Chapter 106 Mysterious Doll Shop
Alice House is the name of this doll shop. When seeing this name, especially when seeing a large number of rose-like flowers embellished on the sign, Sui Yu couldn't help but remember a small task he had experienced in the game world.
It was a side mission based on a certain animation in reality. The main task was to collect various materials for making dolls to exchange for various very random rewards for a puppet master. The purpose of that puppet master was to create a perfect doll named Alice.
Of course, true perfection does not exist, so that task is also a material collection task that can be repeatedly brushed. As for whether the doll maker finally created the perfect doll Alice, Sui Yu didn't know. It was just that the game company seemed to have introduced the general plot of the anime and opened a copy of the game called Alice in the game world, and it seemed that if you want to enter that dungeon, you need to brush a certificate from the doll master.
However, because the legendary copy had a long time span and was a copy with extremely variables in many people's battles, Sui Yu, who was busy taking Philomina to avoid the pursuit as soon as it was launched, naturally had no time to feel it.
Sui Yu shook his head and thought, "Are you really old? You have already started to touch the scene and start to recall the past!"
Scattering away the somewhat chaotic thoughts, Sui Yu pulled Xue into this gorgeously decorated doll store.
Sui Yu did not forget that he had just promised to buy a doll for the kitten girl to give her as a toy!
However, as soon as he walked into this doll shop, Sui Yu couldn't help frowning, because he suddenly felt that the room seemed to be "cooler" than outside!
After reminding from Philomina and the others, Sui Yu can now distinguish which kind of coolness is a physical feeling and that kind of coolness is a spiritual feeling.
At this time, Sui Yu felt the coolness that could only be felt on the spiritual level. After comparison, Sui Yu found that the aura of this doll shop was definitely stronger than the resentment outside!
Yes. Although Sui Yu does not have the extremely strong perception of the magic war girl in Phyloumina and others, after a certain degree of adaptation and training, Sui Yu can now basically distinguish some mysterious auras and magic fluctuations when prepared.
Moreover, the kitten woman grabbed Sui Yu's hand tightly since she entered the house and wanted to hide herself in Sui Yu's body. It also proved that the gloomy aura of this store was even strong enough to be noticed by ordinary people!
Especially when Sui Yu entered the door and looked at the left and right sides of the store, he felt even cold all over.
Unlike the toy room that is as full of childlike dolls as seen in the showcase, which is like a fairy tale, the high multi-story counters on both sides of the door are all filled with various dolls, and the atmosphere in the room is very strange because of the dark light.
Accompanied by the flashing light on the bright red carpet, the strange scene made Sui Yu feel illusion as soon as he entered the door. It was as if the eyes of the dolls on the counter were all focused on him when he opened the door, as if they were very cunning!
"I'll go! This place is so evil!" Sui Yu's heart was filled with anxiety. Although he was a necromancer, when facing some supernatural scenes, Sui Yu still felt as panicked as an ordinary person.
"Welcome!" A weak greeting came from the inside desk that seemed to be full of various tools and various doll parts. Sui Yu then realized that there was a living person hidden in his relationship!
After taking a little step forward, Sui Yu found a weird man with messy hair, glasses, pale skin and unshaven beard sitting behind the counter. And at this time, the weird man continued to lower his head and work in his hand after making a sound of greeting the guests.
Just someone else, Sui Yu relaxed a little after losing a reconnaissance technique (at least someone stayed here to prove that this shop was not a ghost movie scene), and then pulled the kitten woman who had already hidden behind him, almost overlapping his legs and stepped forward two steps.
Only then did Sui Yu realize that the store owner seemed to be making dolls.
Unlike the weak hell just now, the man used various tools to constantly adjust the doll parts in his hand, which was flexible and almost caused a afterimage.
Soon a part that seemed to be an arm was polished and carefully inserted on the stick next to it to dry. Then the weirdo had no intention of greeting the guest and started to deal with the next part again.
He looked up and glanced at the dolls on the shelves. Sui Yu found that the dolls on the counters on both sides seemed to be staring at him from that angle. Then he quickly shook his head and tried to dispel the chills that couldn't help but feel angry and said to the store owner in a relaxed tone: "How do you sell the dolls here?"
