Chapter 7 Irene's Escape Plan
Irene's scolding was really harsh.
Yu Sheng had no idea how a puppet sealed in an oil painting could have such a rich vocabulary—and could curse coherently while sliding all the way down the stairs without even taking a breath.
Maybe it's because the main body is a doll and therefore has no breathing function at all.
However, Yu Sheng remained calm. After Irene slipped down the stairs and fell to the ground, she let her scold him. He still walked down slowly and leisurely, holding the handrail - mainly because of his waist pain, and he couldn't walk fast - and after reaching the first floor, he bent down with great effort and picked up Irene's picture frame.
"Are you sick?" Irene was holding the stuffed bear in the painting with her eyes wide open, her clothes and hair in disarray. "How can you just throw someone off a building like you? What if the painting gets broken?"
"My waist hurts. Your painting is too heavy to carry downstairs," Yu Sheng said calmly, carrying the painting frame and slowly walking towards the restaurant. "I've observed that your painting frame is very sturdy. And if you really break it, maybe you can get out of this predicament."
"If it was so easy to get out of here, why would I be sealed up until now?!" Irene sat back in her chair angrily, "Ah, my head is dizzy..."
Yu Sheng suddenly stopped and looked down at the girl in the oil painting very seriously.
Irene felt a little numb at the sight: "You...what do you want to do now? I tell you, if you throw me down the stairs again, I will not forgive you. I will sneak into your dreams every day when you are asleep. If you dream of taking an exam, I will ring the phone. If you dream of playing games, I will unplug the phone. If you dream of going out, I will drive a dump truck to chase you. If you dream of having a boyfriend, I will..."
Why does this unlucky puppet talk so much trash?
Yu Sheng resisted the urge to drag Irene to the second floor and throw her down again. He kept a straight face and tried to look serious. "I just want to ask, what is the principle of your 'seal'? You said you wanted someone to help you out... then how can we help you out?"
Irene didn't expect that Yu Sheng was going to say this. She was stunned for two or three seconds before she spoke in disbelief: "You...you promised to help me get out of here?!"
"Didn't you say you wanted to find someone to help you out?" Yu Sheng frowned, and then added, "I'm just asking first, I haven't agreed yet..."
Irene seemed not to have heard the second half of his words. Before he could finish, she spoke hurriedly, "There are three... No, there are two ways! The first way is the best, which is to find my body. I don't know where it is now, but it must be somewhere... Maybe not far from this painting. Anyway, if I find my original body, everything will be easy. Let me get close to it, and I can get out of this damn painting...
"But if I can't find it, or my original body has been destroyed, then I can only use the second method, which is to create a new one. However, the new body will definitely not be as useful as the original one, and it will be difficult to adapt to it..."
Yu Sheng had been listening very carefully, and at this moment he couldn't help but interrupt: "Make a new one? How? Can I go to a puppet shop and buy a ready-made one?"
"Of course not!" Irene said immediately, "I am 'Alice's Doll'! A blessed living doll, you know? How can I be the same as those three-quarter dolls and four-quarter dolls in the store?"
She paused for a moment before continuing with a serious expression, "The living dolls were all born from the garden of Alice's cottage, and our original bodies also came from there. But now I have lost contact with the garden, and I can't leave the painting, so I can't return to the garden to be reborn. But even without the garden, we have a way to create a temporary body in the real world to deal with emergencies... But even though it is a temporary body for emergency purposes, it is not easy to create.
"First, you need to find hair that grows automatically, soil that moves like a living thing, bones of a dead person that break and heal, and a tear from a living puppet - two drops will do, so my skin will be better - then you need to use alchemy to activate the above materials again, and then apply your own blood... Hey, why do you look like that?"
Yu Sheng looked at the girl in the painting with a stern face, and sighed for a long time: "... Let's talk about the plan to get your original body back?"
Irene blinked: "...You don't know alchemy?"
"Shouldn't everyone know how to do this?!" Yu Sheng looked a little mad. "Let's not even talk about alchemy. Where can I find all those ridiculous materials you mentioned? Are these things really not copied from some third-rate fantasy magazine? And the tears of a living doll... If I could find another living doll, I would just hand you and the painting over to her! Wouldn't it be better to let your sister take you home instead of letting me mess around?"
