Chapter 60 Hu Li's New Home
Irene looked down at her right leg which had fully recovered. She carefully turned the joint left and right before putting on her socks and slowly stood up with the help of Yu Sheng's hand.
"Two, two legs are the same length, right?" The little puppet raised his head and looked straight at Yu Sheng, "I didn't guide the reshaping this time, I just performed the infusion and fusion. Can you help me take a look..."
Yu Sheng rolled his eyes and said, "It must be the same length. I just trimmed the surface for you, and I didn't cut it off and re-cut it."
Irene breathed a sigh of relief, walked back and forth on the table with her short legs, and finally smiled: "I can run around again! Yusheng, your craftsmanship is pretty good this time, maybe you have a talent for making puppets?"
"Thank you for the compliment..." Yu Sheng replied casually, and then he saw Irene, who had regained her ability to move, pick up the picture frame again, and quickly jumped from the table to the empty chair next to her. She then crawled backwards from the chair to the ground, and began to run around in circles in the open space in the attic.
Before, every time Irene ran around, Yu Sheng always felt it was too noisy, especially when she would always bump into various things and make the house a mess. But for some reason, this time when he saw Irene running around, he didn't feel annoyed anymore, but only felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment gradually rising in his heart.
"A talent for making puppets..." Yu Sheng muttered, looking down at the scraper in his hand and the almost empty pot of putty. For a moment, he was not sure whether Irene's compliment just now was a sincere one or a sincere compliment.
He was not sure whether he had the talent for making puppets, but he suddenly thought of the two lotus roots that he had just manipulated randomly and successfully "infused with spirit".
It seems that Irene has completely forgotten about this.
Just then, the sound of footsteps coming from the direction of the stairs interrupted Yu Sheng's wandering thoughts and also interrupted Irene who was running around in the attic.
When Yu Sheng turned around, he saw a pair of big furry white ears emerging from the stairs, and then a fox looking around with a nervous and curious look on its face.
The fox girl was wearing pajamas that seemed a little too big for her. Her silver-white hair was a little wet. She probably followed the smell to find this place. When she saw Yu Sheng and Irene were there, a happy smile immediately appeared on her face: "Ah! Benefactor, and Irene, you are all here!"
Then she noticed that Irene's hands and feet had "healed" and was immediately very surprised: "Irene, your hands have grown back?"
"Yusheng fixed it for me!" Irene raised her hands happily to show Hu Li, then jumped on the spot, "My legs are fixed too!"
"My benefactor, the magic is very powerful," Hu Li stared at the fully recovered puppet in a daze, and even had respect on his face when he turned his head to look at Yu Sheng, "He knows how to pass through the netherworld, can reshape the body and return to life, and he also knows how to refine puppets."
Yu Sheng thought about it and felt that the Netherworld Path that the fox mentioned was probably his ability to "open the door", and she seemed to regard Irene as a puppet he had made.
The next second, Irene, who had reacted, jumped up and started to make a scene: "What do you mean by a puppet? I am a living puppet from Alice's cabin! Do you understand what I mean by a blessed one? If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, you wild fox!"
Hu Li listened to the little puppet's quarrel in a daze, then lowered his head: "Oh, I don't understand, I won't talk nonsense anymore."
Irene stopped quarreling in the middle of it, feeling a little dazed. She was used to bickering with Yu Sheng, and this was the first time she met someone so honest and didn't argue with her. She suddenly ran out of plans in her mind and just stayed where she was.
And then, Yu Sheng suddenly discovered something.
He looked behind Hu Li in surprise: "...Where's your tail?"
Irene also reacted and noticed belatedly that the tail behind Hu Li was gone.
"I put it away," Hu Li laughed, and turned slightly. Then there was a "hum" sound like a sword being unsheathed. A bright light suddenly appeared behind the fox girl, and a large, fluffy and furry tail suddenly bloomed. "The door is very narrow, and it always bumps into things, so I put it away."
Irene, who was standing next to her, screamed "Oh my God" and was instantly flung away by the huge tail that suddenly appeared, rolling and crawling on the ground for several meters.
Hu Li screamed suddenly, ran over and hurriedly pulled up Irene, who was cursing on the ground.
Yu Sheng was stunned watching from the side, but his first reaction was to breathe a sigh of relief: "You scared me, I thought you had fired your tail..."
Then he asked another strange question: "…Why does the tail make a buzzing sound when it comes out?"
Hu Li thought for a moment and said, "It could also be 'bang'."
