She was dazed holding the helmet, quickly hung it on the car, and walked towards the doll shop.
Yu Yao followed Liang Yubai into the doll shop.
This is the most famous puppet shop in this square and this area. The puppets are famous for their exquisiteness and realistic degree.
As soon as you enter the store, you will see tables, chairs and shelves on both sides. Various exquisite dolls are placed on the chairs. Some are serving tea, some are reading books, and some are facing each other as if they are having a conversation.
From her hair to her porcelain-like delicate skin, her beautiful glass eyes, her gentle expression, and the nice clothes she wears make her particularly attractive.
From small dolls to life-size, they all look great.
If it weren't for the joints, it would look like it came out of a picture magazine.
"It's really beautiful." Liang Yubai was stunned. Some of the realistic dolls looked very much like real people, as if they could stand up from the chair in the next second.
"Hello." The owner of the doll shop walked out from the counter with a smile and faced the two people. "Whatever style of doll you want, I have it here. Feel free to take a look."
Liang Yubai stared blankly at the room full of dolls. After a moment's pause, he whispered, "Is there a life-size doll that's made of very light material but looks very much like a human?"
"It looks like a human?" The boss smiled thoughtfully, narrowing his eyes. "Excuse me, what is it used for?"
Liang Yubai paused, feeling somewhat bewildered. "Just... take, take him out to play..."
"It would be best if it couldn't be told it was a doll," Yu Yao added.
There was silence on the other side for a second. "Oh, there are some, the kind who treat dolls as friends. I see."
"Please wait a moment, both of you." The boss seemed to have realized something, but he nodded to her and turned to walk into the compartment in the store.
"Are there really such dolls?" Yu Yao glanced around. She probably knew the room was full of dolls when she came in. No matter how similar they were, they were still dolls in her eyes. If she had to say something, they looked very real, but without souls, they could never look like real people.
"It doesn't matter if it doesn't look exactly like a human. As long as it looks like a human, it can be used." Liang Yubai said calmly.
She still hasn't forgotten that her purpose is to pretend to be a ghost, so no matter how beautiful it is, it's useless.
While waiting for the boss, Bai Fang also came in. She looked around the place blankly and asked, "Are you here to buy dolls?"
Yu Yao turned around upon hearing the voice, and suddenly remembered that Doctor Bai was waiting for her outside. She immediately ran over and apologized, "I forgot about it when I followed you in to see the dolls. I'm sorry, Doctor Bai!"
Bai Fang choked up. She suddenly felt a sense of crisis. A doll could make Yu Yao forget her temporarily.
"Hello, Miss Bai." Liang Yubai greeted Bai Fang and glanced at Yu Yao. "So you two came out together? You two seem to have a pretty good relationship."
Yu Yao covered her mouth and laughed secretly.
Their relationship has reached the point of kissing!
Although, it seems that they haven't clearly confirmed their relationship yet? After kissing yesterday, I was in a trance and completely forgot about it.
But it was just right, so she could prepare well, find a formal and romantic occasion, and then tell Dr. Bai about the relationship.
Yu Yao was thinking about what was going to happen next when the owner of the puppet shop pushed out a life-sized mahogany box covered with red velvet. It was very exquisite, but it was a long and thin box that felt very much like a coffin.
"I don't know if this suits your taste." The boss opened the lid of the box and showed it to several people.
Lying inside was a beautiful woman with a slender figure. She was wearing a thin white shirt that reached her knees, with her black hair scattered on the cushions in the box. She had her eyes closed, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, as if she was having a sweet dream. If it weren't for the joints of the doll, one would almost mistake her for a real person.
"This doll is so beautiful." Yu Yao lay beside the box and looked at it carefully. The skin looked very delicate and gentle. For the sake of simulation, a little redness was added to the skin tone. The toe joints, finger nails, and hair were also soft and fine. The whole person looked like a real person.
"The joints are made of resin, and the rest of the body is made of silicone. The skin feels soft and not too hard. As long as all the joints are covered, it will look like a real person. In addition..." The boss bent down and reached out to pull at the doll's eyelids, slightly revealing the beautiful black eyeballs inside.
"The eyelids are also made of silicone and are very thin, so it's best not to touch them easily. But if you don't like the closed eye state, you can adjust it slightly upwards, like this."
He adjusted the doll's eyes. The tiny wrinkles looked like double eyelids, but at the same time, the eyelids were pulled open, revealing the eyeballs. Although the arc was not large, combined with the slightly raised corners of the mouth, it looked like a smile with squinting eyes, which was more beautiful than closing the eyes.
Liang Yubai raised his chin and said, "That's it."
The boss raised his eyes and stared at Liang Yubai, "First of all, let me make it clear that this doll is very expensive."
