Doll Survival Game [Unlimited]

Luo Yiran looked at the man in black on the garbage dump.

The wide black robe covered his entire face, the only exposed skin was his arms, but there were no black lines on his hands.

Not a prison guy.

Luo Yiran was extremely sure.

The strong wind blew his hair, Luo Yiran smiled at the man holding the long knife.

The man in black put away his long knife, and he suddenly turned and left.

Artel couldn't even open his eyes because of the wind, so he put on the sunglasses he used to camouflage. Atel didn't notice the garbage mountain on the side, but wondered: "Why didn't you knock on the door?"

Luo Yiran turned his head, and he looked up at the magician.

The magician was watching the direction in which the man in black robe with the long knife left.

The puppet directly interrupted his gaze, and he manipulated the magician to knock on the wooden door in front.

The houses in the lower area seemed to be crumbling, and Artel disliked it so much that when he landed, the toe of his shoe landed lightly first.

"Why don't you open the door? It's really impolite." Atel became more and more unhappy: "And what are we doing in this kind of place!"

"It's so dirty."

The magician smiled and said, "Yeah, what are you doing here, anyway, master, your goal is to survive, and there are some things you don't need to know."

The puppet looked up: "If you don't understand the situation, you will suffer a lot." What's more, you have to understand when you play games.

Just as Luo Yiran finished speaking, the wooden door suddenly creaked and opened a small crack.

In that dark slit, a pair of gray eyes were staring straight at them.

Arthur gasped for breath.

"Hello." Luo Yiran didn't even blink his eyes, and he looked into those eyes: "I want to ask you something."

The owner of the eyes closed them slightly, and then he opened the door wider.

So his face was revealed, it was a very old face with countless scars and very uneven.

"..." Atel took a few steps back silently.

The puppet stepped in the hat: "Tomorrow the city of water will be submerged, and we may all die, so it will basically have no effect if you tell me, and you don't want to leave with a secret."

The word "submerge" caused the old man's turbid and numb eyes to fluctuate. He seemed to be breathing badly, and when he laughed, he seemed to be panting: "submerge is good."

"If you submerge, nothing will happen!"

The puppet looked at him, and the old man was talking wildly. After coming over for a while, he suddenly lowered his head: "... who are you? What are you doing here?"

The puppet pointed at a random place: "I'm from outside of Shuicheng. I'm here to ask you about your past."

The old man's eyes were clear for a moment, and after a while, he suddenly turned sideways for some unknown reason: "Come in."

It was too windy outside, so the puppet agreed, and he manipulated the magician into it.

Atel was unwilling to go in, he wrapped his clothes tightly, his golden curly hair was about to be blown into a ball by the wind: "I, I'll wait for you outside!"

"Okay." Luo Yiran responded casually.

The old man's room was dark, with no windows and no place to see the outside, as if the old man could not see the light.

click.

The wooden door was closed, and the old man walked past him: "There is a chair at the door, sit down."

The puppeteer sits down.

"What do you want to know?" The old man was used to all the furnishings in this room. Even in the darkness, the old man didn't touch anything. He walked directly to one place and sat down.

Luo Yiran was silent for a moment, and then he said, "Do you need me to do something before you can say what I want to know."

The old man let out a terrible laugh in a hoarse voice: "You don't need to do anything, just ask questions." There is no need for any conditions, because the conditions have been met.

The puppet couldn't see the layout of the room clearly, but he looked exactly where the old man was: "Then I'll ask directly."

"Was the water city flooded before? I want to know what happened at that time."

The first one asked most things directly.The old man lowered his head and took out the cigarette from one side. When he was about to touch the lighter to light it, the fire suddenly lit up in the darkness.

The old man looked up, and then looked at the playing cards in the blackness, and behind the fire was a face covered with bandages. The red eyes of the doll below were crystal clear under the fire.

He came to him silently.

The old man froze only for a moment, and then he lit the cigarette with the fire of the playing cards.

"Water City was flooded before." The old man's voice was extremely hoarse, but he spoke clearly, but he hesitated and hesitated for the next words, and it took him a long time before he managed to say: "How much do you know?"

Luo Yiran didn't hesitate, he raised his head: "Idia has been imprisoned by Shuicheng for more than ten years, during this period they can do anything to Idia." Of course there is no need to talk about guessing.

"They're all a group of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death." The old man took a deep breath of the cigarette, and the smoke filled the air. He looked in the direction of Luo Yiran in the dark.

The old man shook his head slightly: "Before the water city was flooded last time, there was also a mermaid, and that mermaid experienced the same thing as Idia...even more terrifying."

"Do you know what a mermaid looked like at first? It was like white paper, like a newborn child." The old man had a heavy and yearning look on his face: "There have always been legends about mermaids in Water City, but we didn't really see them until decades ago. The mermaid was accidentally caught by the men in the village when they went out to sea."

"It is very obedient and docile, no matter what you do to it, it will not resist, even if it hurts, it will accept it."

"And do you know how beautiful the mermaid is?" The old man's voice fluctuated strongly: "It is much more beautiful than Idia, it is a strange beauty, you can tell that it is not human, but no one can bear it Don't stay near him."

