Mischievous Lolita in the Doll

"Maybe I should go find my mom," the girl suddenly said.

She didn't believe that the girl could find food by wandering around aimlessly at night.

Xia Ye stopped and fell silent after hearing the girl's voice. Now she didn't know whether she should let the girl go to find her mother. After all, she had promised to help the girl find food, but now she was just leading her around aimlessly.

The little guy just wants to find his mother. Is it too much for me to keep stopping him? But there might be a murderer out there!

Finally, Xia Ye made up her mind. She squatted down, holding the girl's shoulders, and tried to keep her eyes level with the girl: "Then I'll take Niu Niu to find her mother. Niu Niu, don't run around, okay? There are scary monsters outside. Do you know what monsters like to eat the most?"

"Me, a delicate little girl?" The girl looked at Xia Ye's surprised expression with a smug look. "My mother often scares me like this! This trick doesn't work on me!"

Kids these days are getting harder and harder to please.

“I’m telling the truth,” Xia Ye said, trying to sound serious. “Niu Niu saw it yesterday, right? That dark-skinned uncle is a big bad guy. That big bad guy likes fair-skinned girls like Niu Niu the most, so Niu Niu must not run around on her own.”

"...I'm actually worried about you. Wouldn't it be better to stay in the dorm and sleep? You insisted on coming out with us. If we really run into danger, who knows who will protect whom!" But that shadowy figure looked rather clumsy; he didn't seem like someone who could fight. Mir thought to himself.

Chapter Thirty: The Irresponsible Police

"I found ten yuan on the side of the road and handed it to the policeman. The policeman took the money and bought a pack of cigarettes. I scolded the policeman for being shameless! Shameless!"

Xia Ye looked at the girl skipping and singing a nursery rhyme in front of him with embarrassment... Bullshit! What kind of nursery rhyme is that? The policeman is crying, baby!

This mischievous girl wasn't just singing her altered children's song at the top of her lungs; she was also bouncing around a male police officer on night patrol, singing the song aloud. The officer, being bothered by the girl, was almost in tears! Hey! You're a police officer! Why are you so fragile?!

But... they actually made it...

Xia Ye surveyed the familiar surroundings. They had already visited these places during the day, and they felt they were quite lively then, but at night they felt a bit eerie... though not exactly unpleasant.

Perhaps because of her status as a sorcerer, the girl wasn't particularly afraid of the dark. The magic within her also became very calm.

"Niu Niu! Stop bothering the police officer. He has important business to attend to. Good children shouldn't disturb the police officer while he's working!" The girl called the girl back to her senses.

Hearing Xia Ye's call, the girl ran to Xia Ye's side with her short legs. Halfway there, the girl turned back and gave the male police officer a strange look, which made the male police officer shudder and break out in a cold sweat.

Xia Ye recognized the patrolling policeman as someone she had seen during the day. He nodded gratefully to Xia Ye, seemingly remembering her as well. He didn't question Xia Ye's identity, nor did he even ask about the identity of the little guy who had bothered him for half the day.

"You just ignored a young woman wandering around with a little girl in the middle of the night?" Xia Ye couldn't help but complain.

The police officer who was being criticized looked very embarrassed and hurriedly explained, "I just started working here and I don't know much about many things. Please don't tell our captain, miss!"

Xia Ye rolled her eyes inwardly. How could a policeman be so clueless and still be on patrol? She was starting to wonder if this male policeman had already confronted the murderer but let him go because he wasn't thinking straight.

"This little one can't find his mother, can you help look for her?"

"Hmm..." The male police officer seemed to be in a bit of a predicament. He rubbed his scaly arm. "I'm a little tied up right now, but our captain is behind us. Miss, you can ask her for help."

How can a police officer find something as trivial as helping a little girl find her mother troublesome? And you, a newly recruited officer, are you busier than your captain? Are you desperate for merit?

Xia Ye's impression of the professional competence of the police in the other world plummeted.

She made no attempt to hide the contempt on her face, making the male police officer blush. Xia Ye ignored the guy who had left her with a bad impression, grabbed the girl's hand, and walked away without looking back.

As they walked, he pinched the girl's cheek and said with a smile, "Little girl, don't grow up to be like that!"

The girl tilted her head, looking at the young woman with a puzzled expression. The young woman chuckled softly and said nothing more.

