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Although Grandpa Turtle does not have much credibility in the eyes of the townspeople, his expression at the moment does not seem to be fake, and Afanti gave up his position so that everyone can line up to see the small shrine, which also deepened the situation. credibility in it.

If...if Grandpa Turtle is right, then the people in Dessert Town are the products of the flesh and blood of a doll maker.

Because it is too realistic, and with the high concentration and imagination of the puppeteer, these cold dolls are finally endowed with warmth and come alive, and within a specially designated range──

Work at sunrise, and rest at sunset.

If this is the case, then the puppeteer can indeed be called the faith and god of the dessert town.

But no one is sure, so far, those running around in the dessert town, and even "appearing" at the festival, are they really me?

"However, our dessert town has been passed down for so long... Is the dollmaker himself still alive?"

It's not that everyone doesn't want to believe it, but if you dig deeper according to the logic of Grandpa Turtle, some things really don't stand up to scrutiny.

"As for Mayor Black Bear and Grandpa Turtle, do you go back regularly to let the puppeteer modify and adjust...or even replace the body, so that you can stay in these positions in the dessert town?"

When things came to this field, everyone was full of questions.

Moreover, the biggest problem is not just the part that was exposed overnight, but also the most critical part--

Since we knew from the very beginning that everyone is the creation of a puppeteer, and they will be managed centrally after they come alive, but there is no need to lie to everyone that they live in a real place and can communicate with the outside world under limited opening, right?

In this way, are the tourists who came to the dessert town before to play real people, or other works of puppet masters?

Also, usually people are injured in work, and even life, old age, sickness and death, in some people's memory, it happened in reality... If it is a doll, it is possible that some kind of magic is cast, so that everyone can see the bleeding, Wound, fever pain?

"I still think it's unreasonable."

Lilith is very sure that Dessert Town is the background of a series of fairy tales, so creating a world by a dollmaker is the most absurd argument from beginning to end in her opinion.

Especially no matter what Grandpa Turtle said, it couldn't stand up to scrutiny.As long as everyone gathers the details together, and then strings together the dates of birth and death, and the issue of each family being changed into a race, how can these be explained?

"Maybe they didn't want to talk to us about the reasonable and unreasonable issues. As long as they can barely fool it, the main reason is that the townspeople in the dessert town are unwilling to pay the bill."

At this time, the clown mask who should have left the dessert town with the moonlight train appeared again in the power plant, and said to the mayor of Black Bear with a distorted expression.

"Huh? Aren't you that... Were you lucky enough to leave the dessert town before? Why are you back?"

Because the shape of the clown mask is too memorable, many people who recovered their memories recognized that this was the guy who made a fuss at the festival earlier.

"And me, I'm back too!" Shao Hui, the tourist who took the lead in exposing the problems of the dessert town with blood and tears, ran back bravely, "We just wanted to prevent everyone from being deceived, so we specially invited Mr. Nightmare Bring us here."

"Damn, isn't it because there are a few books left in the nest, making people think about the plots that haven't been finished yet..."

As for the hanging pipe bookworm, he scratched his head in embarrassment, then smiled kindly at the others, and opened his big mouth full of fine teeth.

"Besides, we have been taken care of by many people before. We are free, but we shouldn't repay everyone's help."

The clown mask shook the small fabric charm on the top, and the voice said casually:

"Outside, it's completely different from what Grandpa Turtle and the others said, so everyone, don't be fooled by their few words!"

"Why would it be unhappy to leave the dessert town and walk out of the rainbow... Obviously, the outside world is much happier than us, it is not closed at all, and there are many interesting things!"

It's not that the townspeople in the dessert town haven't heard the conversations of those tourists in the past, listening to them say how wonderful the outside world is.

But before they all sneered, thinking that if the outside is really so good, why do these people still come to play here every year?

But now, everyone is a little hesitant... Maybe, things are really as the clown mask said?

"Hehehe, don't you be so stupid as to trust them?"

Hei Su Diao Factory Manager heard what the clown mask said, and looked at the already convinced townspeople in the dessert town. He couldn't help but shook his head, feeling speechless at their innocence.

"Yes, we did lie about the origin of the town, but no matter in daily life or other aspects, you should ask yourself, have we really sorry for you?"

