Xiao Tangqiu turned around and found Shen Yuan in the crowd. He walked towards him and tried to find a topic to start a conversation: "How did you sleep last night?"
Shen Yuan glanced at him indifferently. Just when Xiao Tangqiu thought his question was too abrupt, Shen Yuan replied, "Not bad."
Xiao Tangqiu laughed dryly: "I slept well too."
Shen Yuan said calmly: "Let's go and have breakfast."
It was obvious that he was not just talking to Xiao Tangqiu. Duan Hongzhen and the other two girls turned around and left. Xiao Tangqiu also hurriedly pulled Tang Mianmian to chase after them.
When everyone arrived at the lobby on the first floor, there was still no one in the hall, but breakfast had been prepared and was still hot. The number of breakfast portions was just right for the number of people, neither too many nor too few.
"Where did the people in the castle go? Where are the housekeeper and the maids?" Tang Mianmian asked Xiao Tangqiu in confusion, "Has it been several days since we last saw anyone in this castle?"
Xiao Tangqiu nodded: "Yes, we haven't seen anyone in the castle...including Lepnobert."
Everyone sat down at the dining table and began to eat the breakfast that someone had prepared for them.
While eating breakfast, Xiao Tangqiu quietly observed the other people at the table. Most of them looked normal, except for the young man and the middle-aged man, who hardly touched the breakfast and only ate a small amount, perhaps because they felt guilty.
After breakfast, Shen Yuan stood up from the dining table, followed by Duan Hongzhen and others. Xiao Tangqiu then pulled Tang Mianmian to follow. The little boy hesitated for a moment and followed. The group walked to the front door, ready to return to the underground secret room through the secret passage behind the sculpture.
Just as Duan Hongzhen pushed open the gate of the ancient castle, the young man suddenly caught up with him: "Are you going to Dimon Town again? Take us with you!"
Duan Hongzhen raised his eyebrows: "You two together?"
"Yes! Take us with you! We want to help too!" The young man seemed to have suddenly changed his nature, becoming extremely positive and enthusiastic. "Let's work together to find a way to get out of this damn place!"
The middle-aged man also spoke up: "Many hands make light work. If we all work together, we can always find a way to leave..."
Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously felt that something was wrong, but as a temporary teammate of this team, he naturally had no right to express his opinion and could only look at Shen Yuan.
Shen Yuan seemed to notice Xiao Tangqiu's gaze. He glanced at Xiao Tangqiu indifferently, then quickly looked away. He said coldly to the two people, "I don't trust you."
The young man choked for a moment. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Duan Hongzhen: "Our boss doesn't like you. Get out of here right now, otherwise..." He was playing with the throwing knife in his hand with a smile, full of silent threats.
The young man had already witnessed Duan Hongzhen's martial arts skills, and subconsciously took a step back when he saw Shen Yuan and others preparing to leave. But when he saw Shen Yuan and others preparing to leave, he wanted to catch up with them unwillingly. However, the next second, Duan Hongzhen turned his head and looked at him with a smile, and he was immediately scared and hid back in the castle.
"Tsk, you're as cowardly as a mouse," Duan Hongzhen turned his head to look at Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian, and said with a grin, "You two are really brave and thick-skinned."
Xiao Tangqiu: "..." Is this a compliment?
After getting rid of the two men, they found the secret passage behind the statue again and returned to the underground corridor along the secret passage.
Although it was daytime, the underground corridor was still shrouded in darkness without a trace of light. Xiao Tangqiu took out a flashlight and illuminated everyone - he seemed to have become the professional lighting engineer of this temporary team.
Shen Yuan solemnly warned everyone: "Be careful."
Thinking of the dwarf puppet he encountered yesterday, Xiao Tangqiu immediately became alert. Thinking that they seemed to be getting closer and closer to the truth, he suddenly became excited and thrilled.
Everyone slowly approached the underground secret room, being very careful along the way. However, to their surprise, nothing happened along the way, no problems or accidents. Everything went very smoothly and peacefully.
...It was a little abnormally calm.
Everything is like the last calm before the storm.
A moment later, they returned to the secret room door that had not been opened yesterday. They finally encountered the first difficulty of the day - the door was locked. No matter how Xiao Tangqiu twisted the door handle, it remained motionless.
Xiao Tangqiu asked Tang Mianmian, who was stronger, to try again, but it was still in vain.
"No, I can't open it."
Duan Hongzhen raised his eyebrows: "Let me do it."
Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian quickly stepped back, only to see Duan Hongzhen take a step forward with his back to them. Before they could even see what Duan Hongzhen did, the door was opened the next second.
Xiao Tangqiu had witnessed Duan Hongzhen's lock-picking skills before, so he was not too surprised. Shen Yuan and others looked calm, obviously they were used to it. Tang Mianmian originally wanted to scream, but seeing that everyone reacted calmly, he didn't want to appear too surprised, so he could only swallow his exclamation silently.
Duan Hongzhen pushed the door open and walked in, followed by the others.
When Xiao Tangqiu took in the secret room, he was shocked—this underground secret room was completely filled with mirrors! From the walls to the floor, from the floor to the ceiling, every inch of the room was filled with mirrors of all sizes!
Mirrors of different materials and sizes divided their images into countless small pieces. At first glance, it seemed that there were thousands of them standing in the room. When Xiao Tangqiu looked at Xiao Tangqiu in the mirror, Xiao Tangqiu in the mirror was also looking at him.
Xiao Tangqiu instantly felt a chill running up his tailbone, and Tang Mianmian couldn't help but get angry: "Fuck! I'm having intensive phobia!"
"No wonder there isn't even a single mirror in this castle," Xiao Tangqiu laughed dryly. "It turns out that Lepnobert moved all the mirrors to this underground secret room."
Tang Mianmian: "...Does this guy have a mirror collecting habit? Every time he comes to this secret room, he sees so many mirrors and so many reflections of himself. Isn't it creepy?"
Xiao Tangqiu looked at the countless reflections of himself in the countless mirrors in the room, and suddenly a surprising idea came to his mind. He turned to Tang Mianmian and asked, "Do you remember the Narcissus complex I mentioned earlier?"
Tang Mianmian blinked: "I remember, what's wrong?"
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