WTNL Chapter 81

Fantasy Amusement Park
Chapter 81: Knight in Skirt

A small, dozen-centimeter-tall male doll sat on a high shelf, wearing a fluffy, long dress.

This dress was indeed very beautiful.

With a red and black color scheme, lace, ribbons, and bows, it had everything.

Complex patterns supported the slightly squared neckline, revealing the young man’s slender neck and the straight lines of his shoulders.

Layers upon layers of bright red floral buds and the extremely vibrant red color set off his exceedingly white skin tone. His beautiful body lines were constrained within the narrow bodice, and the skin at his neckline presented a creamy texture under the dim light.

His waist was originally quite narrow, and now, tightly cinched by a corset lacing, it was constricted into a gracefully supple curve, concaving downwards so much that it could easily be pinched with just two fingers.

Layers of beautiful lace tulle skirts were propped up into a massive, fluffy cluster by a hoop skirt, tightly covering everything below his waistline.

Wen Jianyan had a very good figure, firm and slender. It wasn’t exaggerated, but it was graceful and powerful.

At this moment, the boundary of his gender was easily blurred, bringing forth a contradictory, androgynous, and erotic kind of bizarre beauty.

The bullet comment section in the “Integrity First” live broadcast room completely exploded.

[Help ahhhhhhhh my god! A dog scammer shrunk to the point where he can totally be held in the palm of a hand! And this dress! This dress!!! This dress!!!!!]

[His figure is so good, ahhhhhhhh!]

[Ahhhhhhhhh pant pant pant, so good-looking I can’t take it, help!]

[I refuse to believe I’m the only one frantically taking screenshots!]

[Wuwuwuwuwuwu tears flowing from the corners of my mouth, may I ask where I can buy this kind of doll? Please give me the address!]

Wen Jianyan widened his eyes slightly, opening and clenching his hands.

That’s right, it was his original body.

But it had shrunk to the size of a doll and was placed high up on a shelf, while the murderer who turned his victims into dolls was sharpening a knife not far away.

[Congratulations Streamer for triggering the scenario: Red Light, Green Light]

[Streamers, please find the third card without being discovered (Debuff: All items are invalidated)]

Wen Jianyan raised his eyes and searched around the room.

Soon, he found a few familiar faces among the pile of dolls. Yun Bilan was sitting on the middle shelf of the opposite rack, wearing a pastel blue tiered dress, her blue hair braided into a large plait hanging over one shoulder. Elise was on the bottom shelf, and Piqiu was on this side of the shelf with him, at a lower position.

Obviously, they had also entered the hidden side quest and had received the same task.

Since the system used the wording “Streamers,” it should have defaulted to them being a team with no competitive relationship with each other but able to cooperate.

And [Red Light, Green Light] should also hint at how this side quest was to be completed: quietly look for the card, pretend to be an immobile doll when Felix looks over, and they should be able to muddle through.

Obviously, the other people also realized this. Everyone nodded silently at each other, and then began searching a small area around them.

Suddenly, the “scrape, scrape” sound of knife sharpening stopped.

The dead silence that suddenly descended made everyone involuntarily tense up, and all the streamers instantly stopped moving.

Felix moved.

He stood up, his heavy, mountain-of-flesh-like body stepping on the ground, causing the shelves holding the dolls to tremble.

“Dolls, dolls, hehe, hehehe, play together…”

He chuckled foolishly, stretching out a hairy, meaty large hand, pulled a doll down from the shelf, awkwardly fiddling with it, tugging at the hem of the skirt, pulling on its arm.

“Riiiiip—”

The fabric was torn open, and soft snow-white cotton flew in all directions.

The doll’s arm was forcefully yanked off.

“…”

Felix stared blankly at the doll, freezing completely in place.

The next second, his expression slowly twisted, and his sluggish, thick voice carried a shrill hiss:

“Won’t play with me, won’t play with me… won’t play with me!”

Felix’s expression was brutal and furious, a chilling frenzy flickering in his eyes. He grabbed the freshly sharpened knife and pressed the doll onto the table.

“Thwack!”

A cold glint flashed, and the doll’s head was forcefully sliced off. The smiling, stiff head rolled clattering across the floor.

But even so, Felix hadn’t finished venting his anger.

He grabbed various parts of the doll’s body, frantically tearing and screaming, until he ripped it to pieces before finally stopping.

“…”

The air fell into a dead silence.

All the streamers who had turned into dolls didn’t dare to breathe. The mere thought of this kind of thing happening to them made their bodies turn cold. They froze completely in place, terrified of becoming the next victim.

Felix discarded the broken doll aside, stood up, and with heavy steps, walked over to a wall hung with all kinds of torture devices, seeming to be picking something out.

Although the streamers still had lingering fears about what had just happened, they still started to move again. Taking advantage of his back being turned to them, they sped up their pace of looking for the card.

Suddenly, Piqiu, sitting at the very bottom, had his eyes light up. He pointed to a spot near the top not far away and gestured to the other few people—look over there!

Yun Bilan looked in the direction Piqiu pointed.

She saw that right at the edge of the shelf on her side, wedged between the hems of two dolls’ skirts, a hard card could faintly be seen gleaming.

The clearance card!