The two beauties, one tall and one short, continued walking forward. The young girl believed that as long as she found the police for help, they could quickly find out the girl's identity, and then she could give the girl's irresponsible mother a good scolding.

Xia Ye finally saw the person she was looking for. Several policemen were gathered together, heads down, looking at something and talking amongst themselves. The scene was exactly like a scene from a TV drama where the police discover a corpse.

An ominous feeling arose on the summer night.

She pulled the girl's hand closer to the police officers in front of her. To prevent the police from actually finding a body, Xia Ye thoughtfully covered the girl's eyes first.

The girl, nervously walking toward the police, didn't realize that she seemed to have gotten a few steps closer to them in a certain spot. Perhaps she had subconsciously noticed it, but her tense state made her ignore it.

Xia Ye stopped behind the police and asked, "What happened? Has another person died?"

The police officers seemed startled by the sudden sound behind them, but relaxed their guard slightly after seeing that the source was the young woman they had investigated with during the day, only giving her a strange look. It must be said that Miss Xia Ye does have a talent for stealth.

“It’s Miss Bai Tian. Things seem to be getting worse. Our people have been attacked…” A male police officer tried to explain, but was silenced after being glared at by an older-looking officer.

Seeing this, Xia Ye frowned. It seemed these police officers were still somewhat wary of him. No, it should be said that they were unhappy with outsiders interfering in their investigations... After all, it would make him seem incompetent if someone outside his field did his job.

Having sorted out her thoughts, Xia Ye said seriously to the police officer in front of her, "I hope you can explain things. This case concerns the safety of many people. You probably don't want any more victims, do you? Now is not the time to throw a tantrum!"

The oldest-looking policeman hesitated after hearing the girl's words, seemingly considering whether to tell this outsider the specifics.

Noticing their hesitation, Xia Ye added fuel to the fire: "We've already done our investigation, and I believe they've already told you that this is some kind of sacrificial ritual to extract power. If this continues, the killer will become stronger and stronger! And the number of people who will be sacrificed will increase!"

The elderly policeman sighed, "I understand." He gestured for everyone to stand up and expose the body of the victim.

"This guy had been working here for almost five years. I remember he was getting married next month. I never expected him to die in the line of duty like this today..."

The deceased was not subjected to the same sacrificial ritual as Ana; he died from a pierced heart, which appears to be a fatal wound for his race. And the deceased's face…

Xia Ye's pupils contracted slightly upon seeing this; the deceased's face looked exactly like the policeman who had claimed to be a rookie they had encountered before!

"Does this guy have a twin brother?" Xia Ye tried his best to keep his voice calm.

"Huh?" The elderly policeman seemed surprised that Xia Ye would ask such a question. "No, he has always been an only child. Humans don't have the characteristic of being able to have a litter like cats."

Human? Xia Ye couldn't help but think of the scales on the policeman's arm from earlier...

Xia Ye had just confronted the murderer head-on?! Xia Ye tightened her grip on the soy milk maker with a look of horror.

Hmm? A soy milk maker?

Xia Ye stared in horror at her left hand, which should have been holding the girl's hand, but instead was gripping an old soy milk maker.

Chapter Thirty-One: The Princess? (Bonus Chapter, Final Chapter, Please Vote!)

Xia Ye felt that she had been through too much tonight, and she couldn't recover for a while.

She gently placed the soy milk maker on the ground. She didn't know when the girl she was holding had turned into the soy milk maker, but when she greeted the police officers, their gazes towards her seemed off. Presumably, the girl had already disappeared at that moment...

"I have a question for you," Xia Ye said, bracing himself for being teased, "Are there any races in this world whose true form is a soy milk maker?"

"Huh?" The policeman opposite him had a "Are you kidding me?" look on his face.

"Miss, are you kidding me? How can there be such a bizarre race?"

...No, that rules out the possibility that the girl's true form is a soy milk maker. That leaves only two possibilities: First, the girl escaped using her own abilities, possibly spatial abilities. Second, the girl was kidnapped by the murderer using some unknown method.

If it's the latter, that would be terrible! The girl seemed a little anxious.

If the girl's desire to catch the murderer was a passing fancy before, now she is truly eager to catch the murderer to ensure the girl's safety.

It was hard to imagine that she would care so much about a little girl she had just met, but it was true. At this moment, Xia Ye had clenched her fists anxiously, and her long fingernails had pricked her palms, leaving several bright red marks.

