Chapter 197: A Doll Similar to Xia Daiti

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"Bang!"

Followed by a dull sound.

The small transparent water ball thrown into the air by a cable exploded directly in the air.

It was accurately shattered by a bullet.

Jason put down the long-handled rock-shaking gun in his hand - the Emerald Shooter.

He was practicing shooting and had been practicing for quite some time, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

The sunlight in the sky at that moment was extremely dazzling, and he was practicing accurate shooting under the glaring sun.

He touched his waist bag and found that the ammunition he used for practice had been used up again.

He sat on the deck holding the Emerald Shooter.

He patted the main mast with his hand: "Thank you."

It was the Voice of Dawn who practiced with him, using a rope to help him throw various small, targeted objects.

As the voyage gets longer and longer, and with Alka's enlightenment, the Voice of the Dawn, which has become a ghost ship, becomes wiser and wiser.

Because there are already three treasures on the ship, their energy will have an impact on the ship.

This enables him to understand everyone's words and commands very accurately, and control the ropes on the boat to help Jason throw objects.

Jason huddled in the shadow of the mainmast, avoiding the scorching sun. Various simple maintenance tools appeared in his hands, and he began to maintain the gun in his hand.

After a simple maintenance, he put the Emerald Shooter into his pocket ring.

He leaned against the mast and began to do nothing.

"Aaaah! This is so boring!"

Jason couldn't help but yelled. They were still sailing on the path to the edge of the Sea of All Living Beings.

But the route ahead is really too desolate.

From the time they left their home sea until now, they have been sailing on their forward course for almost two months.

Apart from the few ships that they had seen leaving with them on the Shipwreck Island being chased by silver-threaded sea beasts, they had never encountered any other ships since.

Firstly, it was because they were the fastest among the group, far ahead of the other boats that left with them.

The second reason is that the world rift in the Sea of All Living Beings has not been opened.

After all, there are only four sea areas in total, but the opening interval of each sea area is mostly 10 years, or even more than 10 years.

Each sea area is not opened at the same time.

This makes it extremely rare to encounter people from other worlds' waters on the route ahead.

Almost impossible.

Not to mention that there are few fish in this sea area, and birds are almost never seen.

I heard Jason yell.

In the observation room on the mast overhead, Juanlu stretched his head and glanced at him.

"Jason has gone crazy again." He muttered to himself and put his head back.

At this time, there was no one else on the open deck except the two of them .

It was unknown what the three women including Xia Daiti were doing in Lucilia's room.

Alka went into the manufacturing hall again, and it was unknown what she was thinking about. It seemed that she was thinking about a new doll girl.

As for Pororo, it seems to be fishing in the sea water.

"Jason...Jason!"

Arka's voice came from the lower deck, and he remembered what he was going to do when he heard it.

He immediately ran down to the cabin, replying as he ran: "Coming, coming."

Came to Alka's manufacturing hall.

As soon as I came in, I heard Alka's lecture: "Didn't I tell you to be more punctual? The engraving of your bullet is not up to standard."

Jason quickly smiled and nodded, but his attention was attracted by the surrounding environment at the moment.

At this time, the manufacturing hall was filled with various silver silk threads hanging everywhere. It could be seen that the source of these silk threads was an ordinary doll without an appearance.

Jason looked at the situation, pointed at the puppet and asked, "Is this the new puppet girl you want to make? Those silk threads are the silver threads we collected on the deck before, right? Are you going to let this puppet use them?"

Hearing Jason's question, Alka turned his head to take a look, nodded and said, "Yes, these silver threads are the special functions prepared for the next puppet girl. I have a good idea in my mind that I want to try out, and it will be completed soon. After teaching you, I will proceed to the last step."

Hearing that there was only one step left, Jason smiled and said, "How about you finish it first and forget about it today?"

"No, I'll train you one last time today and you'll be almost ready. I feel bad when I think about having to train you again tomorrow, so let's just do it today."

Alka waved his hand in refusal.

Jason scoffed at Alka's words.

"What do you mean, am I a slow learner?"

"No, it's because your hands are too clumsy. You should practice more on how to stabilize your arms for fine manipulation."

Jason's arms are very stable when he is sniping or shooting.

But if you ask him to pick up a tiny carving tool and draw patterns on something the size of a fingernail it would be too difficult for him, and his fingers would always tremble in this situation.

It would be great if he could strengthen the stability of his arms to his fingers.

Then, without waiting for Jason to refute, he immediately said, "Okay, come on."

After saying this, Alka began to give Jason the final instruction.

Study until the afternoon.

Alka finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh, finally done, you've mastered it, but the success rate won't be too high, you have to be mentally prepared, but practice makes perfect."

Jason nodded. He had to admit that Alka really wasn't a good teacher.

