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Chapter 81: Knight in Skirt

A small male doll, only a dozen centimeters tall, was sitting on a high shelf, wearing a fluffy long skirt.

This skirt was indeed very beautiful.

It was red and black in color, with lace, ribbons, bows, and everything else that was needed.

The complicated pattern set off the neckline, revealing the young man’s slender neck and straight shoulders. There were also layers of bright red flower buds and the extremely bright red set off his extremely white complexion. The chest line was graceful and slightly raised, bound into a narrow blouse, showing an effeminate appearance in dim light. 

His waist was already slender, but at this moment, because of the waist belt, it was tightened into a gentle and flexible arc, and the waistline was provocatively recessed, making it easy to grab it with just two fingers.

A heavy, beautiful lace skirt was lifted into a fluffy handful, covering the waistline tightly.

Wen Jianyan’s figure was very good—firm and slender, not exaggerated, but graceful and powerful.

At the moment, the boundaries of gender were easily blurred, bringing a kind of contradictory, neutral, and erotic beauty.

The barrage of the “Integrity First” live broadcast room exploded.  

[Help aaaaaaaaaaahhh, my god! A dog liar who has been shrunk to the point that he could be held in the palm of our hand! And the skirt! This skirt!!! This skirt!!!!!]

[Big chest and thin waist. Big chest and thin waist, aaaaaaaah!]

[Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh. This look is really too… ahh, help!]

[I don’t believe I’m the only one taking screenshots frantically!]

[sob sob sob. Tears are flowing down from the corners of my mouth. Where can I buy this doll? Please give me an address!]

Wen Jianyan’s eyes widened slightly, and his palm opened and closed.

That’s right, it was his original body.

But it was shrunk down to the size of a doll and placed high on a shelf while the murderer who made the victim into a doll was sharpening his knife not far away.

【Congratulations to all the anchors for triggering the scene: one, two, and three wooden figures.】

【Anchors, please find the third card without being discovered (debuff: all props are invalidated)】

Wen Jianyan raised his eyes and searched the room.

Soon, he found a few familiar faces among the dolls. Yun Bilan was sitting on the middle shelf opposite him, wearing a powder-blue cake skirt, and her blue hair was tied into a big twisted braid, hanging on one side of her shoulder. Elise was at the bottom of the shelf, and Ball was on the same shelf as him, lower than him.

Obviously, they also entered the hidden branch and received the same task.

Since the wording adopted by the system was “anchors”, they should have been a team by default, so there was no competition between them and they could cooperate with each other.

And “one, two, and three wooden figures” should also hint at the way to complete this branch: quietly look for the card, and when Felix looks at you, just pretend to be a puppet and don’t move. This way, they should be able to get away with it.

Obviously, other people also realized this. Everyone silently nodded to each other and then began to search the small area around them.

Suddenly, the sound of sharpening stopped.

The sudden, dead silence made one’s whole body tense, and all the anchors stopped moving instantly.

Felix moved.

He stood up, and his body, as heavy as a mountain of meat, stepped on the ground, causing the shelves where the dolls were placed to tremble.

“Dolls, dolls, hehe, hehehe, let’s play together…”

He smirked, stretched out his big, thick-haired hand, pulled a doll off the shelf, fiddled with it forcefully, tugged at the hem of its skirt, and pulled its arm.

“Rip—”

The cloth was torn apart, and the soft and white cotton flew away.

One of the doll’s arms was forcefully pulled off.

“……”

Felix stared at the doll blankly, and the whole person froze in place.

In the next second, his expression slowly distorted, and there was a sharp hiss in his blunt and thick voice:

“Don’t play with me, don’t play with me…don’t play with me!”

Felix looked ferocious and berserk, with a frightening look of madness flashing in his eyes. He picked up the newly sharpened knife and pressed the doll on the table.

“Whoosh!”

A cold light flashed, the doll’s head was cut off abruptly, and the stiff, smiling head rolled on the floor.

But even so, Felix wasn’t done venting yet.

He tugged at various parts of the doll’s body, tearing and screaming frantically, before finally tearing it to pieces.

“……”

The air fell into a dead silence.

All the anchors who had turned into dolls didn’t dare to make a sound. When they thought that such a thing might happen to them, they couldn’t help but feel cold and freeze in place, afraid that they would become the next victim.

Felix threw the broken doll aside, stood up, and walked with heavy steps to the wall where various instruments of torture were hung as if wanting to pick something up.

Although the anchors still had lingering fears about what happened just now, they still took action, taking advantage of his back to this side to speed up the pace of looking for the card.

Suddenly, the eyes of Ball, sitting at the bottom, lit up. He pointed to the top, not far away, and gestured to the others—look there!

Yun Bilan looked in the direction pointed out by Ball.

She saw that at the very side of her shelf, in the gap between the skirts of the two dolls, a hard card could be vaguely seen shining with luster.

The card to clear the level!

Yun Bilan nodded quickly.

