CH 492

492: Destroying the Dolls

The incomplete souls were full of maliciousness and murderous intent. If released, the place would become hell on earth.

But by this point, the craftsman wasn’t afraid of death. In fact, death was a welcome release. Waking up to their countless corpses every day, he was going to go crazy if he didn’t die first, so he decided to avenge the innocent victims and take everything in the mansion to hell.

Before releasing the dolls, he did one final task: turn the nobleman’s daughter into an exquisite doll. Unlike all the other dolls where he split the skin between two dolls, he used all her skin on one doll. This meant her soul was wholly sealed inside the one doll container.

He kept her soul trapped inside the doll while he released all the other souls.

Sure enough, immediately upon releasing the souls, everyone in the mansion was killed. The craftsman sat in his laboratory waiting for them to come to him.

The last entry was messy and it was obvious his mind wasn’t calm. All it said was that they had come.

Though the notebook was thick, it was mostly filled with experiment notes. The story itself had been interspersed throughout the book, so the story revelation came out only after reading the entire book.

“The dolls upstairs are made from human skin and tissue?!”

“There’s a soul inside every one of them?!”

“I knew those dolls felt like real people. Didn’t I say that?! They were problematic on sight!”

Ming Xi looked around but saw no adult corpses.

Could the undead have swallowed everyone in the mansion? Even their bones? If not, how could they explain the absence of bones?

Ming Xi couldn’t figure it out and he still had a lot of questions.

They searched the entire lab, making sure not to miss a thing. Then they took the notebook, sealed the lab and left.

They hadn’t found any evil spirits, but now they knew the dolls were suspicious. The dolls were made from human skin and tissue. . .

Yaoyue had said there was nothing strange about the dolls, but after reading the notebook it was clear the dolls were definitely suspicious.

After some discussion, everyone agreed the dolls should be destroyed.

Feng Wu followed everyone upstairs to where the dolls were and she watched as the fire magicians tried to burn the dolls.

But the dolls were still there after the flames burned out. Was it an illusion? It felt like the smiles on the dolls grew more hideous.

After reading the notebook, they had thought the dolls looked gloomy, but looking at them now, they changed their minds. These dolls looked. . . not right, and everyone was afraid to get closer.

Zi Cheng stood up after all the various methods they used to destroy the dolls failed. She wanted to use Purple Yang, the fifth of the Heavenly Sun flames,[notes] to burn the dolls.

Few people knew Zi Cheng had the fifth flame. Though they were hot for the heavenly fire, now wasn’t the time to be greedy. In a life-or-death situation, life would always be more attractive than treasure.

“Miss Zi Cheng, it is up to you if we can leave or not. And if we can escape, rest assured, we will not forget your kindness.”

People expressed their gratitude as Zi Cheng brought out her flame.

Zi Cheng had a humble expression on her face she told everyone it was unnecessary. She scored some points with her modesty. It was a nice, unexpected gain.

Even Caesar, who was already very fond of her, looked at her tenderly.

His favorability for her had increased a little as well and was very close to being 100%.

But why did his little brother have 0% for her? What was wrong with him?

Zo stood silently as he watched people compliment Zi Cheng.

He wondered what their expression would be if they knew Zi Cheng would be responsible for destroying the world later.

Since coming to the castle, Zo had kept a low profile, not speaking much. It was like he was invisible as he stood next to Caesar, but despite this many people had paid attention to him.

No one knew Zo[notes] was actively observing the mansion and thinking of ways to break through the barrier.

Zo had been a well-known master of formations over a hundred years ago. Because he couldn’t cultivate, he had devoted his time to learning all kinds of things, such as formations and alchemy.

He was, in his own right, a master of sorts. This was why, despite being an ordinary person, his family was willing to use precious life-extending items and spiritual fruit on him.

He was useful to the family alive. That was they way the world was. Whether or not he could live well depended on his strength. With some strength, even an ordinary person like him could live well, even better than some magicians and swordmasters even.

In addition to trying to find a way to break the barrier, Zo was also in contact with Ai Lin, trying to get more information about the storyline.

Unfortunately, even Ai Lin didn’t know much about the mansion. The basement lab didn’t exist in the original text, so naturally she wouldn’t know what was wrong with the dolls.

It was impossible for Zo to have a good impression of Zi Cheng. It was impossible for anyone have a good impression of a world destroyer.

Zi Cheng couldn’t understand why Zo didn’t like her and she had asked Caesar, but Caesar had only said Zo was indifferent to people. It wasn’t that he disliked her.

She couldn’t ask Caesar again and she couldn’t come up with a reason on her own. She never imagined a life-and-death situation where she revealed a personal secret was still not enough to earn favorability points with Zo. How could such a difficult to move person exist?