Auntie Bijia made sense to the left, and she felt that the logic was very strict when she heard it from the right. Seeing that everyone seemed rather embarrassed, she still wanted to see what Avanti would say.

Anyway, the child grew up by himself. Compared with those who are far away from him, his character is far more reliable than those guys.

"Hey, actually?"

Doctor Apiye thought that Auntie Bijia would definitely not believe these lies, but he never expected that they not only believed them, but even urged everyone to confirm Avanti and Lilith.

"It seems that people don't want to believe what we say. Could it be that people's desires are so hard to satisfy, and they don't want to stay in the dessert town?"

Grandpa Turtle can be regarded as the person who values ​​the development of the matter the most among the executives of the dessert town, and is also the person who is most disappointed by everyone's reaction.

"That's okay. Since everyone is not suitable, after the gods wake up, they can send these people who don't want to stay in the town to where they want to go."

Mayor Heixiong felt that he had let go a lot after these several rounds of tugging.

Anyway, there is no shortage of these people in the dessert town. If there are any vacancies, according to the temper of the gods, they will be filled soon.

"But... But I don't have any thoughts about whether to leave or not. I just want to know, is there a way for my grandma to come back!"

Annie, the red-bellied squirrel with red and swollen eyes, hugged Granny Smith's body tightly, and looked helplessly at Dr. Appie and the others.

When Granny Smith collapsed suddenly at home, Dr. Appier came to give first aid, but in the end he shook his head and said he was helpless.

──But as the truth of the matter came to light, little Annie judged intuitively, thinking that it was just an excuse.

Their family never evaded taxes when they were hedgehogs. Any new regulations in the town are the ones who fulfilled the best. There is no reason not to help fulfill such a small wish, right?

If, if they are all dolls... if they are dead, they will be broken, so won't they be 'resurrected' after they are repaired?

"Although your idea is very good, I still want to say that this is impossible." Unexpectedly, Dr. Appie, who was trusted by everyone and looked at omnipotence, heard the plea of ​​the red-bellied squirrel cub Finally, he shook his head cruelly.

"All of us are the work of grown-ups, to be sent back for repairs and adjustments at the end of their useful life."

"Grandma Smith's body has already reached its limit. Even our Chinese counterparts have replaced parts of her body, but there is still no way for her body to function smoothly."

Hearing what Dr. Apiye said, Afanti thought deeply in his eyes.

──So death is tantamount to 'elimination'. It is understandable that dolls have a limited number of years, but if you want to live in the dessert town for a long time like Dr. Appie and Mayor Black Bear... ...

I am afraid that the only way is to replace the body as soon as possible before it is scrapped.

"Then, do I have reason to believe that because you are deeply trusted by the doll maker, you have also been entrusted with the important task of taking care of the dessert town, so the doll maker will help you make exactly the same new shells on a regular basis, so that you can re- What about living again?"

"Of course, there may be another issue to be discussed here, and that is how your 'soul' and 'memory' should be relocated."

As if Avanti couldn't see the expressions of Dr. Apiye and others wanting to eat people, she was quite comfortable in the staring eyes of other dessert town residents, and asked leisurely and curiously:

"But there is still a problem here. If the person who can have this 'benefit' is an important person in the dessert town...then Ms. Taylor's fate is particularly suspicious, right?"

After all, there is only one clinic in the dessert town, and all the townspeople in the dessert town rely heavily on the services of the clinic.

The queue of patients every day is very long. It is impossible for Dr. Apier to be able to separate his three heads and six arms to meet everyone's daily needs after changing his shell again, right?

"That's not something you should know."

Doctor Apiye looked as if he had endured Avanti for a long time, with his hands crossed around his chest, his feet shaking impatiently,

"Also, since you behave like this, after I see it, you don't have to stay in the dessert town, just go outside!"

"I pulled you up to such an age, not because I want you to take care of me until the end of my life, and I don't need a child who keeps talking to me."

"Let's go from bridge to bridge, road to road, and then walk on the road, there is no need to say you know me!"

This is not to be said lightly. In the dessert town in the past, maybe everyone would be scared because of this, for fear that they would have no way out.

"Hahaha! Isn't this just right? You are afraid that your old background will be exposed, and Avanti never thought of staying here forever."