Got it.

She was the anchor closest to the card, and the task of getting the card naturally fell on her.

The blue-haired girl picked up the heavy and obstructive skirt, carefully stepped over the two dolls in front of her, tried her best to keep quiet, and moved toward the card with difficulty.

One step, two steps, getting closer.

At this moment, her foot slipped, and her body suddenly tilted toward a doll beside her!

“La la la, la la la…”

The doll suddenly opened its mouth and began to sing after being hit somewhere.

The song sung in a child’s voice echoed in the dead room, appearing particularly clear.

Felix turned his head sharply!

His ferocious gray eyes gleamed in the darkness. His eyes were fixed on Yun Bilan, who had just stopped moving above the shelf.

Holding a pair of rusty scissors in his hand, he walked in this direction step by step.

“Thud, thud, thud.”

Every time this huge, mountain-like man took a step, the ground shook, and the vibration was transmitted along the shelf, making the anchor sitting on the shelf tremble.

Yun Bilan gritted her teeth, maintained her posture just now, and sat firmly beside the singing doll. Her face was pale and her back was sweating.

F*CK F*CK F*CK

She gritted her teeth and cursed in her heart; her body was stiff, and she dared not move.

Different from instances below level B, in this kind of level A instance, after opening the hidden branch, it would often increase the difficulty for the anchor to complete the task, such as not being able to use abilities, unable to use props, etc., forcing the anchors with a certain ability to crack the level by playing by the rules without the help of any external force.

And that’s exactly what happened this time.

It hadn’t been long since the instance started, Yun Bilan hadn’t completed the observation to use her ability yet, and now she was banned from using props, so she could almost be regarded as unarmed.

What to do, what to do, what to do…

Yun Bilan pursed her lips tightly, subconsciously holding her breath.

The next second, Felix’s stretched-out hand got enlarged in her slightly constricted pupils little by little, and then—

He grabbed the singing doll beside Yun Bilan forcefully.

“……”

Yun Bilan involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief.

He muttered an incomprehensible strange sound in his mouth, lowered his head, picked up the scissors, and cut the doll’s belly with a click, and the fluffy cotton fell to his feet and flew around.

Accompanied by the sound of something hard being crushed, the voice of the doll’s singing changed suddenly, and finally, there was only dead silence.

Felix threw the shredded doll on the ground and stepped on it like it was garbage.

However, unexpectedly, after destroying the doll in his hands, he did not turn around and leave like before. On the contrary, he seemed very satisfied with the new instruments of torture in his hands and began to pick up the dolls from the shelf one by one, slowly cutting them into pieces with scissors.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer dolls around her, Yun Bilan trembled uncontrollably, her body and mind became more and more tense.

No, she can’t wait any longer.

Otherwise, the next doll to be dismembered will be her sooner than later!

While Felix lowered his head again and began to torment the doll in his hand, Yun Bilan suddenly stood up and rushed toward the card!

Felix raised his head, his crazy and dull eyes rolled and fell on Yun Bilan, as if he had found a new toy, his eyes shone slightly, and he stretched out his hand it in her direction to grab.

“Doll! Hey, hey, play with me…”

Yun Bilan mustered all her strength, flexibly dodged Felix’s heavy and clumsy hand, and ran toward the direction of the card with all her strength.

It was getting closer and closer!

“Ahhh! Disobedient, disobedient!”

Felix was annoyed. He let out a scream and suddenly kicked his foot on the shelf.

The heavy shelf swayed violently, and the dolls that were piled messily on the shelf fell to the ground one by one. The heavy skirt on Yun Bilan’s body became her drag, and she staggered and fell down.

The blue-haired puppet was hanging in mid-air; its fingers were firmly grasping the edge of the shelf, and its body was shaking.

“Hey hey, hey hey.” Felix smiled and clapped happily, “Stop, caught you.”

He stretched out his hand and grabbed Yun Bilan, who was hanging in the air—

It’s over.

It’s really over now.

 Yun Bilan closed her eyes in despair.

“Hello.”

Suddenly, a clear voice came from behind: “Do you want a doll?”

Felix’s hand froze in the air for a moment. He turned his head stupidly and looked in the direction of the voice: “?”

The young man, who was only a dozen centimeters tall, stood on a shelf full of dolls, holding a thick skirt in his hands. Although he was wearing a red, fluffy long skirt as a man, he didn’t look embarrassed at all. He seemed calm and magnanimous, even a little careless.

With those calm, smiling amber eyes that gleamed in the dim light, he looked more like a knight in a skirt than a princess.

Wen Jianyan raised his chin:

“Come on, I’ll play with you.”

The author has something to say: 

A real man should wear a skirt to fight monsters!

Q: Mr. Wu Zhu, may I ask if you saw your wife wearing——

Wu Zhu: “…..”

Q: ——Wait, wait, don’t be impulsive! At least let us finish asking the question this time before beating up the staff!