...A series of strange sounds rolled through Hu Changzai's throat.
He no longer wears glasses, but his glasses are still a little bulging due to his high myopia; he looked at the puppet master stupidly, then at Lin Sanjiu - until the puppet master suddenly became impatient: "
You speak!"
"Ah," Hu Changzai was startled and coughed. His face slowly turned red, white and blue: "She...she didn't seem to be lying.
"
This sentence was extremely difficult, almost word by word squeezed out of his throat - the last thing Hu Changzai could say was a lie.
The puppeteer slowly narrowed his eyes, and the glitter no longer turned into crimson, but suddenly turned back to silver.
"You mean, not a single word she just said was false?" he said softly.
Lin Sanjiu thought in her mind, and quickly took advantage of the puppet master's face to glare at Hu Changzai - but there were two puppets facing her, and she couldn't make any obvious expression, only a smile from the corner of her mouth.
After twitching, I don't know if Hu Changzai can understand what she means.
"Not really," Hu Changzai stammered for a while, and finally thought of a reason that allowed him to speak smoothly: "...I didn't fully hear what she said just now. I can only say that from what I heard,
, she didn’t lie——”
A layer of anger immediately appeared on the puppet master's face.
"Didn't you hear me clearly? Didn't you tell me earlier?" He waved, and two puppets led Hu Changzai closer. He said coldly to Lin Sanjiu: "Repeat what you just said."
This time, with a buffering time, Hu Changzai's demeanor became much more natural when he said "She didn't tell lies" again. Moreover, he not only covered up for Lin Sanjiu, he even taught himself without a teacher.
I have learned a truth about lying; it is the most difficult thing for people to distinguish between three parts truth and seven parts lies——
"Most of what she said was true, but there were a few lies. For example, she said she didn't know the prize was a humanoid. This..."
"Okay," the puppet master waved his hand and interrupted him gloomily, obviously losing all his patience. He strode closer to Lin Sanjiu and stared into her eyes closely; the two looked at each other,
There was silence for several seconds.
Although her nerves were tense, Lin Sanjiu still pretended to be calm and said: "...Look, I really didn't lie to you. I told you, I opened the gift bag..."
She was only halfway through her words when the man standing in front of her looked increasingly suspicious and sinister, almost looking like he could squeeze out water. Lin Sanjiu took half a step back and couldn't help but become wary - just in case,
She was ready and turned on the [Protective Force Field]: no matter what, the puppeteer could not directly touch her skin.
...She still remembers that in Red Nautilus, parts of Dr. Cat and Ayu's bodies were transformed into doll textures by the puppeteer.
"I... don't believe it."
The puppet master uttered these words softly, causing the expressions of the two people present to freeze. The doubtful look just now had faded from his face, and Lin Sanjiu was not sure whether he meant what he said.
But he was unwilling to do so. The puppet master glanced at Hu Changzai from the corner of his eye and said, "...No matter how good you are, people are never as reliable as puppets. Since you can't become my puppet, I have no choice but to continue to wrong you."
.”
He waved his fingers, and the two dolls immediately dragged Hu Changzai back. After being separated for so many worlds, he still didn't seem to have improved much in terms of force value; he was pulled involuntarily by the two dolls.
He entered an open space at the back and quickly disappeared - apparently the puppeteer placed a special shelter object there.
Will Dr. Cat be there too?
Lin Sanjiu gritted her molars and held back from saying a word.
She just wanted to smile bitterly - she didn't expect that the puppet master would not only let her worry about the gift bag and Doctor Cat, but now there would be another Hu Chang Zai.
"Then what do you want?" she asked with a sigh, "Look, the humanoid guys around me are just half of them... If you are willing to trade Doctor Cat for him, then that's up to you."
The puppeteer had already seen the half-section of Potato Brother she was carrying behind her back, but she didn't take a second glance at it. She probably knew that the gift bag couldn't be cut into half and still be alive.
"It doesn't matter." The puppet master said almost gently, "I saw that there is really no one else around you. So I decided to be more tolerant to you... Go and find the gift bag and give it to me. When will you bring the gift bag with you?"
Come, when will I give you the cat again?"
Lin Sanjiu's face turned pale, but he still didn't give up: "I really destroyed him. Didn't that guy just say -"
"I'll be right here waiting for you."
This sentence suddenly gave Lin Sanjiu another worry, and her heart sank.
The puppet master must not stay here!
The towel hanging in the woods not far away is still fluttering in the wind; there are not many towels on the gift bag. Since he marked it here, he must not have just left and never returned.
Come back, otherwise the mark would be meaningless - she didn't know if every final gift bag looked the same, but Lin Sanjiu couldn't afford the risk of having the puppet master and the gift bag collide head-on.
But how can we get him to leave here on his own initiative?
She remained silent, her mind racing rapidly, but for a moment, she couldn't even think of a decent solution.
Seeing that the puppet master seemed to be about to leave, Lin Sanjiu felt anxious and shouted: "Wait!"
The figure in front stopped and said nothing.
"Well... you are alone with a few dolls, isn't it a bit too dangerous?" Lin Sanjiu said bravely, "I'm afraid you can't protect Dr. Hu."
The puppet master turned around in a hurry, and the bright pink around his eyes had turned into a dark red as thick as blood. Lin Sanjiu looked at the veins popping up on his temples, and gritted his teeth and continued: "I'm here
I have been around here, and there seem to be a lot of particularly dangerous giants. You, you are alone, and I..."
The puppeteer snapped his fingers, and then a shadow that covered the sky came down from the white mist. In the blink of an eye, it looked like a giant foot. With a roar, the ground shook and it stepped heavily on the ground.
Behind the puppet master, looking up along the mountain-like ankle, Lin Sanjiu once again saw the familiar red robe of Sha Nu.
"What did you just say?" the man wrapped in black leather asked softly.
Lin Sanjiu stared at Sha Nu with his eyes open, and after a while he asked: "Why, why...can you command a god?"
"It's very simple." The puppet master's anger was still lingering, but he gave a twisted smile. "Find a little god who hasn't become powerful yet, turn her into a part of the doll texture, and then help her kill a few gods.
...Isn’t that enough? Once I tried it, I realized that this method actually works very well.”
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but shudder.
"By the way," the puppet master lowered his head, and the shadow of his black hair covered half of his face. "We haven't seen each other for such a long time. I guess you will miss your companion, right? I am not a completely cruel person.
"
Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes wide and immediately understood what he meant.
Ayu, who had more than a dozen souls in her body, was holding a strange little girl, and soon appeared in her field of vision; she was pushed by the dolls and pushed to her side. The skin of the Queen of Souls had been replaced.
It found one piece, but it seemed to be full of obsession with the "young girl with twin tails". The human skin it found this time was also that of a young girl; because the body bag had been tied with twin tails for a long time, it was gone.
Using the vitality that regenerates hair, a wide strip of blue-white scalp has been ripped out from the top of its head.
"This is not my companion!" Lin Sanjiu whispered through gritted teeth.
"I know." The puppet master smiled slightly, turned around and left.
(ps: I have to take the cat to the hospital tomorrow night and take a day off)
