Once the door opened, a stream of unintelligible sounds reached their ears.
They sounded much like the "Makka Pakka" noises made by characters who couldn't speak in children's cartoons.
The dolls' voices, however, were much shriller and more frightening. If children actually heard them, they might be scared to tears.
Although he couldn't make out what they were saying, Li Xian still strained his ears and listened carefully, because those sounds seemed... not to be coming from just one doll.
Li Xian tried hard to distinguish how many dolls there were. It sounded like four... no, three?
Had it called in other dolls to help already?
Even if these dolls moved quickly, they shouldn't have been that fast. Besides, Li Xian hadn't heard the front door open or close at all.
Could it be...
The dolls it had called over were already in his room?
That would explain why the doll had "headed straight for his bedroom" after entering the house. It hadn't known he was here; several dolls had split up to search!
After exchanging a few words, the dolls fell silent, then climbed onto the wardrobe together and began dragging the suitcase out. With several more dolls helping, they could finally move it, though only barely, inching it outward at a few centimeters per second.
About two minutes later, a loud bang! came from the floor.
Already mentally prepared, the three of them weren't startled. They huddled silently inside the storage box without making a sound, while the dolls, having finally hauled the suitcase out of the wardrobe, seemed excited and let out several more shrill laughs.
They didn't try to crack the combination. Instead, they stomped violently all over the suitcase, even fetching some hard objects midway through and using them to batter it relentlessly. For a