Doll Survival Game - Chapter 144

The night wind blew, the magician’s gray long hair floated in the air. He crossed his arms over his chest: “Then if the young master manipulates me to break this thing, it won’t matter, right?”

The black ball hovered steadily beside him: “Of course. But, that guy isn’t planning to manipulate you, is he?”

The magician paused.

Earlier, he had been in The Floraghost’s Floral Courtyard, a place where, once forced inside, you could only leave with The Floraghost’s permission. Coincidentally, The Floraghost had gone out and wasn’t in the courtyard those days. The magician seriously considered smashing the courtyard and leaving directly, but then he thought of the doll.

-If he stayed away for a while, would the doll miss him?

The magician was itching to act. Plus, there was no danger in his personal space, so he simply decided to experiment, and it was a good time to heal his skin.

If his skin healed-

The magician stretched out his left hand, touching from his right arm to his right fingertips-then he could meet the young master with his bandages undone.

But, as it turned out, his first goal wasn’t achieved. The doll didn’t seem to miss him at all, even seemed to have forgotten him.

Only he had missed the doll very, very much during this time.

So the magician felt slightly displeased at the ball’s words.

But he wasn’t the petty type now, so he didn’t show it: “What about the Dead Woman and the others? Isn’t this a cooperative instance?”

The little flying ball was stunned for a moment: “Eh? This isn’t one, actually. Although there are indeed quite a few instances in Sky City now… hmm, even more than the ones Little Red’s Fairy Tale Forest can trigger, but they’re all temporarily closed for now.”

The bandages on the magician’s face twitched.

The little flying ball’s voice was joyful: “Cooperative instances are all saved for later… hmm-when the time comes, it’ll definitely be a beautiful scene.”

His gray long hair scattered and fluttered in the wind. The magician simply pulled out a red ribbon from his sleeve and tied it up carelessly, then looked at the little flying ball: “Little Red used the creatures she created to control all the derivative instances in Fairy Tale Forest. You’re quite similar to her in that way.”

But last time, Little Red’s big instance wasn’t really a cooperative instance, more like a boss cooperation, which was different from him.

The little flying ball was disdainful but said nothing, just shifted its body: “That’s the beauty of machinery, hmm… so I like that blue regulator the most.”

The magician glanced down from time to time.

The little flying ball approached the electric net: “By the way, if you don’t even know the content of my instance, then you don’t know about the communicator, right?”

The magician instantly looked up: “What?”

Actually, among all World Humans, very few people had a close relationship with the magician. Most people had only heard of him, and since the Demon was naturally sociable and often talked about the magician, most bosses felt… not unfamiliar with him.

The little flying ball said very happily: “It’s that book, the one that lets us chat with each other without leaving our own places.”

“I know about it, but what does it have to do with the young master?” The magician’s voice cooled: “If it’s not related, there’s no need to say more.”

The little flying ball: “…”

Hiss-just as the rumors said, the magician was smitten by a player.

“Looks like you really don’t know.” The little flying ball circled the magician, its childish voice echoing: “That player got a communicator, you know. It’s big news, we’re all very curious, so almost everyone left him a message.”

The magician: “…”

The magician: “???”

The little flying ball’s tone dropped: “But he mostly reads and doesn’t reply.”

The magician breathed a sigh of relief, but just as he relaxed halfway, he heard the little flying ball continue: “But Little Red chatted with him, asked why he didn’t reply, and he said he wouldn’t reply if he didn’t know who it was.”

The magician froze, then his whole body started to emit a chill.

As a mechanical ball created for observation, the little flying ball naturally didn’t notice at all. It continued: “But some folks still leave messages, since we don’t really like humans anyway. Sometimes, if we’re annoyed by some players in an instance, we might go to the doll and curse humans to vent, and maybe it’ll even get back to the person involved…”

It rambled on, while the magician was already so cold he was about to shatter, but his voice remained steady, even gentle: “May I ask, did the Demon or the Dead Woman give the young master the communicator?”

The little flying ball paused, thought for a moment, then answered confidently: “The Demon.”

Although it didn’t know the truth, since the communicator was created by the Demon, it must have been given out by the Demon.

“The Demon, huh.” The magician smiled and repeated.

He remembered he had a fight scheduled with the Demon.

The little flying ball wanted to keep chatting with the magician, but just as it was about to speak, its whole body suddenly jerked, then rolled half a turn. It said with interest: “Bold and skilled, huh?”

The magician looked up.

The little flying ball’s voice was tinged with laughter: “Someone is torturing people in the safe zone.”

Not killing-torturing.

“……”

Blood dripped down his arm to his fingertips. Li Qi Feng squatted in an alley, taking a brief moment to read the notification and understand the rules of this instance, then sent a message to the group: [I’m on Changsheng Street, is anyone else here?]

Yuan Mo happened to pop up at the same time: [I’m here, I’m here! Li-Ge, where are you? It’s a mess here! I think I heard gunshots? Was it a player?]

Lin Ye squeezed in a reply: [Stay safe, we just regrouped and ran into a bit of trouble too.]

It seemed like there was a moment of hesitation, then Lin Ye sent another message: [Stay safe.]

