Excessive ferocity due to caution

[To maintain the memories and emotions of a flesh puppet, the blood of a close relative is required...]

[If you want (crossed out), you need your beloved (crossed out).]

"Damn it, the crucial part was crossed out!"

Luo Qili clenched her small fists.

Zhao Yi quickly took out the memo from Chief Steward Che Lin, his eyes gleaming.

"No wonder the First Madam always celebrates her fortieth birthday..."

"But the paper doll always says she's still alive, and can even argue with the master..."

"Strictly speaking, she is not dead."

"The First Madam has most likely been turned into a flesh puppet!"

After a pause, Zhao Yi turned his head and glanced into the distance in the moonlight.

The direction of Wangyue Tower.

The interior was brightly lit, much brighter than the rest of the haunted house.

"A paper figure from a certain main house once told me something..."

"What did you say?" Luo Qili asked curiously.

"If we don't leave this haunted house now, we'll never have another chance to leave."

"I think... the timing of our entry into the haunted house instance might be a bit unusual; some terrifying upheaval is about to occur here!"

Hearing the word "terrifying" from Zhao Yi's mouth, Luo Qili couldn't help but feel nervous...

Even Zhao Yi used the word "terrifying" to describe it...

That's definitely not a simple, sudden change!

"Shall we head to Wangyue Tower now?"

Luo Qili was somewhat anxious.

"No……"

Zhao Yi did not lose his composure.

"We can't go directly there."

"Since a token is needed to enter the Second Madam's secondary residence, then it is very likely that a token will also be needed to go to the First Madam's Moon Gazing Tower."

"If we don't get the token... going in will most likely mean certain death!"

Luo Qili:

"So, do we have to go back to the main house?"

Zhao Yi:

"I still need to go find that paper doll nanny."

"She clearly knows a lot of things, but for some special reason, she hasn't said them."

The two set off quickly. On the way, Zhao Yi told Luo Qili that the road on the east side of the main house was no longer safe.

They didn't know where the end was, and a ghostly creature they couldn't confront head-on was lurking there.

Return to the forest path.

As the two were walking forward, they suddenly felt a cold breeze.

Two black, ghostly figures limped over from the outer side of the annex behind us...

"Are those two maids who serve the Second Madam?"

Luo Qili was not alarmed.

Because Zhao Yi has a token.

But Zhao Yi did not reply to her.

I turned my head and looked.

Depend on!

Damn it... that bastard Zhao Yi has already run away!

"Zhao Yi, you fucking wait for me!"

The usually composed Luo Qili panicked and hurriedly caught up with Zhao Yi!

"Why are you running away if you have a token?"

Zhao Yi said:

"Those two ghosts weren't the two ghosts protecting Su Mei!"

"They were two maids sent by the First Madam to kill Su Mei, but they were killed by the guards sent by the Master."

"Didn't you see their bodies are mutilated?"

"Clearly, he suffered a knife wound before his death!"

Luo Qili turned around and looked at it carefully.

Grass!

It really is!

"Zhao Yi, where did you buy your glasses? I want to buy a pair too."

"You want it? I'll sell it to you!"

"How many?"

"Since we're pretty familiar with each other, I'll give you a 50% discount... 1 billion points."

"climb!"

The two of them talked back and forth and finally managed to slip out of the woods. Although the ghost behind them was extremely malevolent, it did not follow them to the main house!

They looked at the second floor of the main house, let out a fierce roar, and their beady green eyes revealed a deep sense of fear before they turned and left.

The two were panting.

Luo Qili plopped down on the ground, her face pale.

"Damn... this haunted house is really... holy crap?!"

Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly noticed something, abruptly raised her hand, and stared wide-eyed.

"Where did the blood come from?"

By the dim moonlight, Luo Qili was shocked to find that her hands were covered in blood!

My gaze fell on the ground, where a gruesome dark red bloodstain stretched all the way into the hall…

"Something really did happen..."

Zhao Yi seemed to have expected this and was not surprised.

It's easy to deduce from the information revealed by the paper doll that the haunted house will become increasingly terrifying over time!

"Is it... because the owner of the haunted house came out?"

Luo Qili trembled slightly.

The two carefully felt their way inside.

Human tissue was scattered in every corner of the hall.

Blood smeared the floor of the hall.

The brazier was kicked over.

Ashes were scattered in the blood.

Beside the brazier, there was a mutilated human head.

Its skin was torn off, making it almost impossible to see its original appearance.

The paper effigy of the steward at the stairwell has also disappeared.

Glutinous rice was scattered everywhere.

For no apparent reason.

A wave of intense despair and fear washed over me.

"Are they... already...?"

Luo Qili was by no means a coward, but at this moment her voice trembled slightly.

She stared intently at the stairs, looking into the darkness around the second-floor corner.

In their minds, they saw the terrifying, rotting face staring at them from the second-floor window when they first entered the mansion.

It... came down?

Zhao Yi squatted down on the ground, picked up the mutilated human head from the ground, and tossed it around.

...

Studio:

Damn it, Zhao Yi, that bastard, still hasn't run away, he's still playing with the corpse here...

That's really scary... What if that ghost from the second floor comes down?

Zhao Yi wasn't playing around; he was trying to identify the head's owner. Although the skin had been peeled off and the head was badly damaged, he was skilled in anatomy and should be able to deduce its identity from the remaining skull.

Damn, I'm even more panicked now that the paper figure at the stairwell is gone. Brothers, wait for me to go get another quilt!

...

"Wang Hua's head."

Zhao Yi was very certain.

"Wang Hua? Then wouldn't Pan Sensen be...?"

At this moment, Luo Qili actually hoped that Pan Sensen was still alive.

A chilling wind.

The darkness was suffocating.

"I'm not sure if she's dead or not... but I think she should still be alive."

Zhao Yi carefully examined the bloodstains in the hall and then observed the glutinous rice at the bottom of the stairs.

"That thing upstairs probably hasn't come down yet."

"Killing Wang Hua... is something else entirely."

"It left bloody footprints, so it must have run away."

"A fight broke out in the hall. Some of the broken pieces of the tables and chairs were perfectly flat, which shows that this ghostly thing must have fought with the paper effigy manager, but obviously... it didn't win against the paper effigy."

"Being chased around by the car manager."

Upon hearing this, Luo Qili suddenly relaxed a lot.

The fact that the paper figures don't attack them indicates that the paper figures are at least neutral units.

Other ghosts are afraid of paper figures, which indirectly means that the paper figure manager is the player's protector.

If the paper doll butler is gone, it means the players are completely in danger, with no safe place left!

Fortunately... the paper doll butler is not in any danger; he's just gone to kill ghosts.

Luo Qili looked at Zhao Yi, only to see that Zhao Yi's brows were furrowed.

"What's wrong?"

Her heart, which had just settled down, suddenly jumped into suspense again...

Zhao Yi's gaze was deep and unfathomable.

"Don't you find it strange?"

"The purpose of the paper doll butler is to separate the first floor from the second floor."

"Unless there are extremely special circumstances, it is impossible for it to leave the stairwell."

"Judging from the traces at the scene, the ghost that fought with the paper doll butler was clearly far weaker than him..."

"But it still chose to fight the paper doll butler, and somehow lured him out..."

Luo Qili's eyes widened slowly.

"you mean……"

Zhao looked up.

His gaze turned to what was behind Luo Qili.

next moment,

Zhao Yi grabbed Luo Qili's clothes by the chest and ran towards the right corridor...

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