Chapter 161: Dreamless Doll

"Did you hear a sound?" Qiao Sang asked, her expression tense.

Fang Fang Sisi paused for a moment, then said uncertainly, "It sounds like the cry of a Baby Shell."

The Baby Shell is a Water-type pet beast. It usually speaks with "ying-ying-ying" sounds, but beyond that, it can also emit cries very similar to those of a human infant.

Except for breeders, it is very difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the difference between the two sounds.

Qiao Sang didn't expect Fang Fang Sisi to think of a Baby Shell so quickly. Before she could continue questioning, Fang Fang Sisi spoke up:

"When players step into the second stage, the Baby Shells in the water will make this sound, and immediately after, the Cloned Puppet's claws will crawl out of the waterway with imitation human hands to scare the players."

"But shouldn't this be the plot of the secret room? Could it be that the pet beasts in the second stage haven't been affected?" Qiao Sang asked.

Fang Fang Sisi thought for a moment and said, "No, it's still different. The Cloned Puppet's claws didn't come out."

"You're right." Qiao Sang nodded in agreement.

Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost blinked its eyes innocently behind them.

After walking two steps, Qiao Sang stopped, closed her eyes, and felt for Like Ya Bao's position again.

It was still a black background screen and a distance of less than a hundred meters.

How could the distance not have changed after walking so far? Qiao Sang opened her eyes, feeling a wave of astonishment in her heart.

Just then, the sound similar to an infant's crying rang out again.

"Do you know exactly which direction the Baby Shell is in?" Qiao Sang turned and asked.

"If we follow the secret room script, it should be in the waterway on the side, following us." Fang Fang Sisi paused and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"If it's willing to chat properly, that's best. If not, we'll just have to fight it before we can talk," Qiao Sang said.

As far as it goes, the Baby Shell is the only NPC in the first and second stages that is still conscious. Since the secret room has gone awry, of course, she has to find the Baby Shell that might have witnessed what happened to have a chat.

……

Monitoring Room.

The man wearing a hat looked at the screen in the monitor and paced back and forth, anxiously saying, "How did they get in? What should we do now that something has happened!"

The observation room's screen only corresponded to the scene where the Flame-Listening Dog appeared. Now that the Flame-Listening Dog's tracks were invisible, and the monitor for the first stage room was also broken, staying there was naturally useless.

But the monitoring room was different.

There were several screens in the monitoring room, each corresponding to the various stages of the Lost Town secret room.

Originally, red eyes inexplicably filled the screen of one of the monitors, and everything could be seen clearly in the monitoring room.

As the fog filled the air, all the cameras in the first stage room stopped working.

The monitors for the other stages had no abnormalities, but the intercom reception had problems, and calls couldn't be made out either.

They wanted to go out to take a look, but when they reached the corner of the corridor outside the monitoring room, what appeared before their eyes was still the monitoring room.

There was no other way, so they had to retreat back into the monitoring room.

They noticed the two girls entering the second stage secret room the moment it happened.

They originally thought they were the culprits behind this situation.

But after zooming in to take a look, one was the Beast Tamer of the Flame-Listening Dog, and the other was the Beast Tamer of the No. 9 NPC.

Neither the Flame-Listening Dog nor the Cotton-Joint Worm could have caused such a bizarre scene, so the suspicion was naturally ruled out.

This was not the most important thing.

The most important thing was that the monitor showed that there were actually two Ghost-type pet beasts following behind them!

One was a Treasure-Hunting Ghost, and the other was a Dreamless Doll.

The former was easy to explain: a beginner-level pet beast, looking small in size, so it should also be young.

But the latter was a genuine high-level pet beast!

Dreamless Doll, with the Insomnia trait, cannot sleep for 24 hours. Some experts believe their eyes might be red from staying up late.

They like to use other people's dreams as food.

They can barely be considered pet beasts among Ghost-type transcendent creatures that prefer energy that is not so evil.

But there is one point.

