Magic Dolls (Folk Tales)

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.

As the second hand of the big clock at home became clearer and clearer, Sissi opened her eyes, looked at her watch, it was 12 o'clock again, and looked up, and the doll stood impressively on the desk, with a strange smile on her mouth, and was walking towards her step by step with mechanical steps.

"Ah!"

It started a week ago. It was early spring, the first day of school at Sissi's junior high school. On the stall in front of the school, Sissi noticed a doll, big black eyes, long hair, seemed to be smiling at Sissi, very cute, just one glance Sisi fell in love with it, Sissi immediately bought it. Fiddling with her beloved doll along the way, Sissi stepped on the air and accidentally fell into the school's newly created artificial lake.

"Help, help!" Sissi couldn't swim and shouted for help from her classmates. However, people hurried back and forth on the main road, and no one found Sissi in the lake. Sissi felt weakness on all fours and slowly sank.

When she regained consciousness again, Sissi lay on the shore, her clothes as dry as ever. There were school bags scattered around and the newly bought dolls, looked at the watch, seven fifty, that is to say, I was only unconscious for ten minutes, just a dream? Maybe it's too stressful to start school. With ten minutes to go, Sissi rubbed her eyes, put the doll in her bag, and ran toward the school building. Finally, with two minutes left, Sissi sat down in her place. It seems that after a winter vacation, the students have become very lazy and the movements are very numb. "Fortunately, I insist on exercising every day during the winter vacation." Sissi thought so and didn't pay much attention. At the end of the day, I went home, ate dinner, finished my homework and took a shower and went to bed. In the night, Sissi had a dream in which she was by the school's artificial lake, witnessing an eerie ritual from the perspective of a bystander. In the dead of night, many qi-tall dolls gathered together, moving mechanically, and walking forward with their eyes blank. In front of them lay a girl, and in front of the girl stood Sissi's newly purchased doll. Just when Sissi wanted to look a little clearer, the doll's head turned to her hiding place, and Sissi seemed to be able to hear the clockwork turning inside the doll's body when it turned its head.

Sissi broke out in a cold sweat, opened her eyes, and glanced at her watch, which happened to be exactly 12 o'clock. It always felt as if she was being watched, and Sissi looked up, and on the desk stood her newly purchased doll during the day, and the doll's eyes were now staring at her deadly. It didn't seem to have taken it out of her bag before going to bed today, and when I thought about it, Sissi almost screamed out. But on second thought, maybe my mother took it out after she fell asleep, and there was nothing to fuss about. Sissi thought of this and went back to sleep.

The next day, Sissi set off early. Remembering the mysterious and eerie ritual of last night, the huge doll, Sissi felt her scalp tingle. Staying in school, Sissi always felt that something was not right, and she didn't even have the interest to play with her classmates. After a day of muddled nightmares, Sissi returned home, finished her homework and fell asleep, as if she saw that the doll's movements were not the same as yesterday. Regardless of him, maybe the joints could have been moved. Sissi soon fell asleep. It was the same nightmare as yesterday, how it seemed that the hiding place was closer to the girls and dolls than yesterday. With the sound of the doll's joints turning, after three ticks, Sissi woke up again, and the doll's eyes stared at her calmly. "It's 12 o'clock again." Sissi sighed and went back to sleep.

For several days, Sissi did not sleep well, and every day she would wake up at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. And the location of the dream hiding place is getting closer and closer to the girl and the doll. Maybe this doll does have something unclean. After several nights of torture, Sissi had to decide to leave the doll in the dumpster downstairs.

Sissi went to bed and fell asleep in anticipation of a good dream. Sure enough, today's dream is different. Wait, how come it's still night? Sissi was horrified to find that she was the girl lying on the ground, in front of her was the doll she had just discarded during the day. The huge dolls on the other side are mostly residents of the city, and Sissi finds her classmates, teachers, and even neighbors in them. The immense fear overwhelmed Sissi from speaking, or even controlling her body. Seeing the demon doll with a sly smile, a hand inserted into Sissi's body and pulled out all the internal organs. Sissi realized that it was to make herself into a doll like them. Sissi struggled, but felt her body out of control, and suddenly, she heard the sound of the clock's second hand moving, or was it the sound of joints turning?

Sissi opened her eyes, glanced at her watch, it was 12 o'clock again, and looked up to see that the doll was standing impressively on the desk, with a strange smile on her mouth, and was walking towards her step by step with a mechanical step.

"Ah!" Sissi screamed and ran to her parents' room, trying to ask for their help. However, what made her feel great fear was that her parents had two clockwork holes on their backs!

"Akane-Akane." The parents twisted their mechanical joints to try to sit up.

Sissi hurriedly opened the door of the house in fright, stumbling all the way, already frightened and completely confused. How come there are so many people on the road? Looking at it, it was all the huge dolls in the dream, and the residents of this city were indeed dolls! They seem to turn a blind eye to themselves and walk to the artificial lake, the site of the horror ceremony in their dreams. At some point, Sissi found that she had already walked to the artificial lake by mistake.

Sissi's brain is spinning rapidly, since she was born, she has observed the people around her not less, it is impossible that everyone is a person who occasionally does not find out, there is no reason why everyone is a puppet and only I am not a puppet, the problem must be the day I bought the doll. Yes, artificial lakes! What happened during the ten minutes of my own coma?

In the distance, the huge puppets walked step by step towards themselves, and the puppet who personally made himself a puppet in the dream was close at hand, and the time was too much for Sissi to think about, and when the opportunity came, Sissi jumped into the artificial lake. All the way down, Sissi saw a black hole in the middle of the water, without a trace of light, but Sissi knew that passing through it might mean hope for life. Before her consciousness disappeared, Sissi seemed to see the magic doll looking down at the lake, and the corners of her mouth rose, revealing a mysterious smile...

When Sissi woke up, she lay on the shore of the artificial lake, surrounded by classmates, who moved quickly and lifted Sissi, and the numbness and machinery of the doll could not be seen in the caring eyes. Sissi knew she was saved. Take a look at your watch, and the time is the day you fell into the water, 7:50 in the morning. After taking half a day off to go home and change out of her soaked clothes, Sissi began a normal life again. The doll had disappeared since she was rescued, Sissi thought, maybe it was the world left at the other end of the lake, maybe in that parallel universe, it had been completely transformed into a puppet world by the horror doll, so what did it have to do with me? Physically, Sissi did not understand so much, Sissi only hoped to treat this terrible experience as a dream, and now the nightmare has awakened, and the nightmare will not affect reality. Something seems to be wrong? Maybe I thought too much.

Sissi returned home, finished dinner, finished her homework, took a shower and went to bed, turned off the lights, and couldn't help but think, what is wrong? Wait, if it's not a dream, then I can cross back from the bottom of the lake, why can't the puppet? Sissi opened her eyes suddenly, and through the moonlight she saw the object on the table, the puppet who was supposed to stay in the other world, walking towards herself with a mechanical step, at the same time, there was a clockwork clicking sound from her parents' room...