Lilith clapped her hands together, as if she came to appreciate Dr. Appie's actions.

Let everyone listen thoughtfully, and the expression on Mayor Heixiong's face is quite ugly.

He hardly needed to think about it, the mayor of Black Bear knew that after this experience, there would definitely be many people who would rather start over than stay in Dessert Town.

──As for how they should rely on their own strength as dolls after leaving, or how they should start over, I'm afraid they would rather go out first and think about it later.

"Then, I want to ask, those people who 'died', it seems that they are the hardest-working wave in the dessert town..."

At this moment, Ms. Silkie asked with a choked voice:

"As long as things wear out a lot, they will become obsolete and be eliminated by us. Since we are all dolls, wouldn't it mean that the harder you work, the shorter your life span?"

"Furthermore, many people said earlier that they could not conceive a child, and that it was a child bestowed by a puppeteer..."

"But Sissi is clearly the child born to Jeromy and I, coming out of my stomach, can I not tell the difference?"

"Actually, it's impossible to put everyone into a coma every night."

Avanti first went through the logic and settings proposed by Grandpa Turtle and others, and then worked hard to go through the setting of the fairy tale background according to his previous memory, and then replied beyond the others:

"Dessert Town has its advantages and disadvantages. As for whether everyone is suitable to leave and develop, this also needs to be considered individually."

──Love is not a terrible possession, and hatred is not a forced expulsion.

──Dessert Town is clearly a dreamland. Perhaps some people choose to maintain order with more drastic and extreme actions in order to preserve the purity of this place.

But in general, since this place is recognized as the nest of rest, joy and happiness for everyone, as a place of belief and independent customs, even if it is fake, it is slowly activated under the gradual construction of everyone.

To this day, as a creator, Avanti himself does not dare to say whether there are characters before stories in the books he travels through, or stories before characters.

Somehow, both the supporting role and the protagonist have their own consciousness, and they are not willing to follow the plot written by Avanti.

Therefore, Avanti believed that this puppeteer might also be such an existence, right?

Take a closer look, the tools held by the two hands of the shrine are engraved with three knife marks, which represent the meaning of offering wine; The meaning of the four qi (sun, earth, water, air).

If viewed from the most traditional level, the dollmaker’s positioning of his image in Dessert Town as Little Burning Man may also have meaning in this regard.

As for the fact that Avanti was writing this series of fairy tales, he described the image of the gods as such, just because the little niece believed that fire also meant light and wisdom.

──Although from the beginning to the end, Avanti did not explicitly delve into the meaning of the existence of gods in the series of books in the same town, but in this world, there is such a puppeteer. It can also be regarded as a kind of gap check and fill in the gap.

"Afanti, are you on the side of the dessert town, or are you on the side of the townspeople?"

After listening to the cause and effect of the double versions, Lilith was stunned, thinking that smart people just have different brains, how could they think of so many weird things.

"Then for the rest of the book walkers, after they die, do they return to their original vision, or do they just die?"

This is indeed a very important question for Lilith.

She felt that as a member of the 'Firefly' organization, she had not protected the other book runners well, and she had never done a good job of investigating and uncovering the truth.

Whether it was a doll or a real person, Lilith asked herself, what she most wanted to know was the whereabouts of those companions in the past.

Anyway, this world is indeed dead and many people are missing, just as an explanation to them and to herself, Lilith really wants to get the answer from Avanti.

"They are the same as all the townspeople in Dessert Town. I think that after going through adventures, deciding their own destiny, and becoming the masters of their own affairs, they can decide where they want to go."

Avanti thought about it for a long time, and finally he could only give such an answer vaguely.

Since the last world, Avanti has vaguely felt that as long as it is "identified" by him, he has the opportunity to change the existing ending he wrote in the past...

At the same time, there is also the opportunity to rewrite the answers and certain decisions that I regret after traveling to the book.

Words can be spoken freely, even if there is only one chance, but for those cannon fodder supporting actors who have been extremely hurt and cannot be redeemed, this can already be regarded as an earth-shaking change.

"Grandpa Turtle, I think, the power of that puppeteer should also be slowly disappearing, right?"

Avanti turned to Grandpa Turtle with an extremely complicated expression, and asked slowly.

