The rabbit-headed figure silently observed the gray robe.

After a long while, it said, “It’s just returning to a new starting point. It will never end.”

In the distance, a cube lit up.

“A player has entered a game. I must go.” The rabbit-headed figure lifted its foot to leave.

After a few steps, it stopped.

“Oh, right.”

It turned its head slightly, looking at the gray-robed old man’s back.

“I want to remind you that copy 7016 is under adjustment not only because the difficulty is too high, but also because the reward is too great. If those people truly obtain the reward, it might affect game balance… So, good luck to you.”

Good luck to you.

May you get your wish and have those people die in the game. Otherwise, they will become… big trouble for the Doll Game.

…

A gloomy sky, ice-cold rain.

Endless rainstorm pounding on her body, both cold and painful.

Bai Youwei struggled to open her eyes, then squeezed them tightly shut. Rainwater flowed down her eyelashes. She wiped at them and opened her eyes again—

Before her was torrential rain. The curtain of rain blocked her vision, the sound of rain simultaneously muffling her hearing.

She couldn’t see where she was, nor could she hear her companions’ voices.

The wheelchair lay behind her. She propped herself up on her elbows, crawling toward it bit by bit. The gravel in the mud made her palms hurt.

Her knees hurt too.

Her legs had already regained sensation, just unable to compare with normal people’s legs and feet. Though she could barely stand, she couldn’t walk. So weak, so powerless, lacking strength.

Speaking of which, it was a bit perverted, but she really envied Shen Mo’s muscled physique—solid and sturdy, cast like iron, both strong and hard! Every time she got close, she couldn’t help wanting to touch it, pinch it…

Thinking of Shen Mo, she surveyed her surroundings again. However, aside from the endless rainstorm, she could see nothing.

Where was Shen Mo?

Bai Youwei bit her lip, grabbed the wheelchair’s wheel, and dragged it in front of her, supporting herself to stand.

The rain was too heavy, and the muddy ground too slippery. She supported herself twice without managing to stand, instead falling more miserably.

“Damn it…” She bit her lower lip in frustration, supporting herself on the wheelchair again, trying to stand.

Her legs trembled uncontrollably, her knees felt both stabbing and numb. She took a deep breath, struggling to stand straight, sitting on the wheelchair in the second before losing strength, breathing heavily!

The canvas bag and rabbit were both on the ground, soaked and dirty with rain and mud.

But she no longer had the strength to pick them up.

“Hey…” she called to the plush rabbit. “Bring me the bag.”

The rabbit shook its ears, started walking on its two short legs, hugging the bag’s shoulder strap, struggling to drag and pull with all its might.

Not knowing how much rainwater it had been forced to swallow along the way, it finally arrived before Bai Youwei.

Bai Youwei hung the canvas bag on the side of the wheelchair, then picked up the rabbit and wrung it out. The plush rabbit was soaked through, water gushing out with a splash.

“I suppose you’re somewhat useful.” She murmured, hugging the rabbit to her chest, using one hand to push the wheelchair forward.

“Shen Mo must be looking for me right now.”

“The rain is too heavy. I need to quickly find a place to shelter from the rain…”

“This place seems like a slope. Let’s go upward. When people get lost in the mountains, they instinctively walk upward.”

“Know why?… Because the view from higher ground is more open.”

“Moreover, while walking upward, the range is also narrowing. Rabbit, let me test you—which has a larger area, the mountain peak or the mountain base?… Shen Mo will definitely go to high ground to look for me. As long as I walk up just a little bit more… I’ll definitely meet him…”

Bai Youwei spoke almost as if talking to herself, continuing upward.

However, the slope was difficult to traverse, becoming more rugged the higher she went.

Her wheelchair moved in fits and starts, finally getting stuck in a stone crevice, unable to pull it out. She tried harder, but the wheelchair wouldn’t budge. She couldn’t help feeling discouraged.

The pouring rain hammered down on her body, making her dizzy and disoriented.

Bai Youwei gave up.

She hugged the rabbit, sitting quietly in the rain.

She told herself in her heart: It’s fine. Shen Mo will find me.