Chapter 716: The Puppet Controller Finally Met the Puppets

The sky in Avalon is sunny, and the residents of Gensokyo love it - what is the most profitable thing to do in the 21st century? Tourism! A lucrative business, all you need is a geomantic treasure land, a good mouth, a group of old Taoist priests who sell jade, and two fortune tellers, and palmistry. Basically, apart from encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters, financial crises and failures in saving tribulations, all you need to start this business is You will never lose money.

At least that's the theory.

Huge transport carriers rarely appear in Avalon's airspace, because I have always felt that environmental protection is important for this picturesque place with spring all year round, but this is an exception. Under my efforts to deceive, the majority of Gensokyo residents expressed their desire to see the beautiful scenery of Arcadia, the capital of the empire, as soon as possible. The Atlantis teleportation also required opening a huge space rift in the sky of Avalon. In order to save money, The central idea of ​​​​Yimao is Yimao, so the transport carrier did not open the door independently and entered the country directly at Avalon.

The spaceship, which was so huge that it could cover the sky, slowly poked its head out from the huge crack in the sky, casting a dark cloud-like shadow on the endless green grassland, startling countless small animals living in the grass. Because it was too large, the transport mothership could not land directly on this pristine grassland, so it was suspended one or two kilometers above the ground. Then everyone transferred to a small transport aircraft for landing. Of course, there were also many monster habits. Flying by themselves, they wanted to experience the saltiness or lightness of the air in another world. So when the transport plane flew down, there were a large group of small black dots flying around in a mess. From a distance, they looked like that broken airplane. It seems to be dropping parts while flying. Many residents of Gensokyo were amazed by the beautiful scenery of Avalon even before they left the spaceship. They all expressed real envy for the behavior of Reimu Hakurei and Murasaki Yakumo who complained about working in such a favorable place. They all expressed their strong desire to invest and build houses here.

Hakurei Reimu severely criticized the optimistic attitude of the youkai and expressed deep concern, while Yakumo Murasaki pointedly pointed out that a certain evil boss was completely playing around with the concept of substituting a good prospect and a newly decorated property. Background to deceive the owner to move in, and then reveal the true face of the exploiter after the contract is signed. The level of bad behavior is equivalent to pointing at the Chacha Building and telling new employees that this is the office building of our company when they join the company. After signing the labor contract, you Then I realized that the boss hadn’t finished what he said at that time. The office was located in Room 404 on the fourth floor of Building A of Chacha Building, and he had to share a cubicle with two companies that read Feng Shui and tell fortunes. Sooner or later, a heart-wrenching feeling of being cheated would come... …

I argued with these two tough-talking guys for half an hour, trying to prove that I had no intention of tricking the monsters from the beginning, well, even though I didn't believe it myself.

The final result was that I had to agree to make up for the bonuses that were deducted from Yakumo Murasaki and Hakurei Reimu when they were working. The two bosses unanimously changed their tune and announced their enthusiastic support for the demolition and resettlement work in Gensokyo - it seems that as long as there is Driven by enough profit, Reimu will definitely sell the entire Gensokyo without hesitation, and even Zima will help count the money...

The transport plane landed smoothly on the endless prairie. This is a newly born area with the continuous growth of the World Tree. There is currently no clear administrative division. Even the ecological environment here can only be surveyed by Artemis. half. It was temporarily named "Morrowind Grassland", which was chosen by Dingdang from the "Name Book" of the World Tree. It was much better than the "Grass Mud Horse Prairie" at the beginning.

"Hoo-ah ho!! Prairie!!"

As soon as she got out of the transport plane, Cirno started running across the prairie as if she had a seizure. The unprecedented vast space here and the natural power surrounding her made her into a state of excitement as a fairy. In Gensokyo, she could There is no such exaggerated large area just used for growing grass. Since it is impossible to see any other landforms when looking from any place, this makes Cirno extremely curious about what she will encounter when she runs to the end of the prairie. In order to prevent her from really running to the end of the world, we can only tie her up and drag her away. Come back.

As an ice fairy, you should freeze frogs and make sorbet as your own. You must pretend to be a little mouse on the prairie... Nazling, come back!

It took me a lot of effort to collect the monsters that were running around as soon as they landed. During this period, I consumed at least more than 40 meters of rope and more than a dozen collars. I myself was in the process of catching those running around. About thirty or forty teeth marks were harvested, but as the leader of the monsters, Yakumo Murasaki at least showed her support for her boss's work this time: those energetic guys represent the tens of thousands of demolished households in Gensokyo. I conducted an on-site inspection of the situation in their new home, but now it seems that there is no possibility for them to even take care of themselves, so some forced comfort measures are necessary. I believe that after being tied up for a while, these monsters will not run around.

