Doll Survival Game

Yuan Mo was struggling a bit. He placed the two people at his feet, and after setting them down, he looked up and saw words appearing on the door beside Zhang Mimi. He quickly reminded, “There’s writing on the door!”

Zhang Mimi looked down in confusion, and then he saw the text on the door. After quickly scanning it, Zhang Mimi was momentarily stunned and instinctively complained, “What? We have to pay an entrance fee? Do you think this is a tourist attraction?”

Luo Yiran was at the back, so after Zhang Mimi and Yuan Mo moved closer, he couldn’t see anything. “What exactly does it say?”

The two instinctively moved aside a bit to let the doll see, but Zhang Mimi still spoke according to his understanding, “It says that to enter those doors inside, you have to pay the most precious item on you as the entrance fee. Then, if you pass through one door, you can reach the sixth level…”

Yuan Mo looked at the words behind, “But if you pass through two doors, you can go straight to the seventh level, skipping the sixth.”

Luo Yiran raised an eyebrow slightly. He looked at the door, which said you could freely choose how many doors to enter, then his gaze turned to the deep blue water surface of the sixth level.

Following forward, the doll saw those doors–from the outside, these doors looked like mere door frames and panels from a building materials market, with a vast water surface and nothing to rely on, so the doors just stood independently on the water.

But the human-shaped patterns on these doors… seemed more like reliefs, some of which looked familiar.

Zhang Mimi tentatively touched the ground like seawater, then said, “The water is only a very shallow layer, just about the depth of a fingernail, and it’s solid underneath.”

So the group walked in, with the Demon politely closing the door at the end. Once he shut it, the door disappeared, leaving them surrounded by emptiness except for the doors with human-shaped reliefs.

Above was a blue-black sky, with a crescent moon seemingly very close, and the deep blue water surface below mirrored the sky and the towering doors like a mirror.

“This place feels so peaceful,” Yuan Mo said as he brought Li Wei and the long-haired man inside, looking at everything before him. He rarely painted scenes like this that could evoke emotion, but at this moment, he felt a sudden urge.

Zhang Mimi responded with a sound, then, for some reason, glanced at the magician’s shoulder where the doll was perched.

The doll was calmly, almost indifferently, looking at the relief-covered doors ahead, showing no reaction to the surrounding scenery.

“What’s wrong?” The doll noticed he was being watched and naturally looked at Zhang Mimi.

Zhang Mimi waved his hand, “Nothing… Should we go through one door or two?”

Luo Yiran didn’t answer him immediately but instead focused his gaze on a door ahead, “Not sure which way is faster.”

“And what happens inside these doors is also unclear.”

Yuan Mo placed his right hand on his chest, “We can only be sure we won’t die upon entering, because there’s no lifeless checkpoint.”

Luo Yiran turned back, “Anyway, you can’t go in… If I’m not mistaken, your most precious item should be the spirit serpent, right?”

Yuan Mo nodded, then said, “I can’t lose it, not just because it’s my most precious item, but also because it’s the only thing my brother left me.”

When a player dies in the game, no one remembers them except those connected in the game.

So, in reality, the brother disappeared from everyone’s memory, leaving no trace except for the personal space in the game and the spirit serpent he gave.

It’s laughable to think that the brother died because of “World Human” and was erased by “World Human,” yet to find traces of his existence, one can only search within the game.

Zhang Mimi patted his shoulder, and Yuan Mo gently shook his head.

“My most precious item should be the revival potion,” Luo Yiran opened the holographic display, “Although items can be gifted, this instance restricts items to only use the first one in the item Bar, and I didn’t place the revival potion in the first slot, so I can’t move it.”

Zhang Mimi rotated his arms, “Then I’ll go. My most precious item is just what I got in the last instance, but I rarely use items, so losing it is no big deal.”

But passing through just one person means they still have to go to the sixth level. The doll lowered his eyes–if Xia Lang hadn’t separated from them, then going to the sixth level wouldn’t be a problem, but now he wanted to clear the level quickly.

The magician tilted his head towards the doll, then said, “Speculation isn’t against the rules.”

Luo Yiran: “?”

The magician smirked, “I’ve never met the Dead Woman, nor do I know her. I only know she has many instances, and nothing else, so what I’m about to say is just speculation.”

The Demon raised an eyebrow slightly, his gaze fixed on the magician.

The doll placed his hand at his side, “If the system warns you, stop.”

The magician lifted his head, his gray hair seemed to have a layer of blue light in the dark surroundings, “You all recognize the person on the fourth door on the right, don’t you?”

Zhang Mimi and Yuan Mo looked over, then widened their eyes.

The doll had seen it when Zhang Mimi asked about entering the doors. He looked at the task with extremely beautiful features and said, “Idia.”

The one from Water City.

Zhang Mimi widened his eyes, then searched with his gaze, and subsequently saw a man wearing glasses on a door, “Tang Bai?!”

