doll city

"Welcome to the Bloody Grand Duke's red party!"

The violinist was still playing on the stage, and the strings trembled rapidly, mixed with the screams of men and women around, gradually dyeing the whole picture blood red.

The moment the guards rushed in, Yan Ge had already grabbed the curtains and climbed all the way up to the crystal chandelier on the ceiling. At this moment, he was dangling with the chandelier, watching the massacre scene below.

The field of "Red Eclipse" must not be stained with red, and he will be splashed with blood a second later.

He could have gone, but he found something.

The sound of the violinist is too familiar.

The violinist he saw was completely the person in the oil painting, probably wearing a dress, with blurred facial features, and a personable appearance, immersed in the performance, and the details of his posture were exactly the same as Li Ya.

And, the key is the violin in his hand.

Li Ya's violin, according to Teacher Dai, is priceless and has a unique sound. There is no other violin in the world that can be reproduced.

Now he suspects that Li Ya was planted somewhere in the museum, for example, he was accidentally stained with "red", and then he was teleported here like him.

The difference is that he can move, while Li Ya's actions are only limited to the character.

All the hunting grounds are very strange. Sometimes it is not a matter of strength. You must follow its rules to pass the level. Besides, this is a museum and the base camp of the Red Death King. It is expected that it will be planted.

So, what to do?

Yan Ge gently swayed onto another crystal lamp, and then jumped onto the floor-to-ceiling curtain nearby.

At this point, the Lady Mary is within range of his 100% certainty, and he has the gun.

Yan Ge quickly touched the back of his waist, but soon his expression froze, and he took out a sheepskin dagger from the back of his waist with a strange expression.

Where did it come from?When did it come to me?

Soon his question was answered - as he found himself transformed into a man dressed as a thief, with his equipment and backpack missing.

—the painting was devouring him!

The moment he realized this problem, he jumped down from the curtain involuntarily and came to the back of Countess Mary. When he drew out his dagger and was about to stab her, his throat was suddenly scratched by something sharp.

Yan Ge's eyes darkened...

……

"Where do you think they are?!"

Xiao Yi stood helplessly in the middle of the red tide on the second floor with Yi Ziang on her back. The red around her immediately turned into milky white as soon as she approached her, which made her not hurt at all.

"This... I didn't expect the bloody rain from the pyrotechnic alarm. I can only say that "Red Eclipse" doesn't talk about martial arts." Yi Ziang lay on his back with his legs crossed and let Xiao Yi carry him on his back, speechless.

The plan of their team is to install a bomb under the Swan Castle. The range of the explosion can just cause the Swan Castle to collapse, and it is best to bury Princess Alice in a grand manner.

But in the process, the master of Anbo-bomb habitually smoked a cigarette in order to relax, which triggered the fire alarm.

Tang Yuan disappeared on the spot, and Xiao Yi only had time to save him.

Fortunately, they still have two weeks left.

"However, it's so strange." Yi Ziang analyzed, "The last time I encountered "Red Eclipse", I died immediately after being stained by the blood tide. The death condition was very miserable, but this time it disappeared directly, as if it was teleported away Same."

Xiao Yi: "...Because this is the boss's territory, maybe... out of the mentality of cats playing with mice, this time the person who was stained with blood was captured and tortured by her. She wanted to use this method to laugh at our efforts. "

Yi Ziang: "Your explanation unexpectedly makes sense."

Xiao Yi: "Because I have a manga on the theme of imprisonment, which is how I drew it."

"..."

The museum is indeed a little quiet. Theoretically, there are many commandos they came in, and there are also many capable people. It is unlikely that they have not seen others until now.

Unless...they're all swallowed up by The Red Eclipse.

At this time, Xiao Yi suddenly froze, and quickly walked towards the corridor with blood dripping.

Hanging in the corridor is a painting about a dungeon with a round table surrounded by people tied to chairs.

"What's wrong with this painting?" Yi Ziang asked.

"This person." Xiao Yi pointed to a blurred figure on the painting, and said, "I'm sure it's Tang Yuan, he was sucked into the painting."

After she finished speaking, she felt Yi Ziang pat her on the shoulder and pointed to an exhibition hall dedicated to art exhibitions with a half-open door on one side.