Yu Sheng thought that he had only been in this "world" for a short time and did not fully understand those strange shadows and the extraordinary realms behind the shadows. But at least from the information channels he had accessed so far, the "materials" mentioned by Irene were definitely not something that ordinary people in this world could access. How could this guy say that as a matter of course?
After seeing Yu Sheng's reaction, Irene seemed a little embarrassed. She moved slightly in her chair and lowered her voice after changing her posture: "Actually, other materials will work, such as buying some clay paint or wigs online..."
Yu Sheng: “……?”
He looked at the girl in the painting with an expression that said, "Are you kidding me?" Irene couldn't help but shrink back in her chair again: "I just hope that the temporary body can be as useful as possible... But if you can't make a gold suit, a blank one will do.
"But even with those ordinary materials, the final step still requires your blood and a little bit of alchemy skills. I can teach you. This is very simple, and ordinary people can do it..."
Yu Sheng did not speak at first, but remained silent as if he was lost in thought. After a few seconds, he suddenly said, "You wanted to say there were three ways at the beginning, right? Why didn't you mention the other way?"
"...That method is not very good. It has some costs." Irene waved her hand with an honest look on her face. "You probably won't agree to it. Besides, I don't want you to try it. After all, you and I are not familiar with each other..."
"If you know we're not familiar with each other, stop talking so much nonsense." Yu Sheng said casually and glared at the girl in the painting.
Irene pursed her lips, looked at Yu Sheng a little reserved (she now knew how to be reserved), and asked carefully: "Then... do you want to help me get out of here? The second method is actually quite easy. You can just pinch out a body at random. It doesn't matter if your skills are not good enough. As long as the ritual process is correct, I can reshape it after entering the body... Just don't make it too ugly, at least it has to look like a human being."
This time, Yu Sheng did not argue with Irene. He just thought seriously for nearly half a minute before he responded solemnly: "I can't agree now. I need to think about it."
He didn't trust the girl in the painting, at least not completely.
Although she looked honest and sincere, a bit talkative but not a bad person, with a distinct personality but harmless, giving people the impression that she did not have bad intentions, all this was just a superficial impression brought about by knowing her for only one day - after removing these "human" impressions, Irene's essence was still a strange thing sealed in an oil painting.
Yu Sheng was not so fooled by her cute appearance that he would create a body for this "ghost in the painting" and release her without saying a word - what if she really changed her appearance after she came out and killed him under her Gothic skirt...
I had just died once not long before I died, and I didn't want to die again for the time being.
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After getting the answer, Irene didn't say anything. She just looked at Yu Sheng for a while, then nodded naturally: "Oh, I see."
Yu Sheng was very surprised. He thought he would have to argue with the girl in the painting for a long time about this matter, but he didn't expect that the other party would be unexpectedly... generous.
"After all, we are not familiar with each other yet, right?" As if seeing the doubt in Yu Sheng's heart, Irene suddenly laughed and blinked at the outside of the oil painting, "When we are familiar with each other, I will ask again."
"...Okay, we'll talk later."
Yu Sheng also smiled, carrying Irene's picture frame to the dining room, casually placed it upright on the dining table against the wall, then turned and walked towards the kitchen.
"I haven't had dinner yet, go cook first."
"Okay... Hey, why don't you turn on the TV across the table first? I'll watch it for a while..."
“There are so many things to do.”
Yu Sheng turned on the TV opposite the dining table, then picked up the vegetables and seasonings he had bought from the supermarket and placed them on the shelf to prepare his dinner.
He is actually a person who loves cooking. Since coming to this familiar yet strange "Jiecheng", he has to cook almost every meal by himself at home to feel at ease - after all, only when he is in this big house will there be no strange shadows to disturb him.
He didn't mind meeting a tall and thin figure when he was traveling outside, but not when he was cooking or eating, because these two things were important events in his life.
…Although now there is also a strange “Eileen” in this “safe house”.
But compared to the ghosts, freezing rain and frogs that haunt the city streets, a hapless doll that can only babble in an oil painting is always much cuter - at least she won't dig out her own heart.
(End of this chapter)
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