Dreamless Dolls like to create dreams for people, and they are all nightmares.

They are naturally gifted at dreams, and the nightmares they create make people in their sleep have an experience as if they were in reality. Even after waking up, it makes people unable to distinguish whether it was a dream or reality for a while, leaving people with lingering fears.

Some people might not recover for several days, so there are quite a few people who have become mentally weak because of this.

How could such a pet beast suddenly appear in their secret room?

"The phone still can't get through." The young man on the side shook his head.

"Do you think this is man-made or did they accidentally wander in?" The man wearing the hat looked at the monitor, his brow furrowed and his expression ugly.

"It doesn't look man-made, nor does it look like they wandered in." The young man analyzed: "Look at the monitor, this Treasure-Hunting Ghost is quite close to the two girls in front, and it's wearing beads around its neck, which look like props. It should be a pet beast that has been contracted."

"But the Dreamless Doll behind is further away from them, following them secretly, as if it's afraid of being discovered by them. If it had wandered in, according to the personality of Ghost-type pet beasts, it would most likely have turned invisible and walked through the wall to get out."

"But look, our corridor can't be walked out of, there's the signal problem, and that black fog—it's clearly all done on purpose. Looking at it this way, it doesn't look like they wandered in."

"And don't you think the red eyes that appeared on the monitor earlier were those of the Dreamless Doll?"

"Damn it, I discovered long ago that those eyes were its! Tell me, what should we do now! And these two little brats... Holy crap! What are they doing?" The man wearing the hat stared fixedly at the monitor screen as if he had seen a ghost.

The young man on the side heard this and looked at the screen.

Just then, a red eye occupied the entire monitor screen of the second stage secret room again.

The eye turned left and right twice.

The screen went black.

……

"Ahhhhhhh!"

"Like Ya Bao, save me!!!"

A shrill scream echoed throughout the entire underground waterway.

"Xun, xun~"

Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost curved its eyes and grinned, speeding up to follow behind Qiao Sang, looking happy, as if it were playing.

Following closely behind it were two hands dripping with red liquid, two legs also dripping with red liquid, and a Baby Shell covered in sharp spikes.

"Holy crap! What is that thing!" Qiao Sang asked loudly while running.

"Baby Shell!" Fang Fang Sisi answered loudly.

"I'm asking about those severed hands and feet!" Qiao Sang used the fastest speed of her life to run forward.

"The Cloned Puppet's limbs!" Fang Fang Sisi's running speed lagged slightly behind.

What? The Cloned Puppet's limbs?

Qiao Sang was stunned and instantly didn't want to run anymore.

She thought it was a real horror movie segment coming into reality, but it was still the work of a Ghost-type pet beast.

Qiao Sang slowed down and turned her head.

She saw the four severed limbs that looked like they were dripping with fresh blood, along with the Baby Shell, rushing toward her like crazy.

As soon as her speed slowed, the things behind her closed the distance significantly.

Qiao Sang was startled and subconsciously accelerated again.

Holy crap! This scene seen in horror movies feels completely different from experiencing it personally, okay!

"Aren't these NPCs! Why are you running!" Qiao Sang questioned loudly.

"It's all because of you!" Fang Fang Sisi wept in the wind.

"What did I do!" Qiao Sang looked confused.

"You said you had nothing better to do than let the Treasure-Hunting Ghost wiggle its butt and make faces at the sewer!" Fang Fang Sisi denounced loudly: "Not only that, you even let it spit into it!"

"Isn't this to attract the Baby Shell to come out!" Qiao Sang was very innocent: "Who knew the Cloned Puppet was also here! Is the script for this second stage like this? Don't they know we aren't here to play? Is it reasonable to be this scary!"

Fang Fang Sisi shouted loudly: "The plot is certainly not like this! Otherwise, why would I be running!"

"Then why..."

"It's all because of what you let the Treasure-Hunting Ghost do!"

"……"

"Xun~" ===== CHAPTER 162 =====