The Skeleton Maiden was almost amused at anger, looking at Gu Lin’s little face, which seemed to want to draw a clear line with her. She didn’t dare tease him anymore.

The Skeleton Maiden said, “Alright, I won’t say it anymore. Auntie was wrong.”

Gu Lin wasn’t a grudge-holding cub, and immediately forgave Skeleton Auntie.

In the previous instance, he had heard the aunties in the livestream chat say that those who steal children are human traffickers, and gege was definitely not a human trafficker.

Gege raised him to be fair and chubby. Although he couldn’t play with him all day long, gege had to earn money to support the two of them, and when he earned money, he even bought him an Ultraman backpack!

Mentioning gege, Gu Lin started to belatedly miss his gege.

Everything in the game was very novel. After entering the game, Gu Lin made many friends, and there were many people to play with him. He was immersed in playing for a while and hadn’t started to miss his gege.

From the previous instance until now, he hadn’t seen his gege for four or five days.

Usually, gege was very busy, and Gu Lin was used to gege not being able to play with him all day long, but he wasn’t used to not seeing him for several days.

Gu Lin had a child’s temperament, and emotions came and went quickly. He lowered his little head, no longer in the mood to watch the beauty pageant.

The Skeleton Maiden, seeing Gu Lin suddenly quiet down, couldn’t help but look down at him.

Then she saw this little cub raise his little fleshy hand, using the back of his hand to secretly wipe his eyes alone.

“…” The Skeleton Maiden was stunned.

Was this little cub… crying?

She had just made a joke, and she had actually made him cry?

Even if he was crying, Gu Lin didn’t cry loudly. He just secretly wiped his eyes with his chubby little hands, looking pitiful, which made people’s hearts soften even more.

[Oh my god, why is the little baby crying!]

[Cub, be good, don’t cry, don’t cry, Auntie will hug you QAQ]

[Is he missing his gege? The cub is so young, and he’s been away from his gege for several days. He must be missing his gege! [Reward Points x100]]

[Our cub is the best, buy milk for the cub! [Reward Points x100]]

[Buy Aoteman for the cub! [Reward Points x100]]

The Skeleton Maiden thought she had gone too far with her joke and was instantly flustered. Her fingers were only bones, and she couldn’t wipe away the little cub’s tears: “Little cutie, Auntie was wrong. I shouldn’t have said that about your gege. Don’t cry.”

Gu Lin wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, his voice childish, his little voice slightly choked: “Cub misses gege, wants to go home to find gege. I haven’t seen gege for many days.”

Skeleton Maiden: “…”

The Skeleton Maiden’s mood was complicated, and she was somewhat envious of this little cub’s gege.

[He really misses his gege. Can the system pull gege in too? [Dreaming in advance]]

[The cub is so cute, gege must be very handsome too. I also want to see gege!]

Gu Lin didn’t feel sad for long. Emotions came and went quickly, and he soon recovered on his own.

He didn’t even cry, his eyes were just red. The tears hadn’t fallen yet, and he wiped them away with his little hand.

Gege said that little boys couldn’t cry easily, and he listened to gege very well.

The Skeleton Maiden, seeing that the little cub was better, breathed a sigh of relief and carried him to the front row.

There were many skeletons in the front row, all kinds of skeletons. As soon as they saw the Skeleton Maiden carrying Gu Lin over, they started cheering and screaming.

The Double-Cap Big Shot, Su Qiao, and Song Ran were squeezed in the pile of skeletons, and the other players were also there.

Seeing Gu Lin, the Double-Cap Big Shot raised an eyebrow slightly, and Su Qiao and Song Ran waved vigorously at the little cub.

Gu Lin saw them at a glance and immediately waved his little hand: “Jiejie, Hat-gege, Song Ran-shushu!”

The “Hat-gege” title made the Skeleton Maiden stumble.

Skeleton Maiden: “The title Hat-gege is also quite unique.”

Su Qiao stood under the stage. Seeing that Gu Lin’s eyes were red and his eyelashes were still wet with moisture, looking like he had cried, she couldn’t help but be stunned: “Why are Dumpling’s eyes red? Did you cry?”

The Double-Cap Big Shot looked at the little cub and also frowned.

Song Ran said, “This little ghost was fine when he came. Why would he cry?”

It was normal for children to cry, crying dozens of times a day was normal, but Gu Lin was not a crybaby.

The group hadn’t seen Gu Lin cry before. Entering the horror game, seeing scary ghosts, he hadn’t been scared to tears, so why would he cry now?

