Chapter 499: Ragdoll Trap
At 1:47 in the morning, the tip of Xiao Jin's knife pressed against the door panel, and the cold metal vibrated slightly.
The footsteps stayed in front of her door for a full three minutes.
Xiao Jin held her breath, not even daring to flutter her eyelashes, until she heard a series of rustling sounds of friction gradually fading away, then she let out a soft breath.
What the hell is this?
Xiao Jin listened carefully just now. Not to mention any movement, there was no breathing or heartbeat, just like a dead object.
Thinking of this, after making sure that the danger had temporarily left, Xiao Jin slowly leaned over and almost lay on the ground.
She put her right eye close to the crack in the door - but the scene in front of her shocked Xiao Jin.
Moonlight poured down the corridor like mercury, illuminating a pair of pale paper-made feet. The ankles were painted with cinnabar to mark the joints, and the soles were stained with damp grave soil.
"Hehehehe~"
At this moment, a "hehehe" sound suddenly came from behind Xiao Jin, like an eerie whisper in the night wind, instantly breaking the dull and depressing silence around him.
Xiao Jin's heart suddenly sank, and her posture as she lay next to the door became stiff due to the sudden sound. She quickly turned her head and shot a sharp gaze towards the source of the sound.
When I looked closely, I saw a rag doll miraculously appeared on the empty windowsill.
It sat quietly by the window, out of tune with the gloomy atmosphere around it, yet extremely dazzling.
Xiao Jin was very familiar with that doll.
It was the little girl she met when she first arrived in Guxing Village, the one she was holding tightly in her arms.
At this moment, its pair of eyes sewn with black thread suddenly flickered strangely, and then, its disproportionately large mouth suddenly opened, and bursts of shrill and mournful laughter burst out from it.
"Hehehehe~"
The laughter echoed in the silent room, like countless resentful souls screaming in the ears, making people feel creepy.
Xiao Jin's heart trembled, thinking to himself that something was wrong.
Without time to think, she almost instinctively jumped up, her body as fast as lightning, and instantly rushed to the window sill. The long knife in her hand flashed with cold light, and she stabbed the strange rag doll accurately.
With a "swish" sound, the rag doll's body was easily torn apart by the sharp tip of the knife, and the fragments flew everywhere.
Unfortunately it's still too late.
At the end of the corridor, the paper man's movements suddenly stopped, and then his toes curled up strangely.
Xiao Jin first heard a series of 'crackling' sounds, coming from far away and getting closer.
Immediately afterwards——
"Boom!"
The sudden knocking sound caused dust to fall off the door frame.
The paper figure actually banged its forehead against the door, and the fragile paper head cracked into spider web-like cracks, revealing the tangled black hair inside. Those hairs drilled out from the cracks like living things and snaked in through the crack in the door.
The broken shadows made a buzzing sound, and Xiao Jin cut off the hair that had climbed up the shoe surface with his backhand.
The broken hair fell to the ground and turned into ashes, but a blurry face emerged from the ashes. Xiao Jin saw clearly that this person was one of the players who stayed at the village chief's house.
This discovery made her feel nervous - those players who went to the village chief's house might be in danger.
However, the paper man in front of him was easier to deal with than Xiao Jin had imagined.
She took out the ghost lamp that had not been used for a long time and opened the door.
The light illuminated the surrounding darkness. The paper man seemed to be unable to avoid the light of the ghost lamp and actually began to retreat.
Xiao Jin took a step forward, and when he saw the paper man, he took a step back.
"Is that so..." Xiao Jin raised his eyebrows slightly.
She was too lazy to bother with the paper man, so she went back into the room, closed the door, and hung the ghost lamp on the door handle.
In this way, the paper man cannot touch the door.
Clapping his hands, Xiao Jin fell back on the bed.
"Oh, it's late, let's go to bed!"
The paper man outside the door looked confused.
Sleeping? Then what am I? A watchdog!
........................
Xiao Jin didn't know when the paper man left, but she didn't see him when she went to collect the props.
It's dawn, today is the fourth day of the game.
Xiao Jin and his group sat downstairs and had breakfast.
"Hey? They haven't come back yet?" Sui Ying took a bite of the steamed bun, and the flesh on her face twitched.
“Yeah.” Sui Feng snatched half a roasted sweet potato from Feng Hao: “I think it’s hopeless. Maybe they all died in the village chief’s house.”
“Hey, you’ve already eaten so much, why are you still eating?” Feng Hao glared at Sui Feng unhappily, and had to pick up the pineapple bun beside him: “Also, can you think of something better.
They are all dead, maybe they just encountered some hidden mission and left the dungeon early!"
Sui Feng's dead eyes: "Congratulations~"
The others ignored the bickering between the two and focused on the breakfast on the table.
"Well, this seafood porridge is amazing. Do you want to try it?" Sui Ying asked Shao Siyuan.
"Okay, give me some." Shao Siyuan held the bowl.
At this moment, Xiao Jin saw Wang Zixuan's embarrassed figure through the window, with two male players following behind her.
One of them had his little finger on his right hand missing, and the cloth wrapped around the broken end was soaked with dark red blood.
"Is this... the recovery items used up?" Feng Hao, who saw the same thing, came over and sounded very surprised.
"That's probably the case, otherwise it wouldn't make sense for him to bleed in vain." Shao Siyuan's eyes were full of contemplation.
Sui Feng bared his teeth: "So miserable!"
"Every time players enter the game, they always have a lot of items, especially recovery items. They can use all of them up. I wonder what they went through last night?"
Several people shook their heads.
Obviously, obtaining materials is just the simplest step, and the rest is the most important thing!
Soon, Wang Zixuan and the other two entered the guesthouse and saw Xiao Jin and his five companions leisurely eating breakfast.
Seeing this, Wang Zixuan's face twisted.
Compared to them who were covered in stench and blood and had pale faces after staying up all night, aren’t these people going too far!
As if he saw the slight anger in Wang Zixuan's eyes, Feng Hao quickly lowered his head: "Eat quickly, eat quickly, it will get cold soon." The result only attracted an even stronger gaze.
Xiao Jin had already eaten his fill.
She ignored the strange atmosphere around her and focused her eyes on the arms of Wang Zixuan and the other two, because they were holding a portable lantern about half an arm's length.
Is this the soul-guiding lamp?
Xiao Jin narrowed his eyes.
The appearance is quite ordinary, just a white lamp, which is not lit so you can't see anything else.
But if you look closely, you can see a piece of hairy skin attached to the lampshade, which rises and falls slightly with the rhythm of the breathing, making it look alive.
“Don’t touch my lamp!”
Xiao Jin was still observing, but the player with the severed finger suddenly screamed, scaring Sui Feng and others who were eating.
"Wow wow wow ~ what's wrong with you?"
The player with the severed finger suddenly shook off the person who was supporting him and rushed directly upstairs.
The remaining male players wearing earrings ignored the player with the broken finger and even punched the air twice: "Get lost! This is all based on the rules..."