No strange things are allowed to evolve!

He's such an honest person.

"So."

The handsaw doll said:

"Let's begin now. Although I am your apprentice and you are my teacher, I think you probably don't know how to make a complete doll yet."

If you don't mind, may I introduce and demonstrate it to you?

“Okay,” Jiang Shu readily agreed.

In fact, Jiang Shu had some experience with handicrafts, but not just superficially. He had systematically learned in places like Wenjiang, Yiwu, and Putian.

He has done everything from wool processing and tailoring to leather making and weaving.

He even overpowered all the competitors by being a despicable outsider and won the Putian "Fake Shoes Masters" Cup championship that year.

Therefore, in his view, these are just dolls, simple stuffed crafts, and there is no pressure in making them.

He was simply curious about how the creative workshop brought the dolls to life.

To his disappointment, the handsaw doll did not seem to be deliberately hiding this secret, or perhaps it was simply not the right time yet; in any case, the process he described did not include the step of giving it life.

"If you may, could you please repeat the main points I made?"

"Ah."

So Jiang Shu repeated what he had just heard word for word, and added some of his insights from when he was making counterfeit shoes back then.

As the saying goes, different paths lead to the same destination, and if one thing is understood, everything is understood. The experience shared by Jiang Shu is a summary of the commonalities in different crafts. When it falls into the ears of the hand saw doll, which has three thousand years of working experience, it feels like the great truth is simple and profound, and it is like a sudden enlightenment.

"My goodness...where did the Doctor find you from?"

The handsaw doll was greatly surprised: "You're simply a genius maker!"

If he initially gave Jiang Shu the respect he deserved simply because of the big-headed doll, he now feels it's time to change his mind.

This newcomer deserves his heartfelt respect.

Based on his unique and ingenious understanding, he is sure to become a top-notch craftsman in the future.

"In my opinion, we can skip the theoretical part now. If you're ready, let's get started?"

"Just to my liking."

Having received Jiang Shu's approval, the handsaw doll felt as if it had met a kindred spirit and couldn't wait to show him how to make a flawless doll.

"First, we need to choose the right materials."

Jiang Shu looked at the handsaw doll with delight and walked towards the warehouse where the materials were stored.

Oh? I didn't expect it to be a high-quality, meticulously crafted process, not a mass-produced assembly line. Different types of dolls require different types of fabrics and leathers...

Jiang Shu's brain momentarily froze when the handsaw doll pushed open the warehouse door.

Calling it a warehouse is inappropriate; it's more like a giant ice cellar, with a chill that somehow emanates from it, condensing all the moisture in the air into frost.

It was filled with frozen human corpses.

"Different people have different qualities hidden in their flesh and blood."

"Therefore, when selecting materials, it is necessary to first understand their lives and their personalities."

Chapter Nineteen: The fun won't disappear, it will only shift.

"I mean, why is there a farming component here?"

The little gummy bear was panting heavily after carrying the heavy wooden bucket for only a few steps.

At this moment, everyone in the four-person team looked extremely disheveled. Those who were in better condition, such as Xue Wang, Ba Wang, and Wang Tiezhu, had their clothes wrinkled and crumpled. Those who were in worse condition, such as Xiao Xiong Hard Candy, had clothes that looked like they had just finished a silver party and had been torn.

Those worms, which the head maid calls silkworms, are not only irritable, but they can also be attacked with a zero-frame attack if you are not careful, so you need to be fully focused and dodge at any time.

The mucus on their bodies is highly corrosive. Even a slight touch will cause a burning sensation, despite the limited sensory enhancement from the drug, which makes them feel much less sensitive than before.

Snow King counted that they had collected a total of seventy-three worm threads, and each person had experienced an average of eighteen life-threatening situations.

And it seems that this will happen every day from now on.

The head maid was somewhat surprised to see that they had all come out safely.

Then they were immediately assigned their next job—fertilizing crops.

"Can't you even lift such a small bucket?" the tyrant mocked. "Two girls are stronger and walk faster than you. Aren't you ashamed?"

The little gummy bear blushed, and after a long pause, it finally managed to say, "I... am not good at running."

"It seems that without the bonus from evolution points, your original attributes are quite average." As he spoke, Overlord sized up Little Bear Hard Candy's small body.

In response, Hard Gum protested: "Any attribute that ignores the bonus is just being dishonest. I'm an evolved being, what else can I talk about if I don't talk about the bonus? If I don't talk about this, then I've evolved for nothing!"

"Hmph, why don't you mention that the higher the initial attributes, the greater the bonus?"

The overlord said smugly:

"My strength attribute is 1.1, and each time I add points, I get a 120% boost. As for you... it feels like it's only 0.2 or 0.3. Adding points will even deduct some of the points, so it's a pure waste."

The little gummy bear remained silent, only panting heavily.

"Did I guess right?"

"shut up!"

The two seemed to have gotten along very well, and even something as basic as their stats, which was a secret to every evolver, was openly discussed by Ba Wang.

This was thanks to BaWang saving Little Gummy Bear when he was almost bitten to death by a worm.

Snow Queen was naturally pleased to see this.

In such a dangerous hatchery, nothing is more reassuring than the unity and trust among the evolved beings.

"So the purpose of perception is to be able to react immediately when facing danger, so as not to die due to slowness?" Wang Tiezhu murmured.

If there had been no burning sensation, she would have been dissolved by the worm's slime half an hour earlier.

“That’s one reason, but not the only one,” Snow King replied. “Everything can contain hidden information, and maintaining good perception can help us avoid detours and find clues in the details.”

