The ghost Xiao Xiao claimed that the boss's secondary personality was her benefactor, a kind person completely different from the evil boss. Yue Ya learned from her that this "benefactor" gave her a name, Liu Xi.
Yueya received a note from Liu Xi, which said "Be careful with the doll", which seemed to remind them that there might be dangers related to "dolls" in the next level.
Before they had time to discuss in depth, they received the next instruction from the system.
[The models have finished their makeup. Please go to the dressing room to change. Be sure to find the clothes designated by the photographer~]
As before, the system shows players the clothes they are looking for. From the pink lipstick, you can see that this copy is very dog-like, and it will not let go of any place that can tease the players.
So when the players saw the cute little skirt displayed by the system, they were not surprised at all.
Ke Ke blinked her eyes and said, "The skirt is pretty nice. I'm actually looking forward to seeing you wearing it."
Twelve twitched his lips: "I really don't want to have any experience in dressing as a woman."
Yueya patted his shoulder and consoled him, "Just bear with it. This is just a stupid novel."
Twelve: "What are you talking about?"
[Yuezi shows a resigned expression]
[Mom fans raised their mouth corners]
[As expected, there are only 0 and countless times of wearing women's clothes, Yuezi, this is life~]
[This adventure route starts from the Undead Emporium and ends in the Land of Exile, so women's clothing should also have a beginning and an end, right?]
The players went to the cloakroom, which was quite large with three built-in wardrobes and a long cabinet in the middle for storing accessories and shoes.
The three of them entered the cloakroom and the door slammed shut behind them.
Twelve rubbed his ears and said, "Tsk, can't you try a new trick?"
Ke Ke pursed her lips and said, "Be careful, the doll mentioned in the note might be here."
Yueya walked to the long cabinet to investigate, and looked down through the transparent glass. The shoes inside were stained with blood, and the soles were covered with blood mud. The decorative nail pieces were all covered with dandruff, as if they had just been plucked from a corpse. The jewelry compartment next to it was piled with eyeballs, which made people feel nauseous at the sight of it.
They first walked around to get a feel for the situation in the cloakroom, and after making sure there were no obvious clues or taboos, they decided to open the wardrobe and check.
Yue Ya threw out the vines and wrapped them around the handle of the wardrobe: "Get ready, I'm opening it."
Twelve and Keke were on high alert, ready to deal with any emergency: "Open it."
The wardrobe door was open on both sides. The imagined danger did not appear. The inside of the closet was calm and peaceful, with only two people in gorgeous clothes.
They smiled and looked at the players innocently.
"How come there are two people in the closet?" Twelve paused: "They don't seem to be moving, are they alive?"
"It's a doll," Yueya said, "a lifelike puppet."
Twelve looked serious: "So they are the ones in danger? They don't look like they intend to attack us."
"The clothes on these two dolls are not our target," Ke Ke looked at Yue Ya: "Preemptive strike?"
Yueya nodded.
Ke Ke made seals with her hands, and the closet was filled with spider silk, wrapping up the two dolls.
Yue Ya opened the next wardrobe and after seeing the dolls inside, he took a breath. The two dolls in this wardrobe looked exactly like him!
To be precise, they look like Yue Ya with underworld makeup.
The two "Yue Ya" dolls placed side by side look very weird.
Twelve glared at Yue Ya and said, "Damn it, the boss put these two puppets here to annoy you, right?"
Yueya said calmly: "The clothes are wrong, Keke, continue sealing."
"Yeah." Ke Ke nailed the two dolls in the closet with spider silk without blinking.
Twelve silently gave a thumbs up. It was impossible for the boss to change the mentality of these two people.
Yue Ya continued to open the wardrobe, and this time, the doll inside had Ke Ke's face.
Ke Ke glanced at the doll's clothes and sealed it with spider silk without saying a word.
"It's my face's turn in the next closet. I'm mentally prepared." Twelve slowly moved his Adam's apple, waiting for Yue Ya to open the closet.
The result is that the dolls in the closet still have Keke's face. They are wearing gorgeous clothes and have cute and innocent expressions.
Seeing the skirt on the doll, the three of them fell silent, and the atmosphere in the cloakroom became a little weird.
Twelve licked his lower lip. "We have seen these two pieces of clothing in the first wardrobe. If you look closely, although these two dolls have Ke Ke's face, their expressions are the same as the dolls in the first wardrobe. It can't be a coincidence."
"Turn back."
Yue Ya looked back and saw that the dolls in the three open wardrobes in front of him, which were sealed by spider webs, had all turned into rag dolls! They were tattered, with rough red stitches all over their bodies, and cotton wool coming out of them. Their faces became abstract, and the blood-red eyes were full of malice and resentment!
