Xiao Tangqiu stared at the scene in amazement. The moment the puppet disappeared, the hair naturally disappeared as well. Tang Mianmian fell to the ground with a "bang", and her head hit the ground with the back of her head.
"Oh shit! It hurts so much!"
Lu Si'er asked blankly: "Just now...what happened just now?"
"Oh shit! I have a concussion! I'm going to lose my memory!" Tang Mianmian wailed as she scrambled to her feet from the ground. "...Oh shit! What's stabbing me?"
Xiao Tangqiu hurried to help Tang Mianmian: "Are you okay?"
"What pricked me... It was so prickly!" Tang Mianmian picked up something from the ground. Xiao Tangqiu leaned over to take a look and found that it was a European classical pocket watch. It looked very delicate, with pointed relief decorations on the outer shell. That was probably the reason why it was prickly.
"Is this a pocket watch?" Lu Si'er, still in shock, studied it for a while and seemed to recall something. "It seems to have fallen out of the broken pillow when you hit the puppet with it just now."
Tang Mianmian suddenly realized: "No wonder I seemed to hear something fall out of the pillow at that time, with a thud! I didn't pay much attention to it at that time..."
"Could this be Maria's thing? But why did she hide the pocket watch in the pillow..." Xiao Tangqiu took the pocket watch and looked at it, then opened the lid of the pocket watch. The pocket watch consists of two parts. The lower part is where you can read the time, and the upper part is where you can stick a photo - there is a small portrait of a person on it.
"It can't possibly be Lepnobert's stuff," Tang Mianmian analyzed, stroking his chin. "There's no reason for him to hide his stuff under the pillow in Maria's room, right?"
Xiao Tangqiu took a closer look at the portrait and was stunned. There was no doubt that this was a black and white photo. However, no matter how you looked at it, the woman in the photo looked very similar to Lili Marlene, especially her eyes.
If this woman is Maria... then is her resemblance to Lili Marlene just a coincidence, or was it someone's intention?
Tang Mianmian also came over and immediately noticed that the portrait of the person on the pocket watch was very similar to the portrait of Lili Marlene: "Why does this Maria look so much like Lili Marlene? Are they sisters or relatives?"
"Judging from Lepnobet's letter, it shouldn't be that," Lu Si'er shook her head and denied it. "It's probably just a simple resemblance."
"It seems that Lepnobet really has feelings for Lilimarlene. Not only does he hang her portraits everywhere in his house, but he's even looking for a wife who looks like her. This must be true love!" Tang Mianmian sighed. "I didn't expect that guy, who looks so weird, to be so infatuated. You can't judge a person by their appearance."
Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly: "This pocket watch should be some important clue or prop, you should put it away first."
Tang Mianmian didn't think too much about it and casually put the pocket watch into his trouser pocket. Xiao Tangqiu turned around and looked at the painting that fell to the ground, stroking his chin and studying it.
"By the way, what happened just now? Why did the puppet suddenly disappear?" Tang Mianmian remembered this question belatedly and asked hurriedly.
Xiao Tangqiu shook his head and pointed at Lili Marlene's painting: "I don't know either. It seems that the puppet disappeared after being hit by this painting..."
Tang Mianmian suddenly understood. "Is this the power of being the principal wife? The aura of true love? As long as I'm alive, you'll always be my concubines."
Xiao Tangqiu's mouth twitched: "I don't know, but it should be the credit of this painting."
"It seems that this painting is quite useful! Should we take it away?" Tang Mianmian asked, touching his chin.
"No need. The painting is everywhere. If we run into that puppet again, we can just take it down from the wall," Xiao Tangqiu shook his head. "Besides, it's too troublesome to carry a painting around with us. What if Lepnobet sees it and mistakes us for thieves?"
"That's right. What if Lepnobet thinks we've fallen in love with Lili Marlene too and wants to snatch his wife from him? That would be embarrassing," Tang Mianmian nodded and said seriously, "He loves his wife so much, he'll definitely kill us."
So Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian worked together to put the painting back, and then they and Lu Sier searched other corners of the room. When they found nothing else, they left the room.
"Where are we going next?" Tang Mianmian turned and asked Xiao Tangqiu. As soon as he finished speaking, a scream suddenly came from a distance.
“Ahhhhhh!”
The two of them immediately looked at each other, and then looked at Lu Sier: "Do you want to go and take a look?"
Lu Si'er was obviously scared, but she hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Let's go and see what it is!"
After the three of them reached a consensus, they turned and ran towards the source of the screams.
It was a room at the end of the corridor on the first floor. Xiao Tangqiu ran in front. When he ran to the door of the room, a strong smell of blood hit his face, accompanied by the screams that became louder and louder.
Xiao Tangqiu was shocked and quickly raised the flashlight to shine into the room. After seeing the scene in the room, he was stunned for a moment.
The room was full of new players, who were staring at the center of the room with fear on their faces. In the center of the room lay a short, skinny man. He was lying in a pool of blood, holding his hands and screaming and wailing. It seemed that the screams and the smell of blood just now came from him.
Xiao Tangqiu remembered that the short and thin man was also a new player, but he was not very noticeable in the crowd. He had not paid much attention to him before, so he did not have a deep impression of him.
"What happened?" Tang Mianmian and Lu Si'er also entered the room and asked the other people in the room when they saw this.
A young man said in horror, "No, I don't know... Didn't you tell us to look for clues? So we went looking for clues together, and we came to this room. But after searching for a long time, we found nothing. Suddenly, the guy screamed, and we turned around and saw that he had a broken hand..."
Xiao Tangqiu frowned and took a step forward. The short and thin man had his right hand broken, and the cut was very neat, as if it was cut off by a sharp weapon that could cut through iron like mud. Blood spurted out from the wound. If the bleeding was not stopped, this guy would probably lose his life. He quickly took out a hemostatic agent from his pocket.
The hemostatic agent in the vending machine was a spray. Xiao Tangqiu took the spray and sprayed it on the man's wound. The bleeding stopped immediately, but it seemed that the bleeding did not stop the pain. The man screamed for a long time before gradually stopping his wailing. He looked down and found that the wound had completely healed.
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