The girl turned to chase after the guy she had encountered before who was disguised as a policeman, but saw Elsa walking towards her with Carlo and Sack, who were still dressed in women's clothing.

"The killer has appeared? Where is the victim?"

Elsa approached the corpse with a grave expression and began to examine it.

"Huh? Miss Xia Ye, don't you have class tomorrow? What are you doing here?" Carlo asked Xia Ye curiously.

Xia Ye wasn't in the mood to explain the situation to them. Instead, she said, "I've seen the murderer," and ran quickly back the way she came.

"what?"

The group of people who heard her words were stunned for a moment before they realized what those words meant. So the three of them, along with a group of police officers who were too lazy to come up with names, chased after Xia Ye, leaving only a few people there to guard the body.

"What's going on, Miss Xia Ye? Explain yourself!"

It has to be said that their physical fitness is much better than that of Xia Ye, a greenhorn who has just arrived in this world. They caught up with her right from the start.

"There's no time to explain! Someone's in danger!"

Xia Ye arrived at the place where she had just encountered the guy who was impersonating a policeman, only to find that she was too late.

Her instincts told her that something was wrong with the place, and this instincts drove her to turn her head into a side alley. Perhaps because she had a certain affinity for darkness, the darkness in the alley did not obstruct her vision, and so she saw something in the alley that made her feel uneasy—a woman's corpse.

The people behind her followed Xia Ye's sudden change of route into the alley. The alley was a bit narrow, but Xia Ye entered sideways. She didn't deliberately block what she saw, so the people behind her also saw the corpse.

"Sure enough, the next victim has appeared."

Elsa and the others looked at the female corpse, which had died in the same way as Ana before, and felt an inexplicable pressure.

“We’ve ordered all the residents here to stay home at night, so why did she come out…”

Unlike the others who were feeling down, Xia Ye felt relieved when she saw the corpse. The body size of the deceased was obviously different from the girl's, and the clothes and hair color were also different. Although it might be a bit despicable, she was relieved.

No, that's not right! The appearance of a new victim does not mean the girl is out of danger, nor does it mean she is not in the hands of the murderer.

That night, the girl experienced the highs and lows of life firsthand.

“Summer Night,” Sack said, turning his gaze to the girl who had brought them here, “could you explain the situation?”

This time, the girl wasn't as flustered as before. She took a deep breath and tried her best to stay calm. She knew that even if she found the murderer, she might not be able to beat him. Although Eileen rated her abilities as D, she had absolutely no combat experience. The massacre of the village was a one-sided slaughter of ordinary people. At most, it made her dare to kill and dare to face corpses.

So now she needs these people's help. No matter how anxious she is, it's useless. There's no way to find the murderer or the girl right now, and she might not be able to find them even if she searches blindly...

"Actually, I ran into the girl Bertie mentioned before today..." The girl organized her thoughts and tried to tell them the story as briefly as possible.

"Does that mean the girl is in danger now?"

Elsa frowned. The continuous deaths were already putting her under a lot of pressure, and now even a little girl who was still a cub was in danger. If a child were to die in the case she was handling, she would not be able to forgive herself.

"What's the child's name? Maybe we can use that to find her family and determine if she's already home," Sack asked.

“She didn’t tell me her name,” Xia Ye said after a moment’s thought, “but she said her last name was Lucasia.”

When she said the girl's last name, she noticed that everyone was looking at her with a look of astonishment, as if she had said something incredible.

"Wait! Miss Xia Ye, perhaps I misheard. Could you please repeat that surname?" Carlo exaggeratedly picked at his animal ears.

The others nodded in agreement.

Xia Ye frowned in displeasure; she didn't think she had spoken very softly.

“I said, she said her last name is Lucasia!” the girl almost shouted.

The repeated words confirmed to them that they were not hallucinating; neither the girl had misspoke nor they had misheard.

"what happened?"

The girl looked at the astonished expressions of the group with dissatisfaction. They seemed to know something, but they only showed such expressions without explaining to her. This feeling of being excluded made the girl very unhappy.

“That surname…” Carlo calmed himself down. “That surname is Her Majesty the Queen’s surname.”

“But the Queen shouldn’t have any daughters at all,” Sac continued, picking up where Carlo left off. “The Queen’s only relatives should be her sister and her niece, and her niece is a little older than the girl you described, and she also has black hair.”