[Ahhhhh, I scared Dad!]
[Oh my god, this is so creepy]
[Is this playing with the players’ mentality or the audience’s mentality? I’m a little upset.]
"puff--"
Ke Ke covered the faces of these rag dolls tightly with spider silk, and all resentment and malice were concealed by the white spider silk.
[Sister Ke Ke is awesome! ]
[Stick with beautiful sister]
Ke Ke looked at Yue Ya: "If I guess correctly, these puppets will imitate the appearance of the attacker. Twelve has not taken action so far, so he has not been imitated."
"Well, you are the main attack force, so you are their main imitation object," Yue Ya said slowly, "Also, we may have entered a cycle. If we continue at this pace, we will only see these two gorgeous dresses over and over again."
Ke Ke nodded and looked at the puppet in the fourth wardrobe: "Try to get rid of these two puppets."
"Let's try something big," Yue Ya curled her eyes and said in a normal tone, "Open all the wardrobes and try again."
As soon as he finished speaking, a puppet appeared in front of each wardrobe and opened all the doors.
There were two lifelike dolls standing in each wardrobe, wearing dresses of various colors. Yue Ya took a quick look and locked onto three of the dresses.
"Fengfeng, bring those three skirts over here."
"Yes, Master."
Fengfeng appeared behind the target puppets and turned them into ashes with just a light tap, taking away the three skirts easily.
The skirt fell into Yueya's hands, and all the dolls in the room went berserk. They all turned into Fengfeng's faces, with bloody seams appearing all over their bodies, and they staggered out of the closet.
Looking at the room full of emoticon smiley faces, Yueya felt a little complicated.
Fengfeng... Fengfeng felt very surprised and was in a wow mood: "Master, they have become like me."
Twelve rubbed his nose and wanted to laugh: "How come the Fengfeng in the room are not scary at all, but a little silly and cute?"
[The room full of emojis is too! out! of! origin!]
[Not only silly and cute, but also a bit silly]
[Wake up, fighting with a doll for a skirt is stupid]
[I thought it was scary at first, but now I just want to laugh]
Feng Feng tilted her head: "Master, what does stupid and cute mean?"
Yueya said calmly: "I mean to praise you for being cute. Fengfeng, go ahead and clean them up."
"As you wish." Feng Feng took off his gloves and smiled, "Their hands should be different from mine."
The puppets staggered closer and made hoarse voices: "Give me back the clothes... They are the most beautiful clothes in the room... Give them back to me..."
"There are no beautiful stitches on these people..." The puppet opened its mouth wide, pulled out a sharp and thick silver needle from its throat, and smiled crazily: "Sew them with red thread! Sew them all!"
The whole room was filled with the crazy and sharp laughter of the puppets. They were holding silver needles and rushing towards the players regardless of anything.
Feng Feng rushed into the puppets, and all the puppets close to him were beaten to ashes.
Although Fengfeng's fighting power is amazing, there are still some fish that slip through the net and try to attack Yueya, but they are quickly torn to pieces by Feifei.
The White Dove opened its huge mouth of the abyss and quickly eliminated all the puppets.
Before the players could even breathe a sigh of relief, new dolls emerged from the closet.
I don't know when it started, but the end of the closet turned into endless darkness, and a steady stream of dolls walked out of the darkness, making the cloakroom small and crowded.
There are too many puppets, and players are forced to join the battle.
Ke Ke spread her spider web and caught the puppets that rushed over. Twelve followed closely behind and dragged the puppets into a black book, sealing them one by one.
The puppets rushed over desperately, and the players were all injured. Yue Ya's arm was scratched by the puppet's silver needle, and the blood stained his sleeve.
"Just destroying the puppets won't solve the problem. We have to find the puppet master." Yue Ya tied up a puppet with vines and pinched its silver needle. The red line at the end of the silver needle was connected to the puppet's throat, and no one knew where the end was.
The puppet stared with its eyes wide open, uttered muffled “Ahhh” sounds, and began to struggle violently.
"Don't move." Yue Ya pinched its jaw and injected a ray of spiritual energy into the red line. Following the spiritual energy, he found a pale hand hidden in the darkness - the hand of the puppet master!
The hand stretched out from the chaos of the closet, revealing a thin wrist. It didn't know it had been exposed, and was still controlling the puppets in the room through the red strings between its fingers.
Yue Ya's eyes darkened, and he swung out a vine that pierced through the puppeteer's wrist.
The puppeteer was startled and fled into the darkness, grabbing the vines.
