Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

"What jigsaw puzzle?" Du Lai cautiously retreated. "I don't understand what you mean."

The man approached him. "How could you not understand? If my guess is correct, you should have at least three… no, at least four puzzle pieces on you. Am I right?"

He got closer and closer, his complexion under the night appearing ashen, not like a living person, but like a vampire visiting in the dead of night, especially with the white gloves on his hands, glaringly bright, so white they were dazzling, eerily frightening.

Du Lai suddenly recalled the news he'd heard today.

"You're a survivor from Game No. 21, right?" Du Lai sneered. "Looks like you wiped out all those people."

"Oh… if you put it that way, it's very impolite." The man smiled. "I merely… sent them on their way, that's all."

Du Lai raised an eyebrow provocatively. "After sending them on their way, you realized you'd wasted your time, so you're so frustrated you can't sleep and ran out here in the middle of the night?"

The other man's eyes were cold as he looked at Du Lai. "Yes… thanks to you."

Whoosh!

A flash of silver light!

He suddenly attacked!

A metal pipe suddenly appeared between his hands! And he swung it fiercely at Du Lai!

Du Lai nimbly dodged, and the metal pipe made a loud "bang" as it struck the concrete ground!

The man continued to strike! Du Lai rolled on the ground repeatedly, then scrambled up and ran wildly toward a nearby alley! He was incredibly fast!

The man behind him pursued relentlessly! His speed was surprisingly comparable to Du Lai's!

"Why are you running? You got quite a few props from them, didn't you? Aren't you going to use a few? Let me see… without props, how can you hold on?"

His tone was gentle, his voice like the chanting of a vengeful spirit, but the iron pipe in his hand showed no mercy! Like the scythe of the Grim Reaper, it frequently swept and smashed, scattering glass, bricks, and dirt along the way!

Du Lai used the terrain to escape as quickly as possible!

He sometimes ran through the streets, sometimes turned into small alleys, sometimes used the external unit of an air conditioner to jump onto a rain awning! Then he leaped high, climbed up the security window in one breath, and reached the roof of the six-story building!

Below was pitch black.

He looked down from his high vantage point, just as he thought he had shaken off his pursuer, when a shattering sound suddenly came from under his feet!

A hand wearing a white glove smashed through the sixth-floor window and grabbed the edge of the roof!

Du Lai gritted his teeth.

He hadn't expected this guy to be so difficult to deal with!

He reached into Bai Youwei's canvas bag, wanting to find a usable prop at random, but when he pulled out a wooden cuckoo clock, the cuckoo bird popped out with a bang! Scaring him half to death!

"Cuckoo—cuckoo—"

The chiming was especially loud in the silent night!

Du Lai was furious!

"Damn it, neither of these two is any good!"

He raised the canvas bag and smashed it down hard on the white-gloved hand! Then he turned and ran!

He ran to one side of the roof, took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and accelerated into a running jump at the edge! Like a lithe and agile leopard, he landed steadily on the roof of the adjacent building!

A smug smile appeared on the corner of Du Lai's mouth.

He stood up easily, brushed the dust off his hands, and walked away.

Clang!—

A chain struck his ankle!

Du Lai's expression changed drastically, and he fell to the ground, his hands instinctively propping himself up, but the chain tightly wrapped around his ankle! And dragged him forcefully!

He looked back, and the man in the white gloves had somehow climbed onto the roof, the iron pipe in his hand had disappeared, replaced by this sturdy chain!

The chain was firmly wrapped around his ankle! As the man pulled back, little by little, their distance grew closer and closer!

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