He moved his fingers almost subconsciously. Dozens of puppet threads snaked out and were nailed to every door on the first floor.

Squeak——

More than a dozen heart-wrenching sounds of opening the door overlapped together, and then with a "bang", it hit the wall hard.

Everyone was caught off guard and shocked!

Timid people like Sun Siqi and Xia Qiao trembled visibly at the sound of the door opening.

All spaces on the first floor have been forcibly opened.

The dark doorways were like eyes, with a dusty aura, staring at everyone faintly. When the three boys went to sniff at the same time, they shrank back and looked back uneasily. They always felt that there was something inside a certain door.

Something will pop out.

It turned out that it was Wenshi himself who sprang out something.

Just as the metal chains clanked, the black python, big enough to wrap around the entire house, appeared again.

This time the distance was extremely close, and as they passed by everyone, sparks flying from the chains flew past their scalps. It was not really fire, but everyone still protected their faces.

The black python swung its tail past, and before anyone could react, it had already patrolled all the rooms.

It moved too fast, and the moment it came back, it set off strong winds, making everyone stagger. If the puppet could reflect the mood of the puppet master, then everyone present could feel that Wen Shi was unhappy at the moment...except Wen Shi himself.

All his reactions are inertial.

The black python squatted with its tongue out, exuding a cold and chilling feeling. The bird from Dadong fluttered from a distance for a long time before daring to get closer.

Xia Qiao tentatively called out: "Brother?"

Wen Shi raised his head while holding on to the puppet string, and saw Zhou Xu and the others' suspicious and cautious eyes. He also saw his frowning eyebrows in the corridor mirror.

It was only then that he realized belatedly that he was really unhappy.

It's not the kind of pure unhappiness that comes from being provoked, but an indescribable discomfort...

It's like walking down the stairs and suddenly missing something, or losing something.

Just because Xie Wen disappeared.

This feeling is actually very strange. Because Wen Shi has been in the cage so many times, it is not uncommon for people to disappear, and he and Xie Wen have not known each other for a long time.

Maybe it was because of the long and deep corridor before. He suddenly turned around, and Xie Wen was standing at the right place.

Maybe it's because they entered the cage three times together. The cage rotates endlessly day and night, and often involves the separation of life and death. It gives people the illusion that they have known each other for a long time and have seen reincarnations several times.

Or... there are other reasons.

When he heard this, he turned his eyes and saw Lao Mao's face that was hesitant to speak.

"You were so anxious just now -" Dadong glanced over when he was heard, and his shell stopped for a moment: "No, I mean you opened so many doors at once, are you looking for someone?"

When I heard it: "Yeah."

Dadong: "Then have you found it?"

When hearing: "..."

This is fucking nonsense.

"No." The unpleasant feeling when he heard it was on his face again, "Not openly."

The puppet can track living people by following their known auras. What I don't mean explicitly is that there are no places in the cage where you can rummage directly. Currently, there are no Xie Wen or Mouse.

Xia Qiao looked worried, "What should we do?"

Dadong and the others were also a little disappointed, but compared to others, Dadong still had more experience. He glanced at Wen Shi and comforted him: "There is no need to pessimize so early. In fact, as long as the cage can be released in the end,

, they can all come out.”

This is clear when you smell it.

When encountering this kind of situation before, he was always the calmest one, but he didn't expect that one day he would be reminded by such a frivolous person as Dadong...

When I heard it, I shouldn't, and I couldn't. I could only stare at him silently.

Dadong, on the other hand, was annoyed by him and took a step back without saying anything more.

Only Sun Siqi didn't understand the situation the most: "Well, what if it can't be solved?"

He didn't dare to talk much, he only dared to mutter in a low voice.

For the sake of being a good brother, Zhou Xu faintly replied to him: "Then we'll stay here together until we die."

Sun Siqi was so frightened that he never vented his anger again.

At this moment, the one who is least disturbed among all the people is Lao Mao. After all, puppets' emotions are not as rich as other people's. He is also the size of a snowman and has been a thousand years old. It is normal for him to be calmer.

He coughed at the right time and interjected: "Actually, I just said something, I wonder if you heard it."

"What words?"

"It is said that as soon as everyone falls asleep, Mr. Li will come back. Since the boss corresponds to Mr. Li, then... this may also be useful to him."

