Doll Survival Game - Chapter 106 - Part 3

Zhang Mimi: [Doll, where are you? We found a human, and it’s the Li Wei from the background story!]

We just don’t know if it’s just a coincidence with the name, but since it’s a designed character and plot, it shouldn’t be a duplicate name.

Xia Lang looked at the group chat, then opened the map to check his location: “Can you tell Ranran exactly where we are?”

Zhang Mimi suddenly realized and then sent the name of the street they were on to the group.

Yuan Mo glanced at the girl, hesitating before he finally spoke: “You…”

Li Wei looked up, her clear eyes meeting his.

Yuan Mo was at a loss for words, not used to speaking with such an ordinarily set character, feeling nervous.

Li Wei’s clothes were relatively clean, though they were obviously ill-fitting: “What’s wrong?”

Yuan Mo paused, then shook his head.

Li Wei’s bangs were long, and since she hadn’t tied her hair up, they covered her eyes when she slightly lowered her head.

She didn’t do much, nor did she look at the others for long, just twisting her fingers.

Xia Lang noticed her nervousness and tried to reassure her: “We won’t hurt you.”

Li Wei glanced at him, initially thinking Xia Lang was a short-haired girl, only to find he was a guy. She was silent for two seconds before asking, “Are you really humans?”

Xia Lang pinched his face and pulled it slightly, mumbling, “See, it’s real.”

The action was somewhat amusing, making Li Wei smile briefly before she lowered her head in melancholy: “I haven’t seen humans in a long time, and I can’t leave this city… Did you come from outside?”

Xia Lang thought for a moment, considering himself as having come from outside, so he nodded: “Yes.”

Li Wei’s eyes widened: “Can you take me out? I want to leave.”

Just as Xia Lang was about to say something, Zhang Mimi walked over, placing a hand on Xia Lang’s shoulder and speaking directly: “Sure, but we need to go to Baige Tower first. Can you take us there?”

Li Wei was taken aback: “Baige Tower?”

Noticing the subtlety in Li Wei’s tone, Zhang Mimi raised an eyebrow: “What’s wrong?”

Li Wei pressed her lips together, thinking as she spoke: “That place is very dangerous…”

“There are several powerful monsters inside.” Li Wei sniffed: “And they’re different from the monsters outside; they have intelligence.”

“So, to go up, we have to kill them?”

“Probably.” Li Wei hesitated and nodded, then shook her head: “But it’s not just about dealing with the monsters; Baige Tower itself is very dangerous…”

Zhang Mimi leaned on Xia Lang’s side, looking at Li Wei and suddenly saying: “You know a lot.”

Li Wei was startled, then lowered her head: “Because someone took me there before, but they all died.”

The three of them paused.

Yuan Mo, who had been standing behind Li Wei watching for any monsters, immediately lowered his head and quickly sent a few messages in the group chat–

[Has someone already been to Baige Tower? Or are they… players from a previous instance?]

[But isn’t something off? Repeated instances are rare, and NPCs should have their memories reset, right?]

Yuan Mo was confused but typed quickly: [And another thing, is Li Wei really the Li Wei from the background story? If so, how has she survived these three months…]

From the introduction, people turned into monsters, so three months ago, monsters should have been at their peak, considering how the city got destroyed like this.

Zhang Mimi casually glanced at the holographic display, then naturally asked: “Them? Who are they?”

Li Wei seemed uneasy: “I don’t know either; they appeared suddenly and dressed strangely… I didn’t want to go with them, but back when there was still daylight, you could see a helicopter on top of Baige Tower, and they said they would use it to take me away from here.”

Players dressed strangely? Was it a clothing item? But this instance is confined to this city, and no matter what, NPCs can’t leave, right?

Zhang Mimi thought for a moment, then struggled to recall another matter: “By the way, when you say Baige Tower is dangerous, what do you mean?”

Initially, just hearing the name, he thought it was just a tourist spot.

Li Wei picked at her fingers: “That tower appeared the day everyone turned into monsters, so it’s definitely ominous! And the people I followed died in the tower; they were strong but only made it to the third floor…”

She answered honestly, and the trio’s suspicion decreased, mainly because Zhang Mimi and Yuan Mo had encountered NPCs like Li Wei before, responsible for guidance and hints.

However, Li Wei was different in that she was still a necessary human for them to clear the instance.

Moreover, Li Wei’s survival was peculiar; how did she survive for three months? And why was she still alive when everyone who went to Baige Tower died?

“Um.” Li Wei spoke up, glancing at the top of Baige Tower as if seeing the helicopter that could take her away through the darkness, her gaze firm: “If you’re going, we can go together, even though it’s really dangerous…”

But perhaps this was her only way to leave the city.

She couldn’t leave the city, and following others hadn’t worked either. This time, she initially wanted to ask them to try taking her out by land again, and if that didn’t work, then climb Baige Tower.

But they just happened to be going to Baige Tower too.

Zhang Mimi thought for a moment, then gave a thumbs up: “We probably can’t leave either, so let’s try to clear the tower together!”

Li Wei brightened: “Do you know how to fly a helicopter too?”

Zhang Mimi hesitated at first: “…Probably.”

Then, thinking a helicopter was just another vehicle, he confidently said: “Yes!”

