My Endless Life.

Chapter 591: Doll World (4000 words)
Of course, Ephisia understood the meaning of "Princess" in Wuming's words.

The "imperial princess" here refers to one who has the right of inheritance. Only the nine imperial princesses who have the true right of inheritance to the throne, including Sophiona, can be called "imperial princesses".

Otherwise, even if Ephisia is the Queen's child, she is not qualified to be called a "Princess".

Wuming brought this up now, without a doubt intending to make Ephisia the princess with the true right of inheritance, that is, one of the nine.

As for whether she wanted to become a princess, Ephissia certainly did.

Becoming a princess with true inheritance rights means power, wealth, and everything you can think of.

If Ephisia could really replace Sophiona and become the princess with the right of inheritance, getting Rich would only be a matter of a word.

However, having said that, Ephissia still remains skeptical as to whether Wuming of the Renaissance Society has the ability to help her successfully ascend to the throne of princess.

She asked in confusion: "Although I don't really want to doubt you, but...what are you going to do?"

Ephisia is a loser.

She was the loser who once competed with Sophie Yuna for the inheritance but never won.

Although she was already young and promising compared to her age when she competed with Sophieuna for the inheritance, age was an irrelevant factor in such matters. The most important factors were only two: success or failure.

Ephisia failed, and was exiled from the empire.

Logically speaking, she would never have the chance to fight for inheritance rights again, and there would not even be a possibility for her to come back.

In other words, Ephisia currently has no cards in her hand and cannot even step onto the table to fight for the throne. How can Wuming help her gain the right to inherit the throne when she doesn't even have any cards?

Ephisia's question made Wuming chuckle.

He replied: "It's simple, just make the Queen pay attention to you again."

"?"

A question mark appeared above Ephisia's head. She was about to continue asking when she heard Wuming say:

"Now is not the time to reveal the whole plan. Since Her Highness Ephisia has chosen to cooperate with us, you should trust us a little more. Don't worry, Her Highness Ephisia, we will not harm you, at least not before you truly obtain the right to inherit the throne."

Wuming smiled and made a guarantee that didn't sound particularly reliable.

Ephisia looked deeply at Wuming.

Not after she obtains the right to inherit the throne. On the other hand, after Ephissia obtains the right to inherit the throne, they cannot guarantee whether it will be detrimental to Ephissia, right?
Ephisia noticed the hidden meaning in Wuming's words.

But now she has no other choice. She has already come here and chosen to cooperate with the Renaissance Society. Ephisia has no way out and can only go down this path.

So even if Wuming didn't reveal the whole plan, Ephisia could only accept their arrangements for now.

After all, she was actually very clear that although she was nominally cooperating with the Renaissance Society, in reality... she did not have the confidence to cooperate with the Renaissance Society.

It was so before and it is so now.

As for whether it will remain the same in the future, it depends on whether Wuming can really help her obtain the right to inherit the throne.

……

Click——

Click click click——

A sound like that of rusty machinery turning rang in Li Qi's ears.

His consciousness gradually took over his body's senses, and various feelings were transmitted to his mind through this body, finally forming a picture.

Hearing the clicking sound beside his ears, Li Qi took a long time to open his eyes. Then he saw that the clicking sound came from a machine next to him.

Or rather, it was a puppet, a very broken and worn-out puppet with all its parts exposed.

The doll looked like a male, with dark yellowish skin, and was wearing a tuxedo that had been worn for who knows how long and even had patches on it.

He had his back to Li Qi, and was dragging Li Qi's feet with both hands, moving them to an unknown place with a creaking sound.

It was at this time that Li Qi discovered that the body he possessed with his consciousness was not a human body, but also the body of a puppet!

"New world? Or..."

As his consciousness took over his body, Li Qi guessed what type of world he was in.

Li Qi is no stranger to puppets.

Li Qi has made puppets in the Mist World and the Martial Arts World, and if these worlds continue to develop, it is not impossible for puppet technology to become extremely advanced.

But there are actually quite a few worlds with dolls, and Li Qi can't just come to a world and arbitrarily determine that it is a world he has been to. More clues and evidence are needed to prove it.

Therefore, he couldn't confirm it for a while.

Perhaps because this was a puppet's body, Li Qi's consciousness took over more easily, and soon he felt that he could move his own body.

But after turning his head twice, Li Qi stopped moving, because he found that he had no other limbs except his legs that were held by the tuxedo puppet in front of him.

That means he only has one pair of legs.

The doll that his consciousness possessed was even more broken than the Tuxedo doll.

"Tsk tsk, this start is really novel."

Realizing his current state, Li Qi was amazed.

After traveling through so many worlds, this is the first time for Li Qi to start in such a bad state.

If this was Li Qi's new reincarnation, he would probably want to turn around and start over again, but fortunately this was a world found using a game engine, and Li Qi had a way out and could leave at any time, so he had many more options.

Besides, he had made this trip with great difficulty, so regardless of whether this was a world he had been to before, he should at least take a closer look at it.

Otherwise, wouldn’t all the energy used by the game engine to search for the small world be wasted?

With this thought in mind, Li Qi let the Tuxedo puppet drag him, while he observed the surrounding environment.

But it would have been better if he hadn't observed it. This observation almost scared Li Qi.

Because basically all he saw were puppets!

What’s more, they are not complete dolls, but the residual arms of dolls!
Doll heads, doll limbs, doll parts... countless dolls that look almost like humans. They are piled everywhere here, like corpses that have been disassembled and discarded at will in a slaughterhouse.

If it weren't for the smell of motor oil instead of blood, Li Qi would have suspected that he had entered the territory of some Khorne believers. Looking at the mountains of puppet corpses around him, Li Qi was speechless for a long time.

