Dollhouse—

Welcome to the Dollhouse.

Associating this with the words on the gold coin, everyone unconsciously looked toward Tan Xiao.

Tan Xiao looked completely baffled. “Huh? Why’s everyone looking at me like that?”

Some people withdrew their gazes, their expressions complex.

“I’m telling you all, you can’t be blaming me, right?” Tan Xiao refused to take the blame and immediately pointed at Li Li. “If he hadn’t insisted on looking at that gold coin, I wouldn’t have even noticed there were words on it! If you’re going to blame someone, blame him!”

Li Li’s face looked pained: “That was human nature, understandable circumstances, okay? Coming out of a game, of course I’d be curious what the final reward was!”

Su Man also spoke up for Li Li: “If we’re blaming anyone, blame that overseer! What kind of reward was that—clearly deliberately setting us up!”

“By that logic, you should blame me then?” Bai Youwei coolly took over the conversation. “If I hadn’t led everyone to clear the game and offended the overseer, maybe it wouldn’t have given us this gold coin.”

Tan Xiao immediately defended her: “How can we blame you?! By that reasoning, the person we should blame most is Brother Fei, right?! If he hadn’t brought a bunch of people over, we wouldn’t have entered the game!”

“Brother Fei came over because you robbed them!” Lü Ang added.

“We robbed them because they had ill intentions first! They wanted to steal our items!”

“How did they know you had items?”

“If you hadn’t picked a fight with us, would we have exposed our items?”

Going in circles, they were back where they started.

“Enough, stop acting like three-year-olds.” Yan Qingwen was both helpless and irritated. “At a time like this, what’s the point of arguing about this?”

Everyone shut their mouths.

The silence lasted for a short while.

Shen Mo said, “If the game system were really that strict, why was there no system reaction when the overseer gave the gold coin to Tan Xiao as a reward?”

“Could it be a bonus level?” Tan Xiao suggested.

Although he hadn’t studied much, he’d played lots of games and had very active gaming intuition.

“Many online games have this kind of setup—you kill a monster and if you’re lucky, it’ll drop a key to some instance. These special instances are always very difficult, but the rewards are also amazing—rare equipment and such.”

“Looks like we really have entered a game…” Yan Qingwen mused. “We came in, but haven’t met the conditions to start the game, so nothing has happened so far.”

Li Li said, “Could it really be like Zhu Shu said—only when all ten of us change into those clothes will the game start?”

“That possibility can’t be ruled out…” Yan Qingwen thought for a moment and glanced at everyone. “If there’s still no progress tomorrow, should we try changing into the clothes?”

Everyone looked at each other—no one objected.

Yan Qingwen continued, “Speaking of which, we haven’t formally introduced ourselves yet. How about everyone introduce themselves? When the game starts, we won’t be scrambling around in confusion during cooperation.”

Cheng Weicai, Tan Xiao, and Pan Xiaoxin turned to look at Shen Mo and Bai Youwei.

Bai Youwei was listlessly warming herself by the fire, saying nothing.

Shen Mo nodded. “Mutual understanding would be good.”

Seeing everyone agreed, Li Li couldn’t help feeling hesitant: “But what if it’s a competitive game… what do we do?”

If it were competitive, introducing themselves would be equivalent to exposing their weaknesses to the other side, wouldn’t it?

Yan Qingwen said, “The possibility of it being competitive is low.”

Li Li: “…What if it is though?”

“Heh, nitpicker.” Bai Youwei mocked, not even bothering to lift her eyelids.

Li Li’s expression stiffened. He said unwillingly, “There’s always a what-if, right?!”

Bai Youwei half-closed her eyes: “I have a fever and I’m too lazy to waste words.”

She glanced at Pan Xiaoxin beside her. “Xiaoxin, you tell him.”