Translator: Kris Xian, Khun
Translation Checker: Rin
Editor: EllieKit
It was almost July and getting hotter day by day. The door of the puppet shop in the narrow street was still securely closed, looking completely deserted and quiet.
A little puppet with curly hair wearing a red hat and Lolita skirt came in from the back door of the shop, leaned over, and said something in Puppet Master’s ear. Then, she sat on the sofa in a lifelike manner, waiting cutely like a customer.
“Finally made a pair, try them on.” Puppet Master sat before the table wearing a leather work apron and holding a glass eyeball that had been sealed with a transparent layer. Specter Hourglass was timidly sitting on Puppet Master’s leg, holding his own hourglass nervously.
Puppet Master used a carving knife to gouge out the eyeballs in the Specter’s eye sockets that necrosed from poison. He then cleaned up the fragments in there.
Specter was a little uneasy at first. Although he was an experimental subject and his body didn’t bleed like a flesh body, he could still feel pain. It hurt very much when he was blinded by poison and when his shoulder was crushed. The pain scared him, but he had no idea how to express it.
Despite this, Puppet Master’s hands were very unique; he didn’t sense anything when Puppet Master touched or even cut his body open with the knife. Specter silently tilted his head up a bit and waited. A glass eyeball carrying Puppet Master’s body temperature filled his eye socket.
After the eyeballs were implanted, Specter clearly felt that his nerves seemed to be connecting, and his body accepting the new pair of eyes.
Specter dazedly clutched Puppet Master’s arm with the cuffs rolled up. Puppet Master waited silently, taking out a gilt curling comb for a doll’s hair and used it to fix Specter’s slightly curly hair.
“Such a small amount of hair.” Puppet Master let out a laugh.
Specter didn’t know what “shyness” was, so he embarrassedly held up his hourglass to cover his face.
Puppet Master opened a drawer, picked up some silver and ash gray hair, combed it with a needle comb, and blended it into a hair color similar to Specter’s. He then used a small hair roller to divide his head into clusters and cut them with the real hair ends evenly with scissors, used a curling iron to curl it, and straightened it.
Puppet Master’s special associated ability, Creator’s Hand: Being able to add and remove parts of any creature. No matter who came into his hands, no pain would be felt, similar to a puppet, and perfectly accept the parts installed by Puppet Master, and the joint section of the removed part would automatically become a spherical joint.
The nerve connections to the eye were completed, and the scene in front of Specter’s sight gradually became clearer. The first thing that came into his view was a fair gentleman’s face, who possessed a pair of light-colored eyes with slender ends under high brow bones.
“Thank… Thanks…” Specter was still in the cultivation stage, so his words were unintelligible.
Puppet Master lifted his chin and used a cloth to wipe the fingerprints off his eyes, and then took a well-tailored suit from the doll closet to put on for Specter.
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“You might as well become a doctor, humans will like you.” She looked a little sickly; her face was covered with a layer of abnormal white, and her eyelids were slightly flushed. She unfolded her small feather fan to cover her mouth and coughed twice.
This was because she was forced to leave the cultivation pod before the cultivation time was up, which left irreversible damage to Odd Bones’s body. Nevertheless, her appearance resembled a patient with tuberculosis—the so-called most romantic disease of 19th century European poets.
Some of the finely crafted puppets were dressed gorgeously and placed on couches waiting to be fetched by people who placed custom orders. However, even the exquisitely crafted dolls’ faces pale in comparison to Odd Bones.
Hearing Odd Bones’s words, Puppet Master laughed. “Do you think human beings deserve to have doctors?”
When Knicks was young, he graduated from the best medical university and became an intern doctor, until he took over a worker whose calf was amputated by a steel-reinforced bar at a construction site accident. The worker’s calf had to be amputated, but he had no money to use the prosthetic. If he could no longer stand up and go to work, his wife and children would starve to death. He cried in private and begged Knicks to think of a way for him, and Knicks was forced to install a ball joint leg for him. In fact, this was a piece of cake for him.
During the same period, another intern doctor who helped him examine patients reported him, saying that Knicks had operated without permission and that the limb he installed caused the worker severe necrosis, leading to complications and eventually death.
Only Knicks himself knew that Creator’s Hand was his associated ability. It was impossible for a rejection to emerge. He knew in his heart what agreement had been reached between his colleague and the worker.
In the end, Knicks was dismissed by the hospital, imprisoned, and compensated the worker’s family with a high fine that put him in heavy debt. The intern doctor who reported him also became the only resident doctor employed full time as he wished. Knicks got acquainted with several Red-Throated Bird members in prison and had since given up his career as a doctor.
Odd Bones shook her small velvet fan in agreement.
The shop door was suddenly and rudely pushed open, and Eris walked in shouldering a short-barreled shotgun.
“Where did you go?” Puppet Master asked, “I’ve said so many times, don’t come back through the front door with a gun. When moving, these puppets are very easily broken with a touch.”
“I went to the theater and watched ballet. Don’t worry, no one saw me.” Eris saw Specter Hourglass sitting on Puppet Master’s leg, and his elated expression suddenly darkened. His foot went up. “Get down, where are you sitting? Are you worthy?”
Specter Hourglass was kicked down by him, rolled a few times on the ground, and quietly shrank behind the hourglass. He hugged his legs in a squat, not making a sound.
Eris was in a bad mood. He casually lifted up the lower hem of Odd Bones’s skirt with the gun barrel, slightly curious.
“Eris, you can’t look under a woman’s skirt.” Puppet Master tapped the table lightly.
