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Chapter 99: Little doll, are you looking for your lost owner? (Subscribe)

Then she didn't come to find me. Even if she found that the doll cabinet was missing and wanted to find it back, it would have changed hands several times, so it's impossible for her to find me for no reason...

Shen Le shook his head blankly. For someone like him, 24 hours out of 23 hours a day, he stayed at home;

The longest distance I walked was to Tianxianglou for dinner, which was no more than 300 meters one way;
The number of steps on WeChat every day does not exceed 3000, and the physical energy is all consumed by sawing wood, painting and practicing the Five Animals Exercises...

He couldn't get any clues unless the old lady walked up to him and they bumped into each other!

Gu Yulin was obviously desperate and tried every possible means. Since he couldn't get the answer, he could only give up. He sighed, told Shen Le to notify him as soon as he had any news, and hung up the phone in a hurry.

Shen Le stared at his phone for a long time, shook his head, and turned his attention back to the doll cabinet. He was stunned when he saw it:
In the storage cabinet next to the doll cabinet, there are furnishings and dolls in each compartment and room, but there is one that is particularly different.

The other puppets were sitting quietly, leaning or lying down. Only this puppet, clacking, clacking, clacking, took a few steps in the tray, bumped into the glass wall of the cabinet, and stopped;
Change direction, take a few more steps, bump into the wooden wall on the other side, stop, and change direction...

Shen Le stood up and walked closer, staring at it. It was the smallest of all the dolls. Shen Le raised his palm on the table, and the height from the base of his palm to the tip of his middle finger was much taller than the doll.

She was wearing a small princess dress with a circle of rice beads on the hem. The smallest plastic beads should have been an extremely popular style at the time. Most of the rice beads were damaged and had fallen off.

Shen Le remembered that when he first saw it, the doll raised its chin, tilted its head slightly, and made a gesture of pulling up its skirt and gently curtsying.

With a happy and proud smile on her face, her red lips slightly parted, as if she was about to shout:

"Praise me! Praise me now!"

However, at this time, the smile painted on the doll's face with paint remained the same, but it was no longer in a dancing posture.

It walked back and forth, circling the tray without stopping. For some reason, Shen Le saw an aura called "anxiety" from this little doll.

What are you anxious about?
What happened?
Is it... related to the missing old lady?

Shen Le's heart moved, and he took out the little doll and held it in his palm.

For some reason, the more he looked at the little doll, the more he felt that it looked very similar to the little girl named "Yingying" in his memory.

The same round face and pointed chin; the same hairstyle of braiding two strands of hair into a braid at the back of the head, which then hangs down in the waterfall of black hair;

Even that princess dress was one he had seen at the Sincere Company. Yingying was fascinated by it and stared at the style for a long time.

As a brother, you may not be able to buy such a fashionable and beautiful dress for your sister.
But the older brother would also try every possible means to find scraps of cloth and put such a skirt on his sister's doll, and let his sister hold it in her hands and look at it:

"You see, in my brother's heart, my sister is just so beautiful!"

So, did the little girl at that time become the owner of the doll cabinet, and then grow older year by year, and finally become a senior with Alzheimer's disease as the staff said?
The little doll was still moving its legs, stepping in the air and making walking gestures.

Shen Le stared at it for a long time and simply put it on the ground. Sure enough, the little doll made a clattering sound and walked out very firmly.

I picked it up and put it in the yard. The little doll still kept its original direction, step by step, without wavering...

Where is this going?

Going to any specific place?

Or find its original owner?
Shen Le didn't know. He used his spiritual eyes to check carefully, but there was no clue;

He asked twice more and used his internal energy to listen, but the little doll showed no reaction. He didn't know whether it didn't want to pay attention to him or its intelligence simply hadn't evolved to that level.

Shen Le had no choice but to return to his room and take out the small oil lamp:

"Can you communicate with it? Can you ask it where to go?"

[I don't know!] The silvery-white light on the small oil lamp flickered. A small ball of light separated and circled around the doll, and then circled again.

After consuming a lot of electricity from Shen Le, and more importantly, a lot of power from the thunder tribulation, the little oil lamp became more intelligent and spoke more fluently:
[I can't hear it talking! It... doesn't seem to be talking? I asked it, but it ignored me! ]

... Be careful not to blow it up. Shen Le put away the small oil lamp and went to look for the small inkstone.

Eh, I didn't want to drag it out. Little Modou works 24 hours a day. He is definitely a top employee...

The ink line hummed, and then it circled around the doll. After a long while, the little ink fountain told Shen Le with great certainty:
"It's too small! It's too stupid! It doesn't understand anything! All I know is that it's going in a certain direction!"

"Where to go?"

The lead weight was raised and pointed firmly in a direction, which was the same direction the doll walked out.

Shen Le breathed a sigh of relief, stuffed the inkstone into his backpack, held the doll in his hand, and walked out of the house.

I turned, turned again, scanned a shared bike and rode to the subway station. The lead pendant was always pointing in the same direction, and it never changed from beginning to end...

It seems quite far away?
Shen Le didn't plan to walk over on his own. He took out his phone and called Gu Yulin:

"…It's like this. The doll cabinet I moved from the old lady's place has some unusual movements today. One of the dolls seems to be running away from home. I don't know where it wants to go.

