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The doll, which had previously exhausted its energy, now began to flicker with grayish-white specks all over its body again, and these specks pulsed intensely in Shen Xing's eyes.

The noise was even more noticeable than when it was resisting earlier... Is the mutated flesh and blood a great tonic for it?

Shen Xing took two steps back and stood behind the DV camera, watching the screen while observing the changes in the puppet in front of him.

At this point, the image on the DV camera screen was almost completely distorted, with tearing and flickering, as if it had been subjected to severe interference.

The connection that Shen Xing felt with the mutated beef was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, constantly changing.

Suddenly, the screen on the DV camera went completely black after a violent shaking.

Did you break it?

Shen Xing's attention was focused on the screen, but the screen lit up again the next second.

The image on the screen returned to normal, still showing the angle that Shen Xing had adjusted to face the operating table.

But now, on the stainless steel workbench on the screen, there's absolutely no trace of the doll...

Shen Xing slightly raised his eyes and looked at the stainless steel workbench.

That's all?

The doll disappeared the moment I focused my attention on the screen?

The doll was gone from the table, leaving only nylon cable ties scattered on the control panel.

Shen Xing took a step forward, wanting to see behind the control panel, but as soon as he moved, he felt something touch him from behind.

He turned around abruptly and saw a doll falling straight toward him from the wooden table behind him where the tools were placed—it seemed that it had been leaning against Shen Xing's hind leg, but lost its support after Shen Xing took a step forward.

Shen Xing slightly turned to the side to avoid it, while being careful not to knock over the tripod. The puppet, however, fell to its side at Shen Xing's feet.

No attack was launched?

Just now, it was behind Shen Xing the whole time. If it could have attacked, it would have bitten him, just like it did when it ate the mutated beef.

How does he achieve this movement ability without making a sound?

Is it affecting one's vision and perception, or has physics ceased to exist?

Shen Xing prefers the former.

Because on the night they first met, in other people's eyes, Li Xiaohua ran towards Shen Xing normally, but in Shen Xing's own vision, she appeared to teleport.

What you can see is different from what ordinary people can see.

So here's the question.

What would it look like in the eyes of an ordinary person?

As Shen Xing pondered the grayish-white, speckled doll lying on the ground, the doll disappeared again.

This time, Shen Xing didn't rush to move his body to look for it. Instead, he turned around and looked at the ground to his right rear.

The doll was leaning against his hips. This time, Shen Xing carefully felt it and could indeed feel a slight touch. It was so light that it was hard to notice unless you were deliberately trying to feel it.

Shen Xing maintained his posture, reached his right hand towards the DV camera, took it off the tripod, turned the lens, and filmed the doll.

The image started to show noise, just like when we were filming "Li Xiaohua" on the rooftop that day, and the puppet started to "move".

On the screen, a naked child, who looks no more than four years old and has the physical characteristics of a doll, is hugging his right leg.

It looked up at itself, its face somewhat blurry, with no eyes in its eye sockets, only darkness like a tangled mess of threads.

Why in human form?

When it swallows other humans, it can mimic their appearance, but after swallowing abnormal flesh and blood, it mimics a child with no sexual characteristics.

The only standard for judging a man's or woman's gender might be the length of his hair... but he's bald now.

Shen Xing didn't know how others perceived it, but he knew that if someone saw this scene now, they probably wouldn't have a good opinion of it.

Do not......

Shen Xing suddenly remembered a detail.

It's not flesh and blood that can be mimicked and eaten... but rather something that can be "customized".

This is probably not a mimicry of abnormal flesh and blood, but rather its actual form as perceived by outsiders.

The condition for changing its appearance is—a photograph.

When I first saw it, it had a picture of Li Xiaohua that Li Ya had cut out on its face.

It was "custom-made" by Li Ya to resemble Li Xiaohua.

How did Li Ya do that? He doesn't seem to have that kind of intelligence.

Unless it says it itself.

"Buzz..."

A buzzing sound rang in Shen Xing's mind.

But it was just like the sound of a motor turning on a machine; it was impossible to understand what it meant.

How did Li Ya interpret it?

Is its voice different in my brain and in the brain of an ordinary person? Ordinary people can hear it speaking, but I can only hear a buzzing sound?

Nor is it.

Just now, when he was testing the other party's reaction and exhausting their "energy," Shen Xing clearly heard three human voices.

After Li Ya killed the first person, his ex-wife, the doll devoured her flesh and blood and communicated with him using her memories and voice.

To understand what it says, one needs human flesh and blood.

This is the most reasonable inference so far.

Where am I supposed to find someone to do it for me?

Furthermore, the provincial authorities might send a special task force after a while. Would creating a headless corpse at that time be blatantly telling people that the serial murder case is not over yet? And it would also make Li Ya take the blame.

Communicating with it verbally is currently unlikely... I might try to find other alternatives.

What is certain so far is that after consuming the abnormal flesh and blood, the doll inherited the abnormal flesh and blood's "affinity" towards it, or rather, its homing instinct, wanting to follow it closely.

This is not good news.

To others, it would look like a naked child following them the whole time, and that the police would come looking for them after just one stroll down the street.

How do we continue now? Should we press it onto the control panel and continue cutting?

The cable ties are clearly no longer effective at restraining it, and if any further harmful actions are taken, the other party may retaliate.

Continuing to feed it blood and flesh won't work either. A small piece of mutated beef has already given it the ability to move freely. Any stronger and it might be beyond its control.

Let's see if it can understand some of its commands.

Shen Xing held the DV camera in his right hand and tentatively used his "thoughts" to issue commands to the other party.

【past】.

Shen Xing pointed to the control panel with his left hand.

A few seconds later, the doll on the screen was still holding its right leg and did not move.

"Lie there," Shen Xing said.

A few seconds passed, but there was still no movement.

Even human language won't work.

After thinking for a moment, Shen Xing did not put down his left hand.

The muscles beneath his skin began to throb in his neck, and abnormal flesh and blood concentrated in his throat.

Abnormal flesh and blood began to invade, penetrating the surface mucosa and epithelial tissue, as well as the middle vocal ligament fibers, and flooding into the deep vocal cord muscles.

The skeletal muscle, covered by abnormal flesh, began to become even more vibrant. It slowly contracted and expanded, giving Shen Xing a warm feeling in his throat.

[Lie down].

A hoarse, distorted voice, somewhat inhuman, came from Shen Xing's mouth as the white membrane on the surface vibrated.

In the DV camera, the "child" finally reacted.

It released its grip on Shen Xing's thigh and walked towards the control panel. Shen Xing's camera followed its movements until it climbed onto the control panel on all fours. Only then did it turn around, sit on the control panel, and look at Shen Xing.

It didn't understand what "lie down" meant, but it seemed to know that Shen Xing wanted it to stay there.