Chapter 104 24-Hour Teacher (7)
"You like wearing Lolita fashion too?"
Bai Ye took the initiative to ask, and then explained, "A doll I know also really likes Lolita outfits."
"What kind of doll do you know? Is it like me?" In the elevator, the doll slowly turned around, mechanical and stiff, completely unlike a real person.
This is incomparable to the doll in the housekeeping dungeon.
That doll was almost alive.
“It’s not like you. It’s more like a person.” Bai Ye was very curious about the doll in front of her.
Thinking of his props, he suddenly had an idea and tapped the screen.
Lolita was always there, but he never thought of using it. Firstly, he felt the dress didn't suit him, and secondly, he didn't know its specific effects and was afraid of making things worse.
But this time!
Bai Ye had a strong premonition that it was time to use the item.
"Choose to use the Lolita outfit."
In an instant, the elevator was filled with light.
Bai Ye subconsciously squinted and raised his hand to shield his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he saw that he had not changed at all.
The supposed added value of this Lolita outfit is nowhere to be seen.
"Strange, your props are fake, I want—"
He stopped mid-sentence, staring blankly at the doll in front of him, speechless.
The reason is simple: the Lolita-clad doll in front of me has become a broken and incomplete doll.
The doll was truly shedding blood and tears, with one arm torn off and its stomach completely sunken in.
"How...how could you?"
"Human, can you see me clearly?"
Bai Ye swallowed hard and nodded gently.
The doll laughed, stepped forward, and grabbed Bai Ye's arm.
They dragged each other out of the elevator.
Bai Ye was forcibly dragged back and stood at Teacher Yang's door once again.
The door was indeed ajar.
"Humans, go in and see."
As the doll spoke, it took an unusually long step and went inside first.
Bai Ye could clearly see that there were friction marks on the path the doll had walked on, as if the doll was not walking on its own, but being dragged along.
"Inside, Zhang Xiao..."
Bai Ye hesitated at the door for a moment, then, driven by curiosity, went inside again.
As you move around, the environment of the house gradually changes. With each step you take, you can see that the normal living room becomes gloomy and dark, and gradually turns gray and dilapidated.
Standing at the door of Zhang Xiao's bedroom, Bai Ye could clearly see that all the dolls in the room were broken into pieces.
These dolls had been forcibly torn apart and were almost broken.
Zhang Xiao stood in the middle of the dolls, her eyes blank.
Bai Ye looked at the student in front of him, but what he saw reflected in his pupils was the appearance of a three-year-old child.
Zhang Xiao was no longer there; all that remained was a small baby in an unfamiliar environment, filled with fear and dread.
"Dad...Dad..."
"Dad, where are you? Don't you want Bai Jin anymore?"
"Dad, I can't get out! Dad, come save me..."
As the trembling voice reached his ears, Bai Ye almost burst into tears.
It's my little white rabbit!
"Bai Jin, don't be afraid, Daddy is coming to save you."
Bai Ye walked into the bedroom, taking one step at a time, each step feeling like he was stepping on sticky, damp earth, and with each step he seemed to hear a roar.
But he didn't have time to think about it carefully; he was only thinking about going faster and faster.
My daughter is trapped, I need to go and rescue her.
The moment Bai Ye hugged Bai Jin, his heart swelled with a feeling of having lost something and regained it.
"Little Bai, Daddy's here, don't be afraid."
Bai Jin snapped out of her daze, reached out, and couldn't help but laugh when she hugged the real thing.
"Dad, I've finally found you."
So many spatial rifts, so many small worlds, finally... we found them.
Half an hour later, the father and daughter sat on the sofa in the living room.
Bai Ye's soul had just returned to her body and was still trying to process what her child had told her.
"You mean, you left that instance world on a whim, and when you came back you almost got captured? Who wanted to capture you?"
“I don’t know, it was a very powerful force that wanted to grab me. I can’t go back to my original little world, I can only run.” Bai Jin shook his head. “It’s been too long, I’ve almost forgotten that fear and terror.”
"It's been a long time. We've only been separated for a few years, haven't we?" Bai Ye asked, puzzled.
Bai Jin chuckled softly, "Dad, don't you know? The flow of time is different in each small world. I walked and walked with the doll, and I don't know how many small worlds I've passed through. It feels like I've lived for hundreds of years, but I've almost forgotten."
“Every time I arrive in a new little world, I try to leave behind a puppet doll. I think if my dad sees the doll, he will recognize it, and then the doll will turn into my appearance, and I will find my dad.”
"Unfortunately, Dad didn't recognize me."
Bai Jin said regretfully, "Among the housekeeping dungeons, that doll is the most realistic one."
Bai Ye was shocked. He never imagined that he and his daughter would brush past each other in the game.
"I don't know why I didn't recognize it. I just thought it looked like it, but that doll isn't yours. The eyes are different..." Bai Ye explained incoherently.
In the end, I felt a pang of pain in my heart.
He recalled a room full of dilapidated dolls, each one a piece of evidence of a small, fragmented world.
