Chapter 36.3 (2/2)

Windbreaker Man shrugged. “Do whatever you want. Anyways, even if we refuse, people always sneak behind us. Just don’t expect us to rescue you when you’re in danger. Don’t think that just because you are a woman, we’ll feel more compassionate towards you. I’m afraid you’ll die in disappointment.”

Lu Si’er’s smile became even more stiff, but she gritted her teeth and agreed.

So the seven of them temporarily formed a team, and divided into two groups to search all the rooms again to ensure that they didn’t miss anything. After a whole day of searching, they still hadn’t found anything. Aside from them, the other four old players and the newbies also seemed to hit a wall.

When dinnertime came, they sat down one by one, looking extremely depressed.

Lippinobert, the housekeeper and all the maids didn’t show up, but there was still a piping hot dinner waiting for them on the table – a medium-rare steak and creamy mushroom soup.

Xiao Tangqiu was chewing a mouthful of steak when he saw the middle-aged woman come down the stairs. She looked warily at the people in the dining hall, then quickly picked up the two plates of steaks belonging to her and her son, turned around and went back upstairs.

The middle-aged man gnawed hungrily at his steak while he spoke, “Older sister, why don’t you and your son come down for dinner? What’s the point of being stuck in the room all day long? We need to work together to find a way out ah!”

The middle-aged woman glared at him and rebuked, “I don’t trust you guys. What if your plan is to kidnap my son?!” She quickened her pace and soon disappeared from their sight.

The middle-aged man swallowed his food and cussed loudly, “Damn bitch doesn’t know good from bad!”

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian exchanged a look. After dinner, they continued to search the rooms. Tang Mianmian couldn’t resist but bring up what he had seen earlier. “I saw that she tied her son to the bed this morning… Is that really her son? Are they really mother and child? Will a normal mother do this to her son?”

Windbreaker Man grinned, “When we first arrived, didn’t the boy say that she wasn’t his mother?”

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly froze. They had all assumed it was an argument between mother and son!

“Then shouldn’t we save him?” Tang Mianmian hesitated. “If the middle-aged woman is not his mother, she must be a human trafficker. We…”

“How are you going to save him?” The tall, indifferent woman suddenly spoke up. She coldly gave him a dose of reality, “Even if you save him once, can you still save him all the time? He’s a child with no ability to protect himself. If you save him now and ignore him later, what’s the difference between that and sending him directly to his death?”

“Don’t forget, you’re just rookies who don’t even have the ability to protect yourselves.”

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian kept quiet, not knowing how to refute her words. Although Lu Si’er couldn’t bear to see the child suffer, she chose not to say anything in the end.

The search in the evening remained fruitless and soon, it was close to midnight.

After Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian returned to their rooms, Tang Mianmian asked the latter, “Do you think there will be another death tonight?”

Xiao Tangqiu replied, “Maybe, maybe not.”

Tang Mianmian burst out, “…What bullshit!”

Xiao Tangqiu sat on the bed, staring at the gap under the door and remembered the impossible phenomenon of space distortion that happened at midnight yesterday.

Would that happen again at midnight tonight?

He hesitated for a moment, then walked over and lay down by the door.

Tang Mianmian asked, “What are you looking at?”

Xiao Tangqiu didn’t answer. He looked out and as expected, the space outside looked distorted again. All the rooms were twisted together. Right when he looked outside, the candle at one of the rooms suddenly went out!

He was covered in goosebumps at once. Another candle went out? What did this mean?

Whose room was it? Why did it seem familiar?

Just as Xiao Tangqiu was preparing to take a closer look, a puppet with a disheveled head suddenly appeared. Its body was contorted into an awkward posture as it eerily crawled towards the room where the candle had been extinguished. It was the strange puppet they had seen in the secret chamber before!

It crawled on twisted limbs, reaching the front of the room. Then, it suddenly crept down, lowering its face to the gap under the door…

Xiao Tangqiu’s heart pounded wildly, his entire being was filled with a terrible dread.

In the next second, Xiao Tangqiu was suddenly caught off guard, as a creepy, vicious face appeared right in front of him. His eyes coincided with a pair of bulging, protruded ones.

Right then, he was scared out of his wits and finally remembered why the door looked so familiar…

Because that was their room!