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Chapter 167 Flying Over the Uncanny Valley
Dressed in a white knight costume, the confident and dazzling beauty in men's clothing walked with her head raised in the central aisle outside the banquet hall. The brightly colored clothes caught the attention of the surrounding girls all the way, and then gained their hearts.

Behind "her" is Aoi Oruru, who continues to maintain a low sense of presence.

Wearing only a cyan dress with few decorations, compared with the dazzling gray in front of her, she seemed to blend into the night background if she didn't pay attention.

Hui Yuan smiled at first, nodding and greeting strange or familiar girls from time to time along the way. At the same time, the doubts in his heart became heavier.

It wasn't until he reached the corridor on the second floor and avoided the gaze of the crowd that Hui Yuanchu breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that there was no one around him, he simply stopped, turned to Lu Kui and complained in a low voice: "...it feels very weird."

Zhe Lukui, who had always deliberately stayed behind Hui Yuanchu, continued to move forward, lightly stepped into the two-step distance, stood side by side with him and looked at the crowd on the first floor below, and then said: "Aren't you used to this ruling domain yet? ?”

"No, I mean...the ones I met on the road just now, and the ones below, may all be dolls."

While greeting those girls, Hui Yuanchu had already compared their appearance with the dolls he had seen in the old Rose Hall.

Therefore, if it is judged based on whether it is "collected" by the craftsman, then all the people that Hui Yuanchu met along the way, whether it is flower buds, calyxes, or green leaves... are all some kind of dolls that can run automatically.

But the problem is that Hui Yuanchu doesn't feel the slightest bit "being manipulated" at all.

Everyone's reactions were so real and independent.

"If this is what craftsmen are capable of, it's really scary."

Orokui also sighed.

"I just used every method I could think of to check Kudo's body. Whether it was touch, reaction, body fluids, or even the tissues and bones that could be touched under the skin... Although I am very reluctant to do so, I have to admit that I really couldn’t tell if she was a real person or a doll. All the injuries were very real.”

Hui Yuan nodded and said, feeling confused: "What I don't understand the most is - I used the Cicada of Souls to penetrate deep into the interior of those dolls, but the feedback I got was that even the internal organs of these dolls are consistent with the human body. "

"Well, actually I should have thought of this a long time ago." Oriuru Aoi nodded, "Think about Asano Eimi who fell from the building. Its internal 'exposure' was enough, but doctors and coroners naturally exposed the doll's body. Damage cognition for the sake of human body injuries..."

After a moment of silence, Zhe Lukui came to a conclusion: "The artisan's ability is not simply a deception on the physical and perceptual level... but may be on a deeper level, for example, conceptually."

"concept?"

"For example, has he smoothed the uncanny valley?" Orokui said thoughtfully, "Isn't the boundary between dolls and humans the uncanny valley?"

"..."

"In other words, it is directly deceiving our souls." Zhe Lukui thought for a while, "By the way, your 'Zen of Soul'-in essence, it is still the power within the category of flesh and blood, right? Bar?"

"Ah, yes." Hui Yuanchu scratched his head in embarrassment, "Although there is the word 'soul' in the name... but it is actually just the extreme and fusion of the five senses. Although it consumes mental energy when using it, the detection The method does not involve the spiritual realm.”

"That's right. Maybe in the future, with the further recombination of powers, it will have the opportunity to enter the field of spiritual vision... But at least for now, you have to remember one thing, those who can deceive the five senses can also deceive the cicada of souls. "

Huiyuan was stunned and seriously remembered this conclusion in his heart.

He realized that he was indeed too dependent on the cicadas.

"Then, let me try spiritual vision?" He asked for advice, "I don't believe that these dolls really can't see any problems."

"Okay. But don't look 'up'."

"……superior?"

"For spiritual vision, observation is change. I'm worried that you saw the evil spirit of Ijuyuan... It's hard to say what impact it will have on this ruling domain."

Hui Yuan nodded and carefully turned on his spiritual vision.

But after just one glance, he turned off his spirit vision again, shook his head and sighed: "I can't see anything unusual."

"It makes sense." Zhe Lukui seemed to have thought of this result a long time ago, "The two characteristics of spiritual vision are that observation is change, and observation will also be observed - then when the craftsman is not watching you, the doll is not with you. It’s only natural that you won’t see anything when there’s an interaction happening.”

