Chapter 33.3 (1/2)

“Shut up!” Short and Skinny gave White-collar Woman a hard look.

White-collar Woman accused, “You’re a thief!”

Xiao Tangqiu froze and suddenly remembered that Short and Skinny had held onto his thighs for quite some time. He subconsciously reached for the hemostatic agent in his trouser pocket. Sure enough, it was gone.

“You stole my hemostatic spray?” He glared at Short and Skinny.

Short and Skinny threw out a vicious rebuttal, “Don’t you dare frame me!”

The middle-aged man also instinctively touched his pocket and soon he cried out, “Where’s my wallet? You bastard! Did you steal my wallet?”

When the others saw this, they reacted by checking their pockets as well. One by one, they cried, “Where’s my wallet?”

“My wallet is missing too!”

“That guy must have stolen it!”

“I didn’t! I didn’t!” Short and Skinny turned as red a tomato but the next moment, he was thrown down to the floor by the newbies, as a bunch of items was confiscated from his pockets.

“This is my wallet!”

“My wallet! And my gold chain!”

“Damn thief! Let’s beat him to death!”

Everyone took back their belongings in a rage, repeatedly punching and kicking the man. The louder he shouted, the harder they beat him. Later, even those who didn’t have anything stolen took part in the mob beating. A fist followed by a knee and so on……

Short and Skinny curled up into a ball, still firmly protecting his amputated hand.

After Xiao Tangqiu got back his hemostatic spray, he couldn’t help but frown at the sight before him. “If you continue beating him, he’ll die.”

But the angry mob refused listen to any other opinions, perhaps taking it out on Short and Skinny to vent their anger and fear. They punched and kicked for a while until White-collar Woman screamed, “Ghost! There’s a ghost!”

All of a sudden, as if they had been poured with cold water, the angry mob calmed down and looked at White-collar Woman.

Her trembling finger was pointing at the puppet on the cupboard, “The puppet…… The puppet has moved again…….”

And the strangest thing was, the puppet was originally facing the center of the room, but now it had turned slightly to face them, so the raised axe was pointed in their direction.

The crowd immediately dispersed in fear, while Short and Skinny was left alone where the axe was pointed at.

Short and Skinny had been beaten to a half-conscious state. He curled up on feebly on the floor, shaking as he held onto his amputated hand.

Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly. He wasn’t sure if it was his illusion but he felt as if the corners of the puppet’s lips had curved upwards a little when the crowd had scattered just now.

Its blue eyes also seemed to glow with strange light under the dim candlelight.

This puppet was really too strange, and on top of that, someone had inexplicably lost a hand. From this experience, naturally, no one dared to stay in this room. They looked at each other in silence before someone suddenly said, “Let’s get out of here right now! Anyway, there’s nothing of interest in this room!”

His words were quickly echoed by the others. The middle-aged man spat at Short and Skinny who was still on the floor. “I’ll let you off this time! What a good deal you got! There are so many of us, so the next time you steal, we’ll beat you to death!”

Short and Skinny had blood all over his face. He couldn’t even say a complete sentence and could only whimper in fear. The middle-aged man gave him another hard kick and left with the crowd.

In a blink of an eye, only Xiao Tangqiu, Tang Mianmian and Lu Si’er, as well as Short and Skinny, who couldn’t get up from the floor, was left in the room.

“Shall we go too?” Lu Si’er timidly asked Xiao Tangqiu.

“Let’s search this room first,” Xiao Tangqiu glanced at the puppet. “Don’t touch that thing. Be careful.”

Lu Si’er asked doubtfully, “Didn’t the others already look in here? They said there was nothing in this room.”

Before Xiao Tangqiu could answer, Tang Mianmian snickered, “Too many cooks spoil the broth! When there are so many people in a team, people get lazy and slack off. What can they find with so many of them crowded into one room? Maybe they didn’t look properly at all and were just fooling around, thinking to let someone else look for clues!”

Xiao Tangqiu nodded; he thought the same way. “Those newbies have little experience. Let’s search again, especially at the corners…… Didn’t we find the small wooden box and pocket watch under the bed and in the pillow?”

Lu Si’er nodded, suddenly enlighted, then rolled up her sleeves and rummaged through the room with Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian.

Xiao Tangqiu looked around while he searched. The layout and decoration of the room was similar to Maria’s room. Of course, all the rooms in the castle were similar, but after carefully looking up and down, he couldn’t help but ask the other two, “Do you feel that…… this looks like a child’s room?”

Lu Si’er said hesitantly, “But there aren’t any children in this castle! And if Lippinobert had children, how could there be no pictures of his children at all?”