In the original setting, the power plant can be regarded as a very important dungeon written by Avanti, and it can also be regarded as laying the foundation for the transformation of fairy tales into "science popularization".

It's just that Afanti's later manuscripts are too crowded, so even if the editor offers generous conditions, there will be no time to write.

──So the arrangement of the power plant here in the dessert town is indeed the result of original creation by the people in the town.

"Yes, that's why we will do everything we can to collect the bodies of the earliest generation of townspeople, whether it's dismantling and researching, or gathering ideas to see how to help everyone handle it on their own without disturbing the gods. The problem of aging."

"The most ideal thing is to use our personal strength to feed back adults, so that the other party can relax a little bit, and don't always make ourselves weak and fall asleep in order to give us better living conditions."

Mayor Heixiong was responsible for the answer. Facing this child who was valued and loved by him in the past, but in the end it was the child who unveiled the veil of the dessert town by himself, he only felt that his mood was very complicated.

However, seeing that Grandpa Turtle and the others calmed down, Mayor Heixiong thought... maybe this is the destined ending of Dessert Town.

When they no longer restrict the movement of the townspeople, and don't insist that everyone must believe in the gods, will it be... possible to give the dessert town a different future?

"But, Doctor Appier, what's the matter with you?"

In the end, the person who felt the most embarrassing about all this was actually the director of the black millet carving factory, and he was quite dissatisfied and stopped Dr. Appie and said:

"The few of us got the indulgence of the Lord God in order to manage the dessert town, allowing us to renew our bodies."

"It's clearly Ms. Taylor's turn this year, but you snatched her opportunity and let her die... What's the plan for replacing the Snow Ridge Rabbit cub in the end?"

"This is not the part you should know."

Dr. Apiye didn't think he was obliged to answer this question, but turned his head to look at Avanti who had just comforted the red fox Lilith, whose fate lines were so tangled that it was impossible to see through.

"Since the dessert town has decided to change the system again, you'd better be fully prepared, and there will be a lot of chaos later."

This is also impossible. Whether it is to give the townspeople an explanation, or to re-arrange the future track of the dessert town, it will take a lot of energy from the mayor of Black Bear and others.

There is no way to pretend that what has been done in the past does not exist, so I can only try my best to make up for it, and hope to provide everyone with a better quality of life.

The slumber of the gods, and the coming and going of the dolls, will one day require a good discussion.

The townspeople in the dessert town may look at their creators with a sense of gratitude, or they may face their creators with malice.

What's more, how does the producer himself view the townspeople in the dessert town, and what kind of viewpoint Jiang everyone feeds and binds around the river valley under the rainbow, which is also a part that urgently needs to be discussed.

"Ham, did your daily life have been easy before?"

Grandpa Black Bear sighed heavily, then unceremoniously trampled on Avanti's fluffy head,

"Actually, every day in the past, we have been worrying about whether the truth of the dessert town will be discovered by you, and what kind of eyes will everyone look at our world..."

"Honestly, apart from too many desserts and life being too dreamy, anyway, I personally think that everything is pretty good."

"Retire, take care of the cubs, there must be some fun in life, and weird things, so that people can maintain a more positive side, right?"

Maybe working at sunrise and resting at sunset is too boring for some people.

But in the eyes of the mayor of Black Bear, this is really healthy. They have invited the gods to come to the dessert town to recuperate countless times before.

"last question."

After listening to Mayor Heixiong's answer, Avanti knew that from the point of view of the characters in the book, Dessert Town, with its complete and closed logic, really met their wishes and needs.

"You ask, as long as I can answer, I will tell you."

Excluding a small amount of conflicts in understanding and concepts, the mayor of Black Bear himself really likes Avanti, a cute and smart kid.

Besides, he actually works very hard, has a cheerful personality and is very positive, so to be honest, although the mayor of Heixiong knows that the child will leave, he still hopes that Avanti can stay.

"I was very sorry before, but I read some of the mayor's grandfather's notes... I remember that there were two pentagram totems in the town. Does the mayor's grandfather know what these are for? "

──Afanti made judgments based on intuition and instinct, and felt that if there was something wrong with the dessert town, it might be left here and might be used as a fuss.