The young man's face immediately turned red with anger. Before he could say anything else, the middle-aged man stepped in to smooth things over: "Alright, alright, all of you, cut yourself some slack. Harmony is the most important thing in a harmonious society. We'll still be together for several days, and ruining relations won't be good for anyone. Don't be too angry, young man. Even though the boy saw it, it doesn't necessarily mean it was real... What if he saw it in a dream? Hahaha!"

He laughed a few times, thinking it was humorous. The young man snorted and turned his head away fiercely. Xiao Tangqiu sat down with an expressionless face and continued to eat breakfast.

The breakfast was already on the table when they arrived at the restaurant. There was no maid around, and neither the master nor the housekeeper was there, but the breakfast was still steaming hot. There were soft toasted bread slices and steaming corn soup. The hungry players certainly would not refuse such a hot breakfast.

Xiao Tangqiu drank his corn soup expressionlessly as he listened to the middle-aged man make the final decision: "After breakfast, let's go up and take a look! We'll check each room one by one and find out whether those three players are alive or dead!"

After everyone finished breakfast, they returned to the second floor. To Xiao Tangqiu's surprise, Shen Yuan and his group also came. He originally thought that these old players would act separately from them, the newbies.

However, Shen Yuan and the others obviously did not intend to explain anything. They just followed the team at a close distance. When they saw Shen Yuan and his group coming, several other old players also followed.

The newbies, led by the middle-aged man, searched room by room. Xiao Tangqiu took the opportunity to look at the structures of other rooms. He soon found that all the guest rooms on the second floor seemed to have the same structure, except that the portrait of Lili Marlene was placed in different positions - the position of the painting was different in different rooms. In some rooms, the painting was hung right at the head of the bed, which was creepy when sleeping at night.

Xiao Tangqiu originally wanted to follow and see if they could find any plot-related clues from the empty rooms, but they searched several rooms and found nothing. Of course, they also didn't find the three missing players.

At this moment, someone suddenly spoke hesitantly: "It seems that there is one candle missing..."

"What candle? What does it mean?" someone asked in confusion.

"The candles at the door..." the man explained in a trembling voice, "I've observed before that all the rooms where people live have candles at their doorsteps, so I counted them specifically. But I counted them again just now, and it seems there's one missing."

"Maybe you remembered it wrongly? There are always only this few candles?" someone questioned.

"No!" the man exclaimed excitedly, "There were only a few candles in total. How could I have been wrong? I was just missing one!"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. If all the rooms had candles at their doorsteps, and one candle was missing, it meant that the candle at the doorstep of one of the rooms had gone out or been taken away...

"Yes, I saw it," Xiao Tangqiu said coldly, "The candle at the door of the man's room went out, and then the puppet appeared and killed him."

The newbies immediately panicked: "If the candle goes out, the puppet will come and kill people? If the candle goes out, it means death? What if our candle is blown out by the wind?"

"No, it was that guy who did the bad thing! He deserves it!"

Everyone was talking and looking at the candles flickering at the door of the room, fear in their eyes.

"So, there shouldn't be a candle by the door of that man's room," the middle-aged man emphasized, silencing the others. "What about the other two people? Since only one candle was extinguished, that means the candles by the doorways of those two people's rooms must still be there. What candles represent death? Stop scaring yourselves!"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. No one spoke for a moment. At this moment, Xiao Tangqiu spoke again: "I remember the location of that man's room. Do you want to go directly to his room and take a look?"

Someone immediately complained: "Why didn't you tell us earlier? We searched for so many rooms for nothing!"

Xiao Tangqiu glanced at the man coldly, and the man immediately withdrew his dissatisfied gaze.

He turned and walked straight towards the man's room. Everyone looked at each other, and finally followed him.

He found the room he had been in last night by memory, took a deep breath, mustered up the courage to push the door open.

The door opened, but nothing happened.

Just as Xiao Tangqiu was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a strong smell of blood hit her in the face. Several girls in the team suddenly turned pale and looked like they wanted to vomit.

His face didn't look good either, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and drag Tang Mianmian into the room. Although Tang Mianmian looked resistant, she had no choice but to pinch her nose and follow Xiao Tangqiu.

The man's room had turned into a sea of blood. The entire room was blood-red. Not only was the floor covered with coagulated dark red blood, but even the walls were stained with bloodstains. There seemed to be some white brain matter and some other suspicious liquids... Xiao Tangqiu did not intend to analyze it carefully.

Xiao Tangqiu gritted his teeth and dragged Tang Mianmian to look for the man's body. However, they found nothing, not only in the room, but also in the bathroom. Apart from bloodstains all over the room, the man seemed to have left nothing behind.

"Where's the body?" the middle-aged man also asked in confusion, "The person is dead, and the body is missing?"

The white-collar woman couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that the man is still alive?"

The interviewer scoffed, "He's bleeding like this, he's definitely not going to survive. He's probably dead!"

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian searched the bed and the wardrobe, but found nothing. However, they did find a few wallets and a bunch of shiny women's jewelry.

The middle-aged man looked at one of the bulging wallets and was stunned for a moment. He subconsciously touched his pockets, and then his face changed instantly and he started cursing: "That son of a bitch actually stole from me! Fortunately he is dead, otherwise I would definitely kill him! Damn it!"

"I was wondering why my necklace was missing! Turns out he stole it!" The white-collar woman picked up a silver necklace from the pile of jewelry and started cursing.

The remaining wallets and jewelry have not been claimed yet, and no one knows where the thief stole them. Xiao Tangqiu looked around casually, but suddenly noticed a brass pocket watch hidden in the pile of shiny jewelry.