Chapter 343: 343: One Dead

Translator: 549690339

“Water Monster’s unwanted egg – it hurts to be hit by it and there’s a 20% chance of triggering a Thunder Blast Effect.”

The bead Zhu Shu threw out was like a bolt of lightning, mangling half of the Bluebeard’s face into a bloody pulp!

“Ahh! My face!!!” The humanoid beast roared in a coarse voice, turning around, “Damn woman! How dare you!”

He roared, picking up the broken sword from the ground, and flung it fiercely at Zhu Shu!

Su Man pulled Zhu Shu’s hand to urgently dodge backwards, in the process of descending the stairs, they tripped, the sharp blade grazing Zhu Shu’s upper arm, causing both to fall! The beads in their hands scattering all over!

Zhu Shu didn’t bother to get up, she knelt on the ground anxiously picking up the beads, and shouted at Su Man, “We can’t let him take Zhao Lanfen! Even if we can’t save her, we still need to kill the Duke! Otherwise, he will continue killing tomorrow night!”

“He’s getting away!” Yu Yaqing wiped the blood off from the corner of her mouth, picking up the sword she chased upstairs again.

Bluebeard was faster!

Despite his massive size, he wasn’t clumsy at all, dragging Zhao Lanfen quickly up the spiral staircase, all the way to the third floor!

Yu Yaqing, Su Man, and Hu Ya chased him from downstairs relentlessly, but when they reached the third floor, they found that both sides of the corridor were empty, there was no sign of Bluebeard.

Bang!

The sound of a door closing echoed through the hallway.

The three women stood panting, looking left and right, wondering which room Bluebeard had entered. At that moment, a shrill scream rang out again!

“Ahhhhh!!!”

Unaware of what torture she was enduring, Zhao Lanfen’s scream was heart-wrenching!

The scream echoed through the entire building, seeming to come from the right, yet also from the left. On careful listening, her voice was everywhere – the high, vast ceiling, the winding staircase, the walls covered in vintage floral wallpaper!

Chilling!

“Zhao Lanfen!” Yu Yaqing shouted, randomly opening a room and then running to another room, but no matter how she searched, she couldn’t find Zhao Lanfen.

The screams didn’t stop.

She screamed until her voice was hoarse, until she was gasping for breath, then it suddenly ended on a high note!

…It stopped.

The entire building quieted down.

Yu Yaqing gritted her teeth, punching the wall fiercely!

She knew, Zhao Lanfen was dead.

Silence, it’s unknown how much time had passed, perhaps only a few seconds, perhaps several minutes…

Yu Yaqing took a deep breath, moved forward, and began to search every room.

Su Man and Hu Ya also joined in.

Since Bai Youwei had questioned about the number of rooms, Su Man started to count the number of rooms while searching.

However, they had opened a total of 128 doors and found nothing!

They were the same rooms filled with gold, silver, and jewels, no Bluebeard and no Zhao Lanfen, they had disappeared as if into thin air.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The three women returned to the spiral staircase, all temporarily out of ideas.

Hu Ya looked at Yu Yaqing blankly, hesitated, and asked, “Team leader… Should we continue searching?”

Yu Yaqing closed her eyes for a moment, and said in a low voice, “Let’s go downstairs first.”

Zhu Shu was downstairs, frustrated while picking up the beads.

These items were too round and smooth, once dropped, they roll into unknown corners. Despite searching for a while she only managed to find 6.

– In the dollhouse, she was given 10 beads, she had used 2 just now, so there should still be 8 left.

She was short by two beads, she couldn’t find them no matter what.

She looked up, intending to ask Cheng Xi to move, before she could open her mouth, Cheng Xi, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, yelled in a shrill voice:

“Why are you looking at me?! I didn’t take your beads!!!”

Zhu Shu replied, “That’s not what I meant…”

“Go away!” Cheng Xi was mentally unstable, staring fiercely at Zhu Shu, “Get away from me! Don’t come near me!”

Zhu Shu frowned, looked at her for a moment, didn’t say anything, silently walked over to Bai Youwei.

Bai Youwei asked, “What’s wrong with her?”

Zhu Shu glanced at Cheng Xi again, “…Nothing.”