CH 74

After the story was finished, the sound of the iron door closing again, "Grandma" slowly walked away.

"This is a bit of a bad story ......" Wang Taidi stuck her head out from under the covers, her little curls a bit messy, "as if she didn't hint at how we could get through. "

Indeed, the story of the Spider's Bride hints at how the player will have to escape the Spider's Bride's prey through the contrast between the ordinary passerby and the bard.

Instead, the story of the little girl simply states that promising to help her will get her head taken away and not helping her will get something important taken away.

There is no telling what this important thing is, it could be that the player has to pay for an important item, but there is also a good chance that this important thing is not just a foreign object, or even that the player could be injured or even lose his life.

However, the story also speaks of the little girl's weakness - she has a problem with her memory.

Perhaps this weakness was the key to escape under her.

"Excuse me, have you seen my things?" The soft, delicate child's voice rang out abruptly in the room.

The three of them turned their heads at the same time and saw a short figure draped in a red cloak, decorated with lace and delicate embroidery, obviously for a little girl.

The cloak was large and lipped as if there was a support inside, completely covering her head, so that from the outside alone it was impossible to tell that she had no head. The cloak cast a shadow, making it impossible to see exactly what was underneath, or perhaps nothing at all.

Seeing no answer from the person in front of her, the little girl repeated, "Excuse me, have you seen what I have?"

Wang Taidi saw the look and asked, "Little friend, is your name Little Hong hat?"

The voice of a little girl came from under the cloak, "Little ...... Red Riding Hood ...... don't remember ......"

Step by step she approaches Xiao Lan's bedside, stopped midway by Wang Taidi's littered trousers, but without knowing how to step over them, she just advances with one foot on them.

It doesn't look like it's very clever.

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The little girl was getting closer and closer to Xiao Lan and Wang Taidi was a bit worried and couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Lan, I have some escape props here, you can call me if you can't."

He had a slightly fleshy look on his face, but said, "Three people ...... should also be enough."

Xiao Lan nods at Wang Taidi.

He turned his eyes again to look at the little girl walking towards her, his mind racing, the game wouldn't set up a completely unpassable situation for the player, so there had to be a way to break this story.

Where is it ......

He recalled the story that the reason the little girl's approached the passer-by was because she couldn't find her head anymore, which meant that if she found it she could eliminate the problem at its source.

And it is difficult for the average player in this enclosed corridor to leave from the range where the room is located, so this head should be within searchable range of the player.

Maybe ...... is in their room!

As for the fact that nothing resembling a head had been found in the room before, the matter was not difficult to understand; the little girl had appeared out of thin air only after the story had been told, and it was not surprising that her head had appeared only with the story.

Xiao Lan turned to Luo and Wang Taidi and said, "Look for her head, it should be in the room, I'll hold her off."

The two men nodded their heads and searched the room,.

Wang Taidi's trousers were stepped on by the little girl and he couldn't get another pair out to wear and so the action began. Well, today's pants are from Piggy.

Wang Taidi's first search was for the boxes at the end of the bed, thinking they would change as the play progressed, but alas

It's still the same as before, no gaps or sounds, no difference to be seen.

Luo quietly released the dark shadow to search the room, but the first sweep of the room was clear to his mind, but there was no sign of the head.

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He frowned in Xiao Lan's direction, trusting his judgement that the head might therefore be hidden in some hidden location, perhaps to be opened by a special method, and he began a second, more careful search.

On the other side, the little girl has come up to Xiao Lan.

She began her third enquiry, "Excuse me, have you seen my things?"

Xiao Lan turned to her and officially began the snub: " Aunt Xiao, what are you looking for?"

The little girl replied softly, "I ...... don't remember ......"

Xiao Lan made a serious and thoughtful face: "According to our custom of taking commissions, we need the client to pay a deposit in advance, although you are a small child, you can't eat for nothing right, of course we will still give you a discount."

The little girl had never seen this routine before and was a little turned around for a moment: "Help ...... deposit ...... no money ...... "

Xiao Lan had a troubled look on his face: "Oh, you're making it very difficult for us, little one."

The little girl remained clueless, but she insisted: "Help ...... find ......"

Xiao Lan nodded, "How about this, we are adults who care for children too, you can complete one of our commissions if you don't have money, how about a fair deal?"

Wang Taidi has an unbearable look on his face, even the children are being set up, Xiao Lan, doesn't your conscience hurt?

The little girl's cloak nodded, as if convinced, "Good."

Xiao Lan showed a smile, "So let's play idiom solitaire, you win over me and I'll go first - do whatever you want."

"......" The little girl, who had no head and no idea how much thinking power was left, fell into a long silence.

After a while she asked Xiao Lan: "What is this ...... you just ...... said ......"

