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Arc 3: Humanoid Village
Chapter 67 (Part 2)

Around lunch time, Jin’er came upstairs to call them to come down and eat. Yan Shi went over to wake Lu Xiuyang. After having taken a nap, Lu Xiuyang looked a lot better. In the corner of the room was the doll that resembled him. It laid there with its eyes open and one arm broken off.

Tang Yunyun glanced at the doll a few times and scampered downstairs while rubbing the goosebumps on her arms.

After lunch, Jin’er wasn’t around. Yan Shi took Xu Ziyue out of the hotel and they finally began to explore this Humanoid Village.

Since they were looking for that corpse, both Yan Shi and Hu Beijia felt that it would likely be at the graveyard. Afterall, it is the ideal place to leave something like that.

And they could also see that graveyard through the windows in their rooms.

“Then let’s go to the graveyard first.”

No one contested with Yan Shi’s suggestion.

To Xu Ziyue, it didn’t matter where he went. With his cold, his body was still a little soft and, having not had the opportunity to rest, even walking was hard for him.

Tang Yunyun who was walking second last in the group turned back to look at Xu Ziyue whose cheeks were slightly flushed, and breathing was a little heavy, “I say, you already can’t handle this?”

Xu Ziyue glared back in response and increased his pace to overtake Tang Yunyun, “Men shouldn’t say that they can’t!”

Tang Yunyun: “……Tsk.”

In addition to the long road running from one end of the village to the other, there were also small paths between the houses on both sides that was about the width of one and a half of a person. That basically meant that only those with thinner statures can go through and it would even be a little narrow for them. Even if you could go through this small path, you would realise that there would be a house at the end of it, blocking their access to the graveyard behind the hotel.

After going in and out of these small paths and turning left and right for almost ten minutes, they finally managed to reach the graveyard with the help of Yan Shi’s strong sense of direction.

The rooms on the first floor of the hotel also had windows facing the graveyard. This was something they didn’t expect because the studio and medicine room they have been in, as well as the room where Xu Ziyue found the corpse, didn’t seem to have any windows.…..But they thought about it. The oil painting on the walls were probably covering the window in the studio and the medicine cabinets probably covered the window in the medicine room….As for the room with the corpse, they belatedly remembered that there were curtains. They just hadn’t given it much thought last time……

They looked in from the graveyard. All the windows on the first floor were dark. Once closer, they realised that it was likely paint.

This black paint covered up the windows, so they didn’t have to worry about Jin’er seeing them from her studio.

The graves here were covered in dried grass. It was likely that no one had come to visit in a very long time.

The six of them walked side by side through the graveyard like a search group to look for the corpse Xu Ziyue spoke about.

Occasionally, Xu Ziyue would glance over at the gravestones.

Xu Ziyue was still holding the doll in his arms so he could only use one hand to pull away the grass that had reached his waist. He walked rather slowly so he gradually fell behind the others.

“Everyone come here and take a look!” Guan Chengze stood ahead of them waving his hands. He shouted this out in a hushed voice.

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As soon as Xu Ziyue heard this, he moved a little faster and hurried over to the gravestone Guan Chengze was standing next to.

“Li Jin.” Guan Chengze pushed back some over the overgrown grass in front of the tombstone. He then used his sleeve to clean off the dust, “This black and white photograph…….Isn’t that Jin’er?”

Hu Beijia answered calmly, “Only looks similar but not exactly the same.”

Tang Yunyun was startled by this discovery. When she heard Hu Beijia’s words, she quickly nodded and agreed, “Yeah, that’s right. Jin’er is much better looking than this.” If they knew that Jin’er was that…….Tang Yunyun probably wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.

Guan Chengze didn’t refute and just nodded his head, “Dolls should be better looking than the real person.”

Tang Yunyun immediately started to sweat nervously.

Speculating was one thing, but once confirmed……that was another thing.

Yan Shi spoke up in a timely manner, “Let’s continue looking around and see if we can find anything else.”

But even after looking around, they didn’t find anything else.

Just as they were about to give up, Lu Xiuyang found the corpse Xu Ziyue spoke about.

But this corpse could no longer be called a corpse.

Its appearance looked more like a broken doll.

Only the maggots that still lingered on the body proved that it was indeed a corpse.

“Are you sure this is the corpse you saw?”

Xu Ziyue nodded, “I’m sure. The clothes haven’t changed. Don’t you remember it? This is the first person we encountered after entering the village.”

Yan Shi said, “You’re wrong.”

Xu Ziyue looked at him confused. What’s wrong about it?

“He or she probably already wasn’t a person back then.”

Guan Chengze looked for a branch nearby and used it to push away the smelly clothes so that they could see the state of the corpse more clearly.

“This……” Hu Beijia squatted down and pulled out a piece of tissue from her pocket. She covered her finger and poked the body of the corpse, “Looks like that thing we found under the bed.”

Guan Chengze poked the arm of the corpse with a branch. There just happened to be a part of the arm missing.

