[Damn, damn, the second key is obtained! The devil is so cool!]

[Hahaha, I agree! Such a small key, taken so easily!]

[It’s so good that the devil just took the key and didn’t kill Blind Grandpa. I was so worried, wuwuwu. Actually, Blind Grandpa is pretty good to the little cub!]

[Okay, now he’s really Blind Grandpa!]

[Did you guys notice? Blind Grandpa had the opportunity to use the Eye of Wisdom to petrify the little cub, but he didn’t. The devil could have directly killed Blind Grandpa to take the key, but He didn’t either. Can I interpret this as the effect of a bond?]

[Zaizai: This family would fall apart without the cub.]

[It’s clearly a life-or-death battlefield, but I’m touched. Blind Grandpa, because it was the little cub, chose not to petrify him. The devil, because Prometheus is the little cub’s Blind Grandpa, also didn’t kill Blind Grandpa?]

–

The devil: “…”

So noisy.

The devil waved his hand and turned off the comments again.

Livestream Chat: …

After obtaining the key, the devil was ready to leave.

Before leaving, he instructed Gu Rong: “Little lackey, tomorrow night before you sleep, go to the Black Forest in the back mountains and report your work progress to this Lord.”

The devil was sealed and couldn’t leave the Black Forest for long. What if this little lackey failed the task? Was He supposed to wait forever?

Gu Rong, who had previously been carried by the three NPCs, frowned his little eyebrows: “Where did Faceless Brother, Grandpa Skeleton, and Uncle Long Tongue go?”

The devil raised an eyebrow: “Oh? Are you talking about those three ugly things?”

006: […]

Livestream Chat: …

Gu Rong tilted his little head, thought about the appearance of the three NPCs, and surprisingly, without questioning, nodded. In a babyish voice, he said, “Yes!”

006: […………]

Livestream Chat: …………

That’s too harsh, hahaha.

Such a cute and soft baby voice, yet the emotional damage was so great.

It has to be said, the three NPCs, one with a long tongue, one with no face, and one just a skeleton, really didn’t fit a child’s aesthetics.

The devil’s voice was lazy, but his tone was crisp: “Dead.”

Gu Rong had no concept of death. He himself was now a Hanged Little Ghost: “Then where did they die to?”

The devil: “…”

006: […]

You’re something else, little host!

–

Overnight, all the players had a visible little handprint on their faces.

After Gu Rong woke up, he followed the nurse to brush his teeth and wash his face and then went to the dining hall.

All the players had arrived, each with a little handprint on their face, very conspicuous.

Zhuang Yu and Shen Hanxiao were no exception. They stood silently to the side, a bad feeling growing in their hearts.

Mainly, these little handprints were too suggestive; it was hard not to suspect a certain, the only cub.

When Gu Rong appeared, everyone looked at his little hands in unison.

Those hands were chubby, and round, like little steamed buns, looking very soft to the touch.

They were identical, not just similar, to the little handprints on their faces.

Everyone: “…”

It wasn’t that they wanted to suspect Gu Rong, but all the players had little handprints on their faces, while this little cub’s face was fair and tender, with nothing on it.

Gu Rong tilted his little head, looked at the little handprints on everyone’s faces, and seeing everyone staring at his little hands, he unconsciously hid his hands behind his back.

The cub dadada-ed over to Zhuang Yu and Shen Hanxiao, his short little arms hugging Big Brother, seeking protection.

Zhuang Yu immediately picked up the dumpling, and seeing that Gu Rong seemed to be frightened by everyone’s gazes, he patted his little back to comfort him.

Shen Hanxiao picked up Gu Rong’s little hand and weighed it, then pressed it against the handprint on Zhuang Yu’s face. The size was a perfect match as if they were made from the same mold.

Shen Hanxiao: “…”

It would be hard to convince anyone that this little cub wasn’t responsible.

Gu Rong stayed obediently in Big Brother’s arms.

The guilty little cub held his little hands together, silently not making a sound.

The livestream chat was about to die of laughter.

[Hahahahahaha, help, this scene is too funny.]

[Zaizai is so embarrassed he’s holding his little hands together. I’m embarrassed for Zaizai too.]

[Can Zaizai still put a little handprint on his own little face in time?]

[Mainly, there’s only one cub. If there were more than one, it would be easier to explain.]

[Why can they bear not to laugh?]

[Why, you want them to laugh after being slapped?]

–

“The ghosts nowadays are too insidious.”

Shen Hanxiao shook his head.

Zhuang Yu chimed in, “They’re actually framing a two-year-old toddler.”

Shen Hanxiao continued, “Won’t their conscience hurt?”

The other players: “??!”

Won’t your conscience hurt, talking with your eyes wide open?

Although they suspected that the little handprints were from Gu Rong, apart from the little handprints on their faces, there was no concrete evidence that Gu Rong had actually done it, so they let it go.

Mainly, this little cub had no motive to hit them, nor did he have the ability to appear and disappear so mysteriously. Otherwise, he would have obtained the keys and cleared the game long ago.

Yang Chunsheng covered his face, silently moving away from the trio with the child, his heart filled with trepidation.

He hadn’t seen last night how he’d been hit, but a little handprint had appeared on his face. However, he was one hundred percent certain that it was Gu Rong who had hit him.

It seemed this ghost doll’s abilities had evolved again. Terrifying.

–

The players didn’t dwell on the little handprints; after all, it was just a slap, and it wouldn’t kill them.

Compared to this, they were more concerned about how to get the keys.

During breakfast, the players started whispering again, discussing in low voices.

“Now we know where the keys are, we just need to figure out how to get them.”

