Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

The dazzling headlights should have been annoying, but no one was angry.

People were overjoyed and ran forward, saying, "You're back?!"

"The scouts are back!"

"That's great! They're back!"

The atmosphere immediately became lively, and the previous戾 qi (hostile atmosphere) was swept away, as if nothing had happened.

The young man who was whistling laughed and said, "What, what? Did you think we were all dead?!"

"Everyone was worried about you! Hey? Why did you change your car?"

"The car broke down halfway. We found this one on the road, otherwise we would have come back earlier! What about you guys? Why are you all outside?"

"The service area has lost power!"

"Then light the candles, there are still a lot of flashlights in the supermarket."

Everyone got busy, and everyone's face was filled with joy. It seemed that as long as there was hope, they would be full of energy. Power outages and water outages were just small bumps in the road, nothing to be afraid of.

After a while, the lights in the service area restaurant came on again.

People gathered together and surrounded the young men who had returned, eagerly waiting for them to share the news from outside.

The most striking of them was the man who whistled as soon as he got out of the car. Everyone called him "Brother Smile".

This "Brother Smile" was wearing a graffiti T-shirt and ripped jeans, with unclear English tattoos on his arms, messy short hair dyed "granny gray", and a shiny stud on his right ear.

To say that he was the most eye-catching was not because of his abrupt attire, in fact, the other young men were all of this "stuff": tattoos were more exaggerated than the other, and the holes in their jeans were more broken than the other.

Bai Youwei was deeply impressed by this man, really because of his smile, it was too, dazzling!

She would smile when she spoke to Shen Mo, and the others in the service area would also smile when they spoke, but everyone's smiles were implicit, restrained, and ceremonial. After all, the current background was the end of the world! Who would grin like a fool and show their teeth?!

Even if they encountered something happy, thinking about their uncertain future, they should be a little melancholy, right?

This "Brother Smile" was probably the spokesperson for a toothpaste brand, he smiled and passionately recounted his exploits while scouting——

"…As soon as I saw the dolls on the road, I knew something was wrong! This was the last road! If this road was blocked, would we have to return without success?! As the saying goes, there is no way out! At that moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly came to my mind! I found something wrong with these dolls!"

"What's wrong?" Someone next to him answered, like a straight man in a crosstalk.

"Brother Smile" stretched out two fingers and pointed to his eyes meaningfully: "It was these piercing eyes that discovered the extraordinary!"

The young men who were traveling with him were all laughing, eating melon seeds and looking at him like monkeys, "It's almost enough to be funny, you're still showing off?"

"Brother Smile" ignored them and asked everyone: "Does anyone know why we should avoid places with dolls?"

"Needless to say? Because they will turn into dolls!" Someone immediately replied.

"Brother Smile" shook his head inscrutably, with a posture that he would not continue speaking if the answer was wrong.

Everyone booed, making long and short boos.

The man with glasses also smiled and said slowly, "Single dolls that appear occasionally are usually not threatening, but if a large area of dolls appear in a certain area, you should be vigilant. The current explanation given by experts from the National Academy of Sciences is that the magnetic field fluctuation in that area is abnormal, which will have an unknown impact on the human body. This is the reason why everyone should avoid dolls. Okay, Tan Xiao, hurry up and tell us, don't keep us in suspense."

The leader's words still carried some weight, Tan Xiao slapped his thigh, like a storyteller slapping the gavel——

"Okay! Let me tell you!"

In the eyes of everyone's eagerness, only Bai Youwei couldn't help but roll her eyes.

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