Luo Qili didn't resist.
She even cooperated willingly.
In that instant, every hair on her body stood on end!
What on earth was behind her just now?!
She followed Zhao Yi all the way, her heart pounding wildly, until they ran into a dark room, and Zhao Yi finally let go of her hand.
The distance wasn't long, but Luo Qili felt her legs turn to jelly.
Panting heavily, she asked, "Was that ghost chasing us just now?"
Zhao Yi was surprised, "Ghost?"
"What ghost?"
Luo Qili: "???"
She clenched her fists tightly, veins popping on her forehead.
"No ghost, you damn..."
She felt that if she stayed with this lunatic Zhao Yi any longer, she'd go insane!
Once upon a time, she was a civilized little pioneer.
Now, she couldn't help but curse.
She looked down, adjusted her heaving chest, full of frustration, and then her expression suddenly changed.
She saw Zhao Yi squatting on the ground, seriously examining a pile of blood-soaked paper.
"It's dead."
Zhao Yi's tone was serious.
"Who?"
"The Paper Granny... yes, the ghost that told me to find the second madam to get Chief Che's keepsake."
He spoke while rubbing the blood on the ground with his hand.
"Fresh blood."
"It seems it's not the ghost chasing me."
Zhao Yi's eyes were filled with confusion.
The pool of Bai Zhihai at the door was also gone.
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Who did this?
He stood up.
He walked to the table and turned on the flashlight.
There was a line of bloody words left on it.
...
[It deceived the master...]
[It deceived all of us...]
[Please... stop it!]
[To reach the Moon Tower, you must get the Soul-Calming Incense from the storeroom... the storeroom is in the room at the very end...]
...
"Damn."
Luo Qili scratched her head.
Now she really felt overwhelmed.
Zhao Yi just said there was a terrifying specter over there...
How could they possibly get the Soul-Calming Incense now?
"If it comes to it, I'll distract that ghost for you..."
Luo Qili prepared for the worst, knowing that luring a ghost in a haunted mansion was extremely dangerous.
But if they didn't complete the task, they were doomed!
"No need."
Zhao Yi's eyes sparkled.
"It should already be dead."
Luo Qili looked at the dismembered Paper Granny on the ground.
"Like this one?"
Zhao Yi nodded.
"Exactly."
"Our previous assumptions were wrong..."
"Damn it, we got played by the game system..."
Luo Qili was completely lost in Zhao Yi's train of thought.
She was quite a thoughtful woman.
But now, faced with all these clues, she was utterly confused.
Zhao Yi reassembled the Paper Granny and placed it on the table as a gesture of gratitude, then led the way out.
Luo Qili followed closely.
"I think I understand the whole story of this dungeon, but I need one more thing to prove my hypothesis."
"We have to be quick!"
"We don't have much time!"
The two quickly reached the end of the corridor, where there was indeed a horribly mutilated corpse outside the door.
Its eyes were gouged out, tongue torn out, and it was cut in half!
The chest was split open, and the heart was missing.
The warehouse door was also violently opened.
Inside, there was a strong lingering resentment!
"Just passing through can leave such a strong aura of resentment..."
Luo Qili's right eyelid twitched.
The specter that had been in the storeroom... was incredibly powerful!
The two entered.
They found some Soul-Calming Incense.
"Strange... why did that fierce ghost come to the storeroom?"
"Is there something here it needs?"
Luo Qili pondered for a moment, then heard Zhao Yi beside her say:
"It's looking for a key."
She was stunned.
"A key?"
Zhao Yi smiled:
"That guy... wants to go to the second floor!"
"If I'm not mistaken, there are three keys in this mansion that can open the second floor. One is with the master, one with the second madam Su Mei, and the other... is in this warehouse."
"And this key... used to belong to the madam, Fang Qian."
A sense of foreboding swept over Luo Qili...
"Who... is it?"
Zhao Yi said meaningfully:
"An invisible person... never acknowledged."
"Let's head to the Moon Tower."
"There might be clues there to help us complete the task."
In the storeroom, they found a flint, used some flammable materials to create a flame, and lit the Soul-Calming Incense.
The two of them, holding the incense, ran towards the Moon Tower.
From a distance, the tower was still brightly lit.
The building was three stories high.
At the entrance, Zhao Yi was about to push the door open when he suddenly glanced downward.
There were bloodstains.
Very few.
But very fresh.
He crouched down, touched it with his hand, and brought it to his nose.
Human blood.
"Pan Sensen also came in..."
Zhao Yi's lips curled slightly.
He pushed the door open and entered.
The first floor was empty, eerily clean.
They climbed the vintage wooden stairs, the creaking sound piercing through the darkness.
They reached the second floor.
The smell of blood was stronger.
There were two rooms in the corridor.
The door on the left was ajar, and Zhao Yi stepped forward to push it open.
It was the madam's boudoir.
Inside... was the gravely injured Pan Sensen.
She lay on the madam's bed, her face pale, her left arm missing, and a large piece of skin torn from her neck.
Her eyes had been gouged out, leaving two ghastly bloody holes.
Blood stained the sheets.
Hearing movement in the room, she curled up slightly and opened her mouth.
From it, a blood-soaked eyeball rolled out!
The eyeball was filled with malice, even making a strange sound:
"Found you..."
Smack!
Before it could finish its lines, Zhao Yi kicked it.
It shattered.
But the eyeball was incredibly resilient, quickly rolling, trying to escape.
The next moment, a bloodstained scalpel descended from above, pinning it to the ground!
The malicious eye let out a piercing scream, sprouting countless tiny tendrils.
Before long, it turned into a puddle of foul-smelling pus...
"Find any useful clues, then we'll head to the third floor."
The two carefully searched the room, and soon Zhao Yi found a land deed in the bedside cabinet.
—The Wang Mansion's land deed.
And the name on it was shockingly...
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