At this moment, a low whistling sound came from high altitude. It seemed to be the sound when the high-level wind was blocked by some large object and changed its direction urgently. A shadow larger than the transport carrier gradually covered the surroundings around us. On the grass, I looked up and saw that the floating island of Atlantis had already poked out the door of space and was now moving the other half of its body out.

"Wow..." Wenwen looked up in stunned silence as he looked up at the magnificent aerial continent protruding from the crack in space, and exclaimed softly. When Atlantis appeared in Gensokyo before, the teleportation was completed in the middle of the night. Moreover, the entry point was at a height that was almost invisible to the naked eye. No one saw with their own eyes how the floating island accomplished the feat at that time. This is something Wenwen has always regretted, but this time, she was in for a treat.

The Tengu girl held up her camera and took pictures for a while. Later, she seemed to feel that taking pictures on the ground was not enough, so she simply fluttered her wings and flew high into the sky. The orange cat beside her, who was also looking up at the sky, was suddenly blown away by the huge wind. Several meters away, Yakumo Lan felt very distressed.

And I looked at the huge shadow on the ground and began to think about a question: If something as big as Atlantis were to block it, the entire prairie and a large area nearby would be plunged into darkness. Now this is still Atlantis. Only a small part of it leaked out. It was only very dark around us but not at midnight, but if all of this stuff leaked out...

There is no doubt that the lighting market in Avalon will usher in an unprecedented boom as a result, and the residents here will definitely protest against the lighting issue - these days, building buildings are all about spacing between buildings, and you put a radius above people's heads. With hundreds of kilometers of sun visors, what owner doesn’t get angry? .

I mentioned this situation to Sandora, who also felt that this was indeed a problem.

Sandora and I are currently having a headache because Atlantis will cause ecological problems if it hovers over Avalon, and it would be too troublesome to re-modify the optical laws of Avalon (mainly because Ding Dong might mess everything up) At that moment, a cheerful greeting suddenly came from afar, with a sense of reunion of a newly separated couple with a sweetness level of six plus: "Ajun——"

I followed the sound and saw a large group of people rushing towards this direction. The first person with a strong presence was Qian Qian, followed by my sister and Lin Xue, and then a large group of people. Small lolita or pseudo-loli, such as Bubble, Lilina and Rose Girl, Ilya sat on Berserker's shoulder and landed at the back. Now he is flashing a flashlight next to Uncle B's face. When it comes to overtaking, I think Uncle B must be enjoying it now. He sheds tears of joy.

Marisa stared blankly at such a large group of people running towards them, her legs shaking a little on the spot. The little witch who is not afraid of anything is not fearless. This person who has been waiting from the Scarlet Devil Mansion all year round The guy who "borrowed" things from the place was most frightened when a group of pursuing troops rushed towards me, so now she was confused, grabbing my arm and shaking me violently: "Hey! What on earth did you do to those girls! They are Come and fight for your life!"

I couldn't imagine how twisted reasoning a group of cheering girls had to go through to form a desperate posture in Marisa's mind.

"Arjun, Ahjun~! You're finally back! The carnival would be too boring without Arjun!" Qianqian jumped up a few meters away and threw herself into her lover's arms with a roar, rubbing her life hard on my chest. After waiting for a long time, I left with a smile. I quickly took out Dingdang from my breast pocket. The latter's eyes were still filled with mosquito coils, and he told everything just now in a thin voice: "It was too fast...everything." It was too fast...with a bang, the jingle was flat..."

"I didn't expect it to be so majestic." With a soft smile, my sister helped me straighten out the messy collar and tinkling wings on my chest, while looking up at Atlantis, which was gradually occupying most of the sky. , several little ones jumped up to me: "Where is the mercury lamp? Where is the mercury lamp?"

Cuixingshi and the others missed their eldest sister especially after not seeing each other for a few days - a few months ago, they would not have dared to look for their terrible sister so eagerly.

"I'm here," a cold voice came from mid-air, and then I felt my shoulders sink. The little doll girl sat lightly on my shoulders, swayed her legs and started to play on the swing, with a strong tone. The resentment was, "Don't ask, I'm so bored. I've been staying on the boat. The stupid humans won't let me go to the battlefield at all. They won't even let me use the Mercury Lantern Corps."

I raised my hand and knocked on Xiaodeng's head. I had no intention of taking this little guy with me when I came out this time. It was her hard work and half a little tiger tooth that forced me to change my mind. But when I reached the fantasy After Xiang found out that the situation was a bit complicated, I still insisted on leaving her on the boat. Now it was good, it was quiet on the boat. After returning home, Mercury Lamp began to complain to her sisters.

...Speaking of which, the little lamp that can act like this seems quite cute, right?

In short, now we are having fun as a family, telling each other interesting things about the short separation of the past few days, but at this moment a voice rang out without considering the situation: "This is..."

A tall girl with short blond hair, a red headband, and a heavy book under her arm. She looked like she was sixteen or seventeen years old. Suddenly she squeezed out from the crowd in Gensokyo and looked at the gathering in surprise. The doll girls at my feet.

