Alien Hotel

I couldn't fall asleep, and I couldn't fall asleep without Irene making trouble next to me.

It was probably the first time that I experienced a serious exploration of a foreign land. It was really exciting. It was also probably because I had been exposed to too much information recently. At this time, it all came to my mind. Yu Sheng couldn't stop. There were random thoughts in his mind, so after tossing and turning and barely sleeping for two or three hours, he got up, put on a coat over his pajamas, and quietly prepared to leave the bedroom.

As soon as he opened the bedroom door, the little doll on the bed suddenly sat upright again, without opening his eyes: "Going out, where are you going?"

As soon as Yu Sheng got the certificate, he was about to answer the other party when he saw Irene fell down again. When she fell down, she was still muttering: "Don't forget to bring your helmet when you buy money. You and the silly fox are both full." You won’t take me to play games either——..——.”

The random talk in her sleep—why she, a doll, not only needs to sleep, but can even talk in her sleep? !

Yu Sheng felt a strange desire to complain. After confirming that Irene was not awake, he quietly opened the door and walked to the corridor outside.

The sun has not risen yet, and there is still endless night outside the house. It is the quietest time before dawn.

It was so quiet inside and outside the house that the sound of people walking on the floor in slippers was particularly loud and sudden.

Yu Sheng looked around and first saw the door at the end of the corridor. He walked over, cautiously opened the door a little and took a look inside. When he saw that everything in the room was still as usual, he felt relieved slightly and turned around to walk towards it. Stairs at the other end of the corridor.

As soon as he came to the stairs, he saw the clothes hanging on the railing post - it was the coat he wore when he went out last night. Because he came back very late, he didn't pack it away and just hung it here.

There was still a large amount of dried blood on the coat, and there was a large gash in the place where the giant wolf had bitten it.

It looks very scary.

Yu Sheng picked up the coat and looked at it. He didn't look carefully when he came back. Now he felt that the clothes must be in serious condition. It would be a lot of work to mend them. The huge amount of blood stains might not be able to be washed away, and it was nothing in itself. Expensive clothes... I'd better just throw them away later. I don't know if such a "bloody clothes" that look the same as those recovered from the murder scene will scare people if they are thrown into the trash can. Then the neighbors will probably Call the police.

Various thoughts were running through Yu Sheng's mind. One moment he lamented that he had a huge amount of bleeding at that time, and the other moment he regretted that there was so much blood. He should have applied it everywhere in the exhibition hall while it was still wet, and maybe he could still get it. Have more control over the "museum" or unlock some new gadgets. For a while, I thought about what the giant wolf that emerged from the shadow of Little Red Riding Hood was, and worried about the girl being chased by the evil wolf—"

His eyes kept looking at the blood stains on the clothes unconsciously. Gradually, the messy thoughts in his mind gradually converged into the same curiosity.

Blood, my own blood—what the hell is that?

This doubt has been lingering in my mind for a long time, but I have no time or ideas to verify or study anything. At this time, Yu Sheng suddenly had some ideas. He couldn't sleep anyway. After a moment of hesitation, he turned around and walked on. Stairs to the attic.

The night spilled into the window, and the attic was quietly filled with a dark blue and almost ink dimness. The large table that "Irene" regarded as the "alchemy table" was quietly located in the depths of the darkness, and there were still things on the table. The tools used when making the body of the doll last time, a few old books were piled on the corner of the table, and next to it was the old lamp.

Yu Sheng did not turn on the big light, but turned on the old desk lamp. In the limited but more focused light, he slowly sat in front of the table, thinking about something.

He used two sections of lotus roots to reshape Irene's arms, and the little doll turned into a mini lotus root. Irene protested fiercely.

But aside from her fuss, there is one thing that is actually worth paying attention to.

That is, in the knowledge system of Irene, a "professional doll," this kind of random operation would never be successful. Clay, flour, and even soil dug from the garden can be used as materials for making dolls. " "Lotus root" is not.

After a little hesitation, Yu Sheng took out a disposable mixing cup from the drawer, picked up the paper knife on the table, gritted his teeth and made a cut on the back of his hand, and dripped his blood into the cup.

He had no occult knowledge. Apart from the mechanized "operations" in the process of making dolls, Irene only taught him some superficial knowledge about spirituality, guidance, and activation, and they were all spoken casually. degree.

But for Yu Sheng now, those superficial knowledge are enough for him to satisfy his curiosity.

After completing an exotic exploration with Little Red Riding Hood, he is now very interested in the field of mysticism and is eager to increase his experience and knowledge in this area.