Liang Yubai was very calm, "Swipe the card."
The boss nodded and went to the counter to get the card machine.
Yu Yao glanced at the astronomical figure from the side and was stunned.
Apart from saying that she is worthy of being the eldest lady, I had no other thoughts.
"This looks quite heavy. Do you need us to help you carry it out?" Bai Fang stood aside and looked at the box. It would probably be difficult for Liang Yubai to carry it back alone.
"Ah, it's okay, I have someone to help me." Liang Yubai swiped the card and turned back to wave calmly, "On the contrary, you two are out to play together, right? Don't worry about me, continue to play, I have things to do."
Yu Yao remembered that Liang Yubai always had a bunch of bodyguards around him, so they didn't need to worry about this.
"Then I'll be leaving first. If you have anything, remember to send me a message." Yu Yao pulled Bai Fang, waved with a smile, and the two turned around and left the doll shop.
"What does Miss Liang buy the doll for?" Bai Fang still didn't know and looked back repeatedly in confusion.
"Oh, it's said to be for the female ghost in Yelai River. We can put her in it and take her away from Yelai River." Yu Yao explained, and returned to the motorcycle with Bai Fang and put on helmets.
"She has a good heart. Even if she doesn't do such a thing, it won't cause any loss to her. Maybe she considers that the female ghost in Yelai River wants to leave there." Bai Fang also put on a helmet and got on the bike. As if he suddenly remembered something, he turned around and knocked on the helmet worn by Yu Yao and began to review the accounts.
"You said you'd come back after saying hello?"
Yu Yao felt aggrieved, "Didn't I just apologize? I was so happy to see Liang Yubai that I unconsciously..."
"How can Liang Yubai be more important than me? More important than me?" Bai Fang frowned. "Could it be that you still like Liang Yubai?"
Yu Yao shook her head happily, "I like it."
Bai Fang was stunned.
"It's just a friend's affection! Liang Yubai is very nice."
"When I'm not familiar with someone, I speak with a bit of a young lady's temper, that kind of snort with a hint of disdain. But after I get to know her, I feel quite friendly."
Bai Fang breathed a sigh of relief, "Don't breathe so hard when you speak. I'm still a little angry. Why are you so happy?"
Yu Yao chuckled, "Because Doctor Bai seems jealous."
Bai Fang was really at a loss for what to do with Yu Yao. "Alright, put on your helmet. If you're late, those guys will probably get anxious."
"Okay~" Yu Yao made a happy sound and hugged Bai Fang's waist.
The group first arrived at a game hall on the street. It was quite large and had basically everything. There were two rows of game machines as soon as you entered. The place was noisy and crowded with people. There were sounds of quarreling, people pressing machines, and other sounds coming from various game machines.
Yu Yao was dizzy from the noise as soon as she entered the room, but at the same time she was very interested in what was inside. She looked around and stared at the row of people who were noisily and frantically tapping on the game consoles.
"Oh, everyone is in high spirits." Yu Yao followed Bai Fang excitedly and was led inside from the door.
"Boss, you're here."
"Hello, boss."
"Hello, sister-in-law."
As soon as he entered, a bunch of people greeted Bai Fang and Yu Yao at the same time. Many other people in the game hall turned around and looked at Yu Yao when they called her "sister-in-law".
Although the game hall was noisy, there was also a quiet place for resting, with snacks and drinks. It was a small piece of pure land in the midst of the noise, and Yu Yao was arranged there.
"It feels quite lively." Yu Yao happily looked at the people in the game room. "I thought it would be a more chaotic place, but it feels like an amusement park?"
Bai Fang smiled silently. She might not take Yu Yao to a truly chaotic place. The game hall was a place to relieve stress and have fun. It was a bit noisy, but it was just right to bring her there.
There are two types of game consoles here, one is placed outside for entertainment, and the other is placed in the basement for profit. She would not let Yu Yao know about those things that only some people would be addicted to. However, she could let her take a look at the fighting games played in groups of two outside.
"Have you ever played this kind of game console before?" Bai Fang couldn't help asking when he saw that she looked very interested.
"Of course!" Yu Yao nodded confidently. "Don't underestimate a friendless homebody. My biggest entertainment is surfing the Internet. Although I've never actually operated a video game console like this, I've played a lot of fighting games!"
The thug next to him joked, "It sounds like the sister-in-law is pretty strong, but I'm not saying anything wrong. The people here hang out in the game hall every day, and any one of them is very strong. People who come here often will register to participate in the competition. They will face off in groups, and it's an elimination system. The last ten are recorded on the wall over there."
"But the best players are always the same few, so later on it became a matter of, if you win you get a star after your name."
