"The noise from smashing the wall is so loud, what if other people hear it?" Xiao Tangqiu frowned slightly. "We should look for a mechanism or a secret passage leading into the secret room."
"A mechanism? Yes! This kind of secret room must have a mechanism!" Tang Mianmian's eyes lit up. "It should be a decoration like a vase, right? Let's look for it!"
However, after searching the attic, they found nothing resembling a mechanism except some miscellaneous scraps of wood. So Xiao Tangqiu focused on the painting again: "...Could the key still be this painting? Could it be that we moved the frame incorrectly? If we move the frame correctly, will the secret room behind the painting automatically open?"
Tang Mianmian's eyes lit up: "That seems to make sense. Should we hang the painting back?"
At that moment, the cold girl suddenly opened her eyes and said coldly, "No need. I just checked. This secret room does not have any secret passages or entrances. It is a completely sealed and enclosed space."
"See? How do you see?" Tang Mianmian widened her eyes in surprise.
She glanced at Tang Mianmian coldly: "This is my ability, I don't need to tell you."
Tang Mianmian then realized that they were just a temporary team and that their teammates had very little trust in them, so she silently shut up.
Xiao Tangqiu was silent for a moment before he spoke: "A completely enclosed space? Then the only way for us to get in is to break through violently?"
The man in the windbreaker smiled and said, "Of course there are other ways...but it depends on what the boss thinks. What do you think?"
Shen Yuan stared at the wall and nodded expressionlessly.
The man in the windbreaker took out a scalpel with a smile, turned around and started scratching at the wall.
Xiao Tangqiu watched helplessly as the man in the windbreaker used a scalpel to carve out a mark of a door on the wall. The next second, a door that was big enough for one person to pass through actually appeared on the wall!
Xiao Tangqiu was stunned: "How...how did they do this?"
The man in the windbreaker raised a finger to his lips and said with a grin, "Personal ability, confidential."
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Although Xiao Tangqiu was extremely curious, he could only swallow the question silently after hearing this. He couldn't afford to be hurt by the low friendship among his teammates.
Behind the wall was a pitch-black space, without any light, deep and dark. At first glance, it looked like a bottomless abyss, which was frightening.
"Come in."
After Shen Yuan said this, he took the lead and walked towards the space behind the wall. Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian looked at each other, and followed with fear and excitement.
As soon as Xiao Tangqiu walked through the "door" on the wall, he smelled a strange and unpleasant smell. The air inside had obviously been blocked for too long and could not flow, so the smell was weird and suffocating.
"Cough, cough!" Tang Mianmian was also choked by the turbid air and coughed repeatedly. She quickly reached out to cover her mouth and nose, "What is this smell... It's so awful!"
Xiao Tangqiu pinched his nose and turned on the flashlight. The space behind the wall was not big, narrow and messy. In the middle was an old wooden table. It seemed to be a workbench, because there were many tools on it, various scissors and needles and threads, as well as leftover wood and cloth, and several half-finished puppets.
The floor behind the workbench is filled with all kinds of puppets, some of which are only half completed, while others are finished products. The puppets vary in size, including palm-sized rag dolls, half-human-high puppet dolls, and even a large doll that is one meter tall.
Tang Mianmian was amazed. "It seems that Lepnobet is really a figurine lover. With so many dolls and puppets, this old man also has a girly heart!"
Some of these dolls were crudely crafted, while others were quite delicate. Especially the several wooden puppets lying in the corner, who were as tall as a man. At first glance, their facial features looked lifelike, just like real people. However, before he could form any obscene associations, his face suddenly changed drastically: "Holy shit! That puppet moved!"
"Where?" Xiao Tangqiu immediately followed Tang Mianmian's gaze and saw a strange puppet in the corner.
The puppet slowly crawled out from the pile of puppets. Its long and messy hair hung down like weeds, and its clothes were tattered, like a rag doll that had been discarded for a long time.
But its facial features were lifelike, extremely like a real person, almost realistic to the point of being scary. In the light of the flashlight, it slowly crawled forward using its hands and feet, looking coldly at the several foreign visitors who broke into the secret room, with cold resentment and hatred in its eyes.
The puppet's crawling movements are very twisted, using both hands and feet, which looks very strange at first glance.
"Oh shit! Is that Sadako?" Tang Mianmian was so scared that she almost deformed, and she pulled Xiao Tangqiu to run away.
Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously wanted to turn around and run, but when he thought of Shen Yuan, he forced himself to suppress his fear, stood still again, grabbed Tang Mianmian, and planned to see what Shen Yuan and the others were going to do.
Compared to the rookies Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian, Shen Yuan and his group were much calmer. They were still the same as before, and Shen Yuan's expression didn't even change. He looked at the twisted and crawling puppet and said calmly, "That's not a puppet."
Not a puppet?
Xiao Tangqiu was stunned for a moment. He immediately turned his head and stared at the unidentified object carefully. Soon he discovered the difference of the "puppet" - there were no joints, only a complete and smooth skin!
"Is that a person?" he blurted out in shock, but he soon realized something was amiss. This attic chamber had clearly been sealed for a long time, and there were no other secret passages or exits. How could a living person possibly survive in a sealed, empty chamber? Even horror stories should adhere to basic principles!
Just when Xiao Tangqiu was distracted, that person - let's call it a monster - had already crawled towards them, obviously about to attack them. The next moment, the man in the windbreaker took out a yellow talisman from his pocket, stuck it on the scalpel with a "snap", and then he threw the scalpel at the monster's face.
This scene was quite incongruous. The man in the windbreaker was wearing a white windbreaker and gold-rimmed glasses. He was full of elite aura. It would have been normal for him to take out a black card from his pocket, but he took out a yellow talisman!
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