Starting with dissecting ghost stories

Shen Yuan really enjoys watching horror movies.

That feeling of a racing heart and adrenaline rush can make you temporarily forget some bad things.

But now, Shen Yuan was curled up on the sofa with her legs drawn up, staring blankly at the DVD icon bouncing on the blue screen of the TV, listening to the "whooshing" sound of water and the sound of plates hitting the sink in the kitchen.

Shen Xing's handbag was still hanging on the coat rack by the door. She had a vague premonition that her brother might go out again tonight.

Her mind was a bit of a mess. She really wanted Shen Xing to stay, but she didn't know how to bring it up or what to say.

After a while, the sound of water in the kitchen stopped.

Stay...

"I'm going out for a bit tonight." Shen Xing dried his hands, picked up the trash, walked to the door and put it down, saying as he changed his shoes, "If you're going out, remember to call me."

Keep me company...

"Do you remember my phone number? If you've forgotten, you can check the refrigerator; I've stuck it there." Shen Xing finished tidying up, put his bag back on, picked up the trash, opened the door, and looked back one last time.

Don't leave me alone...

"Are you alright?" Shen Xing seemed to notice Shen Yuan's unusual silence and asked.

"fine......"

"OK."

What she was thinking was one thing, but what she said was another. Shen Yuan's subconscious act of bravado meant that all she could hear was the sound of the door closing at the end.

Until the last security door was closed, she was left alone in the house. The children downstairs in the community were still making noise, but Shen Yuan felt as if she were in a dark space where no one was around.

I can't feel anything.

...

At the entrance of the apartment building, Shen Xing got on his bicycle and rode out of the community.

To be honest, Shen Xing wasn't sure whether the doll was still in the garage.

After all, it has a certain degree of freedom of movement, and conventional methods used to bind people may not be able to restrain it.

However, Shen Xing could not bring it home, because he had not fully grasped its abilities, influence, and various data. Bringing it back rashly might have adverse effects on him.

It doesn't matter if it leaves the garage; its abilities destined it to keep eating people, finding a "host" similar to Li Ya, and constantly creating carnage.

They can find it again by simply keeping an eye on subsequent murder reports received by the police.

With the mindset of opening a blind box, Shen Xing parked his car downstairs in a quiet old residential area. He took out his keys and turned the lock on the garage door.

The small door, painted green and already rusty, was pushed open by Shen Xing, who then turned on the light. Under the incandescent light, the bound doll leaned against the corner deep in the garage, its bright colors gleaming.

Sorry for the wait.

Shen Xing closed and locked the door, put his bag away, took out the DV camera, put on a white coat and latex gloves, and set up the DV camera on a tripod.

Instead of rushing to tinker with the doll, he took out the two paintings, placed the iron bucket, and began using tweezers to pick out the meat from inside.

Shen Xing had done this many times before, and with experience, he became even faster.

Moreover, his hands are now exceptionally steady, and every movement is more precise. Now, extracting flesh and blood from the painting is more like a repetitive task for Shen Xing, like screwing in screws, and there is no fun in it anymore.

The collected flesh and blood were placed in the same iron barrel by Shen Xing.

They are all products of the same human anatomy diagrams.

Shen Xing had previously packaged them separately, but today he chose to package them together to see the reaction.

Since the last phase change in his body, Shen Xing knew that no matter what kind of painting he took it from, the flesh and blood were all the same thing. Putting them together might fuse them into an individual with more flesh.

This is a direction worth trying.

After observing the iron buckets for a while, Shen Xing found that they were still crawling towards him in a disorderly manner, showing no intention of merging. So he temporarily put them aside and left them to stand still for a while.

At this moment, Shen Xing finally turned his attention to the main event of the evening.

That doll.

Shen Xing still remembers the first time he saw it that night; it almost instantly moved behind him.

If it wants to run away, Shen Xing can't stop it no matter what he does.

Shen Xing moved a little closer to it.

That night, when the doll approached her, her left hand became hot, and the abnormal muscles in her left hand [0111] sensed the danger and reacted.

But now, as he gets closer, his abnormal muscles don't react at all.

Has the flesh and blood consumed within the doll run out? Is there no "energy" left for it to continue using its abilities?

Or was it the changes brought about by the phase transition of his own body that gave him the power to suppress the puppet, preventing it from reacting?

These unusual "creatures" all have certain instinctive reactions, but that doesn't necessarily mean they possess low intelligence.

Rather than biological intelligence, it is more like the nervous system of an insect, with multiple ganglia distributed throughout its body.

Therefore, even after Shen Xing cut open the abnormal muscles, they could still act according to their instincts, just like insects can still command their legs to walk and even mate after their skulls are cut open.

Based on current contact, their consciousness is timely and highly reflexive, without any pessimistic or optimistic emotions.

However, unlike insects, which communicate and connect their consciousness by secreting pheromones-like chemicals when they are in groups.

This is also a process of quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

If their numbers become large enough, will they also develop intelligence?

Shen Xing placed his right hand on the puppet's shoulder, but the puppet remained motionless.

He lifted the doll up, and the moment he did, Shen Xing sensed something was wrong.

It's so heavy... not the kind of weight that would put pressure on Shen Xing, but a weight that doesn't fit the appearance of a cotton doll, as if there's a metal frame supporting it inside.

It's estimated to weigh over ten kilograms.

Shen Xing dragged it directly to the weighing station and got a weight of 7KG, which was about what Shen Xing had expected.

After weighing, he lifted the doll onto the stainless steel workbench.

Shen Xing took two steps back, adjusted the DV camera's screen, and then pressed the record button.

"Click, click."

He pulled a pair of diagonal pliers from his toolbox and cut the straps binding the doll's chest, revealing the doll's chest area.

After removing all the cable ties and throwing them into an empty metal bucket, Shen Xing took out a scalpel and held it, feeling a sense of familiarity.

Make the cut.

It has a soft, cotton-like texture.

Shen Xing cut a "Y"-shaped opening in the doll's chest, but instead of seeing cotton, he didn't see the cotton he expected.

In Shen Xing's eyes, before he could even make an incision, the incision was stretched open by the things inside, and piles and piles of dark brown objects squeezed together appeared in Shen Xing's eyes.

This hard lump, with the texture of leather and dried mushrooms, emitted a foul stench.

Shen Xing carefully used tweezers to pick up a long, thin, plastic-like object from inside the doll's belly. It was dry and shrunken inside.

When Shen Xing pulled her up, she also took two other wrinkled thin pieces with her.

It seems that the doll not only doesn't eat human heads, but also doesn't eat internal organs.

This is the gastrointestinal tract, after dehydration.

Two adults and one child, after removing their heads, their internal organs weighed approximately 40 pounds.

After dehydration, it weighs about 10 pounds.

This is a hot potato.

Shen Xing frowned slightly as he looked at what he had picked out.