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    Qiao Qiao said in surprise: “Really? Where is it?”

    “Follow me.”

    The man led her down the corridor and into another bedroom.

    “This is my room. I was bored just now and found this.” Xiao Ou reached out and pressed a certain part of the wall. The wall slowly turned over, revealing a huge blank photo frame embedded on the back.

    This photo frame is really very big, visually at least four meters wide and two meters long, occupying an entire wall.Moreover, the photo frame is extremely luxurious, made of mahogany, with exquisite carved patterns, and the four corners are decorated with pure gold. When people look at it, they will even think about “what kind of painting can be worthy of it.”

    “This is… too exaggerated.” Qiao Qiao murmured, “It’s definitely a scoring point, right?”

    “That’s what I thought too.” Xiao Ou nodded, “I fell down and accidentally hit the mechanism. Since I hid this photo frame so deeply, there must be a reason.”

    Qiao Qiao looked closer and saw that the middle of the photo frame was blank, but there was a thin back panel, indicating that there was indeed something embedded in it.

    Xiao Ou: “The photo frame is so big that the paintings inside will not be small. I will inform everyone right now to focus on searching for places that can hide such large paintings.”

    “Wait.” Qiao Qiao stared at somewhere on the edge of the photo frame, stretched out his hand and pulled out the thing embedded in the gap.

    It’s a puzzle piece.

    Qiao Qiao smiled bitterly: “It seems that what we are looking for is not a painting, but a bag of fragments.”

    There was chaos in the villa.

    All the lights were turned on, and a large box of puzzles was moved downstairs by two men. A huge space had been vacated in the living room, and all the tables and chairs that were in the way were moved into the dining room. The two men were busy spreading sheets on the floor.

    After finding the photo frame, the puzzle pieces were quickly found. These pieces had been placed in the utility room of the villa. Qiao Qiao had seen them on the first day he came here, but he didn’t know what they were at that time, so he threw them away.

    When he realized that the photo frame might be a puzzle piece, Qiao Qiao immediately thought of the box.

    “The size is the same.” Aladdin put the puzzle pieces in the box and the puzzle pieces that Qiao Qiao took off the photo frame together to compare. “The joining lines also match. This must be a set.”

    “Okay.” Qiao Qiao nodded, “I’ll have to work hard for you tonight.”

    “No.” Ah Jing held up the frame of the mirror, “We’re happy to be able to help.”

    Now that she had said that, Qiao Qiao stopped being polite. She divided the fragments into twelve piles of similar sizes and distributed them to everyone one by one.

    Everyone started working enthusiastically immediately. The first step was relatively simple. Just sort the puzzles according to the letters on the back.However, this step is a test of patience and perseverance. After half an hour, Qiao Qiao felt sore eyes and neck, and had to stand up and move around.

    A Jing: “Why don’t you let Ying come down?”

    In fact, Qiao Qiao was also thinking about this problem just now. The jigsaw puzzle project is huge and there are not enough people for it, not to mention that there is still an idle labor force.

    But…

    “Let’s do this.” Qiao Qiao thought for a while, “Bring a piece of puzzle up and send it up so that Yingying doesn’t have to go downstairs.”

    She really didn’t want to see Yingying’s face, and she had a hunch that she couldn’t have too much contact with Yingying, so she would try not to see her if possible.

    There is strength in numbers. After two hours, all the puzzles were divided into 16 categories according to letters. Each category is a small area in the big puzzle. As long as these areas are put together separately, the entire puzzle will be completed.

    Qiao Qiao looked at his watch and felt that it should be finished before dawn, so he asked Aladdin to make a few more pots of coffee and prepare to stay up all night tonight.

    Ah Jing: “Go and rest, and leave the rest to us.”

    “How about that?” Qiao Qiao shook his head, “Let’s do it together, it can be faster.”

    “No, allocate your time reasonably.”

    Qiao Qiao immediately understood what he meant.

    The puzzle is not difficult, but it requires a lot of time and energy. If Qiao Qiao stays up all night with them, they will have to catch up on sleep the next day. In this way, the entire day is wasted, so one person must be left to maintain mobility and find the next scoring point.

    “Okay, I’m going to bed first.”

    Qiao Qiao went upstairs, picked a bedroom at random, and fell asleep regardless of whose room it belonged to.

    After sleeping for almost three or four hours, I suddenly woke up.

    She usually rarely wakes up when she sleeps, but maybe because of the new environment and the urgency of the competition, she was put under some psychological pressure, so the slightest disturbance woke her up.

    After listening for a while, I was sure it was coming from the corridor and someone was outside.

    With so many people in the villa, it was normal to hear footsteps outside the door. Qiao Qiao didn’t want to pay attention to it, but the people outside seemed to be wandering in the corridor with nothing to do. Their footsteps were light and heavy, from near to far and then from far to near.