"That is……"

In the exhibition hall, there are hundreds of oil paintings hanging, all kinds of dungeons, all kinds of death methods, which perfectly reproduce the bloody game of Countess Mary. ,

It's just... the epitome of all the hunting grounds in this city that take pleasure in torturing.

……

This is where?

When Yan Ge opened his eyes, he found himself sitting on a wooden chair, his mouth and hands were tightly bound by cowhide straps, a needle tube was connected to his own vein, and there was a valve on it, as if to draw his own blood at any time Same as blood.

Looking up again, there was a big round table in front of him, and there were five other people sitting around the table. Like him, they had tubes in their arms, and they all showed panicked eyes.

...By the way, where is Li Ya?

Yan Ge looked around and found that Li Ya was sitting on the chair on his right, with his eyes closed, his chest heaving slightly, and he didn't seem to be awake yet.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Not dead yet, that violinist is really Li Ya.

From the looks of it now, he probably failed in the assassination and was assassinated by some of Lady Mary's guards, which caused the game to fail and entered the official game of Lady Mary.

...So, the bloody birthday party just now was the opening ceremony?

As he had speculated, in the center of the round table where five people were sitting, there was a bust of a marble statue of a lady—this statue still had no other features except a pair of red lips, and it was Countess Mary.

She giggled.

"Gentlemen, it is a pity that you did not perform well at the last party and became losers."

"However, Madam Mary is willing to give you another chance to make her smile."

"Among you, there are aliens. When the candle burns out, find out all the aliens, kill 'him', or kill 'it', and then...you will be free."

"And the loser will become the nourishment of Madam Mary's eternal beauty!"

After speaking, the red lips on her face gradually faded and disappeared, and the statue also changed from a living doll to a dead thing.

The five people looked at each other, from left to right, someone said nervously: "...she speaks English, I don't understand what it means."

"She said, we're going to play a game of Werewolf Killing."

Li Ya opened his eyes, as if he had just woken up, and explained aloud what the statue meant just now.

"In the opening remarks just now, she used two words, killhimorkillit. She probably wanted to say that among the five of us, some are people, and some are people dressed as puppets. We need to find the puppets, or be killed by puppets. Find it and kill it...it's pretty good at playing."

Just like werewolf killing, the last one alive can get out.

"But I'm at a loss now!" The man panicked, "I came here after being stabbed to death from behind in the banquet hall, I don't know anything..."

"You got to the point." Li Ya laughed, "The title has been given, we played various roles in the banquet hall just now, for example, I played a violinist named Lawrence, but the banquet I was killed at the end. If my guess is correct, the murderers who killed us just now were also among us, and at the same time, they are the puppets we are looking for."

"Now, don't waste time, let's introduce our identities one by one. We need to find out who is the living puppet as soon as possible."

Yan Ge looked at him speechlessly, usually in other hunting grounds, Li Ya was completely a paddler, the kind who only shot when he was about to die.

It may be that the grand finale of life is coming soon, and this is the beginning of the talk.

As if feeling the slightly ferocious gaze on the left, Li Ya tilted his head slightly, and said in a low voice, "It's usually because of you."

So paddling should be taken for granted, right?

Yan Ge didn't bother to argue with him, and heard other people introduce their identities.

There are five of them in total, apart from Li Ya who is the violinist Lawrence, there are three others:

Tom, the waiter of the Duke's mansion, Jill, the tutor of a certain noble lady, and John the tobacco merchant.

When it was Yan Ge's turn, he remembered his assassination of Mrs. Mary - a living puppet would not assassinate Mrs. Mary, so he couldn't be the target of the living puppet from the beginning, he needed to fabricate an identity to cover himself first.

"My name is... Siren. I'm a theater actor. I was invited to a banquet at Lady Mary's residence. I was killed by guards during the massacre just now."

Li Ya next to him heard the name, repeated "Siren" in a low voice, and then chuckled.

Singer of Death, well-deserved reputation.

Yan Ge didn't take it seriously, and listened carefully to other people's descriptions.

The origin of the story is as I saw just now. Countess Mary’s rumored baby daughter Alice is about to celebrate her birthday. Nobles and celebrities who are familiar with the Countess are attending the banquet one after another, and the servants of the Duke’s mansion are also busy for the banquet.