He would figure it out!

With a strange sense of confidence, Zhang Mimi lowered his head and sent a message: [Doll, you head straight to Baige Tower, we’ll meet at the base.]

Xia Lang or Yuan Mo: “…”

Hopefully, they won’t really have to drive out of the instance in the end…

“Baige Tower…” Luo Yiran raised his head, wiping away the blood splattered on his hand bit by bit, then looked at the pure white tower behind him: “So this is it.”

The magician patted the soil with a rusty shovel: “Sometimes I really can’t understand the young master, why bury an enemy properly after killing her?”

“Just happened to have some free time,” the doll said casually. Besides, it’s not him doing the burying.

After all, he was bound by constraints, avoiding harm when possible… though now that the boundaries have been broken, saying this doesn’t hold much meaning.

Luo Yiran turned around, standing on a broken wall, surrounded by rusty steel bars. The city was bleak, without a trace of green.

Lifeless.

His gaze fell from the front to the magician, then he looked for a while and said seriously: “Puppet, you look quite stylish holding this shovel, why not keep it as a weapon?”

The magician looked down at his dusty, elegant black suit and gray hair, then glanced at the shovel in his hand, smiling: “It’s not impossible, but this shovel…”

The doll followed his gaze to the shovel, then watched as the magician flipped it twice and grasped it, only for the shovel to break.

“…”

Magician: “It’s just a bit fragile.”

Definitely intentional.

Luo Yiran’s mouth twitched, he silently watched the magician for a while, then lowered his head and sent a message in the group: [Lei Jing is dead.]

Xia Lang quickly replied: [Well, she was quite unlucky.]

Really unlucky, bumping into all four of them right at the start, though he didn’t exert any effort.

Luo Yiran chuckled: [Probably used up all her luck.]

Yuan Mo: [Ranran, have you reached Baige Tower?]

[Yes.]

He replied instinctively, then realized something, furrowing his brow–when did he get used to being called Ranran?

Moreover, Xia Lang hasn’t called him brother much lately.

“Tsk.”

About ten minutes later, Xia Lang and the others arrived.

Zhang Mimi carried Li Wei over, because Li Wei moved slowly, and carrying her would be disastrous if ambushed, since NPCs can be quite dangerous sometimes.

After stopping, he immediately turned around to tell the panting Yuan Mo how to adjust his breathing for ease.

Yuan Mo weakly waved his hand.

Li Wei was stunned looking at the doll and magician, her gaze shifting between them, then she uttered a few words: “…Monsters from Baige Tower?”

Because people were coming, the magician’s bandage around his eyes had been wrapped again, his voice deliberately carrying a bit of grievance: “Young master, she called us monsters.”

The doll casually patted his hat, then said directly: “We are monsters, but not from Baige Tower.”

Actually, he thought the game would default to NPCs seeing them as normal people, but being recognized as monsters was fine too.

Luo Yiran naturally pointed at Zhang Mimi and the others, starting to fib: “I’m also from this city, just met them earlier.”

He spoke so smoothly and naturally that Li Wei believed him, she looked at Luo Yiran: “You wouldn’t want to kill and… eat people, would you? Others turned into monsters are very violent.”

Luo Yiran paused, shaking his head, seriously speculating: “I don’t have such concerns, maybe I’ve evolved.”

Zhang Mimi and the others: “…”

Li Wei’s eyes brightened: “Then, the city will get better!”

Monsters with normal human mental states are essentially humans with different bodies.

Luo Yiran raised an eyebrow, not responding to this, just looking at the information Xia Lang sent about Li Wei in the group, he said: “Let’s enter Baige Tower.”

Li Wei paused, somewhat fearfully looking at the pure white tower before her, but as her gaze moved upward, she gradually became resolute, then said: “I’ve only reached the third floor, I’ll tell you what I know about these three floors.”

“The first floor is almost harmless, mainly finding the key to the second floor, but it’s hidden, if not found within half an hour, you’ll be bounced out; the second floor also involves finding a key, but the key is placed conspicuously, in a passage, I’m not too clear about that passage, because at that time I was at the back, just know that five or six people died before getting the key.”

Zhang Mimi: “What about the third floor?”

Li Wei’s body trembled: “The third floor is guarded by a monster called Mantis Woman, anyone who steps in will be killed by her… just stepping into the third floor means death, so I didn’t dare go in, I left directly.”

Zhang Mimi looked at the doll, wanting to hear his thoughts, but saw the doll spinning his index finger, eyes filled with interest as he watched Li Wei.

“Doll?”

Luo Yiran withdrew his gaze, saying: “Mantis Woman… is she shaped like a mantis?”

Li Wei froze, after a while she touched her head in confusion, muttering to herself: “Should be? I haven’t seen directly… haven’t seen… then why did I call it Mantis Woman?”

The doll’s mouth curled into a smile.

Li Wei’s confusion slowly faded, she remembered: “Those people called it Mantis Woman! And they knew before entering Baige Tower that the third floor was guarded by Mantis Woman.”

The doll’s voice softened: “Then, did they say anything else?”

Li Wei was stunned for a while, then said: “Yes, they also mentioned the monster on the seventh floor is called Dead Woman.”