Chapter 42.3 (1/2)
Alice blinked at Lippinobert, as if she understood what he was saying but didn’t understand anything at all at the same time.
“Alice is a work that I’m very satisfied with. It’s no different from an ordinary child. It can sing and dance, but doesn’t talk…” Lippinobert smiled at Alice, his words seemed to be directed at Xiao Tangqiu, but he also seemed to be talking to himself. “But it doesn’t matter. Daddy will never abandon my daughter… Goodbye, Alice.”
As the serpents swarmed, Alice’s human appearance quickly disappeared, revealing a semi-human state.
Before disappearing completely, Alice waved at Lippinobert. Its voice sounded sweet and clear, just like a musical box.
“Bye bye, Daddy.”
Xiao Tangqiu gritted his teeth and finally couldn’t help bursting at Lippinobert. “She’s your daughter! How could you have the heart to make a puppet out of your own daughter? “
“Because I’m a puppeteer,” Lippinobert smiled. “I’ll always be with my puppets… And, of course, my Lily Marlene.”
Xiao Tangqiu was speechless. He knew that there was no way to communicate about logic or humane ideas with Lippinobert. This man was no longer a normal human being.
“Next up is…” Lippinobert’s eyes sank and his tone darkened. “Next is my dear mother.”
The long-haired monster appeared, staggering towards the center of the magic array, just like an old person. After the battle with Shen Yuan, half of its puppet body had been revealed, and the remaining human half looked just as awful. Altogether, it was a disgusting sight.
“It’s my most failed work,” Lippinobert said coldly. “It can neither speak nor think in a human way, or have human feelings. But that’s to be expected. After all, it’s one of my early works. At the time, I couldn’t create a perfect puppet like I can now.”
The serpents swarmed and soon engulfed the long-haired monster. The human state of the long-haired monster fell apart, revealing its puppet body and disappeared just like the others. The whole time, it looked at Lippinobert with a blank stare.
Although Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t understand the puppet’s look, his intuition told him that it wasn’t as Lippinobert had said – the puppet seemed to have a trace of human emotions within those eyes.
Before he could delve further into it, the monster had disappeared completely.
“Next is Effie, which is also one of my early works. It isn’t perfect, but Alice liked to play with it.”
At the command of Lippinobert, the puppet with crude workmanship that Xiao Tangqiu had seen in Maria’s room also appeared.
“Go. Go be with Alice.”
It piously walked to the center of the magic array, loyally giving up its body and soul.
As the puppets offered themselves up for sacrifice, one after another, the magic array formed by the serpents grew larger and more dense. Xiao Tangqiu felt the atmosphere grow more cold and sinister. He seemed to feel a pair of eyes staring at him from the center of the magic array.
He felt chilly all over, like he had fallen into a freezer.
“Finally, it’s your turn, you little freak.” Lippinobert’s voice suddenly softened, as if remembering something. “I didn’t name it. It was my first work. Although it wasn’t perfect and it didn’t have human thoughts and feelings, and didn’t think like a human being, it was my first playmate and friend in my life.”
As soon as his words fell, the dwarf puppet appeared. It walked to the center of the magic array in a crooked manner, with its little leather drum in its arms jerking up and down.
“Little freak, go.”
Lippinobert smiled at the dwarf puppet, his smile sincere as ever.
“…We will always be together.”
The dwarf puppet cleverly held the small leather drum, standing motionless while it allowed the serpents to engulf it. As its human appearance gradually disappeared, Xiao Tangqiu’s heart started to sink.
He knew that it was his turn next.
He must be the last sacrifice.
Sure enough, in the next second, Lippinobert turned around to look at Xiao Tangqiu. He smiled faintly, “Darling, it’s your turn next…”
Xiao Tangqiu watched helplessly as the magic array under his feet began to change and swirl. Although the dwarf puppet hadn’t completely been consumed by the serpents, some serpents were already crawling towards him.
He knew that once he was touched by these serpents, his fate would be the same as that of the puppets before. However, his feet were firmly stuck to the ground and he couldn’t escape even if he wanted to.
“Come, come be with me…”
Lippinobert’s voice was somber and low, full of devilish charm, like the whispers of demons. The serpents wriggled towards Xiao Tangqiu under Lippinobert’s will.
Just when Xiao Tangqiu gave himself to despair, a flying knife suddenly cut through the air and shot at Lippinobert.
Lippinobert didn’t escape in time and was instantly pierced by the flying knife.
Everything fell silent in that instant and Xiao Tangqiu held his breath. But Lippinobert, being the ultimate big BOSS, wasn’t so easily killed.
Lippinobert looked down at the knife in his chest. His expression instantly turned gloomy and frightening. Huge spurts of blood flowed out from his chest. Although he seemed to be fine, the serpents, which had been manipulated by his will, suddenly stopped.
He slowly raised his head and looked at the door.
Xiao Tangqiu immediately looked up in that direction as well. When he saw Shen Yuan at the door of the church, all his fear and negative emotions disappeared instantly, and his desperate and uneasy heart seemed to have been put to ease.