Yun Bilan nodded rapidly.

Understood.

She was the streamer closest to the card, so the heavy responsibility of getting it naturally fell on her shoulders.

The blue-haired girl lifted the heavy, cumbersome hem of her skirt, carefully stepping over the two dolls in front of her. Trying her best to keep quiet, she moved with difficulty towards the card.

One step, two steps, getting closer and closer.

Right at this moment, her foot slipped, and her body suddenly tilted heavily against a doll beside her!

“Lalala, lalala…”

Having been bumped into somewhere unknown, the doll suddenly opened its mouth and began to sing.

The babbling child’s singing echoed in the dead silent room, sounding exceptionally clear.

Felix whipped his head around!

His brutal grey eyes gleamed in the darkness, his gaze locked dead onto the top of the shelf, onto Yun Bilan, who had just stopped moving.

Carrying a rust-spotted pair of scissors in his hand, he walked step by step in this direction.

“Thud, thud, thud.”

With every step the massive, mountain-like man took, the ground trembled. The vibrations traveled up the shelf, causing the streamers sitting on it to also tremble.

Yun Bilan clenched her teeth, maintaining her previous posture, sitting fixedly next to the doll that was still singing. Her face was deathly pale, her back sweating.

Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it.

She cursed through gritted teeth in her heart, her body stiff, not daring to move an inch.

Unlike instances below B-rank, in this kind of A-rank instance, the start of a hidden side quest often increased the difficulty of completing the streamer’s tasks, such as disabling talents or items. It forced streamers with a certain level of puzzle-solving ability to act according to the rules without being able to rely on external help.

And this time was precisely so.

The instance hadn’t been going on for long, Yun Bilan’s talent cooldown hadn’t finished yet, and now she was banned from using items; she could almost be considered entirely defenseless.

What to do, what to do, what to do…

Yun Bilan pressed her lips tightly together, subconsciously holding her breath.

The next second, Felix’s hand reached over, enlarging bit by bit in her slightly shrinking pupils, and then—

Forcefully grabbed the singing doll next to Yun Bilan.

“…”

Yun Bilan couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He muttered incomprehensible, strange noises under his breath, lowered his head, picked up the scissors, and with a ‘snip’, cut the doll’s stomach open. Fluffy cotton fell to his feet, scattering everywhere.

Accompanied by the sound of something hard being crushed, the doll’s singing suddenly changed pitch, ultimately leaving only a dead silence.

Felix threw the snipped-up doll onto the floor, stepping on it like it was trash.

However, unexpectedly, after devastating the doll in his hand, he didn’t turn around and leave like before. On the contrary, he seemed very satisfied with the new torture device in his hand, and began to pick up dolls from the shelf one by one, slowly snipping them to shreds with the scissors.

Seeing fewer and fewer dolls left around her, Yun Bilan couldn’t control her slight trembling, her body and mind becoming increasingly tense.

No, she couldn’t keep waiting like this.

Otherwise, the next dismembered doll would sooner or later be her!

Taking advantage of the gap when Felix lowered his head again and began to torture the doll in his hand, Yun Bilan abruptly stood up and dashed madly towards the direction of the card!

Felix raised his head. His crazed, dull eyes shifted, his gaze falling on Yun Bilan. As if he had found a new toy, his eyes lit up slightly, and he reached out his hand to grab in her direction.

“Doll! Hehe, hehe, play with me…”

Yun Bilan mustered all her strength, nimbly dodging Felix’s heavy and clumsy hand, and sprinted with all her might towards the card.

Close, close, getting closer and closer!

“Ahhhhhhh! Disobedient, disobedient!”

Felix was enraged. He let out a shriek and violently kicked the shelf.

The heavy shelf jolted violently, and the messy pile of dolls on it fell to the ground one by one. The heavy skirt on Yun Bilan became a drag on her; she stumbled, pitching downwards.

The blue-haired doll hung in mid-air, her fingers desperately clutching the edge of the shelf, her body swaying precariously.

“Hehe, hehehe.” Felix beamed with joy, happily clapping his hands hard: “Stopped, caught.”

He stretched out his hand, reaching to grab the airborne Yun Bilan—

It’s over.

This is really over now.

Yun Bilan closed her eyes in despair.

“Hey.”

Suddenly, a clear voice came from behind: “You want a doll, right?”

Felix’s hand paused in mid-air for a moment. He turned his head foolishly, looking towards the direction of the sound: “?”

The young man, only a dozen centimeters tall, stood on a shelf full of dolls. He was holding up the heavy hem of his skirt in his hands. Although he was a male wearing a fluffy red long dress, he didn’t seem embarrassed in the slightest. On the contrary, he appeared calm and magnanimous, even carrying a hint of nonchalance.

Those calm, smiling amber eyes sparkled under the dim light. Rather than a princess, he looked more like a knight wearing a dress.

Wen Jianyan lifted his chin:

“Come here, I’ll play with you.”

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Author’s Note:

A real man fights monsters wearing a dress!

Q: Mr. Wu Zhu, how did you feel seeing your wife wear a dress for the first time—
Wu Zhu: “…”

Q: —W-wait, don’t be impulsive! At least let us finish asking the question before you beat up the staff this time!