Chapter 454: Mary and the Doll
Bai Youwei had sung so many times that everyone in the room was looking at her.
Yan Qingwen furrowed his brows, reciting the lyrics as well: “Mary and her merry doll… Mary and her doll…”
Yu Yaqing looked puzzled from Yan Qingwen to Bai Youwei, “What’s wrong with this song?”
“From the lyrics, it’s about Mary in the amusement park.” Shen Fei also carefully listened to the song, translating every word and sentence—
She always brings her doll,
Wherever people see them,
Mary and her doll are always together.”
Shen Fei thought for a while, looked up at Yu Yaqing, “If we only look at the lyrics, there doesn’t seem to be any problem. Mary always brings her cloth doll, which is like her second pair of eyes.”
“That’s not the case…” Bai Youwei slowly shook her head, recalling the sparse clues from the beginning of the game, her face grew increasingly somber, “Do you remember how the Inspector introduced the rules when we entered the game?”
Everyone looked at each other.
Yu Yaqing answered: “When we entered the game, the Inspector said that hide-and-seek was Mary’s favorite game. He told us to hide when night fell so as not to be found by Mary and her cat.”
Bai Youwei said: “Besides that, the Inspector also said… Mary is so good at hide-and-seek that she has never been found.”
She looked at Yu Yaqing, then at the others and asked: “We have spent three days and three nights in the game, have you ever seen Mary hide?”
Mary was always with the cat; she never hid!
“What does that mean?” Shen Fei was confused and couldn’t help but feel anxious, “Did the Inspector intentionally mislead us?”
A sudden muffled noise.
Yan Qingwen’s fist heavily hit the wall, his voice breaking from the gritted teeth: “The Inspector didn’t mislead us… on the contrary, he gave us hints!”
“What?” Shen Fei was even more confused.
Shen Mo understood what Bai Youwei meant, his face also didn’t look good as he said in a deep voice: “The Mary we have been killing… is not Mary, so no matter what… we can’t kill her.”
Shen Fei was so shocked that he couldn’t speak.
Tan Xiao’s eyes widened as he asked: “We’ve been killing all this time, and she’s not Mary? Then who is Mary???”
Bai Youwei closed her eyes and said the answer: “It’s her cloth doll!”
Yu Yaqing, Shen Fei, and Tan Xiao were all stunned, standing there unable to react.
While Yan Qingwen had already figured out the answer, his expression was filled with regret!
If he could have thought of this earlier… perhaps Lun Ang wouldn’t have died!
“If the cat can be manipulated, why can’t the little girl be manipulated?” Bai Youwei lowered her eyes, continuing in a low voice, “In fact, we all thought wrong, Mary controls the puppet cat, Mary also controls ‘Mary’! The target we have been killing is actually Mary’s doll! That’s why there’s this song, repeatedly reminding us—
She always brings her doll,
Wherever people see them,
Mary and her doll are always together!”
Yu Yaqing couldn’t help but stand up, “The condition to complete the game is to kill Mary or Mary’s cat! Even if we got Mary wrong, what about the cat? We still can’t kill the cat!”
Bai Youwei looked up at her, “The cat… must be killable, it might need decapitation or a shot to the heart, I don’t know… but it can definitely be killed, that’s why Mary sewed the cat up first hand, so we wouldn’t see the flaw.”