...Yes, I can't communicate with it, but I suspect it might be looking for its owner. It's at least a clue, would you like to take a look?"

Ten minutes later, Gu Yulin drove a small old car and stopped beside Shen Le in a hurry.

...It's so easy and pleasant to communicate with people in the special affairs department. At least, you don't have to explain to him why you need to look at the lead weight in your hand when you give directions -

By the way, the lead pendant would occasionally float up, dragging the ink line back and forth... Shen Le sat in the passenger seat, holding the doll in his left hand and the ink fountain in his right hand, staring at the direction of the lead pendant and pointing the way. While pointing the way, he answered Gu Yulin's questions:
"It probably didn't move yesterday... Anyway, when I looked at them, I didn't see it moving..."

"Yes, I couldn't understand what it said. I couldn't tell whether it was talking or not."

"Yes, this ink fountain, they can barely communicate with each other. Maybe the little ones are easier to communicate with?"

"No, Modou doesn't know where the doll is going... and how far it will go. At present, we only know the direction..."

Gu Yulin: “…”

The communication was fruitless. To be more precise, Shen Le and the doll failed to communicate. Gu Yulin also could not receive any useful information, so he had to drive hard.

After a long 60-kilometer drive from Zhuxi Town to the center of Binhai City, the direction of the lead weight in Shen Le's hand finally changed.

"turn right."

"Keep going."

"Left, left!"

"It's no use shouting!" Gu Yulin was helpless:

“You can’t turn left here!”

One was showing the way, the other was driving. After many turns and driving for a long time, the road became narrower and narrower, and the houses around us became older and older.

Finally, the doll seemed to have reached its destination and stopped moving. However, the lead weight in Shen Le's palm began to spin around:
"It seems to be almost here..."

Shen Le stared at the lead pendant for a long time and spoke uncertainly. The lead pendant went east for a while, then west for a while, and just when it decided on a direction, it suddenly turned around and went back.

Poor thing, the ink line attached to its buttocks was being pushed left and right by the lead weight, changing direction constantly, and was about to be tied into a knot...

"Then let's go downstairs!"

Gu Yulin made a prompt decision and stopped the car and got off the ground. Shen Le walked with him to a secluded place, looked around to see if there was anyone around, and put the doll on the ground. Sure enough, the doll started to move its legs and walked forward with a clattering sound...

Turn left, turn right, stop, climb the threshold. The little guy is 15 cm tall, and the threshold is almost up to its waist. The little doll tried once, and tried again, but still couldn't climb up.

After struggling for several rounds, it fell to the ground with a thud and stopped moving. I don't know if it gave up, or if it ran out of energy and completely lost power...

"What is it doing here?"

Gu Yulin looked at Shen Le in surprise. Shen Le's face was even more confused than his:
"I don't know! - But maybe this place has something to do with this doll, or with the old lady? Can you check it out?"

Okay, let's check it out. Gu Yulin took two steps back, confirmed the house number, and started calling his colleagues:
"There's something unusual with the things the old lady left behind... Yes, this is the house number. Please check what the relationship is between this place and the old lady...

By the way, the old lady may also find this place, please check the surveillance..."

Since it was a matter concerning their own family, the relevant departments responded quickly. Half an hour later, Gu Yulin took a look at the news, his eyes suddenly widened, and he said "Hey" in an extremely excited voice:
“You are truly amazing!”

"I'm Shen Le..." Shen Le leaned against the car weakly, drowsy. Gu Yulin glared at him:
"You'll be fined for the pun!"

"Huh? What?"

"If you hadn't brought us here, we wouldn't have known that this is where the old lady lived when she was a child!" Gu Yulin's eyes sparkled, almost emitting light:

"My colleagues who checked the surveillance also said that they found the old lady's movements nearby. Although she hasn't been found yet, she should be there soon!"

Shen Le breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile finally appeared on his face. He patted the doll, wiped the dust off its shoes, and held it up to look at him:

"Would you like to see your master?"

"If you want, I'll take you there~~~"

The little doll stood in Shen Le's palm, staring at him blankly, motionless.

The eyes painted in black lacquer with a little white paint carefully dotted on them appear to be extremely lively. No matter which direction you turn the puppet, it seems like it is looking at you.

However, Shen Le knew that the intelligence of this little doll was far from reaching the level of the little inkstone that could express itself freely.

Even with the inkstone beside it, it could only point in a direction. Now the doll collapsed on its own, and the inkstone beside it couldn't translate its language at all...

A person and a puppet looked at each other in bewilderment. After five seconds, Gu Yulin couldn't stand this weird interaction anymore and coughed:
"Well...it's actually a good idea to go and see her. Let the old lady see the doll. Maybe she can remember something."

That makes a lot of sense!
Shen Le leaned back in his chair and waited quietly. While waiting, he looked up and down at the little doll, thinking silently:

What does the doll's owner, the old lady, look like?
Can we still see the shadow of the cuteness and sweetness in her childhood?

Did she still recognize the little doll that her brother had made in her image many, many years ago?

As he was thinking, a car suddenly drove slowly across the road. The blue and white paint on the car was very eye-catching. Gu Yulin stretched out his hand and waved twice, shouting at them:
"Hey, have you found the person?"

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