"...That means we are completely unable to tell which one is the doll and which one is the real person." Hui Yuan initially looked at the girls below and murmured to himself.

Zhe Lukui's face looked natural, and she didn't show any worry at all: "This is not a problem. We don't need to distinguish it now anyway."

"...No need?"

"No. Because you can think so - except for the two of us, the craftsman has replaced everyone in the entire school with his automatons."

"No--" Just as he was about to retort, Hui Yuanchu realized that this was really a possibility.

Zhe Lukui glanced at him: "I thought you had thought about this problem a long time ago." "Which problem?"

"The craftsman's intention was to replace all the humans in the academy with dolls. If you understand his intention and understand that it is necessary for the craftsman to do such a thing, then you won't be surprised at all." Zhelukui said with an indifferent expression. .

Very Zhelukui style answer.Huiyuan thought to himself.

Unlike Hui Yuanchu, who has gained power and lost his fear, Oroku Aoi is still just an ordinary girl.

So she will also be stiff, afraid, and helpless.It's not that she has never seen such a moment before, Hui Yuanchu has also seen it with his own eyes.

But Hui Yuanchu also has to admit that most of the time, Zhe Lukui is calmer than Hui Yuanchu when facing various situations.And if you take what she just said as an annotation, you can understand why she was able to achieve this level.

Fear stems from the unknown.

Then, try your best to observe, think, and know more.From human beings to thinking machines... and machines, naturally, will not panic.

"It seems you haven't thought about this problem yet?" Zhe Lukui didn't know what Hui Yuanchu was thinking, so he continued in a commanding tone, "Then think about it now, right here."

Then, she turned to look at the door of the second-floor banquet hall at the end of the corridor: "...after all, we will face him directly later."

So Huiyuan stopped thinking about it and turned to think about the question raised by Zhe Lukui.

Cicada swarm auxiliary brain, activated.

"First of all, although these dolls can be used against us, they are not used against us." He came to the first conclusion, although it was a bit difficult to say.

From Kudo's dolls to the dolls they saw on the road now, a series of events have shown one thing.

——Unlike those naked dolls where Hui Yuanchu was buried in the old Rose Hall, the existence of these dolls that replaced students actually had nothing to do with Hui Yuanchu and Orulu Aoi.

They should have been set to a different "running target" very early on.

Moreover, even though the craftsmen had discovered them and issued an "invitation to negotiate", these dolls, including Kudo, were still running in the original way without stopping or receiving any adjustments...

This is enough to prove that "that goal" not only has nothing to do with the two of them, but is also very important and cannot be stopped.

"Second, they are playing the role of themselves." After thinking for a moment, Hui Yuanchu came to the second conclusion.

It seems like crap.

If it weren't for the fact that he was playing the role, Kudo's doll would not have provided information, nor would it have tolerated Aoi Oruru's "intrusion".

But the question is - where is the necessity of acting?

If it's just a puppet, then it's still necessary to pretend to be one.But now that everyone in the school has been replaced by puppets, there is no "human audience" left, so who else is there to act for?
Unless - the role itself is the "running goal" set by the puppet.

"Third, they..." Hui Yuanchu looked down at the puppet girls who were indulging in the joyful atmosphere of the ball, and remembered the last conversation between Kudo and Orokui before leaving, and frowned deeply, " They all ignored the sudden 'change of scene' and acted as if it was their prom day?"

If you are pursuing the role of yourself, then the puppet should also panic when the scene changes.

But at this point, the doll is not "completely reproduced".This is the only difference between the puppet's performance and my own reaction, so...

——The cicadas roared and suddenly swarmed together, biting each other.

The ideas they represent are also intertwined and merged with each other.

Finally, the cicada pupa fell to the ground and split open.

After Hui Yuan was slightly distracted, he finally got the final important idea.

“Because the only one who is indulged in a dream is the owner of the dream.

"An ordinary person cannot fall into other people's dreams...

"But Heartless Dolls can!!"

Zhe Lukui finally showed an approving smile and nodded gently.

Then, she turned and walked towards the banquet hall.

"Then, now that you have mastered the weapon of truth, you should be able to fight your opponent."

(End of this chapter)