The gangster said this and pointed at the wall on one side of the game room.
Yu Yao looked in the direction and saw a ranking table on the wall covered with game console posters. However, it looked like they all used pseudonyms, and each one was written in capital English letters. The number of stars behind the first place was so many that it overflowed the table, and the edges were filled with records, as if little stars were falling down.
"That first place winner is amazing." Yu Yao stared at the two letters. "BF? Boyfriend? Or does it mean something else?"
"No, that's..." The gangster next to him was about to explain, but was interrupted by Bai Fang's sudden cough.
"Ahem." She cleared her throat, hinting at something.
The punk paused, "Yeah, yeah! It means boyfriend!"
"Oh~ Who is this person? He seems very powerful." Yu Yao was very excited.
"Well...she's not here today."
Yu Yao nodded, her eyes swept elsewhere, then turned to look at Bai Fang and pointed over there, her eyes full of excitement, "Can I go watch them play games?"
Bai Fang nodded and said, "If you like, you can try it too."
"Let me take a look first!" Yu Yao stood up happily and trotted to the nearest game console, watching two people fighting each other. The characters on the game screen kept confronting, fighting and using skills. The two people in front of the game console were manipulating the joysticks and pressing buttons quickly with their hands at a very fast speed.
People on the side watched and analyzed, cheered or despised, and from time to time, the people playing the games would shout an angry "If you can do it, come on", and the atmosphere in the game hall was particularly good.
"Sister-in-law, do you want to try it?" After finishing a set, someone immediately invited Yu Yao enthusiastically.
Yu Yao was very excited and clenched her fists in anticipation, "Then I'll give it a try!"
The people next to them immediately moved aside to make room for Yu Yao.
As soon as they saw Yu Yao taking the seat, several people immediately gathered around and watched curiously. Bai Fang also moved over silently and stood behind Yu Yao, watching.
Yu Yao had played games with similar mechanics online before, and she had just watched someone else do it, so she learned a little bit and chose the character that the previous person had just used to start.
"Sister-in-law, please be careful. The people here are really strong." The person sitting opposite joked with a laugh.
"I'm very strong too!" Yu Yao said confidently.
The other party smiled and didn't care too much.
Right at the start, Yu Yao's character was caught off guard and half of her health was taken away by the opponent. She temporarily dodged a skill and was not killed instantly.
A laugh came from the machine opposite, "Sister-in-law, be serious, I won't let you down."
Yu Yao angrily pressed the buttons and started to hit them frantically, shaking the joystick, trying to follow her usual fighting style, and began to dodge and accumulate skills, but the strength gap was too big, and she was still beaten by the opponent with ease.
She was typing away at the keyboard, feeling a bit anxious and angry. People watching her couldn't help but feel nervous for her and really wanted her to win.
The man who had been easily beating Yu Yao gradually began to feel some pressure, not from Yu Yao who was playing the game opposite him, but from the gazes of the people around him who were staring at him.
As soon as he looked up, he caught a glimpse of Bai Fang staring at him, with a look of "let go" written all over his face.
He had no choice but to start draining Yu Yao silently, and the people around him took the opportunity to praise her.
"Sister-in-law is amazing! Most people would have been killed by her by now."
"It's obvious that my sister-in-law has a lot of potential. She was so ferocious even in her first time playing. I'm still too new."
"Come on, sister-in-law! Beat him back quickly!"
The game hall was bustling with activity. The opponent tried hard to let Yu Yao win, and she played hard. Finally, she won when the opponent pretended to make a mistake.
"I won!!!" Yu Yao jumped up excitedly and threw herself into Bai Fang's arms joyfully, "Doctor Bai! I won!!"
Everyone in the room was happy for her, except the one who was beaten, who felt very aggrieved.
The difference in treatment is too great.
After Yu Yao finished playing, she happily returned to her original position, drinking her drinks and eating snacks in peace, watching the people in the game hall disperse to play games again.
"Wait here for me, I'm going to answer a call." Bai Fang pointed outside and instructed Yu Yao.
"Okay." Yu Yao nodded quickly, watching Bai Fang walk out with his phone and stand at the door of the game hall.
Those hooligans were having fun over there. Yu Yao sat there alone, looking around and sizing up the game hall.
Every time she arrived at a new place, she would subconsciously check if there were any old objects that could talk, but it was too noisy here. After entering, she could not hear anything except human voices and the sounds of game consoles. She listened carefully for a long time but did not hear any strange sounds.
"Hello." A man suddenly appeared next to Yu Yao from nowhere. He sat next to Yu Yao with a cigarette in his mouth, looking her up and down with a smile.
