Chapter 32.1 (1/2)

Xiao Tangqiu only felt a chill crawl up his spine. He tried to calmly pick up the flashlight and shone it at the painting. But all his mental preparation was for nothing; he didn’t find anything at all.

“……What are you talking about ah?”

“Fuck! She was clearly looking at you!” Tang Mianmian turned around and found that the painting was back to normal again. He was dumbstruck, “……It changed back again, I’m not lying! I’m really not lying! What would I do that? She really was looking at you just now! She was looking at you like this!”

“Ok, ok, I got it. You don’t have to imitate the painting to show me……” Xiao Tangqiu patted Tang Mianmian’s face aside, “Isn’t this very normal? If nothing strange happens, wouldn’t this old castle be embarrassed to face all the other old castles?”

Tang Mianmian couldn’t help wondering, “……This castle is called Demon’s Castle, is there really a demon?”

“There are ghosts. Isn’t it normal for there to be demons?” Xiao Tangqiu disagreed.

“But……. I’ve always felt that demons are much more powerful than ghosts!” Tang Mianmian trembled, “And isn’t this an S-level mission? An S-level mission is certainly much more difficult than a D-level mission, am I right? Can’t we get those old players to form a team with us? According to Su Manluo, that Shen Yuan is very powerful ah!”

Xiao Tangqiu was paused for a moment, then smiled helplessly, “He’s a great god while we are just dumb rookies. Why would he take us along and help us for no reason?”

“You’re right.” Tang Mianmianmian sighed, “Even if it was the real world, no one would. What’s more, a place like this with danger lurking in every corner. It’s good enough if he can keep his own life……”

Xiao Tangqiu smiled, “Let’s rest now and go out to explore after dinner.”

Tang Mianmian rubbed his chin, “When should we go to the attic?”

Xiao Tangqiu’s gaze deepened, “Shen Yuan and his team may take action tonight. If they go to the attic, we’ll follow them.”

This decision was quite risky because the attic was most likely very dangerous, but if they wanted to find clues, they would just have to walk into the lion’s den. The two of them were dumb rookies and had little means to protect themselves. They could only follow Shen Yuan and those old players. But they had already warned them in advance that they wouldn’t save them, even if their lives were in danger…… Xiao Tangqiu didn’t expect them to anyways. He wasn’t naive. He just wanted to find more people to reduce the risk. In case there was a really fierce ghost, if there were a few more people, wouldn’t that lower the chances of him and Tang Mianmian being chased?

After a while, someone knocked on the door.

Xiao Tangqiu opened it and found a woman dressed as a manservant. He couldn’t help but feel a little surprised.

This was clearly a young girl in her twenties, but she was wearing an ash grey footman outfit. She smiled at Xiao Tangqiu, “Guest, it’s time for dinner.”

Xiao Tangqiu stared puzzedly for a few seconds, then suddenly remembered the housekeeper who wore a butler’s suit…… Was this a personal preference of the Master of the castle?

“Yes, thank you.” Xiao Tangqiu nodded at the maid and called Tang Mianmian out.

He immediately turned to look at the candle at their door, which was still burning.

Xiao Tangqiu looked at the candles at the door of the other rooms again, and then found that the candles of the rooms in front of and beside their room had been extinguished……. In this corridor, only the candles at the door of several rooms were not extinguished, and those doors were partially open. He noticed that aside from the players who were exiting these room, there was also a maid dressed as a footman in front of those doors.

That was when he realized that all the candles in front of vacant rooms had been extinguished while the candles in front of the rooms that were occupied by players were still burning.

The other players soon noticed this too. After all, the dimly lighted corridor had become even darker after so many candles had gone out. The middle-aged man complained discontentedly to the maid, “Why did you put out so many candles? It’s too dark! “

The middle-aged woman with the child also complained, “A few candles are not worth much. What if we fall down in the dark?”

The maid merely smiled, “Guest, it’s time for dinner.”

“I know it’s dinner time, I’m asking you to light up the candles…… or are there lights around here? Even if there aren’t, you have oil lamps, don’t you?” the middle-aged man puffed out haughtily.

The maid smiled, “Guest, it’s time for dinner.”

The middle-aged man’s expression turned ugly, “Is that all you can say?”

The maid smiled, “Guest, it’s time for dinner.”

Under the dim flickering candlelight, the maid’s smile seemed dull and wooden. The middle-aged man was a little scared inside and closed his mouth in embarrassment.

Xiao Tangqiu took out his flashlight and planned to illuminate the way for everyone. But when the corridor brightened up slightly, the crowd fell into a dead silence. The maids were not only wearing the same footman outfit, but also had the same appearance, the same facial features and the same dull, wooden expressions.

This strange sight made them too afraid to have any more opinions about the “hotel” with the extremely poor check-in experience. Tang Mianmian also shrank behind Xiao Tangqiu, “This …… is this a multiple birth? Mitosis? Parthenogenesis?”

Xiao Tangqiu silently took out his flashlight and shone it at the maid’s lower body…… Of course, it wasn’t for any obscene purposes; he just wanted to see if these maids had feet or shadows. However, when he shone the flashlight at the maid’s knee, they saw the joints on the maid’s knee……. move.

Yes, the maid clearly had the kind of movable joints that puppets had.

He silently took another look at the maid’s elbow – it was also a movable joint.