Luo An had already shoved the silent earplugs into Cheng Shuang's ears. These were complimentary items from the hotel room and worked quite well, instantly reducing the noise level from high to low.

The receptionist panicked, trying to soothe one child after another, but there were too many children to handle. She finally managed to calm one down, but then heard the others continuing to cry, and soon the children who had stopped crying were back in the wailing crowd.

A resentful glare shot towards Cheng Shuang, and the little girl immediately grinned, becoming a glorious member of the crying group.

Receptionist:……

The whole thing started crying for a full half hour, and the commotion was so great that it affected the shops on either side. The customers, feeling annoyed and impatient, quickly left, which angered the shop staff, who all went to the manager on duty in the children's play area to ask him to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

The duty manager found the source again, angrily scolded the receptionist, and had another receptionist buy boxes of ice cream for the children, and the crying gradually subsided.

What bad intentions could kids possibly have? They burst out laughing the moment they saw ice cream!

As a girl who was faking her tears, Cheng Shuang put away her empty sobs, grabbed a box of ice cream, and quietly walked around the inflatable castle with a spoon in her mouth, heading towards the reading area.

Several plastic girls wearing pink hair clips sat quietly there.

These kids were quite xenophobic. When Cheng Shuang came over, one of them stood up and asked in a high-pitched, spoiled voice, "Miss, would you like to join our Brain-Swapping Beauties' Girlfriends Team?"

What the heck? A brain-swapped beauties' bestie squad? Is this name, so trendy that you'll never run into someone with it, yet somehow down-to-earth, for real?

Cheng Shuang smiled and stepped back, inwardly crying. What did Uncle Sun think of her? Did she always act like a complete chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur)? Was that why he thought she could be so happy in this weird place?

Reality taught her that when girls get tough, boys might not stand a chance!

Plastic boys might at most have their limbs removed, but plastic girls? They're good at changing clothes when they grow up, and they get a complete head transplant before they even grow up!

After leaving the reading area, Cheng Shuang finally found the place Sun Han had mentioned—the pretend play area.

All the life-size dolls were displayed on the counter, a dazzling array. Many plastic girls wearing pink bows were bustling around, picking out and changing clothes for their dolls.

A few boys sat in the building block area next door, looking at Cheng Shuang from a distance across a low, upholstered bench. They watched as she walked into the pretend play area and relaxed, continuing to play with the building blocks in her hands.

Cheng Shuang glanced at it; there weren't many blocks, but the ones they built were in the shape of human faces. The plastic boys would always mischievously knock the faces down again after they finished building them.

They seemed to enjoy the process of being pushed over, letting out sharp laughter each time, but the laughter was mixed with some faint vocalizations.

The little girl suddenly stopped in her tracks; she thought she heard someone crying.

She hesitated for a moment, then leaned against the upholstered seat and looked closely.

The building blocks are pieced together to form a normal human face. During this process, the eyes are closed. But the moment the building blocks fall, the eyes on the face suddenly open, and the expression is one of pain and despair.

It goes on and on!

Cheng Shuang's heart sank.

She recognized one of the faces as Apra, who had died in the movie theater and turned into a mosaic.

Now his face is just made up of building blocks. When they are separated, he is unrecognizable, but when they are put together into a complete shape, you can see his eyelids trembling, only to be completely destroyed in the next second.

What about those dolls displayed in the pretend play area?

The little girl stepped into the dressing area and went straight to the display stand where the dolls were displayed. Each display stand had a different price tag, and the more beautiful the doll, the more expensive it was.

Her gaze was fixed on the doll's facial features.

These dolls resemble Barbie in appearance, are about the height of an adult's palm, have two metal support rods inserted from the bottom of their feet, and are displayed on a circular tray below.

The main activity in the pretend play area is dressing up the dolls. The first thing to do is to pull the dolls out of the metal support rods.

The faint, thread-like cry lasted for less than half a second before abruptly ending.

Cheng Shuang looked at those desperate faces and was immediately horrified.

Without a doubt, these toys that are played with so wantonly actually possess the souls of maintainers who died in some project.

The most terrifying thing is that their souls awaken for a moment, but that moment of awakening is filled with endless pain and torment.

Cheng Shuang lowered her eyes, concealing her heavy thoughts. That's why she hated the wanderers and the land of death. Even if she was touched for a moment by the actions of a particular wanderer, it was only for a moment.

The little girl was too young to understand the meaning of the saying "those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts." She only clearly recognized the cruelty of the land of death, and that the wanderers were one of the culprits who created this cruelty.

As the old saying goes, "The victor is king, the loser is villain," and people can judge one's achievements after death. But to not even let someone die cleanly is truly outrageous.

Cheng Shuang suddenly slapped her forehead. She was just being silly; why was she judging the homeless person's behavior with human logic? Wasn't she just making things harder for herself?

The plastic girls in the pretend play area weren't exactly welcoming to newcomers, especially humans who were clearly different from them. They looked at Cheng Shuang's black hair, her bright eyes, and her rosy complexion with envy until their 'gaze' landed on Luo An.

A plastic girl wearing beautiful pearl earrings and a necklace used the key around her neck to open the glass window of the most expensive row and took a doll standing in the center.

It glanced at the doll's face in its hand, then at the exquisite doll Cheng Shuang was holding, and finally yanked the doll off with all its might. It seemed not to have noticed the doll's wide-open eyes contorted in pain. It casually grabbed the doll by the hair, tossed it around, and ran towards Cheng Shuang, "Miss, can we trade? My doll is the prettiest!"

Cheng Shuang looked at her and saw that she was indeed a beautiful woman with delicate features and a classic oval face. Unfortunately, her skin had become stiff and plastic-like, her empty eyes were filled with tears, and her expression was extremely rigid.

As the plastic girl swayed, tears streamed down her face like cheap glass beads, falling to the ground unnoticed.

Cheng Shuang pursed her lips and hugged Luo An tightly. "I'm sorry, Luo An is my own doll, and he's different from all the others here. I won't exchange him with any other child."

The plastic girl had a bad temper and immediately screamed, "Then I'll have a contest with you to change the doll's clothes. Whoever changes it faster gets the doll!"

"Come on!" The little girl showed no remorse for bullying the child. She raised her head and looked down at the tiny figure in front of her. "You little liar, these dolls aren't yours. If you say you'll exchange them, will the other children agree? Will the shop owner agree?"

"It's mine! It's mine!" The plastic doll hurriedly picked up the key hanging from the pearl necklace and said proudly, "My parents bought me these dolls. They're all mine. I can play with whichever one I want. But I'm a good girl, and I usually play with my friends. You should learn to be a good girl and share your dolls with your friends."