"Each copper coin is limited to one purchase per person!" He still answered weakly, and even the store owner did not look up when he answered.
"One copper coin?!" Sui Yu couldn't help but exclaim. He didn't expect that the workmanship was so good that he even looked like a real person, so that the doll actually sold only one copper coin!
However, after recalling the map drawn by Philomina and the others, Sui Yu suddenly discovered that this store that looked like a manor from the outside seemed to be part of the manor of the former Magic Master.
A room near the street in the mansion was transformed into a doll shop, and the dolls sold in this very beautifully decorated shop were just one copper coin!
Moreover, each doll sold in the store not only has independent appearance characteristics but also is lifelike. It even made Sui Yu, the undead mage, almost mistakenly believe that he could feel the soul fluctuations from those dolls. And this is how the doll, which can be called the most outstanding work of art, only sells a copper coin?!
Then Sui Yu suddenly realized that this doll master probably didn't care about the money at all. One copper coin and one was just to allow more people to appreciate his works (it's the same as some writers would rather spend money on their own to publish their own works).
However, although he gave himself a more reasonable reason, Sui Yu still felt that something was more inconsistent, so he pulled the kitten woman who always hid behind her and did not dare to approach the store owner while pretending to choose a doll and using message magic to get in touch with the war girls.
"How are your investigations?"
When they heard Sui Yu's inquiry, the war girls immediately began to give back. Basically, they found nothing. Several families in the noble area had asked. They also went in and investigated them for a while but found nothing special.
Even the manor that was treated with the focus, Philomina and Haqa, who were once living in the manor master, reported that they had found nothing after investigation with the manor servants.
Of course, at the end, Philomina also told Sui Yu that she had just heard very interesting news: "It is said that Charlotte, the only successor of the generation of the Magic Puppet Master, is a very unique person. He didn't like to study Magic Puppets, but devoted his life to making dolls and made a great wish to create a perfect doll, and even the name of the perfect doll was given. What's the name of Alice!"
"Well, I also know that this guy who pursues perfection is called Charlotte has opened a doll shop at the intersection of the noble and civilian areas! By the way, I seem to have found something weird here, but I can't judge for a moment. If you finish the investigation, come and help me analyze it!"
Philomina & Haqa: “Yes!”
After hanging up the message magic, Sui Yu glanced at the shop owner who was still working hard to make dolls. Sui Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This is such a coincidence!"
Although the common language used by the indigenous people in this world is completely different from that of Sui Yu, some pronunciations are still very similar.
Just like the pronunciation of the three words Alice, there is not much difference between the two, which can be translated together!
Sui Yu did not expect that in another world, he would encounter a puppet master who pursued perfection that appeared in a certain anime work in his original world. And it seemed that under the guidance of some strange fate, the puppet master gave the unfinished puppet a name Alice.
Is this just a coincidence? Sui Yu couldn't help but keep thinking in his heart, and then Philomina led a large group of Zhan Ji and walked in...
For a large group of people coming in the store, especially this group of people is still a top-notch beauty who is almost all kinds of people. If it is an ordinary store manager, his eyes will definitely be almost glaring out, but the owner of the doll shop is not even raising his head and still lowering his head to make the doll in his hand.
Of course, maybe it was in professional ethics. When the door was ringing, the boss still said "Welcome" and then there was no movement.
To be honest, isn’t he afraid that things will be swept away by customers and not leaving a copper coin for him?
If this is in the Chinese country in the world where Sui Yu is located, if anyone dares to do this, there will basically be few who will have a good ending!
However, after thinking that the store owner might be the only heir to the manor, Sui Yu calmed down - he didn't even care about the doll income, so he naturally didn't care whether the customers would steal things.
At this time, Philomina and Angelina were standing together, frowning and trying to perceive. At the same time, the war girls were also having related discussions with each other in the channel established by message magic.
Philomina: "The resentment in this room seems to be much higher than outside!"
Hakeya: "Yes. And after careful sensing, you can feel a sense of despair filled it! Who investigated the neighborhood before? Why did such an obvious problem not be discovered and reported?"
Kanami: "Oh! I visited Fannie before, but I didn't find anything special except that I felt something was wrong with the atmosphere. Moreover, the owner of this store ignored everyone, so I didn't ask for any special information..."