The Skeleton Maiden carried Gu Lin, her gaze sweeping across the audience below the stage. Her young man’s voice turned back into a jiazi yin, hooking her pinky finger: “The beauty pageant officially begins. Please move to the Black Swamp.”

Those skeletons were instantly excited, immediately setting off for the Black Swamp.

Players: ???

The beauty pageant wasn’t being held here? It was at the Black Swamp? Damn, then why didn’t they go to the Black Swamp in the first place?

There were too many skeletons, the entire skeleton street was full of skeletons. The players were instantly pushed forward by the skeletons.

These skeletons were all very crazy, dressed up, and there was even a skeleton with a pair of rabbit ears on its head. Apart from their appearance, these skeletons were no different from normal people in the real world.

Song Ran’s mind was full of the mission, sorting through the clues: “The law of conservation of all things, one wanes, one waxes. Skeletons are ‘waning,’ plants are ‘waxing.’ Because the total amount of matter is constant, if one wants to ‘wax,’ it must deprive from elsewhere, making the other ‘wane’…”

Su Qiao was trying her best to avoid being stabbed by the skeleton frames: “What are you muttering about?”

Song Ran frowned: “The Skeleton Elder said that the source of the curse is related to the Skeleton King. It seems that to break the curse, we must find the Skeleton King.”

The Double-Cap Big Shot spoke in a deep voice: “Tomorrow all players will be skeletonized. If you want to see the Skeleton King, you must be selected as a sacrifice.”

“Tomorrow?”

Song Ran was stunned for a moment, then looked at the time. Today was already the fifth day on Skeleton Island.

Tomorrow was the sixth day. All players would be completely skeletonized, and the players who were not skeletonized would be sunk into the Black Swamp.

Song Ran looked at the Double-Cap Big Shot. He saw that the Double-Cap Big Shot had raised his right hand, and his entire hand had turned into stark white bones.

“Little gui!”

Song Ran wanted to see if Gu Lin had been skeletonized, but at this time, they had already been swept far away by the skeletons.

On all sides were skeletons, and Gu Lin’s figure was long gone.

Gu Lin was now with the Skeleton Maiden, being carried by four skeletons over two meters tall in a wooden sedan chair, like riding in a sightseeing car, with the whole skeleton street in full view.

Gu Lin’s mood had completely recovered. Seeing novel things, he would extend a finger to point, and then pat his little hands, his little face flushed with excitement.

The Skeleton Maiden, seeing that this little cub had been completely coaxed, finally felt relieved.

Soon they arrived at the Black Swamp.

The sky was pitch black, like the mouth of an abyss, covered with a layer of fog that couldn’t be dispersed.

The Black Swamp was like a boundless black sea, the rosette coastline beautiful, blooming brilliantly.

The players arrived first. Seeing Gu Lin arrive in the sedan chair, they couldn’t help but gasp.

The treatment of players was so different.

As soon as Gu Lin got off the sedan chair, he put on his Ultraman backpack, spread his short little legs, and dadada ran towards Su Qiao and the other two.

Su Qiao immediately picked him up and pinched his little face: “Dumpling, did you cry just now?”

Mentioning this, Gu Lin’s little face flashed with sadness: “Cub missed gege.”

The three of them were all stunned.

Gu Lin had been mentioning his gege since entering the game, and it was obvious that he had a deep relationship with his gege.

Knowing that after the first instance, he should have let the little cub go home first to accompany his gege for two days.

Su Qiao smiled warmly: “After this instance is over, we’ll go with you to find gege, okay?”

Gu Lin nodded his little head, his big eyes watery: “Mm-hmm, find gege!”

–

The beauty pageant officially began.

One by one, the dressed-up skeletons, like a T-stage fashion show, took turns on stage. There was a total of thirty participating skeletons.

The players were dumbfounded.

No matter how you looked at it, these skeletons all looked more or less the same, ugly in their own way. Beauty pageant? More like an ugly pageant.

There was a skeleton next to them wearing bandages.

Song Ran wasn’t interested in the beauty pageant, so he stared at this skeleton. What was this? Performance art?

Song Ran: “Why are you wrapping a bandage around your face?”

The bandaged skeleton didn’t plan to answer him at first, but seeing the little dumpling with them, he explained: “I had plastic surgery before, but the bone reduction didn’t go well, and I was disfigured.”

The group: “?”

They remembered that there were indeed many beauty salons on Skeleton Street. The Skeleton King valued beauty, and even a skeleton started getting plastic surgery.

Song Ran: “Take it off and let us see. What is there that we can’t see?”

Gu Lin nodded his little head: “That’s right.”