The quality of teaching is much worse than that of Lucelia.

It wasn't that difficult even with Xia Daiti and the others in Lucelia's language class.

Alka did not refute this, for he knew very well that he was not fit to be a teacher, unless he was the only one on the ship who knew how to do it.

If he didn't teach Jason, then he would have to supply all of Jason's special ammunition in the future, which would be so troublesome.

He could accept more advanced ammunition, but he had no interest in ordinary consumable ammunition.

The poor students and the poor teachers finally got rid of each other.

"When you go up, call Lucelia for me and tell her that there is a new doll girl."

Hearing this, Jason's face showed an interested expression, and he turned and ran up.

"Okay, I'll go call her right away."

They walked quickly to the deck. On the open deck, Lucilia had already started combat training with Zero and One.

Julia and Xiadaiti were giving instructions on the side, while Pororo, who had nothing to do, was also giving comments on the side.

"Lucelia, Alka wants you to go down."

Hearing someone calling her, Lucilia used her shield to deflect a steel needle that was shot at her.

Then he turned around and saw Jason, who had called him, just coming up from the deck.

"Okay, I'll go right away." Lucilia seemed to have thought of something. A smile appeared on her face, and she immediately jumped directly into the deck below.

Seeing Lucilia was a little excited, Xia Daiti looked at Jason and asked, "What's the matter? She's so excited."

"A new puppet girl."

After hearing this, Xia Daiti nodded in sudden realization, squatted down and smiled at Ling and Yi on the deck and said, "Are you happy that you will have new sisters soon?"

In response to her question, Ling just nodded stiffly, while Yi had a blank expression and did not move, looking very cool and aloof.

Xia Daiti seemed to be used to it. He stretched out two fingers and tapped their heads before standing up.

"What will the new doll girl look like?" There was anticipation in the tone.

Xia Daiti is very fond of these doll girls which are only 30 cm tall, delicate and can move like humans.

And you especially like dressing them up. Has this childhood hobby continued into adulthood?

In the manufacturing hall at this time.

Lucelia ran in like a stream of light and landed directly on the table.

Looking at the silk threads all over the hall, and the puppets that are the source of the threads.

"Is this the new puppet girl? Using silk threads as weapons?"

Alka nodded, and then said directly: "Come on, take action, the last step is to activate it."

Lucelia didn't waste any time and nodded. Her soul came out of her body and controlled the flag to float out.

The two then repeated the action they had repeated twice before and began to enlighten the new doll girl.

The two were already proficient in this process, and Lucilia was also able to control the flag better.

There was no need to be as fearful and cautious as the first time, which also meant that Lucelia's control over the flag was getting stronger and stronger.

With enlightenment, the ordinary doll began to transform and started to change into the appearance of the doll girl.

This time the puppet girl's hair color has changed compared to the previous two, turning into silver, which is extremely similar to Xia Daiti's hair color, and even their appearance is somewhat similar.

After the enlightenment process was completed, Lucilia took back the flag and looked at the appearance of the doll girl. She couldn't help but tilt her head and asked in confusion: "Why does it look so much like Xia Daiti?"

Although his face is obviously different from Xia Daiti's, he seems to have a similar aura and the details are very similar.

Especially with her bright silver hair, she looks like Xia Daiti's sister.

However, Xia Daiti has short silver hair that reaches her ears. The hair of this puppet girl falls all the way to her heels and is as long as her height.

Alka himself also had some doubts. Yes, why would he look like Xia Deti?

If the appearance of the doll girl is not deliberately portrayed, it would actually be more like Lucilia.

However, its appearance is more similar to that of a human, without the pointed ears and emerald green hair, so it doesn't look similar at a cursory glance.

It is also related to some materials. For example, the skin color of these doll girls will vary depending on the material, although the changes are very small.

It’s like Yi’s skin is not as bright and white as Ling’s. Although it is still white, it looks very dark.

Even under the sunlight, it seems to be absorbing the light.

The skin color of the man in front of him was still very similar to Xia Daiti.

Unable to figure it out, Alka shook his head.

This time's puppet girl was obviously different from the previous two. Lucillia's soul body squatted beside her and looked around curiously.

"Why is your hair so long? Won't it affect the battle?"

"No." Alka said with a smile on her face, and even answered as if showing off: "These silver hairs are made of silk thread material. It is her biggest feature. She can use her silver hair to attack or control movement."

"So that's how it is. How interesting."

As she spoke, the doll girl in front of her opened her eyes, and her pupils were not very similar to Xia Daiti's, but copper-yellow.

"From now on, you will be called Er, and your occupation is... a sewing master."

Lucilia said, because this doll girl uses silk thread.

The two men brought this new member of the puppet army to the deck.

