Chapter 41.3 (2/2)

At the same time, its long hair that was wrapped around Shen Yuan’s body unexpectedly disappeared like the puppet birds’ flames. The monster let out a scream and immediately hid back but it was too late.

As its long hair disappeared little by little, the parts of its body that resembled a human being also faded away, gradually revealing its moving joints and a body made of wood.

But Shen Yuan didn’t look like he planned to turn it back into a puppet completely like those puppet birds.

When the black tattoo almost covered his entire neck, he stopped.

At this time, the monster had become half human, half puppet.

It suddenly got very angry, but it was obviously afraid of Shen Yuan’s ability, and could only bitterly stare at Shen Yuan, too afraid to come any closer.

Just then, Tang Mianmian suddenly cried out, “Fuck!”

He dropped to the ground and started rolling away. At the same time, an axe fell out of nowhere, and was deeply embedded into the place where he had been standing.

Soon, the axe was pulled out and another puppet appeared.

It had two braids and wore a red dress and small red leather shoes. Although its body was only the size of a normal puppet, it was holding a human-sized axe in its hand.

The axe was too big for its body but it didn’t have any difficulty wielding it. It lifted the axe easily. For some reason, it first attacked the little boy who was hiding behind them. The little boy let out a scream, turned and ran towards the door.

“Don’t go out! It’s more dangerous outside!” Xiao Tangqiu shouted at once.

However, the little boy didn’t listen, running straight out of the room.

The puppet didn’t continue to chase after him, but changed its target and began to attack Tang Mianmian.

Tang Mianmian, who was unarmed, could only run away miserably. Xiao Tangqiu quickly looked for weapons around the room. Soon, he found a rather tough-looking iron candlestick. He had just reached out his hand, but it was suddenly entangled in a mass of hair.

He jumped in fright. In the next second, more and more hair poured out towards him, binding him tightly and dragging him towards the door.

When he was dragged past the bed, he quickly grabbed the foot of the bed, but the hair seemed to have an inhuman strength and almost dragged the whole bed with him.

Duan Hongzhen was closest to Xiao Tangqiu but he didn’t rush to rescue him. He was still playing with the flying knife in his hand.

He grinned as he asked, “If I cut off the hair, will I be damaging the puppets in the castle?”

Shen Yuan glanced at him and said softly, “I’ll do it.”

Yu Fuling, the aloof woman, tried to stop him, “Older brother Shen, in this instance you’ve already… don’t keep…”

“It’s fine.”

Shen Yuan’s expression was calm. He walked towards Xiao Tangqiu and reached for the hair.

Although the hair didn’t immediately disappear when he touched it like before, it fell to the ground, strand after strand. Not far away, came an angry scream. In the next second, another puppet appeared in front of them.

Xiao Tangqiu looked up and recognized it as the poorly made, ugly doll they had seen in Maria’s room before. It looked even worse off than Laura. It was already ugly but now that it had lost all its hair, it was so hideous that he couldn’t bear to look at it.

Even Tang Mianmian, who was still being chased, couldn’t help but exclaim, “Is this the legendary bald attack?”

“…That’s not right! Why isn’t anyone coming to help me? Save me ah! I’m going to be hacked to death!”

Xiao Tangqiu turned to ask Shen Yuan, “Please save Tang Mianmian!”

Shen Yuan glanced at him, then called Duan Hongzhen.

“Tsk, okay then. I was hoping to watch the show. How funny does that kid look, being chased like that?” Duan Hongzhen sighed ruefully, but still made his move eventually.

In an instant, a flying knife shot out and the axe in the puppet’s hands immediately tilted to one side. Tang Mianmian finally took a breather, quickly running toward Xiao tangqiu.

He glared at Duan Hongzhen, obviously dissatisfied with the latter’s behavior of taking pleasure in seeing him make a fool of himself. But then again, Duan Hongzhen had also saved him, and he wasn’t strong enough to go against him, so he could only hide behind Xiao Tangqiu, looking rather aggrieved. “What should we do now?”

Right now, all the puppets that they come across in the castle were gathered in this room. Their purpose was obvious – to take back the pocket watch in Shen Yuan’s hand, the pocket watch belonging to Lippinobert.

“All the puppets? Wait! That’s not right… “

Xiao Tangqiu suddenly remembered that there were other puppets in this castle!