Chapter 36.1 (1/2)

Xiao Tangqiu, who had been shocked into a daze, got up, turned around and sat down on the floor.

His horrified expression gave Tang Mianmian a fright. Tang Mianmian nervously asked, “What’s the matter? What did you see?”

Xiao Tangqiu opened his mouth and blurted, “I saw… the puppet kill someone…”

“Fuck! The puppet? Killed someone?” Tang Mianmian quickly went through the day’s events and asked, “Was it the man who stole your hemostatic agent? How were you able to see what happened? This row of rooms are rather far apart ah.”

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.

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 – how was he able to see all of that earlier?

Xiao Tangqiu was shocked, “How is that possible? When I looked just now, I could clearly see the man’s room! ” He tried his best to find the right words to describe the space distortion for fear that Tang Mianmian wouldn’t believe him or think that there was something wrong with his head.

Fortunately, after knowing each other for so long, it didn’t take much for Tang Mianmian to believe him. “In this world, anything strange can happen… Does that mean that the first time you look outside, it’ll appear one way, and the next time you look, it’s different? Or perhaps we have to look out during a certain time to see the space distortion?”

Xiao Tangqiu gradually calmed down. “It’s also possible that everything in this old castle can’t be explained with logic.”

“Can you elaborate on what you saw?” Tang Mianmian rubbed his chin.

Xiao Tangqiu narrated in detail, while Tang Mianmian, who was listening, looked as if he had expected it to be so. “It seems that not damaging any puppets in this castle is one of the so-called rules that those old players mentioned? But the definition of “damage” is somewhat tricky. That guy didn’t damage the puppet. He just wanted to steal its little axe… “

Xiao Tangqiu arched an eyebrow. “If he really stole it, wouldn’t it be equivalent to damaging the integrity of the puppet?”

Tang Mianmian nodded. “That’s reasonable. So we should be careful not to damage any puppets over the next few days, even if we are attacked by them. Otherwise, the ones being “damaged” will be us.”

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Xiao Tangqiu sighed, “We can’t fight back when we’re being beaten because we’ll be killed if we did. How can it be so unreasonable?”

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After a few more listless jokes, the two climbed into bed.

Xiao Tangqiu thought that he wouldn’t be able to sleep well but ended up sleeping through the night.

Early morning the next day, they hurried to the dining hall on the first floor to gather at the dining table. Xiao Tangqiu looked around to see if there were any other players missing. He heard the woman next to Shen Yuan count their numbers, “There are still 17 players left. Three players are missing.”

Three players missing?

Three?

Xiao Tangqiu stared blankly. Yesterday, he had only seen something happen to the thief, so he knew that he wouldn’t appear today. What happened to the other two players?

“How is that possible! It was calm last night. Nothing happened and I didn’t hear anything… “One of the newbies couldn’t believe it. He stood up and counted to the last player, then turned ashen. “…It’s true that there are only 17 people left!”

Over the course of one night, three people were missing?

It was only one night, and they had lost three people?

Panic spread in the dining hall. Everyone had a different look on their face but their expressions were equally ugly. A few women trembled and huddled together.

A deafening silence reverberated off the walls. After a while, someone cautiously asked, “Is it possible that they stayed in their rooms because they didn’t want to come down?”

Immediately, someone else echoed, “Yes! Maybe they just stayed in their rooms and didn’t want to come down… “