Xiao Tangqiu walked to the easel and took a look. On the easel was an unfinished portrait of Lili Marlene, which was only half finished. The floor was covered with completed portraits of Lili Marlene. The Lili Marlene in the paintings had different clothes, postures and expressions, but the skirts they wore were exactly the same as the skirts in the bedroom closet on the right!

On the other side, Tang Mianmian couldn't wait to search the bedroom, and soon he found a women's wig from an exquisite little box!

"Fuck!"

Xiao Tangqiu hurriedly walked towards Tang Mianmian: "What's wrong?"

"Fuck! A wig! This, this, this... look for yourself!" Tang Mianmian couldn't close her mouth.

In addition to the wig, he also found many other things in the exquisite little box, all of which were used for disguise!

Xiao Tangqiu rummaged through the jewelry and suddenly found a pocket watch among the jewelry. He immediately picked it up.

The name Lepnobet is engraved on the front of the pocket watch.

Xiao Tangqiu opened the pocket watch and saw that there was indeed an old photo on the back of the cover. The photo clearly showed the young Lepnobet. The handsome boy with a delicate appearance was looking at the camera expressionlessly, holding an ugly puppet in his arms - that puppet was the dwarf puppet they had seen before.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that the place where the photos were placed was actually a flip cover. He turned the cover over and saw a photo of Lili Marlene on the back.

Unlike other portraits of Lili Marlene, the "Lili Marlene" in this photo looks particularly young, and "Lili Marlene" is also holding the ugly dwarf puppet in her arms.

Xiao Tangqiu understood something instantly. He turned the pocket watch over and, as expected, there was a name engraved on the back of the watch.

Lili Marlene.

Lepnobet - Lili Marlene.

Xiao Tangqiu understood everything instantly, and Tang Mianmian beside him hurriedly asked, "How is it? What did you see?"

Xiao Tangqiu directly handed the pocket watch to Tang Mianmian, who quickly discovered the secret behind the watch: "...Is Lapnobet really Lilimarlene? Lilimarlene is Lapnobet?"

Xiao Tangqiu nodded: "To be precise, the 'Lili Marlene' in the castle is Lepnobert. All the portraits of Lili Marlene, including the Virgin Fountain statue... should have been created by Lepnobert based on his own appearance." All the portraits in the castle should have been painted by him looking at himself in the mirror.

Tang Mianmian didn't know how to complain for a moment: "Isn't this guy too narcissistic?"

Xiao Tangqiu smiled and said, "Perhaps the person he fell in love with wasn't himself, but the 'Lili Marlene' he saw in the mirror. He really treated 'Lili Marlene' as a living person. He fell in love with her and spent his entire life chasing after her figure..."

"So the two wives he later married were actually his own stand-ins?" Tang Mianmian's mouth twitched. "I love you, but you love yourself. I thought I was a stand-in for your first love, but in fact I am a stand-in for yourself?"

"After all, Lili Marlene doesn't actually exist. The woman he fell in love with was always a fantasy woman. He painted so many pictures of his fantasy Lili Marlene, turned his mother, wife, and daughter into puppets for her, and even killed the entire town of Dimon for her... But in the end, we find out that Lili Marlene doesn't even exist?"

Xiao Tangqiu was about to say something when a shrill scream suddenly rang out.

He immediately covered his ears tightly and looked back. Sure enough, it was that dwarf puppet again! It had appeared here silently at some point, looking at them with resentment.

The next second, it started beating the drum. As the strange drum sound rang out, Xiao Tangqiu lost control of his body and rushed towards Tang Mianmian uncontrollably, grabbing Tang Mianmian's neck, and Tang Mianmian also reached out and grabbed his neck.

Although both of them looked struggling and reluctant, they were ruthless in their actions. Just when Xiao Tangqiu was almost strangled to death by Tang Mianmian, Duan Hongzhen on the side finally took action. He threw a flying knife at the dwarf puppet.

The flying knife grazed the heads of the dwarf puppets. Although he did not directly damage the puppets, the dwarf puppets were still forced to stop moving by his flying knife.

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian finally got a chance to catch their breath and quickly separated. At this moment, the pocket watch in Tang Mianmian's hand fell to the ground with a "click".

As soon as the dwarf puppet saw the pocket watch, it became furious and screamed at Tang Mianmian. Tang Mianmian didn't have time to cover her ears, and the sound waves immediately caused her eardrums to bleed, and blood flowed down her earlobes.

Xiao Tangqiu understood something instantly. He ignored the dwarf puppet's screams and rushed towards the pocket watch. He picked it up, raised it high above his head, and was about to throw it to the ground: "If you scream again, I will smash it to pieces!"

The dwarf puppet seemed to understand what he said and actually stopped screaming. It just looked at him with anger and resentment.

Before Xiao Tangqiu could breathe a sigh of relief, a large group of firebirds suddenly appeared in front of him - to be more precise, a large group of puppet birds with flames burning on their bodies - they pounced towards him fiercely, with a surging momentum that swallowed everything.

Wherever they went, even the air seemed to burn. Xiao Tangqiu immediately pushed Tang Mianmian away, rolled on the ground and hid to the side.

Although Xiao Tangqiu dodged in time, he was still burned several times by the sparks from the group of puppet birds, and several small holes were burned through his clothes. Before he could feel sorry for the clothes Shen Yuan gave him, the group of puppet birds quickly turned in mid-air and pounced on him again.

Even though he knew all this was probably because of the pocket watch in his hand, Xiao Tangqiu couldn't help but wail in his heart. Why did these puppet birds only chase him? Did he think he was the easiest to bully? In this world, even birds know how to pick on the weak and fear the strong!

Xiao Tangqiu dodged and jumped around in a panic, but there were too many puppet birds. He had nowhere to hide. Soon he retreated to a corner, with no place to hide or retreat, while the group of puppet birds attacked him head-on with great momentum.

Just when he was desperately trying to close his eyes, a figure suddenly stood in front of him.

Xiao Tangqiu's eyes widened instantly. Shen Yuan suddenly appeared in front of him and blocked the head-on attack from the large group of puppet birds for him.

When the group of burning puppet birds hit Shen Yuan, a magical thing happened. Not only was Shen Yuan not burned by the flames on the puppet birds, but the flames on the puppet birds were extinguished instantly!