"Good boy." A sinister smile crept across the woman's face. "Go kill the mayor, and your brother will be saved. As long as that wicked man lives, your brother might be made into a portrait."
"Do you want your brother to become like those pitiful people in the portrait?"
The little girl shook her head nervously as she recalled those pale, twisted spirits, each one filled with hatred.
"Then listen to me, take the blue pill, and then go find the mayor." The woman slowly reached out and handed her a blue pill that looked just like the ones in the basement. "Kill the mayor, and you can save your brother."
The comments section erupted in screams as the woman offered the pills and the little girl hesitated.
"This woman is lying!! Yin Xiu wasn't arrested by the mayor at all! Why would she lie to Ya Ya?!"
"How could they send her to the mayor? What a vicious heart! The mayor is furious right now! Even if he's injured, he's definitely not someone a monster-like little girl could defeat!"
"This wicked woman probably can't handle Yin Xiu, so she's trying to take advantage of his absence to harm the little girl! She wants to give Yin Xiu a psychological blow first!"
"I strongly suspect the woman wanted to use the little girl to kill the mayor. I remember the mayor's rules included a warning about children at night?"
"But the rules don't say that a child can kill the mayor at night? It doesn't seem like an equal fight at all. Her actions will only lead to the little girl's death."
"It's numb! Why did she have to cause trouble while Yin Xiu was away? Yin Xiu, come back quickly!! Wake up!! Your cute little monster sister is going to be killed!!"
The little girl hesitated, but under the woman's gentle coaxing, she slowly reached out and took the medicine. Just as she was about to swallow it, Zhong Mu suddenly rushed over from behind and grabbed her hand.
"No, don't eat... Yin Xiu is a big shot, he definitely won't be arrested by the mayor, and doesn't he have a monster roommate with him? Do you think the mayor can handle the two of them?" Zhong Mu, though terrified of women, still pleaded with a pale face.
"Oh, right…" The little girl paused slightly, thinking of Li Mo's existence. It was indeed unlikely that he would watch his brother be arrested by the town mayor.
Seeing the little girl's doubt, the woman's face immediately turned angry. She grabbed Zhong Mu and slammed him against the door with a thud, pinching him until his face turned pale. She then threatened the little girl fiercely, "If you don't take your medicine, I'll eat this person!! When your brother comes back and sees the corpse, he'll think you ate it!"
"No one in this town will believe a monster! No one will trust a monster, and you'll be hated just like me!"
The little girl's face turned pale instantly. She wanted to save this person, and she didn't want to be hated by her brother, so she had no choice but to take this medicine!
The little girl glanced at Zhong Mu, whose face was turning blue and he couldn't speak, with teary eyes. She frowned, raised her hand, and swallowed the blue pill.
Her breath hitched for two seconds, and her clear eyes turned crimson in an instant. The small monster's body twisted and grew larger amidst her painful howls, and all its sharp teeth and claws grew rapidly. In less than half a minute, the little girl's frail monster body transformed into a huge and terrifying behemoth.
She was covered in black fur, like some kind of wild beast, and lay prone on the ground, panting heavily and painfully, her scarlet pupils gleaming eerily in the night.
"Very good." The woman tossed Zhong Mu into the house with satisfaction. She smiled and stared at the distorted little girl. "Go, go find the mayor and kill him before dawn."
The little girl turned her head to look at Zhong Mu in the room, closed her eyes, and her huge figure quickly ran out, disappearing into the corridor through the white mist.
Then, the woman's figure slowly disappeared through the doorway, leaving Zhong Mu alone, clutching his aching neck and coughing incessantly, finally managing to catch his breath after suffocating.
"Her goal is to use Ya Ya to kill the mayor? How could she possibly succeed?" Zhong Mu coughed as he got up from the ground, his throat sore. He stood at the door and looked outside.
The white mist in the corridor dissipated, and the little girl and the woman disappeared. The town was silent, with no one knowing what would happen next.
"I have to hurry and find Yin Xiu. If the little girl dies at the hands of the mayor, the whole instance is doomed." Zhong Mu said anxiously, about to leave.
Suddenly, the waiter's body, which the little girl had gnawed on, moved twice in the corridor, struggling to get up in the darkness.
Zhong Mu shuddered, and the first rule of this house quickly came to mind.
[The room must be occupied by two people; no other guests are allowed.]
Now that Yin Xiu and Li Mo are both gone, and the little girl is gone too... he's all alone in the room...
Alone... I'm afraid he won't even make it through tonight.
Zhong Mu swallowed hard. The waiter on the ground had slowly gotten up and fixed his gaze on Zhong Mu.
The two exchanged a glance, and Zhong Mu turned and ran out in a flash. The waiter followed at an extremely fast pace, and the two ran through the corridor at a distance where Zhong Mu could be caught if he stopped for even a moment.
The viewers in the live chat, just like him, became nervous after realizing the double occupancy rule, watching Zhong Mu frantically try to escape.
"He barely survived the woman's clutches, and now he's going to die at the hands of a waiter? I thought he could survive this dungeon."
"He was just unlucky. I thought he had a good eye for talent, and he spotted a real big shot right away. Sigh... what a pity."
"There's no other way. Yin Xiu and his roommate aren't here, and the little girl is gone. He's all alone in the room. No matter what, a single room is against the rules and he'll die, unless there's some kind of unorthodox way to exploit a loophole in the rules, like how Yin Xiu dealt with the little girl before."
"But he's a newcomer, and the waiter has already caught up with him. Once he runs out of energy, he'll die; that's his fate."
"Well, that's hard to say. Look at the direction he ran away in."
The viewers in the live chat stared intently at Zhong Mu in the corridor, who was running frantically while looking out the window, seemingly wanting to go outside.
"Is he trying to escape outside and hide before the waiter catches up?"
"Outside is fine, but it's dangerous outside too. There's a runaway little girl, a dangerous mayor, and that woman. The townspeople might not like him and come up to kill him. It's safe to say there's no peace anywhere. But there is a tiny chance of surviving if we leave the house, since nobody knows if the waiter will chase us out."
"You mean you can barely stay outside if you don't get caught by the mayor, the townspeople, or the women, right? The weirdos wandering outside tonight aren't in a good mood."
"Yes, the source of their anger is sleeping soundly in the woods outside town, and they can't find anyone to seek revenge on."
"Let's pray he's alright. At least this newcomer thought of running away, which is already quite good."
Yes, yes.
Just as the comments section was filled with praise, Zhong Mu suddenly braked sharply and turned into the men's restroom as he ran to the stairwell entrance.
"Huh? He's not going out?? He went to the bathroom?"
"Holy crap? Go to the toilet?"