With a "snap", Yue Ya's vines and invisible puppet strings broke at the same time!
All the puppets that lost control fell to the ground and turned into tattered rag dolls. Upon closer inspection, there was a big hole on the face of each of these puppets, and no one knew how it was caused.
The darkness at the end of the closet also disappeared, leaving only the spider web that Ke Ke had laid before and a photo.
The melee was over. The Ghost King slid to the ground and hugged his weak self: "The Land of Exile is really terrible. I should be in the river, not here."
Xiaoxiao, the female ghost who had been fighting just now, squatted on the ground and fell into deep thought: "Why should I help these living people to fight against my former colleagues?"
Yueya picked up the photo despite their sad gazes.
The photo shows two rag dolls holding hands, with rough red thread sewn on their bodies and strange smiles on their faces.
Yue Ya turned the photo over and saw a row of messy black lines, which seemed to cover up the original writing.
I can’t see clearly, forget it.
Twelve turned the door lock and turned back to say, "The door is still locked."
At this moment, four hands suddenly stretched out from the photo, pinched Yueya's arms tightly, and their nails seemed to be embedded in his body.
Yue Ya pursed her lips and said, "The door is still locked because the 'key' has not been tamed yet."
The four pale hands sucked a little blood, tasted the sweetness, and actually wanted to drag Yue Ya into the photo.
Feifei was unhappy, so he bit one of the dolls' wrists and pulled it out by holding it in his mouth, and forcibly pulled one of the dolls out.
The puppet was pressed to the ground by Feifei and dared not move.
"Fei Fei is so awesome." Yue Ya chuckled and pulled out another puppet.
Yueya pinched open the mouth of puppet No. 2, but did not see the silver needle: "Are you puppets not controlled by the puppet master?"
Puppet No. 2: "Woo woo woo."
Yueya let go of Puppet No. 2's mouth, and Puppet No. 2 opened its mouth and said, "Give us back the skirt!"
Yueya: "Answer my question first."
Puppet No. 2 said: "We were ordinary dolls originally. We absorbed too much resentment here and became spiritual. We don't quite understand what you mean by puppet master. I have finished answering, give me back the skirt."
Yue Ya's eyes lit up: "Are there any spiritual beings in nature?"
It’s the first time I’ve seen this, it’s quite interesting, take it away.
Yueya said to Doll No. 2, "Come with me, and I can return the skirt to you."
Puppet No. 2 frowned, feeling a little embarrassed.
Yue pointed at Feifei and said honestly: "If you don't follow me, you will be..."
Puppet No. 2: "Follow you, Master!"
Feifei released his paw and patted Doll No. 1: "Meow~" Congratulations, you have been upgraded from a cat food reserve to a colleague!
Doll No. 1, who was confused the whole time: “?” What happened?
Twelve was amazed again: "Is this what we call turning enemies into friends? Taking them all away?"
[Take it away, take it away, take away all the cute ones, take away all the fresh ones]
[The scene where the villain NPC returns to the right path]
[Puppet: Those who know the times are heroes, those who don’t are cat food]
[Fei Fei: You have to choose between joining my team and entering my stomach]
[That confused doll is a little cute]
The "keys" were all instigated by Yue Ya, so the door of the cloakroom was of course opened. The three of them returned to the hall and treated their injuries.
Twelve collapsed on the sofa: "Why hasn't the system issued the next instruction yet?"
Ke Ke said calmly: "The last instruction required us to change clothes."
Twelve jumped up: "So so so we have to change into skirts before the system will issue the next instruction?"
Ke Ke nodded: "I guess so. Time is tight. Let me distribute the clothes."
Due to the size issue, they finally decided to let Twelve wear the cutest pink princess dress with the most lace. He lifted the hem of the dress in front of the mirror with a serious expression: "It seems... quite cute, worthy of me!"
Yue Ya, who was wearing a black long skirt and black gloves, held her forehead and said, "I don't want to face it."
Keke adjusted the buttons of her cheongsam: "I would be more satisfied if the makeup was more normal. It's hard to describe the feeling of matching it with the dark makeup."
[Yuezi, put your hands down and let Mama see!]
[Hahahaha, cross-dressing anchor confirmed]
[Didn’t you say before that you didn’t need experience in cross-dressing? Why do I feel like I can’t let go of it now?]
[The essence of human beings is to be true to themselves. Twelve may start to let go of himself.]
No matter what the players' mood was, after they put on cute little skirts, the system really issued new instructions.
[There is still one item missing in the shooting scene. Please find it as soon as possible, otherwise the shooting plan will be forced to stop. 】
The system displays the target object, which is a wooden photo frame covered with bloody handprints.
