CH 488

488: A Daring Shani

Shani examined the skin. It felt so much like real skin, she couldn’t put it down.

“Shani, you’re too daring. We were told not to remove anything from upstairs, but you still dared bring this doll down?” A guy who was on friendly terms with Shani was surprised when he saw the doll in Shani’s hand.

“Aye! What’s there to be afraid of?! Didn’t the girl say there weren’t any problems with the doll? Even if I move it, nothing will come of it. It’ll be fine.” Shani waved her hand dismissively.

“You’re not afraid Master Caesar will find out? He said we weren’t allowed to touch anything upstairs.”

“I’m not afraid. Master Caesar isn’t going to get angry over a doll. Even if he does, I’ll just apologize appropriately.” Shani was willing to risk being scolded by Caesar for the rare doll.

“All right. Do whatever you want to do but don’t ask me to intercede when Master Caesar punishes you.” He reminded her, but she didn’t care, so he wasn’t going to go on about it.

“I know, I know. Go and guard over there and don’t bother me.” Shani waved her hand impatiently to shoo him away.

He sighed then walked away. They had spoken in whispers so one else noticed their conversation.

Ai Lin had seen Shani take the doll, but she didn’t say anything. It wasn’t her business and she wasn’t going to meddle.

She didn’t remember any mention of the dolls in the original story so she assumed they weren’t a problem. She had given them a cursory glance and that was it. Ai Lin used her rest time to desperately recall what she could of the book. Zi Cheng managed to escape because she purchased a talisman capable of breaking through the boundary created by the excessive yin.

The rain had created a boundary before they had even realized it, so unless they had something that could break the boundary, they were stuck.

Ai Lin remembered the price was something ridiculous. Zi Cheng had waited on buying it because of its prohibitive cost. It took her so much effort to gather the points she had; if it hadn’t been absolutely necessary, she would never have nearly depleted her bank on it. It was why she had delayed for so long.

It seemed the only way to escape was to rely on Zi Cheng’s talisman.

Ai Lin sighed. Why couldn’t her cheat be a system? Instead, all she had was a living space cheat, which, other than for growing herbs, wasn’t useful for anything. Compared to Zi Cheng’s system cheat, it was a really unfair gap!

But then again Zi Cheng was the heroine and the heroine was the world consciousness’s darling, so it was only normal for her to have such a powerful cheat.

Ai Lin tossed and turned in a bad mood. What should she do now that she needed to pee?

“Feng Wu, Feng Wu, wake up!”

Feng Wu, who had fallen asleep, heard someone calling her name. She opened her eyes to find Ai Lin smiling at her.

“Do you want to go to the bathroom?” Ai Lin asked expectantly as she tugged on Feng Wu’s sleeve.

Feng Wu blinked. She didn’t need to go right then, but she could use the bathroom. Thinking of this, she nodded.

Great! Ai Lin was happy to not have to go to the bathroom alone. Don’t you know, in all the ghost stories, the bathroom is the most likely place for bad things to happen?

“I’ll go too.” Yaoyue spoke out in the dark. Turned out she wasn’t asleep either.

“Everyone, let’s all go together.” Zi Cheng poked her head out from her heavy fur coat and opened her eyes. She was a light sleeper and the sound of conversation had awoken her.

Ai Lin had planned on going with Feng Wu but somehow became a group of four instead.

The girls walked to the back of the mansion. There was bathroom on each floor and the one on the first floor was in the back next to a utility closet.

They hadn’t discovered anything amiss when they searched the rooms earlier. All that searching gave them a good familiarity of the mansion’s layout. There were several rooms on each floor and they knew exactly where the bathroom was on each. They were walking down the hall when they were stopped.

Shani hadn’t wanted to stop them, but there were only a few of them left. She needed to go use the bathroom but she was reluctant to go by herself.

Feng Wu saw Shani as a stranger so she didn’t have any particular feelings about her and didn’t care if Shani came along.

Zi Cheng always tried to project an image of gentle consideration and kindness so how could she say no?

Ai Lin rolled her eyes. Why did the girl offend so many people in the first place?

Yaoyue glanced impatiently at Shani but didn’t say anything.

Since no one had an opinion, Shani followed behind the group without making any trouble.

“You brought a doll out?” Yaoyue hadn’t been paying close attention to Shani earlier so she didn’t see the doll until she turned around.

Wasn’t that a doll from upstairs, the dolls she said weren’t to be disturbed?! She told them the dolls weren’t to be touched! This Shani didn’t listen to her and actually dared take one!

Yaoyue was in a bad mood to begin with and now she was even more unhappy. She clearly said no one was allowed to take anything from the rooms, but Shani was standing with the doll in her arms in front of her.

“I like this doll very much. Didn’t you say there was nothing wrong with them? Why can’t I take it?” Shani felt she was in the right. Leaving such a precious doll to collect dust was a crime. She could sell it and give it to a new owner.

“Now that you’ve already done it, I’m not going to say anything. But moving things around rashly like that, just be careful you don’t cause trouble.” Yaoyue was too lazy to bother. As a necromancer, she knew better most there were certain things that shouldn’t be moved casually – at least not without mortal danger to the person doing it.

It depended on luck. If Shani was lucky, she would be fine, but if Shani was unlucky, well that was hard to say.

Anyway Yaoyue did her part by reminding Shani, so she couldn’t be blamed for anything that happened after.