Volume 5: The Living Puppet Nation (9)

Early the next morning, before seven o'clock, all the people in the field team of the General Office got up and conscientiously watched the puppet making process that could be watched, and the villagers were amazed, probably they all felt that there were really not many people in the city who could still be alive after a long journey, and they could not speak much Chinese, but Ding Youlan could also speak the local local language fluently with them, so that the villagers all said that they were really high-achieving students in colleges and universities, and that culture was different.

Allowing the group of team members who relied on a pleasing face and a flattering mouth to enter the village to play freely, Feng Rong and Lin Yingkong chatted with the village chief about all kinds of Musheng Village after breakfast—of course, most of them were spoken by Assistant Lin, and the minister was listening—and then naturally brought up Zun Puppet Village.

Uncle Yuori's face changed as soon as he heard these three words, not because of taboo and disgust, but because he was surprised to find that someone would remember the Zun Puppet Village, Lin Yingkong pretended to be puzzled and asked: "I heard from a professor friend from University B that the puppets in the Zun Puppet Village are also very good, isn't it?"

"No, your friend is right, it seems that he has been there too," Uncle Yori smiled bitterly, "Yesterday, I said that the dolls in Musheng Village are the best, but in fact, I was bragging. ”

Feng Rong raised his eyebrows slightly, "How do you say this?"

Uncle Yuori didn't answer and asked: "Teacher Dark and Teacher Lin think of the puppets in our Musheng Village?"

"Very nice. Lin Yingkong gave an evaluation, there are elements of support, but they also said it sincerely, they specially investigated the puppets here, and they didn't see the problem, but they were very impressed by their workmanship.

Uncle Yue Ri didn't feel much happy when he heard it, and shook his head and said, "But this is just something that Musheng Village learned from the craft of making a tenth of the puppets in the Zun Puppet Village. ”

Hearing this, Lin Yingkong was surprised: "The craftsmanship of Musheng Village is taught by Zun Puppet Village?"

"It should be said that it is a ...... inherited from the Zun Puppet Village," Uncle Yue Ri said, "I wonder if the two teachers have time to listen to the old history of Musheng Village?"

"Of course," Lin Yingkong smiled, "Aren't we here for this history?"

Uncle Yuri smiled at this time, lit a dry cigarette and smoked a few puffs, and said: "Calculate the time, it should have been thousands of years ago, at that time, this puppet village was not called a village, it was called a puppet country, and the villages near us used to belong to this puppet country, although it was not big, but it was also a country of its own......"

The so-called puppet country, which is similar to this time, is famous for its puppet production, and when the craft is at its peak, it is said that the lifelike posture is like a real person, and when it is made into a person-sized appearance, it can make others unable to distinguish the real from the fake, and the surrounding small countries are flocking to it, and they are proud to have such a puppet in the family.

"At that time, the puppet Xiao Lao Tzu had never seen it, but the old people in the village said by word of mouth that the dolls made at that time were all movable, able to dance, play with knives, talk and sing, and work boringly, and they also had a skill to make the leather feel like a human skin, put the puppet on the street, you can't tell which is a real person and which is a puppet......" When describing the craftsmanship of the puppet country, the expression of the grandfather of the day was full of awe and sighing.

"Is it really that powerful?" Fei Rong and Derpy didn't know when they came back with a small stool and squatted next to them to listen to the story, and their eyes widened when they heard it - this is much more powerful than the thing Zhuge Liang did in history!

Feng Rong was a little skeptical, "This kind of process can't even be done in modern times, maybe it's exaggerated, right?"

Uncle Yori hurriedly waved his hand and retorted: "No, no, it's all a blessing from the Son of God." ”

Derpy touched his chin, "Miko?" Is this a transition from the history of folk crafts to the fantasy channel, but the puppets of the Zun Puppet Kingdom do sound a lot like puppets and lichs in the supernatural world.

"Yes, it's the Son of God," mentioned these gods and ghosts, and there was obvious respect in Uncle Yori's tone, "He is the only god worshiped in the Kingdom of Zun Puppet, and every hundred years he will be reincarnated in a boy of the Kingdom of Zun Puppet, and there is no king in the Kingdom of Zun Puppet, only the Son of God." ”

Fei Rong and Derpy nodded and nodded - just like the living Buddha of Buddhism.

"And the Son of God has the power to give new life, the people of the puppet country will bring the puppets made with their hearts to him, he can give them new life, let the puppets survive like humans, help the master do what he can, and even be able to form a tireless army. ”

Lin Yingkong and Feng Rong also nodded, nodding - sprinkling beans into soldiers and enlightening things, there are indeed many beings who have cultivated to the advanced spiritual and supernatural realms who can do it, but this god's ability is even more terrifying. In the era of fearing ghosts and gods thousands of years ago, there were many demons and gods who were willing to enter the world and settle cause and effect with human beings.

"Isn't that great?" Fei Rong listened to it, this doll sounds like a free babysitter, how good is that!

"There are two sides to everything, I remember this is a famous saying in the Chinese dialect," Uncle Yori said, with a bit of heaviness in his eyes, "The living puppet achieves the supreme glory of the puppet country, but it is also the root of the destruction of the puppet country." ”

Maybe many people have seen such an assumption, if one day human beings invent intelligent advanced robots, they have done a lot instead of humans, and indulged human laziness, then one day they may want to create their own kingdom, completely, completely replace human beings to occupy this planet - a similar situation occurred in the country of puppets thousands of years ago, and the first person to notice it was none other than the uncrowned king of the kingdom of puppets, the son of God.

