Chapter 41.1 (1/2)

Shen Yuan said flatly, “Sai Lulu and Yu Fuling had already mentioned about this on the first day.”

Sai Lulu and Yu Fuling? Were this the names of the two women?

Xiao Tangqiu paused for a moment before responding. Compared to a grown man, it was quite normal for women to notice it first thing. He scratched his face, “Is that so? It turns out that you’ve already noticed, I only noticed it when I was taking a shower earlier…

“It’s good to pay more attention to the surrounding environment,” Shen Yuan lowered his head and continued to read. “We’ll pay close attention to this matter.”

Xiao Tangqiu nodded, and went back to the bathroom to clean up. After that, he returned to the room.

Shen Yuan had put away his book. He was lying down, apparently ready to sleep.

“Your hair isn’t dry yet. Aren’t you going to dry it?”

Shen Yuan closed his eyes and said, “I can’t be bothered.”

“If you don’t dry your hair before you sleep, you might catch a cold.” Perhaps because the atmosphere at the time was too relaxed, Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously spoke as if he was talking to Meng Xinghe, “How about I dry it for you?”

As soon as he blurted out that sentence, he realized that his tone seemed too intimate, and immediately corrected himself. “I’m sorry. Just pretend you didn’t hear anything.”

Shen Yuan opened his eyes and gave Xiao Tangqiu a faint look. Moments later, he said, “Okay.”

Xiao Tangqiu almost suspected that he heard wrongly. He froze for a few seconds until he noticed that Shen Yuan had sat up in bed. Only then did he react. He cautiously walked over and stood behind Shen Yuan, carefully took the towel that Shen Yuan had casually handed to him, and gently began to towel dry his hair.

Clearly, he was the one doing Shen Yuan a favor, but why did he get the feeling that he was the one being flattered and receiving his favor?

“By the way, about the two men earlier… Is it ok to just let them off like this? What if they steal our candle when we fall asleep?”

Shen Yuan closed his eyes and said, “They won’t.”

Xiao Tangqiu was still a little worried about the matter, but when he heard Shen Yuan say so, he suddenly relaxed. Perhaps it was because he was too comfortable with Shen Yuan by his side. He gradually relaxed his strung up nerves and soon began to feel sleepy.

As his movements became slower and slower, Shen Yuan suddenly opened his eyes and said, “That’s enough. It’s fine like this.”

Xiao Tangqiu perked up at once and continued to towel Shen Yuan’s hair. “A little bit more. I’ll be done soon.”

Shen Yuan froze for a second and kept the same position.

After Xiao Tangqiu was done drying Shen Yuan’s hair, the latter thanked him and lay down to sleep.

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Xiao Tangqiu yawned and collapsed in bed.

Xiao Tangqiu slept through the night. The next day, he was awakened once more by Tang Mianmian.

“Qiuqiu! Wake up! There’s been another incident!”

Xiao Tangqiu woke up at once. He quickly got out of bed. Tang Mianmian looked solemn. “Someone died again.”

“Someone died again?” Xiao Tangqiu felt his heart skip a beat. Although he had anticipated this when the two men came to steal their candle last night, his mood was still somewhat complicated when he found out that something had happened.

Tang Mianmian nodded, “Yes, the middle-aged woman is dead.”

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly froze. “The middle-aged woman?”

Although he had expected someone to die last night, he never expected that the it would be the middle-aged woman… How could it be the middle-aged woman?

Tang Mianmian had a grave expression on his face. “Let’s go and have a look.”

Xiao Tangqiu looked around. “Where is Shen Yuan?”

Tang Mianmian looked outside. “He’s gone over there as well.”

Xiao Tangqiu washed up in a hurry and followed Tang Mianmian to the middle-aged woman’s room.

Sure enough, her door was wide open. The other old players stood at the door to look at the situation inside. Xiao Tangqiu moved past the crowd and suddenly froze. The scene in the room was too gruesome.

The body of the middle-aged woman didn’t even look human anymore. Her head was a bloody mess, and her body was split open in the middle, exposing her guts. Her organs and intestines were completely mangled. The floor was full of bits and pieces of her insides and coagulated blood. The walls around the room had been splashed with flesh and blood.

Not only that, countless familiar cracks had appeared on the floor and walls, and the furniture in the room also had the same web-like cracks.

Xiao Tangqiu instantly recalled the dwarf puppet from last night. He choked back the nausea and left the room. He was going to ask Shen Yuan about the situation when the young man and the middle-aged man came out of their room.

When the two men saw a group of people gathered in front of the middle-aged woman’s room, a trace of uneasiness flashed across their faces, but they soon turned back to normal and even took the initiative to walk towards the crowd.

“What happened? Someone died again?” When the young man walked to the middle-aged woman’s room and saw the horror inside, he immediately showed an angry look, “That’s too cruel! We have to get the hell out of here!”

The middle-aged man also sighed and pretended not to know anything. “Although this woman was a human trafficker who deserves to die, to die like this is really too cruel…”