Excessive ferocity due to caution

Chapter 527 "Twilight Manor" - Torrential Rain

"Hurry up!"

"Okay! Okay! Umbrella! Give me the umbrella right now!"

"Damn... my pants are completely wet..."

"Ugh... I feel so cold after this rain."

Everyone hurriedly grabbed their belongings and drove the car to the outside of the manor.

Fang Detong got off the bus with an umbrella and came to the manor's iron gate, intending to open the door for the bus, but found that the iron gate was locked!

"Grass……"

Fang Detong fiddled with the lock, and after examining it carefully for a few moments, his expression suddenly changed. He looked towards the dilapidated interior of the manor, and seeing the ruined and abandoned scene, he shuddered inexplicably. He quickly took out his phone, snapped a photo, and returned to his car.

"Fang Detong, what are you doing?"

Wu Dading said with dissatisfaction:

"Open the door!"

Fang Detong glanced back at the lock on the rusty iron door and said to everyone:

"The iron gate is locked, and..."

His face was pale.

Seeing his appearance, Wu Dading couldn't help but kick him:

"Stop being so indecisive, are you even a man?"

Fang Detong turned on his phone and brought up the photos.

"Look... this iron gate is heavily rusted, and the manor is largely abandoned, yet there's a brand new lock on the gate."

As everyone carefully examined the photos on Fang Detong's phone, their moods gradually underwent subtle changes.

"What's the big deal... Maybe it was the soldiers in the city who did it to prevent tourists from sneaking into the manor."

"Aren't they always been against tourists and adventurers from the city coming to this place?"

Another man in the group, Yu Congyi, said dismissively.

He wasn't a veteran member of the organization, but a newcomer. He considered himself very brave and often boasted to others that he dared to sit in his dark living room at midnight, light red candles in front of the mirror, wear red clothes and peel a red apple, and that he dared to take a quilt and run to a mass grave in the wilderness to sleep with corpses.

This time, he volunteered to participate in the expedition in order to prove to the people in his circle just how brave he really was.

It sounds very childish.

But arguments based on personal feelings are often so naive.

The astute Fang Detong had already started a live stream and began interacting with his viewers about his amazing discovery.

However, Yu Congyi's statement was quickly refuted by Tang Yiwei, a man with heterochromia and a frail appearance.

"Yu Congyi, you're wrong."

After closing the collection of detective novels in his hand, Tang Yiwei spoke under everyone's gaze:

"It's at least 200 kilometers from the outer edge of the blockade."

"Aside from a gas station about 80 miles away, we didn't see any signs of human habitation along the way."

"The soldiers in the city are so wary of this place and the blockade is so tight, yet they traveled two hundred kilometers deep into the blockade zone just to put a negligible lock on the gate of Twilight Manor... That sounds absurd."

After thinking for a moment upon hearing this, Wu Dading said:

"I think Yiwei makes a good point."

"Those people are so timid. They usually chase and yell at anyone who passes by. It's highly unlikely they would travel over 200 kilometers to this place just to install a lock..."

Everyone remained silent for a while.

The rain outside was getting heavier and the wind was getting stronger, showing no signs of stopping.

As the rain and mist enveloped the area and dusk fell, the surroundings became dark and hazy, and everyone's mood began to sour. After thinking for a moment, President Jing Qingdong turned on the car's headlights.

The faint light from the outside helped calm the people inside the car.

"Damn... this rain came at just the right time!"

"Yes, it has that flavor!"

"I'm actually getting nervous just watching this! Speaking of which, you have to check out the Thorns Paranormal Society for all the drama. These guys actually go to any haunted locations they find..."

"Huh?! Guys, wait a minute, the weather forecast says it's sunny over at Twilight Manor..."

In Fang Detong's live broadcast room, just as everyone was discussing, a glaring message suddenly broke in.

Immediately afterwards, many people went to check the weather forecast.

It was no wonder they were stunned when they saw the weather forecast...

According to the weather forecast, the area within a radius of two to three hundred miles around Twilight Manor was completely sunny!

So, where are the members of the Thorn Paranormal Society now?

"Damn! These bastards aren't just randomly picking a place to fool us, are they?!"

"Unfollowed! Unfollowed!"

"Wait a minute... Look closely at the surrounding scenery and that dilapidated manor in the distance. Do you think they could build an entire manor just for a live stream?"

The viewers in the live stream noticed the details and broke out in a cold sweat.

Holy crap!

"Fatty Fang, turn around right now! You've probably really run into something dirty this time!"

"Yeah yeah!"

Fang Detong dismissed the comments from the viewers in the live stream, thinking they were deliberately trying to scare him.

But soon, Fang Detong discovered that many members of the live stream group had privately sent him several pictures.

This is today's weather forecast.

Fang Detong hurriedly checked the weather forecast and found that the area where Twilight Manor was located was still showing as sunny.

He refused to believe it and opened the map to locate himself again.

A strange thing happened—

The GPS location on their phone couldn't show their current location at all...

Fang Detong tried several times without success, so he quickly informed the other six members in the car. They also tried to locate their position using their phones, but the results were disheartening...

"Dad... shall we go back?"

Guan Kaixian, who came with Wu Dading, was deathly pale.

She was timid by nature and didn't like paranormal clubs. The reason she chose to join was purely because Wu Dading liked them.

Guan Kaixian's allowance was all given by Wu Dading, and all her designer bags, high heels, designer clothes, cosmetics... were all made by Wu Dading.

Normally, her sisters would look at the things she wore with envy.

This greatly satisfied Guan Kaixian's vanity!

She knew all too well that she could no longer leave Wu Dading.

Having grown accustomed to a life of wealth, Guan Kaixian could no longer accept returning to her former life.

Back then, she had to save up for months to buy a piece of clothing she liked.

For her own bags, clothes, and cosmetics, and for the envy of others, she gritted her teeth and followed Wu Dading to this place!

She initially thought it would just be a few nights in a rather dirty and old place, with more mosquitoes and poor hygiene, but nothing else...

But now... she's scared.

She shook Wu Dading's arm, pleading with him in a low voice to go back.

Wu Dading remained silent, his face showing both excitement and fear.

Tang Yiwei, standing to the side, suddenly said:

"We... I'm afraid we can't go back."