Indescribable cyberpunk

She has short black hair that reaches her ears. Compared with this era where thin people are generally considered beautiful, her chin is very round. She has a small nose and bright red lips, but her eyes are a strange sky blue. She is just like that. Lying like this in the box, the bright red robe on her body made her somewhat stiff face look a bit...

Corpse in coffin.

"Sir, this puppet was carefully carved by a craftsman in our shop. It is an excellent scapegoat for the sin-burning ceremony in the afternoon."

The waiter in the store noticed that Zhu Jue had been looking at the doll sets they placed in the store, and took the initiative to come over and introduce them.

"Burning sins. Ceremony?"

Zhu Jue was a little surprised why the doll was burned when it was so exquisitely made. He soon thought that he had heard someone talk about it when he came to Rongxia City last time, but he couldn't remember it for a while. After all, it was He just followed and listened for a while.

"Didn't you notice that these two rows of shelves are filled with dolls?"

The "person" who spoke raised his finger and pointed at the shelf next to him, and only then did Zhu Jue realize that there were a large number of dolls neatly placed on it.

It's not an animal doll for children to kill time, but a simulated doll, but it shouldn't be a robot. After all, those robot dolls cost tens of thousands of fakes at least, so it's not like they would burn such dolls, so they are on the shelves. Most of them are wooden or cloth dolls. Exquisite dolls like the ones Zhu Jue sees now are rare, and the sides of these shelves are carefully marked: for sacrifice.

"Where does this ceremony take place?"

Zhu Jue asked after looking back at Li Qinglian and the others who were selecting masks on other nearby shelves.

He wasn't actually that interested in this kind of burning ceremony, but it seemed like there was no place to go this afternoon. Their original plan was to go wherever they wanted, but now that they had a clear location, it might as well take a look at it then. .

"It's right in the square of Brahma Myoohji Temple. Many people will go there to pray. Aren't you ready to give it a try?"

"No thanks."

Zhu Jue didn't believe this, so he subconsciously refused, but when he looked at the "person" who had been introducing the product to him fluently, he discovered the black cross section of her neck that was indistinguishable, and then looked at her head. He looked at the rings on the left and right sides of his head, and then realized that the person he had been chatting with was actually an android.

In essence, androids should be considered robot dolls?

It introduced to him the puppet for burning. Zhujue felt a little awkward no matter how he thought about it, so he laughed twice and prepared to return to his team.

When he left, he vaguely heard some more customers coming in from outside. They were talking loudly in front of the android clerk, discussing whether they should buy a "high-end" doll to participate in the sacrifice.

Zhu Jue suddenly thought that their behavior seemed to be no different from talking about the price of pork per pound in front of pigs, because the latter could not understand the meaning.

Just like now, the android shop assistant still greeted them very enthusiastically and started to introduce the products to them.

"Zhu Jue, have you chosen the mask? I've decided on this one."

Li Qinglian held a snow girl mask in her hand, which looked more eerie and beautiful than scary. Wu Tong held a red tengu mask in his hand. He turned to look at Olivia, who was looking at a Purple face paint.

Zhu Jue didn't make too many choices, because he found a beast-looking mask on a shelf. It looked very similar to the way the wind chime looked when it was angry, so it naturally became the last choice. .

"Have you finished choosing? We have to go to the rehearsal of a play in the tourist area next. Let's settle the bill first."

Li Qinglian waved her mask and went to check out. At this time, someone just came in at the door of the store. He went straight to the counter and happened to pass in front of Zhu Jue and his group.

Zhu Jue and Olivia frowned immediately and began to pay attention to him consciously or unconsciously.

This man looks very young, but his face is a little haggard, and his clothes are loose and droopy. The inner sweater has a layer of edges exposed. He was obviously in a hurry when he went out. He should have come to this store. It's urgent.

This rushed and anxious state can easily make people think of bad things.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jue took a few steps forward in the name of checking out.

"Hello, I'd like to buy some parts for the action figures. Here's the list."

The man took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket. Zhu Jue glanced at it. It should have been torn from an ordinary notebook. As for the content on it, although he could vaguely see some words, most of it was Some codes or model data of something, he knew nothing about this aspect.

"I'm sorry, sir, although we have some of the things on your list here, they are all mechanical parts that have been installed on the doll. If I sell them to you, the doll will be useless, and we still have to make money from this. .”

Someone was sitting behind the counter. The outside sunlight did not shine on this location, so it was a bit dark there, with only the smoke of cigarettes rising.

This boss is not a bionic person, Zhu Jue is sure of this, and this business plan is very sound.

There are parts, but they are all on the doll. Of course you can if you want it, then buy all the dolls.

"Then give me those dolls first, and can you please tell me where I can buy the parts that you don't have in your store?"

The man was straightforward and didn't even bargain. He nodded and said that as long as it was related to those parts, he would take all the dolls.

Zhu Jue grinned at the side, thinking that the owner of this store had slaughtered a fat sheep today. At the same time, he also gave up the idea of ​​going to investigate. Since he was just a businessman who came to buy something, he was still taken advantage of, so it was nothing. question.

Olivia also withdrew her gaze and followed Li Qinglian to the counter to pay the bill. She took one last look at the man and paused for a moment on the smart watch in his hand, then followed Zhu Jue and the others and left.

As soon as he went out, Zhu Jue saw a man in a gray cloak standing in the corridor outside the shop. There was a hood on his head, some strange attire, but the man had his head lowered and stood with a backlight, calling. People can't see clearly what's going on inside the hood.

Ouch~

The wind chime pulled at Zhu Jue's trouser legs and shouted at the fried fish at the roadside stall in front of him.

"Okay, let's go."

Leaving behind the man in the shop and the "mysterious man" outside, Zhu Jue picked up the wind chime and placed the mask he bought upside down on its head.