In the middle of the banquet, Countess Mary appeared and summoned a violinist with magical playing ability. In the charming music, all the guests were mesmerized, and then the Countess asked the guards to come in and kill them all .

And among the guests at this time, there was a Jiangyang thief in disguise who came here in disguise. Because he was dissatisfied with the rule of Countess Mary, he came to assassinate her.

"...Since it is the form of werewolf killing, let's follow the rules of werewolf killing first. From now on, we will use the identities here to address each other. From left to right, the waiter Tom speaks first."

"I?"

The first man named was wearing a jacket with a blue armband of a B-level team pinned to his arm, and he didn't look like a waiter at all.

"...The scene was very chaotic at that time. There were nearly a hundred people in the banquet hall. I was killed just as I delivered red wine to Countess Mary with a plate. I couldn't understand it at all."

The second tutor, Jill, looked embarrassed: "My character setting... is one of Countess Mary's lovers, because I once wanted to use this secret love to extort money from Countess Mary, so the Countess is here by the way. I was also dealt with at the banquet. I was hiding in the corner, only to see a figure fly up to the chandelier, and then he was smashed to death by the waiter with a tray when he got under the table... I feel that he is alive Occasionally."

The waiter Tom opened his eyes wide: "I didn't!"

Jill, the governess, said, "Then tell me in detail how you died and what you did before you died?"

The waiter Tom argued: "I told you, I was delivering red wine to the Countess before, and after delivering the red wine, she asked the guards to come in and chop me up. I tried to escape through the back door, but I was cut from the back with a table knife- Throat."

Yan Ge subconsciously recalled the state of his own death - his throat should have been cut from behind.

So he asked the waiter, "Do you remember the traits of your murderer?"

Tom thought for a while and said: "...the person behind him should be very bloated when he approached. I feel that the murderer has a big belly."

The five people looked at each other, but found it difficult to judge from the figure, because at that time, everyone was a character in the painting, and their identities and appearances had their own characteristics. Now the five people are all thin, and none of them is fat.

At this time, the tobacco merchant John said: "My image is a fat and rich businessman in the tobacco business, but I didn't kill you. I saw the waiter smashing the teacher to death with a tray. I suspect that he is like robbing me of a batch of goods." When the Jiangyang bandit chased after him, his head was pierced by a crystal pillar that fell from a high altitude."

A crystal pillar falling from the sky?high altitude?

Yan Ge recalled that he should be the only one in the audience who had this condition, probably because he shook off the decoration on the crystal lamp while performing acrobatics on the chandelier and killed the rich businessman by mistake.

Well, only if he's telling the truth.

When it was Yan Ge's turn to introduce, he had considered it for a long time, and said in a tone of slightly bewildered but still pretending to be calm: "The role sent to me is a drama actor siren, who was originally arranged to sing a part on stage behind the violinist. , When the incident happened, if you wanted to beg for mercy from Countess Mary, you rushed over to find her."

"Then, he was hacked to death. Before I died, I seemed to see someone jumping down from above and trying to kidnap the Countess, but he was also killed, so I didn't see it clearly."

The drama actor had little to do with the clues of the other three people, so the others looked at Li Ya.

"Finally, it's me. I'm Lawrence, the violinist invited by Countess Mary. I'm blind and have some mental illness. Once I start playing, I will be addicted to it. Even if there is blood flowing next to me, I won't respond."

"The Countess Mary took a fancy to me, so she invited me to play for this bloody birthday party."

"By the time I returned to normal, the killing was over. There was blood on my bow. Countess Mary handed me a glass of poisoned red wine, and I died."

After listening to his speech, everyone was speechless for a while.

The situation is more serious. Each of them has found the corresponding murderer here, but if they admit it, they will be suspected of being living puppets.

Li Ya seemed to have seen their thoughts, and said indifferently: "I suggest that everyone tell the truth. It doesn't matter who kills who. Indicates that this person is a living puppet."

Tobacco merchant John nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, maybe Lady Mary just wants to see us suspect each other and fight each other. In fact, all five of us are alive?"

At this time, in the dim dungeon, the flames in the surrounding candles trembled at the same time. After a moment of darkness, the red lips appeared again on the statue of Countess Mary, and they opened and closed to let out a burst of giggles.

"Gentlemen, you look troubled."

"Here's a reminder for you - your killers tonight are all here, and they're all 'it'."