Doll Survival Game - Chapter 146

Via paused in front of the doll like this, then said, “…As if you could actually kill me…”

His voice trailed off as he spoke, then he looked at Luo Yiran with an annoyed expression. “Don’t look at me like that.”

Luo Yiran smiled a little, and his gaze softened a bit.

Via felt irritated by this and muttered, “Anyway, what you mean is that you’re not a parasite.”

“Of course not.” Luo Yiran closed his eyes slightly, looking at his own fingers. “And to be precise, the chance of either of us being one is the lowest.”

Via frowned.

Luo Yiran looked up, glanced overhead again, and Via instinctively followed his gaze. He didn’t pay much attention, just glanced at the dense electric net above, then lowered his head again. “What do you mean by the lowest chance? Because our starting point was in the high-risk zone?”

Luo Yiran sat cross-legged, spinning his fingers. He more or less understood why the magician above the electric net couldn’t come down. He thought about it and decided not to bother with the magician for now, instead saying to Via, “Isn’t that right?”

Via frowned again, the gray-white hair on his forehead hanging over his eyelids. “That’s your only reason?”

Luo Yiran raised an eyebrow slightly. “So are you a parasite?”

Via paused, then rolled his eyes. “If I were, would I be so happy slaughtering those monsters?”

After saying that, he paused, realizing something.

Luo Yiran said he wasn’t, and then he himself said he wasn’t, so indeed their chances were the “lowest.”

“…”

But that only works if both of them are telling the truth!

Via glared at him, wanting to argue, but couldn’t refute either Luo Yiran’s words or his own, so in the end he just clicked his tongue.

Luo Yiran spun his fingers, his gaze flickering, but he didn’t say anything more.

The magician was overhead now, and he probably couldn’t come in on his own, maybe because it would count as breaking the rules.

But if he manipulated the magician to come down, it should be fine.

His spinning fingers stopped, Luo Yiran looked up-forget it, breaking in now would cause too much trouble, better to see if Lin Ye could get them out first.

“……”

And about the parasite… Luo Yiran glanced at Via, seeing his whole face scrunched up in annoyance.

Hmm… this instance really is quite unpleasant.

After a moment of silence, Via stood up, planning to go down and keep fighting monsters, but Luo Yiran spoke first: “Be careful.”

Via was so startled by this that he almost fell off the silver thread. He quickly steadied himself and turned back. “Don’t be disgusting.”

“Just cover me well and don’t trip me up.”

With that, Via jumped down.

Luo Yiran curled his lips. He was indeed doing his best to cover, but Luo Yiran could also clearly see that Via was even more alert now. Even without his cover, nothing much would happen.

Fine. Luo Yiran expressionlessly stretched out his leg, letting it dangle and swing slightly in the air. “If you get tired, come back up. The game has just started, the point gap won’t be too big yet.”

Via darted nimbly among the towering monsters, taking a moment to reply, “Mind your own business.”

“……”

He really doesn’t call him Ranran at all anymore.

Luo Yiran happily opened the map, looking at the three high-risk zones marked in red and the leaderboard at the top right of the map.

The leaderboard still hadn’t updated, it was all blank, maybe it wasn’t time to check yet.

…Could the check time be midnight?

Below, Via was being surrounded by monsters. He had just blocked the scythe of a mantis-headed monster in front, when a slender monster covered in black scales behind him opened its mouth, about to bite down.

Without even looking up, Luo Yiran moved his fingers.

The silver thread suddenly formed a spiderweb, covering the black-scaled monster and restricting its movements.

Via fired a few shots, injuring the mantis monster, then turned and sliced off the black-scaled monster’s head.

Tsk-

Via glanced at the doll out of the corner of his eye, then angrily looked away to focus on the surrounding monsters-these guys seemed…

“This batch is stronger.” Luo Yiran seemed to know what Via was thinking. He finally looked up and extended the silver thread. “You should come back up.”

Via hesitated, then reluctantly climbed back up along the silver thread to midair. “Good thing none of them can fly.”

Luo Yiran pulled the “hammock” higher, then looked back at the holographic display, but commented on the monsters below: “The monsters all have some insect traits, and insects can fly.”

So accordingly, there should be flying monsters too.

Via drew his [gun], steadied himself on the silver thread, aimed at the monsters below, and replied, “But so far, I haven’t seen any that can fly.”

Luo Yiran didn’t say anything, falling into thought amid the gunfire.

It’s unlikely there aren’t any flying ones, they just haven’t appeared yet…

But really, where did the monsters come from?

Seven days ago for them, which was half a year ago in Sky City, even that white coat in Tianhong’s basement didn’t know the origin of the monsters, but he was “raising” them. So even if he didn’t know, Tianhong should.

