Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

Dollhouse—

Welcome to the Dollhouse.

Connecting these words to the inscription on the gold coin, everyone instinctively looked at Tan Xiao.

Tan Xiao looked bewildered. "Huh? Why is everyone looking at me?"

Some people looked away, their expressions complex.

"Hey, you guys don't blame me, do you?" Tan Xiao refused to take the blame and immediately pointed at Li Li. "If he hadn't insisted on looking at that gold coin, I wouldn't have even noticed the inscription! Blame him!"

Li Li looked constipated. "That was only natural and understandable, okay? Coming out of a game, of course, I'd be curious about the final reward!"

Su Man also spoke up for Li Li. "Blame that Proctor! What kind of reward is that? It's clearly meant to set us up!"

"So, it's my fault then?" Bai Youwei calmly interjected. "If I hadn't led everyone to clear the game and offended the Proctor, maybe it wouldn't have given us this gold coin."

Tan Xiao immediately defended her. "How can you be blamed?! If that's the case, shouldn't we blame Brother Fei the most?! If he hadn't brought a bunch of people over, we wouldn't have entered the game in the first place!"

"Brother Fei came because you robbed them!" Lü Ang added.

"We robbed them because they had bad intentions! They wanted to steal our props!"

"How did they know you had props?"

"Would we have exposed our props if you hadn't picked a fight?"

Round and round, the argument circled back to the beginning.

"Alright, stop acting like three-year-olds." Yan Qingwen was both exasperated and annoyed. "At a time like this, is arguing really helpful?"

Everyone shut their mouths.

The silence lasted for a short while.

Shen Mo said, "If the game system is truly that strict, why didn't it react when the Proctor gave the gold coin to Tan Xiao as a reward?"

"Could it be a bonus stage?" Tan Xiao suggested.

Although he hadn't studied for many years, he played a lot of games and his gaming instincts were sharp.

"Many online games have this kind of setting. You kill a monster, and if you're lucky, it drops a key to a special dungeon. These special dungeons are usually very difficult, but the rewards are also amazing, like rare equipment and such."

"It seems we really have entered a game…" Yan Qingwen pondered. "Although we're in, we haven't met the conditions to start the game, so nothing has happened so far."

Li Li said, "Could it be like Zhu Shu said, that the game will only start when all ten of us put on those clothes?"

"That's a possibility…" Yan Qingwen thought for a moment and glanced at everyone. "If there's still no progress tomorrow, shall we try putting on the clothes?"

Everyone exchanged glances, no one objecting.

Yan Qingwen continued, "Speaking of which, we haven't formally introduced ourselves. Why don't we each introduce ourselves? That way, when the game starts, we won't be scrambling around."

Cheng Weicai, Tan Xiao, and Pan Xiaoxin turned to look at Shen Mo and Bai Youwei.

Bai Youwei was listlessly warming herself by the fire, not saying a word.

Shen Mo nodded and said, "It's good to get to know each other."

Seeing that everyone agreed, Li Li hesitated a bit. "But what if it's a competitive game… what then?"

If it were competitive, wouldn't introducing themselves be equivalent to exposing their weaknesses to each other?

Yan Qingwen said, "The possibility of it being competitive is low."

Li Li: "…What if?"

"Heh, nitpicker." Bai Youwei sneered, not even bothering to lift her eyelids.

Li Li's expression stiffened slightly, and he said unwillingly, "There's always a 'what if,' right?!"

Bai Youwei squinted. "I have a fever, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense."

She glanced sideways at Pan Xiaoxin. "Xiaoxin, you talk to him."

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