Irene, who had just been pulled up and was about to continue cursing, was stunned when she heard the words and stared at Hu Li blankly: "...You dubbed it yourself?!"
"Before a fox reveals its tail, it must make a sound to alert people around it to avoid it," the fox girl said as a matter of course. She now speaks much more fluently than when they first met, but there are still some strange pauses. "But you, didn't avoid it."
Irene was furious: "How would I know these weird 'rules'! Where on earth did you come from, fox?!"
Hu Li thought about it carefully, shook his head in frustration, and his ears drooped: "I, don't remember."
This time it was Irene's turn to freeze in expression. The little doll turned her head away unnaturally: "Don't take it seriously, I was just saying it casually..."
Yu Sheng came to Hu Li, thought for a moment, and then said seriously: "Don't be too depressed, it doesn't mean you can't go back, maybe you will find your home in the future."
Hu Li's ears pricked up again, "Can your netherworld passage take me back, benefactor?"
"That door can lead you anywhere. Sometimes you can even get into someone's alchemy furnace by just opening it," Irene said, with her hands on her hips, looking proud as if it was her own ability. "Maybe one day he'll be able to open a door that leads to your hometown."
At this point, she seemed to suddenly think of something, and turned to look at Yu Sheng: "Well, how about going to the alchemy furnace again? There are immortals and things over there. What if it is Hu Li's hometown? Or if you have heard of it, it's okay. After all, it seems to be a system..."
Yu Sheng was embarrassed when he heard this: "Based on the situation last time... I'm afraid the other side will attack directly."
"Oh, that's true. If I were on the other side of the door, I would also want to beat you to death."
Hu Li listened to the conversation between Yu Sheng and Irene, his eyes shifting between the two of them, with a confused look on his face.
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Seeing this, Yu Sheng coughed twice and said stiffly: "We are discussing who to ask about your background. Don't worry, I will help you find it slowly."
"My benefactor, don't worry too much." Hu Li understood this time, but just shook his head gently. "If you can find it, that's even better. If you can't, it doesn't matter. Anyway... I don't remember what my hometown looks like, and there won't be anyone I know if I go back."
As she spoke, she reached into her tail, felt out the two sharp canine teeth, and a gentle and slightly comforting smile appeared on her face.
"I've found my parents. It's okay if I don't go back."
"...It's good that you think so," Yu Sheng exhaled softly and nodded to the fox girl, "So what are your plans for the future? Have you thought about the future?"
Hu Li looked a little confused. After hearing Yu Sheng's words, he was stunned for a long time before shaking his head slowly.
"I... don't know," she whispered, her tone as uneasy as a young animal leaving its nest for the first time. "This is the first time I've left that valley. It's nice here, but everything is strange. I... don't understand anything, and I don't know where... to find food. Mom said that a fox should never forget a favor, but I don't know what I can do to help my benefactor."
Her speech was still a little incoherent, but Yu Sheng could understand it all.
He laughed, comforting the somewhat frightened fox.
"Then you can live here from now on. I have an empty room here - and plenty of food, so you don't have to worry about starving. As for what you can do... from now on, just help me fight. That's it for now."
Yu Sheng thought about it carefully and felt that he didn't understand what abilities this fox had. Although it was said that the fox demon could repay a favor and change her destiny, it seemed that it would be impossible to ask her to help write C language, draw an illustration, or make a PPT. However, the power of this girl's subsonic headbutt and the move of shooting out the tail were truly amazing. She would be a rare high-end combat force when dealing with foreign lands in the future. At that time, Irene would be responsible for hard control, and Hu Li would rush up to attack people, and he could just stand by and shout "6" with peace of mind. It would be a good thing indeed.
Hu Li looked a little confused: "Fight?"
"In the future, we will come into contact with more alien worlds, just like that valley. There are many similar 'abnormal spaces' in this world, hiding all kinds of dangerous entities," Yu Sheng said slowly, "There may be others trapped in there like you, and there may be others who ask us for help for various reasons. And I myself... also have reasons to continue dealing with other alien worlds and entities. In short, I need help."
Hu Li listened and suddenly seemed a little nervous: "Then...will we be trapped again?"
Yu Sheng was startled, but soon, the fox girl's extremely genuine reaction made him smile: "Have you forgotten my 'Path to the Netherworld'?"
Hu Li was stunned for a moment, and finally a smile slowly appeared on his face.
She nodded happily: "Okay, I'll help my benefactor and fight!"
(End of this chapter)
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