“That’s true. The master key is used to open the devil’s palace in hell. And did you notice the mural in the chapel? The theme is Faust. I suspect the administrators made a deal with the devil and then betrayed the devil, sealing him away.”

“Regardless, we have to go to the Black Forest in the back mountains. It must be hiding important clues.”

“Guess what I discovered? I found that the wristband controller is in Chief Morrison’s hands. He’s in charge of guarding the patients. If we kidnap him and take him with us, we don’t have to worry about the wristband positioning revealing our location.”

“…Did you just completely ignore the baton and gun he has on him?”

“Anything worth doing comes with risks. Compared to waiting to die, taking the initiative has a better chance of survival, you coward.”

“No, but, haven’t you noticed? Chief Morrison hasn’t been seen since noon yesterday?”

“Then we’ll kidnap Dr. Lin first, and use Dr. Lin to lure Chief Morrison out.”

–

More than kidnapping someone or how to kidnap them, the players were more worried about the upcoming prayer time in the chapel.

Once inside the chapel, it was easy to forget their identity as players and genuinely believe they were patients. What if they completely forgot today and couldn’t remember?

Everyone was worried and gloomy.

After breakfast, the nun, along with Lin Xuezhu and Jessie, came over again, just like yesterday.

The only difference was that yesterday, it was Chief Morrison who came, but today it was Jessie.

It seemed that Chief Morrison’s sudden disappearance wasn’t an illusion, but that he had mysteriously gone offline.

The nun said the same lines as yesterday: “Please proceed to the chapel, pray devoutly, and ask the Lord to forgive your sins.”

Everyone had different thoughts, but they all remained silent, with red little handprints on their faces. Without speaking, it was like they were all angry.

The nun, Lin Xuezhu, and Jessie looked at the handprints on the players’ faces, then looked at the fair-skinned little patient, lost in thought.

Gu Rong’s baby voice obediently called out, “Nun Auntie, Doctor Uncle…”

Jessie’s whole body tensed, looking at the cub with hidden expectation. Surely he wouldn’t be left out this time, right?

The cub never disappoints. He looked at Jessie, and his little voice became even more affectionate and enthusiastic: “Hairy Uncle!!”

Jessie was overjoyed. He raised his chin at Lin Xuezhu, feeling quite smug.

It seemed that Jessie really cared about Lin Xuezhu’s mocking laugh yesterday.

Lin Xuezhu: “…”

The nun: “…”

Everyone: “…”

Hairy Uncle?!

He was called Uncle, yes, but what was there to be smug about with that title?

Including the nun and Lin Xuezhu, everyone was very surprised. Why was Gu Rong suddenly so affectionate towards Jessie?

Had something happened that they didn’t know about?

However, Jessie surprisingly didn’t grab anyone to give them a slicked-back hairdo today.

Strange, too strange!

Everything was strange, but in the horror world, nothing was strange. The abnormal was normal, and the normal was abnormal. Thinking about it this way, it seemed normal again.

What they didn’t know was that nothing was stranger than them all having little handprints on their faces.

–

Everyone moved to the chapel. The chapel was still burning candles everywhere, illuminating the Faust mural on the wall.

Seeing the handsome-as-a-god priest with long silver hair, the players instantly relaxed their guard, their bodies and minds relaxed, their hearts filled with reverence.

This time, they only glanced at the silver key on the priest’s neck. They just felt that the key, worn on the priest’s slender neck, was very pleasing to the eye, and they didn’t even think about stealing it.

This psychological change happened in an instant, and although the players felt it was wrong, they couldn’t control it.

Seeing the priest, Gu Rong’s little social butterfly personality didn’t falter: “Pretty Brother!”

The priest smiled at Gu Rong, making him even more dazzlingly handsome.

006 said: [Little host, the priest also has a key around his neck. Let’s find a way to steal it.]

Gu Rong clenched his little fist: [Pretty Brother’s key, how can Rongrong steal it?]

006: […]

Damn it, the little host has also been bewitched.

The priest opened the Bible and read the scriptures to the patients.

When the patients closed their eyes and prayed devoutly, Gu Rong also clasped his little hands together and said “Amen” after every sentence, looking very serious.

Zhuang Yu and Shen Hanxiao took a look at him in their spare time and couldn’t help but want to laugh.

A two-year-old toddler, every move was cute.

Halfway through the prayer time, the players were horrified to find that the wristband colors of the two players had changed from pale purple to pale blue.

They had become NPCs, completely forgetting their identities as players.

When the prayer time ended and everyone left the chapel, those two players had already joined the NPC patients.

The other players looked at the two oblivious players, terrified.

This was even more chilling than becoming an octopus culture medium or being petrified by an eye. They had forgotten who they were and would be imprisoned here forever.

Everyone hurriedly checked the color of their wristbands. Seeing that they were still the pale purple of players, they breathed a sigh of relief.

But their expressions didn’t completely relax.

They had no doubt that if they went to the chapel again, even if they didn’t encounter any accidents, they would become NPCs because they would forget their identity as players.

006 was also very anxious: [Little host, if we don’t get the priest’s key, we can’t complete the task, and we’ll be enslaved by the devil forever and won’t be able to find Daddy, Mommy, and Grandpa Ming.]

Gu Rong said anxiously, [Find Daddy, Mommy, Grandpa Ming!]

006: [Right, so we still have to steal the priest’s key!]

Gu Rong’s words sounded very sincere: [Rongrong not steal, Rongrong borrow!]

006 was stunned: […Borrow? What if Pretty Brother doesn’t lend it?]

Gu Rong frowned his little eyebrows, thought for a moment, and held up his short little fingers: [Shh, don’t let Pretty Brother know, Rongrong secretly borrow!]

006: […]

Well played, isn’t that still stealing!