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Ms. Dolai was stunned.

After a moment, she slowly raised her arm and caught Duoduo's big head.

Her wrinkled and age-spotted palm gently caressed the metallic skull, and she touched it so carefully that even the slightest scratch could not escape the perception of her palm.

In the process, Mugan told the lady about how they had discovered the White Clouds.

In the dark edge galaxy, the lonely, scarred, doomed to be discovered by the White Clouds, how he wanted to go home.

Having said everything he had seen and known, Mugen cautiously went to see how Lady Dolai reacted. He thought she would cry, but she didn't. She just looked at Duoduo's head carefully, extremely serious.

Mugen thought that Ms. Duolai's attention was all on Duoduo and would not find her sight, but he didn't expect him to be wrong.

"I'm not going to cry anymore." Completely aware of what was on Mugan's mind right now, Lady Dolai said to him.

"My eyes were blind three hundred years ago, and I couldn't see anything."

"Now these eyes are mechanical eyes, and although they can see the same things, they can't shed tears anymore."

Ms. Dolai looked up, pointed to her eyes, and finally winked her right eye mischievously.

Seeing her like this, Mugan's heart tingled slightly for no reason, and the sensitive lady Duolai immediately sensed his mood, and she shook her head:

"The human body is like a machine, and if you use it for a long time, sooner or later there will be problems. I just got a new part. ”

The first to fail was the heart, and after being declared dead by the doctor, she resolutely decided to replace the mechanical heart; The next thing to age is the blood vessels, and after the thin, human blood vessels can no longer bear the extra stents, she replaces all the blood vessels with mechanical substitutes; Next comes the stomach, and then the eyes......

The only thing that refuses to change is the appearance and the brain.

The face is the one that Duoduo has seen since childhood, and his mind is full of precious memories.

Anyway, she wanted to live, she wanted to live and wait for that child to come back.

Even if he becomes a pirate ship, the nominal owner of that child is still himself, as long as he does not die, he is not an ownerless spaceship, and even if he is discovered, he will not be disposed of as a spaceship without an owner.

So she can't die anyway.

Even if it has become very painful for her to live, she must not die.

However, it's still sad, isn't it? can't cry, that's why there are so many sad machine dolls crying for her.

Staring straight at Lady Dorai, Mugen was so engrossed in his thoughts that he completely forgot to hide his gaze.

Quietly staring at the distracted Morgan and Olivia, Ms. Dorai's wrinkled face smiled gently at Mogan and Olivia.

"You're all good boys."

"Thank you."

"Thank you for bringing this kid back—"

She gave a gentle hug to Mugan and Olivia. Her body smelled of motor oil, and her body was a little stiff of steel, but her palms were soft, and they were still warm to humans.

***

Having found the White Cloud Duoduo that she had been thinking about, Ms. Duolai couldn't wait to meet him. However, the snow was too heavy last night, and the snow was thick, and in addition, Jimmy also suggested that Miss Duolai continue to apply a mask to remove wrinkles before seeing Duoduo, so they waited patiently until dawn.

Not long after the sun came out, Mugen heard a rustling sound outside, and curiously pushed open the door to see: it was the dolls who were clearing the snow!

"Can these dolls shovel snow? It's amazing! Mugan turned his head excitedly, his hands on either side of the window, and he hurriedly beckoned Olivia to come and take a look.

"Of course, I made the machine! How can only the face be able to see? "When it comes to her specialty, Ms. Dolai is full of confidence.

Listening to her words, Olivia silently turned his gaze to the miserable faces of the dolls outside: he felt that these people only had faces and couldn't look at them......

As they spoke, they had already walked outside the tavern. Walking outside, it looks even more spectacular, there are organic people sweeping snow on every street, removing the crooked facial features, these machine people are really very dexterous in their snow sweeping movements, and they look like real people from a distance.

"The children are charged with light energy, and each of them has a charging port under their feet, which is connected to a light collector outside the building through a special pipe. The weather is not very good these days, and there has been no light, so they will not have enough energy, otherwise you should see people walking around. Ms. Dolai introduced as she walked, and since she and Jimmy had to use crutches to walk, they weren't walking fast. In this way, it is also convenient for Ms. Duolai to guide them along the way.

"The shop around the corner is Kenny Sr.'s, and the screws on Duoduo's body were all bought from his store." Having lived here for hundreds of years, no one knows the place better than her: "Now it's Kenny Sr. who sweeps the snow in front of his shop." ”

"Huh?" Muggen was stunned.

