Chapter 576 Anyway, things are going well now.
Eileen cried so hard.
Yu Sheng could completely understand her sadness. Putting himself in her shoes, he felt that he would probably have had a hard time holding back in that situation.
After all, the previous bodies of the little doll were either only 66.6 centimeters tall when they were created, or they shrank to 66.6 centimeters tall immediately after being infused with spirit, so there was no need for high expectations. But this time the situation is different. She has just truly restored her "original appearance" and even maintained that state to complete the entire examination process with Maris. Not to mention herself, even Yu Sheng felt that this time it was definitely a sure thing - who would have thought that this would suddenly happen?
This poor doll's original body can even shrink!
But the most stunned people at the scene were not Yu Sheng and his group, but Marlene and her servant who witnessed the whole process.
As a "Alice doll" with impeccable morals and normal values, Marlene's entire worldview and knowledge system could not explain what was happening before her eyes. The question "How does this work?" kept swirling in her mind. As for Maris, it was much simpler—thanks to the two hundred dollars Marlene saved when she upgraded the hardware of her servo assistant last time, Maris was now smoking.
Yu Sheng, at a loss, held the heartbroken little doll. It took him a while to finally calm the little thing down a bit. He then placed the two dolls, one with blond hair and blue eyes and the other with black hair and red eyes, side by side on the alloy platform. After visually confirming that the two dolls were indeed the same height, he stroked his chin and began to mutter, "This shouldn't be... I could understand if they shrank immediately upon activation, but how can they suddenly shrink back after two hours of normal activity..."
"It just doesn't make sense!" Eileen's eyes were red (although the black-haired girl's eyes were originally red), "And I've only just gotten used to a normal height perspective again, and I haven't even had a chance to do anything yet, and I'm already sitting here getting a physical exam... My long legs, I'm 1.98 meters tall..."
"Stop, stop, stop. Although I sympathize with your situation, it's a bit far-fetched for you to imagine growing taller right after you shrank back," Yu Sheng waved his hand to interrupt the little thing's rambling. His gaze fell on the blonde doll in front of him (66.6 cm). Although his mind was still a bit dazed, he subconsciously entered a state of contemplation. "Don't be so sad yet. I think there's something strange about how your height shrank back this time."
The two Eileen sisters tilted their heads and thought for a moment, then the blonde one spoke first: "...What do you mean?"
“Think about it, your body only started having problems after you had been moving around normally for a while. This is clearly different from the previous situation. Rather than saying that your body had a problem, it’s more like… that you ran out of energy after moving around for a while—or maybe it’s not energy, but something like that,” Yu Sheng said while thinking. “Isn’t it similar to when your Spirit Fox Iron body ran out of power? Although one of you couldn’t move and the other shrank back, both of you had problems after moving around for a while.”
Eileen listened with blinking eyes. Although she felt that the conjecture lacked evidence, she had always recognized the power of Yu Sheng's "thinking"—although the man in front of her lacked knowledge of the occult, his theory was weak, and his practice was fragmented, he was unparalleled in intuition, and his thinking was ridiculously accurate.
So after listening, she followed this line of thought and began to ponder it. After a moment, she hesitated and asked, "Then, how about charging it?"
"It's hard to say. Your body might not necessarily be an energy drainer," Yu Sheng said, stroking his chin. "Try to recall the feeling when your body suddenly shrank. Did you suddenly lose strength or experience joint problems?"
"It seems not..."
While Yu Sheng and Eileen were analyzing the situation, Marlene was also frantically restarting Marys. She removed the bionic skin from the back of the wind-up maid and lifted a cover to help with heat dissipation. The next second, the light in Marys' eyes flickered twice. She looked up with a "beep" sound, first glancing in the direction of Yu Sheng and Eileen, then turning her head slightly to the mistress beside her: "The topic they are discussing is very strange."
Marlene, without looking up, busied herself on the back of the wind-up maid: "I know."
Maris thought for a moment: "Also, could you please get me a better cooling system next time? And I think there might be something wrong with my new coprocessor... Are you sure it's brand new?"
“It’s definitely new,” Marlene said immediately. “You opened the packaging yourself.”
Mary tilted her head.
"Perhaps it's a manufacturing defect," the clockwork maid said somewhat dejectedly.
“If all else fails, we’ll just replace it with the old one for a few days,” Marlene frowned. “What about the old processor you replaced before?”
"I put it in..."
However, just as Marys opened her mouth to say a few words, Yu Sheng's voice suddenly came, interrupting the conversation between the master and servant.
"Excuse me for interrupting," Yu Sheng waved his hand, "Could you examine Eileen again?"
“Of course,” Marlene nodded immediately. In fact, she had been busy restarting Marys for this very reason. “Wait a moment, Marys needs a little adjustment… Okay, where’s that data cable?”
Yu Sheng quickly found the cable he had used to examine Eileen next to the alloy platform and casually handed it to the little doll: "Here—keep it in your mouth like before."
Blonde Eileen took the data cable, shoved the connector into her mouth, and mumbled, "My mouth is smaller now, it feels worse than before..."
Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng immediately felt that it was very reasonable and rigorous.
