Erin felt that Yu Sheng's idea of "following procedure" was quite unreliable, because no matter how you looked at it, the most crucial part of the process was just the blood. Whether the head was removed or not didn't seem to make much difference to her. However, Yu Sheng relentlessly persuaded her from the side, and after a brief hesitation, the little puppet went "pop" and removed its head, handing it to Yu Sheng.
Next to them, Hu Li and Luna gathered to watch the spectacle, clicking their tongues in amazent at the sight.
How would you describe it? One dares to imagine anything, and the other dares to do anything. That's the kind of leaders the travel agency has.
This ti, Yu Sheng strictly recreated the "sacrifice" process and was worried about running out of blood. Luna had to give him two more cuts, making the scene quite grueso.
But although the blood absorption process went smoothly, nothing happened after the absorption was complete—Erin's head didn't sink into any pool of blood this ti. Instead, it lay on the ground, blinking its eyes after the blood was absorbed.
After a long while, the little puppet suddenly woke up, maneuvered her body near her head, saying: "...I don't see any growth?"
"Actually, you did grow a little," Hu Li said seriously beside her, "about two or three centiters? Then it imdiately shrank back again."
Erin was dumbfounded upon hearing this: "...How is it that the results are getting worse each ti?!"
Then as she fumbled to pick up her head and reattach it to her neck, she turned to look at Yu Sheng: "Yu Sheng, why does your blood seem feeble? Are you anemic? Shouldn't you eat sothing to supplent it? You've been staying up late a lot recently... Why don't you ask Xuan Che for so dicine, or have Hu Li cook so nourishing food for you?"
Listening to her chatter made Yu Sheng's head hurt more. Then, as his eyes twitched twice, he suddenly thought of sothing and raised his hand to halt the puppet's babble: "Wait, I just realized… is it possible that this thing has a cooldown period?"
Erin's babble stopped, and she looked up blinking her eyes.
Then she elongated her voice: "Ah—ha?"
"During the first test, you showed pretty obvious changes. In the second test, there was almost no reaction at all, which indicates that the test direction should be correct," Yu Sheng spread his hands, "I've just completed resurrection, and my condition must be fine. You are always lively, so your condition seems okay too. Then, the only thing left is the 'cooldown ti'… although I can't rule out other complex possibilities, I couldn't think of anything else for the mont."
"Now that you ntion it, that does seem possible," Erin seed to easily accept this explanation—probably because she's quite imrsed in gas regularly, "Then, how long do I have to wait for this cooldown?"
"How would I know?" Yu Sheng glanced at her, "You need to feel it for yourself, haven't you ntioned a kind of 'exhaustion' accumulating? That might be your 'cooldown gauge'. When you feel ready, we'll test again."
Erin scratched her head full of sowhat ssy blonde hair, reluctantly saying "Oh," and drooped her head, not sure what she was pondering. Seeing this, Yu Sheng thought she was too upset, hesitating about how to offer comfort, when suddenly the little puppet raised her head: "I think I'm done with the cooldown; how about you let have another sip..."
Yu Sheng looked expressionlessly at Erin, who had every thought written on her face. The latter held her head high with an air of righteousness, shaless, having no sense of guilt, and taking honor in sha...
"Alright, let's talk about it later," Erin realized she couldn't bluff Yu Sheng with this reaction and had to sigh in frustration as she climbed onto him while murmuring, "I thought I finally found a way to permanently grow taller, but then I have to wait for the cooldown. Tsk."
Yu Sheng couldn't help but feel there's sothing odd about this. After pondering for a while, he reminded her: "By the way, even if there's no cooldown, you can't maintain it indefinitely—I still have to bleed, so at least respect my life."
Erin thought for a mont: "…Then should I use a straw next ti?"
Yu Sheng: "…"
…
Although the process was sowhat different from what was expected, the test on Erin's new ability was largely completed successfully.
After the testing concluded, Yu Sheng and the others returned ho.
After such a commotion, the ti was already close to midnight. However, winter nights are particularly long, and daylight is still far off.
A lot happened this night, and there are still many issues that need to be addressed, but no matter what, people still need to rest.
—Even though it seems that there aren't many humans at No. 66 Wutong Road.
By the ti they got ho, Hu Li was already extrely sleepy and was crawling on all fours up the stairs. She went into the room and did not even make it to the bed, instead curled up on the carpet, wrapping herself in a pile of fluffy tails to form a ball, and began to snore gently.
Later, he couldn't stand it any longer and went over, putting in a fair effort to move the massive fluff ball onto the bed, nearly getting shocked to death by static electricity from Hu Li.
