Mono shuddered.
It really was a bit creepy after all.
However, despite feeling uneasy, Mono did not stop because of it. He continued walking forward.
Soon, as the distance closed, the first doll began to move.
Then the second, and the third...
Then, the doll with the huge teeth also started moving. Mono used his old trick—twisting and jumping.
Although it made his head spin and feel like vomiting, his movements were not slow.
The dolls were "controlled" by Mono once again.
Mono's figure gradually approached the opposite side.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as he crossed this hall, just outside the partition was the second room containing the fuse.
Once he got there, he would be safe.
Even though he had mastered the dolls' weakness of "dying in the light," Mono still didn't want to linger among the crowd of dolls any longer.
Because maintaining focus was not an easy task.
It was like someone placing an elderly, wrinkled hag and a bikini girl wearing nothing at all in front of you at the same time.
Then requiring you to keep staring at the old hag without glancing at the bikini girl. No matter how the bikini girl flirted or posed... you couldn't be distracted,
you couldn't shift your direct gaze away from the wrinkles on the old hag's face.
Mono was currently in much the same state of mind. This was a tormenting task.
He had no way to let himself get distracted.
These dolls were extremely fast when there was no light.
If there was even a momentary lapse, he would be caught, and by then it would be too late to turn on the flashlight.
In the blink of an eye lay the distance between life and death. The footsteps gradually drew closer; only the final stretch of the journey remained.
However, just as Mono thought he could pass through the doll formation unscathed...
"Zzzzt, zzzzt, zzzzt..."
A faint sound of electric current suddenly reached his ears.
Mono immediately felt a sense of foreboding in his heart.
He turned his head to look at the flashlight in his hand.
He saw that after the sound of the current flickered, the originally bright beam of light began to flicker and cut out, and the surrounding environment began to alternate between light and dark.
"The hell?"
Mono couldn't help but curse under his breath.
The flashlight was actually having problems at a time like this?
Wasn't this trying to kill him?
Mono glanced around at the surrounding dolls; they had begun to move. He looked back at the flashlight in his hand.
For a moment, he felt like weeping but had no tears. Despair and bitterness, a mix of complex emotions, surged within him once more due to this unfair treatment.
Only a few more steps and he could have escaped this damn ghostly place. But why did his luck always have to work against him?
He was still some distance away from the main door.
"No, it's too late."
Mono gritted his teeth.
Mono quickly scanned his surroundings. The puppets that were originally stiff and motionless began to move again because the flashlight beam became intermittent.
Even though they moved in a stuttering, frame-by-frame fashion, Mono still felt a powerful pressure bearing down on him.
The light was about to go out completely.
He could imagine what kind of scene would unfold if he lost the light source.
These dolls would absolutely pounce on him like jackals, hounds, tigers, or leopards that had lost control, grabbing him, tearing him apart, ripping him limb from limb, blood flowing everywhere, internal organs...
Mono shuddered.
It would be too miserable.
He had never imagined that one day he might die so wretchedly.
Despite his trembling, Mono's gaze soon landed on a cabinet positioned against the wall.
"Is that...?"
Wait?
In the next moment after he saw it, the light went out completely.
The surroundings were instantly plunged into endless darkness.
A fierce aura violently erupted at that moment. Countless footsteps and countless shadows loomed high over the surroundings.
Mono's path forward was blocked.
In every direction, there were dolls everywhere, without the slightest gap.
It was like a heavy wall, pressing down until one could hardly breathe.
Mono had no time for fear; he hurriedly scrambled toward the cabinet that the light had illuminated in its final second before going out.
He didn't want to be dismembered...
If he really had to choose a way to die, he would rather fall off a cliff.
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