"No," Dadong said, "The mouse corresponds to Shen Manyi, and I haven't seen him being stuffed--"

"He did do what Shen Manyi did." Wen Shi interrupted, "He played the game of real and fake brides."

And he was the first one to play, in sync with Shen Manyi.

"Oh!" Zhou Xu said in a tone, suddenly realizing, "So after a long time, his identity at that time was not to be played with, but to accompany him? Hiss——"

He didn't know what he thought of, and he became silent mid-sentence.

Others didn't notice, they were still in the stage of sudden realization and fearful thinking.

I only frowned when I heard it.

He also thought of a problem - now it seems that Mouse was the second "Miss Shen" at that time, so Shen Manyi wanted to play with the real and fake brides, and he also wanted to play. It just happened that the person picked in the first round was himself .

It's equivalent to him imitating himself as "Shen Manyi".

This is why, even though the rat in the walkie-talkie should be me, there is a strange feeling everywhere.

If this logic holds true, then the second round is weird.

In the second round, Shen Manyi picked Xie Wen. Logically speaking, the rat should have synchronized with her and picked Xie Wen. Whether the imitation was similar or not is another matter. Anyway, under the circumstances, there should have been three Xie Wen.

But in reality there were only two, and the mouse was gone.

Why?

Is it because the mouse, as Shen Manyi's counterpart, can only synchronize with her briefly? Or... the person chosen by Shen Manyi, the mouse cannot move?

When I heard it, I suddenly thought of the person hanging on the clothes rack on the second floor.

When he saw the skin, he was actually a little confused. Because he thought the mouse was fake, and later Dadong confirmed that the birthmark was in reverse position. But why did the fake mouse have a walkie-talkie in the hand of the real mouse?

Besides, Shen Manyi was well-behaved and clever at that time, so why bother to make a skin bag to scare people before leaving? Isn't it unnecessary?

Now that I think about it, it might be another situation.

What if the mouse wanted to borrow the mirror in the cage to imitate someone, but something went wrong and failed?

Wenshi once saw something similar in a cage, but it was so long ago that he couldn't remember it. He only vaguely remembered that someone tried to pretend to be someone, but because the other party was too coercive, the person himself was not good enough. It was stable, but in the end it was self-defeating, and even the humanity was gone.

If the same thing happened to the mouse, then...why couldn't he imitate Xie Wen?

"So we have to try to sleep and see if we can get Mr. Li and Boss Xie to sleep out?" Xia Qiao asked, "Is that what you mean, brother?"

When he heard this, he came back from his deep thoughts and frowned: "Who are you sleeping with?"

Xia Qiao: "...well."

What kind of earth-shattering question is this?

"Oh." Wenshi just realized what he said and what he said. He relaxed his eyebrows and walked towards the nearest room, while stroking his Adam's apple expressionlessly and saying vaguely: "That's about right. Let's take a look at which rooms they are."

Although the Shen family's house has a strange structure, it is really big and has a lot of rooms. There are already so many bedrooms, study rooms, cloakrooms, and storage rooms upstairs. There is still no shortage of these downstairs, but there is an extra kitchen.

"Mother Cai lives here." Shen Manyi suddenly pointed to the bedroom next to the kitchen and said.

"I feel the benefit of bringing this eldest lady." Dadong said: "It saves us the trouble of rummaging through everything to identify the owner."

Having said that, they still walked to the closet to make sure.

"This wet nurse is well treated, and the room is bigger than the one I live in." Dadong still walked first as usual, and opened the closet door while talking, but in the next second, his hand shook.

There is only one set of clothes hanging in Mama Cai's huge wardrobe, which are bright red, made of silk, and embroidered with festive bat patterns.

There is a quilt placed under the clothes. It is very thin and square and neatly folded. The pattern that matches the clothes is placed on top. It is also bright red and made of silk.

Sun Siqi rubbed his arms: "Is this a cheongsam? The color looks horrifying. Is it a cheongsam?"

"You idiot?" Zhou Xu retorted unceremoniously, "What is the wet nurse doing here?"

Xia Qiao murmured, "This is the shroud."

Sun Siqi was shocked: "What clothes?"

"Shroud." Xia Qiao explained in a low voice, "The clothes worn by the dead. I gave them to my grandfather when he passed away. I have seen them in the store. They are women's clothes."

He pointed to the quilt and said: "This is a quilt, it is also used to wrap--"
To be continued...