Using an Awakening Doll to test the waters was the cheapest and safest option. Whether Yan Jiayu was trapped in some special space, had entered a container item, or was inside a Dungeon that had genuinely opened, the Awakening Doll could bring back news.
If they couldn't contact the outside world after the Awakening Doll went in, then the place where Yan Jiayu was trapped was almost certainly a special space cut off from the game.
Pink Hat didn't mind sacrificing a doll, but she firmly refused to take it in herself. If it really was a space separated from the game, there was a good chance she wouldn't be able to get back out.
The suggestion from the Yu Kingdom side was simple enough: once they found the entrance, they could just get anyone to take the doll inside.
Xu Huo had borrowed the doll. Now all that remained was to wait: first, for the Yu Kingdom players to find the entrance, and second, to see whether any more battle dolls came to this area.
Judging by the information the Yu Kingdom had provided, it was difficult to directly link those dolls to the entrance to this space in the primeval forest.
Meanwhile, the information he'd asked Bai Kou, Xin Rong, Nie Xuan, and the others to investigate had come in. Suitcase Man had indeed been quite active lately. Xin Rong had even gone out of his way to see a city Suitcase Man had destroyed. According to the local players, Suitcase Man had opened a Dungeon, and everyone in the city had been cleared out before the fighting even began. Not a single person had made it out alive.
Xu Huo repeatedly checked whether the information was accurate, then sent it to Bai Kou and Nie Xuan for