"Doll? A...doll that no one controls!?"

Marisa looked at the blonde girl who was gradually showing interest in research in surprise: "Hey, Alice, you didn't just find out now, did you? When we were on the ship, we didn't see this doll called the Mercury Lamp flying around often... …Oh, I understand, you must be alone in your room talking to the doll again, and you don’t even see Daze during meals, it’s really hopeless.”

When Marisa said this, I immediately remembered who this strange girl was: Alice Margotroyd, okay, the name is a bit long, Alice for short, she is a resident of Gensokyo who lives in the Magic Forest, and Marisa is also a very powerful witch. She seems to be good at controlling magic dolls, and her biggest interest is studying magic dolls. Unlike Marisa, who is always an action-oriented person and moves around in a hurry, this Alice seems to belong to She is a kind of otaku who usually spends time with the magic dolls she made or is obsessed with research. Even during big scenes such as Gensokyo Crisis and the Battle of Atlantis, I didn't see her come out, so Not very familiar.

But now I am deeply impressed by her - this is the first time I have seen someone who dared to make a swooping motion towards a mercury lamp when we first met.

"Hey! What are you doing, you idiot!" The mercury lamp nimbly dodged Alice, who was flying towards him, and shouted dissatisfied, "You stupid human being, pull this crazy woman away quickly!"

Alice waved the magic book in her hand anxiously, as if she wanted to fly up and grab the mercury lamp: "I just... just want to see... are you really talking by yourself? No one is controlling you? Who made you? You Do you have a name?"

Since Mercury Lamp came home due to a series of chaos, this was the first time I saw her fall into such an embarrassing predicament again. Faced with the little girl’s plea for help, not only did no one come to help, even her elder sister showed her kindness. With an interested expression, he began to watch the show. Mercury Lamp dodged Alice's attacks many times and saw that the other party also started to release the puppet to intercept him. Finally, he became angry. He waved his little hand in the air: "You asked for this." Yes! Come out! King’s Mercury Lantern Corps!”

As soon as Alice was stunned, countless rippling water-like space doors appeared in the air around her. Countless three-headed, 60cm-high cartoon doll versions of mercury lamps poked their heads out from these space doors. Wearing a variety of standard clothing, carrying carbines or Heart of the Rising Sun, and wearing soldier helmets or pirate hats on their heads, with serious expressions and neat steps, they appeared on the plains and in mid-air, and quickly formed under the command of the mercury lamp. The attack array surrounded Alice and the several puppets she released.

Gilgamesh jumped behind me and shouted: "Infringement! This is my skill! This is a naked infringement! I will go to the urban management team to sue you! I will go to your parents!"

I patted Jill and said, "Her parents are here. You can sue her."

Jin Shining glanced at me fiercely, then looked down at Little Bubble who was refueling the mercury lamp, and suddenly turned around and burst into tears: "You bunch of untouchables, wait for me! Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

I think Jill's current abnormal behavior is indistinguishably related to the fact that she was dragged by Cirno to play the waaaaagh game with Ding Dong, as evidenced by three stupid hairs.

Surrounded by the overwhelming three-headed dolls, Alice's few simple magic dolls were immediately at a disadvantage. Although Mercury Lamp did not act harshly, those dolls were still beaten down by several magic girls Mercury Lamp, and Alice herself showed very tenacious fighting power. After a fierce confrontation that lasted for twelve seconds, the witch with superb skills and magical powers successfully stopped herself from retreating and fought with more than a dozen three-headed mercury lamps from the bottom up. Reaching a confrontation: This unlucky girl who was not good at fighting had just been overturned by Kusanagi Kyo's sweeping kick, and immediately there were more than a dozen dolls piled on top of her body, and now her head was still outside.

"This is... this is a doll... it's amazing!" Alice raised her head with difficulty, "I must know how this technology is achieved. Do these other dolls also have this? …”

"It's a pity," Cuixingshi put his hands on his hips and glanced at me sideways, "That someone is a very partial father!"

You're talking nonsense, if another Titan Emerald Stone comes out, the book will be renamed Toy Story!

"Okay, okay, little lamp, that's about it. This is our guest," I stepped forward and pressed the little head of Cuixingshi, while waving the mercury lamp back to my shoulder, and was now moving it towards Alice with great interest. A group of three-headed people climbing up the "Doll Mountain" suddenly dispersed and ran away chattering, "Alice, right? If you want to learn advanced doll-making skills, just sign here - —With the Gensokyo Housing Security Card, you can get a half-price discount on tuition, and you can also exchange real magic skills with many talented magicians you can’t even imagine. Sarah, don’t hesitate, sign this contract and become a magical girl~ !!”

Alice got up in confusion and glanced at me distrustfully, but soon her attention was attracted by the piece of paper in her hand:

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