“This round thing should be the arm……..” Guan Chengze looked around, “I can’t find the hand.”

“The thing I found this morning was still a little elastic but this one is almost completely hardened. It’s also smoother than the one from this morning. It doesn’t feel like skin anymore. This can no longer be considered a corpse.” Hu Beijia concluded, “It looks like……a human turned into a doll.”

“So, you mean the humans here can turn into dolls?” Tang Yunyun asked cautiously.

Yan Shi nodded, “That’s probably the case.”

“It’s likely that the only living humans in this village are us. Have we seen any other living things during our stay here?”

Xu Ziyue and the others shook their heads.

Hu Beijia was deep in thought, “What I want to know more is whether that person who brought us in was a human or a doll. Because Xu Ziyue saw the body’s appearance and the fact that there are maggots……That can prove that this person was originally human but what has been controlling this person’s actions?”

“Probably a doll……..” Tang Yunyun expressed her opinion, “Who could bear walking around like that? Just the thought of it gives me chills.”

Xu Ziyue noticed that Lu Xiuyang was shaking…….

Hu Beijia then asked: “Then where did that person go?”

“Pr-probably replaced by the doll………”

Hu Beijia fell silent. She seemed to be thinking over Tang Yunyun’s words.

“After becoming a doll, the inside of the torso is all empty. Why is that?”

“It’s the part that cannot be turned into a doll.” Guan Chengze rubbed his chin, “And that’s why it attracted all those things that feed off it. That’s probably why that person was completely covered up.”

“Once you turn into a doll, your body becomes brittle.” Guan Chengze stepped on that ‘doll’. As the force he used increased, the leg of the ‘doll’ gradually sunk in before breaking off, “Those things may have been attached to the body before the body started to change. As the body slowly changed, those things become trapped inside. It probably ate everything inside until the body completely lost its function. With no other sources of food left, these creatures started to find a way to break out from the body.”

“That person probably lost their sense of feeling already at that time.”

Guan Chengze threw away the branch he held, “I’m just randomly making guesses. Don’t take it seriously.”

Everyone: “………”

Although Guan Chengze said he was just guessing, his speculations sounded very reasonable. They also couldn’t think of any other explanations.

But there was still one question that they couldn’t find the answer to and that was whether that person who came to pick them up was actually a human or a doll originally.

Xu Ziyue didn’t need to figure this out, but Yan Shi and the others were very concerned about this. Afterall, this was likely related to their task to survive in this world.

If you asked them, they would say that Lu Xiuyang was probably the next person to turn into a doll.

And as one turns into a doll, the crucial point was when exactly they would be completely ‘dead’.

As long as they can last until the very end of this game, even if they are already halfway into their doll transition, if they are not yet ‘dead’, the game is not yet over.

So, they needed to find out about this.

But from the looks of it, Lu Xiuyang didn’t have any intention to tell them.

*****

On the way back, Lu Xiuyang who had only just regained his spirit had once again started to feel anxious.

As they returned, Hu Beijia looked into the windows of several of the other houses. Some were completely dark and nothing could be made out, some had scattered body parts…….In short, it wasn’t anything good.

Everything seemed to have gone around in a circle. The only place where they could find clues towards how they could clear the game was the hotel they stayed at.

Entering the hotel, Guan Chengze took the lead and said, “I didn’t sleep well last night so I’m exhausted right now. I’m going to go to Xu Ziyue’s to sleep a little. Don’t wake me up.”

Xu Ziyue was confused. Wait a minute….Wasn’t he supposed to switch rooms with Lu Xiuyang?

Yan Shi was also confused.

But if he said that he also wanted to change rooms now……

Lu Xiuyang glanced at Guan Chengze and snorted, “Up to you.” He then grabbed Yan Shi’s wrist, “Let’s go back to our room.”

Yan Shi’s chest was burning with anger, but he could tell just from the grip on his wrist that he wouldn’t be able to break free even if he tried.

But if he said that he also wanted to change rooms now……the situation can worsen if a madman actually goes on a rampage. Yan Shi temporarily suppressed his anger and obediently followed Lu Xiuyang upstairs.

Tang Yunyun looked at Guan Chengze with wide eyes and a “how could you?!” accusatory expression.

Guan Chengze just smiled back, “What is it?”

Tang Yunyun shuddered and quickly turned away.

Guan Chengze looked at Xu Ziyue, “Let’s go. We should also go back to our room.”

“Oh.”

Xu Ziyue didn’t really want to pay him any attention.

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After returning to his room, Xu Ziyue would no longer be able to talk to his doll and he would even have to separate the bed he had painstakingly put together!

But in the end Guan Chengze said that there was no need to…..

Xu Ziyue was very reluctant to sleep together with Guan Chengze. He strongly emphasised that he suffers from a strong case of mysophobia.

Guan Chengze only took it as Xu Ziyue calling him garbage but his expression didn’t change much and just used the excuse of needing to pick up his backpack from the other room to temporarily step out.

