Chapter 239 The Burnt Past (18): Dolls

A happy smile appeared on the girl's limp face.

She obviously couldn't control the muscles on her face very well, so her smile looked extremely silly.

After "reaching an agreement" with Chen Yan, she finally picked up the sliced ​​bread and ate it carefully while looking at Chen Yan's face.

Chen Yan was helpless about this. He thought to himself, I'm not that scary, right? Why are you so afraid of me?

He was depressed when he suddenly heard the radio sound coming from the corridor.

Although the majority of the passengers on the ship were from Tenshin Province, the announcer still spoke Imperial dialect.

Chen Yan's Imperial dialect was not good, so he could only make a rough guess.

It seems that a murder occurred in a cabin last night, and the captain expressed his determination to pursue the matter to the end.

He also reminded passengers to be careful at night, lock the cabin doors and not go out at night.

His mind recalled the vague memories from last night's dream, and he subconsciously looked at the girl's face.

Her haggard face did not have the terrible pixel blocks in the dream.

Chen Yan looked at the girl.

The girl looked back blankly.

She looks so stupid...how could she kill someone?

Although Chen Yan thought so in his heart, he still couldn't help but feel a lingering fear when he recalled the vague dream last night.

He looked into her eyes and said to her slowly:

"I can take you, but you must be obedient and not do anything dangerous again."

The girl was stunned for a moment, then she smiled like a flower on her face, and at the same time she was so excited that she couldn't stop nodding her head.

Chen Yan looked at her smile and his heart sank to the bottom.

He just hoped that she was really stupid and didn't understand what he said.

In the next few days, Chen Yan never experienced such a terrifying dream again.

No one on the ship was killed at night anymore.

It was also in the following period of time - about a week, the girl basically did not recover much, and her brain was still not so bright.

Her favorite thing was to sit by the porthole and stare blankly at Chen Yan, as if there was something wrong with Chen Yan's face.

Chen Yan was not used to it at first and told her not to read anymore, but every time she told her this, she looked aggrieved and wanted to cry. Chen Yan couldn't bear it, so he just

Let her look at it casually.

What Chen Yan didn't expect was that a week later, the girl's physical condition began to deteriorate for no apparent reason.

Her body was getting weaker day by day, her hair began to fall out in large quantities, and her already thin body became light and airy.

Chen Yan was at a loss. He could only ensure that she ate well, but even if he ensured a sufficient supply of meat, eggs, and milk for her every day, her health did not improve at all after eating those foods.

Until one moonless night, the wind and waves on the sea were very strong, the cabin was swaying, and the chandelier lights in the corridor outside the cabin were swaying around, as if they were constantly turning on and off.

The girl completely lost her ability to move and just lay on her back on the bed. No flesh could be seen on her body, and all she could see was bones.

Her face, which had long lost its shape, was facing the ceiling, and her eyes were hollow, like a corpse.

Can a person really be so thin?

Or……

She is not human.

Chen Yan sat beside the bed, with mixed thoughts in his mind.

"I don't know who you are..."

He whispered to her in a low voice, knowing that not only could she not hear it, but she could not understand it, but he still expressed the speculation that he had been thinking about for a long time.

"I only know that you killed the man who died a few days ago."

"I also know that you must have known me before... Where did you know me from? I have never had any memory of you... Could it be that you know me in the future?"

There was no moon tonight, and Chen Yan did not light any lights. The only light source in the cabin was the scattered light from the umbrella-shaped ceiling lamp on the corridor outside the cabin that shined into the cabin through the small window.

"You...you are not a human being, right? If you were a human being, it would be impossible for you to eat so many carbohydrates without generating some metabolism."

Chen Yan's eyes were calm.

"The only time you are most energetic is the day after the night of killing... Can you gain life power through that way?"

"But... human energy comes from protein, fat and carbohydrates. The meat, eggs and milk I bought for you are themselves protein, fat and carbohydrates. Why can't you get better by eating meat, eggs and milk? You can get better by eating people."

Woolen cloth?"

"What on earth did you eat that night?"

The girl rolled her eyes slightly and focused on him.

She was too thin, and her eyes looked very big. Under the dim scattered light, her eyes looked white and bright, without a trace of redness. They looked like...

It's like fake.

Her whole person is like...

A term popped into Chen Yan's head that made him panic and stunned.

【Doll】.

The skinny girl looks like some kind of advanced simulation doll!

But how can a doll express emotions that only humans have?!

Could it be... is she a doll with a [soul]?!

Chen Yan wiped his face vigorously.

What the hell is my mother thinking...

He stopped the strange thoughts from popping up in his head.

As soon as his mind was empty, he became more aware of the surrounding environment. Chen Yan heard very slight footsteps in his ears - as if they were deliberately suppressed.

The footsteps were very dense and echoed in the empty corridor - it seemed like many people were approaching the cabin where Chen Yan was.

When Chen Yan turned to look at the cabin door, the footsteps had stopped at his cabin door.

"Mr. Chen."

There were low knocks and inquiries outside the door.

Chen Yan cautiously came to the cabin door, looked at the door lock that had been locked from the inside, and responded in a low voice in Imperial dialect: "I have taken a rest."

There was no response from the door.

Chen Yan suddenly realized that something was wrong, but it was too late - with the crisp sound of the door lock opening, the other party actually opened the hatch that was locked from the inside from the outside!

Damn it! They must have a spare key to the cabin!

Chen Yan took a step back, and the cabin door was violently pushed open from the outside.

Several strong men in sailor uniforms rushed in, and several double-barreled muskets were aimed at Chen Yan.

Then, a tall man walked in.

The man looked to be in his fifties, had silver hair, and was holding a cane inlaid with gems of an indiscernible color.

His eyes fell on the girl, as if looking at the love of his life.

He came to the bedside, put the cane on his waist, carefully picked up the girl with both hands, then turned around and prepared to leave.

Chen Yan looked at the eyes of the girl's drooped face outside the man's arms, gritted his teeth and said: "I know that it was because of my request that you stopped killing people and could not recover, and that's why you became as weak as you are now.

."

The man was stunned for a moment, hugged the girl's head and covered her ears.

Chen Yan's eyes were bloodshot:

"I know you still have some strength left...your strength has nothing to do with the state of your body!"

"Then, resist!"
Chapter completed!