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Changing photos can be done with one hand.

Shen Xing picked up the DV camera with his right hand, and while looking at the screen, he tore the photo out with his left hand.

The moment Shen Yuan's headshot was torn off, the doll's face returned to its previous appearance without features, and its physical characteristics also disappeared. However, its hair was retained, and it did not turn back into a bald head.

That's rather strange. How can you deduce the sex characteristics of a person in a photo from a face that is completely impossible to determine their gender?

However, it seems that this thing can only be used to determine the gender of people in photos, and there is no other use for it at the moment.

Shen Xing pasted the photo again, and after the doll's face on the screen changed to Shen Yuan's, he reached out and tentatively touched its face, body, hands, feet, and other parts.

Lacking the soft touch of human muscles and skin, Shen Xing encountered only the limbs of ordinary dolls filled with cotton-like fabric.

Grandma Zhang held "Li Xiaohua's" hand that day. If it were the touch of a rag doll, even an elderly person would have noticed something was wrong.

It seems that not only the voice and appearance, but even the feedback I get after being touched is different from that of ordinary people.

After tearing Shen Yuan's photo off again, Shen Xing took out a cut-out photo of himself, taped it on, and stuck it on the doll's face.

Shen Xing stared at the screen inside the DV camera, where the puppet in the picture began to distort and change drastically.

The "child" with Shen Xing's face from when he was young began to expand rapidly after a burst of grayish-white snowflake noise, until it was almost the same height as Shen Xing.

In the scene, another "Shen Xing" sits on the stainless steel workbench, staring coldly and quietly at the camera, his male sexual characteristics also appearing.

The only change was the hair, which became the same long, loose hair as "Shen Yuan" from before. In addition, Shen Xing's face was still quite young at the time, and it was difficult to tell his gender at first glance just by looking at his face in the low-resolution camera.

Has its body expanded?

Shen Xing immediately reached out and touched the other person's limbs.

18-year-old Shen Xing was much taller than 4-year-old Shen Yuan, but when Shen Xing touched the fingertips and toes, he still didn't touch any empty space; it was all fabric.

It is a confirmed fact that the body can also expand to the corresponding size.

No wonder it didn't slip up when it turned into Li Ya's ex-wife and cousin.

But when his gaze shifts to reality, Shen Xing's mind feels a sense of disjointedness in everything before him.

In the scene, his hand is on the doll's shoulder, but in Shen Xing's view, his own hand is resting on a patch of grayish-white snowflake noise.

As he groped his way down the gray-white snowflakes, Shen Xing felt as if he were touching thin air, but the gray-white snowflakes could still outline the silhouette of a person.

Shen Xing took a half step back, capturing the entire body of the doll "Shen Xing" in the frame, and examined it carefully.

It still feels somewhat unbelievable.

If it were possible to alter sexual characteristics through photos, that would be somewhat plausible and wouldn't seem too outrageous.

But now, Shen Xing discovered that it could accurately reproduce the person's height and build from a single photograph, even down to the private parts.

This is a difficult thing to explain.

How does it "read" photos? How can such information be contained in a simple photograph?

Did it obtain this information by reading its own or other people's memories?

impossible.

Shen Xing does know his height, weight, and other information, but so far, none of the people the doll has devoured have specific information about 4-year-old Shen Yuan.

Even Shen Xing wasn't entirely sure; he could only make a rough judgment based on his memory of the height and build.

He didn't have the same interest as his adoptive parents, constantly watching Shen Yuan's height to see how much she had grown taller or gained weight.

What would happen if I had this ability?

With just a glance at a blurry surveillance photo, he can immediately identify a person's exact appearance, height, and weight.

This skill would be highly sought after in the video production team of the technical department of the brigade.

But then again, what exactly is this doll?

【01-Wall】Shen Xing could summarize and generalize it; the wall is like a huge incubation pool of flesh and blood.

The mutated flesh and blood exist as its derivatives, and Shen Xing has also figured out some of its uses and patterns, but there are still many doubts that have not been clarified.

But this [02-Doll].......

It can devour humans and gain abilities such as speaking and mimicry through the humans it devours—without even devouring their brains.

Is it a kind of biological printer? Printing a living person out of photos and flesh and blood? But such a simple analogy doesn't seem to fully describe the entirety of [02-Doll].

Judging from Li Ya's subsequent behavior, it seems that it will also engage in symbiosis... no, it should be considered as choosing a host to parasitize? In this way, it will use the memories and personality gained from devouring flesh and blood to influence the host, so that the host will help it obtain more human flesh and blood.

Later, when Shen Xing conducted experiments on Li Ya, he obtained some fabric fragments disguised as skin from Li Ya's body.

Is this a feedback mechanism to the host? Or is it simply an erosion and negative impact? This is a very important indicator for judging parasitism and symbiosis.

The time was too short, and Shen Xing was unable to find out whether Li Ya had acquired any abilities.

Moreover, those fabric fragments disappeared shortly after leaving Li Ya's body, as if they had never existed.

What is now certain is that [02-Doll] requires flesh and blood as its driving force and has a strange ability to read information such as photos.

Its ability to mimic doesn't require flesh and blood, but its ability to speak still depends on what kind of flesh and blood it consumes.

After consuming flesh and blood, it will instinctively want to eat other people who are closely related to the flesh and blood it has consumed, as if it can recognize the DNA and genetic information in the flesh and blood.

After devouring the flesh and blood produced by [01-Wall], it will instinctively approach Shen Xing, who resonates with [01-Wall].

If this last point holds true, is it trying to acquire more flesh and blood or genes that share common characteristics? If it is continuously provided with flesh and blood that have similar DNA, will it undergo any changes?

Parents and children share only 50% of their genes, but by the time it reaches grandparents and grandchildren, only 25% remains. As the number of generations increases, the shared gene segments decay exponentially.

If you eat the children of the same person, you can eat about 5 to 6 children and the genetic integrity can reach more than 90%. This does not take into account the impact of the other half coming from different spouses or random recombination.

Of course, this is just wishful thinking.

Where is Shen Xing going to find so many people to raise a bunch of kids to feed it?

However... [01-Wall] can produce the same flesh and blood indefinitely.

What would happen if you used the flesh and blood produced by the [01-Wall] to feed the [02-Doll]?

[02-Doll] Will it evolve?