Chapter 207: Chapter 206: Porcelain Doll (End)_1
As things have progressed to this point, Fu Qian had roughly guessed why there was this task and understood why this Madam Madeline would be the perfect doll.
Actually, the key lies in the words the girl said—she was always serene, never spoke, and never left.
This means she had never taken part in the free hunting to release her nature.
All of this indicated one thing, that Madam Madeline likely did not possess self-awareness.
That is to say, when she separated from the girl, she did not carry with her the fragmented consciousness.
She was a truly pure doll.
And this made her a perfect container.
Fu Qian looked at Madam Madeline in the girl’s arms, and even facing imminent disaster, she still had little reaction.
Pure white, flawless, with delicate features, just like a real toy doll.
From what Mr. Luo said earlier, dolls are extremely susceptible to the gaze of higher beings due to their special nature.
And it is very possible that self-awareness is a disturbance to higher beings.
Thus, Madam Madeline, who was naturally without consciousness, became the most suitable vessel for power to descend upon.
In the past years, Madam Madeline might have remained unnoticed due to a special concealment effect, which allowed her to appear relatively normal up to this point.
But once she is exposed one day, it’s very possible for something terrifying to descend upon her without any side effects.
“I’m very sorry.”
Looking at the girl tightly embracing the doll, Fu Qian sighed.
“The existence of Madam Madeline will bring about some uncontrollable dangers.”
“But it’s not its fault, it didn’t do anything!”
The girl stared at Fu Qian.
“That is undeniably true, but sometimes perfection and purity can become a sin.”
Fu Qian stepped forward and pointed at the girl’s face.
“This is also why your mother made you do this, as you grow up, you will become increasingly aware of this fact, the inevitability of life’s frustrations.”
Smack!
Without turning his head, Fu Qian slapped away the branch Old Master Ailei had sent over and continued to focus on the girl.
“Alright, our heart-to-heart is over, let’s begin.”
Seeing the girl’s tearful face, continuously fondling the doll, Fu Qian felt his boss energy was soaring today, increasingly veering towards evil.
But there was no helping it, with his personality fragmented, the desire to kill inside him was especially hard to suppress.
If he delayed any longer, should any aspect of his cognitive personalities lose control, he would grind everything around him to dust.
Time was running short.
…
The reality proved that the girl, after all, had grown up in a harsh environment.
Her tears fell drop by drop, though she was very reluctant to part with her playmate of many years, in the end, she handed it over.
She saw the situation clearly and didn’t attempt to run away.
“Do we really have to destroy Madam Madeline? Just like… those?”
“Not necessarily.”
…Hmm?
Facing the girl’s surprised gaze, Fu Qian gave an unexpected answer.
He had just realized something that his task was to “destroy the perfect Porcelain Doll,” and the definition of this destruction was actually quite intriguing.
For example, what the girl’s mother had her do to her face was essentially an act of destruction.
If applied to the doll, there were certainly similar methods.
“If you could try to bring Madam Madeline to life, then we might not need to destroy her.”
To life…
The little girl withdrew her hands, staring blankly at the doll in her hands.
“But she’s just a doll, how can we bring her… to life?”
“I can only provide a direction, which is to share some humanity with her, just like your siblings did, but how exactly you do that is something you’ll have to figure out for yourself.”
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“Also, a reminder, you only have five minutes.”
It wasn’t intentional pressure, but under the current circumstances, Fu Qian was fairly certain that he could only hold on for a maximum of five more minutes.
Any longer than that and it was highly likely he wouldn’t be able to suppress his urge to kill and would end up using his powerful moves to clear the area.
By then, not to mention Madam Madeline, even Old Master Ailei wouldn’t stand a chance.
…
Clinging tightly to the doll, the girl suddenly thought of something.
The next moment, her expression brightened, and she ran toward the island, holding Madam Madeline tightly.
Indeed, she had hidden in the trees earlier, listening in on the conversation of a group of people and learning about the effects of the Fool’s Tree.
Watching the girl move through the swamp with deep and shallow steps, stumbling along, Fu Qian sighed.
She really was ruthlessly decisive!
After a tough struggle, the girl finally crossed the swamp and stepped into the forbidden area she had never been to before.
Not caring about the stench that covered her, she ran straight to the Fool’s Tree while holding the Porcelain Doll.
Because of Fu Qian’s action of breaking branches to make a wreath, the blue sap was still flowing down.
Each drop was crystal clear, like numerous Ice Crystals coming together, reflecting layers upon layers of faces.
With one hand holding the doll, the girl opened her other arm wide and embraced the Fool’s Tree directly.
As an ordinary person, her mental resistance was particularly weak, and her eyes quickly became dazed.
“One minute left.”
Fu Qian, who followed her onto the island, did not stop her, but simply reminded her out loud.
One minute…
The girl’s eyes were almost without focus, and she repeated blankly.
She looked down at the doll in her arms, which remained quiet and unresponsive.
The girl’s eyes showed determination, and the next moment, she extended her hand forward to catch a handful of Fool’s Tree Sap, and stiffly brought it to her mouth.
A suppressed groan of pain came through, and Fu Qian felt as though he saw the girl’s soul struggling and tearing.
The next second, she fell to the ground, curling up in agony.
Her body showed countless tiny cracks, as if it would fall apart at any moment.
Crack!
At the same time, there was also the sound of shattering coming from the doll in the girl’s arms, growing quickly more intense.
[Task completed, containment of subject number 2-090 successful.]
At a certain moment, when even Fu Qian’s consciousness started to blur, the completion prompt for the mission finally sounded.
Under the Fool’s Tree, the girl who was covered in blood had already stood up, her eyes vacant and unfamiliar.
Madam Madeline was nowhere to be seen, replaced by the left side of the girl’s body, from head to toe, covered with fragments of white porcelain.
It was just one personality fragment, Fu Qian understood the girl’s state immediately.
“If you want to get out, just keep going in that direction; with your strength, you should be able to protect yourself,” he said, pointing toward the direction of the dense forest.
“After you get out, you might want to find an organization called the Night Watchman. They should be interested in your story.”
Huh?
The girl seemed to respond with a vague understanding.
At the same time, Fu Qian’s vision was rapidly blurring.
Wait a second!
Just before the transmission, Fu Qian caught a final glimpse of the girl’s face.
Due to the complete shattering of the left side, there were no fake mold spots left on it.
Fu Qian felt it rapidly converging with an image in his memory… Su Gao?
Though it was more youthful, it did look somewhat similar!
Now that he thought about it, he never did ask for her name.