No One Will Trust a Monster

“Good girl.” A sinister smile curled across the woman’s face. “Go kill the mayor, and your brother can still be saved. As long as that bad man is alive, your brother could be turned into a portrait at any moment.”

“Do you want your brother to become like those pitiful people in the portraits?”

The little girl remembered the pale, twisted spirits, every one of them filled with hatred, and nervously shook her head.

“Then listen to me. Take this blue pill, and go find the mayor.” The woman slowly held out a blue pill, just like the ones in the basement. “Kill the mayor, and you can save your brother.”

Seeing the woman offer the pill while the little girl hesitated, the live comments erupted.

“That woman’s lying!! Yin Xiu wasn’t captured by the mayor at all! Why is she lying to Yaya?!”

“She actually told her to go after the mayor. What a wicked woman! The mayor is furious right now! Even if he’s injured, there’s no way a little girl turned into a monstrosity could beat him!”

“That wicked woman definitely can’t handle Yin Xiu, so she’s trying to hurt the little girl while he’s gone! She wants to deal Yin Xiu a psychological blow!”

“I seriously suspect she wants to use the little girl to kill the mayor. Didn’t the mayor’s rules say to watch out for children at night?”

“But the rules don’t say children at night can kill the mayor. They’re clearly not evenly matched. The little girl will just die if she does this.”...