There are many photo frames in the photo studio. In order to find this special frame quickly, Yueya needs to ask the indigenous people for help.
Yueya asked Doll No. 2: "There is a photo frame covered with bloody handprints in the store. Do you know where it is?"
Puppet No. 1 answered: "In the attic!"
Twelve was surprised: "There is an attic here?"
Ke Ke suddenly said: "A new note appeared on the coffee table."
Puppet No. 2 took the note very tactfully and handed it to Yueya.
The note was written by the boss's secondary personality Liu Xi:
"The missing photo frame was hidden in the attic by my brother. The deer ornament on the wall is the mechanism to open the stairs. Please be careful."
Twelve: "What a coincidence? This is simply handing you a pillow because you are sleepy."
The ghost Xiaoxiao said with red eyes: "The benefactor is really a good person. If he could have his own body, he wouldn't have to be buried with the evil master personality."
The deer ornament mentioned on the note was very conspicuous, so they found it quickly.
Ke Ke pondered for a moment and whispered, "It went so smoothly."
Yue Ya: "I'll go up and take a look first, you guys support me down below."
Yueya was a team by himself, and Twelve and Keke didn't compete with him. Besides... Twelve and Keke's skirts were not very convenient for movement.
Yueya twisted the deer ornament and opened the entrance to the attic.
Yueya climbed up the stairs to the attic. The light was dim and he could not see anything clearly. It seemed as if something would come out of the darkness at any time.
Yue Ya took out a long-burning lamp and shone it around.
The attic was low, and Yueya could touch the top with just her hand, but it was quite large and filled with a lot of miscellaneous items. Yueya walked in and saw a wall of rag dolls nailed to the wall with silver needles, their eyes flashing an eerie light under the light.
Twelve's voice came from below: "Yueya, how are you?"
"I'm fine." Yue Ya responded and continued to observe the attic.
There is a sewing machine under the doll wall, and on it is a basket filled with needles and threads. The needles are thick and thin, and some are stained with blood.
There were some sundries piled next to the sewing machine. Yue Ya found the target picture frame among them. He put the picture frame into the player's backpack and walked to another corner.
No one knows what is stored in this corner, the evil spirit is very scary.
Yueya moved some debris away and found an old chainsaw stained with blood.
Thinking of what the female ghost Xiaoxiao said tearfully, Yue Ya narrowed his eyes. This chainsaw was probably the murder weapon.
Yue Ya talked to Feng Feng in her mind, asking Feng Feng to stay in the attic secretly and not to disturb any ghosts in the house, and then she went downstairs quietly.
Twelve and Ke Ke came over immediately: "How is it?"
"Found it." Yue Ya took out the bloody handprint picture frame.
Keke: "So it went smoothly? Aren't there any dangerous levels in the attic?"
Yue Ya curled her lips: "No, but there is a surprise."
"What surprise?"
"You will know soon." Yue Ya glanced at the countdown in the air. After so much trouble, there was not much time left for this level.
Twelve: "The question is, where should this picture frame be placed?"
Yueya: "I'm afraid only the photographer can answer this question."
[The photographer is on the way, please wait patiently. After completing the artistic photo shoot, you will receive generous rewards~]
Twelve pricked up his ears: "The boss is coming?"
"Everyone—" A weak voice came from the photography area, and the players looked over at the same time.
A thin and gentle young man stood next to the tripod and waved at them with an anxious expression: "I'm Liu Xi. I found a way to make my brother fall asleep. He will wake up in five minutes. You can only leave here after taking pictures. Come here quickly, I'll help you!"
Liu Xi was wearing a shirt and his body was covered with scars, looking seriously injured.
"It's the benefactor! He's injured!" The female ghost Xiaoxiao pointed at the white camera in Liu Xi's hand and said anxiously: "That is the boss's personal camera. The benefactor must have been injured so badly in order to get the camera."
Twelve thought of something and smiled slightly: "When we are sleepy, he handed us pillows. This NPC is really considerate."
"Yes, thank you very much," Yueya walked towards Liu Xi with the photo frame and asked with relief, "Excuse me, where should I put this photo frame?"
Liu Xi coughed twice and said softly, "What you have booked is a creative photo shoot. When taking the photo, the model will hold up an empty photo frame and make sure her face is within the frame."
"Creative photos of the dead? Your store is really... creative," Yueya sighed, looking at Liu Xi sincerely, "Xiaoxiao has been telling me about your deeds. You are such a kind person. I am really embarrassed that you suffered such a serious injury for us. Let me help you treat it first."