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The memory is basically goodbye to mind games when it looks like you don't remember anything at all.

Xiao Lan repeats, "Do whatever you want."

The little girl thought for a long time, so long that Xiao Lan thought she was asleep, before she stifled a reply, "...... for ...... whatever you want."

She probably only remembered one word for.

Xiao Lan picks up, "Do whatever you want."

The little girl, completely oblivious to the fact that something was wrong, continued her silence with another long thought, "For what ...... wants ......"

Wang Taidi and Luo on the sidelines: "......"

This thing is called Idiom Solitaire?

You two can go on infinitely with an idiom, and you can last until dawn, why bother looking for a head? It's like you're bullying people's children into thinking that they're not smart.

With the ample time that Xiao Lan had delayed, the two men rummaged around the room.

During this time, there was a distant scream that was somewhat inaudible past the weakened iron gates, and it was not clear who had been hit.

Finally, Luo made a discovery, reaching out and tapping a wall, which had a hollow crunch of stone slabs that were clearly different from the ones nearby.

Determining the extent of the hollow, Luo's fingertips extended sharp black nails and he raised his hand in a casual gesture and stabbed into the wall, cutting a square gap in the hard stone slab like a sharp blade through a piece of paper.

Behind the gap is a Little Xiao space, like a secret compartment, containing a basket of stitches and a rag doll in a red cloak, which, if you look closely, looks exactly like the one on the little girl, an exquisite miniature version.

Unfortunately, I don't know if it was played with by a rough bear, but the head of the rag doll was ripped off and thrown aside, the cotton at the break exposed and covered with broken threads, looking very poor.

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"Found it." Luo walked over to Xiao Lan with the rag doll and the basket of needles and thread and handed it to him.

Xiao Lan took it and waved the rag doll in front of the little girl's cloak.

The little girl, however, did not respond, as if she had not seen it, though she did seem to be invisible without her head.

"Does she need help sewing it up?" Luo guessed.

"Most likely." Wang Taidi's little curly hair came up to him and he asked Luo, "Fei Luo will you?"

Luo: "......"

As a non-human, he was even clothed in the illusion of his own being, and by human definition, he could only be considered naked, so how could he possibly sew such skills.

He looked at Wang Taidi, who also looked vain: "My family ...... used to be sewn by my brother, and I've seen it a few times, or should I try?"

Wang Taidi was full of uncertainty and wondered if Aunt Xiao would twist his neck if his stitches were crooked.

Xiao Lan stopped him, "I'll do it."

Sewing is an essential skill for us poor people, how else would we wear a garment for ten years.

Xiao Lan expertly threads the needle and then picks up the head of the doll, his stitches are fine and dense and look flat and strong. Aunt Xiao, who was playing infinite idiom solitaire, seemed to know what Xiao Lan was doing and she quietly stood by and waited, looking surprisingly well behaved.

A few minutes later, Xiao Lan had attached the doll's head and even found a piece of red cloth in the basket to make a bow for her to cover the break in her neck.

Xiao Lan patted the dust off the doll and reached out to hand it to the little girl.

This time, the little girl reacted.

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She took the rag doll and hugged it tightly to her chest, then lifted her head to reveal her face under the cloak, with large watery eyes, a slight blush on her cheeks, and small delicate lips that surprisingly resembled the rag doll.

The little girl flashed a happy smile at Xiao Lan and disappeared into thin air.

The three men breathed a sigh of relief in unison.

"You have received the 'Blessing of the Red Doll', which increases your luck by 20%, valid for this game only"

I never thought there would be a windfall.

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After waiting for a while to make sure that silence had returned to the corridor, Xiao Lan climbed up to the high ventilation window and expertly unlocked it, and they left the room to take advantage of the night to look for clues to the key.

The quiet rule was part of "Grandma's" rules, and her hearing was sharp, so the three of them kept their movements as light as possible all the way around the house, quietly looking for clues.

We also communicate with each other on a small handwritten board contributed by Wang Taidi.

A room ahead caught their attention, the door a little larger than all the others, with potted plants and a scrap of carpet on the floor, looking very well decorated.

Hiding around the corner, Wang Taidi writes: Is this the grandmother's room?

Xiao Lan nods: a high probability, but we need to get a little closer to confirm.

He was about to take another step forward when Luo squeezed his shoulder. Xiao Lan looks back and sees Luo reaching out and pointing to another corner a short distance ahead.

There is a small sound of footsteps coming from over there, undetectable unless one listens closely, and Xiao Lan hides back around the corner, watching covertly.

The author has something to say.

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As a non-human, Luo is even clothed in his own body, which by human definition makes him a naked runner.

Xiao Lan: So you just ran around naked in full view of everyone for over 70 chapters? And it's going to go on and on?

Luo: ......