Oh no! I'm surrounded by female ghosts!

Su Ming looked up at the giant blue virtual screen in front of him.

One-third of the profile picture frames on the screen have turned gray.

Those were all characters that Su Ming had successfully challenged in the past few days.

After stretching his wrists, Su Ming fixed his gaze on the fierce aunt he had chosen on the first day.

After practicing for so many days, it's time to show off.

Once the challenge objective is determined, the battle scene instantly switches to a simply decorated residential living room.

But this time.

Su Ming was surprised to find that the cursed doll had stood up.

It was like a broken toy, slumped on the ground.

But now, it stood up with its head down, clutching a small knife tightly in its hand.

The word "PK" appeared in large font.

The cursed doll's flexibility has been greatly improved, and its movements are smoother.

The skills have also changed somewhat.

The previous ultimate move was throwing three small knives in succession.

The current ultimate ability can petrify a portion of the opponent's body, allowing them to stab repeatedly with a knife.

"This is a curse of alienation."

Su Ming's eyes lit up, and he manipulated the handle with his fingertips, gaining more and more control over the doll.

With a large "KO!" sign appearing, the fierce auntie collapsed to the ground, unable to get up.

He turned to look at the dollhouse, a strange light flashing in his eyes.

"I see."

He turned around and continued to choose a new character to fight.

The evolved cursed doll feels increasingly better to handle.

One by one, the opposing characters were defeated by Su Ming.

Several times, before Su Ming could even press the button, the cursed doll would take action on its own.

This doll seems to have developed self-awareness.

So, for the next match, Su Ming simply put down the controller and stopped using it.

From the very beginning, the cursed doll was subjected to a barrage of attacks from the opponent.

It was constantly being defeated.

Each time he was knocked down, Su Ming would manipulate the controller to make it stand up again.

But the doll seemed to really come to life.

Each time she stood up, her gaze would sweep over Su Ming, intentionally or unintentionally.

Those colorful eyes were gradually dimming, and the faint light within them was trembling rapidly.

"KO!"

"KO!"

"KO!"

The cursed doll was repeatedly "KO'd" by its opponent.

In the end, Su Ming only pressed the confirm button to select the battle character, and then placed the controller beside him.

Even after the cursed doll is knocked down, he cannot make it stand up again.

Without Su Ming's control.

It was like an abandoned doll, back to its original state of slumped on the ground, head tilted, even the knife in its hand had fallen.

Su Ming remained expressionless and simply watched it quietly.

I don't know how much time has passed.

When the new match began, the cursed doll was the first to be knocked to the ground.

Just as it was about to be "KO'd", a sharp, piercing scream erupted.

The uncontrolled cursed doll suddenly stood up and petrified half of the other's body with a wave of its hand.

Then he raised the knife and swiftly severed the thread that was binding and controlling it.

The dashing gesture of swinging his arm made Su Ming burst into laughter.

"Yes, that's more like it."

"Either die in silence, or erupt in silence."

"Xu Qinghe, I can take you away from here."

"But you must stand up and come out with me, not crawl out in a lowly manner."

An overwhelming hatred and a frenzied rage overflowed from the screen.

The screen seemed to have been infected with a virus, rapidly changing from blue to red and then vibrating violently.

The clear image within it is now stuttering and tearing, with mottled color blocks flickering randomly.

Blood seeped out from the edge of the screen.

The crackling sound of electricity was incessant and ear-piercing.

The surrounding darkness flickered, like a television with an unstable signal.

With a loud bang, the giant blue screen shattered into pieces, like a broken window.

Countless vine-like wires gushed out.

That was a real curse formed from hatred and despair.

She hated that all her ideas were stifled and that her entire life trajectory was arranged by others.

I hate myself for becoming a puppet with no privacy, no freedom, no independent thought, and no vibrant personality.

But the despair and resentment that had been building up inside him never died out.

She has been resisting in the most silent and patient way, in the weakest way possible.

Even after becoming a ghost, this obedience becomes the most deeply ingrained instinct.

But this is not what Xu Qinghe wanted.

The raging fire in my heart.

Either extinguish it completely.

Either burn it completely out.

The most silent resistance, once it erupts, is the most earth-shattering.

Nowadays.

Under Su Ming's guidance, she took a desperate gamble and tore off the layers of pretense that concealed her true self.

Inside the shell is the real Xu Qinghe, not a perfect trophy she plays as "Xu Qinghe".

