Doll Survival Game - Chapter 109 - Part 6

It’s locked…

Li Wei, in a daze, stepped forward to try herself: “It’s really locked…”

Zhang Mimi withdrew his hand: “We can only go up.”

Li Wei’s pupils trembled slightly, and she stuttered: “Then, what if… what should we do…”

The doll now stood on the magician’s hat, looking at the milky white tube above: “If we can’t retreat, we move upward. There will always be a way… Besides, we should focus on the second level for now.”

“Can we only go through the tube?” Apart from the magician, the tallest was Yuan Mo, who tiptoed to look but still couldn’t see: “What’s inside there?”

Luo Yiran could only see part of it, he said: “Currently, there’s nothing visible in the part I can see.”

Zhang Mimi looked at the distance, it seemed to be a full hundred meters to the opposite door, which didn’t match the size of the first level, and looked even more different from the size when viewed from outside the tower.

Indeed, each level is a separate space.

“Is there a way to go directly across?” Zhang Mimi raised his eyes: “This tube gives me a bad feeling, Li Wei mentioned it before, right? Many people died in the tube.”

Li Wei sniffed: “It was true last time.”

“We need to make it in one go, no one can die.” Zhang Mimi clenched his paw.

The doll looked up: “Then I’ll go.”

Xia Lang: “???”

Xia Lang: “Why? Let me go instead…”

“You can’t walk upright inside.” Luo Yiran looked down: “Even you can’t manage it.”

Xia Lang was the shortest, but the tube’s diameter might be less than one and a half meters, none of them could walk upright inside.

Zhang Mimi flexed his wrist: “Wait a moment, I’ll try jumping onto the tube first.”

The doll looked at Li Wei: “But the key is inside the tube.”

Zhang Mimi paused: “Then break the door?”

Luo Yiran glanced at the door behind: “Better not break it, we don’t know what might happen.”

Li Wei nodded in agreement, then hesitated: “…Last time the key was indeed inside the tube… But back then the tube was semi-transparent, and the key could be seen.”

Xia Lang turned his head instantly: “Did you see anything else inside the tube?”

Li Wei shook her head: “I was surrounded by several people at the back, could only see the edge of the tube… All this was heard from those people.”

Xia Lang clenched his hand.

Luo Yiran extended a silver thread to hook onto the edge of the tube, then used it to pull himself up, lightly landing on the tube’s edge. He turned back to look at the anxious Xia Lang: “It’ll be fine.”

The magician glanced at Xia Lang then suddenly raised his hand: “Young master, I’m worried about you too.”

Luo Yiran looked at him: “Nonsense.”

The magician shrugged with a smile: “Don’t expose me.”

Watching the doll go inside, Zhang Mimi glanced at the magician: “Are you really not worried?”

The magician unraveled the silver thread wrapping the book in his hand: “Really not.”

After all, it’s just a mere hundred meters, if anything happens, he can totally make it in time.

Zhang Mimi didn’t know the magician’s thoughts, he judged the magician wasn’t lying, then dismissed the idea that the magician might like the doll, and seriously watched the tube instead.

Xia Lang glared fiercely at the magician, then walked to the front of the magician and carefully watched the tube–if anything went wrong inside, he’d go up immediately!

Only Yuan Mo turned back to notice the book in the magician’s hand–could it be taken from the first level?

The magician’s hand was slightly raised higher than usual, then he looked at the fourth-to-last page of the monster communicator.

Book: [The Demon from the first page sent a message! He can sense the master’s changes, is it a threat, boohoo!]

The magician slightly raised an eyebrow–so the earlier vibration was a notification of the Demon sending a message?

Ignoring the book’s cries, the magician directly flipped to the first page, looking at the elegant handwriting–

[Ah Ji, didn’t expect the book to be in your hands… So you’re in Monster World now? I’m coming to find you~]

Magician: “…”

The magician placed his hand on the page, remained silent for a while, then began tearing the book, just as he tore a small opening, the book in his hand started to tremble violently.

The first to hear the commotion was Zhang Mimi, who turned to see the magician spreading the book as if to read, he frowned, seemed to have heard something…

After the person turned his head back, the magician flipped to the fourth-to-last page–[Don’t tear! It hurts so much!!!]

The magician clicked his tongue softly, then very quietly asked: “How to reply?”

[Just write directly with your finger, boohoo…]

Having gotten the answer, the magician mercilessly flipped back to the first page, wrote a sentence with his hand, then closed the book.

As soon as he closed the book, the tube in front of him made a noise, the magician stepped forward slightly, confirmed he didn’t feel anything wrong from his connection with the doll, then stopped again.

But Zhang Mimi and the others didn’t have this function and were all a bit anxious, Xia Lang even directly grabbed Zhang Mimi’s shoulder and used his body to quickly climb onto the tube.

But just as he got on the tube, it suddenly opened a small gap at the top, then the tube began to shake.

Li Wei watched the commotion with wide eyes, she quickly said: “This means the key has been obtained!”

Xia Lang was stunned: “Got it…”

Before he finished speaking, the tube’s shaking amplitude suddenly increased, Xia Lang was standing at the entrance, with this shake, he directly fell out.

Zhang Mimi quickly grabbed him to prevent him from falling, but upon grabbing him, he realized Xia Lang’s clothes had a silver thread wrapped around the back, he was stunned, then quickly pulled Xia Lang up and looked upward.

Above, the tube revealed a straight seam inch by inch, then spread out to form a flat “bridge.”

