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Zhong Kui's Diary
At the same time, the voice of Easily Water Cold came through the microphone: "Actually, my avatar, Xiao Yuan, has already interacted with you. That's right, I long for human life; I don't want to be a ghost anymore. Being human is so enjoyable! I plan to follow 'A Bite of China' and taste all the delicious food. Of course, there are also beautiful women from various countries and the wonders of the world. Just thinking about it makes me happy."
So that was the reason. I was stunned for a moment before I chuckled and said, "I am human, but I don't feel that being human is that joyful."
"You are not me; how would you understand the joy of a ghost becoming human? You are living in comfort without realizing it!" Easily Water Cold's tone was so heartbroken that it reminded me of the debate between Zhuangzi and Huizi, about how one cannot know the joy of fish if one is not a fish.
"Then what exactly are you planning all this for?" Alright, I won't argue with you about who is happier.
"I am a ghost, and I yearn for human life. This point, I believe you all understand well. When I accidentally learned about Li Yunfan and others' project plan, I began to scheme this matter."
"It was Li Yunfan who drunkenly revealed it to you, right? I know!"
"Wrong! I already knew when Li Yunfan and others first started developing this project!"
"What?"
"Don't be surprised; if it weren't for me, how could Li Yunfan's project have been suppressed? Haha!"
"What on earth is going on?" I was greatly astonished.
"Long before Li Yunfan discovered this project, I had already been paying attention. After observing for some time, I was sure this project could realize my dream—to become human. To achieve my dream, I had to use some tricks. Haha, let me tell you this: as long as I control Director Chen and report to the superiors that there has been no progress on this project, then do not allocate resources or funding to Li Yunfan and others. After some time, the state will naturally stop researching this project. At that point, I will contact Li Yunfan again and extend an olive branch; he will immediately decide to team up with me." Easily Water Cold's tone could not hide his pride.
I fell silent; what else could be said? From the very beginning, Li Yunfan and others had been trapped.
"In fact, this also fulfills one of their dreams; can’t you see that? Even if the state supported their research at that time, could they have produced as much gold as I did?" Easily Water Cold laughed again and continued: "When we reached the Underground of Yangshan, I spent a lot of my Demon power to build the laboratory and refine gold; all of this was accomplished by me alone while those three bookworms just focused on research. When the results came out, I was actually happier than they were because I was one step closer to my ideal of becoming human."
"Wait! Wait!" A sudden flash of lightning struck in my mind, interrupting Easily Water Cold's speech.
"What?"
"If you possess a human body, can't you just become human? Why go through the trouble of creating a Golden Puppet? Isn't that like taking off your pants to fart—unnecessary?" There were too many people around me who had been possessed by ghosts; people like Fatty, An Ran, and Jia Yu had all been possessed before. They lived just like us without any noticeable differences until it was revealed.
"Possessing someone and truly becoming human are two different things. You see, possession only allows control over that person's brain; then they can eat food, but I'm not clear on what it tastes like. However, after truly becoming human, I can directly taste all kinds of flavors—sweet, sour, bitter, spicy—it's entirely different!" Easily Water Cold chuckled a few times and shifted the topic: "The original direction of developing the Golden Puppet was similar to advanced intelligent robots; they have human-like reactions but possess independent thinking. The early version developed was Number One Puppet; it was their first prototype."
After a pause, Easily Water Cold saw that I wasn't interrupting and continued, "Honestly, this research direction is impressive, but I can't make use of it. I can only secretly sabotage things by occasionally severing a couple of neural connections in Subject One, making Li Yunfan and the others believe that Subject One cannot evolve. Then, under my intentional or unintentional guidance, they decided to try combining the human doll with humans. That's how Subject Two was developed."
I remained silent.
"Subject Two, Doll, should be around you now. He is a relatively successful Doll. However, due to conflicts in the brain during the process of taking over a human body, he often suffers from memory loss, which I dislike. To prevent any accidents, I commissioned someone to find me four perfect humans!" Easily Water Cold sighed, "Damn, I didn't expect that person misunderstood my intentions and found me four cream puffs. You've all seen them: Gu Quan, Wang Chuan, and Autumn Red Flag, along with myself. Actually, Easily Water Cold is just the name of that human; I thought it sounded nice and used it."
"For such an important matter, I had to test it first. I split into three avatars and attached them to Gu Quan and the others. Then, when Golden Puppet fused with their bodies, the avatars took the opportunity to merge inside. It turned out that this method worked; only then could they truly become human." Easily Water Cold cleared his throat on the other end of the line, his tone shifting to anger: "I didn't expect that at this moment Li Yunfan and the others would set me up by placing a bomb inside my body. Luckily, I'm quite powerful; however, I was still severely injured in the explosion. Leaving their corpses intact was already showing them mercy. Actually, I originally planned to send them abroad after success."
