Upon entering Chief Che's room, Zhao Yi truly felt the malevolence of the haunted house towards outsiders.
Countless strands of hair, pieced together by resentment, could kill someone with unstable spirit and weak will in an instant!
Even someone like Zhao Yi, who wasn't easily influenced, found these resentful strands wrapping around his neck and above, making it almost impossible to breathe!
Zhao Yi remained calm, shining a flashlight on his palm, activating photosynthesis, allowing his body to become self-sufficient.
Seeing that its attempts to entangle Zhao Yi were futile, the resentment tried to burrow into his body through his eyes, nose, mouth, ears... leaving no opening untouched.
They frantically surged into Zhao Yi's mental world, seemingly wanting to devour and assimilate him...
Throughout the process, Zhao Yi appeared very relaxed, offering almost no resistance.
He even seemed to enjoy it.
Soon, the strands that had entered Zhao Yi's body seemed to encounter something extremely terrifying and desperately tried to escape!
They panicked, emitting eerie howls.
But it was to no avail.
There was some kind of gravitational pull within Zhao Yi's body, continuously drawing them into his mental world...
Three to five minutes later, the resentment disappeared.
A bit of color returned to Zhao Yi's face.
He opened his mouth:
"Burp."
These resentments were truly...
Self-destructive.
If they had attacked physically, Zhao Yi might not have been able to withstand it.
Currently, his strength was sealed by the system, and the release of the Dark Persona in the last game had caused significant chaos, greatly affecting his body.
But these resentments insisted on targeting Zhao Yi's spirit... wasn't that just asking for death?
"What a pity... it only replenished a little."
Zhao Yi pouted.
He was clearly not very satisfied with the opponent's attack.
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The flashlight swept across the corners of the room.
It was messy.
Cold weapons and exercise equipment were scattered everywhere.
It seemed Chief Che was a formidable warrior in life.
The token Zhao Yi needed to find was a plaque from Chief Che's lifetime.
The plaque was issued by the court, engraved with the words "Fire Cavalry Commander."
It represented Chief Che's identity.
Only by obtaining this plaque could Zhao Yi go to the secondary residence to find the second madam.
Fortunately, although the room was dusty, it had few pieces of furniture. Besides a bed, there was only a nanmu table placed opposite the bed.
Some papers were scattered on the table, with strange materials written on them:
"Mercury... rooster blood... bronze mirror..."
Zhao Yi dusted off the table and opened a leather-bound book.
It was Chief Che's memo.
...
[January 20th]
[A group of strangely dressed guests came to the Wang Mansion, bringing valuable gifts to visit the master, discussing some odd matters, seemingly related to 'immortality'... Sigh, it's surely another scam from the martial world, these charlatans and sorcerers, always using the guise of immortality to deceive...]
[The master, for some reason, actually believed these charlatans. Could it be that the master, who has been through countless battles, is now afraid of death...]
...
[January 21st]
[The master asked me to find two twin female guards under his command and send them to the second madam as maids. How strange... Not long ago, the first madam also specifically selected two maids for the second madam... What are they up to?]
...
[January 22nd]
[The first madam's fortieth birthday is coming up, and the master is busy preparing a birthday gift. In recent years, the first madam has always complained about the master not having children with her, and recently they had a big argument over it...]
[In private, the first madam said it was all because of Su Mei, that fox spirit, who had bewitched the master, claiming that the vixen bought from the high-class brothel had ill intentions, and feared that she would drain the master's very marrow...]
[The master said the gift he prepared would show the madam his true heart and calm her anger...]
...
[January 23rd]
[The master had a peculiar expression this morning, asking me to buy two large vats of glutinous rice and some glutinous rice seeds to plant in his residence... This is the first time; I remember the master never had a habit of eating glutinous rice...]
...
[January 30th]
[The master looked very pale, gave me some money, and told me to retire and return to my hometown, dismissing most of the servants in the mansion... I didn't leave, I've felt uneasy these past few days.]
[I went to see the second madam, but she also advised me to leave, saying something terrible was going to happen in the mansion... but I insisted on staying.]
[I've followed the master in battles for thirty years, passing through the gates of hell many times, covered in scars, never afraid...]
...
[February 5th]
[Alas!]
[Poor master, a lifetime of battles, never a scar from a sword, yet to end in such a way...]
[Enough! I've followed the master since I was thirteen, and now I'm fifty-six, the master has treated me well, this worthless life can go with the master...]
...
The memo ended there.
The text in other places was severely damaged, and Zhao Yi could no longer extract any other information from it.
Having found the token, he took it along with the memo.
He pushed the door open and stepped out.
A gust of cold wind blew from the depths of the left corridor...
Zhao Yi caught a glimpse.
A strange black shadow rushed towards him!
The sinister aura was overwhelming!
This ghost... was absurdly strong!
Zhao Yi recalled Paper Granny's instructions and turned to run towards the central hall!
Screech!
Suddenly, a pale hand reached out from a nearby room and grabbed Zhao Yi's ankle!
Zhao Yi stumbled, but his other leg swiftly stepped forward, and at the same time, a scalpel appeared in his palm, stabbing fiercely into the ghostly hand!
A piercing scream came from inside the door, the Plunderer and chaotic damage erupted simultaneously, and the ghostly hand immediately let go and withdrew!
This brief delay allowed the specter behind him to reach the door of Chief Che's room!
It seemed to fear Chief Che's room.
But upon discovering that the intense resentment in the room had dissipated, it no longer hesitated, sweeping towards Zhao Yi with a terrifying cold wind!
Zhao Yi, holding the scalpel, sprinted madly!
Any ghostly hands or faces that emerged along the way were shattered!
These minor ghosts weren't very strong, and although Zhao Yi was severely weakened, the scalpel's chaotic damage and 'Plunderer' were genuinely formidable!
Zhao Yi could still handle the vengeful ghosts in the rooms and along the way, but if the specter behind caught up, it would be certain death!
Fortunately, its speed wasn't too outrageous, and it never caught up before Zhao Yi reached the hall.
"Ha..."
The specter stood at the corridor entrance, its blood-red eyes fixed on Zhao Yi, emitting a sound of unwillingness.
It didn't pursue further.
It glanced at the paper butler holding the Guan Yu sword in the hall, then looked at Zhao Yi, eyes filled with endless resentment, before retreating into the darkness...
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