Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

[Water Monster's Unwanted Egg - Being hit by it will hurt a lot, and there is a 20% chance of triggering a lightning effect.]

The bead that Zhu Shu threw out was like a thunderbolt, blasting half of Bluebeard's face into a bloody mess!

"Ahhhh, my face!!!" The humanoid beast roared in a coarse voice, turning around. "Damn woman! How dare you!—"

He roared, picked up the broken sword from the ground, and threw it fiercely at Zhu Shu!

Su Man grabbed Zhu Shu's hand and quickly dodged backward. When going down the stairs, she stumbled, and the sharp blade grazed Zhu Shu's arm. The two fell, and the remaining beads in their hands scattered all over the ground!

Zhu Shu didn't bother to get up. She knelt on the ground, anxiously picking up the beads, and shouted to Su Man, "We can't let him take Zhao Lanfen away! Even if we can't save her, we must kill the Duke! Otherwise, he will continue to kill people tomorrow night!"

"He's leaving!" Yu Yaqing wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, picked up her sword, and chased upstairs again.

Bluebeard was even faster!

Despite his large size, he was not clumsy. He dragged Zhao Lanfen and quickly went up the spiral staircase, all the way to the third floor!

Yu Yaqing, Su Man, and Hu Ya chased after him relentlessly, but when they reached the third floor, they found the corridors on both sides were empty, and they couldn't see Bluebeard's figure.

Bang!

The sound of a door closing echoed in the corridor.

The three women panted, looking around, wondering which room he had gone into. At this moment, a shrill scream rang out again!

"Ahhhh!!!"

Zhao Lanfen's screams were heart-wrenching, as if she was suffering some kind of extreme pain!

The sound echoed throughout the building, seeming to come from the right, then from the left. Listening carefully, her voice seemed to be everywhere—in the open rooftop, the spiraling steps, and the walls covered with vintage patterned wallpaper!

It was terrifying!

"Zhao Lanfen!" Yu Yaqing shouted, randomly opening a room, then running to another room, but she couldn't find Zhao Lanfen no matter what.

The sound never stopped.

She screamed until her voice was hoarse, until it changed, until she couldn't breathe, and then it stopped abruptly at the highest pitch!

…It stopped.

The entire building fell silent.

Yu Yaqing gritted her teeth and punched the wall hard!

She knew that Zhao Lanfen was dead.

…

Silence persisted for an unknown amount of time, perhaps just a few seconds, perhaps several minutes…

Yu Yaqing took a deep breath, lifted her foot, and began to search room by room.

Su Man and Hu Ya also joined in.

Because Bai Youwei had asked about the number of rooms, Su Man secretly noted the number of rooms while searching.

However, they opened a total of 128 doors, and found nothing!

It was still those rooms filled with gold and silver jewelry. There was no Bluebeard, no Zhao Lanfen. They seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

The three women returned to the spiral staircase, at a loss for what to do.

Hu Ya stared blankly at Yu Yaqing and hesitantly asked, "Team Leader… are we still looking?"

Yu Yaqing closed her eyes and said in a muffled voice, "Let's go downstairs first."

…

Downstairs, Zhu Shu was anxiously picking up the beads.

These props were too round and slippery. Once they fell on the ground, they would roll into some corner, and after searching around, she only found 6 of them.

—In the dollhouse, she had been given 10 beads. She had used 2 just now, so she should have 8 left.

Two were missing, and she couldn't find them no matter what.

She raised her head, wanting Cheng Qian to move a little, but before she could speak, Cheng Qian shouted in a shrill voice, as if she had been stepped on the tail:

"What are you looking at me for?! I didn't take your beads!!!"

Zhu Shu: "I didn't mean that…"

"Go away!" Cheng Qian's mental state was very unstable. She glared at Zhu Shu, tense. "Stay away from me! Don't come near me!"

Zhu Shu frowned, looked at her for a while, and didn't say anything more. She silently walked to Bai Youwei's side.

Bai Youwei asked, "What's wrong with her?"

Zhu Shu glanced at Cheng Qian again, "…Nothing."

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