Chapter 36.2 (1/2)

He opened the door but nothing happened.

Xiao Tangqiu was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when a thick smell of blood drifted into his nostrils. A few girls in the group suddenly turned pale and looked nauseated.

Xiao Tangqiu’s expression was rather ugly as well. He braced himself and dragged Tang Mianmian into the room. Although Tang Mianmian looked completely against that idea, he could only follow Xiao Tangqiu while he pinched his nose.

The thief’s room had turned into a sea of blood. The entire room was dyed a deep red – not only were the floors soaked in dark, solidified blood, even the walls were covered with countless blood spatters, from top to bottom. What remained of his brain matter glistened in the dim room, along with some other questionable fluids and slush… Xiao Tangqiu didn’t intend to carefully analyze them.

Xiao Tangqiu strengthened his resolve and pulled Tang Mianmian to look for the man’s body, but they found nothing at all – not in the room, not in the bathroom. Except for a room full of blood and gore, there seemed to be nothing left of the man.

“Where’s the body?” The middle-aged man wondered out loud, “He’s dead but his body is missing?”

White-collar Woman couldn’t help but ask, “Could he still be alive?”

Fresh Grad laughed scornfully, “There’s no way he would survive after losing so much blood. He’s dead as a doornail!”

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian went through the bed and wardrobe but found nothing. Instead, they found several wallets and a bunch of sparkling women’s jewelry.

The middle-aged man looked at one of the bulging wallets and immediately froze. He subconsciously reached for his pockets. Then, his expression darkened as he cursed, “That son of a bitch stole from Laozi! If he wasn’t already dead, I would kill him myself! Fuck!”

“I knew it! How could my necklace suddenly disappear?! It turns out that he had stolen it!” White-collar Woman picked up a silver necklace from the pile of jewelry and cursed at the thief.

The other wallets and jewelry weren’t claimed for the time being. No one was sure where the thief had stolen them from. Xiao Tangqiu randomly looked through the items and suddenly saw a brass pocket watch hidden underneath the glittering jewelry.

Pocket watch!

His heart skipped a beat as he pulled out the pocket watch.

“Why is there a pocket watch?” Tang Mianmian looked puzzled. “…Fuck! This guy actually stole off of Lippinobert! He actually dared to steal from him!

Xiao Tangqiu quickly opened the pocket watch. Indeed, there was a photo behind the cover, just like the other pocket watches. This photo was not as dated as the other two. Obviously, it had been taken closer to the current time, but the photo was still yellow with age.

It was a photo of an extremely beautiful woman, and like the women in the previous two photos, her facial features and eyebrows resembled Lily Marlene’s. Although the color of her eyes and hair weren’t the same, her temperament was very much like Lily Marlene’s and she could be considered as the most similar to Lily Marlene out of the three women.

He stared at the photo for a while, then found that there was faint handwriting on the back the photo. He carefully removed the photo from the cover, turned over to look, and as expected, saw a line of fine words written at the bottom – Veronika.

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“Ve… ro… ni… ka… Veronika? This is also someone’s name, right?” Tang Mianmian leaned in, “This name sounds rather nice and she looks really pretty as well. Alas, what a pity! Beauties always suffer such unhappy fates!”

According to Xiao Tangqiu’s conjecture, there should be another pocket watch with a picture of Lily Marlene in the castle, but they hadn’t found it yet.

Where was Lily Marlene’s pocket watch?

“Anyways… we can be certain that he’s dead,” Xiao Tangqiu put the pocket watch in his pocket. “There are still two other players.”

Seeing his actions, someone immediately questioned, “Is this pocket watch yours? Are you going to steal right under our noses? “

“This pocket watch looks quite valuable…”

Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly, “No, this is a prop related to an important clue.”

Now he finally understood why Su Manluo hid from the newbies. It was because these newbies were more than a little annoying.

“A prop that is related to an important clue? What is it? “

“What’s it for? Can it save lives?”

The newbies asked noisily.

Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t say for sure what the props were useful for. After all, he was still a rookie himself. However, these newbies seemed to think that he was hiding something and looked at him suspiciously. They turned around and plundered the rest of the jewelry.

The newbies stared at Xiao Tangqiu and looked like they wanted to steal it from him, but feared Xiao Tangqiu’s status as an “old player.”

Xiao Tangqiu felt powerless and sulked on the inside. He began to understand Shen Yuan’s habit of rejecting the newbies…