I Have Yet to Become a Doll Today-Chapter 819 - : Three Chickens
Chapter 819 -819: Three Chickens
Mark choked.
Of course, he hadn’t tried with live chickens, but they’d tried other things.
“We’ve thrown lots of things into these rooms: clothes, socks, torn-off fingernails, pulled-out hair… even props we couldn’t use. All of them disappeared! Nothing stays unless there’s a living person in the room.”
Mark looked at the bamboo basket with regret, “These chickens… it would be such a pity if they were gone…”
Bai Youwei laughed, “You just said that living people are fine, and these chickens are alive too.”
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“But the chickens are yours…” Mark was anxious and started to gesture with his hands, “You have to be in the same Stone Chamber as the chickens, or your chickens will disappear!”
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Bai Youwei shrugged indifferently, “These chickens aren’t mine.”
Mark was stunned, “Ah…”
“To be precise…” Bai Youwei smiled, “These chickens should belong to themselves. ‘Ownerless objects’ is a concept you guys came up with; it’s not an explicit rule of the maze. Since it’s all about playing with concepts, why not play it at a higher level~ Every life is an independent entity, no life belongs to another, so if live people aren’t erased, live chickens shouldn’t be either.”
She set down the bamboo basket, picked a chick, and tied one of its claws with a cotton thread. Then she walked to a door and said, “Open the door.”
Du Lai, standing by her side, opened the door, revealing pitch darkness.
It was the same Stone Chamber.
Bai Youwei tossed the chicken inside, and everyone else crowded around, shining their flashlights, watching the chick’s condition in the chamber on the other side.
The chick chirped, seemingly calling for its companions, its tender yellow, tiny claws trembling slightly.
The environment of the Stone Chamber was too cold and dreary for it.
It was somewhat cruel, but there was no other way. It was like a tomb robber digging a tunnel and then sending in a sparrow or a cat, all to survive.
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The chick chirped in the Stone Chamber for about a minute and didn’t disappear.
Bai Youwei pulled at the cotton thread, slowly reeling it back in and placing the chick back into the basket.
“Which door is this?” she asked Shen Mo.
Shen Mo glanced at the compass, “It’s the southern door.”
“Then take three more chickens and try the Stone Chambers behind the east, west, and north doors,” Bai Youwei instructed everyone. “Remember to tie them with cotton thread firmly. Don’t let the chickens break free, or else we’ll have to go in and catch them—going into a room means making the Minotaur move to another room, so be very careful.”
Du Lai, Chen Hui, and Leonid each took a chick, tied it with cotton thread, and tossed them into the chambers behind the east, west, and north doors.
Perhaps it was their good luck, but every chicken remained intact, chirping safely inside the Stone Chambers.
Bai Youwei decided to continue southward. She wanted to figure out just how many of these identical Stone Chambers there were and where the end might be.
She led the group into the southern Stone Chamber, and Mark, Dylan, and Slade hurriedly followed, afraid of being left behind.
Upon entering the new Stone Chamber, Bai Youwei repeated her tactic, releasing the chicks to probe the conditions of the three rooms.
This time, the chick behind the eastern door vanished.
The thread tied to its claw was also gone without a trace.
“It seems this Stone Chamber is a transport point, but it’s not clear if the destination of the transport is fixed…” Bai Youwei took a handful of millet from her bag and threw it into the eastern Stone Chamber. A few seconds later, the millet too had disappeared.
“With this temperature, the chickens might not live very long,” Shen Mo reminded her.
Bai Youwei thought for a moment, then turned to ask Mark, “Hey, you said before that living people are fine in the Stone Chamber, what about dead ones? Do dead people disappear?”
It wasn’t that she was worried about the chickens but that she feared if the chickens died, they would disappear directly, not leaving even a feather behind, and then she wouldn’t be able to determine the Stone Chamber’s new location after it shifted.