"I made a guy like Kenny Sr. and put it in his shop." Ms. Dolai immediately explained to him.

"Sitting next to the other people clearing the snow is the bookstore owner Zhuang Se, although his shop is small, he can get you any book you want to read."

"The man in the hat was a patrolman from the East End, a kind young man, and I broke my leg while walking on the road, and he was the one who carried me to the hospital. Later, I introduced my neighbor Fanny to him, and the two of them had three children, all sons. ”

……

Ms. Dolai's voice never stopped, and she introduced Mugen and Olivia to each of the people she met, and in her mouth, these people seemed to be living people, with the temperament and characteristics of living people, and each of them had their own story.

"Old Kenny, where are they now?" Olivia asked a question, and Ms. Dolai's introduction came to an abrupt end.

"......" paused, and she quickly spoke again: "They're all dead." ”

"I've lived too long, they're gone."

"The older I get, the more nostalgic I get, and one day, I suddenly miss them very much, so I started making these dolls."

"But my memory is getting worse and worse after all, and when I really started making dolls, I found that I couldn't remember what they looked like, so I could only make them like this."

It turns out that this is the secret of these machine dolls?

For a while, everyone was silent, except for the clattering sound of snow, there was no other sound around.

After a long time, it was Jimmy who took the lead in breaking this sad atmosphere:

"When I die, Miss Duolai, you can also make me a machine, right? Wear a yellow tie. ”

"You're still young, don't think about the afterlife."

"It's always good to say hello to you in advance." Jimmy smiled: "Don't put me next to my grandfather Kenny Sr., I won't inherit the family business, I'll fall out with his old man a long time ago." ”

"Just leave me on the road to the tavern, and I'll come to you from that road every month anyway."

Next, the two old people had a very systematic discussion on the clothing of the machine qì doll, thinking that Jimmy Ji qì person may appear one day in the future, Olivia no longer feels scared this time.

It's weird in my heart.

I don't want to hear them say that—he said to himself.

***

Mugan's heart was worried, and along the way, he had become more and more aware of the importance of the White Cloud Duoduo to her from Lady Dolai's words.

It's because it's clear that it's uneasy.

The mechanical skull that was handed over to Ms. Duolai was in good condition, but the condition of the hull of the White Cloud Duoduo was really poor. Tattered and scarred, it looks like an abandoned ship that can be discarded from every angle.

If such a white cloud is seen by Ms. Duolai-

Mugan mentally imagined several scenes of their meeting, but none of them were correctly guessed by him.

The tattered and almost scrapped White Cloud Blossom finally appeared in front of his maker.

The moment she saw the white clouds, Ms. Duolai's face was expressionless for a moment.

Lady Dolai skillfully found the hidden boarding gate with her crutches, and beckoned to Mugan and Olivia, and with their help, she struggled to climb into the boat.

Even after hundreds of years, she was still so familiar with the ship she had built, and in the main control room, she explained to the two teenagers how to repair the White Cloud, and the failure that Mugen and Olivia could not fix before was easily overcome in her hands.

Ms. Dolai repositioned Duoduo's head in its rightful place, and pressed the start source.

The ghostly screen of the flowers finally lit up again.

This time, the first person he "saw" was the master he had in mind.

"Hello, I'm back." He finally said so.

Will be scolded - at this moment, Mugen and Olivia thought the same way, not only them, but probably Duoduo himself thought the same way.

But they guessed wrong.

"Well, it's good to be back." There were no tears, no scolding, and Ms. Dolai's expression was very calm.

"Did you get anything out of leaving home this time?" Without asking him why he was the way he was, Ms. Dolai asked a completely irrelevant question.

“…… Yes, a lot. Duoduo replied honestly.

"Do you want to go out in the future?"

“…… Think. Duoduo still answered honestly.

So Ms. Dolai asked again:

"Is there anything you'd like to do next?"

"......" Duoduo didn't make a sound this time, instead, he quietly typed a word on the display.

"Yo? Are there any new ideals? That's good, tell me, what is your new ideal? Ms. Duolai kept smiling, and realizing that her smile was a genuine smile, Duo Duo finally said her new wish:

"Join the army! Next, I want to become a warship for the army and capture all the pirates who abandoned me back then! ”

"Very well, then do it."

So, Ms. Dolai gave him a long-lost smile.