment upon hearing this, her expression puzzled: "That shouldn't be the case... When I activated those mass-produced dolls before, I could transfer my consciousness directly without relying on the oil painting. Those mass-produced bodies that were just put together could be used. Why is this original body 'having poor contact'?"
"Let's give it a try first," Yu Sheng said, pulling open a small door from the side. Opposite was the living room of No. 66 Wutong Road. "After all, your situation is a mess, who knows which link might be blocked by a bug."
Across the door, Eileen (human lotus version) took off the painting frame she was carrying and handed it over. Yu Sheng took the oil painting and handed it to Eileen (Xuan Tie) on the platform. Marlene, who was standing to the side, looked at this scene with a bit of confusion, but before she could speak, she saw Eileen stick the oil painting on the edge of the platform, right next to the head of the golden-haired body.
Seeing that the picture frame was unstable, the fox kindly took out a box of canned yellow peaches from its tail and used it to prop up the back of the oil painting.
The professionally trained woman who was in charge of creating the doll looked completely bewildered: "...This step isn't in the Alice doll's revival process..."
Yu Sheng waved his hand: "Our hostel has its own corporate culture—besides, her situation is so chaotic, we have to be flexible."
As he spoke, his gaze fell upon the oil painting.
Within the dark frame, the high-backed chair covered in red velvet stood alone in the darkness, empty. The teddy bear that had once been sealed in the painting with Eileen was gone.
After the incident, the little doll learned the truth about the teddy bear from Yu Sheng. Looking at this scene now, she was somewhat emotional: "I always thought that bear was silly, but now that it's empty in the painting, it feels a bit strange..."
She had barely finished speaking when she paused to think for a moment, then stroked her chin and muttered, "Should we stick three ceremonial candles in front of the painting?"
Marlene, standing nearby: "...Huh?"
Yu Sheng nodded in agreement, saying as he took candles from the basement and placed them on the platform, "That makes sense, it's more precise this way."
Marlene: "...Huh?"
"Silly fox, come and light the candle!" Eileen ran over and adjusted the position of the candle, then waved to Hu Li, "Your fire is strong, just be careful not to singe my hair."
Hu Li said "Oh," walked over, picked up a large tail and rubbed it. A flame immediately shot out from the tip of the tail—then she carefully lit three high-end ceremonial candles that she had previously brought from the Secret Service.
Then, at Eileen's prompting, Yu Sheng added ritual essential oils and spices to the candle flame.
Luna watched from a distance. Although she didn't understand alchemy and couldn't offer any useful suggestions, the saintess still tried her best to participate—she bowed three times from afar.
Marlene was speechless by now—this professionally trained, upright doll lady had never seen anything like this before. Watching Eileen and Yu Sheng's group bustling around the platform, lighting candles and sprinkling incense before the paintings, making it look like some kind of evil ritual, she finally managed to stammer, "My doll printing room…my nanoprinting pool…no, isn't this a bit messy…"
As a result, she swallowed back the word "chaos" after only uttering half a syllable.
Because she saw thin black lines suddenly emerge from the dark edge of the oil painting frame, spider silk-like lines piling up, gradually growing like wildly growing hair, like flowing shadows, quickly converging around the golden-haired body. And the next second, the golden-haired body, which had remained unresponsive, actually began to move slightly—its chest rose and fell slowly, its eyelids began to tremble, life seemed to emerge, and consciousness revived within it.
Something seemed a little off about this scene, but Mary, who was monitoring the entire system, reported that the wake-up process had started successfully.
"Awakening detected. Security verification... passed."
Marlene: "...Huh?!"
The next second, the blonde doll lying on the platform slowly opened its eyes.
Yu Sheng immediately went over and looked at Eileen lying down with her while she was standing. He saw that her clear blue eyes were staring blankly at the ceiling, as if she was still in a daze. But soon her eyes focused on one spot and stared at him in a daze.
Looking at the beautiful blonde girl with blue eyes in front of him, Yu Sheng felt for a moment that her face was somewhat...unfamiliar.
The blonde girl blinked, then suddenly pointed at Yu Sheng with a bright, uncouth smile: "Yu Sheng, you have such a long nose hair!"
Then, with lightning speed, he reached out and poked Yu Sheng's nostril.
Yu Sheng let out a shout and jumped up—now he was familiar with the place.
Everyone gathered around, and Eileen sat up from the platform. She looked down at her body and slowly moved her seemingly stiff hands, as if she still couldn't quite believe that she had really returned to her original body.
