Alien Hotel

The kitchen door handle turned once, then pushed open quietly. Yu Sheng walked out of the door carrying several large bags, and greeted the stunned Irene not far away: "I'm back."

Eileen's eyes widened, and she obviously didn't realize what was going on: "Didn't you go out to buy something? How did you get there?

She suddenly stopped, as if coming to her senses.

"No! You go to a shopping mall and you have to open the door when you come home!?"

"I thought about it. Since this door not only leads to foreign lands, but also to some distant place in reality, it makes no sense that it can't go to a closer place," Yu Sheng said with a proud look on his face. Erin said, "By the way, I also tested carrying objects and living creatures through this door. It seems that as long as the door is kept stable, they can pass through the door smoothly.

Irene was stunned for a while, and she was a little curious when she heard the word "living things": "Living things?! Where did you get the living things? Where?"

Yu Sheng stretched out his hand: "I caught a mosquito before I came back.

Erin:——

Miss Doll had a new understanding of life's creativity, and then her attention couldn't help but fall on the several large shopping bags that the other party brought back.

The first thing she saw was a box of eight-treasure porridge.

Yu Sheng took a look at the contents of the shopping bag. He first put away the box of eight-treasure porridge, and then showed the remaining items to Irene: "I bought light clay. Because I bought a huge amount, the store also gave it to me as a gift. I bought some tools, but these tools are probably not needed. They are all used for making small dolls. If I want to make your body, you will need this one - I bought a rolling pin.

'Here are the hair and paints. They are all well bought. Although they are not the most expensive ones, they are almost the same.

"By the way, I didn't find any suitable clothes for you, you see."

'No need,' Irene waved her hand. She watched Yu Sheng pour things out, her face was full of expectation and excitement at this time, 'I can 'shape' the clothes myself. I said, this body is mainly It’s used as a medium and a temporary container. There are so many things. Yu Sheng, are you really paying attention?”

"Nonsense, at least do it once. Either don't do it, or try to do it as well as possible," Yu Sheng said, but frowned and shook his head, "But to be honest, this thing is probably not complete. I heard that there is also a clay drying box. There are all kinds of fillers, softening oils, primers, makeup tools, etc., but I took a look and found that they were either only for small dolls, or I couldn't learn them in a short time. And I still have one. The problem is, Glue needs time to dry. If there is no drying oven, half a day will not be enough for large components to dry and harden. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter, as long as the frame can be made.” Irene seemed to be in a good mood, even following Yu Sheng His tone was extremely soft when he spoke, "The important thing is the ritual part, yes, the ritual part, otherwise I would just ask you to buy a ready-made doll and bring it back. There is no need to go to such trouble."

That's fine," Yu Sheng breathed out and began to sort out the pile of things in categories, "Then let's go to the attic, which is spacious and has a big table. "

Irene nodded, but suddenly, she noticed another bag of things next to her.

That thing looks familiar.

"What is this bag of lotus roots for?" Miss Doll asked with a question mark on her face.

Yu Sheng paused in his movements, looked up at Irene, then looked down at the bag of lotus roots. Two seconds later, he laughed dryly: "What, this is a backup plan in case my skills are too fashionable." Plan, this is how I understand it—

Irene tilted her head and thought for a long time, and finally caught up with Yu Sheng's train of thought. She jumped up from her red carpet chair on the spot: "No!"

"Can't it?" Yu Sheng was a little disappointed when he heard this, "I also said that the shape of the lotus root is quite perfect. It took me a long time to pick it up."

Of course not! Erin's eyes almost popped out of her head, "I'm telling you, the prefabricated dishes are already too much. I have a big objection if you serve me prefabricated dishes."

"Okay, okay," Yu Sheng sighed and carried the bag of lotus roots to the kitchen, "Then let's get the fried lotus root box later."

Erin suddenly had a bad premonition. She felt that her escape journey today might not go as smoothly as she imagined -

But Yu Sheng became more confident at this time. He sorted out the tools and materials needed to shape the doll's body, picked up the things with one hand, put Irene's picture frame under his arm, and reached out to hold the kitchen door handle. .

Eileen's reaction was very quick this time: "You go to an attic and you still have to open the 'door'!?"

Yu Sheng thought for a while and felt that this seemed a bit too lazy, so he smiled awkwardly, took the materials and Irene and turned around towards the stairs leading upstairs. This house has a large attic on the second floor. It's said that it's an attic above, but that's more like it's because When the house was built, the floor height was too high and had to be separated out separately. Its area is about half the size of the second floor, and it has two windows facing the street and a skylight. This is why it looks like this from the outside. , you will see that this house has three floors in total.

