The City of Dolls is not very big, and a single street is not long. Zhang Tuohai walked to the end in half an hour.
But Zhang Tuohai went to every shop selling dolls on the street, but he couldn't find the kind of dolls in the hands of the pirates.
"It's weird, there are no ones for sale in the store, so where did these guys get their dolls?"
Zhang Tuohai wandered around the street twice but did not find the root of the problem.
Seeing that it was getting late, Zhang Tuohai thought it was better to go back to the boat and have a meal before thinking about what to do.
As for the things in the city of dolls, he is not going to eat them until he finds out the root cause of the matter.
What if, those pirates became like this because they drank alcohol?
"liquor!"
A flash of lightning flashed in Zhang Tuohai's mind, that is, is it possible that these pirate dolls were not bought from regular doll shops, but obtained in taverns?
After all, with the personalities of these pirates, they wouldn't go to a doll shop, would they?
With a new breakthrough, Zhang Tuohai wanted to investigate immediately, but found that the taverns in the city were closed during the day and only opened at night.
"Then wait until evening!"
Zhang Tuohai walked back to the boat slowly.
"How's the situation?" Zhang Tuohai asked.
"Everything is normal, no one wants to get on the ship, and no one wants to get off the ship, even the pirates are very quiet, everyone is holding their dolls, and they don't even move."
said Polly the Parrot.
"So obedient? Shall I go and see?"
Although he knew that those pirates had become abnormal, Zhang Tuohai was still shocked by the fact that these pirates who started climbing the mast in a boring competition the day before could stay in the cabin for a whole day the next day.
This is already distorting human nature.
Zhang Tuohai quickly came to the door of the cabin, and two armed Unsullied Men stood guard at the door.
"No one has come out?" Zhang Tuohai asked.
"No one came out. They didn't even intend to come out. Miss Yin Lisabeth even came over to deliver a meal once. It was a freshly made roast chicken, but none of them ate it. They all hugged their dolls and didn't let go for a moment."
said an Unsullied.
"Open the door and let me see." Zhang Tuohai said.
The Unsullied opened the gate.
After the door was opened, the scene inside shocked Zhang Tuohai again.
Those pirates were all obediently lying on the floor, murmuring with the puppet in their arms, and a bucket of cold roast chicken was placed on the table next to them.
The grilled chickens were all kept as they were delivered, even the oily skin was not peeled off.
This is simply unimaginable for those greedy and lustful pirates.
You know, when Yin Lisabeth took over the kitchen and cooked the first roast chicken, those pirates chewed up all the bones of the chicken and ate it without any waste.
Now it can be placed here without moving at all, which is simply unimaginable.
The most frightening thing was that all the puppets in the pirates' arms were staring straight at Zhang Tuohai, with that half-smile expression on their faces, which made people feel chills on their backs.
"Cheated Kangxi"
After staring at the puppets for a while, Zhang Tuohai asked the Unsullied to close the gate.
Although he barely lacked men now, and he saved a lot of manpower by manipulating the sails, it is not unacceptable to lose this group of pirates now.
But after all, it is the starting team. If possible, Zhang Tuohai doesn't want to lose it so quickly.
He planned to go to the taverns in the city at night to find the root of the problem. It would be best if he could solve it, and if he couldn't solve it, he would think of other solutions.
"Strict guard first, temporarily close their contact with the outside world, if anyone wants to come out, kill them directly."
Zhang Tuohai said to the guard at the door.
"clear."
The Unsullied nodded in response.
They are good at this, they can faithfully carry out all Zhang Tuohai's orders, no matter they are reasonable or unreasonable.
After having dinner on the boat, Zhang Tuohai moved a chair and sat on the deck to watch the sunset.
After the sun went down, the lights in the doll city gradually went out, and the lights of several pubs in the dock area came on.
"It's time to go and have a look."
Zhang Tuohai stood up, got off the White Bird and walked into the port area.
Finding a brightly lit tavern, Zhang Tuohai walked in.
Pushing open the heavy wooden door, there is no imagined heat wave and noisy drinkers.
The opposite is deserted, strangely deserted.
Zhang Tuohai thought at first that there were no customers, so the tavern was very quiet.
But when he scanned the lobby, dozens of tables were almost full of drinkers, all of them were bearded and looked like sailors who had been wandering at sea all year round, wearing shabby clothes, all of them were sitting there drinking without saying a word.
After discovering that the door of the tavern had been opened, all these people stared straight at Zhang Tuohai, showing a smile that was not a smile.
For this situation, Zhang Tuohai felt his scalp tingling.
Because the smiles on their faces are very similar to the smiles on the faces of those puppets.
"It's probably here, right?"
Zhang Tuohai had a guess in his mind.
He put one hand on the devil's roar, and walked towards the bar.
"Newcomer? The first glass of beer is free, I'll treat you, but you will have to pay for the rest."
The bartender said and put a glass of golden beer on the table.
"Let your boss come out, or the puppet merchant."
Zhang Tuohai sat on the chair, but he didn't touch the glass of wine.
The bartender didn't talk to him, but kept cleaning the glass by himself.
At this time, a Liu Ying wearing simple clothes walked over slowly, sat next to Zhang Tuohai, and said with a smile: "My guest, why do you have to find the boss, why don't you come to me? Why not?" , let's play something interesting."
As the Liuying said, he had already put his hand on Zhang Tuohai's thigh and touched it upwards.
"roll!"
In the next second, Zhang Tuohai had already put the gun in his hand on the head of that Liu Ying.
However, that Liu Ying did not show the panic it should have, but instead looked at Zhang Tuohai with a half-smile.
The expression was the same as that of the dolls around the pirates.
"Grass!"
Zhang Tuohai felt that he was a little PTSD. Seeing this expression, he subconsciously pulled the trigger.
Moreover, the explosive mode was activated.
boom!
A gunshot rang out, and a huge ball of fire hit the woman in the head.
The woman's head was instantly shattered.
However, the expected scene of blood spattering did not appear.
Instead, it was a scene of sawdust crumbling.
The woman's uneven body also turned into a wooden doll linked by hemp rope.
The doll fell to the ground, just like the dolls around the pirates, except that it lacked a head.