I Have Yet to Become a Doll Today

Shen Mo’s calls to her sounded fuzzy, as if her ears had turned into cotton.

Shen Mo used mud to treat her, but there were only three uses of it left. Yu Yaqing had over ten wounds in her body. As they treated one, others continued to bleed out bright red jelly-like blood.

“Don’t… waste… supplies…”

Yu Yaqing grabbed Shen Mo’s arm, forcing out words from her throat:

“…how… long… has it been?”

A dull pain clenched Shen Mo’s heart. He looked in the direction of the Crystal Tower and said, “Ten minutes. Yu Yaqing, we’re going to win.”

“Shen Mo…you…tell Bai Youwei…”

Her voice was growing fainter and fainter.

Shen Mo bent down, listening closely as she whispered:

“Tell Bai Youwei… she must… win, win till the end.”

Shen Mo gritted his teeth and replied: “Alright, I’ll tell her.”

…

The Crystal Tower—

The spiral staircase led to a dead end. There was no way forward.

The top of the Crystal Tower was different from the rest. The seventh floor was designed like a giant Crystal Stone, therefore it was entirely made of glass. This meant that the visitors could directly see the sixth floor from there.

But now, the glass floor of the seventh floor was gone.

Including the staircase that was built on the glass floor, it was all destroyed.

Now, where Bai Youwei was, the sixth floor, the floor was covered with shards of glass of all sizes. Even though she was careful, she couldn’t avoid getting cut.

She raised her head to look at the doll on the top of the tower.

It was sitting atop the mysterious Crystal Stone in the center of the seventh floor.

The ‘mysterious Crystal Stone’ was not mysterious at all, just an artificially crafted sculpture hung there to give a sense of achievement and pleasure to the children who reached the top. They could take pictures, buy souvenirs, or make a wish on the Crystal Stone.

The small doll sat there, with its golden yarn hair, pink cotton dress, a flat face with a pair of dark glass bead eyes, and a curved mouth stitched with thin threads.

Through the glass, the doll looked at the blazing fire in the “Jungle Adventure” direction and said slowly:

“Oh, all that fire burned were some trees. I thought the fire would spread over here. I was so scared that I kept watching.”

Its voice was as sweet as a baby, but it carried a heavy tone of mockery.

Bai Youwei asked it, “Are you Mary?”

It looked down at Bai Youwei, “Surprise, surprise~ Aren’t you lame? Yet here you are. Quite unexpected, huh! But even if you made it here, what good will it do?”

It laughed.

“What good will it do? After all the trouble to get here, only to find there’s no way forward, how would that feel? Oh la la~ Just thinking about it makes me want to laugh. Ha-ha-ha-ha~”

The laughter suddenly stopped. As if mood-swinging, it cursed suddenly:

“You think, just by keeping my doll and cat busy, you could kill me? You bastards! Bloody bastards! You all deserve to die! In tonight’s game of hide and seek, I’ll make sure none of you survives! None!!!”

Bai Youwei took out the rabbit.

Mary began laughing again—

“Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!! Have you gone mad from anger? Or have you become stupid? How are you going to electrocute me? Don’t you know that glass is an insulator?

And there are conditions to use that item of yours, right? Only effective within 2 or 3 meters?

Are you going to throw it here? Can you throw that high?

Why don’t you jump up here yourself? Oh… I forgot, you’re lame, you can’t jump. Ha-ha-ha-ha!!!”