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Arc 3: Humanoid Village
Chapter 79

【……He won’t stay here….. 】

【And I won’t let him leave.  】

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Yan Shi and them originally wanted to find Xu Ziyue to learn of the other way to clear the game from him. When they heard Guan Chengze’s words just now, they felt more reassured with their decision.

You should know that something unexpected would definitely happen if they opted to look for Jin’er’s doll and pierce the dolls’ eyes. If everything went well, they would be able to successfully clear the game but if something went wrong….or if Xu Ziyue revealed their plans to Jin’er, they would be put in a very dangerous position.

As such, Yan Shi and they had already thought of alternative backup plans.

But on the surface Yan Shi continued to appear hesitant, “Your words have some credibility, but don’t you think it’s too risky? Also, why are you so certain Xu Ziyue knows something? Where’s the source? For what reason should we believe you?”

Guan Chengze who heard Yan Shi’s questions turned his head and slowly replied, “I stole his doll. That was a doll that could move and talk on his own and the ones in the museum are different, they can’t move and can’t talk. The museum ones can only move their eyes to scare you. That doll Xu Ziyue has must also be a special NPC like Jin’er.”

“………You must’ve seen Xu Ziyue’s love and protectiveness for the doll. Xu Ziyue definitely knows something.”

Yan Shi saw that Guan Chengze was speaking in a roundabout way and also sensed that his attitude carried a hint of plea for help, so he opened his mouth and said straightforwardly, “Guan Chengze, it’s fine if you want us to help you find Xu Ziyue but you should tell us what you did, what happened to you and how it happened. With you hiding everything, we find it hard to trust you. Also, you said you tried the other dolls in the museum but how did you try it? And you also stole Xu Ziyue’s doll before. How did Xu Ziyue manage to get it back?”

Yan Shi naturally didn’t believe Xu Ziyue’s explanation that he found the doll outside. There was no reason for Guan Chengze to go through all that effort to steal the doll and then throw it away, unless……

Guan Chengze said, “I am like this….because I received my doll, because I became ugly. I went to the empty houses with all those half doll-half corpses and tore off some clothing to wrap myself in it. As for the dolls, I stole several of them from the museum but even after talking to them and staring at them without eating or drinking anything the entire time, they were completely motionless. Even if I hit them, throw them, smash them…..No matter what I did, those dolls didn’t respond.”

“And as for Xu Ziyue’s doll……He was the one who ran off when I was no longer able to hold on any longer. He escaped when I was asleep.” Guan Chengze swallowed and hid some details that would definitely result in Yan Shi and them avoiding Xu Ziyue and his doll if they knew about it.

But his current predicament could only be solved by finding them so he could only drag them down with him.

Yan Shi didn’t completely believe in Guan Chengze’s words. He believed that there should be some truth and some lies in his words but be could at least confirm after hearing Guan Chengze’s words that at least Xu Ziyue or Guan Chengze must have lied.

Guan Chengze had said that the doll had escaped while he was sleeping while Xu Ziyue said he picked the doll himself. The two said two completely different things.

But since he was able to force Guan Chengze to reveal so much already, Yan Shi was quite satisfied. He turned and said to Hu Beijia, “Then why don’t we go with him to find Xu Ziyue?”

Hu Beijia thought about it for a while before nodding, “Okay, but…..I also don’t want to throw away the option of piercing Jin’er’s eye.”

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“Of course, both will be done.”

Guan Chengze’s tightly clenched fists slowly loosened……No rush, it’s okay. It will be fine.

Guan Chengze returned back to the hotel.

After they all went upstairs together, Xu Ziyue was finally able to continue breathing normally.

Xu Ziyue would be a fool if he didn’t feel anxious after listening to their exchange.

But Xu Ziyue really didn’t know what he should do to prove his sincerity to the doll.

As Xu Ziyue walked through the hall, he glanced upstairs before looking back and scanning his eyes across the floor.

Something was crawling…..

Xu Ziyue moved closer and saw three tiny maggots crawling slowly across the ground……..Together with the maggots was a piece of flesh about the size of a fingernail.

Its location was where Guan Chengze was standing earlier.

Xu Ziyue’s shuddered. He didn’t know what Guan Chengze looked like now because Guan Chengze had used the clothing he procured from the empty houses to wrap himself up completely.

When Xu Ziyue walked towards the museum, he paid more attention to the surrounding houses. When he reached the entrance to a small alley, he saw a house with the door half opened.

The door was made of wooden boards and there was a large lock hanging from the door as well but the place where the lock should’ve been attached to had been torn off.

Xu Ziyue stretched his leg and gently kicked the door in. As the door slowly opened, the dark room inside was revealed.

The room wasn’t very big but there were two shell-like doll lying inside.

These were ones that were not buried in the graveyard.

But the clothes on the upper half of one of them was indeed gone, revealing the doll-like upper body that is joined to the bottom half with a ball joint.

Both these two bodies were clean and free of any signs of carrion. Xu Ziyue went through the room and even searched through the one that still had clothes on but there were no signs of those disgusting things there.

Then that could only mean that those belonged to Guan Chengze.

Yan Shi and them had speculated before that the person who led them into the village on the first day probably had them eating into that persons flesh, but Lu Xiuyang wasn’t like that person at all. Although he was wearing more clothes, compared to the person who brought them in and compared to Lu Xiuyang, Guan Chengze seemed much more normal.

Xu Ziyue rubbed his face and returned to the museum.

When he reached the basement, he remembered Guan Chengze’s words again. Guan Chengze had mentioned that the other dolls couldn’t move?

Xu Ziyue approached a doll who looked a size smaller than his doll and stared at it…..

The doll’s eyes that were originally looking straight ahead later couldn’t help but also swim around under Xu Ziyue’s intense stare.

Xu Ziyue looked down in his arms before looking back up: “Um…….”

Xu Ziyue asked the doll tentatively, “I think you need a younger brother. Why don’t we raise another one?”

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The doll flattened his lips and looked like he was about to cry.

Xu Ziyue couldn’t bear seeing the doll with this expression and quickly looked away. He looked at the smaller doll and said, “Look, he didn’t refuse so I guess he’s okay with it?”

But just as Xu Ziyue finished saying that, that smaller doll jumped up, agilely leapt off the shelf into the ground before running up to the second floor of the museum at record speed.

Xu Ziyue: “………..” Was Guan Chengze cheated, or was he cheated?

Didn’t he say that you can’t move?!!!

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