Luna intended to return to the Otherworld Inn to repair the machine—incidentally, also checking the remains left by the naless Saintess.
Yu Sheng wanted to have the naless Saintess buried in the valley, although he didn't know whether the "Artificial Saintess" needed a funeral or what kind of funeral was needed. However, he thought at least not to leave the remains in the cold parking lot, so he instructed Luna and the others to bring the remains back, temporarily placing them on the spaceship.
Erin (blonde) sat on a box in the corner, lost in thought.
The little puppet wasn't sure which ntal thread suddenly connected, but she looked dazedly at Yu Sheng lying down: "Hey, if I grow taller, does it an I can't sleep in your room anymore?"
Yu Sheng looked strangely at the pile of puppets in the corner: "Even if you don't grow taller, you shouldn't be sleeping in my room—I just couldn't get rid of you!"
Surprisingly, Erin seriously contemplated it for a mont and then admitted frankly: "That's true."
Then she arranged her four bodies to crawl into the box in the corner, leaving a blonde body sluggishly to climb onto the bed, snuggling against Yu Sheng's pillow and making small snoring sounds.
Almost fell asleep instantly.
In the darkness, Yu Sheng looked at the Puppet curled up into a small ball on the bed with a mix of amusent and helplessness. He wanted to say sothing, but soon after, he too slipped into a drowsy dream.
Erin had a dream.
In fact, she wasn't quite sure if she was dreaming—being a Puppet with the ability to traverse the Dream Realm, her perception of "dreams" was always different from others. To her, the dreams of ordinary people were like an odd, fragnted, yet easily see-through stage play. Drears themselves could hardly sense the boundaries of their dreams, but she could always wander clearly along the paths between those illusions and mories, seldom feeling "drowsy" within a Dream Realm.
But this ti, she felt hazy.
There seed to be shifting mists all around, and the space itself seed to present a strange "fluidity" like the mist. Her Consciousness drifted and floated within this flowing space, occasionally hearing voices from an unknown source, occasionally seeing so light cast from afar.
But she was not scared; instead, she found this "floating" feeling quite interesting, with a sort of... relaxed looseness of the mind.
So she floated happily, occasionally reaching out to poke at those lights and shadows cast from afar.
In the darkness, there was a voice, at first a familiar female voice—
"Protect yourself, if you can't fight, run..."
Ah, this voice sounds familiar?
Erin paused for a mont, and then heard the voice coming from another direction:
"...Seems to be running normally now... Should we add a bit more compatibility?"
Then a voice that sounded authoritative ca from the side: "Yes, I will handle this part, compatibility needs to be maximized—after all, it's experintal, room for future expansion must be left."
"Ah, then I'll connect it to the Garden Network first to test if the debug mode works..."
Those blurry voices drifted away.
Erin was puzzled in the chaos for a while, but was soon attracted by another ray of light drifting over.
She happily floated over and saw a tall figure seemingly erging in that beam of light—it seed to be a lady, very, very tall, possibly as tall as a C-type hook. Erin couldn't see her face, but only felt that the other was kind and friendly.
She also heard a voice coming in the darkness, as if right by her ear—
"...Said your drive wasn't written well, so you need to learn so things yourself, this will help you adapt...
"...I'll teach you how to use your own body, co on, let's do a couple of laps outside first.
"Then we'll learn to fight, I'll teach you a few moves..."
The light and shadow shifted, and the voice by her ear was intermittent. Erin felt so blurry scenes slide past the edge of her mory, and heard the lady speaking in her ear again—
"Only learned one move... Well, it's fine, since this move is the most useful.
"Co, this is attack, this is defense, this is the Captain of the Lost Ho—
"You jump up and hit his head... Don't worry, the Captain won't be angry, it's just practice.
"Rember, 'Jump Slash' is very useful, it's a powerful Beheading Skill. When using it, aim for the enemy's head, be imposing, don't overthink it, just chop... Of course, with your weapon, you can also 'tap'."
Erin slowly moved through this floating light and shadow, then turned to look at that chaotic flowing mist. The dream made her drowsy, it was hard to think continuously, but instinctively a question popped up—Jump Slash? Beheading Skill?
Isn't this move used for thumping knees and toes?
But she had just been puzzled for a few seconds when another faint light drifted over from behind, and she heard new voices in the darkness.
The voice sounded young and carefree—
"I heard it, the drive wasn't properly done, right? Not very articulate yet?
"The Captain said I'm usually too noisy and idle all day, so he let co and chat with you...
"Na? I'm Shirley—by the way, why do you look a bit absent-minded?
"Ah, it's okay, we'll let Gou tutor you in culture class later..."
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