Bai Youwei was frantic in the storage room, helpless.

The rabbit could discharge electricity within two meters — but the distance wasn’t close enough. She couldn’t do anything!

She could try sending the rabbit toward the bear, of course, but the bear was in a constant frenzy of motion, and the rabbit would have trouble keeping up. On top of that, she had to account for the distances of everyone else!

An electric shock wasn’t like other forms of attack — once you accidentally hit a friend, there would be no way to take it back.

By now, everyone had realized the mother bear’s ferocity was truly extraordinary. They scattered in all directions, using dispersion to divide and distract it!

Without any effective weapons, and with such a stark gap in power, each person was on the defensive — Shen Mo included.

Last time they could hold their own against the frog because the cave had given him enough space to work with. The frog also had no sharp claws or teeth, so when Shen Mo attacked it, it was like a massive elephant being gnawed at by fleas — utterly unable to do anything about it.

But this berserk bear before them…

Bai Youwei didn’t dare imagine: if Shen Mo took a direct hit from one of those paws, the way Li Li had, would he survive?

She couldn’t wait any longer!

Rather than waiting for an opportunity, she would make one!

Bai Youwei shoved the door open! She grabbed a broom and charged out, hurling it hard at the wild beast!

“Idiot — come here!” she shouted at the mother bear, her voice sharp and fierce from outside the storage room.

The rabbit was charging just behind her, right at the storage room entrance.

The mother bear spun around and reared up on its hind legs, letting out a furious roar at Bai Youwei! Deafening!

The howl of a wild animal — full of threat and savage instinct, nothing like the sound effects on television. Hearing it in person, right up close, made one’s scalp crawl and stirred a primal fear from somewhere deep inside!

Bai Youwei was no exception. Her heart lurched!

But she didn’t dodge. Didn’t retreat. She simply waited for the bear to lunge, ready to strike it back the moment it came within two meters!

But then something wholly unexpected happened.

After its roar, the bear — for reasons unknown — did not attack Bai Youwei. Instead, it turned and went for Tan Xiao at the staircase!

It opened its gaping, crimson maw and bit clean through the firewood Tan Xiao jabbed at it!

Tan Xiao let out a shriek!

Just as he was convinced his end had come, the mother bear pulled back, spat out the wood splinters, huffed and puffed for a moment — and then slowly turned around, wobbling and swaying, and walked out the door…

…

The door slowly swung shut.

Everyone stood frozen in shock.

They looked at one another and saw the same bewilderment mirrored in each other’s eyes.

Why hadn’t the two stuffed bears worked?

Why hadn’t the bear attacked Bai Youwei?

Was it simply because Tan Xiao had been closer?

There was no time to dwell on it.

Yan Qingwen and Su Man ran to Li Li’s side. After a quick check, the two of them worked together to open his shirt. The sight of his back was alarming — a vivid spread of deep purple bruising.

Yan Qingwen’s brow furrowed. “Lu Ang — bandages!”

Lu Ang immediately dug a small roll of bandages out of the pack at his waist and handed it to him. Yan Qingwen wrapped them around Li Li, one layer after another.

The bandages were thin and narrow, like the kind children use when playing doctor. But once applied, the angry bruising on the back began to fade almost immediately — only Li Li himself still hadn’t come around.

Su Man knelt beside Li Li, tears running down her face. “Li Li, you can’t have something wrong with you. You have to be okay…”

The people upstairs came down one by one. Having heard the roaring and crashing, they had already known things had gone badly. Now, seeing the wreckage on the first floor, their expressions grew even more stricken.

The bear had rampaged, which meant the item they’d found was wrong.

But if not those two stuffed bears, then what exactly were the bear’s two children in the nursery rhyme?!

“Is Li Li going to be alright?” Zhu Shu came over to ask.

Yan Qingwen frowned and shook his head. “Could be internal bleeding — impossible to tell if anything is broken. Get the bandages on first, then carry him to the sofa.”

Shen Mo righted the overturned sofa. The fabric on the back showed deep, clear claw marks from the beast.

Yan Qingwen said quietly, “Li Li’s body was upgraded through the labyrinth — far stronger than an ordinary person’s. Yet one swipe from that bear left him like this…”

He paused, then raised his eyes to look at Shen Mo and Bai Youwei:

“The difficulty level of this dollhouse… is not something ordinary players could ever handle.”