Chapter 361

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Xiao Tangqiu wasn’t in the mood to explain the details. “…Look at it yourself.”

Although he didn’t like the man very much, that was still a person’s life. qV fWN

Tang Mianmian hesitated for a long time, then wasted more time preparing himself mentally and lay down to look out.

“…I can’t see anything!” He sounded confused. “I can’t see anything except for the door opposite ours and a small section of the corridor…”

“How is that possible?” Xiao Tangqiu frowned, lying down in disbelief. “I clearly saw it just now…” But before he could finish speaking, he froze. Looking out from the gap under the door, the originally distorted space outside had turned back to normal. According to normal spatial distribution, of course, there was no way he could see the man’s room which was several rooms apart from theirs…

But here came the problem –

Before Xiao Tangqiu could speak, Tang Mianmian rolled his eyes dramatically at that man. “There you go, here’s a keyboard for you. Why don’t you quickly go and save the world?! You’re so powerful, so why don’t you bring a keyboard wherever you go? I think, if you started tapping away at your keyboard, all the puppets would die at once!”

The young man immediately turned red with anger. Before he could say anything else, the middle-aged man came out to ease the situation, “Alright, alright. Is it so hard to say a little less? Harmony is the most important thing. We have to spend a few more days together. It doesn’t do you any good if you strained your relationship to this point. Young man, don’t be so angry. Although this young fellow claimed to have seen it, it’s not necessarily true… Maybe he saw it in his dream? Hahaha!” K2rCOz

He laughed loudly, thinking that his own joke was very funny but the young man merely snorted and turned around. Xiao Tangqiu sat down and continued eating breakfast without a change in his expression.

Their breakfast was already on the table waiting for them when they entered the dining hall. There wasn’t a maid around, and neither the host nor the housekeeper was present. However, the food was still steaming hot – soft baked bread and hot corn soup. As hungry as the players were, of course, they wouldn’t refuse a hot breakfast.

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Xiao Tangqiu drank his corn soup with a straight face and listened to the middle-aged man decide on behalf of the group. “Let’s go up and have a look after breakfast! We’ll check room by room and see for ourselves if those three are still alive.”

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After breakfast, they returned to the second floor. To Xiao Tangqiu’s surprise, Shen Yuan and his team went with them as well. He had thought that these old players would have separated from the newbies.

Shen Yuan and his team obviously didn’t intend to explain anything. They moved silently behind the group, keep a distance that was neither close nor far from them. Seeing that Shen Yuan’s team had also followed along, the other old players also went upstairs too.

The newbies, headed by the middle-aged men, searched from room to room. Xiao Tangqiu took this opportunity to look at the structure of the other rooms. Soon, he found that all the rooms on the second floor seemed to have the exact same layout. The only difference was that the portrait of Lily Marlene had been placed in different positions. In some of the rooms, the painting was hanging directly above the head of the bed. He could imagine how horrifying it must be to sleep in one of those rooms at night.

Xiao Tangqiu originally wanted to follow to see if he could find any important clues from the other vacant rooms, but even after searching several rooms, he had still found nothing. Of course, they hadn’t found the three missing players either. A2gzSe

At that moment, someone hesitantly said, “There seems to be… a candle missing.”

“What candle? What do you mean?” Some of the rookies asked in confusion.

“The candles at the door…..” The man explained in a trembling voice, “I noticed before that there were candles burning in front of all the occupied rooms, so I had specifically counted how many there were. But I just counted again and it looks like there’s one missing.”

“Could it be that you remembered wrongly? Maybe it’s always been like that?” Someone else questioned in doubt. u7lJyM

“No way!” The man said excitedly, “There were only a few candles in total. How could I remember it wrongly? There’s one missing!”

The crowd looked at each other. If there were candles in front of all the occupied rooms, and one candle was missing, that would mean that one of the candles had been extinguished or taken away…

“You’re right, I saw what happened,” Xiao Tangqiu said coldly. “The candle in front of his room went out, and then the puppet appeared and killed him.”

The newbies were immediately alarmed. “When the candle goes out, the puppets will come to kill us? An extinguished candle means death? What if our candle is blown out by the wind?” 4gIZkG

“No, that guy had obviously done something wrong! He deserves it!”

Everyone started chattering at once. They looked at the flickering candlelight in front of their rooms, eyes filled with fear.

“So that is to say, there shouldn’t be a candle in front of that man’s room,” the middle-aged man spoke solemnly, drowning out all other voices. “Then what about the other two? Since only one candle was extinguished, it means that the candle in front of their doors is still burning. What’s this nonsense about an extinguished candle meaning death?! Don’t frighten yourselves over nothing!”

The newbies looked at each other, maintaining their silence. At this moment, Xiao Tangqiu spoke again, “I remember which room that man was staying in. Should we go straight to his room to take a look?” oz1Pv5

Someone immediately burst out in an irritated voice, “Why didn’t you say so earlier? We went through so many rooms for nothing!”

Xiao Tangqiu gave the man a chilly look. The man immediately withdrew his disgruntled gaze.

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He turned and walked straight towards the thief’s room. The newbies eyed each other and finally followed behind him.

He found the room from last night by memory, took a deep breath, and summoned the courage to open the door. MHAByX

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P.S. I just got promoted so my workload is a little heavier than normal at the moment, but it shouldn’t last long. Well, a girl’s gotta eat 😭 Anyways, if I miss an update, I’ll either make up for it the next day or over the weekend, so don’t worry! On a side note, how sassy is TMM! Love the sarcasm! rwhVym