Li Qi Feng had just finished reading the rules, and he understood what this meant-it was a reminder for them to watch out for the parasite among them.

“…”

What a hassle.

But Yuan Mo probably wasn’t the one. If he was, it would be easy to tell.

It’s just that things really were chaotic here, so Li Qi Feng replied to Yuan Mo: [Yuan Mo, you don’t need to come here.]

After sending the message, Li Qi Feng reopened the map, casually wrapped up the wound on his arm, slung his gun over his back, and took out some knife-type items.

Gunshots still echoed in his ears, and Li Qi Feng narrowed his eyes slightly.

-He didn’t know who the parasite in their team was, but the players outside were definitely parasites.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t be killing humans. Normal players only score points by killing monsters; killing humans is pointless.

Bang-

A huge explosion sounded from outside, followed by a man’s voice: “Hey-Scarface, come out! Let’s play!”

Li Qi Feng didn’t move. Although he was prepared, he wasn’t in the habit of taking the initiative, especially when his partner wasn’t here.

But this instance’s opening was unusually unlucky for him.

Although he entered the instance in a safe area, there happened to be five unfamiliar players nearby, and those five were all from the same organization.

Wanting to avoid being at a disadvantage, Li Qi Feng originally planned to leave with the crowd, but unexpectedly, one of the five-the guy with rainbow hair-suddenly hacked his four teammates to death, then started slaughtering the remaining passerby NPCs.

To make matters worse, because he’d appeared in several live broadcast instances before, he was targeted on the way out by another player with a mohawk.

And then came the worst part: the mohawk and rainbow hair exchanged a few words, confirmed each other’s identities, and immediately teamed up.

Then they started hunting him together.

“…”

Looking at it now, the reason the mohawk and rainbow hair teamed up was probably because they were both parasites.

Judging by their equally bizarre hairstyles, Li Qi Feng figured these two must have felt like kindred spirits.

But while chasing him, they killed NPCs along the way, and not by killing them outright, but by severing hands and feet so they’d die after a while.

So the wailing never stopped along the way.

Looks like these two would get along well with the [hunter]…

Li Qi Feng’s thoughts paused-he heard the sound of a flute from outside.

Sky City was a city of the future, and the weapons were much more advanced than before, so if they could surround monsters, that meant the police-oh, here they’re called the City Defense Force.

Then the City Defense Force should be able to handle players too.

It’s just, they’re too slow. Li Qi Feng gripped his weapon tightly-it was very likely something had happened elsewhere too.

After all, over a thousand players suddenly appeared in Sky City, and some were special species, some had high-level items. If they acted even a little recklessly, chaos would be inevitable.

Gunshots kept ringing outside. Li Qi Feng took out a mirror to look at the alley entrance, and his expression changed slightly.

So these are parasites?

Li Qi Feng watched the two as their bodies changed, and the fleeing NPCs shouted, “Parasites! Run! Someone here has been parasitized!!”

Everyone was heading out. Yuan Mo was a bit timid, but thanks to his low presence, unless someone bumped into him and said sorry or “run,” no one paid him any attention.

So Yuan Mo’s progress was fairly smooth.

He walked while checking the map-even though Li Qi Feng said not to come, everyone would have to regroup eventually, so he might as well go. Besides, if the two of them acted together, they could limit the parasite’s movements, right?

He sighed deeply and glanced at the holographic display-

This time, the map didn’t show everyone’s tracking blip, so finding people became troublesome.

Yuan Mo looked at the fleeing crowd and sighed-suddenly feeling a bit envious that Lin Ye could fly.

Almost knocked over by the crowd, Yuan Mo quickly steadied himself-no, he was very envious.

Spirit serpent, oh spirit serpent, you’re really versatile, but your one flaw is you can’t fly!!!

But if he transformed into a serpent, he could move faster… Yuan Mo hesitated, but still didn’t do it. He was afraid that if he did, the surrounding NPCs would mistake him for a parasite.

He’d just seen some police-like guys go by-right, Lin Ye said they were the City Defense Force…

Anyway, they should be strong. If he got caught, he’d be done for.

Yuan Mo carefully moved against the flow of people. There were fewer and fewer living people ahead, and the gunshots were getting closer. Yuan Mo knew he was almost there-he just needed to turn the corner.

He was about to turn when Li Qi Feng’s voice suddenly came from above.

“Yuan Mo?”

Yuan Mo instantly looked up and saw Li Qi Feng climbing over the wall. It took him two seconds to react: “Great, let’s go quickly.”

This way, they wouldn’t have to face the “war zone” ahead…

Bang-

Just as he finished speaking, a huge noise erupted. Several City Defense Force members in white uniforms flew past Yuan Mo, their bodies smashing into the wall and shattering into pieces.

Yuan Mo’s skin uncontrollably glowed faintly-that was the spirit serpent sensing danger.

But before Yuan Mo could react, Li Qi Feng instantly pulled him back to safety.

The connected buildings collapsed, dust rose and settled, and not far away, the mohawk and rainbow hair stared at Li Qi Feng and Yuan Mo.

“Oh, we’ve got another one,” the mohawk said, his body covered in blue circles. He licked his lips, eyes gleaming like a beast spotting prey. “Hope your scores are a bit higher.”