With the experience from the Tamperer incident, Alain didn't hesitate much this time and opened the first door.
The two girls stood worriedly behind him, each vigilantly wielding their weapons, ready to protect Alain at any moment.
And Alain… the place he was currently looking at was a normal Mita room.
However, the room was filled with slash marks from a battle: cracks on the walls, a shattered television, and clumps of garbled code on the floor.
Through the living room door, he could vaguely glimpse a few human-headed spiders still remaining in the bedroom, emitting dull cries.
"What on earth is going on?" The hatted girl patted his shoulder.
And Alain simply opened the main door wide in her line of sight.
"Er…" Millie hesitated for a moment, stroking her chin thoughtfully, "This place… looks very familiar."
"Of course, it's familiar. Because…" Alain thoughtfully examined a deep, bottomless slash mark on the wall, "This is version 1.75. In other words, your room."
Once Millie heard this, she also reacted, looking towards the photo wall, at the photos torn apart by numerous attacks.
The subject of the photos was indeed her.
"Wait, wait…" The hatted girl quickly guessed something, her terrified gaze turning to Alain. "You're saying, the spiders outside my door… came from here?"
"Based on the current situation, yes."
Alain closed the door, then opened it again.
It was still the version 1.75 room, unchanged.
The current guess: at least this door's destination was fixed, unlike the "anywhere door" from last time.
Secondly, this room was highly likely to be the "monster breeding house" used by the mother monster from version 1.3B to invade other versions.
To put it more directly, it was the frontline of the invasion.
Although this group of "troops" that hadn't grown up yet had all been wiped out by them.
"But!" A flash of inspiration struck the hat, and she quickly thought of something. "The spiders knocking on my door were all human-headed spiders, right? That is, the adult form of the small spiders. And right now..." Millie's gaze shifted to the large pile of small spider remains in the corner.
"The juvenile form, right? Regarding this, I also have a slight guess." Alain paused, as if recalling something, then continued, "Do you remember, Crazy Mita helped you clean up spiders?"
"Mm, that's right... wait a minute, you're saying—" At his reminder, Millie was suddenly horrified.
And Alain also stated the answer, "Perhaps, Crazy Mita had already cleaned up the human-headed spiders once. Killing them until only juvenile forms remained in the monster breeding house."
"But, why would she help us?" Prankster Mita was puzzled.
That Mita shouldn't be the very... amicable type, right?
"No, she did help Millie, that's not wrong. It's just that her 'help' was merely incidental. Actually..." Alain's gaze shifted to the second door, "She was also helping herself."
The two girls' gazes gradually became serious, and they also guessed what Alain meant:
Among these doors, apart from the one leading to version 1.75... there was probably also a door leading to version 1.9, where Crazy Mita was.
And what Millie called "Crazy Mita helping her clean up spiders" was actually Alain's Honey being unable to bear the harassment of these pests any longer.
According to Alain's guess, the four doors currently in the room led to: 1.75—the hat's room; 1.9—Crazy Mita's location; 1.5—Prankster Mita's room, which was where the three of them had come from.
If that monster wanted to firmly control the little ones in this "monster breeding house," there had to be a door connecting to its main base: 1.3B.
If Alain's guess was correct, then the overflow of monsters from version 1.3B to other versions could be explained.
Using the monster breeding house they were currently in as an anchor point, they would then invade other versions.
But a guess was ultimately a guess; it still needed to be supported by practice.
Thus, he was about to close the door to 1.75.
At this moment, Millie's hand stopped his closing action.
Alain and Prankster Mita looked at Millie's face with puzzled expressions.
In his line of sight, most of Millie's face was hidden under the shadow of her hat brim, making it difficult to see her expression.
But the earlobe peeking through her hair was slightly red.
After she climbed onto Alain's hand, she didn't say a word, making him a little unsure of what to do.
Just as he was about to ask Millie what happened, a change occurred on his person.
Alain looked at the 1.75 room, his field of vision...seeming to have widened considerably.
And the girl's words followed. "That... What, hahahahaha!"
Millie released her small hand from Alain's arm and walked back into the dark room as if nothing had happened.
"What's wrong?" Looking at the 1.75 room, he faintly had some guesses.
"No-Nothing... I just wanted to take another look at my room! I mean, the decoration style is really nice!" Millie's eyes darted left and right, "I wonder what happened to that guitar. Hmm~ A bit of a pity, but it's okay!"
"You're being strange."
Alain was puzzled, but the girl's words hadn't finished.
"Aiya~ That's also the room where you and I first met. It's only been two days since I went back, I'm nostalgic~" She reached up and pressed down the brim of her hat; Alain could vaguely glimpse the blush on her cheeks.
"I've given you ownership of the room." Millie casually hummed a tune, then boisterously pointed to the second door, "Ah!!! Right, we still have to open the next door, right? Hurry, hurry! Fighting!!!"
Millie raised her arm high, like a flag bearer.
And Alain, seeing Millie constantly changing the subject, actually already embarrassed beyond words.
In a daze, he also understood her meaning.
Alain smiled brightly... Millie really was a tsundere.
Prankster Mita walked to his side, patting his shoulder.
Within her charming smile, her lips moved.
As if saying: Go for it.
He called out to his bro, "Millie, wait for me for a moment, okay?"
"Hmm?" Millie tilted her head and saw Alain open the door to 1.75 and walk in.
She suddenly remembered, her room... no, now it was Alain's room.
Inside, there seemed to be some human-headed spiders still?
Faster than her words was a burst of chaotic fighting sounds, and even the shrill screams of the human-headed spiders.
Millie didn't understand why Alain had gone back to 1.75 to go on a killing spree.
Before long, when the strange noises in 1.75 stopped.
Alain returned to the monster breeding house unharmed, one hand still behind his back.
Millie glanced sideways; the human-headed spiders in version 1.75 had all been turned into garbled code by him.
Closing the door, Alain brought out the hand he had been holding behind his back.
"Weren't you saying it was a pity? I helped you get it back."
Millie blankly accepted the item.
That was... something she had casually mentioned only to change the subject...
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