Xu Ziyue sighed and sat on the bed. He poked the doll in his arms, “Could he have noticed?”

The doll looked up at Xu Ziyue before moving his eyes back to its original position. It looked a little pitiful.

“Forget it……If he found out, he found out……I was the one who decided to bring you back.” Xu Ziyue touched the doll’s head. The doll also responded by nuzzling back.

Xu Ziyue was completely touched. He instantly crouched over causing the doll to fall back onto his back.

Xu Ziyue clenched his fists like crazy in his desperate attempt to hide his excitement, “Why are you so cute!”

Because of his posture, the doll stared at Xu Ziyue for one second, two seconds, three seconds……..And then he raised both his hands to cover Xu Ziyue’s eyes.

Xu Ziyue blinked a few times. He was still able to see the doll.

The little doll swiftly turned around and buried his face in the blanket.

Xu Ziyue: “!!!”

If it wasn’t because the size isn’t right, he would have thrown himself at the doll right then and there!

It’s not that men don’t like cute things. It’s just that most men don’t like those kinds of things and those that do like cute things also have their own preferences.

But just like how men like cute girls, Xu Ziyue felt that this doll was the cutest doll in the whole world.

“By the way, were you shy when I talked about sleeping today?” Xu Ziyue poked the doll’s back and then started to rub……and rub…..

That perverted hand of his couldn’t be controlled. He unrestrainedly ate the doll’s tofu.

Xu Ziyue still wanted to continue teasing but he stopped himself when he heard the sound of the door closing next door. A few seconds later, Guan Chengze returned with his backpack.

Xu Ziyue fixed his clothes and sat back up. He picked up the doll and arranged it in a sitting position.

When it was time for dinner, Guan Chengze told Xu Ziyue that he didn’t have the appetite and wasn’t going to go down.

Xu Ziyue also didn’t want to waste his energy on him, so he went downstairs with the doll to eat.

As he ate, he pondered over how he could stay away from Guan Chengze. With his mind filled with this thought, he ended up eating the slowest out of the group.

“You’re not going up?”

When Xu Ziyue was done eating, he was still sitting at the dining table so Tang Yunyun called out to him.

Xu Ziyue smiled back, “Yeah, I don’t really want to go back.”

Lu Xiuyang let out a laugh. Somehow his mood seemed to have improved again.

Perhaps it’s because life itself has its ups and downs…..and downs, and downs and downs……

Xu Ziyue answer was well accepted by Yan Shi and the others. Afterall, the incidents today had shown that Guan Chengze definitely wasn’t someone they could mess around with and that he was someone who wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice his companions.

After Yan Shi and the others returned upstairs, Xu Ziyue who was left downstairs sighed. After sighing, he couldn’t help but start coughing.

The doll tugged at Xu Ziyue’s finger and then leapt off Xu Ziyue’s knee and ran off.

Just as Xu Ziyue was about to call out, he held himself back and looked around. Seeing that there wasn’t anyone around, he quickly followed after the doll and whispered, “What are you doing?”

He saw the doll run over to the medicine room and push the door open. Xu Ziyue had no choice but to follow the doll in.

The doll stood at the foot of the desk and looked at Xu Ziyue with a serious expression, “Hug me!”

Xu Ziyue: ……I’m dead.

*****

On the other end, Guan Chengze went through Xu Ziyue’s backpack only to find the standard items all the players were given and didn’t manage to find anything useful. The only special thing he found was the small coffin he brought back with him.

Unwilling to give up, Guan Chengze also checked the inside of the coffin but didn’t manage to find anything.

Anyway, the important thing is that doll. The other things are of no importance.

*****

Xu Ziyue picked the doll up and placed him on the desk. He watched the doll pick up a brush that was not much shorter than himself and write a few words on a piece of paper.

Xu Ziyue covered his mouth to prevent himself from laughing too excessively and then said, “Tell me what you want. I’ll write it.”

The doll looked back at Xu Ziyue: “……”

He proudly turned his head back and continued to focus on writing. No matter what Xu Ziyue said, the doll ignored him.

Xu Ziyue felt very wronged. What did he do? Why was his doll suddenly angry at him?

Although the doll had some difficulty with writing due to his small stature, every character was still very neat. You could tell what was written with a just a quick glance.

The former were medicine names and the latter were the amounts of each of them.

Xu Ziyue stared at it for a while before understanding. Following the guide written by the doll, he began to pick out the medicine.

But when needed to use the tradition rod scale to weigh the medicine, Xu Ziyue found himself in a difficult position.

He tried and tried. Although he could balance the weight and the medicine on both ends of the rod, but the position of the weight was placed randomly…….

He really had no idea how to use this scale.

Xu Ziyue could only helplessly lower it back down, “I don’t know how to use it……”

The doll raised his head and stared at Xu Ziyue with a look that seemed to say, ‘You can’t even do something like this?’.

A moment later……the doll lowered his head back down and picked the scale up himself. Letting out a small exasperated sigh, he began to work on weighing out the medicine himself.

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