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Super long chapter, 4100 words, equivalent to two chapters.
It's really hard to unpack the plot of this chapter.
I slept with a clear conscience.
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Chapter 323: She is indeed a true noble lady (Update )
This morning, Shelley just got up and looked at herself in the mirror.
The situation is indeed very bad.
——The dark circles under my eyes are very obvious, why not just put on some smoky makeup today.
Shelley would occasionally put on some rebellious makeup. For her, it was a way to vent her emotions. In fact, she also wanted to listen to rock music, but Mr. W wanted her to be a dignified British aristocrat, so she suppressed this idea.
Besides, she wasn't really interested in rock music, she preferred symphony, opera and drama. When she was in London, she would go to concerts and opera whenever she had time.
However, there are always times when people want to be different.
Shelley looked at herself in the mirror for a long time, then took out a small box containing the things needed for smoky makeup from the innermost part of her makeup box, thought for a moment, and put it back.
We cannot expose our weaknesses to the King in Yellow.
——Seeing me change my makeup style so drastically, he would immediately notice my hesitation.
Shelley began to put on makeup.
While putting on makeup, she laughed at herself: It's as if he wouldn't be able to see my hesitation if I didn't change my makeup style.
——That guy must be a master at playing with people’s hearts.
After the King in Yellow awakened, the British mole "Bishop" stole Greater China's assessment report on the King in Yellow.
Before the Yellow King awakened, the confidentiality level of these reports was not high. After all, they were just regular assessments of an ordinary person - although this ordinary person was the childhood sweetheart and potential boyfriend of the SSS-level psychic magical girl, he was just an ordinary person after all.
Of course, this "low level of confidentiality" refers to the identity of the "Bishop". Before the Yellow King awakens, his regular evaluations are information that the Bishop can easily obtain.
After he awakened, the bishop stole the information before its classification level was upgraded and sent it to the government telecommunications bureau.
Of course Shelley had seen these assessments. For a full six years, the reports mentioned countless girls who had a crush on Masha, the King in Yellow. Most of them did not reach the stage of romance, but that was because the King in Yellow was letting himself go from beginning to end. He released the adolescent restlessness that other boys released on the opposite sex into playing games, making models, and playing with the radio.
If the King in Yellow wanted to be a scumbag, he would have gotten countless rewards long ago, right?
The girls he has gathered now are not so much because he wants to start a harem, but rather because he suddenly discovered that he can use this method to gain loyal subordinates.
This is not so much a harem as it is his army, his apostles.
——That must be the case.
It takes a lot of time for girls to put on makeup. Even for a girl like Shelley who has the skills of a professional makeup artist, it takes a lot of effort to cover up the adverse effects of insomnia on her face.
She continued to daydream while she was beautifying herself.
Finally, she completed the "work" at hand.
The inner restlessness and depression did not seem to affect her makeup skills. Shelley in the mirror was still the exquisite British aristocratic girl.
——She is just an ordinary girl from the slums.
She left the room, saying "I'm off" as she went out, and left the floor assigned to Britain without waiting for a response.
When she got downstairs, she saw Chen Zhongwu, the director sent to this center by the Greater China Region, leaning against the door eating fried dough sticks, looking just like a villager from the urban-rural fringe area of Guangdong Province.
Chen Zhongwu glanced at her and smiled, "Is it my illusion? I always feel that you have the feeling of a warrior who will never come back. Relax, this is a mission where no one will die. It should be many times simpler and safer than the missions you have performed before. You almost died in Morocco, didn't you?"
Shelley stopped suddenly and stared at Chen Zhongwu.
——The Morocco mission is top secret! The Chinese have a mole in our place!
——No, it’s natural to have moles. They have always done a good job in espionage and infiltration.
Shelley ignored Chen Zhongwu and secretly decided to remind Mr. W about the mole during her report tonight. She walked straight past Chen Zhongwu.
Chen Zhongwu suddenly said, "What do you think of Masha? Boys like him are popular with some girls, right? Especially those who can be spies."
“No comment,” Shelley said.
"In our country, saying no comment can be equivalent to 'what you said may be true but I will never admit it'."
"I don't understand your Eastern way of beating around the bush." Shelley said this and strode forward.
After arriving at the maid shop, Shelley pushed the door open and entered the store with ease. Cai Shi was sweeping the floor in the store.
This is also a scene that can often be seen in the maid shop in the morning - suddenly, Shelley stopped and stared at Cai Shi's face.
Cai Shi noticed Shelley's gaze, turned her head and looked at Shelley and asked, "What's wrong?"
"You...changed your makeup style today?" Shelley asked.
"Ah, this, Guigui was teaching us how to dress up as puppets, and Masha said, 'Why don't we just have a puppet theme day?' How about it? It looks like an exquisite puppet, right?"
Shelley stared at Cai Shi's face. Cai Shi deliberately put down his hands, stood up straight, looked straight ahead, and pretended to be a puppet.
"...Well, it does look like an exquisite puppet." Shelley nodded, "Gui Gui's skills are really good."
"Yes." Cai Shi looked at Shelley and spoke again -
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On the third floor, Masha was watching the live broadcast and said to the headset, "Ms. Shelley, would you like to have a try? After all, you are so beautiful and will definitely be the best doll in the store today."
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"Miss Shelley, would you like to have a try? After all, you are so beautiful and will definitely be the best doll in the store today." Cai Shi asked with a smile.