When everyone heard that it was Kanami and Fannie's responsibility, they immediately understood. It was understandable that these two agile warriors could not detect the weirdness in their resentment. Moreover, Fanni also had to take care of Kanami, who often lost links. In addition, although the resentment in this store was even stronger, if they were used to the outside environment and came in, those with lower perceptions might not be able to feel any difference between the store and the outside, so it was reasonable that Fanni did not notice the abnormality of this store at all.
As for Kanami, it would be considered an abnormal situation if that person didn't lose the chain?
Wendy: "The resentment in this room is indeed much heavier than outside, and it seems that you can sense negative emotions such as resentment and despair emitted when death, but the total amount is not too much. Either this place has nothing to do with the missing children, or all the children have not died nearby. In short, the negative emotions do not reach the residual amount of thousands of people die. But if it is expected, this place should be the source of resentment that fills the entire block! Even if it is not the source, it should be near the center!"
After making a judgment on Wendy, who was particularly sensitive to the aura of the dead, the other Zhan Ji also roughly talked about her guesses about these resentments, but how to prove and find the real source of resentment still requires everyone to continue to work hard.
"Hey, look at these dolls, why do I always think these dolls are weird, just as if they really have their own souls!"
Sui Yu's voice sounded in the message channel, and at this time, the war girls suddenly discovered that Sui Yu was actually putting his hand on a doll and was closing his eyes and sensing something.
Then Sui Yu's exclamation sounded again in the message channel: "I tried to concentrate and extend the power of will to this doll, and suddenly I felt some information fragments emitted by the soul of this doll! From these fragments, I seemed to feel that this doll was trying to ask us for help!"
Speaking of this, Sui Yu let go of his hand and said to everyone through message magic: "I just heard this doll shouting to help me! Let me go! And this kind of soul sound is absolutely impossible to fake. I am afraid that although we have not found the missing child, their souls have probably been found!"
Philomina suddenly pointed at the dolls full of shelves around her with pale face and asked Sui Yu in the message magic: "What do you mean?"
"Yes!" Sui Yu's voice that seemed a little bit gritted because he could not suppress his anger (spiritual communication could not conceal the emotions in people's hearts, so he could easily feel the emotions represented in the voice transmitted by the message magic): "I'm afraid that the souls of those missing children will be trapped in these dolls! Crazy! Charlotte is crazy! In order to make the perfect doll Alice, that guy actually tried to make a doll with the child's soul to give the doll life to achieve the so-called perfection! Madman! This guy is definitely a complete madman!"
"What?! I'm going to kill him!" Fanny, who was usually very cold, seemed to have an unexpected sense of justice. When she heard that Charlotte might have done such a crazy evil thing, she would immediately cut off people. Fortunately, she was stopped by Philomina quickly.
"Don't be impulsive!" Philomina pulled Fanny and said to everyone in the message channel: "I feel that this is a bit strange. Many people have investigated the disappearance of this child before. Why didn't they find something wrong with this place? Moreover, Charlotte's strength and mental fluctuations do not seem to have combat effectiveness. So the biggest question now is, how did the missing mercenaries disappear?"
Although after a period of understanding, Sui Yu felt that they were actually quite powerful. At least in the mercenary world, Sui Yu had already become confident in competing with the three mercenary groups of the Taraya Kingdom (the reason for making such a judgment is naturally because one of the mercenary groups is currently doing farm work in Sui Yu's farm), but being able to cheat so many mercenaries and mercenary groups without being discovered at all, this is enough to attract Sui Yu and the others' attention.
"However, no matter what, the souls of these children cannot be left alone. Otherwise, I will buy one and study it to see if the child's soul can be rescued. At least, they must let their souls rest in peace instead of being locked in the body of such a doll and suffering forever!"
After Sui Yu finished speaking, he planned to take a doll back to study (of course, Sui Yu would still pay for a warning to the snake, not to mention that a copper coin is nothing). Anyway, even if his half-baked undead spell is invalid, can he still ask for help from the audience outside the field - Avalonri has a large number of magic talents, including Rise, an almost omnipotent monster genius in the field of research!
Chapter completed!