"You look unfamiliar, did you just arrive here?" He asked as he blew out a smoke ring. The swirling smoke made Yu Yao cough uncomfortably.
“Um, um…” Yu Yao raised her hand to cover her nose and frowned, “I just got here today.”
"You look like you're alone. I just came up from downstairs to get some fresh air. If you're free, would you like to sit downstairs with me?" The man hinted at something.
"Down there?" Yu Yao was a little confused. "Isn't this a game room? There's a game room down there?"
"Huh? You don't know?" The man looked Yu Yao up and down. "You really don't look like someone who would know. Are you interested in going down and seeing for yourself?"
Yu Yao was silent for a moment, then shook her head, "No."
"You're not interested?"
Yu Yao nodded. "I'm interested, but... I don't like people who smoke."
The man paused, staring at the cigarette in his hand, frowning unhappily. "Are you truly innocent, or are you playing hard to get? You're rejecting me with that excuse."
Yu Yao stared at him calmly, "I really don't like smoking."
The man was silent for a moment, then chuckled, "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Yu Yao shook her head.
"That's right. Most men smoke. If you don't like smokers, then you definitely don't have a boyfriend."
Yu Yao was a little confused by the other party's confident attitude, "There are men who don't smoke."
"But that kind of man would never come to a place like this."
"This kind of place? What's wrong with this kind of place? There's nothing wrong with just liking to play games." Yu Yao muttered in confusion.
"I really don't know how you got here." The man shook his head and sneered.
Although Yu Yao didn't know what was going on, she could feel that she was being laughed at by the other party.
"I brought her here, what's wrong?" A voice interrupted the conversation between the two.
The man was about to take a puff of his cigarette, but he stopped immediately when he heard the voice.
He was stunned for a moment, turned his head and looked over, his eyes met Bai Fang's.
"You...she..." His eyes quickly looked at Bai Fang and Yu Yao, as if he didn't know what to say for a moment.
"That's right." Yu Yao happily rushed to Bai Fang and excitedly introduced him, "Although I don't have a boyfriend, I do have a girlfriend!"
The man looked even more confused.
Bai Fang nodded and tilted his head to the side. "If you don't have anything to do, don't sit here and disturb us."
The man remained silent, then immediately stood up, stared at the two of them with an expression as if he had seen a ghost, turned around quickly, and left without looking back.
"He didn't say anything strange to you, did he?" Bai Fang stared at the man's back for a while, then turned around and followed Yu Yao back to sit on the sofa.
"Strange words?" Yu Yao thought for a moment. "He said he wanted to take me downstairs in the arcade? Is there anything down there?"
Bai Fang lightly waved away the smell of cigarette smoke in the air. "Nothing much, probably a person with a mental disorder. People like this appear occasionally."
"Oh..." Yu Yao nodded, not taking it seriously.
After hanging out in the game hall for a while, the hooligans got tired of playing and started to change their location and go somewhere else to play.
"Let's take my sister-in-law out for some delicious food first!" one of them suggested excitedly, "It's a rare opportunity to meet my sister-in-law, so of course we should go out for some delicious food!"
“I agree!”
“When it comes to delicious food, it has to be the one we always go to.”
"I agree, it has to be that one!"
Yu Yao was pushed out of the arcade by several people, and followed them in a daze, "Where are we going? What are we eating?"
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, whatever we like will definitely be delicious." Several people said with a smile.
Yu Yao nodded, smiling and narrowing her eyes, "I can't wait for that!"
A group of hooligans began to leave in batches again, and Yu Yao still sat in the back seat of Bai Fang's car.
She put her arms around Bai Fang's waist, listened to the sound of motorcycles, walked through the streets and the crowd, and watched the scenery passing by in front of her, feeling a little dazed.
In the past, at this time of year, I would be at home browsing forums or playing games, or going out to work. Apart from Shu Wen, I rarely went out to play with so many people.
She felt particularly happy to suddenly go out and play with others.
In the past, I always felt that thugs and the like were difficult to approach and dangerous, but when I was with Bai Fang, I felt very normal.
The motorcycle sped through the streets and gradually drove towards some remote places outside the city. The sky gradually darkened, the sky was painted orange, the setting sun was splashing all over, and the evening light shone on the two people in the car.
"The houses here are bungalows, which are rare nowadays." Yu Yao looked at the changed environment around her, staring at the houses that looked very mediocre compared to the high-rise buildings.
"Yes, but this piece will be demolished in a few years. There are still quite a few people living here now." Bai Fang responded against the wind.
A group of hooligans gradually drove to a busier street in the Pingfang area, where various small stalls were set up. There were no street lights on the street, only hanging lights pulled up by each stall. The dim light illuminated the entire street, and people came and went, making it a unique kind of bustling place.
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