Once the puppet doll loses its function and travels back through the time rift to return to its owner, it will be crushed and destroyed.
A dozen, maybe dozens, how long had his little white silk been searching for him?
"Xiaobai, Daddy is sorry." Bai Ye truly felt that he had really raised a daughter.
He didn't care at all whether his daughter was strange or anything like that.
"Dad recognized you this time, will you still leave?" Bai Ye began to worry and be afraid.
Bai Jin shook her head, a rare smile appearing on her face, her voice sweet, "No, Daddy found me, I won't be trapped anymore. I'm free, the children should all go home."
As he spoke, Bai Jin waved his hand, and all the broken dolls in the room vanished, turning into wisps of mist.
As the fog dissipated, the white brocade before my eyes became even brighter.
"Dad, what are you going to do in this little world?" Bai Jin quickly changed the subject.
Bai Ye then remembered his business and, without hiding anything, told him about his dungeon quest.
Thinking of Class 601, I can't help but complain, "Xiao Bai, listen to this, is this something a human being can do? 30 problem students, all of them have suicidal tendencies, [weird] this is going to kill me."
"Oh no, it's 29, not including my Little White," Bai Ye corrected.
Bai Jin didn't mind. Instead, she said, "It's okay, Dad. It's fine to include me. Actually, I'm really collecting information about deaths."
"What's the meaning?"
"My group of five is nearing the death line. By collecting information about deaths, I can obtain more information."
"Um?"
"They want to find my power. They need death. I want to find the source of that power by collecting deaths."
Bai Jin has traveled through many small worlds and clearly realized that there is a force manipulating these strange worlds.
This force is extremely malevolent, targeting not only human players but also the supernatural itself.
“The Second High One is unpredictable and out of control, so they want to capture me. I need to find their headquarters before they find me,” Bai Jin said.
Bai Ye was extremely surprised; he had guessed this information before.
But actually hearing it, and having it confirmed by the indigenous people, was still very shocking.
"Dad, are you surprised? Didn't you already find evidence in your previous little world?"
"What do you mean?" Bai Ye paused.
Bai Jin thought for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Oh, Dad doesn't have the source of the strangeness anymore, you've forgotten that information."
"Xiaobai, I have a question for you. Can you answer it truthfully?"
"Dad asked." Bai Jin nodded.
Bai Ye took a deep breath and tried to ask in a tactful way, "So, does my half-demon body have anything to do with you?"
Bai Jin said calmly, "Yes, the body I created for Dad is half human and half monster, isn't that amazing?"
"..."
"Doesn't Daddy like it?"
"No, it's just, well, it was quite unexpected."
Bai Ye couldn't quite describe his feelings. He had never imagined that the source of his strange attributes would really be Bai Jin.
He always believed it was the work of the "Strange" envoy.
The next second, the other person said, "A crack appeared in the space, and something bad got in. I'm afraid my dad will be taken away. I just want to protect him."
"Xiaobai, tell me in detail."
"Dad has a very fragrant smell, which bad things like. I want to hide them. I wish they were weird like me, but Dad doesn't want to become weird, so I only managed to hide half of it."
While Bai Ye was still deep in thought, Bai Jin had already used the puppet doll to return the truth memories that Bai Ye had investigated, as if they were from a strange entity.
Suddenly, a bunch of memory fragments were stuffed into Bai Ye's mind. The fragments were put together on their own, and the information that had been lost in the housekeeping instance was finally filled in completely.
"The top-tier, bizarre Nine Venerables utilize human players' healing pods to absorb special human substances as nutrients. Those healing pods are essentially their nutrient pools."
"All human players are under extremely eerie surveillance; the virtual screens they carry are the evidence."
Bai Ye revealed the information he knew, his expression extremely solemn.
Looking at the person in front of him again, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness, Xiaobai, you are a second-highest level of the supernatural being, so you weren't controlled by them."
Bai Jin pondered, "So what they want is the life force of human players, along with the deathly aura of the eerie entity itself, mixed together as nourishment and food?"
"How could you think that?" Bai Ye felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing this.
Unexpectedly, Bai Jin dropped another bombshell, "We need death energy! Just now in the elevator, that student who called for his father was already dead. Death energy is about to spread, it won't even be considered eerie anymore."
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Bai Ye was stunned, then quickly remembered the 18th floor from before.
"That office building?"
"Yes, that student accidentally fell into the construction site and got stuck inside. He can't escape and is trapped in that building forever. Once the death energy dissipates, he should be able to die completely."
Then Bai Jin added, "Dad, your mission is to escort 30 students to graduate safely. This might be very difficult, because at least half of the students are already dead."
"What?!"
"Those who are about to die can be saved, but how can those who are already dead be saved?"
As Bai Jin spoke, his expression turned fierce. "Damn it! This [weird] must also be controlled by that power. They want Dad to keep going back and forth between life and death, and once he's tainted by all those auras, he'll become neither human nor weird."
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