Except when cleaning, Yu Sheng rarely goes to the attic.

Because there was almost nothing there, except for a large table that seemed to have no room to put it, there were only two squeaky chairs. Every time it was night or cloudy and the light was bad, it was too An empty attic always looks eerie and a bit scary.

But now it was just right to serve as a "workshop" for shaping Erin's body.

Yu Sheng made two trips and found some tools and an old desk lamp that might come in handy from the utility room on the second floor, as well as all kinds of strange things that Eileen requested and needed for the "ritual" Everything was transported to the big table in the attic.

Irene's picture frame was placed on the corner of the table, leaning against a Japanese book that served as a temporary stand. She quietly watched Yu Sheng running around and working, appearing quieter than ever before, and not knowing what was going on. What are you thinking about.

Yu Sheng sat in front of the big table, and the chair made a creaking sound. He played with the clay and spatula unfamiliarly, and began to try to familiarize himself with their "efficiency".

Eileen suddenly broke the silence: "Yu Sheng."

"Um?

I really want to get out of this painting. "

"Yeah, if everything goes well.'

I didn't expect that such a day would actually come," Erin muttered in a low voice, "In fact, I gave up hope many years ago.

Now suddenly I think of this feeling again? "Yu Sheng raised his head and glanced at the puppet in the painting who seemed to be suddenly sentimental.

Erin sat on the chair, holding the teddy bear and slowly rocking her body: "It's nothing, I just want to thank you."

"Then let's put gratitude after success." Yu Sheng breathed out softly, as if to relieve some tension in his heart, "Now tell me, what is the first step?" "

Candles, placed in each of the four corners of the table, and one lit, placed next to my picture frame, the most basic part of the torso must be completed before the candle burns out.

Erin's expression became serious, and she began to instruct Yu Sheng on how to use a bunch of everyday materials to complete the container shaping of the "living doll". This was the first time that she passed on the knowledge of "Alice's House" to a " human beings".

"Draw three concentric circles on the table. Their range is your operating space. Then extend a line from the candles at the four corners. Draw a circle as much as possible at the center of the concentric circles.

Just don't draw it square.

Write my name in the center of the circle, Ai-Lin, in Japanese and the universal language. If you don’t know it, then find a piece of paper first and I’ll tell you how to write it. Make sure you don’t spell it wrong.

In addition, I need your blood, just a little. Mix it into the clay, and then mix in the tea powder and rose oil prepared in advance. Don’t add too much, as it will affect the molding. Place the prepared clay balls in front of me first. Let me guide the first 'spiritual injection'. "

Irene gave instructions one by one, and Yu Sheng executed them meticulously. A quiet and focused atmosphere gradually lingered in the attic. There was no more usual bickering between the two, but only a gradually tacit understanding of cooperation.

In fact, there is not much tacit understanding. Irene mainly relies on being open-minded, and Yu Sheng mainly relies on self-confidence.

This process was more tiring than Yu Sheng imagined at the beginning, not only physically exhausted, but also mentally drained.

He could feel that the "ritual" mentioned by Erin was gradually taking effect, and those arrangements that he could not understand were beginning to operate with some "law" and "power" that he could not understand. As a first-time performer of this kind, An ordinary person in the "ritual" (), even though most of the spiritual injection process of the ritual was completed by Irene, Yu Sheng also felt a "power flow" on the spiritual level.

But this was something Irene had warned about before the ceremony started, so Yu Sheng did not panic, and,

It is to maintain the condition as much as possible and complete every step required by Erin as accurately as possible.

The body of a doll gradually took shape in his hands.

It was rough, simple, crooked, and even the two legs were different lengths. The arm was broken once in the middle, and was reconnected with wire and water. Yu Sheng felt that he might not have the talent in this area.

But anyway, everything is finally coming to an end.

"Now you can put out the last candle," Irene in the frame looked at the body on the table calmly, her expression unprecedentedly dignified and serious, "and then put me right in front of the body, where the head is. "

"Okay," Yu Sheng asked casually as he stood up to complete the process, "What next?"

"Then I needed a minute to comfort myself and strengthen my faith.

Yu Sheng: "—Why?

Irene was about to cry: "It's so fucking ugly. Even if it can be reshaped, it still looks too fucking ugly now."

It's ugly. "