Excessive ferocity due to caution

Luo Qili did not resist.

They even actively cooperated.

In that instant, the hairs on her body stood on end!

What was behind her just now?!

She ran alongside Zhao Yi, her heart pounding, until they ran into a dark room, at which point Zhao Yi finally let go of her hand.

The road wasn't long, but Luo Qili felt her legs and feet were sore and weak.

She asked, panting heavily:

"Was that ghost that just chased after us?"

Zhao Yi was surprised to hear this:

"ghost?"

"Where did this ghost come from?"

Luo Qili: "???"

She clenched her fists tightly, and the veins on her forehead bulged.

"You bastard, you're kidding me...!"

She felt that if she spent too much time with Zhao Yi, this madman, she would eventually go insane!

Once upon a time, she was a pioneer of civilization.

But now I can't help but swear all the time.

She lowered her head, composed herself to control the overwhelming aura emanating from her chest, and looked utterly dejected. When she looked up, her expression suddenly changed.

She saw Zhao Yi squatting on the ground, holding a pile of blood-stained papers, examining them carefully.

"It's dead."

Zhao Yi spoke earnestly.

"Who?"

"The paper doll nanny... um, that's the ghost who told me to go to the Second Madam to get the keepsake of Steward Che Lin before his death."

As he spoke, he reached out and rubbed the blood on the ground.

"Fresh blood."

"Looks like it's not the ghost that was chasing me."

Zhao Yi looked puzzled.

The pool of Bai Zhihai at the entrance is also gone.

who did it?

He stood up.

I went to the table and turned on the flashlight.

A line of blood-written words was left above.

...

It deceived the master...

It deceived us all...

Please...stop it!

To get to Wangyue Tower, you need to get the Soul-Suppressing Incense from the storeroom... The storeroom is the one on the far right...

...

"It's over."

Luo Qili scratched her head.

She's really overwhelmed right now.

Zhao Yicai had said that there was a rather terrifying ghost over there...

How could they possibly go and get the Soul-Suppressing Incense now?

"If all else fails, I'll distract that ghost for you..."

Luo Qili had prepared for the worst; summoning ghosts in a haunted house was undoubtedly a very dangerous thing.

But if they don't continue the mission, they will die!

"No need."

A glint flashed in Zhao's eyes.

"It should be dead by now."

Luo Qili looked at the dismembered paper doll of the old woman on the ground.

"Same as this?"

Zhao nodded.

"That's right."

"Our previous assumptions were wrong..."

"Damn it, I got tricked by the game system..."

Luo Qili was completely unable to keep up with Zhao Yi's train of thought.

She is a woman who is quite good at thinking.

But now, she's completely overwhelmed by all sorts of clues.

Zhao Yi assembled the paper doll and placed it on the table as a token of her gratitude, then led the way out.

Luo Qili followed closely behind.

"I roughly know the ins and outs of this instance, but I need one more thing to prove my guess."

"Hurry up!"

"We don't have much time left!"

The two quickly arrived at the end of the corridor, where, sure enough, there was a gruesome corpse outside the door.

His eyes were gouged out, his tongue was torn out, and he was cut in half at the waist!

His chest was cut open, and his heart was missing.

The warehouse door was also forcibly opened.

It contains a strong resentment!

"Just by being here, you can leave behind such intense resentment..."

Luo Qili's right eyelid kept twitching.

The ghost that came to the storage room... its strength was quite terrifying!

The two entered.

We found some soul-soothing incense.

"Strange...why did that ghost come to the storage room?"

"Is there something here that it needs?"

Luo Qili pondered for a moment, then heard Zhao Yi beside her say:

"It's looking for the key."

The former was stunned.

"key?"

Zhao Yi smiled and said:

"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 on the master, one is on the second mistress Su Mei, and the third one... is in this warehouse."

"And this key... used to belong to Madam Fang Qian."

A sense of foreboding swept through Luo Qili's mind...

"Who...is it?"

Zhao Yi said meaningfully:

"An invisible man who is never acknowledged."

"Let's go to Wangyue Tower first."

"There might be clues there that can help us complete our mission..."

They found a flint in the storeroom, used some flammable materials to create a flame, and lit the incense to quell the spirit.

The two of them carried the Soul-Suppressing Incense and ran towards the Moon Gazing Tower.

From a distance, the building still appears brightly lit.

The building has three floors.

Upon arriving at the entrance, Zhao Yi was about to push the door open when his gaze suddenly drifted downwards.

There is blood.

Very few.

But it's very fresh.

He crouched down, reached out and touched it, then smelled it under his nose.

Human blood.

"Pan Sensen came in too..."

Zhao Yi's lips curled up slightly.

Push the door open and enter.

The first floor was completely empty, ridiculously clean.

The two climbed the old-fashioned vertical wooden stairs, the creaking sound extremely jarring in the darkness.

We arrived at the second floor.

The smell of blood was stronger.

There are two rooms in the corridor.

The door on the left was ajar. Zhao Yi stepped forward and pushed the door open.

This is the First Madam's boudoir.

Inside... was Pan Sensen, who was critically injured and on the verge of death.

She lay on the First Madam's bed, her face deathly pale, her left arm missing, and a large piece of skin torn from her neck.

Her eyes were gouged out, leaving two horrifying, bloody holes.

Blood stained the bedsheets.

Hearing a sound from the room, she curled up slightly and opened her mouth.

A bloodshot eyeball slid out of its mouth!

That eyeball was filled with resentment and venom, and even emitted a strange sound:

"Found you..."

Snapped!

Before it could finish its lines, Zhao Yi kicked it.

It cracked.

However, the eyeball is quite resilient, rolling rapidly as if trying to leave.

The next moment, a blood-stained scalpel fell from the sky and pinned it firmly to the ground!

The venomous evil eye let out a shrill scream, and countless tiny tentacles sprouted from its body.

Before long, it turned into a pool of foul-smelling pus...

"Let's look for useful clues, then we'll go to the third floor."

The two carefully searched the room and soon Zhao Yi found a land deed in the bedside table.

—The land deed of the Prince's Mansion.

And the name on it was...

b＞

PS: Time to start reeling in the line.

There's one last clue.

I'll continue writing tomorrow. Thank you for reading.

Goodnight everyone!