After asking the guards to retreat, the king asked with some urgency: "Where is the gem?"
Xu Fei took out the gem. The king was relieved after seeing the real thing with his own eyes, and asked: "Where did you find the gem and where is the person who stole it?"
"The thief escaped, but he said he only stole this gem." Xu Huo said: "There are gems everywhere in Gem City. Is there anything special about this gem? Is it worthy for the king to kill so many people for it?"
The king was surprised at first, then sighed and said in a low voice: "I have no choice but to do so. These gems are stored in the castle by others and cannot be lost."
As if the emotions that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time had found an opportunity to be released, the king told Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu a story.
He and the queen were a loving couple, but they never had children after their marriage. The queen, who loved children very much, began to use some leftover materials to make dolls for her own entertainment. As her skills improved, she gradually became able to make dolls with all kinds of materials.
Adult dolls, I don’t know when one day, the dolls she made came to life one after another and became their children.
Up to this point, the dolls made by the queen still looked like dolls. They had no expressions and could not make any sounds. They could only move around stiffly and occasionally help them with simple tasks.
Of course, the king is in a fairy tale world, puppets can move, and it is not strange for him to regard human beings as his parents. Things changed after Xiao Si appeared.
Unlike other puppet children, Xiaosi is made of metal. When she was first completed, she could not run or jump like other puppets. The queen thought she had failed, but she did not expect that after a while, she suddenly came out of the warehouse.
After walking out, I can speak and think, and can also do some delicate work, such as cleaning and cooking.
The queen got out of hand and began to make more dolls out of metal, while the king was responsible for finding raw materials for her.
When he went out to look for metal materials, the king met a puppet. Unlike the queen's puppet, which was rough, although this puppet could still be seen as a dummy, its appearance was very close to a real person.
He gave the king a black gem, saying that as long as the black gem was placed in the doll, the doll would become a real person who could cry and laugh. He could provide the king with this black gem, but only if the queen made it.
He wants to take most of the dolls.
Although the king owned a mountain of gems, he had never seen that kind of black gem, so he took the gem back with hesitation. That is, when the queen put the gem into the doll's body, all the other puppets including Xiao Si
Inside, they all became people like kings and queens. The queen generously distributed gems to each of her children, allowing them to establish a country, and they also became the masters of this country.
Later, the puppet man would come every once in a while and take away the puppet that the queen had worked so hard to make. His attitude became worse every time, and he even directly killed maids or residents of Gem City after discovering them. The king
They were terrified, but he and the queen could no longer leave the Gem City.
After the black gem was stolen, the king was worried day and night. He was worried that if the puppet man discovered it, it would lead to disaster, so he closed the city gate and let the guards search for it many times. He did not dare to reveal more information to outsiders, lest it would lead to disaster.
Things will reach the ears of the puppets through other channels.
"But it's fine now. The gem has finally been found." The king smiled gratefully at Xu Huo and Xu Huo, "Thank you, strangers."
Xu Huo paused, "Does the queen know about this?"
"I didn't tell her," the king said with tenderness in his eyes, "I am the only one who is scared."
"Where did those killed dolls go?" Yan Jiayu couldn't help but ask: "Did the queen repair them?"
The king shook his head, "If she knew that the doll she made was killed, she would be very sad."
"You are so kind to the queen." Xu Huo asked, "Can we see the queen again?"
The king looked at them and said, "The queen is worried that I have been too tired these past two days and is currently resting in bed."
It means it is impossible to see them again.
It doesn't matter whether we can see him or not, this time is enough.
Xu Huo handed a black gem to the king.
The king happily took it in his hand, and immediately took out the magnifying glass from the drawer and looked at it carefully for a while. Suddenly his face changed, "This is not the black gem I lost at all!"
"No?" Xu Huo also looked surprised, "Didn't you see the photo?"
"It looks similar in the photo, but it's not the one I lost!" The king seemed to have run out of patience and threw the black gem on the ground, trying to drive them away.
"Did you get it by mistake?" Yan Jiayu interrupted at this time, felt in his pocket, and finally took out several pieces of black ore and sent them to the king, "Take a look."
These ores were about the same size and were all black. The king seemed not to remember what the lost gems looked like, so he could only pick up the magnifying glass again.
Yan Jiayu stood not far from him, asking what was special about the ore that could make dolls come alive, and offered to help identify it.
Xu Huo let go of his spiritual world and turned his attention to the rose garden behind.
Behind the flower wall used to block the view are endless roses at first glance. The archways interspersed among them and the wildly growing flower trees that are not particularly carefully pruned make the park look unclear. Many places are confused.
It was able to block his sight. As expected, he quickly found the doll buried at the foot of the tree behind the flower arch corridor not far away.
There are a lot of them, including residents, maids, and guards.
Through the difference of space rays, a bunch of props were actually found.
That's right, it's a bunch of props packed in a metal box and placed in a flower-walled compartment where tools are stored.
The level of the props cannot be discerned with the naked eye. Xu Huoren is still in the castle and cannot touch or get the props.
"Sunflower No. 1?" Yan Jiayu called him.
Xu gained his attention and returned to the study.
The king had already found his lost black gem among those gems, and took the initiative to make an excuse for them, "The thieves were so cunning that they mixed real gems with stones of the same color!"
"You helped me find the gems. You can ask for any reward you want!"
"When we came to the castle yesterday, we heard that a thief was executed, and we want his belongings." Xu Huo said.
It didn't matter. The king immediately called the guards to take care of it.
After a while, the guard came over with a bag, "Inside are the things taken from Criminal No. 37, including clothes and shoes."
Xu Huolue took one look at it, collected the bag and said goodbye to the king, and said to the confused Yan Jiayu, "We'll talk about it when we get out."