Miko gave life to the dolls, making them physically flexible and having their own ideas, their convenience and ability made the owners who owned them love to put it down, and gradually became an indispensable existence in life, farming, trade, daily life, the living dolls quietly spread throughout the puppet country in a perfect and humble posture, and the god son began to find that his people slowly became lazy, became idle, and even controlled their lives by puppets. Miko began to worry that his people would be betrayed by the puppets, that his kingdom would be invaded by the puppets, so he gradually became reluctant to accept the people sending the dolls to the temple and giving them the glory of living.

Fei Rong finally sensed the disadvantages of such dolls, "So didn't Miko think about destroying those dolls?"

Uncle Yori probably didn't expect such a watery little girl to be so cruel, so he was stunned for a moment before he said: "In the end, it was something that everyone made with great effort, and the Divine Son didn't say that he wanted to destroy them at the beginning, but he no longer gave the puppets a new life, and also advised the people of the puppet country to guard against them." But everyone is used to using dolls to do things, and when he does this, those people and dolls are not satisfied......"

In the end, the son of God is a god, and it is not as intimate as the puppet who accompanies him every day, or the people of the puppet country at that time are crazy, and the living puppet brings them not only convenience, but also fame, money, power, etc., and even some people have crooked hearts, wanting to make their bodies like puppets, in order to get a better body and a longer life - not in that era, people will never be able to understand how exquisite and perfect the skills of the puppet country are- Therefore, the actions of the Son of God made the people of the kingdom who worshiped him disagree, thinking that the Son of God was embarrassing them.

And the puppets are not satisfied, although they have human life and intelligence, after all, they are still flesh and blood, they only know that the god who keeps them alive may also take back what they have been given, death is a frightening thing for most beings who can think independently, and this fear is enough for them to do a lot of actions that make the gods more suspicious of them.

The contradictions gradually intensified in the mutual suspicion and defense between the three people, puppets and gods, the once pious faith was stained, the simple loyalty was blinded by suspicion, the foundation of the prosperous kingdom was faintly shaken, and then one day, a rumor from nowhere flourished in the kingdom of the puppets, and the whole kingdom began to boil and go crazy.

"The Son of God is reincarnated once in a hundred years, and I don't know who passed it on," Uncle Yori shook off the ashes of his cigarette and said, "It is said that by eating the flesh and blood of the Son of God, people can be cured of all diseases and live forever, and puppets can regenerate their bones and incarnate into adults...... You say, will you be moved to hear such rumors?"

"......" stared at Derpy instantly-what kind of rhythm is this?

Fei Rong also felt a little creepy, "Are they planning to cook Shenzi and eat it?"

Lin Yingkong thought for a moment, "The gods gain strength because of their faith, and the Zun Puppet Kingdom has lost faith in the Son of God, and if there are such rumors coming out, he should give up the Zun Puppet Kingdom, right?"

"No," said Uncle Yori, "until the last moment, the Son of God did not give up on his people. ”

He was the king of the kingdom of the puppets, their god, and even though his temple had gathered around him with many people and puppets who coveted his flesh and blood, his heart remained unshaken, and he did everything in his power to persuade them to return to their peaceful and peaceful lives. But once the crack is created, how can it be smoothed out at will, the desire for life and the fear of death can always stimulate many people to act irrationally, I don't know who took the lead in the first attack on the son of God who Wen Yan admonished them, and since then the madness has been opened, and everyone has surged as if they have lost their minds, day after day, day after day, even God cannot resist the thousands of people and puppets who want to eat him like an ant colony—not to mention, this is a god who is unwilling to do anything to his own people.

"So, the Son of God is dead?" Feng Rong asked.

"Well," Uncle Yori nodded heavily, "Eat it alive and eat it for ten thousand people." ”

The tone of just eight words is not heavy, but it can easily shock the soul - I have heard too many stories of gods destroying the country, but the opposite is even more chilling.

"After the death of the Son of God, the dolls began to weaken regardless of whether they had eaten his flesh or not, as if the death of the Son of God had also taken back all the life he had once given. There was no miraculous change in the people who ate the flesh and blood of the gods, and the people began to panic, fearing that the gods-killing would be damned......"

Perhaps there was indeed a curse, and the gods who were completely loyal to the Son of God were angry at his death, and led the army to level the puppet country they had once dedicated to, and at the same time the puppets began to gather to kill all the humans who mastered the craft of making them, no one knew how tragic the three-way mixed battle was, only that the end ended in the tragic victory of the gods, and the prosperous country was destroyed, leaving only the remnants of the people who survived to build a few small villages far from the ruins, and never made a living from the dolls, and the gods and his remnants of the army lived in seclusion in the place where the temple was located, and finally formed the current puppet villageand warned all the remnants of the Puppet Kingdom not to go even half a step there.

"Now we don't dare to go there, and the people from the Zun Puppet Village rarely come out, anyway, I have only lived so many times until now. Uncle Yori sighed.

Feng Rong was silent for a moment, "You didn't get close there, not just because of such a story, right?"