Today, I Have Yet to Become a Doll

“It's definitely not normal,” Yan Qingwen said with a grim expression. “It didn't raise its head when it attacked Su Man, as if it didn't need eyes at all to know where we were.”

“Those tiny eyes of its couldn't possibly provide it with 360-degree vision,” Bai Youwei said coldly, her face displeased. “The Overseer must have left out some information again.”

Shen Mo looked towards the stairs.

Tan Xiao and Su Man were both seriously injured, the places where the Nailtooth Monster bit them were bloody and gruesome.

“Let's save them first.”

…

Although the rampage only lasted for a minute, the injuries were severe.

The wounds pierced by the nails were mangled, even the bones inside were pierced. Even though Shen Mo used mud on the wounds, the effect was still limited.

Su Man's right hand was almost severed, and Tan Xiao remained unconscious.

“We can't withstand a 3-minute rampage,” Yan Qingwen said gravely.

Although the Nailtooth Monster wasn't the largest, its speed, strength, and precise judgment of the target's location were far more terrifying than the previous two guests. One minute had already resulted in two serious injuries, so what would they do if it lasted for three minutes?

Cheng Laoshi, Pan Xiaoxin, and Zhu Shu upstairs, no matter how well they hid, it wouldn't be enough;

Although Bai Youwei had her rabbit, the electric shock might not be effective;

And the rest of them, facing a monster with a body as hard as metal, were simply helpless;

There were also those beads. Normal attacks could delay it for two or three seconds, and the exploding effect could extend it to seven or eight seconds, which was indeed useful during a one-minute rampage. But if the rampage lasted for three minutes, what use would these few seconds of delay be?

Their situation had reached a stalemate.

Unless…

They found the remaining nails.

“Let’s keep looking,” Shen Mo said. “Thirty-six to thirty-eight nails, there can only be more than this number, not less.”

Li Li stood up and said, “Let’s check again and see if there are any more nails we can remove. More than thirty nails is not a small number; there must be somewhere we’ve missed.”

Cheng Laoshi and Pan Xiaoxin also nodded.

“I’ll go to the kitchen and have a look.”

“I’ll go to the attic…”

Everyone dispersed, each going to look for nails.

…

Two hours later, they gathered again in the living room and shook their heads at each other.

Not a single nail was found.

This wasn't surprising.

Long before they decided to invite the guests in, they had already ransacked the house several times. Trapped here for several days, they were extremely familiar with every corner of the dollhouse. Any nail in the house that could be removed had been removed by them, with almost no omissions.

Searching again naturally yielded the same result.

Everyone sat in silence in the room.

The Nailtooth Monster was still outside.

From time to time, it would rub its teeth against the floor, making a scraping sound.

The sound was irritating.

Li Li couldn’t sit still, stood up, and paced back and forth to relieve his anxiety.

Su Man sat on the sofa with her injured hand suspended, more silent than ever.

Bai Youwei was also annoyed. She glanced sideways at the crystal ball on the chest of drawers and said, “Otherwise, we…”

Before she could finish her words, the ball, as if anticipating what she was about to say, suddenly spoke:

“Hey! Don’t say I didn’t warn you, attacking the Overseer is a serious violation!”

Pan Xiaoxin looked at the ball, then at Bai Youwei, and whispered, “Sister Weiwei, the music box can’t be dismantled.”

Bai Youwei thought for a moment. “But it’s so strange. There’s a music box here, but it’s completely useless, except for reciting that nursery rhyme… Actually, the nursery rhyme doesn’t need to be recited by a music box, right? It could have been announced by the Overseer as a game rule. Before, it said it was for a sense of ritual…”

As she spoke, she couldn’t help but frown at the crystal ball.

“Is it really just for a sense of ritual? Could it be to mislead us, to make us assume that the crystal ball and the music box are one and the same?”

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