After closing the door, Xu Huo motioned for the painted woman to come out, then stopped her from turning into a person. "Careful. Someone might spot you."
But the painted woman just grinned and turned into a True Man. "They can't catch me."
"A doll?" Xu Huo's expression shifted slightly. There weren't many dolls in the Castle. Apart from the True Man doll he and Lian Hanshan had encountered first, there were several others made from different materials, but they were all casually placed around the Castle, not specially displayed. It was more as if dolls that had once moved on their own had suddenly lost their energy and stopped wherever they happened to be.
He recalled that the painted woman had once said she might have been to Suitcase Man's Castle.
"Are you sure it's this Castle?"
The painted woman nodded. To avoid attracting anyone's attention outside, she typed instead: "I remember this place. Someone brought me here. It's really big."
The painted woman didn't want to become someone else's item, but she was easy to fool. As long as a Player asked, she would generally follow them. A Player had once brought her here, though it went without saying how that Player had ended up.
The person who brought her had died, and the Castle wasn't hers, so in the end, she'd taken a doll and run...
At that thought, Xu Huo looked at her. "How did you get out?"
"The door opened, so I went out," the painted woman wrote with a grin.
Xu Huo described Suitcase Man's appearance, and only after confirming that the painted woman truly hadn't seen him did he ask, "You don't know who opened the door?"
The painted woman shook her head. She said only that she'd been bored in the Castle,