More importantly, two of the four dead household guards were players.
Even if those two players had never obtained any special items, they had special abilities at their disposal. They should not have been completely defenseless.
Yet neither player showed any signs of a fierce struggle.
This made Zhao Xun even more inclined to believe they had been hypnotized.
Most special abilities offered no resistance to hypnosis. Without exceptionally strong mental strength and willpower, a person naturally lost the urge to resist once hypnotized.
That raised a question: who had hypnotized them?
If the dolls themselves could hypnotize people, they would not have been so easy to kill.
When Zhao Xun attacked the Doll Eldest Daughter last night, it had taken hardly any effort. If she could use hypnosis, there was no way she would have done nothing when her life was threatened.
Since the Doll Eldest Daughter could not hypnotize anyone and had no other special powers, the other two dolls were even more likely to be ordinary dolls.
None of the three dolls could use hypnosis, yet the Eldest Young Master had clearly been hypnotized, and the four dead household guards seemed to have been as well. Someone who knew hypnosis had to be helping the three dolls commit these murders.
The person most likely to work with the dolls was the Dollmaker.
Dolls could not carve themselves into human figures from wood. Regardless of how they gained sentience, a dollmaker had to have fashioned their human forms.
At first, Zhao Xun had never considered that the dollmaker and the dolls might be acting together. He had simply assumed that, after gaining sentience, the dolls had randomly chosen a residence to terrorize.
The sentient dolls might even have killed the Dollmaker.
But now, the truth seemed likely to