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After running for a few minutes, Shirogane Miyuki began to pant and his speed gradually decreased.

The slime behind him, however, showed no signs of fatigue and continued its relentless pursuit.

After turning another corner, before he had even taken two steps, Shirogane Miyuki felt a chill run down his spine when he saw the scene ahead.

Ahead was a wall with only a semi-circular opening in the riverbed leading to the other side, but this was blocked by several rusty fences.

This is a dead end?!

Just as Shirogane Miyuki was about to back away, the clattering sound behind him grew louder and louder.

The slime has caught up!

With a hint of despair, Shirogane Miyuki ran towards the wall.

Just then, his eyes suddenly lit up.

A narrow entrance appeared in the wall next to the corridor, leading to a staircase leading upwards.

Shirogane Miyuki was overjoyed and rushed up the stairs without thinking.

However, a strange thing happened: the slime came to the bottom of the stairs and stopped, without taking a single step up the stairs.

A hint of doubt arose in Shirogane Miyuki's mind, but he still dared not stop and continued to go up the stairs.

Chapter 199 Diary (Part 1)

A doorway appeared ahead, from which a faint light shone.

Shirogane Miyuki quickly slipped through the doorway.

One by one, rooms separated by iron bars appeared before his eyes.

He actually managed to sneak into an underground prison!?

Torches hung on the surrounding walls, their flames flickering, casting a dim light on the corridor, and the air was filled with a stench mixed with the smell of blood.

Shirogane Miyuki shone his flashlight into the fence.

"!!"

White skeletons covered the cell floor.

Shirogane Miyuki felt a chill run down his spine.

He suppressed his chilling fear and slowly walked to the other side of the cell.

Click! Click!

Just then, a strange sound of footsteps came from behind.

Shirogane Miyuki subconsciously turned around and saw a figure suddenly appear in the dim corner. The figure moved stiffly and slowly walked towards Shirogane Miyuki.

"Who?"

Shirogane Miyuki asked warily.

The figure did not answer.

Shirogane Miyuki quickly shone his flashlight at him.

When the flashlight beam shone on the figure, Shirogane Miyuki's breath caught in his throat.

A tattered black cloak, a horrifying face reduced to half its original size, bizarre ball joints, and ashen skin…

It was a doll!

The terrifying doll was walking towards him with stiff steps.

Ignoring his exhaustion, Shirogane Miyuki turned and ran.

After running a few steps, he quickly realized that the doll's speed seemed to be slower than his walking speed.

However, Shirogane Miyuki was very cautious and only stopped slowly after the figure of the doll had completely disappeared from his sight.

He didn't know how big the underground prison was, and after running around for a long time, he still couldn't find a way out.

At that moment, a strange cell appeared in the wall next to them.

The other cells were surrounded by iron bars, but this one was the only one with a fully enclosed iron door and a rectangular window about the size of a human head.

Shirogane Miyuki arrived at the iron gate and carefully shone his flashlight into the cell.

To his surprise, the room was surprisingly clean and tidy.

Inside, there was a clean and tidy bed, a set of table and chairs, and he even saw a simple bookshelf filled with all kinds of books.

In the very center of the table lay an open parchment, on which something appeared to be written.

Shirogane Miyuki instinctively felt that the parchment seemed very important.

He pushed the iron gate with his hand, and the gate opened directly.

Shirogane Miyuki hurriedly went inside and picked up the parchment on the table to examine it.

The writing on the parchment was somewhat blurred, but Shirogane Miyuki could still make out what was written on it.

To his surprise, the contents of the parchment were entirely in English, and the grammar differed slightly from modern English.

Fortunately, Miyuki Shirogane's English grades were good, so he could barely understand it.

This parchment appears to contain a diary entry:

November 20st

I don't know how long I've been locked up here.

That bastard seems to want me to live a good life.

Sometimes he would even come down to see me. He seemed to find pleasure in my distressed expression.

Yes, I wish I could kill him!

But I can't do it.

Perhaps this is exactly what he wanted to see!

But just wait, no matter how long it takes, I will kill him! I will!!

I swear in her name!

——L·L

Shirogane Miyuki finished reading this diary.

Although it was incomplete and disjointed, he got the general idea.

This cell once housed a prisoner named 'L·L'.

He was imprisoned by his enemies.

His enemies seemed to keep him alive just to enjoy his frustrated expression of having his enemy dangling in front of him, yet being unable to take revenge.

Shirogane Miyuki held the parchment, hesitated for a moment, and then put it into his pocket.

Click!

Shirogane Miyuki subconsciously turned around, his expression instantly changing drastically.

The strange doll appeared at the cell door at some point, staring at him eerily with its single eye.

Shirogane Miyuki felt a chill run down his spine, and he suddenly had a strange feeling that this guy was looking him up and down.

The doll quickly walked directly towards him.

With nowhere to hide, Shirogane Miyuki was excited and grabbed a chair from the side, rushing towards the doll.

Shirogane Miyuki held the chair horizontally in front of his chest, and the chair legs immediately stuck into the doll like forks.

With a sudden burst of strength, he flung the chair and the puppet to the side!

Whoosh!

The doll and the chair immediately crashed into a heap.

Shirogane Miyuki immediately seized the opportunity to escape from the prison.

Click!

Before they had taken two steps, the strange noise started again.

Shirogane Miyuki looked in the direction of the sound and immediately felt his hands and feet go cold.

Another doll appeared on the other side of the corridor!

Immediately afterwards, the doll he had knocked down crawled out of the cell.

Shirogane Miyuki immediately took off running.

After running for a while, he finally saw an open iron fence, and outside the fence was a staircase leading upwards, which seemed to be the exit.

As he approached the exit, Shirogane Miyuki couldn't help but slow down.

He saw several tables and chairs near the exit, with some people sitting or standing on them, and several dolls standing on them.

Fortunately, these dolls seemed a bit different; they didn't move at all and appeared to be just ordinary inanimate objects.

Shirogane Miyuki originally intended to bypass the dolls and leave directly through the exit.

But when his gaze fell on the table in front of the doll, his pupils contracted slightly.

A yellowed parchment was placed in front of the puppets.

Intuition told him that this parchment was the same kind of important clue he had found in the cell: 'L.L.'s' diary.

The corridor behind them was silent; the two strange dolls didn't seem to have caught up.

After hesitating for a moment, Shirogane Miyuki cautiously walked over and, under the 'watchful' gaze of several dolls, picked up the parchment on the table.

Click!

His movement seemed to trigger some kind of mechanism; the several puppets surrounding the table suddenly turned their heads in unison, staring intently at him, their wooden mouths opening and closing, making a clicking sound.

Shirogane Miyuki felt a chill run down his spine and quickly grabbed the parchment and ran toward the exit.

Even after he rushed up the stairs, he still felt several strange gazes fixed on his back...

November 14st