Yuan Mo also saw the familiar boss and twitched the corner of his mouth: “Won’t these bosses be right behind these doors?”

“At least related to them.” The magician squinted his eyes and then said, “But it won’t be directly connected to their instance, because Idia is not someone who would cooperate with others, so the doors are more likely to lead to small instances created based on Idia’s instance.”

Luo Yiran paused: “The past?”

The Demon lowered his eyes.

The magician’s smile widened: “It’s very likely, because we can more easily learn about each other’s past than you, creating a small instance about the past is quite convenient… But the specific content of the small instance can only be determined once inside…”

“However, a small instance is still an instance. The young master understands the characteristic of entering an instance, right?”

“Time flows differently.” Luo Yiran raised his eyes and said without hesitation, “The time inside the instance is not equal to the time outside the instance.” No matter how long they stay inside the instance, when they come out, it will always be midnight of the next day.

And this door setting…

The Demon noticed that the doll had already guessed it, so he glanced at Zhang Mimi and shrugged, decisively joining the conversation: “Take this blonde as an example, if he enters a small instance, as long as he comes out alive, it would be as if he just spent the time it takes to walk through a door.”

“If he dies inside the small instance, then passing through the door would instantly turn him into a corpse.”

He spoke without receiving any warnings or penalties, proving that the doll had indeed guessed it, so the Demon looked at the magician: “Really impressive.”

The magician ignored him.

Zhang Mimi secretly made a face at the Demon, then looked at the doll: “Are you planning to enter too?”

Luo Yiran nodded slightly: “We still don’t know where Xia Lang is or what happened, so let’s clear the instance as soon as possible.”

Zhang Mimi was stunned, a thought quickly flashed through his mind–Is the doll really worried about Xia Lang? Or is it…

Yuan Mo suddenly squatted down, his pupils trembling: “This setting is too terrifying for me.” Because he wouldn’t enter, he would have to watch his two teammates enter the doors, and in the blink of an eye, know the result, whether they live or die, it would be instantaneous for him.

What if…

“…”

“Bah, bah, bah! You guys will definitely come out completely intact!” Yuan Mo patted his mouth.

Zhang Mimi was startled by his action, then heard his words clearly and laughed: “Why think so much!”

The doll also smiled slightly and said, “Don’t overthink it, at worst, after we go in, just close your eyes and count to five before opening them.”

Yuan Mo looked up at the doll, seriously saying, “Be careful, both of you.”

The two nodded, then Zhang Mimi walked towards Tang Bai’s door: “I’ll take this one, if it involves the past, I know a bit about it.”

Moreover, the time this instance occurred is recent, he hasn’t forgotten some details, if this small instance requires brainpower, he might be able to manage.

Having chosen, he looked at the doll, planning to enter the door simultaneously with him.

So he watched the doll manipulate the magician forward, passing by the door with Idia’s relief without stopping, he was stunned: “Doll?”

Luo Yiran stopped at a spot and turned back.

Zhang Mimi was puzzled: “You’re not going to Idia’s door?”

Luo Yiran smiled: “I don’t want to revisit known things.”

Zhang Mimi wanted to persuade him, but looking at the door beside Luo Yiran with the relief of a suit-wearing, top-hat-wearing figure, he was stunned–this relief…

The magician’s face was covered by bandages, hiding the details of his expression, but his voice was steady: “The young master wants to go behind my door? But the Dead Woman doesn’t really understand me, what she knows should be rumors she heard from others, very low in authenticity… Maybe inside are things about me that even I don’t know.”

The doll looked at him, and after about five seconds, he showed a gentle smile: “I just came to take a look, not planning to go in, after all, I only want to hear about your past from you.”

The magician couldn’t tell if the doll was being truthful, but he responded sincerely: “But I hope the young master remembers himself, although it’s a bit demanding.”

Luo Yiran withdrew his gaze, manipulated the magician to continue forward, and under everyone’s gaze, walked to a door with the relief of a long-skirted skeleton.

Everyone was stunned, Zhang Mimi and Yuan Mo didn’t know who this boss was, but the Demon changed his expression.

Only the magician smiled almost proudly.

Luo Yiran turned back and said to Zhang Mimi: “I’m going behind the Dead Woman’s door.”

Before Zhang Mimi could say anything, the Demon spoke first, asking: “How do you know it’s the Dead Woman?”

Clearly, there are other skeletons on the doors here.

The doll looked at the Demon, his lips slightly curved: “Secret.”

With that, he directly pushed open the door, and not far away, Zhang Mimi immediately pushed open the door in front of him.

But Yuan Mo ultimately did not close his eyes, afraid of some other crisis, and afraid that if his teammates came out severely injured, he wouldn’t be able to save them in time because he had closed his eyes.

[Detected that the most valuable item on player Luo Yiran is the revival potion!]

[Beep–Revival potion has been automatically exchanged as the entry condition.]

A flash of white light, the scenery before him spread out, and a somewhat soft female voice sounded in the doll’s ear–

[Welcome to my world.]