Chapter 33.2 (1/2)

Lu Si’er was obviously scared and hesitated for a moment before nodding, “Let’s go and find out what’s going on.”

After the three reached a consensus, they turned to run towards the source of those screams.

It was coming from a room at the end of the corridor on the first floor. Xiao Tangqiu led the way and when he reached the room, he was greeted by a thick smell of blood accompanied by ear-piercing screams.

Xiao Tangqiu was shocked. He immediately raised his flashlight and shone it at the dimly-lit room. After seeing the scene in the room, he froze.

The room was crowded with newbies who were staring at the center of the room with a horrified expression on their faces. There was a short, skinny man lying in a pool of blood. He held his wrist as he screamed ceaselessly. It seemed that the noise and bloody smell was coming from from him.

Xiao Tangqiu remembered that Short and Skinny was also a newbie, but he wasn’t very conspicuous when mixed within the crowd so he hadn’t paid much attention to him before this and didn’t have a deep impression of him.

“What happened?” Tang Mianmian and Lu Si’er also entered the room and asked the others.

A young man looked horrified and said, “I… I don’t know…… Didn’t you tell us look for clues? So, we went together to search the rooms. But we’ve been looking in this room for a long time and didn’t find anything. Just now, that guy suddenly screamed and when we turned around, we found that he had lost a hand…..”

Xiao Tangqiu frowned and took a step forward. Short and Skinny’s right hand was broken off neatly. It looked like his hand had been cleanly sliced off by a sharp weapon. Blood flowed out freely from the wound. If he didn’t stop the bleeding, this man would most likely lose his life. He quickly took out a hemostatic agent from his pocket.

The hemostatic agent from the vending machine came in the form of a spray. Xiao Tangqiu sprayed it onto the man’s wound and the blood stopped immediately, But that man wouldn’t stop screaming, as if he was still feeling immense pain from the wound. He only stopped after a long time and looked down to find that the wound had healed completely.

“What is this?” the middle-aged man leaned in curiously, his beady eyes greedily looking at the hemostatic agent in Xiao Tangqiu’s hand.

Xiao Tangqiu immediately stuffed the hemostatic agent back into his pocket. It was also his first time using it so he didn’t expect this thing to be so miraculous. Its results were instant! Even in the real world this would be a precious treasure, much less in this crisis-ridden mission world.

Damn it! A person’s fortune only arouses envy in others!

He assumed a casual attitude, “This is nothing, as long as you can leave this place, there are many such things out there.”

Xiao Tangqiu frowned and tried to shake him off, but Short and Skinny clung onto his legs with great strength. He couldn’t break free at all and could only helplessly explain, “I’m not some Divine Doctor. I don’t know how to treat wounds or illnesses. I can’t save you.”

“No! You must save me!” The man was very agitated, “My hands are very important! You must help me get my hands back! Otherwise, I won’t let you go! This place is so dangerous, I’ll die here without my hands! If you don’t help me, I won’t let go. We’ll die here together!”

Xiao Tangqiu’s chest was stuffy with anger. He didn’t expect this man to repay his kindness of stopping the bleeding by pushing his luck. The was clearly a case of the farmer and the viper!

“Why are you doing this!” Tang Mianmian was enraged. He rushed forward to help Xiao Tangqiu push aside the man, but the man seemed determined to play out this farce till the very end. He stumbled to the floor and hugged Xiao Tangqiu’s feet with a death grip. Tang Mianmian pulled him hard, but he dodged left and right, sliding around like a worm.

The newbies watched the bustle, gloating over the misfortune of Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmianmian, these two old players. The middle-aged man even said in an indifferent tone, “Please help him. In the case of disaster, we should help each other!”

Just then, the young woman who looked like a white-collar worker interrupted with an expression of shock, “Just now……. I think I saw……..”

“What did you see?” The middle-aged man asked doubtfully.

White-collar Woman trembled all over and turned pale. “When we were looking for something just now…… I saw him …… picking up the puppet from the cupboard over there……. and stealing the golden axe from the puppet’s hand……”

“Then……. I saw the puppet sneer……. I got such a fright…… After that, the man suddenly fell down……. His hand was gone…… It must’ve been cut off by that golden axe!”

“What are you talking about!” The middle-aged man immediately retorted, “How big can an axe from a puppet’s hand be? How is it possible to cut off a person’s hand?”

“But I saw it! The puppet clearly sneered!” White-collar Woman was flustered, “I was almost scared to death! Later, the man’s hand was broken. How can there be such a coincidence?! The golden axe must still be in his hands! If you don’t believe me, check his hands!”

They looked at each other, not believing in such a ridiculous thing of course. But Tang Mianmian, who had been trying to shake off that man, immediately grabbed his hand and tried to pry open his fingers.

The man struggled violently, but ended up losing against Tang Mianmian’s strength; his grip loosened by a crack.

Something tiny fell out of his fingers.