Excessive ferocity due to caution

The group stayed in the Ming-style old house until the end of the third day.

Early morning of the fourth day.

As is customary, the invisible wall rises.

Everyone's consciousness began to blur.

When they woke up again, they were already standing outside the old house.

The sky was as dark as a tomb.

The sound of crows flapping their wings cast an ominous shadow over everyone's hearts.

The old house has been restored to its original state and is no longer dilapidated, but the dim and eerie lights inside only add to its eeriness.

It was as if it were telling the visitors directly and bluntly – yes, this is a haunted house.

The wooden gate of the mansion is mottled, and the paint on the wooden plaque above is unclear, but the words "Prince's Mansion" can be vaguely seen.

There are no other words preceding it.

Therefore, this indicates that the owner of the house was surnamed Wang.

The stone lions outside the gate were covered in frost.

"Damn...it's so cold..."

Aunt Liu Mei shivered and rubbed her arms.

The group carefully pushed open the slightly ajar gate and entered one by one. As soon as they entered the Prince's Mansion, the system immediately sent out a mission notification.

……

[Instance: Ming-style Haunted House]

Main Quest: Find the heart of the mansion's owner.

Side Quest: Eliminate the Owner of the Mansion

[Main Quest Rewards: 300 Experience Points, Invisible Wall Elimination]

[Side Quest Reward: Batteries that provide energy for stabilizing time and space (different rewards for different players)]

[Note 1: In this instance, the player's inventory is sealed, and no items can be used.]

[Note 2: All players' power is locked at 10 until the dungeon ends.]

……

The mission briefing ended, leaving the players present completely stunned.

Sealed inventory?

Locking power?

This is...isn't this just making the dungeon much harder?

Zhao Yi stared curiously at the main house in the distance, as if something there had caught his attention.

Luo Qili, who was standing nearby, was the first to notice Zhao Yi's unusual behavior and asked curiously:

"Zhao Yi, what are you looking at?"

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Zhao Yi pointed to the second floor of the main house in the distance, to a window on the right.

"Here you go—"

By the faint starlight and the dim candlelight from inside the house, the group was horrified to see a rotting face staring intently at them from the window!

Its eyes glowed with an eerie green light, and its face wore a hollow and strange smile that sent chills down everyone's spine!

"WCNM!"

Caught off guard, the thug Bai Zhihai was startled and blurted out his beautiful hometown dialect.

All the players' power has been severely weakened; they have now lost the ability to confront the ghosts head-on.

Faced with a vengeful ghost, they are like fish on a chopping board; how could they not panic?

"Is it warning us... not to enter the main house?"

Wang Hua looked grim.

Without their tools and power, they were reduced to complete idiots.

The pressure suddenly came crashing down like a mountain!

They originally had all sorts of ideas and plans, but now they dare not act rashly.

"Zhao Yi, what do you think about us... Hey? Where are you going?"

Luo Qili was about to consult Zhao Yi's opinion when she saw Zhao Yi stride directly toward the main house.

"Let's go to the main house!"

"There must be important clues there."

Luo Qili tried to catch Zhao Yi, but saw Zhao Yi suddenly speed up and dash into the main house in a flash...

Luo Qili: "..."

The people on the side were all dumbfounded.

"Has he...has he always been this brave?"

Pan Sensen was dumbfounded.

This guy is really... indescribable.

Luo Qili sighed, said nothing more, and actually followed them into the main house.

If Zhao Yi dies, she won't survive the tide of demonic spirits either, so she has no choice but to follow along.

"Boss...should we go in?"

Wang Hua said in a low voice.

He felt it was too dangerous inside.

Just now, when Zhao Yi ran into the main house, the terrifying ghost face on the second floor disappeared!

Where did it go?

"Go in... Don't forget the call from our future selves..."

"These two men must die by our hand!"

"otherwise……"

Pan Sensen gritted his teeth.

They immediately gritted their teeth and chased after them. As soon as they entered the door, they felt a very uncomfortable smell of dust.

A strange sigh echoed in their ears, almost making the hairs on their heads stand on end!

"My poor husband..."

"A lifetime of military service, yet never failing to bear the scars of a sword..."

"But it ended like this..."

The sigh was faint and came from nowhere, making it impossible to discern its source.

Zhao Yi stood at the top of the stairs leading to the second floor. Each step was sprinkled with glutinous rice. At the turning corner, there was a tall paper figure standing there, holding a Guan Gong sword, stroking his beard, and with brightly colored paint on his face, making him look particularly eerie!

It just stood there, blocking everyone's way upstairs.

"really."

Zhao Yi muttered to himself.

"Zombies are afraid of glutinous rice, so at least one zombie is imprisoned on the second floor of the main house."

"Does this indirectly mean... there are no zombies on the first floor?"

After he finished speaking, he stretched out his foot, wanting to step on the glutinous rice to go upstairs.

But it was just pretense.

It was this feint that caused the Guan Gong knife in the hand of the paper figure on the second floor to cut through the wind with a sharp sound and strike the top of the first step!

Fast! Accurate! Ruthless!

If Zhao Yi had stepped on the wooden steps just now, he would have been split in two by now!

"We can't go up to the second floor yet. It must be because a key quest hasn't been triggered yet, or we haven't obtained a key item..."

Amidst the tense gazes of the crowd, Zhao Yi calmly withdrew his foot.

They began inspecting the lobby.

Pan Sensen and the others exchanged glances, then she suddenly clapped her hands and said to Zhao Yi:

"Zhao Yi...I have a good idea!"

Zhao Yi tapped the table while touching everything around him.

It's quite clean.

What are your thoughts?

Zhao Yi picked up an exquisite purple clay teapot, opened the lid, and gently sniffed it.

The hot tea smells wonderful.

Pan Sensen replied:

"Judging from the current situation, this should be a decrypted copy. The first floor seems relatively safe. Let's split up and search for clues; that would be more efficient and avoid increasing the danger by taking too long!"

Zhao nodded.

"Good idea, let's look in different rooms then..."

"Let's see if there are any clues."

"We'll meet in the lobby in half an hour."

Everyone agreed on this idea.

Zhao Yi turned around and patted Luo Qili on the shoulder.

Luo Qili understood immediately.

The hall has two corridors, one on the left and one on the right, leading to different rooms. Zhao Yi and Luo Qili separated, one going east and the other west.

Seeing the two separate, Pan Sensen's face revealed a mixture of surprise and ruthlessness, and she gave Bai Zhihai and Liu Mei a wink.

So they split into two groups, one following Zhao Yi and the other Luo Qili to the east and west corridors respectively...

Soon, the six figures disappeared into the darkness of the corridor.

And at that moment, the doors to the hall were pushed open...

mm��z�

P.S.: Sorry, guys.

I got an injection today and I feel dizzy.

I'll update the next two right away.

Thank you for reading.