Hu Li twitched her ears; she thought she heard a slight friction sound and a clicking noise.
“My body… is so unresponsive,” the little doll on the platform frowned—she had tried to make this expression with her blonde body but found it difficult. “I feel so heavy all over, and… all my joints except my arms are stiff, and my body feels like it’s going to fall apart.”
Tiny cracks appeared on the blonde doll's hands and feet. She looked up at Yu Sheng, but her neck slowly tilted to an unexpected angle.
"Yu Sheng, I don't feel well..."
The doll's arms drooped down, its neck began to bend backward, and its body tilted to one side.
"No, I'm really falling apart, holy crap!"
The blonde doll and the small doll standing on the platform both exclaimed in surprise. Immediately afterward, a loud friction and cracking sound became so loud that everyone could hear it clearly. Luna was the fastest and almost instantly turned into a blur to catch the blonde doll's back, making the body lie on the platform before it fell. The next second, accompanied by a series of cracking sounds, the blonde doll was reduced to a pile of scattered debris.
The good news is that this time it didn't shatter completely—it just broke apart from the major joints into several larger pieces.
The bad news is that the severed limbs are still covered with countless tiny cracks, as if they would be shattered again if they were hit once more.
"Ai Lin, no, that's unreliable."
Luna had somehow returned to Yu Sheng's side. The Saintess shook her head as she looked at the golden doll that had been shattered on the platform, and muttered something under her breath.
The room fell silent. The gruesome scene of the doll disintegrating was somewhat gruesome, but even more gruesome was that the blonde doll, even after falling apart, was still "alive"—Eileen's consciousness was still linked to this body. Her head rolled in front of Yu Sheng, blinking, and then straining to look in Marlene's direction: "Sister, what's going on?! Why did it suddenly fall apart again?! Sister, is your glue still holding it together?!"
At this point, not only Yu Sheng and the others were stunned, but even Marlene was dumbfounded—because from the moment those three candles were stuck in front of the painting, the whole thing had been beyond her comprehension. Fortunately, the Alice doll had a congenital instability in certain joints, so while the sight of Eileen's entire body disintegrating was a bit shocking, it wasn't quite terrifying. After a few seconds of hesitation, she blurted out, "That's not glue, that's a nanobot..."
Eileen: "Sister, your nanobots aren't sticky!"
The blonde doll's head began to mutter, and the rest of her body started to move. Yu Sheng saw one of her arms leave her torso and awkwardly begin to crawl on the platform with a few fingers. She fell off the edge of the platform halfway up, but Hu Li caught her and put her back on the platform.
Little Eileen, on the other hand, came over and pushed her own head, then pushed the blond head towards the neck, muttering as she did so, "It's not round, it's hard to push..."
Yu Sheng, watching from the side, got goosebumps. Even with his strong mental fortitude, he found the scene somewhat outrageous: "I'm telling you, this is a bit creepy!"
Eileen pretended not to hear. She pushed her head and turned her face around, while her other arm, which had been scrambling on the platform, stopped and waved haphazardly at Yu Sheng: "Yu Sheng, Yu Sheng, how about we try some rudimentary alchemy..."
Yu Sheng didn't react for a moment: "Huh?"
“I’ve connected to this body, which means the consciousness transfer process went smoothly, but the body still feels like it’s falling apart. I think the main reason is that the hardware isn’t working properly,” Eileen (in her mind) pondered, as if she were using all her intelligence in this thought. “Marlene, this glue isn’t sticking…”
Marlene explained weakly as she spoke again: "That's a nanobot."
"Marlene's nanobots aren't sticky..."
Yu Sheng understood; Eileen wanted him to change the "sticky" material.
That's easy, it's a traditional skill of the inn.
“Alright, let’s try the rudimentary alchemy method again,” Yu Sheng nodded, but he still hesitated before proceeding. He turned to look at Marlene and said, “Well, do you mind if we try another method here? The main problem is that Eileen’s physical condition might not be suitable for moving again. If it breaks again, it will be difficult to put back together.”
Marlene looked at Eileen, who was in a six-part state on the platform, with some confusion, and then at the "angel hunter" in front of her who was completely incomprehensible. She nodded unconsciously in a daze.
Then she saw the "artificial saintess" next to her, who was mostly quiet, elegant and calm, suddenly rush up and stab Yu Sheng in the arm.
Marlene: "...?!"
(End of this chapter)
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