"Yes." Wang Tiezhu silently gripped the handle of the wooden bucket: "We must survive."

BaWang and the lagging Little Gummy Bear caught up. Little Gummy Bear's hands were now empty, while BaWang, with a bucket in each hand, was still able to run all the way.

Just as Bawang was about to say something, he heard Little Bear gently ask the two ladies, "Which of you can't carry this? I'll help you carry it."

"Are you even human?" The tyrant's eyes practically popped out of their sockets.

Snow King politely shook his head: "No need, I can manage."

Wang Tiezhu looked shy and said, "I don't need it either."

After spending some time together, everyone gained a basic understanding of each other's personalities.

As the interim leader, Snow King also possesses a great character, which everyone noticed from the beginning.

There's no need to say more about the Overlord; he's straightforward and guileless.

Gummy bears are quite smooth and can read the mood; they're the most outgoing and friendly.

As for Wang Tiezhu, she was rather surprising. She wasn't actually aloof; she was just a bit socially awkward and didn't like to talk much. If she wasn't careful, she would get distracted and start overthinking because of the complicated interpersonal relationships that gave her a headache. That's why she was able to notice details like Jiang Shu not closing the door and not leaving her name.

So the gummy bears were actually sure they wouldn't give the items to them, which is why they asked that question.

"I give up." Bawang shook his head repeatedly when he saw Little Bear Hard Candy's smirk. "This isn't animalism, so say what you will."

"Just kidding, who can stand being this depressed all the time?" Hard Gum shrugged. "This might be my last dance, so I have to keep a good mindset, right?"

"What 'last dance'? Don't say things that are detrimental to unity." The Overlord glared at him.

"Because we don't know how to win yet." It seems that the gummy bears are about to start selling.

Xue Wang and Wang Tiezhu exchanged a glance, both seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.

They didn't know how to win either.

Realizing that his casual remark might have made the atmosphere worse, he quickly changed his mind and said, "Not necessarily. Maybe that guy can bring us some surprises. Although he didn't say what his name is, I hope it's Qi Tongwei. As long as he can lead me to victory, I'm willing to be their village dog."

But unexpectedly, the Overlord showed ambition befitting his name at this time.

"No, the path of evolution is inherently against the will of heaven. How can we place our hopes on others? Instead of thinking about those things, we should focus on doing our own thing. Besides, didn't the Snow King say that the guide didn't mention the workshop? It might not be a good thing for him to go there. If we set it up like you, what if he also... then there's absolutely no hope?"

After a long silence, the little gummy bear said, "Mine."

Snow King echoed, "Overlord is right. We must cheer up and find a glimmer of hope in this desperate situation. Isn't that the fun of the Hatchery?"

Everyone could see that she wanted to inspire people, but it was clear that she was somewhat lacking in that area.

Where's the fun? Where's the fun?

If there were other options, who would want to come?

Even Wang Tiezhu couldn't help but advise, "Well said, don't say it again next time."

"Huh?" Snow King was taken aback.

"Tiezhu is right."

"I second that."

"How could this be..."

As they spoke, the four-person team arrived at their destination—an indoor cotton farm that relied solely on sunlight filtering through a glass dome.

Their next task is to fertilize the farm.

"This area is so big... will four buckets be enough?" Little Bear Gum muttered.

“The head maid is right…” Snow King recalled the request: “Just a little bit for every ten cotton plants should be enough.”

"Ugh! Cough cough cough... It stinks!" The Overlord, having opened the lid of the wooden barrel, covered his mouth and coughed violently.

"What fertilizer doesn't smell bad?" Little Bear retorted to Overlord: "Looks like without your evolution bonus, your base poison resistance is pretty average."

As he spoke, he opened his own lid.

then.

"vomit!!!"

He knelt in front of the wooden tub and vomited.

Unfortunately, because it was a doll, although it made vomiting motions, it couldn't vomit anything real, which made him even more uncomfortable.

"Is this... really that exaggerated?" Xue Wang and Wang Tiezhu were startled by his reaction.

Wang Tiezhu was curious and also planned to open the lid to take a look.

You can't blame her. Curiosity is human nature, especially when it comes to poop. The more people say it smells bad, the more curious they become, thinking, "I want to see just how smelly it is."

But the overlord stopped her, grabbing her hand tightly, which startled her so much that her body trembled.

For some reason, he couldn't speak; he just kept shaking his head frantically at Wang Tiezhu.

"No...don't open it."

The gummy bear barely managed to prop itself up.

"It's not fertilizer inside, it's people, people chopped into pieces! I saw human hands!!"

At the same time, several nearby cotton plants, smelling the rotting corpse, approached like hyenas, stretching out their branches and inserting them into the wooden barrel that BaWang and Little Bear Hard Candy had opened.

Then, their emerald green bodies gradually swelled up, like snakes feeding.

The four watched as one of the plants sucked a piece of flesh—not exactly from which part of a person—into jerky, then withdrew with satisfaction.

Something terrible happened.

As if receiving some kind of signal from the well-fed cotton, all the cotton on the entire farm began to stir.

The farm, which was quiet just moments before, has transformed into a chaotic paradise in the blink of an eye.

Those green branches, in the eyes of the four, looked like tentacled vines crawling out of hell, eagerly waiting to be fed.

Faced with this scene, the four of them tacitly took a few steps back.

"This is only the second mission, and I'm already being asked to feed these monsters with human flesh..." Hard Gum shuddered. "How am I supposed to know they won't eat me too?"

The Overlord looked at them and felt as if he were looking at a ball of countless snakes coiled together.

"The key issue is that this is downright mental pollution, it's disgusting!"