Li Yunfan and the others had gone through great hardships to return home; going abroad held no appeal for them. This thought briefly crossed my mind but did not escape my lips—what was the point when they had become bones?
"After killing Li Yunfan and the others, my 000 skeleton was blown to pieces as well; I had to remake it. To refine it further, I produced nearly 00 Golden Puppets in one go. It's all on an assembly line; just press a button—no advanced scientific knowledge required. None of these were satisfactory until recently when I got inspired and reduced the gold content in the Golden Puppets. That's how I obtained the latest three skeletons. By the way, the two Dolls you first saw on the Print Shop assembly line were among those three. The other one had already fused with Xiao Yuan at that time, so you didn't see it."
As Easily Water Cold spoke, images of those two Dolls filled with tubes and power cords flashed before my eyes. I never expected one of those Dolls was Cui Yue's skeleton; had I known, I would have smashed them flat.
"As for why I made three? It's still out of caution; I first sent one avatar to experiment by attaching it to Xiao Yuan. After observing for a while post-fusion with the improved Doll and finding no issues, only then did I attach myself to Cui Yue. From that moment on, I became a true human!" At this point, Easily Water Cold burst into laughter.
"What do you intend to do now that you've become human?" After his laughter subsided slightly, Kung Fu interjected: "Are you seeking revenge for your three hundred Dolls?"
"Revenge?" Easily Water Cold paused for a moment before laughing even louder; he laughed for quite some time before calming down: "Zheng Nan, if I wanted revenge, why would I encourage the nurse to kill Xiao Yuan? From the very beginning, I intended to use your hands to eliminate these Dolls. My initial goal was simply to become an ordinary human; even if you didn't help me get rid of them, I would still eliminate them because they were merely transitional tools for me."
"Will everything be peaceful from now on?" I asked in surprise.
"Naturally! Now that I'm just an ordinary human being, I'll naturally abide by the law," Easily Water Cold laughed heartily.
"You instigated Gu Quan and others to establish Underworld and incited conflicts between various gangs that led to over three hundred deaths—this is your law-abiding behavior?" I retorted angrily.
"They're all bad people! I'm doing you a favor by eliminating them!" Easily Water Cold interrupted dismissively: "Alright, I've told you everything about this matter; now it's time for gift distribution! The last gift is inspired by Li Yunfan. Hmm... it's currently four fifty-seven; your gift will arrive in three minutes! Goodbye for now, my Dolls! Hahaha."
With that, Easily Water Cold hung up the phone, leaving me in shock. What gift? What inspiration from Li Yunfan? What does he mean by 'three minutes'? What does 'goodbye Dolls' mean? Those last few sentences were all jumbled—what on earth did they mean?
Fatty saw me drop my phone while standing there in a daze with my mouth open as if about to speak but ultimately said nothing. The entire room fell silent; only faint ticking sounds could be heard.
Shaking my head with a bitter smile, I decided not to dwell on it anymore and picked up my phone to dial Lou Wei's number when suddenly something struck me—a jolt ran through my scalp as goosebumps spread all over my body.
Without thinking too much about it, I swiftly pulled the iron ring switch beneath my feet. The kitchen stove revealed a passageway with a loud clatter; I punched Zhao Ting down and grabbed Tong Tong with all my strength before throwing her down the passageway while shouting loudly at Fatty: "Run outside!"
While shouting, I grabbed Zhao Ting by the chest, not knowing in my panic what exactly I had caught, and dragged her out.
Just after running a few steps, an explosive sound shook the ground behind us. Damn, the gift from Easily Water Cold was indeed a creation from Li Yunfan; he wanted to blow us up.
Fortunately, I had thrown Tong Tong into the passage first, so we were not affected by the blast. Even so, when the bricks flew out from the passage and fell down, they still left us battered and bleeding.
Motherfucker, with a gift like this, you actually expect to follow the law?
"Ghost Brother, is it over?" Fatty patted off the debris and dust from his clothes, looking at me with a strange expression.
"Who knows? Easily Water Cold wants to be a law-abiding citizen in the future, but with this last stunt of his, can he still follow the law? We can only hope so," I sighed.
"Uh, that's not what I meant!" Fatty pointed at my right hand. Following his gaze, I saw that I was holding a bra, while Zhao Ting sat on the ground, covering her chest and glaring at me with deep resentment.
...
The end of Doll.
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