And Tianhong had already colluded with the monsters half a year ago, but Lin Ye, who was also in the instance at the time, never learned anything about the monsters…

Luo Yiran’s furrowed brow suddenly relaxed, then he asked in the group chat: [Which area is Tianhong in?]

The reply came from Zhang Mimi, probably because Lin Ye was busy.

[Lin Ye said it’s the Changdu District you’re in right now.]

[Tianhong is on Baifang Street in Changdu District. Once you get to that street, you’ll see it.]

Luo Yiran’s round eyes lowered slightly. He said, “Via, let’s go to Tianhong.”

Via had been missing for fourteen days before, only joining the group on the last day to go to Tianhong. But the surroundings then were worlds apart from now, so Via didn’t actually know where Tianhong was. He hefted his gun and shouted amid the fierce gunfire, “Then tell me which way to go! I have no idea which direction I should head!”

After the previous conversation ended, Via really started treating him like a different person.

Luo Yiran’s voice was very soft, and because it was so gentle, it even carried a hint of indulgence: “Give me half a minute.”

The gunfire suddenly paused. Via turned his head to look at Luo Yiran, whose red eyes blinked lightly. Then his gaze darted quickly between the map and the surroundings, while his ten ball-jointed fingers tapped lightly at the air by his side.

In less than thirty seconds, Luo Yiran looked up: “Go right, follow that fallen signpost for three hundred meters, then turn left and go a bit further-you’ll see Tianhong.”

“…” Only now did Via realize Luo Yiran was figuring out their position on the map.

Because this time, the map was just a map; you couldn’t see where you were on it.

But the ruined surroundings left plenty of clues. That’s how they’d easily figured out they were in the high-risk zone earlier… But even so, wasn’t Luo Yiran a bit too fast in finding the exact route to Tianhong?

Less than a minute, and he already knew where Baifang Street was?

Luo Yiran didn’t look at Via. In his mind, he merged the marked areas and street names on the map with the collapsed buildings around them, reconstructing the entire high-risk zone.

Then Luo Yiran placed himself and Via at the correct spot on the mental map.

With the route clear, Luo Yiran extended the silver thread. He was just about to follow it out of here when he suddenly heard a very muffled sound, like thunder or the collapse of a twenty-story building.

Then came a roar, not quite human.

It must have come from far away.

Via heard it too. He turned and said, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

……

Above the electric net in the high-risk zone, the magician, now alone, folded his wings and stepped onto the net. His gaze shifted from the dolls below to the direction the sound had come from.

“That’s why humans have so much potential.” The magician’s voice was calm, tinged with a hint of mockery.

On top of the high-risk zone, a two- or three-meter-thick metal wall had been neatly sliced open, the cut as straight as if made with a ruler.

As the wall collapsed and dust billowed, a tall, skinny man in brightly colored clothes walked out. Eight long, thin black spider legs grew from his back.

He hugged himself tightly, his human legs still walking, but the eight spider legs were already moving like hands.

The man walked out slowly. Nearby, some players in the midst of an internal squabble all turned to look at him. One player saw the thick wall of the high-risk zone had been breached, his pupils contracted, and he shouted fiercely, “What are you doing?! Why did you break the wall?!”

“Don’t you know that’ll let all the monsters out?!”

The gently moving spider legs froze.

The man in flamboyant clothes was extremely thin, and except for his clothes and skin, everything else was white.

His hair, eyelashes, and pupils all looked as if they’d been coated in white paint.

The man looked up, his white pupils moving in their sockets. Then he looked at the speaker, who choked, a chill of fear running up his spine-this guy didn’t seem human, more like a monster.

So the man asked, “Are you a monster?”

The man didn’t answer right away. The eight spider legs on his back folded and retracted, and he released his self-embrace. Then the white on his body and the colors on his clothes faded away together.

His slightly wavy, ear-length hair turned a deep black, his eyes lightened with a hint of green. His clothes became a glaring white, as if bleached by some chemical.

“My name is Li Han. I’m a player.” The man suddenly squinted his eyes, though his smile was a bit stiff: “Not a parasite.”

The player who’d shouted before was still wary-except for players from the same organization, everyone else was an enemy. But he wasn’t afraid; after all, anyone who came to this instance must be confident in their own strength: “If you’re a player, why did you break the wall of the high-risk zone? The game has just started. If the monsters all come out, that’s bad for us.”

Ah…

Li Han froze.

…Bad?

Li Han turned his head to look behind him. The dust had settled, so the scene was clear. He said, “It should be fine.”

He spoke haltingly, but was strangely calm, with no hint of urgency: “There won’t be any more monsters coming out.”

The man stared wide-eyed as he took in the scene behind Li Han.

The man with wavy hair turned back in the silence, and gave another stiff smile: “Because they’re all dead.”