Alice's House is the name of the doll shop, and when he sees the name, especially when he sees the large number of rose-like flowers dotted on the signboard, Sui Yu can't help but think of a small mission he once experienced in the game world.

It's a side quest based on a real-life anime.,The main quest process is to collect a variety of doll-making materials for a puppet master in exchange for a variety of very random rewards.。 And the puppeteer's purpose is to make a perfect doll called Alice.

Of course, there is no such thing as true perfection, so that task is also a material gathering task that can be brushed repeatedly. As for whether the puppet maker finally made the perfect puppet Alice, Sui Yu doesn't know, but I heard that the game company seems to have introduced the general plot of the anime and opened a copy called Alice Game in the game world, and it seems that if you want to enter that copy, you need to brush a voucher from that puppet master.

It's just that because the time span of the legend is relatively long, and it belongs to the dungeon with great variables in multiplayer battles, Sui Yu, who was busy taking Philomena to evade the pursuit as soon as it was launched, naturally didn't have time to feel it.

Sui Yu shook his head and thought, "Is it really old?" It's already begun to touch the scene, and it's beginning to reminisce about the past! ”

Shaking off some chaotic thoughts, Sui Yu pulled the snow into the lavishly decorated doll shop.

Sui Yu didn't forget, he just promised to buy a doll for Kittengirl to give her as a toy!

However, as soon as he walked into the puppet shop, Sui Yu's brows couldn't help but wrinkle, because he suddenly felt that the inside of the house seemed to be even more "cool" than the outside!

After being reminded by Philomena, Sui Yu can now distinguish which kind of coolness is a physical feeling and that kind of coolness is a spiritual feeling.

At this time, what Sui Yu felt was definitely a coolness that could only be perceived on the spiritual level, and after comparison, Sui Yu found that the atmosphere of this puppet shop was definitely stronger than the resentment outside!

Yes. Although Sui Yu does not have the strong perception of Philomena's magic department because his spiritual attributes are not too high, after a certain degree of adaptation and training, Sui Yu can now basically distinguish some mysterious various breaths and magic fluctuations when he is prepared.

Moreover, the act of the little cat woman grabbing Sui Yu's hand and wanting to hide herself in Sui Yu's body since she entered the house also proves that the eerie aura of this store is even strong enough to be noticed by ordinary people!

Especially when Sui Yu entered the door and looked at the left and right sides of the store, he felt even colder.

Unlike the doll room that looks like a fairy tale with the childlike dolls you see in the window, the high multi-tiered counters on both sides of the door are full of all kinds of dolls, and the atmosphere in the room is very strange because of the dim light.

With the flickering light reflected on the bright red carpet, the scene was so strange that Sui Yu had an illusion when he entered the door. It's as if the eyes of those dolls on the counter are all focused on him the moment they open the door, as if they are very penetrating!

"I'll go! This place is so wicked! Sui Yu beat a drum in his heart, although he was a necromancer, but when facing some supernatural scenes, Sui Yu would still feel panicked like ordinary people.

"Welcome!" A weak greeting came from behind a desk that seemed to be full of all kinds of tools and various puppet parts, and Sui Yu realized that there was a big living person hidden in his feelings!

Taking two steps forward, Sui Yu found a strange man with unkempt hair, glasses, pale skin, and a scruffy beard sitting behind the counter. And at this time, the strange man continued to keep his head down and busy with his work after making a voice that he didn't know if it was a greeting to a guest.

It's good to have someone, Sui Yu relaxed a little after losing a reconnaissance technique to make sure that the other party was a human (at least someone stayed here to prove that this store was not a ghost movie scene), and then pulled the little cat woman who had hidden behind him and almost overlapped his legs to take two steps forward.

At this time, Sui Yu realized that the shopkeeper seemed to be making dolls.

Unlike the weakness of the greeting just now, the man's hands that used various tools to constantly adjust the parts of the puppet in his hand were almost full of afterimage.

Soon, a part that appeared to be an arm was polished and carefully inserted into a nearby stick to dry. Then, the weirdo didn't mean to greet the guest at all, and once again buried himself in the next part.

Looking up at the dolls on the shelves, Sui Yu found that the eyes of the dolls on the counters on both sides seemed to be staring at him from that angle, and then he quickly shook his head to try to dispel the chills that couldn't help but rise in his heart, and said to the shopkeeper in a relaxed tone as much as possible: "How do you sell the dolls here?" ”

"One copper coin each, one per person!" Still replied weakly, and even when he answered, the shopkeeper did not look up.

