Chapter 56

"Are you not considered living beings now? Haven't you already gained self-awareness?"

"No, that's not correct! We only possess pseudo-intelligence and cannot be considered true monsters. This is due to a treasure given to our mother by the High Priest."

"Hmm..."

Watching a group of dolls express their meanings through a myriad of gestures, Zhou Tian felt awkward no matter how he looked at it. However, Zhou Tian did not say much at the time. Under the lead of those dolls, he returned to the area where he had come from and immediately left the dollhouse.

The exchange with the doll maker was quite a failure. Fortunately, he had already learned some information about the doll maker from those dolls. Unfortunately, although Zhou Tian had a better understanding of the doll maker, the more he understood, the more he felt it would be difficult to win over such an entity.

If the doll maker was really only interested in those two things, Zhou Tian found that the possibility of persuading the other party at this time was almost non-existent.

The father of those dolls, who directly gave life to inanimate objects, was something that was too unrealistic even in this game world. Didn't the High Priest of the Blood Moon Sect also only use a treasure to give the dolls pseudo-souls? If even the High Priest of the Blood Moon Sect couldn't do it, how could Zhou Tian, with his current abilities, possibly achieve it?

As for the so-called Alice, that was an almost unattainable goal.

Could a doll that is like a living being be something humans can achieve? Turning inanimate objects into beings like humans is almost as difficult as directly creating a living being. In this world, apart from the Creator, even if someone could achieve such a feat, they would be a top-tier boss. If Zhou Tian could accomplish such a thing, he could handle all the difficulties himself and wouldn't need to seek help from the doll maker.

However, if Zhou Tian wanted to handle the relationship with the doll maker, he had very few options. Even though the task seemed extremely difficult, he had no other better choice at the moment.

"Damn it! I really want to just go it alone and leave that bastard behind!" After muttering in frustration, Zhou Tian knew it was just a fantasy. He currently lacked the strength to act alone. Although the doll maker was not an easy person to deal with, he had no choice but to cooperate with the other party. Otherwise, facing the powerful NPC army, he had no chance of winning at all.

"I've got it. Since that guy is so hard to deal with and I can't offer anything to move her, I might as well drag her into the mess. If the NPCs attack her directly, I don't believe she will remain indifferent in the end." Zhou Tian knew that his current plan was quite dangerous. According to his method, he might indeed force the doll maker to join the battle, but doing so would also definitely offend her. Given the doll maker's strength, the consequences of being targeted by her would be severe.

However, Zhou Tian had no other choice at this time. Since he was going to die anyway, and given the doll maker's attitude towards him, he wanted to give her some trouble before he died.

Zhou Tian never denied that he was not a good person. Given his selfish and self-centered nature, even if the task was extremely dangerous, it wouldn't be strange for him to do it.

After making his decision, Zhou Tian quickly took action.

The doll maker had underestimated Zhou Tian. First, she did not expect him to have the nerve to offend her so severely. Second, she only saw Zhou Tian as a slightly smarter monster leader and never imagined that he had the intelligence of an adult and was also a petty person. For these reasons, after Zhou Tian left, he deliberately exposed his whereabouts and led a large number of NPCs to the dollhouse.

If the doll maker had known that Zhou Tian would do such a thing, she would almost certainly not have let him leave her room alive. Unfortunately, the doll maker was just a powerful monster, not an omniscient deity. Her momentary carelessness brought her significant trouble.

The NPCs in the dollhouse naturally knew about the dollhouse. As the only monster force that could match the NPCs in strength, even if the NPCs didn't know any other monsters, they would certainly know about the dollhouse.

Despite knowing about the dollhouse, the NPCs still took action.

No one would have thought that Zhou Tian was plotting against the doll maker. In the eyes of the NPCs, since Zhou Tian was a monster and had ambushed them multiple times, he must have some support. Given the situation in the beginner area, the dollhouse was the most reliable place for Zhou Tian to seek refuge.

Everyone had the same thought, so naturally, when the NPCs were led to the dollhouse by Zhou Tian, they assumed that all of Zhou Tian's actions were directed by the doll maker.

As a result, although the NPCs were not completely indifferent to the dollhouse's strength, they would not abandon their actions just because the dollhouse was powerful. Thus, shortly after Zhou Tian led the NPCs to the dollhouse, they launched an attack without hesitation.

They crumbled at first contact!

Although the dollhouse was indeed powerful, the dolls were completely unprepared, and the NPCs had mobilized their main force to capture Zhou Tian. Under the surprise attack, even with the dollhouse's strength, they inevitably suffered some losses.

Shortly after the battle began, the dozen or so dolls that the doll maker had placed on the outer perimeter were all killed by the NPCs. After killing those dolls, the NPCs did not stop. They identified the location where the doll maker lived and directly attacked.

By the time the doll maker received the news and realized that the NPCs were attacking, the NPCs were already less than a hundred meters from her house.