“Okay, okay, okay.” Eris sat on the table with one step of his long legs and stepped on Puppet Master’s leg. “Specter has new eyes, the female peacock has a new skirt, what about me?”
“You have a new mission.”
“…”
“These days, the story puppets have been telling me an interesting secret. Divine Envoy’s lover—Electric-optic Phantom—was injected with a mimicry agent by the Red Fox City cultivation base after being selected by the research institute, resulting in the termination of his pregnancy. They feared the research institute would be held accountable, so they forced themselves to repeatedly sew eggs into Electric-optic Phantom’s body, resulting in even more damage. When Electric-optic Phantom was transported to the research institute, he rolled into a ball because of the critical injury. As a last resort, a researcher decided to chop off the tip of his tail and forcefully wake him up… Hehe, looks like Divine Envoy already knows the truth.”
“The eavesdropping puppet also brought back news.” Puppet Master glanced at the red-hatted Lolita doll sitting on the sofa. “Divine Envoy is planning revenge on the Red Fox City cultivation base on June 24th. That means there will be some action tomorrow.”
“What do you need me to do? Stop him?” Eris was unconcerned.
“Go to Red Fox City and wait for him. Remember, let people know that Bai Chunian did this.”
Knicks took out another sealed eyeball and a carved ear from the drawer, “This is for you. What you see will be automatically recorded on my side. This ear can hear what I say.”
“Mn…?” After putting on the new eyeball, Eris immediately pulled open his pants and glanced down on himself. Then, he raised his head and laughed at Puppet Master with his tongue out, which was marked with black lines.
“Hurry up and go. Today is already the 23rd,” Puppet Master said, exasperated.
“Hmph, I’ll go then.” Eris picked up the shotgun and walked toward the main entrance, but was stopped by Puppet Master’s order and went to the back door.
When he arrived at Red Fox City, it was already 11 o’clock in the middle of the night on the 23rd.
All the entrances and exits of the Red Fox City cultivation base were tightly closed, as ordered by the superiors. Eris walked around a few times, and there was indeed no loophole to go through.
He snapped his fingers, and his J1 ability Misfortune Arrives started quietly.
The safety doors of the elevator in the cultivation base’s underground garage suddenly short-circuited. Eris swaggered in, found an observation deck with a good view, sat in a chair, and crossed his legs.
The observation deck was a peripheral building inside the cultivation base. Normally, leaders would walk around symbolically here when they come for inspection. The observation deck was separated from the core area of the cultivation base, so generally, few security personnel would be guarding this place.
When the only security guard on duty walked up, he directly met Eris, who was sitting in the chair. Before he could speak in surprise, Eris shot him in the head and killed him.
“You’re blocking me, old man.”
From outside the glass of the observation deck, some cultivation pods filled with light yellow cultivation solution were visible. Immature experimental subjects in different poses were floating in them, but they had already started to take shape, appearances beautiful. It seemed that they were specially selected and placed on the observation deck for the leaders to look at.
The uniformed researchers came and went, routinely injecting medicines into the experimental subjects in the cultivation pods. After the injections, the experimental subjects would silently spasm and struggle in the cultivation solution.
Several researchers gathered beside one of the experimental subjects’ cultivation pod. The supervisor demonstrated the regeneration ability of the experimental subject to the trainees. He controlled the machine to cut off a finger of the experimental subject. The experimental subject struggled wildly in the cultivation solution, and the finger slowly regenerated.
A female experimental subject was inside. Eris covered his eyes because Puppet Master said that he couldn’t look at a woman’s body casually.
The atmosphere was calm and boring, not resembling like something was going to happen at all.
“Tch. That little white cat is just bluffing. I don’t believe he will really come. Is the amount of times he lied still considered small?” Eris glanced at the watch that Puppet Master strapped to his wrist, extremely fed up. It was already 23:16.
Puppet Master’s voice sounded from his ear, “Don’t be careless.”
Eris was startled, looked around, and then remembered that there was a listening device in this ear; he could hear Puppet Master talking.
The view from the observation deck was limited, and Eris dozed off very soon.
At 23:59, the watch vibrated slightly, waking up Eris.
Eris woke up, rubbed his eyes, scratched his hair, and casually glanced at his watch.
As the second hand pointed to twelve, it was already 00:00 on June 24th.
“Isn’t nothing happening?” Eris felt completely bored.
Suddenly, the lights went out, and the brightly lit cultivation base suddenly sunk into darkness. The circuit arrangements of the scientific research buildings were different; generally, there wouldn’t be large-scale power outages.
The researchers immediately became noisy. The supervisor maintained order and called the circuit maintenance person to repair it quickly. Many operations were still going on, and the experimental subject cultivation pods and observation boxes also needed electricity to maintain their functions.
The supervisor went to turn on the emergency power supply while making a phone call, and the emergency lights in each area turned on, which calmed down the researchers.
There was finally some light in his field of vision, and Eris leaned on the glass curiously to see what was happening inside.
“The supervisor is making a phone call… which he was unable to do. Apparently, the phone has no signal.” Eris described the current situation to Puppet Master, “Hee hee, information can’t be sent out either, there is no Internet.”
The sound of a sliding track came from his left-hand side. Eris’ eyes were drawn over, and he found that the noise came from inside the elevator. Because there was an emergency power supply, the number of the elevator did not go out and was instead descending at a terrifying speed. It suddenly dropped to the lowest floor with a deafening bang.
Blood slowly trickled out from the gap between the elevator.
“Wow!” Eris opened his eyes wide and was stunned for a while. He stomped his foot in excitement. “He really came!”
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