The moment Xiao Jin left, screams erupted behind her.
"No! Let me go—!"
"Help! Help me!"
The two unfortunate players were grabbed by the male owner and roughly shoved into an iron cage. The female owner then carried the cage straight to the backyard, where the fireplace awaited them.
"No! Please—!"
The furnace door opened, and the flames swallowed the last pleas for mercy.
Xiao Jin huddled in the kitchen cabinet, listening to the commotion outside gradually subsiding.
The servants searched all night and only managed to catch three players; the others who had been hiding escaped for the time being.
Seeing that it was almost time, Xiao Jin tiptoed open the cupboard and slowly crawled out.
She had to get back to her original position as soon as possible so the little boy wouldn't find out she wasn't in bed.
So Xiao Jin avoided the servants in the corridor and slipped into the room while they weren't looking. By this time, quite a few players had already returned to the room.
Their thoughts were similar to Xiao Jin's.
As long as you're not caught red-handed, you're not considered exposed.
Seeing Xiao Jin slowly move onto the bed, Chu Yuan quickly turned his head and said, "Hey, you're pretty fast."
He was referring to the time when they ran away. After Xiao Jin noticed the boy had come out, she was indeed the first to slip away; even a rabbit like Tong Xiaolu was slower than her.
Xiao Jin replied expressionlessly, "Shut up, toys can't talk."
Chu Yuan raised an eyebrow, then quietly continued cosplaying as a teddy bear.
About fifteen minutes later, the bedroom door was suddenly pushed open, but it wasn't the little boy who entered, but the lady of the villa.
"Heretical...must...be destroyed..."
The woman's eyes were bloodshot and bulging. She was muttering something to herself while staring intently at all the toys in the room—or rather, the players.
Xiao Jin lay motionless in the corner of the bed, her plastic eyes staring blankly at the ceiling. She quickly sensed someone approaching beside her.
The next second, the woman's glaring face appeared above Xiao Jin.
If someone is unprepared, they might instinctively jump up, thus falling into the other person's trap.
Xiao Jin remained extremely calm, not even flinching.
The hostess seemed quite disappointed, then turned around and tried the same trick again, which actually startled one player.
Caught off guard, the other person exclaimed in surprise, "Ouch!"
As soon as he made the sound, he immediately shut his mouth, but it was obviously too late.
The woman reached out and gripped the player tightly, her face filled with indescribable madness and excitement.
"Gotcha, gotcha, hahahaha!!!" the woman sneered.
"No, get away!" The player struggled desperately, but the woman held him tightly and he couldn't break free at all.
At the same time, the parts of his body were creaking and groaning, accompanied by intense pain.
"Help me, ah~" With the woman's force, the player was completely squeezed into a ball.
Sharp plastic shards, mixed with metal parts, cut the woman's hand, causing blood to gush out immediately, but she didn't care at all.
The woman casually fiddled with the toy in her hand, but her eyes were constantly fixed on Xiao Jin and the others.
Fortunately, the group was quite experienced, and although they were afraid of the player's fate, they didn't dare to reveal anything in front of the woman.
A moment later, the woman, who had not found any toys to 'destroy', left with a gloomy face, but the players inside still dared not move.
Sure enough, the tightly closed door was suddenly opened again the next second.
The woman's pale head peered into the doorway, her eyes filled with a chilling light. Only after seeing that no toys had moved did she finally give up and leave.
I don't know how much time passed.
Chu Yuan let out a curse, his voice breaking the surrounding silence: "Damn, this guy is really cunning."
As he spoke first, the stiff bodies of the others gradually relaxed.
"Yeah, I was terrified when she stared at me with those eyes wide open," complained a player who looked like a quill pen.
“You’re nothing!” another person said. “The player who just died was right next to me. If he hadn’t been the one who couldn’t resist and attracted the NPC’s attention, I would probably be the one who died.”
Don't think what he said was immoral. At a time like this, why be so compassionate? Of course, it would be better if someone else died!
………………
The night was as dark as ink, and the villa was shrouded in an eerie silence.
Xiao Jin leaned against the window, her cotton fingers gently tapping the window frame. A system notification floated before all the players' eyes:
[Current Score: Red Team 11 vs Blue Team 12]
[Number of survivors: 16 for the Red Team, 15 for the Blue Team]
The blue team was rather unlucky; three of them were caught last night during the NPCs' extensive search. Looking at it this way, the score comparison between the two sides is very close, and there is basically no disadvantage for either side.
"The Blue Team had three players caught by the NPCs last night." Tong Xiaolu lightly pushed off with her springy leg and landed next to Xiao Jin: "But they're still leading in points."
Chu Yuan's teddy bear crouched in the shadows, the cotton at the broken leg leaking out even more: "Those Japanese are very cunning, shamelessly targeting those who are alone."
To be honest, the NPCs actually helped us a lot yesterday, otherwise the score gap would have been even larger.
Xiao Jin did not respond.
Her gaze swept across the courtyard—the place where the batteries were supposed to refresh tonight, but it was now empty, and Xiao Jin felt that the atmosphere around her was a bit strange.
"Something's not right..." she suddenly whispered, "It's too quiet."
No sooner had he finished speaking than twenty beams of blue light suddenly appeared in the center of the courtyard!
The battery has been refreshed!
"Finally!" Chu Yuan was the first to rush out excitedly.
Although his teddy bear body was damaged, his speed was still amazing, all because Chu Yuan had made a small modification to his body.
I don't know where he found a real toy car, but he fixed the short limb inside the car.
In this way, one of his legs is normal, while the other leg has four pulleys attached to its base, making it faster than the normal leg.
After Chu Yuan had steadily surpassed two blue team players, Cotton's palm was about to touch the battery.
In that tense, suffocating moment, at the last second...
"Whoosh—!"
A sharp, urgent sound of wind breaking suddenly rang out, and three cold lights pierced the darkness. A blue team player who had been waiting for a long time threw a shuriken, which then accurately embedded itself in the back of Chu Yuan, who had just returned to human form.
This sudden attack caught Chu Yuan completely off guard. He groaned, then spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed to the ground.
"Chu Yuan!!! You bastard!" Tong Xiaolu, who was closest to him, couldn't help but shout.
Her voice was filled with undisguised worry and anger.
Xiao Jin reacted with lightning speed. Her long sword whistled out almost simultaneously, flashing with cold light, attempting to kill the blue team player who was attacking Chu Yuan.
But halfway there, he was knocked back by a fan.
Xiao Jin took the broken shadow and looked up to meet Sakurai Chinatsu's gaze.
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