Excessive ferocity due to caution

Upon entering Manager Che's room, Zhao Yi truly felt the malice the haunted house harbored towards outsiders.

Those countless strands of hair pieced together from resentment can kill a person whose mind is not stable or whose will is not firm in an instant!

Even someone as unaffected as Zhao Yi was haunted by these resentments, making it almost impossible for him to breathe!

Zhao Yi remained calm and simply shone a flashlight on his palm, activating photosynthesis and allowing his body to become self-sufficient.

After failing to entangle Zhao Yi for a long time, the resentment attempted to burrow into Zhao Yi's body, trying to enter through his eyes, nose, mouth, ears... almost everywhere.

They surged wildly into Zhao Yi's mental world, seemingly wanting to devour and assimilate him...

Throughout the process, Zhao Yi appeared very relaxed and offered almost no resistance.

There was even some enjoyment involved.

Soon, the strands of hair that had burrowed into Zhao Yi's body seemed to come into contact with something extremely terrifying, and they suddenly tried to break out of Zhao Yi's body!

They panicked and let out chilling howls.

But to no avail.

There was some kind of gravitational pull within Zhao Yi's body, constantly drawing them into the spiritual world...

Three to five minutes later, these resentments disappeared.

A little color returned to Zhao Yi's face.

He opened his mouth:

"belch."

These grievances are really...

He brought this on himself.

If it attacks physically, Zhao Yi might not be able to withstand it.

His power is currently sealed by the system. In the previous game, he released his darkest personality, and the terrifying chaos had a great impact on his body.

But this resentment is specifically targeting Zhao Yi with a mental attack... Isn't that just courting death?

"It's a pity... that's all that was added."

Zhao Yi pursed his lips.

He was clearly not satisfied with the opponent's attack.

The flashlight swept across the corner of the room.

It's very messy.

Everywhere you look there are cold weapons and iron and stone tools for training the body.

Che Lin appears to have been a formidable martial artist in his lifetime.

The keepsake Zhao Yi was looking for was a plaque that Che Lin had owned before his death.

That plaque was issued by the imperial court and was inscribed with the words "Commander of Ten Thousand Fire Cavalry".

It represents Che Lin's identity.

Only by obtaining this plaque can Zhao Yi go to the secondary residence to find the second wife.

Fortunately, although the room was dusty, there was little furniture. Apart from a bed, there was only a nanmu wood table placed opposite the bed.

There were some papers scattered on the table, with some strange materials written on them:

"Mercury...rooster blood...bronze mirror..."

Zhao Yi dusted himself off and opened a leather-bound book.

This is a memo from Che Lin, the chief steward.

...

January 20th (January 20th)

[...A group of strangely dressed guests arrived at the Prince's mansion. They brought valuable gifts to visit the master and discussed some strange matters, which seemed to be related to 'immortality'... Sigh, it's probably just another charlatan's trick. These charlatans and sorcerers are always using the gimmick of immortality to swindle and cheat people...]

[I don't know what's wrong with the master, he actually believed the words of these charlatans. Has the master, who has spent his life on the battlefield, begun to fear death...?]

...

January 21 (January 21)

[The master asked me to find two twin female guards under his command and send them to serve as maids to the second madam. How strange... Not long ago, the first madam also specifically chose two maids for the second madam... What are they up to?]

...

January 22nd (January 22nd)

The First Madam is about to turn forty again, and the Master is busy preparing birthday gifts. In recent years, the First Madam has always complained to the Master that he didn't have children with her, and recently they even had a big fight about it...

Behind his back, the First Madam said that it was all because of that vixen Su Mei who had bewitched the Master, and that the seductress bought from the brothel had no good intentions, and that she might even drain the Master's marrow dry in the future...

The master said that the gift he had prepared would show his wife his sincerity and calm her anger...

...

January 23 (January 23)

The master seemed a bit strange this morning. He asked me to buy two large vats of glutinous rice and some glutinous rice paddies to plant in his own residence... This is the first time he's done this; I don't remember the master ever eating glutinous rice before...

...

January 30 (January 30)

The master was very pale. He gave me some money, told me to retire and return to my hometown, and dismissed most of the servants in the mansion… I didn’t leave; these past few days I’ve felt uneasy.

I went to see the second madam, but she also urged me to leave, saying that something terrible was about to happen in the house... but I insisted on staying.

"I followed my lord in battles across the north and south for thirty years, repeatedly passing through the gates of hell, covered in wounds, yet I have never been afraid."

...

February 5th (2.5)

Alas!

My poor lord, a lifetime of military service, never bearing a single sword wound, yet his life ended in such a way…

"So be it! I, Che Lin, have followed my master in battles since I was thirteen. I am fifty-six this year. My master has treated me well. I have no choice but to give up this worthless life. I will go with my master..."

...

That's the end of the notepad entry.

The text in other places was severely lost, and Zhao Yi was no longer able to obtain any other information from it.

The token was found, and it was taken along with the notebook.

He pushed open the door and went out.

A chilling wind blew in from the depths of the left-hand corridor...

Zhao glanced at it out of the corner of his eye.

A strange black shadow rushed towards him!

A menacing aura swept over us!

Extremely strong!

This guy... is ridiculously strong!

Remembering the instructions from the paper doll nanny, Zhao Yi turned and ran towards the central hall!

Oh!

Suddenly, a pale hand reached out from the next room and grabbed Zhao Yi's ankle!

Zhao Yi lost his balance, but his other leg still stepped out very quickly. At the same time, a scalpel appeared in his palm and stabbed into the ghostly hand!

A piercing scream came from inside the door. The plunderer and the chaotic damage erupted simultaneously, and the ghostly hand immediately released its grip and withdrew!

In that brief moment of delay, the ghost behind them had already reached the door of Steward Che Lin's room!

It seemed to be afraid of Chelin's room.

But after discovering that the intense resentment in Che Lin's house had disappeared, it no longer held back and swept towards Zhao Yixi with a terrifying gust of cold wind!

Zhao Yi, scalpel in hand, ran wildly!

If any ghostly hands or faces appear on the road, smash them all to pieces!

These kids aren't very strong. Although Zhao Yi has been severely weakened, the chaotic damage from the scalpel and the 'Raider' are truly formidable!

Zhao Yi could still handle the vengeful ghosts on the road and in the rooms next door, but once the ghostly figure behind him caught up, he would be truly dead!

Fortunately, its movement speed wasn't too outrageous, and it couldn't catch up with Zhao Yi before he ran back to the hall.

"Clam……"

The ghostly figure stood at the entrance of the corridor, its scarlet eyes fixed on Zhao Yi, uttering a sound of resentment.

They couldn't catch up.

It glanced at the paper effigy of the steward holding Guan Yu's sword in the hall, then at Zhao Yi, its eyes concealing boundless resentment hidden in the darkness...

PS: First update

Thank you for reading.

I'll go write the next update right away.