The skeleton, seeing that even this little cub had spoken, paused for a moment, then unwound the bandage on his face.

The group was silent for a moment, their expressions all hard to describe.

Skeleton: ?

Song Ran: “You should wrap it back up.”

Bandaged Skeleton: “…”

Damn, are you polite?

Gu Lin’s tummy was hungry, and soon two sausages appeared in his two little hands, one in each hand, eating the sausages.

Looking at an old, stooped skeleton next to him, he couldn’t help but be curious, letting out an “Eh”: “Skeleton-yeye, why are you walking with a stoop?”

The Skeleton-yeye, seeing this little cub, his eyes lit up, his voice very old: “Because Skeleton-yeye is old.”

Gu Lin was even more surprised: “But I met Town-Mayor-yeye before, and he’s old, but he doesn’t walk with a stoop.”

Skeleton-yeye: “Then he’s definitely not as old as me.”

Gu Lin: “Town-Mayor-yeye is also old.”

Skeleton-yeye: “Not as old as me.”

Gu Lin: “His face is all wrinkly, and your face isn’t wrinkly.”

The Skeleton-yeye couldn’t help but laugh: “Grandpa’s face is all bones, how can it be wrinkly?”

Gu Lin: “Then your bones aren’t wrinkly either.”

Skeleton-yeye: “…”

Okay, you win.

At this moment, several skeletons in the audience, due to different aesthetic opinions, got into a fight right next to Gu Lin and the others.

Skeleton fights were particularly brutal, probably because they were undead and immortal, they fought to the death. Bones clattered ding li dang lang, scattered all over the ground.

The skeletons next to them didn’t try to break up the fight. They were all making a fuss, clapping their hands and cheering, and some even started placing bets, betting on which skeleton would win in the end.

And on the other side, the music was deafening, and the T-stage runway show was going on simultaneously.

The scene was chaotic and noisy, a dance of demons.

Su Qiao hurriedly carried Gu Lin away.

Gu Lin struggled to get down.

Then they saw this little cub, holding up his little clothes, start to busily pick up the skeleton parts on the ground, picking them up and putting them in the pocket of his little clothes.

As he picked them up, the whole place fell silent.

Those skeletons who had been fighting vigorously also stopped, not fighting anymore, looking at this little cub who was picking up their fingers and eyeballs.

Skeletons: “…”

Players: “…”

Su Qiao and Song Ran looked at each other, both bewildered. They also bent down to help the little cub pick up the skeleton parts.

Gu Lin’s clothes were small and couldn’t hold much, so the ones that couldn’t fit were held by Su Qiao and Song Ran, and the Double-Cap Big Shot also held a lot.

Those skeletons watching the beauty pageant all quietly shifted their gazes.

A skeleton picked up its own eyeball. Just as it picked it up and was about to put it back in its eye socket, it looked up and saw the soft and cute cub in front of it.

The skeleton hesitated for a moment, then tremblingly handed over the eyeball that belonged to it.

Gu Lin’s soft, fleshy little hand took the eyeball, his little face beaming.

After picking up all the small skeleton parts, Gu Lin rubbed the dust off his clothes, his pocket bulging with small parts.

Everyone didn’t know what this little cub wanted to do.

The next moment they knew.

After picking up the small parts, Gu Lin began to have the skeletons line up, and then began to distribute the small parts.

Gu Lin held an eyeball in his little hand. The eyeball looked particularly large in his hand, like a prop.

Gu Lin: “Whose eye-zhuzhu is this?”

A skeleton hurriedly raised its hand: “Me, me, me, it’s mine!”

This skeleton stepped forward to claim it, and Gu Lin gave it the eye-zhuzhu.

Then Gu Lin picked up a finger bone: “Whose finger bone is this?”

Another skeleton promptly raised its hand, which only had four finger bones left, and stepped forward to claim it: “Me, me, me, mine!”

Everyone: …6666.

The degree of skeletonization of the players varied. Some players had already turned half of their bodies into skeletons, while this little cub, Gu Lin, hadn’t even begun to skeletonize yet.

Who knew that just as they thought this, Gu Lin, who was distributing the small parts to the skeletons, suddenly raised his chubby little hand. A short section of his finger had turned into bone.

Gu Lin blinked his big eyes, looked at his finger that had turned into bone, and not only was he not afraid, but he was also a little surprised: “Cub’s hand has also turned into a skeleton!”

He put his finger in his mouth and bit it. His little baby teeth couldn’t bite through it at all.

“Can’t bite it.”

Everyone: “…”

As expected of you!