    What’s going on?Is the puzzle finished so quickly?No, I will definitely call her after finishing the fight.

    Isn’t it someone taking advantage of the chaos?

    Qiao Qiao lay there for a while longer. People outside the door were still wandering in the corridor. She couldn’t help it, so she got up and opened the bedroom door.

    People in the corridor were startled when they heard the sound and turned around.

    It’s Hotaru.

    “I’m sorry… I didn’t know you were here.” Firefly lowered her head, “I was a little bored after finishing the puzzle. I thought you were all downstairs, so I wanted to come out for a walk.”

    Seeing that Qiao Qiao didn’t respond, he said wisely: “Then I’ll go back.”

    “Wait a minute.” Qiao Qiao stopped him and tried to avoid eye contact, “Have you finished fighting?”

    “Yeah. No one sent me a second copy, so I can’t go down.”

    “How long have you been fighting for?”

    Yingying thought for a while: “About three hours.”

    Three hours?

    Qiao Qiao secretly said, those pieces took at least five or six hours, but Yingying actually only took three hours to put them together?

    “I understand. Just wait a moment and I’ll get you a new one.”

    Qiao Qiao went downstairs, asked A Jing for a new puzzle, and checked the progress of others.

    Sure enough, Hotaru is the fastest.

    Qiao Qiao began to feel that it was difficult. This was like a team. If you wanted to score, you couldn’t exclude the main players. It was unrealistic to keep Yingying upstairs.

    But——

    Qiao Qiao took a look at Yingying, who was working hard on the puzzle. The skin on her neck was so white that it was almost transparent, and the light blue blood vessels could be clearly seen. Even the subconscious pursed lips when thinking seemed to lead to a crime.

    Jian Baiyou also caused people to commit crimes, but his unique surliness and moodiness diluted that allure. He was like a brightly colored poisonous snake that looked good but didn’t dare to get close.

    But Yingying was a brightly colored bird, and she could hold him in her palm as soon as she stretched out her hand.

    “Aren’t you tired?” Qiao Qiao asked.

    “I slept during the day.” Yingying quickly moved the puzzle pieces around without raising her head, trying various arrangements and combinations.

    “Do you want to go downstairs?”

    Yingying raised her head: “Are you willing to let me go?”

    “Okay, but I don’t like your face. Can you cover it?” Qiao Qiao said calmly, “There doesn’t seem to be a mask in the villa. I’ll make one for you out of cloth later.”

    Ying put down the puzzle: “No, I have it.”

    He went back to his room and came out after a while carrying a small box. Qiao Qiao thought it contained masks or other things, but when he opened it, he realized that it was a box of sex toys…

    Yingying pulled out a mask with a gag from inside: “Is this okay?”

    Qiao Qiao: “…”

    I feel like wearing this kind of thing will make me look more erotic.

    Qiao Qiao: “Where do these come from?”

    “I don’t know, they were in the room before I came.” Firefly picked up the mask, “Do you want to wear it?”

    “Ahem, no need.”

    The worst thing is to just watch him less.

    While Yingying was putting together the second puzzle, Qiao Qiao went back to catch up on her sleep. When she woke up again, it was already dawn. She immediately went downstairs to look at the scoreboard. The number under her name had changed to ‘1’.

    Thank God, there is finally some progress!

    Other contestants have also found ways to score points one after another. There are not many people who still have zero eggs, indicating that the next competition will be more intense.

    Ah Jing and the others were so tired that they fell asleep in various places in the living room. Qiao Qiao did not disturb them. While these people were resting, she wanted to find the next scoring point as soon as possible.

    Back on the second floor, Firefly was already waiting for her.

    “Let’s go, start from the top.” Qiao Qiao walked up the steps, “No place can be spared, everything must be carefully inspected.”

    Maybe it’s because men and women are not tired from working together. The process of finding the second scoring point went very smoothly. However, the question this time was also very troublesome. I had to go through every book on the shelf to find the key words hidden in it. Finally, I had to spell it into a sentence. Only if I spelled it correctly can I score points.

    Qiao Qiao marked out an area for Yingying: “You turn over these, I’ll turn over those.”

    “Okay.”

    The two sat down and started working. It was not difficult to score, but it was very time-consuming. Qiao Qiao couldn’t figure out the meaning of setting these questions. They were not entertaining at all and were all boring repetitive work. The first two rounds were so exciting, but the third round was just playing house.

    After a while, Yingying held up a book and said, “Found it.”

    “So fast? Come here and let me take a look.”

    Ying came over, opened the page with the keywords, and pointed it out to Qiao Qiao.

    Qiao Qiao didn’t think too much and looked at Yingying’s fingers without any precautions. But at that second, she suddenly felt an indescribable heat coming up.

    Firefly’s hands are so beautiful.

    I wonder if other parts of his body are as beautiful as his hands?

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