novelraw Chapter 361: Malicious Gaze!
Chapter 361: Malicious Gaze!
Strange, why did Miss Puppet's Affinity drop for no reason?!
Is this some kind of bug?
"Miss Puppet, what exactly is this third button for?" Lynn decided to ask.
But this time, no voice from Hei Xianyue sounded in the room.
He was finally experiencing what it felt like to interact with an aloof lady like her.
When she didn't speak.
You didn't even know where she was.
Baffled, Lynn put on his Plague Doctor Mask again, trying to detect her in the room, but this time, he couldn't even find a silhouette through detection.
"Gone?" Lynn was astonished.
He pressed the third button several times in quick succession: *ding ding ding ding ding*.[Ding! Hei Xianyue's Affinity towards you -1]
Finally, when he pressed it for the third time, that emotionless voice sounded again.
"If there is nothing urgent, please do not press the third button frequently. I do not like that sensation. Please exercise restraint."
Lynn asked, puzzled, "So what exactly is this button for?"
The female voice finally responded this time.
"Preliminary judgment, it is a Cursed Arts trigger used by Mother during our mental sensitivity tests."
Still concise and to the point.
Lynn's head was full of question marks. "Mental test?"
Another new term.
But this time, the female voice did not answer him.
Lynn accidentally pressed it again.
*Ding—*
[Ding! Hei Xianyue's Affinity towards you -1]
Lynn: "???"
Something specifically designed to lower Affinity?! That's way too weird!
...
Meanwhile.
In the courtyard of Doll Manor.
The Doll Mistress, wearing a large hat, held a glass of red wine. Watching the small remote sensor on the exquisite tea table, where a dotted line kept jumping, a mysterious smile appeared on her face.
"As expected, the curious little fellow pressed it~"
And he pressed it over a dozen times in one go, too.
You little rascal.
Did you think choosing my daughter with the lowest Emotional Development would let you escape?
Although it's a little machine made for testing mental sensitivity, even the most unfeeling girl would surely feel a sense of shame if stimulated by a strange yet handsome young man.
A triumphant expression appeared on the Doll Mistress's face.
She took a sip of red wine.
And as long as there's an emotional fluctuation, whether positive or negative, it's great progress for improving Emotional Development!
Yes! Yes!
Press it a few more times when you have nothing to do, like when you can't find her, or when she doesn't reply. Once you press it enough to stir her emotions, she'll definitely respond.
It's not in vain that I've worked so hard all these years to teach my daughters about the concepts between men and women!
And once she understands what this means.
A sense of shame is actually quite easy to provoke.
Ah~!
Little fellow, you absolutely cannot escape the fate of marrying into Doll Manor. Just accept it obediently!
(*￣︶￣)
...
Nightfall City, Hotel.
Although she disappeared right after being unboxed, Lynn knew this was probably just Miss Puppet's style.
After all, the task she accepted was to protect his life.
Protecting from the shadows was indeed reasonable.
Lynn knew she was still in his room in some hidden form. She could probably adjust the intensity of her concealment at will. His Plague Doctor Mask's detection mode had only barely glimpsed her silhouette at the very beginning.
As for her strength and rank.
He felt it was probably around the level of the Blood-Robed Madam.
Whatever.
With Miss Puppet's close protection, his subsequent travels would definitely be much safer.
"I'm going to sleep now. Remember, just protect me. Please don't disturb the other guests in the hotel, understood?"
Lynn lay down on the bed, (*￣︶￣) pulled up the covers, and spoke to the air.
"..."
No response.
Truly the aloof Miss Puppet.
Lynn (*￣︶￣) pressed the third button.
[Ding! Hei Xianyue's Affinity towards you -1]
"Understood." The emotionless female voice sounded in the room.
That's right.
He had discovered the special use of this third button.
That is, when you're unsure if Miss Puppet is present, you press it once. As long as the System prompt for decreased Affinity appears, it means Miss Puppet is there.
Not only can it confirm her presence, but it also elicits a response from Miss Puppet. Otherwise, if she were truly like a ghost and never replied, it would be too creepy.
"Going to sleep. Good night."
Lynn closed his eyes. Having not slept for a whole day, he quickly fell into a deep slumber.
Outside the window, darkness spread.
In this Dark World, there was actually no real alternation between night and day.
It was just that to better distinguish time, people determined so-called day and night through the alternating use of Soul Lamps.
...
Time passed slowly.
On the nightstand beside the soundly sleeping Lynn.
A book Lynn had deliberately placed there slowly opened to its first page.
In the quiet room, only the occasional sound of turning pages could be heard, then it fell into complete silence.
However, what no one noticed was.
In the corridor outside the hotel.
Wisp after wisp of crimson mist slowly spread out like a surging current.
A thick, heavy scent of blood filled the corridor.
The Soul Lamps in the corridor flickered and quickly extinguished as the bloody aura swept past, plunging the entire hallway back into darkness.
Within that blood-red mist.
A bone-white raven mask faintly appeared. Beneath the crimson robe, sticky tentacles slowly writhed.
In that silence.
A bone-white hand slowly extended from within the robe.
Dense, wriggling bugs, as if summoned by the scent of blood, poured out from his sleeve, crawling onto the floor and walls.
"Kill him. Take his brain. The Doctors are very interested in him."
That eerie voice sounded within the blood mist.
The next moment, the dense swarm of bugs spread out like a tide, instantly occupying the entire corridor.
...
And almost at the same time.
In the hotel room, the turning pages of the book on the nightstand paused.
A System prompt instantly rang in the ear of the slumbering Lynn.
[Ding! You have triggered an emergency mission: Malicious Gaze.]
[Mission Introduction]: Leave the hotel alive.
[Mission Reward]: 2000 EXP, 2000 Skeleton Coins, Special Item x1
The moment the System prompt sounded, Lynn's eyes snapped open. Like a leopard, he sat up almost reflexively.
"A 'Survive' mission?"
Lynn's expression turned serious.
This mission triggered very abruptly, but since the System gave it to him, it meant he was probably already in a dangerous situation.
But this is ridiculous!
This wasn't Wandering Souls Alley;
this was Nightfall City, the Night Doctors' headquarters.
How could a crisis mission trigger here?!