"What is this?" The middle-aged man came over curiously, his small eyes greedily looking at the hemostatic agent in Xiao Tangqiu's hand.
Xiao Tangqiu immediately stuffed the hemostatic agent back into his pocket. It was his first time using a hemostatic agent, but he didn't expect it to be so easy to use. It worked instantly. Even in the real world, it was a treasure, let alone a mission world full of dangers. Now he was in trouble. He would be guilty of possessing a treasure!
He acted nonchalantly, "It's nothing. As long as we can get out of this place, there are plenty of things like this out there."
"You mean... besides this magical medicine, there are many other treasures out there?" The middle-aged man's eyes suddenly revealed an increasingly greedy emotion.
Xiao Tangqiu ignored the middle-aged man. He looked at the short and thin man and was about to ask what had just happened when the short and thin man suddenly rushed towards him, knelt down in front of him with a plop, and hugged his thighs: "Brother! Brother, the miracle doctor! Save me! Please save me! Please help me put my hand back! My hand is very important! I rely on my hand to make a living! I will starve to death without my hand!"
Xiao Tangqiu frowned and tried to move away, but the man, though short and thin, was incredibly strong, holding onto his legs tightly. He couldn't break free at all, so he could only helplessly say, "I'm not some miracle doctor. I don't know how to treat illnesses. I can't save you."
"No! You must save me!" The man was very emotional. "My hand is very important! You must help me put it back! Otherwise I won't let go! This place is so dangerous, I will definitely die here without my hand! I won't let go if you don't help me, let's die here together!"
Xiao Tangqiu was so angry that his chest felt stuffy. He didn't expect that he helped this guy to stop the bleeding with good intentions, but this guy took advantage of it and repaid his kindness with resentment. This is simply the story of the farmer and the snake!
"Why are you like this!" Tang Mianmian was also angry. He rushed forward to help Xiao Tangqiu pull the man away, but the man seemed to be determined to continue to cheat. He actually lay on the ground and hugged Xiao Tangqiu's feet tightly. Tang Mianmian pulled him hard, but he dodged left and right, as slippery as a loach.
The other new players watched the excitement from the sidelines, clearly gloating over the fact that the two "veteran players" Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian had been humiliated. The middle-aged man even said in a cold tone, "Just help him. When disaster strikes, we all have to help each other!"
At this moment, a young woman who looked like a white-collar worker said in a panic, "Just now... I seemed to see..."
"What did you see?" the middle-aged man asked disapprovingly.
The female office worker was trembling all over. Her face was pale as she said, "Just now when we were looking for something... I saw him... pick up the puppet on that cabinet over there... and then steal the golden axe from the puppet's hand..."
"Then... I saw the puppet sneer... I was startled... Then the man suddenly fell... and his hand was broken... It must have been chopped off by the golden axe!"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" the middle-aged man immediately retorted, "How big can the axe in a puppet's hand be? How could it possibly chop off a person's hand?"
"But I saw it! The puppet clearly sneered!" The female office worker was very emotional. "I was scared to death! Then the man's hand was broken. How could it be such a coincidence! The golden axe must still be in his hand! If you don't believe me, just pry his hand open and see!"
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. They certainly didn't believe that such a mysterious thing could happen. But Tang Mianmian, who had been busy working for a long time, heard this and immediately grabbed the man's hand, trying hard to pry his fingers apart.
The man struggled violently, but in the end Tang Mianmian managed to pry open a crack.
A small object fell out from between his fingers.
The thing was only the size of a little finger, and it was actually a delicate and small golden axe with blood stains.
The female office worker was very excited: "Look! He was punished because he stole other people's things!"
Xiao Tangqiu raised his head and looked around, and sure enough, he saw a puppet on a cabinet not far away. It was also a crudely made puppet, but it seemed to be more refined than the previous one. He didn't know if the maker's craftsmanship had improved.
The puppet looks like a little girl with two pigtails and a cute little skirt. Its face is more delicate than the previous puppet, with two blue stones in its eyes, which makes it more lifelike and vivid. It glows faintly under the flickering candlelight. Overall, it is as weird as the previous puppet.
The others also noticed the puppet. The middle-aged man took a few looks at it and then laughed at the female office worker: "This little doll is obviously a girl. How could she be holding an axe? Are you seeing things?"
"I'm not seeing things! When I entered the room just now, I clearly saw her holding an axe!" the female white-collar worker retorted.
"How could this little girl, wearing a skirt, possibly hold an axe? How could someone design such a bizarre figure?" the elite-looking man chimed in. "And look at her hands. There's no hole for an axe."
When everyone looked, they found that it was true. The puppet's hands were hanging naturally, and it was not holding anything at all.
"How is that possible?" the female office worker retorted excitedly, "But I clearly saw her holding an axe before! The axe was clearly in her hand just now!"
"How dare you, a slut, frame me!" The short, thin man glared at the female office worker fiercely, his eyes flashing with murderous intent. "I didn't steal anything! This golden axe is my family heirloom! Are you trying to frame me and steal my heirloom?"
"You!" The female white-collar worker was speechless and her face turned red with anger.
At this moment, Xiao Tangqiu suddenly noticed something and frowned: "Wait a minute... look at the shoes of this puppet!"
"What's wrong with the shoes?" The middle-aged man curled his lips in disapproval.
Tang Mianmian came over to take a look, and her face suddenly changed: "Blood! It's blood!"
The puppet was wearing a pair of red leather shoes. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't see anything. But after Xiao Tangqiu looked carefully, he found that there seemed to be several marks of varying depths on the red leather shoes.
"How is that possible? Wasn't the paint applied evenly?" The middle-aged man wiped it with his hand disapprovingly, and then he was stunned. There were a few drops of blood on his fingertips!
"The bloodstains haven't dried yet, which means they were freshly applied." Xiao Tangqiu looked up at the short, thin man. "You're the only one bleeding in this room. Do you want to explain why your blood is there?"
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