The painted woman had no idea and didn't care. She said that once they got out, she was going to take the most fun things.
The three of them soon left the haunted house and rummaged around at the entrance, dividing up the items.
Yan Jiayu had a detection device. Aside from the little knickknacks specifically meant to throw people off, the highest-level item turned out to be the lamp in the painted woman's hand.
The lamp lit up as soon as it was lifted. But when the painted woman raised it, its normally gentle light became blindingly bright, and everyone present couldn't help turning their heads away.
"This is a great item." She stuffed the lamp back into the painted woman's hands. "Once we're inside the Castle, lift it up."
The painted woman wasn't interested. She handed the lamp to Xu Huo and stuffed some firework shells into her backpack.
Jiji Bird also knew of a Warehouse where fireworks and firecrackers were stored. The group changed locations and emerged with a pack of firecrackers each.
They were carrying too much to walk openly along the streets, so for most of the next half-day, they wandered through different streets, sometimes hiding in store warehouses and sometimes in transit stations.
Night soon fell. As they'd agreed earlier, once the carnival began and there were fewer doll people near the doll wall, they found a spot and climbed it.
Getting up the doll wall wasn't difficult. Xu Huo opened several Mental Portals in a row and sent everyone straight to their assigned positions on the wall. The six points were somewhat far apart, and they had to avoid the skeleton monsters inside the wall, so coordinating with each other required signals. Everyone had brought enough glow sticks in advance.
Yan Jiayu's group