According to the method that Irene taught him in his mind, Yu Sheng arranged the candles for the spiritual infusion ceremony on the table, then placed his own blood on several concentric circles and connected "focuses", and began Try to activate your own "spirituality" and infuse this power into the blood that has separated from the body.

Eileen said that "blood" is an excellent "natural alchemical wonder". The flow of blood symbolizes "life", the greatest miracle in the universe. It is the easiest substance to react in alchemical rituals, even if it is Novices, no matter how skilled they are, can use it to complete many tests.

But Yu Sheng encountered a problem at the first step.

He didn't know how to activate his "spirituality" - although he had recently been able to feel the existence of "spiritual intuition" more and more clearly, he still couldn't perceive and control this "spirituality" that was said to come from the essence of the human soul as a specific, controllable "element". He couldn't feel any supernatural "energy" appearing in himself, and naturally couldn't infuse it into the blood out of the body.

He could only give full play to his imagination, and then he almost fell asleep.

After ten minutes of tossing and turning, he saw that the blood in the cup had a tendency to coagulate gradually, so he gave up the test in this direction.

Maybe some "auxiliary materials" are needed?

Yu Sheng thought about it, opened the drawer again, and took out a bag of clay from it.

This was bought again after the clay ran out last time. Considering that Irene might have an emergency in the future that needs to repair her limbs, he now has to keep these "materials" at home.

After all, he couldn't always use lotus roots. Although he really wanted to try it, Irene might be crazy about clay modeling. This was the only alchemical experiment that Yu Sheng had been able to "operate" successfully so far.

He mixed the blood in the cup directly into the clay and kneaded it evenly. Then he strictly added "auxiliary materials" such as tea powder and rose oil according to the ratio Irene taught him. After careful preparation, he began to seriously shape the clay into an arm.

Anyway, I'll just practice the "craft" of making puppets once, so that Irene won't have to complain about the ugliness of her own kneading every time she recalls the process of "reshaping".

Yu Sheng thought so in his heart, and used twelve points of patience and meticulousness to complete the shaping of the arm, and then used a scraper and a knitting needle to make a small palm at the end of the clay ball. After a good effort, he found that it was still ugly.

But at least it's better than last time. Fortunately, there are indeed five fingers.

He never dared to tell Irene that the body he made for her for the first time was actually two six-fingered ones - anyway, the doll was restored to normal after it completed its self-remodeling, and she herself did not notice it.

After doing all this, Yu Sheng placed the arm in the center of the alchemical array again, while imagining the connection he had established with the arm through blood, he slowly moved his right hand, trying to make the arm on the table move like himself.

But it did not move.

Yu Sheng frowned, poked the arm with a scraper, and found that there was really no reaction, so he could only resign himself to putting it aside temporarily.

The faint morning light had begun to pour into the attic through the windows on the sloping roof, and the surroundings were gradually getting brighter.

However, Yu Sheng was already immersed in what he was doing, and did not even notice that the sky was gradually getting brighter.

He released more blood and prepared more clay.

Handicrafts are a very addictive thing.

Since I have already made an arm, I might as well make a complete body. I don’t care whether I can succeed in alchemy. It’s fine as long as I can practice the skill of shaping people. I will prepare a spare body for Irene. Although she said that she would need a few months to replace the new body, this period of time is just right for me to practice well.

Give the little doll a small surprise at that time.

Yu Sheng thought so in his heart, and his enthusiasm gradually rose. The continuous release of blood did not make him feel uncomfortable at all. Instead, he became more energetic. He made a new torso, arms and two legs, and then opened a new bag of clay and began to try to make the head of the doll.

He felt that he had made great progress. At least compared with the last time, the body he made now can be called bilaterally symmetrical, with healthy limbs, arms and legs.

The head of the doll is more laborious to make than the body. Not only must the facial features be portrayed as delicately as possible, but the more complicated makeup process must also be considered. Yu Sheng didn't know if he could do it. When he first shaped the body of Irene, he directly skipped the step of "face makeup". The face was finally grown by Irene herself, but this time he wanted to challenge a higher level of difficulty.

Anyway, when I bought clay last time, I also bought a set of small tools for applying makeup to dolls and figurines.

It would be a waste if I didn't use it.

Yu Sheng was very devoted to his work.

In fact, he was so devoted that he didn't even notice that the fingers of the arm he had made at the beginning were trembling slightly.

And the chest of the doll's torso placed on the edge of the table was rising and falling slightly at a level that was difficult to detect with the naked eye.