A hint of smile bloomed in Qiu Dong's eyes. He looked up at the candlelight, and he didn't know where to judge it. He stepped forward and pulled Cheng Miao downstairs.
"It's almost time for dinner."
Cheng Miao let Qiudong lead him and didn't bother to look at the road. He was sorting out possible causes of hallucinations in his mind.
Doll?
That's not right. There are dolls everywhere in the castle, and there are also dolls in the room. Xiao Yan shouldn't be the only one who got caught.
When Cheng Miao arrived at the restaurant, she had not yet sorted out the ball of wool in her mind.
What surprised the players was that because Yuko had always made excuses not to show up, everyone had always thought that Yuko might not be there, but they didn't expect that Yuko appeared during dinner today.
Yuko is the same woman as in the painting, but with a sickly look on her face.
She sat in a wheelchair and looked at everyone with a smile.
Kojima stood behind her, like a conscientious knight. He bent down and leaned into Xizi's ear to introduce everyone to her.
"This is the man I told you about who is very talented in making puppets."
Xizi looked at Lin Zhu and nodded politely, and Lin Zhu quickly returned the greeting.
"I'm sorry, everyone, I just felt a little unwell, so I couldn't greet you yesterday." Xizi said slowly while looking at everyone, her voice was hoarse and low due to illness.
"Originally, Xiaojiao suggested that I meet you all tomorrow, but that would be too rude, so now that I'm feeling better, I'll come and get to know you."
After Xizi finished speaking, she rested for a long time. Looking at her pale face, Cheng Miao was worried that she would not be able to catch her breath and faint at any time.
"Everyone, I'd better take Xizi back to the room to rest first, and you can have your meal first." Kojima couldn't stand it anymore and pushed him back to the hall.
Qi Jiajia slipped out and came back after a while and said softly, "He carried the person up the stairs and put the wheelchair in the living room. He did it very skillfully."
Cheng Miao nodded. Xizi seemed fine. She was indeed sick all year round. The two wheelchairs upstairs and downstairs showed that the couple were used to this way of traveling.
What is the problem? Cheng Miao was running around while eating. Could it be a problem with the house?
Something is wrong with the castle itself?
Xiao Yan was no longer in the mood to eat. He sat wilfully on the chair. Brother Lu wanted to comfort him, but couldn't.
After eating, Cheng Miao looked at Brother Lu and Xiao Yan who were sitting in the living room, wondering whether they should go back to their room, and sighed.
Xiao Yan rubbed the red corners of his eyes and said, "Lao Lu, you go back and rest, I'm here alone."
The corners of Brother Lu's eyes were also a little bitter, "We were good brothers before, and I will never leave you alone."
Cheng Miao sighed, "Otherwise you would be in the living room, but if something happens, it may not change because of where you are."
After looking at the furnishings in the living room, Cheng Miao added, "It's better to cover up the paintings. It's best to rest in the middle of the living room, away from places where fires may start, and extinguish all the candles."
Brother Lu nodded and expressed his gratitude to Cheng Miao.
The players returned to their rooms in twos and threes. Cheng Miao took one last look at the two people blowing out candles in the living room and closed the door.
After lying there for a while, Cheng Miao couldn't sleep. She tossed and turned and felt that there was a dent in the side of the bed, as if she had become a human being.
The hairs all over his body stood up. Before Cheng Miao could react, he heard Qiudong's cold voice ringing in his ears, "Can't you sleep?"
Cheng Miao breathed a sigh of relief. She turned around and looked at Qiudong's blue eyes in the darkness, "Do you think they can survive it?"
Qiudong simply got into Cheng Miao's bed, lay down outside the quilt, leaned against the bed and looked down at Cheng Miao, "Do you think they will have props like Qi Jiajia's hairpin or your lantern?"
Cheng Miao thought about Xiao Yan's face ashen and Brother Lu's sweating profusely, "I guess... not."
Qiu Dong closed his eyes, "That's very suspenseful."
Cheng Miao's chest was filled with breath, and when he closed his eyes, he saw the strange painting. Just as he was about to sit up, he heard Qiu Dong humming a tune next to him.
The tune was soft and clean, something Cheng Miao had never heard before. Miraculously, Cheng Miao's heart gradually calmed down while listening to this unknown piece of music.
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"Brother, I don't want to be burned to death." Xiao Yan sat on the smooth marble floor in the middle of the living room, crying.
Brother Lu gritted his teeth and said, "I have a water polo in my prop, which allows people to stay in the water polo to avoid danger for one minute. It will really start to burn later. You must be patient and enter the prop."
The despair in Xiao Yan's eyes dissipated a little. He nodded seriously and sat where he was without moving.
Brother Lu couldn't sleep, so he stood up and walked around in circles not far from Xiao Yan.
The curtains were not drawn in the living room for fear that the curtains would be flammable, so the curtains on both sides were pulled to the wall and tied up.
Brother Lu walked to the window and looked outside. It was pitch black and he couldn't see what was hidden in the darkness.
Brother Lu got addicted to cigarettes. He touched his pockets and endured it again because he was afraid of catching fire.
Suddenly he saw a place on the glass reflecting light, shining brightly.
He looked back and saw, wow, it was a doll lying on the ground.
The doll's eyes were made of glass beads, which reflected light on the glass of the window.
Brother Lu walked over and took a look. He was sure it was just an ordinary doll and ignored it.
Suddenly, he saw someone sneaking into the hall in the darkness. Xiao Yan was sitting there dozing off and didn't notice it, but he saw there was a light on the person's fingertips.
It turned out that someone set the fire!
Brother Lu stared and rushed forward, but the next second he hit the wall.
"Hiss", Brother Lu didn't care to look at the bruises on his body, because the dark figure who stepped aside took out a dagger with a cold light from his pocket and waved it at him fiercely.
Brother Lu dodged sideways to avoid the fatal blow, and then struggled with the black shadow that rushed towards him.
Finally he grabbed the knife in the black shadow's hand. Between life and death, he couldn't think too much, and he couldn't think about how to find clues after the person died.
His survival instinct made him pick up the knife he grabbed and stabbed it into the black shadow's chest with his backhand.
"Pfft", the sound of blood erupting from the knife inserted into the human body.
Brother Lu was worried and stabbed him a few more times. Finally, the black shadow fell to the ground motionless.
Brother Lu breathed a long sigh of relief and turned back to confirm Xiao Yan's safety.
Turning his head, Xiao Yan who was sitting on the ground disappeared.
Brother Lu shouted softly a few times, but no one responded. He looked around twice and didn't see a single ghost.
He walked back to the black shadow's body and kicked it twice in anger. Where did this little bastard go?
Don’t you know it’s dangerous now?
Forget it, let's see who set the fire first.
Brother Lu knelt down and turned the body over. He met Xiao Yan's unbelievable, twisted and stiff face.
How...how could it be!
Brother Lu fell to the ground and moved back with his hands on the ground. What he killed... was Xiao Yan!
how come!
Suddenly, his retreating body hit something cold.
He felt someone hugging him from behind, as if he was thrown into an ice cellar, and the coldness soaked through his whole body in an instant.
He turned his head and faced a head with long black hair stretched out next to his head. A pair of big blood-red eyes that seemed to fall out of their sockets were staring at him motionless.
