Chapter 194: Transforming Community Experience (Part 3)
As the child sobbed and swore, the mother's attitude suddenly changed significantly, with a hint of excitement mixed in with the strangeness:
"Did you see where they went?"
"Wow, I don't remember..."
"Think about it again. If I can find it, I'll take you to Mayas Delicious Soup Restaurant for dinner today!"
The child stopped crying instantly and began to recall carefully. Then he said uncertainly, "It seems... it's over there?"
The four people in the corner held their breath, and then they heard the woman's satisfied laugh: "You are worthy of being my good child. Come on, mom will take you to find something good."
After saying that, the heavy footsteps quickly walked away in the opposite direction, and soon disappeared from the hearing of several people.
“…”
Guo Guo finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Huh, I think there's something very wrong with this mother. Is she trying to arrest us?"
She knew that there was no good ghost in the university town!
"If we were in human form now, we wouldn't have to be afraid of these monsters and demons." Zheng Wanqing tried to move her limbs, but she could only tremble slightly like Guo Guo.
—but alas, she’s just a Barbie doll now.
Among the four people, only Zhang You and Tang Xinjue are able to move. They must first ensure the safety of the environment before they can move out together.
Zhang You turned half a circle on the spot, the small lights on the wheels flashing. "I move the fastest. I'll go observe the situation first. A remote-controlled toy car driving on the road won't attract attention."
Tang Xin Jue shook his head: "But when you run, there are at least three different colors of light rings flashing on the car body."
Furthermore, if either of them left, the remaining personnel would be responsible for evacuating Guo Guo and Zheng Wanqing at any time . In contrast, a toy car could directly carry both dolls, making evacuation much faster in the event of an emergency. Tang Xinjue's psychic abilities could help her quickly convey messages.
Zhang You thought for a few seconds before being persuaded: "Okay, then go quickly and come back quickly. If anything happens, please inform us at any time."
Not long after, a palm-sized crystal ball rolled out from the shadows and moved forward along the corner of the wall.
Through the transparent outer wall, a dilapidated street space appeared in Tang Xinjue's vision.
On both sides of the street stood two-story buildings that looked nothing like those inhabited by living people. The air was filled with the smell of rust and dust, and the fog and dust blocked the view - fortunately, Tang Xin Jue did not really need vision, and his mental power had already made the surrounding environment visible at a glance.
The street was short, and if they turned right around the corner, they'd see the same claw machine they'd seen when they first entered the dungeon. There had originally been four machines there, but one had been vandalized by a child, its transparent case empty. Perhaps they'd taken everything in one desperate move?
After turning the corner, another street following the U-shaped intersection comes into view, and you can hear faint footsteps and conversations.
Tang Xinjue didn't rush out. She turned the crystal ball into the crack in the corner of the wall and quietly observed the movements outside.
"... Didn't you say they came this way? Why can't we find them?"
The mother's fierce questioning and the child's crying merged together. The woman hurried out from a hidden corner with the thin child in her arms, and stood exactly where Tang Xinjue had just turned.
The child didn't care about all this. He just knew that his dolls and delicious food were gone, and he cried heart-wrenchingly.
This cry undoubtedly attracted another beating from the mother, but this time the strength and frequency were obviously far less severe than when he just appeared.
In Tang Xinjue's eyes, this change was even clearer: the woman's body, which was originally as huge as a mountain of flesh, had shrunk by nearly one third without him noticing!
While the mother was beating the child, her body continued to shrink, as if an invisible straw was poking the woman's fat and sucking it into a mysterious space bit by bit.
The woman soon realized this. Her face suddenly changed. She no longer cared about looking for the "toy" and grabbed the child and asked, "How much did you spend on me?!"
The child sniffed and took out a small red notebook from his pocket. His mother snatched it away and flipped through several pages, his face turning black and blue. "That's not right. How could there be so much less? Wait, before you smashed the claw machine, did you enable automatic deduction?"
Seeing the child nod, the woman's face turned an indescribable green. She strode towards the claw machine. In a moment, a high-pitched scream of shock and anger echoed on the street:
"Where's the doll in here?"
They were all piled up in there just now, how come they are all gone now?
She angrily circled the area twice, searching to no avail. She asked in disbelief, "All the toys in here...will all run away on their own?"
The naughty kid couldn't give an answer either. He just spread his hands and said he didn't know anything. He even set his eyes on the shark doll in another claw machine and started playing with it happily.
Mother:"……"
The concentration of murderous aura in the air increased rapidly. Tang Xinjue immediately seized the opportunity to roll away, and soon saw the "entrance" that Zhang You had mentioned before.
There were two red arches with the words "Change Community" scribbled on them. In the middle of the doorway stood a small table with a few registration papers on it, unattended.
"Wow, look what I caught!"
An excited voice suddenly came, and Tang Xinjue's heart skipped a beat. He saw three children who were almost as thin as the previous naughty child running out from the right door, each holding a doll in their hands.
"A moving doll can fetch ten kilograms if sold!"
"Ten pounds is too little. I want to sell it to Mr. Bu in exchange for twenty pounds. I want to get my little belly and double chin back, hehehe..."
The three children didn't notice the crystal ball in the corner. They pushed and shoved their way to the registration desk, wrote a few words, and were about to happily walk into the door on the left.
"Ah, that won't do."
One of the little girls suddenly remembered something and hurriedly stopped the others at the door. Then she took out a pair of cold scissors from her skirt and cut through the head of the dinosaur doll in her hand with two clicks.
The doll's fabric tore, and the snow-white cotton wool inside fell out, but when it hit the ground, it disappeared and melted into dark red wet marks.
"That's good." The little girl showed her rotten teeth in satisfaction and hugged the doll tightly: "I'm going in!"
The other two children followed suit, quickly finding tools to do the same. The second bear toy was quickly torn off its head, but when it came to the third hippo toy, the little boy couldn't tear it open no matter what he did, and instead stamped his feet in anger.
Tang Xinjue watched this scene silently. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to see a light flickering slightly in the hippo's eyes, and then gradually dimmed as the child persisted in destroying it.
Do you want to save it?
Tang Xinjue noticed this fleeting thought and frowned slightly.
Is it still possible to use mental power to influence her at this level... What is in there?
At the entrance of the community, the third child finally borrowed a pair of scissors from the little girl and prepared to complete the "ritual".
Before the scissors fell, a white shadow flashed from the corner of his eye and attracted his attention.
The child opened his eyes wide: "Another toy that can run!"
But in his memory, the "toys" that could move and sell for money were all soft dolls, but if he was not dazzled, the one in front of him was... a ball?
Without thinking, he ran forward after the ball, but was almost knocked away by the tall woman who rushed out.
The woman looked even more anxious, grabbing the child's collar frantically and saying, "You said there were toys, where are the toys?"
