That living doll named Marlin left with her “clockwork maid,” and this time she even gave Yu Sheng her contact information before going.
Before leaving, she pulled Yu Sheng aside to a quiet spot and chatted some more about that “Eileen” doll who went missing over three thousand years ago.
She said once back, she’d continue investigating info about that doll through the matrix network specialized for Alice dolls, and keep collecting any possible clues related to the “Omen.”
According to her, in today’s “Garden” network, there’s very little information about that Eileen who vanished 3,700 years ago.
The main reason is that era is just too far back — the “Garden” matrix has gone through countless rounds of iteration, upgrades, and node transformations over these three millennia, even whole-network reboots more than ten times.
During those upgrades, some of the oldest, rarely accessed data may have been pushed down into certain “information black zones,” places you can’t search with mundane means; everything is just a matter of luck to find.
Of course, for Yu Sheng, just hearing these tidbits today was already a huge gain.
The black luxury car turned at a distant crossroads and disappeared into the streets of the old city.