Chapter 444: Chapter 444: Another Pair of Eyes
 

A bustling stage—

The music surged, lights converged, and cartoon puppets performed on stage.

Below the stage was an invisible area, typically used as a secret passageway for performers to make unexpected entrances or exits.

This was a place hidden from the audience’s view, and even the performing puppets couldn’t see.

At this moment, it was filled with the survivors of the game so far — Shen Mo, Bai Youwei, Tan Xiao, Shen Fei, Yan Qingwen, Lun Ang, and Yu Yaqing.

Their actions had not achieved the desired effect, and everyone was anxious.

Yan Qingwen counted and said, “There are seven left.”

Pausing slightly, his gaze shifted from the unconscious Shen Fei and wounded Yu Yaqing, adding, “Among the seven, two are injured.”

Bai Youwei felt this man was obsessed with numbers. It was clear enough to the eye that the number of people had decreased, yet he insisted on emphasizing it.

Yu Yaqing, pressing on his abdominal wound, said, “My injury isn’t severe. A few hours of rest, and I will recover quickly.”

Lun Ang, annoyed, exclaimed, “This game is somewhat twisted, isn’t it? We burnt Mary and the cat into metallic skeletons, and yet they still aren’t dead! Did we do all that for nothing?!”

“It’s not completely useless,” Shen Mo said calmly, “At least, we all know now that Mary and the cat aren’t afraid of fire. Their weaknesses must lie elsewhere.”

Yan Qingwen nodded lightly, “Exactly, we’ve tried knives, electricity, fire. Mary and the cat took the blows but ended up recovering completely. Now, facing these two metal skeletons, we need to consider other possibilities. What part did we overlook…”

“The knife doesn’t work?” Tan Xiao, baffled, glanced around, “Brother Mo cut off Mary’s arm with a sword, right? How can that be useless?”

Yan Qingwen paused slightly, and asked Tan Xiao, “How was Mary’s arm when you saw her?”

Tan Xiao shook his head, “It turned into a triangular knife, but surely it doesn’t transform wherever it’s cut, unless it’s a Transformer.”

Yan Qingwen pondered, “So, although we can’t hurt the steel skeletons, we can dismantle them at the joints… and after dismantling, Mary’s form changes accordingly.”

“But does dismantling account for ‘killing’ them?” Yu Yaqing frowned, “The game’s victory terms are to ‘kill’ Mary or the cat. Just severing an arm wouldn’t suffice.”

Lun Ang snorted heavily, “I just don’t believe it. Chop off its head and see if it can still live!”

“Old man, don’t blow your own trumpet~” Tan Xiao made a cynical remark, “We can’t even get close to them for now, are we supposed to kill from afar?”

“It’s not that we can’t get close…” Yan Qingwen contemplated with a stern expression, and continued slowly, “If we could get the doll off Mary… perhaps we could succeed.”

He spoke, then looked at everyone, “We’ve all overlooked the ragdoll on Mary. The dolls in the amusement park all serve as Mary’s eyes. When I climbed onto the carousel, the doll saw me, which is why the ambush failed. If we want to succeed next time, we must figure out how to deal with the doll first.”

Yu Yaqing realized, “You mean… if we don’t deal with Mary’s doll, it’s just like, they are sleeping with their eyes open?”

“Yes.” Yan Qingwen confirmed, “The game is divided into day and night, it must have a purpose. Just as you said earlier, if they are invincible at night, then they must have a weakness during the day.”

Yu Yaqing frowned and thought for a while, looked hesitantly at Bai Youwei, “Weiwei, what do you think?”