Liu Xi shook his head: "I'm fine, let's hurry up and shoot."
"Okay." As soon as Yue Ya finished speaking, a vine came out from Liu Xi's wrist and broke his palm! Liu Xi didn't have time to scream, and watched the white camera being wrapped by the vine and delivered to Yue Ya's hands.
Liu Xi's pupils trembled, and he asked pitifully: "What are you doing?"
Twelve and Ke Ke held Liu Xi's shoulders respectively and said coldly: "Stop acting. Do you really think you are a weak and good ghost?"
The ghost Xiao Xiao was puzzled and yelled at Yue Ya: "The benefactor sacrificed himself to protect you, but you repay kindness with hatred!"
Yue Ya: "Haven't you figured it out yet? Your benefactor is the puppeteer who ambushed us in the cloakroom. I used vines to plant a wisp of spiritual energy on his wrist. The new seedling just now is the evidence."
Liu Xi frequently showed goodwill to the players, and although the clues he gave were not false, they were also unimportant clues, such as the way to the attic, which Yue Ya could find by asking the puppet. Moreover, the boss said at the beginning that he would monitor them. Without the boss's tacit consent, could the "weak" secondary personality blatantly help the players?
Yue Ya didn't trust Liu Xi from the beginning, and her suspicion increased after fighting with the puppet master.
Xiao Xiao was shocked by the truth, her eyes were red: "I don't believe it... How could it be like this? It was my benefactor who sewed my body together stitch by stitch... If it weren't for my benefactor..."
Yue Ya pursed her lips and said, "This is just a lie he told you to obey him wholeheartedly."
Xiao Xiao looked at Liu Xi and asked unwillingly, "Is it really... a lie?"
Liu Xi did not answer.
"I told you a long time ago that your methods won't work against these people. They are very cunning." An evil ghost who looked almost identical to Liu Xi appeared behind Twelve and Ke Ke, grabbing the back of their heads with its sharp claws.
Twelve reacted quickly and immediately teleported with Ke Ke to avoid the attack.
The boss and Liu Xi stood side by side, looking like a pair of twins, even the evil smiles on their faces were exactly the same.
Liu Xi smiled and said, "I'm so angry. Let's kill them all. My brother likes to disassemble, and I like to sew. Let's have fun this time."
The boss laughed excitedly, and his right hand turned into a huge sharp chainsaw: "The game begins."
Yue Ya said calmly: "The game is over."
"The silly talk before death, that's really interesting..." The boss didn't care and walked towards them dragging the chainsaw, and then... a crack suddenly appeared on his soul!
The same is true for Liu Xi behind!
Their souls became more transparent. The boss looked at Yueya in disbelief: "How could... it be like this?"
Yue Ya: "My friends destroyed the chainsaw and needlework in the attic. Without the items to store souls, you will certainly be reduced to ashes."
When Fengfeng came back to report, the two stupid NPCs had completely disappeared. The NPCs who had been deceived by Liu Xi gathered together to comfort each other.
The three players took the boss's camera and took turns taking pictures of each other.
Yue Ya had already learned from Liu Xi how to use the photo frame, so they strictly followed the instructions and took the so-called "creative ghost photos".
Although this part was a bit creepy, they successfully completed the task before the countdown ended and received the key and three mysterious blind boxes as system rewards.
[End? Let me sort out my thoughts. The anchor and the player had long suspected Liu Xi, so they knew that letting Liu Xi take pictures was a dead end, so they played along with Liu Xi, taught him how to use the photo frame, snatched the camera, and killed the NPC. The plan worked√]
[The host's operation of planting spiritual energy on the puppeteer's wrist was really a bit of a show. When he cut Liu Xi's wrist, my hair stood up!]
[When the host found the chainsaw, his expression was the same as usual. I never thought that the boss's soul depended on the chainsaw, nor did I expect that the host would secretly leave Fengfeng behind and arrange the final killing!]
[Summary: NPC’s acting skills are terrible!]
[This level is difficult because of the tight time limit, but Yuezai seems to be very adaptable to this rhythm]
[Ke Ke must have suspected Liu Xi a long time ago. She kept emphasizing that the process was a little too smooth.]
[Liu Xi just wanted to lower their vigilance by going smoothly, and then close down the Internet cafe in the final stage. Unfortunately, his idea was too good to be true]
[I am really looking forward to the contents of those three blind boxes. These are the blind boxes of the Land of Exile!]
Yueya is also looking forward to it, but opening the door is the most important thing now.
He used the key to open the tightly closed door, and a long, winding staircase appeared in front of him, extending into the darkness, with no idea where it led to.
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