"Beautiful brides, did you sleep well last night?"
The Warden stood smiling beside the dining table, his elegant demeanor as impeccable as yesterday.
Bai Youwei wheeled past him, saying blandly, "Slept poorly. The soundproofing is terrible; it was a cacophony of wails and howls all night."
She wasn't being sarcastic; she was stating a fact.
Her mind had been occupied with contemplating potential clues within the game, and she genuinely had no desire to engage in a war of words with the Warden.
However, the Warden seemed particularly attentive to everything she said.
"Then, would you like me to change your room?" The handsome, cartoonish man curled his lips into a sinister smile. "The third floor is the quietest. How about moving to a room on the third floor?"
The third floor.
That was where Zhao Lanfen had disappeared.
Cheng Qian, Hu Ya, Yu Yaqing, as well as Zhu Shu and Su Man, all visibly paled, staring at the Warden with suspicion.
Bai Youwei's wheelchair also came to a halt.
She frowned, turning her head to look at him, and said with displeasure, "Are you brainless? Take a look at my legs, please. How am I supposed to get to the third floor? Fly?!"
Warden: "…"
Bai Youwei ignored him, wheeling herself to the dining table with a foul mood. She ate a few bites, but her expression grew increasingly irritable.
"No appetite. I'll take these back to my room to eat."
She brazenly gathered all the food from several plates onto one, placed it on her lap, and then, carrying a platter of tropical fruit, leisurely returned to her room.
Seeing this, the others followed suit, claiming they had no appetite and wanted to eat in their rooms.
They all knew they wouldn't be getting dinner tonight, so they took double, even triple, the amount of food, just in case they had nothing to eat later.
Before long, the dining room was empty.
Only the Warden remained.
He watched the women's retreating figures, the polite smile frozen on his lips, his expression growing colder and colder…
Suddenly, he chuckled.
There was no need to be angry.
So what if she obtained an unbalanced prop? As long as she died here, the error would naturally be corrected. And his game would continue to create value for the system.
The other Wardens were right; he was getting a little too invested. Games should be played in moderation, in moderation…
The Warden slowly left the dining room…
…
The women were having lunch in Bai Youwei's room.
Bai Youwei didn't know why it had turned out this way.
Perhaps it was because Zhu Shu and Su Man wanted to eat with her, and Yu Yaqing wanted to find Su Man, and Hu Ya and Cheng Qian followed Yu Yaqing, which eventually evolved into everyone gathering in her room to eat.
Yu Yaqing said, "The lighting was too dim last night; we didn't find any clues. After lunch, let's go to the third floor again and see if we can find anything."
"Going again?" Bai Youwei ate at her own pace, asking, "We've searched it several times already. Should we look somewhere else?"
"Where else?" Hu Ya interjected, "The Duke disappeared on the third floor, we saw it clearly!"
"I know," Bai Youwei said blandly. "What I mean is, should we look for clues somewhere else? After all, we've been to the third floor many times already; a few more times probably won't yield any results."
She had been very calm, so even though Yu Yaqing disliked her, she didn't underestimate her, and seriously asked, "Where do you think we should search?"
Bai Youwei said, "I'm planning to check out the basement. I heard there's a cage down there."
Yu Yaqing frowned. "There is a cage, but it's empty. The rest of the basement is filled with junk – empty wine bottles, rotten wood, broken tin cans, things like that. We've already searched it all."
"I want to search it again," Bai Youwei said calmly. "I've been wondering where the locked room is, but then I thought, isn't the prison cell a locked room? Since we haven't found anything on the third floor, we might as well try our luck in the basement."