"One copper coin?!" Sui Yu couldn't help but exclaim, he didn't expect that the workmanship was so good, and even the puppet looked like a real person at a glance, and it was only sold for one copper coin!

However, after recalling the map drawn by Philomena, Sui Yu suddenly realized that the storefront, which looked like a mansion from the outside, seemed to be part of the manor of the former puppet master.

A room in the mansion near the street was converted into a puppet shop, and the dolls sold in this beautifully renovated shop turned out to be only one copper coin!

Moreover, each of the dolls sold in the store not only has their own physical characteristics, but each one is lifelike. Even Sui Yu, a necromancer, almost mistakenly thought that he could feel the soul fluctuations in those puppets, and this is how the puppet that can be called the most outstanding work of art is only sold for one copper coin?!

Then Sui Yu suddenly thought of it. It is estimated that this puppet master does not care about the money at all, and a copper coin is just to allow more people to appreciate his works (just like some writers would rather spend their own money to publish their own books than let their works come out).

However, although he gave himself a more reasonable reason, Sui Yu still felt that there was something more discordant, so he pulled the little cat woman who was always hiding behind him and did not dare to approach the shopkeeper while pretending to choose a puppet while using information magic to get in touch with the war queens.

"How's your investigation going?"

Hearing Sui Yu's inquiry, the battle concubines immediately began to report back. Basically nothing was found. Several families in the aristocratic district have inquired. I also went in to investigate and found nothing special.

Even the manor that was the focus of the manor where the puppet master once lived, Philomena and Hakoa, who went to investigate, followed the manor servants to investigate and reported that they had found nothing.

Of course, at the end, Philomena also told Sui Yu a very interesting news that she had just heard: "It is said that Charlotte, the only descendant of the puppet master's generation, is a very individual person. He didn't like to study puppets, but devoted his life to the production of dolls, and made a great wish to make a perfect puppet, and even gave the perfect puppet a name. What is it called, Alice! ”

"Well, I also know that this perfectionist named Charlotte has opened a puppet shop at the intersection of the aristocratic and commoner quarters! By the way, I seem to have found something strange here, but I can't judge it for a while, if you guys finish the investigation, come over and help me analyze it! ”

Philomena Hakoa: "Yes! ”

Hanging up the message magic, Sui Yu glanced at the shopkeeper who was still working hard to make dolls, and Sui Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "What a coincidence! ”

Although the lingua franca used by the aborigines of this world is completely different from the language of Sui Yu's world, some pronunciations are still very close.

Just like the pronunciation of Alice's three words, there is not much difference between the two, and they can be translated into each other!

Sui Yu didn't expect that in another world, he would meet a puppeteer who pursued perfection in a certain anime work in his original world. And it seems that under the guidance of some strange fate, the puppeteer gave the unfinished doll the name Alice.

Is this just a coincidence? Sui Yu couldn't help but keep thinking in his heart, and then Philomena pushed the door and walked in with a large group of war concubines......

For a large group of people coming into the store, especially this large group of people is almost the best beauties of all types, if it is an ordinary store, the manager is absolutely about to burst out of his eyes, but the owner of the puppet shop does not even have the effort to raise his head and is still bowing his head to make the puppet in his hand.

Of course, maybe it's in the work ethic, when you hear the door ring. The boss said "welcome" and then stopped moving.

To tell the truth, this kind of indifference to his own goods, isn't he afraid that things will be swept away by customers, and he won't leave a single copper coin?

This is if this is in the Chinese country of the world where Sui Yu is located. But if anyone dares to do this, then basically few will end well!

However, after thinking that the shopkeeper might be the only heir to the manor, Sui Yu also calmed down - people don't look down on the puppet income at all, so naturally they don't care if customers steal things.

At this time, Philomena and Angelina were standing together, frowning and trying to perceive, while the battle queens were also discussing with each other in the channel established by the message magic.

Philomena: "The resentment in this room seems to be much higher than outside!" ”

Hakoa: "Yes. And if you feel it carefully, you can feel a sense of despair filling it! Who investigated this neighborhood before? Why is such an obvious problem not found and reported? ”

Kanami: "Yikes! I've been to this place with Fanny before, but I didn't find anything special other than that the atmosphere was a little wrong, and the owner of the shop didn't care about anyone, so I didn't ask for anything special......"

