Lin Sanjiu was a straightforward person, but she wasn't stupid.
No matter how worried she was, it had been more than a year since she got to the edible truth from the Heaven Underworld. During the many nights when she tossed and turned in bed, she had already replayed the facts in her mind and hammered them over and over again.
There was only one conclusion she could come to.
It was precisely because she was aware of this that she never took out the communication device again. As long as she didn't turn the communication device into a card, it wouldn't work.
"Who is that person you are talking about?" Bohemia tilted her head and asked. A lock of her wavy hair slid down her shoulder. "When will he be looking for you?"
After bidding farewell to the receptionist, Lin Sanjiu, Lin Sanjiu, and the cat had nowhere else to go. They didn't dare to wander too far away, so they sat cross-legged on the side of the street like homeless people, waiting for Puppeteer to return. Especially Bohemia. She had been fighting and running for her life for the past few days. She was so busy that the sleeves of her loose robe were already dirty. At this moment, she looked more and more like a disheveled gypsy. Coupled with a wounded man with a bandage on his head and a homeless cat, this combination obviously aroused the sympathy of the citizens.
"Is there anything I can help you with?"
Before Lin Sanjiu could answer, a man riding a sports bike stopped right in front of them. They had been sitting on the side of the road for less than five minutes, and this was already the fourth person. It wasn't hard to imagine how disheveled they looked. "Are you hungry? You don't have anything to eat?"
Obviously, Bohemia was about to say "no", but she swallowed it back when she heard the second sentence. "... Do you have anything to eat?"
"Let me find —"
Seeing that the kind-hearted man was already rummaging through his backpack, Lin Sanjiu quickly interrupted him and thanked him for his kindness. Then, she took out a pack of animal biscuits from her card and stuffed Bohemia's mouth.
"Why do you eat everyone's food?" Lin Sanjiu watched as Bohemia picked up the animal biscuits one by one. After checking the shape of the biscuits, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help reprimanding Bohemia, "Weren't you very vigilant before?"
"I'm going to stay here anyway. I'm going to eat the food here from now on. What's there to be afraid of?" Bohemia grumbled as she spat out some giraffe crumbs.
The cat doctor's expression darkened. Even though it didn't know how to smile, it was able to convey its displeasure clearly. After the third person asked them if they needed a place to stay, it started licking its fur as if it wanted to lick itself until it glowed. It wanted to distance itself from Lin Sanjiu and Bohemia in terms of appearance.
Lin Sanjiu found it hard to be serious amidst the rustling sounds of licking fur and crunching of biscuits. This was supposed to be a serious topic. She sighed, looked around, and picked up Bohemia's question again. "I don't know when he will come … I only know that he will be here soon."
"He knows you're here?"
"I should know."
"What do you mean by 'should'?"
Lin Sanjiu was at a loss for words, "... Anyway, I know. Eat your biscuits."
"What's that in your hand?" Eating never stopped Bohemia from talking.
Lin Sanjiu looked at it. She rolled a square metal box in her palm a few times, its edges glinting. She placed it in a leather pouch and fastened the pouch to her belt with a metal buckle. With this, she would not miss the sound it made no matter where she went or what she did.
"This is … a communication device. I guess he will try to contact me before he comes. "
"So what if he comes?"
"He might have a way to help you," Lin Sanjiu thought to herself.
Seeing that Bohemia still had a lot of questions to ask, Lin Sanjiu couldn't take it anymore. She quickly changed the topic, "Where did Puppeteer go? Why isn't he back yet?"
"I hope he won't misunderstand when he comes back," Lin Sanjiu's words stirred up Bohemia's worries and diverted her attention, "You're the only one who touched his things when he's not around."
Since the two puppets were still around, it meant that their master would be back soon. However, the way they stood on the ground with a couch on their shoulders was too silly and eye-catching, so Lin Sanjiu turned the couch into a card and hid the puppets in the bushes by the roadside. When she turned around, she saw the two expressionless faces peeking out from the shadows of the branches and leaves. They stared at the spot where they were like two perverts.
Puppeteer's condition seemed to have stabilized. It was all thanks to the cat doctor's excellent skills and the complete set of equipment. Lin Sanjiu heard that the backpack contained almost a hospital's worth of equipment. They were all gathered by posthumans who passed by Meowie Hu on their own initiative. Even though Lin Sanjiu didn't have to worry that Puppeteer might have fainted on the way back, she was still a little worried that he wouldn't come back after such a long time. She wasn't worried about Puppeteer, she was worried about the people who accidentally bumped into Puppeteer.
Speaking of which, it was quite a coincidence that they bumped into the cat doctor when Puppeteer was on the brink of death...
When Lin Sanjiu thought of this, she suddenly remembered something and froze. She reached out and grabbed the cat doctor by his neck. As the latter whimpered, she pulled him closer to her. Then, she ran her other hand across his thick and smooth fur. Sure enough, she felt a piece of cold and hard skin the size of a fingernail under the fur near his tail. It wasn't so much skin as it was closer to plastic.
"You're still a partial puppet?" Lin Sanjiu was shocked and angry at the same time. "Does that guy have obsessive-compulsive disorder? Does he only feel at ease when he turns everyone around him into a puppet? "
The cat doctor didn't complain at all when fate tossed him a ball. "Well, it's not that inconvenient anyway … Whether it's researching, eating or sleeping, it's no different than usual. Except when he calls me. "
"He calls you?"
"Yeah." The cat doctor wagged his tail and said nonchalantly, "I'm just like any other cat. Only when he calls me will I feel a tingling sensation on my spine. At first, I was too lazy to move. After all, a dog that goes wherever he calls me has no dignity … But, his place is quite fun. There's a lot of good food and people respect me. So, I came over this time. "
In the end, he also came whenever he called.
Perhaps he didn't know what he was here for, so when Meowie Hu arrived and couldn't find Puppeteer, he wasn't worried at all. At that time, Puppeteer had just lost consciousness. Luckily, he met Bohemia when he was wandering around. Otherwise, he didn't know when they would meet again.
If that was the case, deep down in Puppeteer's heart, he still had a desire to survive …
That was good, but … "Will the puppeteer part spread out?" Lin Sanjiu was a little worried. She lifted Meowie Hu's fur and examined him carefully. She couldn't tell the difference just by looking at him.
The cat doctor opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he didn't. Instead, he scratched his neck with his hind paw, "Anyway, I'm fine for now."
Lin Sanjiu felt doubtful as she smoothed his fur.
"Hey," Bohemia suddenly called out to her. In just a few words, the bag of animal biscuits was already half-empty, "Look over there, there's a paper crane."
When Lin Sanjiu turned around, the paper crane had already flown out of the sunlight and landed on their heads. Lin Sanjiu stretched out her hand, and the paper crane flapped its wings and landed on the ground.
Who would send them paper cranes in this world? The answer was obvious. Nobody was surprised when a cold and sinister voice rang out, "Follow my puppet and come here."
The red dot flashed and the message ended. There wasn't even a single word of explanation.
"Follow my puppet? Where? "
Puzzled, Lin Sanjiu turned her head around and saw the two puppets parting the bushes with a rustling sound. They walked out of the bushes like perverts who had spotted their target. They did not even look at them. Instead, they chose a direction, turned around, and strode into the distance without looking back.
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