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Chapter 90 Male Mother

Shen Xing returned home with his satchel.

While on the way, he had already sent the address to Shen Yuan, asking her and Wang Xinran to go there and wait.

After opening and locking the door, I returned to my room with my handbag, put it down, and pulled my suitcase out from under the bed.

After unlocking and opening the suitcase, the doll was still lying inside, seemingly having never attempted an "escape."

Is this because the previous threats were effective? Or is this anomaly inherently more obedient?

Or perhaps the "Shen Xing" logic it's currently carrying makes it think that "breaking out of jail" is a losing proposition, and it chooses to continue lying low?

Shen Xing snapped his fingers to wake it up, took out the DV camera, turned it on, and pointed it at it.

"Why didn't you try to break out of prison?" Shen Xing asked directly, looking at the cold-faced child sitting up on the screen.

"I will die." [02—Puppet] looked at Shen Xing and answered very honestly.

"Why?" Shen Xing wanted to see what kind of thinking it was based on in answering this question, and also to see its thinking ability.

"Run away, you'll get hungry, you'll eat people, you'll be discovered, and you'll die." [02—Doll] said expressionlessly, "Stay, there's food, there's food, Mom, you won't die."

I don't know if it's to save energy, or if my thinking and intelligence have declined after consuming my flesh and blood, but my speech is not as fluent as it was in the afternoon.

Shen Xing nodded upon hearing the doll's reply.

It seems that, based on relatively rational thinking and after considering things like humans, they came to the conclusion that they could not escape and chose to stay here.

However, the language system was still a bit chaotic, and the word "mother" popped out randomly.

However, thinking seems to be too taxing for it.

"Will this shell restrict your movement?" Shen Xing reached out and pinched the doll-like leg area, using words and gestures to help it understand his words more quickly.

"Yes." The child on the screen nodded, his tone exactly the same as Shen Xing's.

My previous guess was correct.

"I need your help with something."

Shen Xing took out the city map he had shown it before, slowed down his speech, and began to explain his requirements.

He needs a doll, so he goes to the video store entrance again, and tries to get caught on camera.

But now there is still a problem.

Does the doll itself have any means of escape? Or does it know that it needs to avoid surveillance when it returns?

"Do you know what a surveillance camera is?" Shen Xing asked.

"Yes, you know, I knew it." The doll answered again.

This answer sent a chill down Shen Xing's spine—not a chill of disgust, but a murderous intent.

How much of its own memory does it know?

If it falls into Lu Lingyun's hands, wouldn't it be a complete loss?

"How much do you remember about me?" Shen Xing didn't even realize that a habitual, feigned smile was already on his face.

Perhaps it was this smile that made [02—Doll] sense a threat, and it proactively replied, "Flesh and blood exhausted, memories gone."

"You are my mother, and I will not betray you, Mom."

The doll on the screen, also looking up, stared at Shen Xing with its eyes filled with black lines, and grinned at him.

Mom... Mom?

Was the initial "Mom" either a misunderstanding or a way of addressing me?

Homing effect of abnormal flesh?

Is its underlying logic still following the instincts of abnormal flesh and blood? Because it devours even more abnormal flesh and blood?

From the first time I fed it in the garage, it developed a "homing" effect on me and would actively approach me.

This was the first time Shen Xing had a direct, face-to-face interaction with the strange creature.

But Shen Xing didn't feel any sense of "communication"; he felt as if he were having a conversation with another version of himself.

It is indeed a replica of "Shen Xing" now.

Moreover, he is a "Shen Xing" who cannot imitate human emotions at all and is completely unrestricted by law.

It devoured the abnormal flesh and blood, was affected by the abnormal flesh and blood, and then, because it swallowed my flesh and blood, it instinctively imitated me.

If that's the case, then it basically confirms that it's still just a "pseudo-human" that becomes whatever you add to it.

However, at least for now, it can be shown that it has enough intelligence to understand its own instructions and complete the task.

"Do you know how to avoid surveillance cameras?" Shen Xing asked as his final question.

"Hmm." The girl on the screen nodded, pointed to the wall next to her, and then walked towards the wall.

Then, following Shen Xing's DV camera, the girl reached out and clung to the wall, climbing up to the ceiling like a gecko. She turned her head at an odd angle to look at Shen Xing, her eye sockets filled with black lines facing his face.

"Just walk up there," the doll explained.

Shen Xing had already witnessed the doll's ability to climb walls during the previous experiment in the garage, and now he had no doubt that it could complete the task.

Shen Xing knew that going up to the rooftop would allow him to avoid surveillance, but he himself did not have the ability to scale walls and rooftops.

"Go ahead," Shen Xing said, looking at it.

Shen Xing watched it go, seeing it climb along the wall to the window on the screen, pass through the security bars in a way that almost compressed itself, and climb along the building facade towards the roof under the dim sky.

Shen Xing stared at the now-disappeared [02—Doll] on the screen, lost in thought.

In previous operations, Shen Xing had realized that he did need an assistant.

But finding a suitable candidate is not easy.

But... [02 - Doll], could it become my assistant?

If you assume that loyalty is maxed out by default, then [02 - Doll] is the perfect assistant choice. You don't have to worry about it being corrupted by monsters or about your identity being exposed.

Because they can share the same thoughts and ideas, and the same identities that cannot be revealed.

only...

How did it know that eating people would get it arrested?

Information extracted from my memory?

Or was it actually arrested?

If it really was caught, how did it escape?

Every time Shen Xing thought he was making a step forward in understanding the strange, new problems would always emerge.

However, he cannot fully trust [02—Puppet] right now.

He couldn't be sure if what [02—the doll] said to him was a lie.

Because the underlying logic of [02—Puppet] is to completely replace a person.

The person being replaced could also be Shen Xing himself.

After thinking for a moment, Shen Xing reached out, picked up the shoulder bag, and placed it directly next to the suitcase.

Inside the bag was a stack of bloody and gory pictures, and a mutated kidney wrapped in a tissue was crammed into the side.

Shen Xinghui will leave this bag of things here.

Shen Xing wasn't worried that [02—Puppet] would directly devour this bag of abnormal flesh and blood.

If it eats it, it means it was just deceiving itself; it doesn't actually have any homing instinct or loyalty.

The [02-Doll] that consumes abnormal flesh and blood will develop a more ambiguous connection with itself.

If the abnormal flesh inside its body increases, Shen Xing only needs to manipulate it slightly, and the abnormal flesh inside its body will pierce through its body and emerge.

If it returns without eating the bag of meat, but instead continues to wait after completing its task.

That's how the assistant was chosen.

The term "mother" needs to be changed.

After disinfecting the round-headed nails he had brought before, Shen Xing drove them into the soles of his feet again, then put on his shoes and went out.