The moment the towering barbed wire surged out, it entangled Su Ming.

This left Su Ming speechless.

What the hell!

I shattered your shell and unleashed your true self, and you turned around and attacked me first.

Where is your conscience?

Have you lost your conscience?

Su Ming was suspended in mid-air by wires, and a beautiful flower would grow from each bend of the wires.

That is the flower of evil, the most terrible curse of the cursed doll.

Su Ming, with his arms outstretched, looked like Jesus nailed to the cross, watching his body blossom all over.

This scene seemed to overlap with his past dreams.

He once had such a dream.

The next second, a blinding white light poured down from above Su Ming's head, tearing through the thick darkness.

The light was blinding, as if it had burned a huge wound into the darkness.

"Gods~"

A faint, trembling call gradually rose up.

Look down following the sound.

It is Xu Qinghe.

She knelt on the ground, clasped her hands together in front of her chest, and looked earnestly at Su Ming, who was suspended in mid-air.

She was praying to the gods.

Imagine how many agonizing days and nights she must have spent praying in this helpless manner before her death.

Faced with a fate she couldn't defy, praying to the gods was the only thing she could do.

"Gods, please have mercy on me."

"Take me away from this cage."

"I don't want to be controlled by these threads anymore."

"Stop being a puppet to be manipulated."

"Don't be a perfect trophy for others to admire."

He poured out all the feelings that had been building up throughout his life.

She had so many things she didn't want to do, so many things she was unwilling to do.

All the grievances and obsessions he had kept hidden for a lifetime poured out without reservation at this moment.

"Gods, please have mercy on me."

She pressed her forehead heavily to the ground, bowed her head reverently, and waited quietly for a response.

No one responded during his lifetime.

Because there are no gods in the world.

But now that there are no gods in the world, she will create a god that belongs only to her.

Su Ming looked at Xu Qinghe kneeling on the ground.

This was her self-salvation, and also her final act of self-sacrifice.

Once she refuses, it's not just a matter of closing herself off; she might lose herself and become a soulless puppet forever.

He coughed lightly to clear his throat.

Su Ming tried his best to make his voice sound as grand as possible.

He said, "Okay."

"I give you new life."

As soon as he finished speaking, all the evil flowers bloomed all over his body.

Xu Qinghe trembled violently, raised her head, and looked at Su Ming with a sweet smile.

She slowly stood up.

They came step by step, seemingly floating on air.

With every step you take, a flower of evil will bloom.

When she walked up to Su Ming, the worship in her eyes was gone, replaced by a sense of grievance.

"Brother, the gods have granted my request."

"God has given me a new life."

"You'll take me away, won't you?"

"If you dare to lie to me," she brandished the rusty knife in her hand, her tone dripping with threat, "I'll cut out your tongue."

Then she leaned down and whispered in Su Ming's ear, her breath soft yet chilling: "Brother, if you ever don't want me anymore, you must tell me."

"Then, I will plant you in the soil, so that you can stay with me forever and ever."

He is her god.

He was also her brother.

It was an extreme mixture of hatred and despair.

In addition, there's the forced binding of favorability.

An extreme emotion that is completely out of control, resembling both faith and love, completely intertwined and inseparable.

The surrounding darkness slowly faded away.

The complete outline of Anjuyuan is emerging.

However, thousands of threads hung down from the sky above the entire residential area.

A human figure was tied to the end of each thread.

Each figure was busy with matters from their previous life.

It seemed as if an invisible hand was controlling everyone's every move, like a never-ending, super-sized game of make-believe.

【game over】

[Affection Level Up Quest: Please Take Me Away (Completed)]

[Cursed Doll Affection Level Up: Awakening → Unsealing (0/300)]

[Unlock Level 2 Scene: Dollhouse → Anjuyuan]

[Capacity limit increased: 22 → 24]

Backpack capacity increased from 33 to 36.

[The Cursed Doll's affinity level has been reached, unlocking the fifth character slot for development.]

(Friendly reminder: Level 2 scene - Anjuyuan, all strange entities in the area can be contained with a 100% success rate and an initial loyalty of 80)

Xu Qinghe's favorability rating has increased.

Unsealing her, breaking free of the shell that bound her, revealing her true self.

Although its appearance has not changed.

But her eyes underwent a dramatic change.

Those colorful eyes shone with a color that belonged only to her.

Yet, etched within the flowing colors are a hatred and despair that will never fade.