Xiao Tangqiu felt a chill creeping up his tailbone. He pretended to be calm and picked up the flashlight to shine it towards the painting. However, after preparing himself mentally for a long time, he found that nothing happened.
“…How could that be?”
"Fuck! She was clearly looking at you just now!" Tang Mianmian turned around and found that the portrait had returned to normal. She was stunned. "...It changed back again. I didn't lie to you! I really didn't lie to you! Why would I lie to you? She was really looking at you just now! Just like that!"
"Okay, okay, I get it. You don't have to imitate me..." Xiao Tangqiu slapped Tang Mianmian's face away. "Isn't this normal? If nothing strange happens, how can this castle have the nerve to stay in the castle world?"
Tang Mianmian couldn't help but be curious: "...This castle is called the Devil's Castle. Is there really a demon in it?"
"There are ghosts everywhere, so isn't it normal to have demons?" Xiao Tangqiu disagreed.
"But... I always feel like demons are much more powerful than ghosts!" Tang Mianmian said tremblingly, "And isn't this an S-level mission? S-level missions are definitely much more difficult than D-level missions, right? Can't we really just team up with those veteran players? From what Su Manluo said, that Shen Yuan seems pretty awesome!"
Xiao Tangqiu was silent for a moment, then smiled helplessly: "He's a master, and we're just newbies. Why should he help us level up for nothing?"
"That's right," Tang Mianmian sighed. "Even in the real world, there aren't that many idiots. Especially in a place like this, where dangers abound, I'm lucky to be able to keep my life..."
Xiao Tangqiu smiled and said, "Let's take a break now and go out exploring after dinner."
Tang Mianmian touched her chin and said, "When are we going to the attic?"
Xiao Tangqiu's eyes darkened. "Shen Yuan and the others might make a move tonight. If they go up to the attic, we can follow them."
This decision was quite risky. The attic must be very dangerous, but if they wanted to find clues, they had no choice but to go there knowing that there was a tiger there. The two of them were just newbies and had few means of self-protection. They could only follow veteran players like Shen Yuan, but the veteran players had warned them in advance that they would not save them... Xiao Tangqiu did not expect the veteran players to save them when they encountered danger. He was not a naive person, he just wanted to find someone to share the risk - if they really encountered a fierce ghost, wouldn't the chance of him and Tang Mianmian being chased be lower with a few more people?
After a while, someone knocked on the door.
When Xiao Tangqiu opened the door, he was surprised to see a woman dressed as a servant.
The person before him was clearly a young girl in her twenties, but she was wearing a gray servant's uniform. She smiled at Xiao Tangqiu and said, "Guest, it's time for dinner."
Xiao Tangqiu was puzzled for a few seconds, but suddenly remembered the female housekeeper wearing a male butler's uniform... Could this be the personal interest of the owner of the castle?
"Okay, thank you." Xiao Tangqiu nodded to the maid and called Tang Mianmian out.
Tang Mianmian's eyes scoured the maid, then she quickly leaned over to Xiao Tangqiu's ear and said, "Fuck! Is this a man dressed as a woman... or a woman dressed as a man?"
Xiao Tangqiu was about to answer when he suddenly noticed that the candle at the door of the opposite room had gone out - and he clearly remembered that the candle opposite was still burning not long ago.
He immediately turned his head to look at the candle at the door of their room, which was burning.
Xiao Tangqiu looked at the candles at the doors of other rooms again, and then he found that the candles at the doors of the rooms in front, behind, left and right of their room were all extinguished... In this corridor, only the candles at the doors of a few rooms were not extinguished, and the doors of those rooms were half open. The next moment, those players walked out of the room, and in front of them was a maid dressed in a male servant's uniform.
He realized instantly that the candles at the doors of all the empty rooms except the one where the player was staying were extinguished.
The other players soon noticed this, too. After all, without so many candles, the already dim corridor became even more eerie. The middle-aged man complained to the maid, "Why did you extinguish so many candles? It's too dark!"
The middle-aged woman with the child also complained: "A few candles are not worth much, and it's so dark. What if someone falls?"
The maid smiled slightly: "Guest, it's time for dinner."
"I know it's dinner time. I asked you to light the candles... or do you have any lamps? You must have kerosene lamps or diesel lamps, right?" said the middle-aged man arrogantly.
The maid smiled slightly: "Guest, it's time for dinner."
The middle-aged man's expression changed: "...Is this all you can say?"
The maid smiled slightly: "Guest, it's time for dinner."
In the dim and flickering candlelight, the maid's smile seemed a little dull and wooden. The middle-aged man felt a little frightened and closed his mouth awkwardly.
Xiao Tangqiu took out a flashlight, intending to illuminate the corridor for everyone, but when the corridor became slightly brighter, everyone fell into dead silence. Not only were the maids wearing the same male servant uniforms, they also looked exactly the same, with the same facial features and the same dullness and woodenness.
This bizarre sight made them no longer dare to complain about the "hotel" they had stayed in, which was a terrible experience. Tang Mianmian was so frightened that she shrank behind Xiao Tangqiu: "This... are these N-cell babies? Mitosis? Autoreproduction?"
Xiao Tangqiu silently used the flashlight to shine on the maids' lower bodies... Of course, it was not for any obscene purpose, he simply wanted to see if these maids had feet or shadows. However, when he shone the light on the maids' knees, everyone followed the flashlight's beam and saw the movable joints on the maids' knees.
That’s right, the maid’s knees clearly had the kind of movable joints that are unique to puppets.
He silently took another look at the maid's elbow, and sure enough, it was also connected at the joint.
Everyone turned pale with fear, especially the girls. Tang Mianmian was so frightened that she quickly hid behind Xiao Tangqiu: "Fuck! I'm scared to death!"
Xiao Tangqiu raised an eyebrow: "Is it scary? Haven't you even seen ghosts?"
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