After a while, he suddenly felt the tuxedo doll that was dragging him stop. The doll gently put him on the ground, then walked to the garbage pile nearby to look for something.

Finally, Li Qi saw him dig out a few slender doll arms from the garbage mountain, and then he came back to Li Qi and gestured back and forth on Li Qi's body.

"This... won't work... this... won't work either... ah, this one will work."

Reacher heard the Tuxedo puppet mutter.

Li Qi had never heard of his language, but through the resonance of consciousness, Li Qi could easily understand the meaning of his words.

It turns out that this tuxedo puppet is looking for an arm that fits Li Qi.

"Ah, so you're awake." When the Tuxedo doll was helping Li Qi install his arms, he met Li Qi's open eyes.

At the same time, Li Qi also saw the true face of the tuxedo doll.

The Tuxedo doll looks very kind. He has the face of a middle-aged man with a curled mustache above his lips.

He has a top hat on his head that looks like it's worn on his head, but is actually one with his head, giving him a gentlemanly look overall.

As Li Qi looked at him, he kept talking happily:

“It’s unbelievable that there are still living puppets in such a garbage dump... You are lucky that your power system was not damaged too seriously, and there is backup energy around you. Most of your body functions are intact, so you were able to wake up.

"Although logically you shouldn't be able to wake up, it's a good thing that you woke up... By the way, can you still speak?"

While asking the question, the gentleman puppet put his hand on Li Qi's throat, and then began to talk to himself: "The vocal system seems to be a little damaged, but it shouldn't affect your speech. Come on, try to say a few words?"

Hearing the other party say this, Li Qi also tried to open his mouth and make a sound.

Soon, two syllables came out of his mouth:

"…Hello……?"

The sound... doesn't sound very nice, a bit ragged, like the sound of metal friction.

But the gentleman puppet was very happy. He used his hand to fiddle with Li Qi's throat a few more times, and then said:

"The sound system can still make sounds, which is a good thing. I'll go find a few parts to replace them later, and you'll probably be able to make complete sounds."

When the gentleman doll spoke, his hands moved without slowing down at all.

He replaced the parts very quickly, and while talking to Li Qi, he had completed assembling Li Qi's arm.

Then he took Li Qi and set off again, but this time he didn't drag Li Qi like he did before. Instead, he grabbed Li Qi's hands and carried Li Qi on his back as he walked out.

During this period, Li Qi didn't say anything, only the gentleman doll kept saying something to him.

Perhaps it was because the gentleman doll hadn't met anyone to talk to for a long time, so he talked a lot and most of the conversations were irrelevant and meaningless.

For example, he would sometimes introduce in detail the service dolls sitting on the roadside, and tell Li Qi that he and the service dolls were of the same type, and that he was one of the more perfect ones.

Or he would point to a large puppet two or three meters tall standing alone outside the garbage dump in the distance, and tell Li Qi how majestic and powerful it once was.

Although most of these conversations were not very informative, the key information that was occasionally mentioned also allowed Li Qi to gain a better understanding of this world.

If what the gentleman doll said was correct and without his own subjective assumptions, then this world would most likely be a desolate, terrible world with basically no human beings.

Based on what the gentleman doll said, Li Qi judged that this world was a peaceful world where humans and dolls developed together many, many years ago.

But suddenly one day the puppets rioted and began to slaughter humans in turn.

It's like the artificial intelligence crisis in the science fiction world.

The strange thing is that no one knows why the puppets do this. Even some relatively normal puppets cannot explain why they massacre humans and other lives.

It was as if they had received some kind of instructions at the same time, which told them to slaughter any life indiscriminately until all life disappeared before their eyes.

Generally speaking, according to the plot setting in the story, a few destined protagonists should appear at this time. They discover that something is wrong, and then go through various adventures and finally resolve the crisis of puppet rebellion...

But unfortunately, there seems to be no destined protagonist in this world.

Or maybe the destined protagonists of this world are those puppets, so the conventional story did not happen, and the life of this world was destroyed by the puppets whose value increased almost infinitely.

When life was completely destroyed, the puppet lost its purpose and began to self-destruct.

Countless puppets killed each other and were eventually abandoned on the roadside, forming mountains of garbage filled with puppet remains.

So the place where Li Qi is now is actually not a garbage disposal plant for puppets.

This is just a small part of the world.

“…Why does it sound like an abandoned game world?”

Summarizing the settings of this world from the gentleman doll, Li Qi began to wonder if he had run into another abandoned game world of a certain game company.

However, there is too little information available at present, and Li Qi is unable to make an accurate inference, so he can only put this speculation aside for the time being.

As the gentleman doll kept chattering, he finally carried Li Qi to his little home.

A relatively intact two-story attic full of human style.

"We're here. Come, sit here for a while. I'll prepare some drinks. What do you like? Coffee? Tea? Or motor oil, which is more in line with the doll's taste habits? Oh... your food processing system is fine, so you should be able to drink anything."

The gentleman doll said this and turned to go busy himself in the kitchen.

Li Qi, who was placed on the sofa by him, did not respond to him immediately. Instead, he raised his hand to check his puppet body during the rest period.

This doll's body is slightly shorter than the gentleman doll. From a functional point of view, it should be the same as the gentleman doll, a service doll. However, most of its parts have been lost, and Li Qi couldn't tell what kind of service it provided.

There are no gender characteristics on the body, so it should be asexual, but the arm parts that the gentleman doll found for Li Qi look like female arms.

There is nothing we can do about it, after all, dolls rarely have gender concepts.

For them, there is only a difference between suitable and unsuitable.

If it is suitable, use it; if it is not suitable, don’t use it. It’s that simple.

(End of this chapter)