"I've already put on my makeup. If I want to put it on again, I'll have to remove it first. Forget it." Shelley declined.
Cai Shi: "What a pity, it's so suitable."
Shelley: "Sorry, maybe next time. Can I help clean up the store?"
"No, I'm enough on my own."
"So, where is Masha? I'll go say hello to him." She asked as she walked in, but didn't get an answer right away, so she turned around and looked...
A puppet was quietly sweeping the floor in the store.
Shelley's heart seemed to be squeezed by an invisible hand, and her heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat.
But the next moment, Cai Shi's answer entered her ears: "Masha is upstairs. Today he asked you to help prepare the food again. If you don't come, he won't work."
At the same time, Cai Shi in the store stopped cleaning and looked at Shelley: "What's wrong with you, Miss Shelley? You look very bad."
"Eh?" Shelley woke up from a dream, "I... uh, I didn't sleep well last night."
"Oh? Is it because someone put a pea under your spring mattress?" Cai Shi said with a smile, "You are indeed a true noble lady."
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I will try to finish writing the part about Shelley today.
But the fourth and fifth are more likely to be after 12 o'clock.
I want to watch the IG game.
Chapter 324 What is Ah Shui? He is called the Sea King (Part )
Shelley was suspicious.
——Did I just hallucinate?
——Just because she mentioned the doll makeup and that Masha wanted to have a doll theme day?
——Has my mental state deteriorated to this point? I actually mistook a real person for a puppet or something just because of a sentence!
As Shelley thought about it, she turned around and continued to walk towards the stairs. At this time, she looked through the food delivery port and saw the empty kitchen. A terrible idea came to her mind -
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Masha smiled and said to Qianxun beside her: "Now she will notice the biggest difference in the whole store this morning, that is, I am not in the kitchen. Then she will start to have wild thoughts and think that I am using my ability to disturb her mind.
"Of course, the premise of this inference is that the other party really believes that my ability is to disrupt other people's minds. If this premise is not true, the whole inference will not be true."
Qianxun said: "After listening to your analysis yesterday, I am now completely convinced that the British really think your ability is brainwashing.
“And the reason I believe in your ridiculous conclusion so much is because you really have the ability to brainwash people.
“If you really have the ability to brainwash, then of course you will unconsciously reveal many clues that will be grasped by professional British spies, and then they will naturally infer that you have the ability to brainwash.
"So your bullshit inference turned out to be correct.
"Conclusion, you actually have the ability to reverse cause and effect!"
Masha looked at Chihiro and said, "What you said makes a lot of sense. I believe it! Stop joking and get down to business."
Qianxun also frowned: "Okay, got it."
Masha gave the order: "I have completed the skill exchange. You will be the next in line as the League Secretary. Follow our rehearsal yesterday."
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On the other side, Shelley stared at the empty kitchen and slowed down her steps towards the stairs.
——Just now Cai Shi said that Masha wants me to continue to help prepare the food, and he won’t start working if I don’t come…
——Usually at this time, Masha must be working in the kitchen. Even yesterday when he asked me to help prepare the food, he was still there when I walked in.
Shelley's skin was covered with goose bumps and the back of her head was tingling. Her instinct was screaming at her: Run away! This is a trap!
She forced herself to clear away the distracting thoughts in her mind.
——I am a professional agent. This level of psychological pressure will not make me succumb.
She quickened her pace and went up to the second floor.
The door leading to the store on the second-floor stairwell was open. From the stairs, one could just see a very large puppet sitting by the window, staring straight at the stairs. In front of the puppet was a tablet computer playing blues music with the sound quality of an old gramophone.
The moment his eyes met the doll's, the doll's originally straight neck suddenly tilted to the side.
Shelley stopped abruptly, and then she saw the league secretary looking at her in confusion - the music was still the same music, but now it felt normal?
League Secretary: "Good morning. Is my puppet makeup okay?"
The League Secretary is very beautiful, but she doesn’t have any special features that leave a strong impression on people, so it is easy for her beauty to be overlooked among the group of beauties in this store.
Now with this makeup on, and sitting alone in an empty store on the second floor, her beauty seems to have increased by several orders of magnitude.
——Just like an extremely exquisitely crafted doll.
Shelley shuddered.
——It’s the King in Yellow! The King in Yellow turned them all into puppets!
A voice in her head screamed this to Shelley.
——But I will not give in like this! Lord, please protect your devout believers...
Shelley, who had never been to church to listen to a mass, prayed devoutly for the first time.
She turned the corner of the stairs and was about to rush to the third floor in one breath, but when she looked up she suddenly saw a puppet standing at the corner of the stairs between the second and third floors!
Shelley took a step back suddenly, and her back hit something hard!
When she turned around, she found the puppet of the League Secretary standing behind her. Her breasts, which should have been soft, were now hard, and her inorganic face had no expression.
The blues melody of an old gramophone entered the chorus, but perhaps because the record was worn out, it seemed that several notes were missing, making it sound extremely strange.
Then--
The puppet's eyes rolled.
"Ah!" Shelley screamed.
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The secretary activated his skill, freezing Shelley, and shouted, "Chihiro, come down and help me hold her!"
Chihiro rushed down from the corner of the second and third floors and supported Shelley.
The league secretary quickly unbuttoned his collar, took out the coconut shell that was fastened on his chest, and threw it to the ground.
