Sensation returned to flesh and blood, consciousness sank into the body, and the massive stream of information transmitted by the "star body" in the distant reaches of space gradually receded into the depths of his mind. After adapting for a while longer, Yu Sheng finally opened his eyes in the dimness.
The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Eileen lying across his stomach, her head drooping as she slept like the dead.
He shifted slightly, and Eileen rolled off his stomach. After rolling around once on the bed, she suddenly sat up and waved a hand with her eyes closed. "Me! Alice doll! Buy me a phone!"
The moment she finished speaking, the little doll flopped back down, burying her head in the blankets as she mumbled her next sentence. "...A smartwatch would work too..."
Yu Sheng: "..."
After confirming that the little thing was really only sleep-talking, he helplessly smiled and sighed, then quietly got out of bed.
The four wooden crates in the corner were still neatly arranged. One of them stood open and empty, while the lids of the other three remained tightly shut. Faintly, the even sound of snoring could still be heard from inside.
Yu Sheng had always been curious why a doll needed to snore while sleeping. In fact, he had been curious about it for quite some time.
The mass-produced ones did not snore. When they "slept," they simply lay down on the storage rack and became completely silent, their condition roughly equivalent to being powered off.
After thinking it over, Yu Sheng turned back and glanced at Eileen, who had wriggled into another position on the bed.
He had once worried that Eileen would not adapt to the crates. After all, when the little doll slept, she rolled and crawled all