Everyone has been waiting for a long time.

"The hair color is the same as mine." Xia Daiti said, looking at Er in front of him.

"Not only the color, they look similar too." Julia said after observing carefully.

"Really?" Xia Daiti couldn't tell whether they looked similar or not.

He squatted down, tilted his head and looked at Er in front of him, and asked, "What's your name? What's your occupation? What are your abilities?"

Er looked at her, and after a pause he said, "My name is Er, I am a seamstress, and I can control my hair."

“Like this.”

As she spoke, the silver hair on her head stretched out, flew out, and wrapped around Xia Daiti's arm.

These silver hairs became longer and more resilient with the influx of magic power, and they also had strong conductivity of magic power.

Then it swung along the hair twice and landed on Xia Daiti's shoulder.

Looking at Xia Daiti's short silver hair, which was the same color as hers, she reached out and touched it.

Seeing this, Alka narrowed his eyes slightly.

Er made an unreasonable move, and his words in answering Xia Dai's question were also very smart.

Act closer to Xia Daiti.

Why does this happen?

The others didn't know much about this and didn't notice anything wrong. They looked at Er and asked about some situations.

But such a change is too bizarre.

So why?

Alka went over in his mind the entire process of making the second.

I want to find out what unusual actions I took during this process that caused Er to behave differently from other puppet girls.

More intelligent, more like a real person.

This is a good thing. Alka wants to know the rules so that the puppet girls he makes next time will be more distinctive.

Mainly, the spell of flesh and blood, the enlightenment of the treasure, and the changes of the toucher performed by the puppet girl are all beyond Alka's control.

It is even impossible to imitate and understand.

The same process produces different results, so there must be something that is controllable.

However, he stood there thinking for a long time but couldn't figure out what the problem was.

There is nothing special about his production process.

"You seem troubled? What are you thinking about?"

Julia stood beside Alka and asked with some confusion as she saw Alka standing there in a daze.

Why should we be distressed about the current situation? Shouldn't we be happy?

Hearing this question, Alka directly expressed his doubts.

Others also heard Alka's words.

They all turned their heads.

"Yes, if you think about it this way, Er is indeed different from other doll girls."

Xia Daiti said as he nodded the head on his shoulder.

He even responded to this.

"She smiled?" Jason rubbed his eyes to make sure he was not seeing things.

Er smiled at Xia Daiti's behavior.

Jason couldn't help but reach out his hand to touch her head, but he leaned towards Xia Daiti's head.

Although he didn't take any further action, he was obviously disgusted by Jason's actions.

Seeing this, Xia Daiti waved his hand, as if to shoo away a fly: "Go away, go away, I don't want you to touch me."

Jason also saw Er's disgusted behavior and couldn't help scratching his forehead.

"Why?"

Everyone noticed Er's peculiarity, even Lucelia couldn't understand it at all.

"So, which link went wrong?" Lucelia couldn't help but ask.

"Or has your technique improved? Do you think practice makes perfect?"

Facing Lucelia's question and puzzled look, Alka shook his head.

"This isn't a repetitive task. How can it be possible that practice makes perfect and leads to knowledge improvement?"

"And I don't know. I don't seem to have done anything special in the process of making it."

“Material, is it a material problem?”

Julia thought about it and proposed a possibility.

"If there is any difference in this material, it is the silver silk thread left behind by the thread monsters thrown by the Silver Lion Sea Beast before."

"But the question is, Er is obviously close to Xia Daiti. Is there any connection between this and the silver sea monster?"

Alka asked.

"They all have silver hair, silver hair." Pororo suddenly said from the side.

"…The possibility of this is relatively low."

Xia Daiti scratched his soft silver hair, looked at Er who was leaning against his head, and the smiling expression she gave him.

She began to recall the day when she fought the silver sea monster, which happened two weeks ago.

They were about to leave the forward path at the edge of the Sea of All Living Things.

"Could it be... my hair?" Xia Daiti said, suddenly thinking of something.

She remembered that day, because her head was covered with silver strands of the same color as her hair, Lucilia would pull her hair from time to time when she and Zero said goodbye.

Is it possible that he added his own hair and mixed it with these silver threads and gave it to Alka, which is why he is so close to him?

And more humane.

Lucilia also recalled what happened that day and said, “I did pull out Xia Deti’s hair several times that day.”

"Did you part your hair?" Jason asked, looking at her.

"I……"

Lucelia began to recall her actions that day.

Because there were so many silver threads on Xia Daiti's head, she picked out a silver thread and put it in her hand.

Once you have identified it, hold it in your hand.

With a cry of "ah" from Xia Dai, his hair was pulled out.

Apologize, then put your hair…in your hands.

"Ah, I put my hair in the silver thread too."

The case is solved.