Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

Shen Mo gave an "Mhm," then after a moment, asked her, "Do you regret it?"

Bai Youwei rested her forehead on his shoulder, gently shaking her head.

She didn't regret it, but…

"I'm scared." She murmured with her eyes closed.

Shen Mo's puzzle was used in the third round of "A Friend's Gathering," and now her puzzle was used in "The Last Bride."

This meant that when they encountered an inescapable situation in the game in the future, they would no longer have any means of saving their lives, only a dead end.

Of course, Bai Youwei still had quite a few props.

But she had seen through it! Almost all props were for use against other players! By eliminating other players, one could increase their own advantage. If they really encountered a situation in the game where death was certain, the props would be useless!

Like the snowman summoned by the snowflake.

Bai Youwei believed that as long as it was used correctly, the snowman could be incredibly invincible, but in "The Last Bride," the rule was that the Duke would kill one bride every night! No matter how powerful the snowman was, it couldn't change the rules! At most, it could allow the user to escape temporarily, while the other players would become the Duke's target.

This was also why Su Man gave up using the snowflake at the time.

Bai Youwei was scared.

She was afraid of facing such a situation again, afraid of watching the people around her die one by one, while she was powerless to do anything.

The scariest thing was never death.

It was when you finally managed to build a bond with this world, only to personally experience the process of those bonds being severed, torn apart, and destroyed!

In the end… you turn back into one person again.

…

Bai Youwei took a deep breath, tightly hugged Shen Mo's arm, and said, "Let's go to the maze."

"Go to the maze?" Shen Mo was stunned.

The maze in Shanghai had disappeared because it had been cleared three times in a row, and there were no other mazes nearby.

"Before getting another puzzle, I don't want to enter the game for the time being." Her voice was low and depressed, "…I'm scared."

This was the second time she had mentioned the word "scared" since coming out of the game.

Shen Mo was silent.

How could he not be scared?

When he was waiting in the dark, seeing the dolls of Zhao Lanfen and Cheng Qian appear one after another, while there was no news of Bai Youwei for a long time, wasn't he also worried?

Thinking of her legs that couldn't walk, thinking of her personality that easily offended people, he couldn't help but worry… This time they escaped successfully, but what about next time? And the time after that?

The rules in the game world were unpredictable, and his desire to protect her was undoubtedly a pipe dream.

Without a puzzle, he couldn't protect the person he wanted to protect.

Thinking about these things, Shen Mo slowly said, "If we go to the maze… we can go south or north, but considering the rumors that the north is safer, I think people will probably concentrate in the north in the future."

"Mazes will appear in densely populated areas." Bai Youwei understood what he meant, "We'll go north."

After a pause, she couldn't help but ask, "How did the rumor that the north is safer come about?"

"It's actually a bit related to Professor Song's SCO organization." Shen Mo explained to her, "Before the widespread power outage, there was an interview report about SCO online. The researchers who were interviewed gave some guesses, believing that the changes in the Earth's magnetic field were likely caused by a high-dimensional spatial force using the sun as a medium to deconstruct the Earth through radiation."

"Using the sun… as a medium?" Bai Youwei seemed to understand something, "That's an interesting hypothesis."

Although high-dimensional space seemed more advanced than low-dimensional space, the "people" in high-dimensional space couldn't enter low-dimensional space, just as humans couldn't run into a comic book.

But if both worlds had a sun, perhaps it could be used as a medium.

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