Early the next morning, Yu Sheng went to the valley before doing anything else.
The valley was crawling with Eileens.
Well, that was a bit of an exaggeration. The valley was enormous now and contained countless spatial subsets generated by the "Fairy Tale" Otherworld. Even with four regiments of Mass-produced Eileens, they were actually quite sparse once spread throughout the area. But there was no denying that in the places where the Mass-produced dolls were most concentrated—such as around the teleportation hub and Fairy Tale Town—there really were Eileens everywhere.
Some were being chased all over town by the doll heads, leaping up and down. Some were helping clean the streets and alleys. Others were tending facilities such as generators and water pumps. There were also countless dolls with no assignments for the time being, wandering everywhere: on rooftops, in treetops, out in the wilderness—everywhere Yu Sheng looked. He even saw several who had gotten lost and fallen into a death loop, banging their heads against the castle walls until they knocked themselves unconscious, after which passing Mass-produced dolls carried them back to be restarted...
Yu Sheng sat with Little Red Riding Hood on the steps before the castle, watching a line of Mass-produced Eileens march past the nearby empty lot, each carrying a small shovel. He had no idea what they were off to do. Then, from the corner of his eye, he saw a little doll helping lay roof tiles slip and tumble off the roof, only to get caught in the branches of a tree. A few seconds later, other dolls came running over with bamboo poles and began poking their trapped companion down from the tree...
"These dolls running around everywhere have already become part of the town's scenery, and everyone's gotten pretty used to them,"