Maris, with the back heat dissipation cover still open, began to examine Eileen's shrunken body while steam rose from it.
"Connection established successfully, initiating body parameter reading..."
The pale blue data stream flowed rapidly in the clockwork maid's eyes, and the basic check items progressed very quickly, unlike the lengthy guidance process that had been required before.
Several devices in the doll printing room started up on their own, and lines of parameters began to refresh rapidly on the holographic projection next to the nano tank.
Marlene frowned, staring intently at the data, before shaking her head in confusion after a long while: "...Everything is normal at the data level, even..."
Yu Sheng and Eileen asked in unison, "Even?"
"...There are even fewer error reports than before," Marlene said incredulously. "This body is operating at an extremely high efficiency right now, almost like a newly born Alice doll."
Yu Sheng was taken aback by what he heard, and stared at Eileen, who was sitting on the alloy platform.
The two fell silent.
In fact, Yu Sheng wasn't completely baffled by Eileen's "constant height" of 66.6 centimeters; he had some thoughts about it.
He also remembered the world of the Omen Goddess's homeland, and the 6,660-year history of the Omen Mother civilization, which began with the observation of the sky.
Information from outside the world is distorted into something else once it enters the observable universe. Some things are just that illogical—Ankaera has etched her obsession with reconstruction into the distortion of the concept of "fairy tales," the celestial bodies have etched their obsession with the continuation of life into their cycles of transformation and ascension, and the Goddess of Omens has clearly also etched the history of the mother civilization into this universe...
But it seems like her mother carved it crookedly.
Looking at the little doll in front of him, Yu Sheng realized that the fusion of the blonde Eileen and the Goddess of Omens had given birth to a new individual. The one in this body was neither the "Alice Doll" from back then, nor a god from another world who descended from the Boundary Bridge. "Eileen" had her own essence—although this "essence" seemed a bit difficult to figure out now.
He looked at the doll, and the doll looked at him.
Then Eileen sighed.
She spat the data cable out of her mouth, clapped her hands, jumped off the alloy platform, and walked to Yu Sheng with her arms outstretched.
"hug."
Yu Sheng then picked up the little doll.
"Let's go home."
"OK."
Another woman, Eileen, with black hair and red eyes, jumped off the platform, still holding the frying pan in one hand and dragging the large photo frame in the other.
But the moment she jumped off the platform, the dark picture frame suddenly made a slight cracking sound—it landed on the ground, shattering abruptly like an object made of loose black ash, and turning into ashes in the blink of an eye.
Until today, it had always been exceptionally sturdy.
Yu Sheng: "...Holy crap?!"
Everyone instinctively looked at the pile of ashes. Hu Li's ears twitched, and she let out a soft gasp: "Ah, it's broken."
Blonde Eileen was stunned for about two or three seconds, then she looked down at her hands, slowly opening and then clenching them into fists.
Yu Sheng immediately became a little nervous: "Do you feel uncomfortable somewhere?"
“No, I feel… really good,” Eileen seemed a little dazed, but it seemed more like the sudden shattering of the picture frame had left her unable to react. “I also feel much lighter.”
Yu Sheng was still a little worried, so he picked up Eileen again and observed her for a while. Only after confirming that she had no abnormal reactions and that her speech and expression were still as rude and impatient as usual did he finally breathe a sigh of relief and put the little doll that had started to protest on his shoulder.
The pile of ashes formed from the fallen picture frame had begun to dissipate rapidly, leaving only a small clump of debris within a few breaths.
“It seems that the picture frame, which served as the seal, disintegrated on its own because your original body was activated,” Yu Sheng said thoughtfully. “After all, you left this seal yourself.”
"Yes, really?"
Eileen scratched her head. As the person involved, she didn't really have any thoughts about it. However, the sudden loss of the picture frame that she had carried for so long made her feel a little melancholy. Although she couldn't explain why she felt this melancholy, since that thing had been an annoying cage for her for a long time, she still felt a sense of emptiness in her heart.
It was as if the sudden sense of relief left her feeling somewhat disoriented.
However, the little doll's advantage was that she wouldn't waste her energy on things she couldn't understand—she quickly cheered up again and patted Yu Sheng's head.
"Let's go home! Let's go home!"
Yu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and decided to go back and study the little doll's current state and the specifics of her new body.
A gate leading to No. 66 Wutong Road opened, and Yu Sheng and his group said goodbye to Marlene and stepped back home.
The doll printing room quieted down, with only the low hum of the various machines running.
After seeing Yu Sheng off, Marlene didn't leave the room. Instead, she silently watched Mary pack her things not far away, her brow furrowed as she pondered something.
After pondering for an unknown amount of time, she suddenly stepped to the alloy platform next to the nano water tank and looked thoughtfully at the connecting cables on the edge of the platform.
After hesitating for a moment, she picked up one of the data cables and put it in her mouth, then looked up at the wind-up maid beside her: "Marily, is there a signal?"
Marise paused for a moment, then said hesitantly, "Miss Marlene, this is a bit... stupid."
Marlene spat out the data cable and continued to stand beside the platform, lost in thought.
...What's the underlying principle behind this?
(End of this chapter)
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