As soon as they heard that Kanami and Fanny were in charge, everyone immediately knew in their hearts. It's understandable that these two agile war queens can't detect the strangeness in the resentment, not to mention that Fanny has to take care of Kanami who often drops the chain, plus although the resentment in this store is even stronger, but if you get used to the outside environment and then come in, people with relatively low perception may not be able to feel any difference between inside and outside the store, so it is reasonable that Fanny did not notice the abnormality of this store at all.

As for Kanami, that one would be an anomaly if she didn't drop the chain, right?

Wendy: "It's true that the resentment in this room is much heavier than the outside world, and it seems that you can sense the negative emotions such as resentment and despair that emanate from death, but the total amount is not too much. Either there is nothing to do with missing children, or not all of those children died in this vicinity, and in any case the negative emotions do not reach the level that remains when thousands of people die. But if that's right, this should be the source of resentment that pervades the entire neighborhood! Even if it's not the source, it should be near the center! ”

Wendy, who is particularly sensitive to the aura of the dead, made a judgment, and the other war queens also gave a general account of their speculations about these grievances, but how to prove it and how to find the real source of the grievances still needs to be worked on.

"Hey, look at these dolls, why do I always think these dolls are weird, as if they really have their own souls!"

Sui Yu's voice sounded in the message channel, and at this time, the war queens suddenly found that Sui Yu had put his hand on a puppet at this time and was closing his eyes to sense something.

Then Sui Yu's exclamation sounded again in the message channel: "I tried to concentrate and extend the power of my will to this puppet, and I suddenly felt some fragments of information emanating from the soul of this puppet!" From these clips, I seem to sense that this puppet is trying to ask us for help! ”

Speaking of this, Sui Yu let go of his hand and said to everyone through the message magic with a blue face: "I just heard this puppet shouting for help!" Let me out! And this kind of soul voice definitely can't be faked, I'm afraid that although we haven't found the missing children, I'm afraid their souls have been found! ”

Philomena suddenly pointed to the dolls full of shelves around her with a pale face, and asked Sui Yu in the message magic, "What do you mean?" ”

"Yes!" Sui Yu's voice that seemed to grit his teeth because he couldn't suppress his anger (spiritual communication is difficult to hide people's inner emotions, so it is easy to feel the feelings represented in the voice transmitted by the message magic): "I'm afraid the souls of those missing children are trapped in these puppets!" Lose your marbles! Charlotte is crazy! In order to make the perfect doll Alice, that guy actually tried to make a doll from the child's soul to give the doll life and achieve the so-called perfection! Lunatic! This guy is an absolute total lunatic! ”

"What?! I'm going to kill him! Fanny, who is usually very cold, seems to have an unexpected sense of justice, and when she hears that Charlotte may have done such a heart-wrenching evil thing, she will immediately use a knife to cut people, but fortunately Philomena is quickly stopped.

"Don't be impulsive!" Philomena pulled Fanny and said to everyone in the message channel: "I feel that this matter is a little strange, but many people have come to investigate the disappearance of this child before, why didn't they find out that something is wrong with this place, and from the strength of that Charlotte and her mental fluctuations, it doesn't look like she has combat effectiveness." So the big question now is, how did those missing mercenaries disappear? ”

Although after a period of understanding, Sui Yu feels that they are actually quite powerful, at least in the mercenary world, with the strength of the war concubines, Sui Yu already has the confidence to compete with the three major mercenary groups of the Talaya Kingdom (the reason why he made such a judgment is naturally because one of the mercenary groups is currently doing farm work on Sui Yu's farm), but being able to pit so many mercenaries and mercenary groups has not been found at all, which is enough to attract Sui Yu's attention.

"However, no matter what, these children's souls can't be left alone, or I'll buy one and go back to study it to see if I can save the children's souls, and at least let their souls rest in peace instead of being locked up in the body of such a puppet and suffering forever!"

After Sui Yu finished speaking, he planned to take a doll back to study (of course, Sui Yu would still pay for it in order to prevent the grass from startling the snake, not to mention that a copper coin is really nothing), anyway, even if his half-hung necromancy is invalid, he can still ask for help from the audience outside the arena - Avalon has a lot of magical talents, including Rees, a demon-level genius who is almost omnipotent in the field of research!

However, just as Sui Yu's hand was about to touch a doll in a princess dress, the little cat woman suddenly shouted: "Mom, be careful!" Then she hit Sui Yu hard...... (To be continued.) )