Climbing the stairs is not as easy as going down them, but fortunately they didn't encounter any strange things this time and climbed to the second floor smoothly.

The moment he climbed to the second floor, Xiao Tangqiu couldn't help but look back. The housekeeper didn't suddenly disappear like before, but was still standing there. She stared at the backs of the two men with a dim gaze and a strange smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she was looking at two prey that could not escape no matter how hard they tried.

This smile was so creepy that Xiao Tangqiu felt a chill down his spine and quickly ran a few steps faster.

Only two minutes left...

The castle was too big, the corridors were too long, and time was too tight. Xiao Tangqiu anxiously calculated the time in his mind, fearing that he would not be able to return to the room before midnight.

10……

9……

8……

…

Fortunately, in the last five seconds, Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian finally returned to their room, and the two rushed into the room.

Xiao Tangqiu was the last one to rush into the room. He quickly slammed the door shut.

His legs felt weak, and he slowly sat down with his back against the door, panting: "I've never... ever run so fast in my life..."

He almost thought he couldn't catch up. He was so scared that his brain went blank and his body seemed to have its own consciousness... Fortunately, he caught up before the last five seconds.

Tang Mianmian was better than Xiao Tangqiu, but after finally letting out a sigh of relief, he still sat down on the floor: "Is it twelve o'clock now?"

Xiao Tangqiu nodded: "I just calculated the time, it must be past twelve o'clock now."

Tang Mianmian asked in confusion, "Why does nothing seem to have happened?"

"They say you can't leave your room after midnight. I guess everyone's staying in their rooms now." Xiao Tangqiu also felt that the corridor was too quiet and too normal, which was actually a bit abnormal. "Oh, right... did you notice just now? There is a candle at the door of each of our rooms."

Tang Mianmian nodded: "I noticed, what is the meaning of those candles?"

"I don't know, but I think there is. Let's keep an eye out for it over the next few days," Xiao Tangqiu said as he turned around and leaned over the door to search for something. "I can't see what's happening in the corridor from the room, and I feel a little uneasy. I wonder if there's a peephole or something like that that can let me see outside."

"How could a big wooden door like this possibly have a peephole?" Tang Mianmian muttered, but she also started looking with Xiao Tangqiu. "But there might be a small crack or hole... Wait, isn't the gap at the bottom of the door quite wide?"

Xiao Tangqiu looked down and found that it was true. The gap under the door was about two or three fingers wide, enough for them to lie down and look out. He quickly pulled Tang Mianmian down with him.

Tang Mianmian resisted very much: "No, I don't want to see it. I don't want to know what's happening outside at all..."

Seeing that Tang Mianmian was unhappy, Xiao Tangqiu didn't force him. He lay down by himself and looked out through the crack in the door.

The corridor was dimly lit and dead silent. Everything seemed no different from during the day, yet something seemed different.

At first, Xiao Tangqiu couldn't tell what had changed, but he always felt that something was strange. After studying it for a long time, he finally found something wrong. When he looked out from under the door, the space he saw seemed to be smaller than the normal space, the corridor was much shorter, and the doors of several rooms were close together, as if the space was distorted.

He subconsciously wanted to find Shen Yuan's room, but before he could do so, he suddenly saw that the candle in front of a room door was extinguished!

After the candle went out, the room was instantly plunged into darkness.

Xiao Tangqiu was immediately shocked: "What the hell!"

"What's wrong?" Although Tang Mianmian didn't dare to lie down and watch with Xiao Tangqiu, she kept staring at Xiao Tangqiu's reaction. Seeing Xiao Tangqiu's face full of fear, she hurriedly asked nervously.

"The candles in one room went out..." Xiao Tangqiu raised his head and glanced at Tang Mianmian with a serious expression, "Could it be that the candles really have some meaning..."

Tang Mianmian was extremely nervous: "Don't worry about it for now! Just keep watching!"

Xiao Tangqiu hurriedly continued to lie down and looked out through the crack in the door. As a result, when he looked out, a chill suddenly crawled up along his tailbone - just in the few seconds when he looked up and talked to Tang Mianmian, a puppet suddenly appeared in front of the room where the candle was extinguished!

That puppet was exactly the one holding an axe that they had seen before!

The puppet no longer held the axe as before, but dragged it. While dragging the axe, which was a bit too big for its body, it slowly walked towards the door and politely reached out to knock on the door.

Even though he didn't know who was behind the door, Xiao Tangqiu still screamed frantically in his heart, "Don't open the door! Don't open the door!"

However, a few seconds later, the door opened... The thin man appeared at the door. He looked down at the puppet at the door with a look of surprise.

Soon, the man's stunned expression turned into terror. He screamed and rushed out of the room, running towards the corridor. Because of his leg injury, he stumbled and twisted as he ran, but he still tried hard to run forward, running desperately -

The puppet, dragging its axe, slowly chased after the man...

Due to the gap in the door, Xiao Tangqiu could not see what happened afterwards. He stared out blankly, his mind almost blank.

I don’t know how long it was before the puppet reappeared. It was still wearing the beautiful little skirt and holding its little axe in its hand, but now its beautiful skirt and axe were covered in blood.

It skipped toward the stairs like a normal little girl—even though it was holding a bloody axe.

You provide the game of the great god Yu Tianjun, online live broadcast. This chapter has been read to the end (please click the next chapter to continue reading!)