The “bridge” continued to move downward.

Finally, it stopped right in front of them.

Everyone paused, and the magician almost immediately walked across the bridge as it stopped, heading straight to the doll. He squatted down and reached out his hand.

Luo Yiran leaned over and nodded to Zhang Mimi, then retracted the silver thread that had just connected to Xia Lang.

The doll glanced at the book in the magician’s hand, from which the silver thread had been untied. Without saying anything, he stepped onto the bandaged palm, and the magician placed him on his shoulder.

Xia Lang quickly ran over and looked at the doll, “Ranran, are you okay?”

Luo Yiran replied, “I’m fine… but if you had come in just now, there might have been trouble.”

Zhang Mimi stood behind Xia Lang, confused, “What do you mean?”

Luo Yiran pointed to a scratch on the bridge surface, “There are many mechanisms. If someone of normal human size were to come in, they would definitely trigger them.”

Li Wei looked at him, “What about the key?”

The doll raised his hand and made a pulling gesture. A silver light flashed before them, and then a key fell from above, stopping in front of them. Li Wei looked at the key floating in mid-air, hesitating, “Really, are we going to the third floor?”

Xia Lang turned back, his face somewhat pale, “Not just the third floor, we need to reach the top.”

They needed to clear the game.

Li Wei’s eyes reddened.

The key, carried by the silver thread, was placed in the magician’s hand. Ignoring Li Wei, who was on the verge of tears, the magician turned and headed toward the door leading to the third floor.

Instead, it was the doll on the magician’s shoulder who turned around. He looked at Li Wei, who was stumbling behind, and said, “At this point, we can only move forward, right?”

Li Wei sniffled.

The doll looked at her, “Anyway, staying here means death.”

Li Wei was stunned, then burst into tears.

Zhang Mimi gasped, gesturing wildly from behind: What! Are! You! Doing!

The doll shrugged and turned back.

The key smoothly opened the door, and this time the stairs were covered in dust, though varying in thickness.

It was evident that someone had walked here before.

Li Wei clung tightly to Zhang Mimi’s clothes. Zhang Mimi held a candle in one hand and supported the wall with the other. He turned at the staircase ahead, then thought for a moment and turned back, saying, “Don’t hold too tight. If something happens, I might accidentally throw you off while trying to handle it.”

Li Wei: “…”

She silently loosened her grip.

Yuan Mo was at the back, quietly muttering as he listened to Zhang Mimi’s words, “That’s not much better than what Ran said…”

Just as he finished speaking, the dim candlelight ahead suddenly went out, and Yuan Mo stopped instantly, “What happened?”

“Hold onto each other,” Luo Yiran shouted, “The wind blew out the candle.”

Though it was strange. After all, Baige Tower’s first and second floors didn’t have windows, and this staircase didn’t let in any light. How could there be wind?

Just as he thought this, the candles in Zhang Mimi and Yuan Mo’s hands also went out.

The sudden darkness made Li Wei let out a short scream.

Almost instantly, Luo Yiran sensed something was wrong. But the door to the third floor was right in front of them. He was about to take out a card to light up when a flame appeared before him.

The magician lit a candle and looked up at the person standing at the third-floor entrance, someone about his height.

“Demon.”

The demon, dressed in black, glanced at the players behind him, changing the words on his lips from Ji to, “Magician, long time no see.”

Luo Yiran only glanced at the demon, but happened to meet the demon’s eyes. The demon curved his eyes, almost identical to the magician’s, “Little doll, long time no see~”

Similar eyes, but lacking the magician’s beauty.

The doll withdrew his gaze, not noticing that as his gaze left the demon, the magician’s hand at his side also relaxed.

Luo Yiran turned back, his expression changing, “Where’s Xia Lang?”

Zhang Mimi and Yuan Mo were both stunned, then turned around simultaneously.

The doll’s eyes darkened, “He should be behind Zhang Mimi, in front of Yuan Mo.”

Zhang Mimi quickly came over to light a candle, not reacting to the demon’s arrival. After all, the demon was just a regulator, and regulators couldn’t attack players in most instances.

He lit the candle and approached the wall and floor, but found nothing, “No mechanisms…”

Zhang Mimi panicked for a moment, then looked toward the third floor behind the demon–did he go to the third floor? But the door wasn’t open!

Yuan Mo leaned against the wall, most of his body pressed against it as he moved, a faint white light appearing on his body, “Only here has residual warmth, he disappeared directly here!”

Li Wei’s hands were frantic, wanting to grab something to steady herself but not daring to.

The doll thought of the deep darkness beneath the second-floor tube and directly manipulated the magician to turn back–since they hadn’t pushed open the door to the third floor, the door from the second floor up was likely still open…

Click.

The sound of a door opening suddenly rang out, causing the doll to stop abruptly. The magician let out a soft “ah” and turned back as the doll relaxed, seeing the demon gently push open the door to the third floor.

Regulators can enter others’ instances when there’s no task. But if there’s no task, if they come privately, regulators can only act as observers, and any other actions will be punished based on their impact.

Currently, the demon’s skin seemed to crack like ice, with tiny blood lines covering his body, “I’m saving you… You were just thinking of going to the bottom of Baige Tower’s second floor to find someone, right? But down there leads to the bottomless abyss.”

“No one can survive there.”

Especially since going to the bottomless abyss means he can’t even retrieve the doll’s body… Such a beautiful body, it’d be a shame to lose it.