Chapter 42.1 (1/2)

Sure enough, in the next second, another wave of puppets rushed into the room – it was the housekeeper and the maids they had seen in the castle before.

The housekeeper, Rosetta, looked at them coldly. It was the only servant with a name in the whole castle, and it was also the puppet which most resembled a human being.

The housekeeper stood expressionless at the door, followed by a large army of stiff-faced maid puppets.

“Guests, this isn’t a place where you should be.”

“We’re sorry, we’re sorry. We went the wrong way. We’ll leave right now…” Tang Mianmian laughed dryly in an attempt to make a joke, but at this time, obviously no one found it funny.

“Since you’re here, then you might as well stay.” The housekeeper looked at them coldly. At its command, the puppet army descended upon them.

The puppet army, coupled with four vanguard soldiers, looked menacing. All of a sudden, they were surrounded. Shen Yuan and the others didn’t dare to damage the puppet and found it hard to fight them. Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian, these two battle slags, were doing their best not to drag everyone else’s feet.

Tang Mianmian was still fine. After all, he had good physical stamina and great strength but Xiao Tangqiu was struggling to cope.

He was originally a weak geek and a useless fighter. On top of that, his physical strength wasn’t very good. He was soon out of breath.

He dodged left and right for a bit, but was suddenly bundled into a rice dumpling by a mass of hair and hung upside down in mid-air.

Xiao Tangqiu, “……”

Why him?!

Why him again!

Xiao Tangqiu floundered in the air a few times, looked up, and saw that it was the long-haired monster.

The monster was lying on the ceiling in a strange posture. Although half of its puppet body had been exposed, it still had half of its hair left. Using all its hair, it finally managed to catch Xiao Tangqiu again.

It looked at Xiao Tangqiu bitterly and seemed to want to tear Xiao Tangqiu violently into pieces. Xiao Tangqiu struggled, but his efforts were in vain.

Duan Hongzhen raised his head and tutted, “Why is it you again?”

Xiao Tangqiu, “……I would like to know why as well!”

Duan Hongzhen raised his hand to shoot out a flying knife but he didn’t dare to damage the puppet directly, so he deliberately aimed it a little askew. But when the flying knife brushed the long-haired monster’s body and plunged into the ceiling, the monster didn’t loosen its prey. Instead, it gave Xiao Tangqiu a resentful look and suddenly dragged him towards the studio at the other end of the room.

“Qiuqiu!”

While Tang Mianmian was still screaming repeatedly, the monster crashed violently into the mirror in the studio, and Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously closed his eyes.

However, the loud crash of broken glass that he had imagined didn’t come. There was only a cold draft of air.

When he opened his eyes again, he found that he had left the secret chamber!

Xiao Tangqiu stared in disbelief. Under the dim lighting, he finally saw the situation in front of him.

Behind the mirror in the secret chamber was another secret passage!

This was a dark and damp passage, so long that it seemed to have no end. The long-haired monster crawled along the ceiling of the secret passage in a weird posture, dragging Xiao Tangqiu, who was still dangling mid-air, towards the front.

The monster was just like a giant spider. After catching its prey with spider silk, it was going back to its nest.

Did spiders have nests?

Xiao Tangqiu didn’t know the answer to that, but he knew that the monster was taking him to his lair right now. That place was definitely hell for him and he would most likely die there.

He struggled violently, almost exhausting all his strength. He knew that if he didn’t escape now, he probably wouldn’t have a chance to return alive again.

However, the hair, which looked like ordinary human hair, was actually as tough as a steel wire. Xiao Tangqiu’s violent struggle had no effect but only served to further infuriate the monster.

It screamed angrily at Xiao Tangqiu, dragging him along the wall of the secret passage. As Xiao Tangqiu’s head suddenly hit the wall, his vision turned blurry and he started to see stars.

But the monster didn’t seem satisfied with just that. It continued to smash its prey against the wall several times.

The poor prey finally blacked out.

When Xiao Tangqiu woke up and opened his eyes again, he suddenly found a huge serpent in front of him. The serpent was many times larger than a human being. Its huge head was like a hill, which made anyone who looked at it break out in cold sweat. It looked at him from a high position. The peculiar vertical pupils of the snake stared at him coldly and ruthlessly. It seemed to be filled with killing intent that was directed at its prey but also appeared to look down on everything else with condescension.

The serpent’s mouth was biting its own tail. Its huge body stretched for thousands of miles, coiled like a mountain, while Xiao Tangqiu stood in the space where its body twisted and turned, like a grain of sand in the desert or a drop of water in the ocean.

Was this the serpent of the world, Ouroboros?

Xiao Tangqiu’s heart was filled with fear and horror, but he felt uncontrollably attracted to the huge and mysterious serpent. This giant undying serpent, which symbolized immortality, was so mysterious, so powerful and full of deadly beauty…