Today's test was another major failure.

Since there was nothing wrong with his health, You Yonghuai naturally did not need to continue to be hospitalized. After completing the formalities, he followed Li Yongqi upstairs in the elevator.

Throughout the journey, Li Yongqi repeatedly emphasized that this behavior constituted a breach of personal privacy and should not be done under normal circumstances.

But he still felt he should let You Yonghuai take a look.

It's not because the other party might be the person who sent the specimen.

You Yonghuai was also puzzled by this. Anyone with half a brain would know that someone who had been in a coma for two years couldn't possibly be the real sender.

But he still didn't understand why he had to go see this patient.

Until he saw that petite figure on the hospital bed.

Si Xuanyin, his childhood sweetheart.

Until two years ago, Yu Yonghuai maintained a good relationship with the other party, but one day the other party suddenly cut off contact.

After receiving confirmation from the other party's mother that everything was fine, and after failing to contact the other party himself, You Yonghuai assumed that the other party did not want to contact him, so he stopped caring.

Unexpectedly, the other party was unconscious!

"Does she have some kind of unusual illness?"

"I don't know. Her bodily functions are all fine, but she just won't wake up," Captain Li shook his head and said. "Her hospital bill was paid in one lump sum two years ago, enough to last until next month, and only until next month..."

Her mother disappeared after she was admitted to the hospital.

Si Xuanyin comes from a single-parent family.

"?" You Yonghuai turned to look at Li Yongqi. "But my mom just had dinner with her mom last week."

You Yonghuai was particularly impressed by his mother's drunken phone call, in which she tearfully told him to take good care of himself while living alone.

"How could that be?" Li Yongqi instinctively wanted to deny it, but then he thought about it again and asked You Yonghuai for the specific time and place of that dinner party before rushing back to the police station.

"If anything happens, just ask Xiao Jin. He'll be responsible for protecting you."

These were the last words Li left before he departed.

You Yonghuai, on the other hand, planned to visit Si Xuanyin's home.

Regardless of whether the specimen was actually sent by Si Xuanyin, You Yonghuai couldn't abandon his friend.

It is obvious that Si Xuanyin is also involved with these supernatural phenomena.

Accompanied by the young auxiliary police officer Xiao Jin, You Yonghuai soon arrived at the home of Si Xuanyin that he remembered.

His hometown is in the next city, and he came to Jiangcheng to go to university, while Si Xuanyin's family had already moved here when she was in her first year of high school.

He even came along to visit the house at the time.

Reaching the door, recognizing a face he vaguely remembered, You Yonghuai knocked: "Is anyone home?"

However, as soon as she exerted force, the door was pushed open.

The door wasn't locked at all.

The shoe cabinet in the entryway was covered in dust, and several pairs of shoes were scattered haphazardly on the floor, but they all belonged to Si Xuanyin.

There wasn't a single pair of shoes that fit her mother's size.

"Hoo..." For some unknown reason, the eight-legged man who was following You Yonghuai bent over and let out a low growl, as if to remind You Yonghuai to be on guard.

Auxiliary police officer Xiao Jin followed behind, feeling a chill run down his spine, and was hesitant to drive forward.

I always felt that there was something dirty on You Yonghuai's back.

But I'm afraid it would be impolite to say it.

The obvious abnormality prompted Xiao Jin to immediately call Captain Li to report the situation.

You Yonghuai, without changing his shoes, went straight to Si Xuanyin's bedroom.

[Door opening check failed! The door cannot be opened from this side.]

Seeing that Si Xuanyin's room was locked from the inside, You Yonghuai felt even more uneasy. He turned around and exchanged glances with Xiao Jin. Just as he was about to take action, he heard a "click".

The door opened again.

"Roar." The eight-legged creature raised a finger and proudly twisted its body.

"What's going on? Wasn't the door locked?" Xiao Jin followed and asked.

"Uh... I have helpers, the kind you can't see." You Yonghuai himself didn't know how to describe the eight-legged man.

Fortunately, having also seen the surveillance footage, Xiao Jin nodded in agreement, though it was somewhat unbelievable: "The supernatural is truly amazing."

Si Xuanyin's room was decorated the same way it was three years ago, but the wallpaper had yellowed and peeled off. On the pale pink bed, there was a huge black circular pattern, like a magic circle.

Rather than saying it's a magic circle, it's more accurate to say it's a magic array.

"...This was drawn with blood," Xiao Jin said after examining it.

You Yonghuai realized something was wrong and turned his gaze to the bedside table.

There was a wooden box there, its surface engraved with many mysterious patterns.

Based on You Yonghuai's understanding of Si Xuanyin, this was definitely not something the latter would place in her room.

Moreover, even the eight-legged man dared not approach the wooden box after seeing it.

But You Yonghuai wanted to get closer to higher-ups.

Anyway, I don't know what it is, so I just have to be brave and charge in.

Approach the wooden box, and two ten-sided dice will be rolled automatically.

[Additional check: A value greater than 77 indicates a successful check]

Test result: 64

[Detection failed! You were unable to discover any other secrets on the wooden box.]

"There's a lock on this. We need to find the key first, right?" Xiao Jin said after glancing at the wooden box that You Yonghuai had picked up.

"Click".

The wooden box opened by itself.

You Yonghuai and Xiao Jin exchanged a glance, seeing the same shock in each other's eyes.

"Is this lock fake?" Xiao Jin blurted out.

You Yonghuai shrugged, another guess forming in his mind...

Or perhaps, the wooden box was actually waiting for its arrival.

But this guess was too narcissistic and unreasonable, so You Yonghuai didn't say anything.

Even if he had this belief in his heart.

Inside the wooden box was a roughly handmade rag doll with a clear smile on its face.

No matter how poor the workmanship was, the moment You Yonghuai saw the doll, he was already certain in his heart—this was Si Xuanyin.

You Yonghuai wanted to search some more, but then Captain Li arrived with a group of people and dragged the two out.

Immediately, Captain Li berated the two men who were wandering around the suspected crime scene.

"The child's mother is still under investigation, don't rush... It's getting late, you should go back to the hotel first, college students shouldn't stay up too late."

Without further ado, Captain Li instructed a policeman to take You Yonghuai to a hotel for the night.

After getting used to having eight-legged people following the car every time, You Yonghuai found the scene rather funny.

Especially after staring directly at an eight-legged man without losing SAN (a Chinese internet slang term for a person's mental state

This thing would be a good pet.

Speaking of which, should we give it a name?

It doesn't seem quite right to keep calling someone "eight-legged."

"How about calling him Spider?" Yu Yonghuai murmured unconsciously.

"No, I hate spiders... How about we order potato chips? I haven't had any in ages!"

"What does this guy have to do with potato chips...?"

The familiar voices and conversation made You Yonghuai instinctively retort, but he immediately realized something was wrong—

That's Si Xuanyin's voice!

He hurriedly turned his head and saw a phantom figure sitting next to him.

It was Si Xuanyin!?