206: Chapter 206 Halftime

Very quickly, that opera singer Paper Doll fled from the bedroom as if escaping.

Chen Mo let out a long sigh, feeling like his entire being was unwell.

"Thank goodness..."

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, the bed board above Chen Mo suddenly began to creak and twist.

It moved rhythmically, back and forth, swaying.

Quite a bit of wood debris drifted down from above.

"What the hell? Could it be that the opera singer outside left because she was afraid of the Master and Mistress?"

"This might be a hidden rule." Chen Mo noted it silently in his heart.

In any case, he had to leave this place first!

Chen Mo prepared to snap his fingers to make his escape.

However, after snapping his fingers, it was completely useless.

Then, the swaying bed board suddenly became quiet.

Chen Mo heard the voices of a man and a woman talking.

"Did you smell it?"

"Smell what?"

"The scent of a human!"

"Oh? A human?"

"Wasn't the new son-in-law already sent to the Second Miss? He's so tender and delicate, surely the Second Miss will absolutely love him!"

"But what if the son-in-law didn't go to the bridal chamber?"

"This! That absolutely won't do. How else will the Second Miss absorb Yang energy? Without Yang energy, she will have her soul scattered!"

What?

As the main subject of their discussion, Chen Mo heard everything clearly from under the bed.

So that was it, the Second Miss of the Su family was a man-eating demon who needed to constantly absorb men's Yang energy to remain forever young?

As expected, the first sentence on the first page of an economics textbook.

There is no such thing as a free lunch in this world.

Brother Yunxuan, they didn't invite you to be a son-in-law at all; they were treating you like a pig to be slaughtered.

Chen Mo also caught a key piece of information.

What did they mean by "new" son-in-law?

Could it be that there had already been many victims?

The conversation came to an abrupt halt.

The surroundings suddenly became deathly silent again.

Chen Mo saw two human silhouettes appear in the moonlight projection in front of the bed, and those silhouettes were growing wider, as if they were lowering their heads.

He took out the twin fish bronze mirror and extended it outside the bed.

Holding the mirror, Chen Mo slowly turned the mirror surface, and soon saw the scene on the bed.

The Master and Mistress had instantly transformed into two Paper Dolls.

Their heads were like stiff machinery, lowering bit by bit, wanting to see the scene under the bed.

Chen Mo kicked hard against the wall with his legs, his body sliding rapidly along the floor as he darted out from under the bed.

The Paper Doll Master and Mistress suddenly raised their upper bodies.

Green light lit up in their eyes.

He kicked the door open, feeling very awkward.

Outside the room stood dozens of Paper Dolls painted with death makeup.

Just now, they had all been lying in wait outside the windows and doors, just waiting for the Master and Mistress to make a move.

After catching Chen Mo, they would rush in together and tie him up.

"Son-in-law, once you enter the gates of the Su Family, you won't be able to leave!" the leading Paper Doll laughed eerily.

As soon as the words fell, dozens of Paper Dolls simultaneously extended their arms, all facing Chen Mo in unison.

They all flew into the air, attacking him!

"Damn it!" Chen Mo flung out the Threading the Needle, hooked it onto the eaves, and flipped up onto the rafters.

He ran quickly across them, taking out the shadow cards during the process and throwing them into the shadows on the side.

The shadow cards pierced through the bodies of those Paper Dolls, cutting them apart.

However, the Paper Dolls merely had their upper and lower bodies separated; countless paper coins flew around the broken parts, quickly congealing into a mass, turning into paper pulp, and reassembling the severed waists again.

"So it really is useless."

Chen Mo took Alice's figurine from his pocket and threw it into the air.

White mist rose from the surface of the figurine, transforming into Alice's soul.

"Alice, hurry and save Daddy!"

"Daddy, but... they are all Paper Dolls, not puppets."

Moreover, Alice, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed little loli, had never seen Chinese-style horror.

Although those things looked very much like humans, they exuded an indescribable sense of oppression.

Compared to wax figures, they were even stiffer, and their eyes were even more lifelike.

Alice was so scared that she immediately turned back into a puppet.

"Then there must be a prop to deal with these Paper Dolls."

Chen Mo summoned Pete as well.

Pete shook his head desperately, "Daddy, there are no treasures hidden in here."

Those Paper Dolls seemed to really like strings; they grabbed the Threading the Needle that Chen Mo had hooked onto the rafters.

They pierced it directly through their own foreheads, and then, like a human centipede, strung themselves into a chain of Paper Doll monsters.

With a "swish-rustle," they tossed and danced on the rafters like a giant dragon.

Chen Mo leaped over an arched doorway and landed from the air.

While running, he accidentally kicked over a water vat.

The vat fell to the ground, smashing against the sharp edge of a hard bluestone nearby, with a "crack."

It broke open a large hole.

Then, Chen Mo saw a lot of red bloody water flowing out from inside, trickling slowly along the gaps in the stone path.

It was dense, just like human blood vessels.

At the same time, a bloody, mangled arm fell out from inside.

Along with the washing of the blood, human eyeballs, legs, and a headless torso all rolled out.

It was easy to tell that this was the previous son-in-law.

Because these corpses were still wearing wedding garments dyed even redder by the blood!

Entering this area that resembled a garden, there were arched doorways on all sides.

Various types of Paper Dolls walked out from all directions.

There were young boys, farmhands, maidservants, and even a schoolteacher.

They were expressionless, yet they opened their mouths to emit chilling laughter, closing in on Chen Mo step by step.

"Let's have an intermission first."

The pace was a bit chaotic, and Chen Mo had absolutely no time to search for clues.

Just dodging the pursuit of these Paper Dolls was enough to exhaust him completely.

Chen Mo lightly snapped his fingers, and a blue halo of light instantly expanded in place, distorting everything in the surroundings.

When he opened his eyes again, he had already entered the Occult Research Association.

"Huh? Huh? Huh?!"

"What's going on? When the President opens the guild, we get forcibly pulled in too?" Jiang Xiaoyun was completely bewildered.

Sitting to Chen Mo's left and right were two people.

Seeing Chen Mo panting heavily, his face somewhat pale.

Both of them understood that Chen Mo must have been unable to take it anymore and wanted to rest in the guild for a while.

Above everyone's heads was a countdown.

It displayed a number.

[ 9 : 30 ]

[ 9 : 29 ]

"The activation of the guild has a time limit; there are only 10 minutes."

"And... I don't know how many times the guild can be opened within a dungeon. If it could be opened at any time, that would be equivalent to having infinite time for analysis."

"That would be too buggy; I don't think the Thriller Game would allow it." Jiang Xinyi reminded him.

Chen Mo adjusted his breathing and looked at the two women's attire.

Jiang Xinyi was wearing a yellow Taoist robe, with a peach wood sword strapped to her back, and various small items used by Taoist priests on her person.

She wore a yellow Taoist hat, and perhaps to fit the theme, she wasn't wearing her glasses.

She looked quite cute.

As for Jiang Xiaoyun, she was wearing a light pink long dress.

The hem of the skirt gently wrapped around her figure.

In her speech and demeanor, the lively tassels circling her arms seemed to have an ethereal quality, swirling around her.

A Taoist priest and a little fairy?

Seeing the surprise and infatuation in Chen Mo's eyes, both women pursed their lips and smiled.

However...

When they saw the bright red wedding garment Chen Mo was wearing, both of their brows couldn't help but twitch slightly.