"This is ......" Wey paused, looking at the buildings that appeared in front of him, or rather, a huge manor house that was full of mechanical magic from the walled gates to the interior buildings. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"It should be the puppet workshop, and the whole atmosphere is quite atmospheric." Lea looked at the details of the mechanism revealed on the manor building with admiration: "It doesn't seem to have been abandoned because of the deactivation of the prosthesis. ”

"Did you change it to a toy? Can we go in and have a look? Hong Ying walked to the gate and looked inside through the railing.

"No, look there." Lu Yao pointed to the side of the door.

【Puppet Workshop of the Underworld, no visits】A metal panel with white edges on a black background is standing there, and a warning word is constantly moving upward and rolling in a loop.

"Maybe there are a lot of precision instruments inside, and I don't want to be touched by visitors at will," Wei Yi touched his nose and said to the Mortal Hunters, "I didn't find any magical beasts on the way from the fork in the road here, so let's go back the same way for the time being?" ”

"But there's something weird," Leah pointed to the door, "there's nothing like a doorbell or keyhole on it, and it doesn't look like it can be opened from the outside, so what if they come back?" ”

Someone is on duty at the gate or is there to keep an eye on what's going on outside the gate? Or is there a more advanced way to open the door?

"Slamming the door?" Hong Ying gave a guess that fits his character.

"It's face recognition~" As a little girl's voice sounded, the door of the puppet workshop slowly retracted into the walls on both sides.

After opening the door, the Hunters saw two children about ten years old, one with short purple hair, a black bow, a dress with red edges on a white background, a red scarf on her head, a smiling little girl, and the other a hedgehog-headed boy wearing a white shirt and brown bib pants, carrying a basket in her hand, and looking irritated.

"Good afternoon, big brother and big sister, is there anything you have done here? If you're looking for a puppet grandfather, he's not here now. The little girl walked out the door, blinking her dark crystal eyes at the Hunters.

"Well, this little sister...... We're a Shadow Hunter and want to ask some questions from the staff here, is there anyone else in there? Wei Yi looked at his teammates in embarrassment, and everyone motioned for him to go up and talk to him, so he had to say to the little girl.

"No, there are only dolls in this workshop except for the puppet grandfather, who can only work and can't speak." The purple-haired girl tilted her head in reply.

I can't imagine what it was like inside, but I guess it's amazing......

"Hehe, okay, then we won't bother," Wei Yi scratched his head: "By the way, where are you going?" The trail is dangerous, do you need us to send you? ”

"[No need]," the little boy who had been silent suddenly made a voice like a clash of gold and iron, "[You don't look as good as me.] 】”

"Ugh." Wei Yi was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, and realized that although "it" looked like a little boy as a whole, the outline of the mechanism could still be seen in the subtleties such as eyes, ears, and mouth.

"Is this what the Doll Workshop is all about? Looks amazing. Leah stared at the little boy in surprise.

"......" Lu Yao looked intently, as if thoughtful.

"He's my brother, his name is Li Xiaowolf," the little girl blinked: "My name is 'Jing', big brother and big sister, guess if I'm a puppet?" ”

Although the tone was normal, there seemed to be anger in the words......

"I'm sorry, we didn't mean to see your brother as a mechanic," Wei Yi suddenly understood what was wrong, and immediately changed the subject, "So, if you live here, did you hear the roar of strange beasts?" ”

"[Hmph]." Li Xiaowolf uttered a syllable that sounded strange.

"No, even if any monsters run over, they will be beaten away by my brother, okay, we're going to have a picnic, big brother and big sister, you can continue to investigate." The little girl who called herself Jing didn't seem to want to talk to the Hunters anymore, and pulled Li Xiaowolf, who still had a dissatisfied expression, around the Hunters and walked towards the open space on the side of the puppet workshop.

Wei Yi and his colleagues looked at each other, shook their heads, and went back the way they came.

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"[That's the 'afterlife' of the Dead Hunter, the investigation should have nothing to do with the Sleeping Dragon,] " Li Xiaowolf stood on the high slope and watched the Dead Hunters leave, although the voice was still very strange, but there was no anger that he had deliberately made before: "[In fact, the Underworld can't find any traces of the Sleeping Dragon's actions at all, of course, maybe we can't find it due to our lack of ability. 】”

"That kind of thing can be done in any way," Xiao Jing was laying out the picnic cloth on the side, and then took food out of the basket, "Anyway, we just stayed here to see how the Bloodstone matter would end, and we really couldn't find any clues, so we moved to another stronghold." ”

"[Hmm......]" Li Xiaowolf walked back and looked at the food on the picnic cloth with a bitter face: "[Don't you plan to let me eat them......]"

"Of course!" Xiaojing crossed her hands on her hips: "Although it was a mistake last time, the puppet grandfather also said that the behavior of imitating living people such as letting you eat, bathe, and sleep is likely to activate your 'puppet heart' and restore the ability to change appearance at will." ”

"[I always feel that something is wrong,]" Li Xiaowolf sat down on the picnic cloth like a fateful fate, and looked at Xiaojing's movements: "[But your habits when you used to have picnics with your parents have not changed.] 】”

"......" Xiao Jing, who was pouring soup out of the thermos pot, was stunned for a moment: "...... Although it is true that they are not our parents, nor did they raise us from childhood, they have taken care of us for a while, and their children must not have felt good when they suddenly disappeared. ”

"[Don't worry, they shouldn't have had children before, and after we leave because of the accident, all memories will return to their original state,]" The little boy reached out and grabbed a cookie and threw it into his mouth, squeaking and chewing: "[Won't remember us at all.] 】”

"Won't you comfort people!" Xiaojing angrily knocked Li Xiaowolf's head with a dinner plate: "I vaguely feel that I have lost something and I don't know that it is the most uncomfortable!" ”

"[Sorry, sorry]" Li Xiaowolf symbolically dodged twice, and suddenly found that his perspective had risen a lot: "Uh, it seems to have changed back." ”

"Okay." Xiaojing looked at Li Xiaowolf, who had changed back to the height of three people and the appearance of a tattered machine, threw away the dinner plate in a dejected manner, walked over and climbed on his knees and sat down: "Let me be quiet for a while." ”

"Don't worry, I will definitely accompany you to find your memories and find your family." The giant mechanic comforted in the voice of a small boy who did not fit his size.

"Hmmm......"