Luo Yiran didn't speak, he just listened quietly, and the old man suddenly calmed down a little: "I was only a teenager at that time, and I secretly went to see it every day."

"Until later, that man sold the mermaid, and he took his family to live in a nice house."

"Then the person who bought the mermaid accidentally fell into the water drunk one day, but came back alive the next day... That person got the ability to breathe in water from the mermaid, so they thought it was because he fell in love with the mermaid '." The old man kept smoking vigorously: "Humans, greedy creatures are easy to be born in this world, and their desires are endless."

The puppet finally spoke up: "The love you mentioned refers to a purely physical relationship."

"Yes, that is an ability that can only be obtained by close contact with mermaids. The closer you are, the easier it is to obtain." The old man did not hesitate: "The mermaids at that time were beautiful and mysterious, and they would not get angry or resist, just like a lot of banknotes placed on the table. in front of you and unlocked."

Luo Yiran frowned. He didn't like this metaphor, so he skipped this sentence and asked a question: "Is there no price for the ability to breathe underwater from the mermaid?"

The old man paused, and he said, "Yes, but it didn't show up at that time...I'll talk about it later."

Luo Yiran nodded, and the old man continued to talk.

"Those people may just be greedy for carnal desires, or maybe they just need the ability to breathe in the water. After all, the water city was often submerged by the sea at that time. People are afraid of accidents."

The old man wiped his face with the back of his hand: "So the mermaid became a trade item, and many people came to buy time with the mermaid."

"At that time, I became the person who took care of the mermaid's daily life through countless selections." The old man's voice lowered again: "But at that time, the mermaid had already learned to take off its clothes for everyone who was close to it."

"I can't teach him how to put it on." The old man put his hand down, and a little red light followed his hand down: "Until it fell in love with someone."

"That's another person who takes care of it's daily life... Maybe it's not love for the mermaid, but it's the first one that makes it feel different, being treated very tenderly and beautifully."

"But soon, that person died, and was beaten to death by the 'owner' who bought the mermaid, right in front of the mermaid."

The old man took another puff of his cigarette: "In our legend, the mermaid is like an angel, untouched by the world, but if it sheds tears, it will become a human being, full of emotions and desires."

"The merman cried in the tank and dropped pearls in its eyes."

"After that, Shuicheng was about to be submerged. It rained heavily for several days, and there was no intention of stopping. I just thought it was just a natural disaster."

The old man recalled the past: "I was the person in charge of taking care of the mermaids. There were a lot of people looking for mermaids in those days. This time, more people came because they needed to breathe underwater."

"When the seawater flooded more and more places in Water City, people all went to seek refuge. Only me and the mermaid were locked in that house."

"I was abandoned, but the mermaid is still alive." The old man's voice trembled again: "At that time, everyone went to seek refuge and didn't think that the water city would be completely submerged. Finding a mermaid is just an extra layer of insurance, but I will definitely die. , I don’t have the ability to breathe underwater, and I can’t escape that locked house.”

"But when the water was about to flood into the house, the mermaid asked me for the first time."

"It said, take me to the mountains."

The old man coughed a few times, and then laughed: "A piece of white paper is covered with white paint, it looks white, but in fact it is no longer the original white paper... I took the mountain that the mermaid said that day. It went with it, but it was the mermaid who opened the door."

"I knew for the first time that it had very sharp nails, but I didn't understand why it didn't leave when it had the ability to leave. It clearly knew that those people were hurting it."

"It wasn't until we got to the top of Watertown's tallest hill that I understood it was about revenge."

Luo Yiran finally became interested: "What did it do?"

"The sea water was brought by the mermaid." The old man's voice was full of sarcasm: "The sea water quickly flooded the shelter. Those who could breathe thought they could survive, but they would be swept down by the water just after coming out of the water, the mermaid Just behind the tree, I watched those people come out of the water with hope, and then they were dragged down in despair. At last, they sank powerlessly and starved to death at the bottom of the water.”

"In the end, only a fraction of the people who could breathe underwater survived."

"The mermaid didn't kill all of them, but it also killed many innocent people. That's why I left it."

"But it seemed to have learned a new ability at that time, and I felt that it wanted to keep me." The old man's hands trembled: "Then it was very strange, I wanted to listen to everything it said."

"But I was too scared. I was too scared to look at the corpse floating on the surface." The old man said weakly: "Then I felt that feeling of obedience disappeared."

"The mermaid let me go."

After saying this, the old man fell silent.

"And then?" Luo Yiran asked these three words, and when he got the answer, he understood the old man's silence.

"A few days after the seawater receded, the survivors of the water city were all looking for the mermaid. They didn't know that the seawater was brought by the mermaid. They only knew that the mermaid could let them breathe underwater."

"However, the mermaid died, and the people in Shuicheng only found its cut tail."

"...?"

It wasn't the mermaid that the people of Shuicheng killed after discovering the truth.

So the existence of Idia can be said to be in the past. Someone in Shuicheng tried to create a mermaid. The purpose may be to get the ability to breathe underwater or something...and it succeeded.

But—who killed the mermaid?