After being poisoned by mushrooms, all the strange creatures became fascinated by me.

After that night, the girl's nerves were clearly stretched to the limit.

Tang Li didn't knock on the railing again; she simply called out softly, "Sister."

The girl didn't react. Tang Li sighed, and instead of taking the moldy and hairy "food" from the car, she took out the two buns she hadn't had time to eat earlier from her pocket and handed them through the iron bars.

"Sister, are you hungry? Here, take this." A clear, childlike voice offered just the right amount of comfort.

A sudden, enticing aroma filled the cell, and the sounds of swallowing could be heard from the cells on either side. The girl had clearly been hungry for a long time; the smell of food awakened her more directly than the little girl's voice.

She looked up, first at the plump, fluffy bun, then upwards, meeting the gaze of the little girl peering in. The girl couldn't believe her eyes: "You...how did you get here?"

The little girl, still dressed as a servant, smiled at her, revealing her teeth, but instead of directly stating her intentions, she stretched out her arm and handed the bun towards her.

Until the girl wolfed down the steamed buns, her stomach filled with warmth and a sense of fullness, she was at her most relaxed...

Tang Li suddenly said, "Sister, I know you didn't kill Steward Li."

"Can you tell me what happened that night?" she asked. "I want to help you."

"Wh...no, no!" The girl covered her face in terror, muttering incoherently again, just like the night before, "I killed him, I killed Steward Li..."

Tang Li tilted her head slightly, keenly sensing that her words today were not as firm as before.

"Sister, did Liu Lang order you to kill Steward Li?" Tang Li suddenly asked, looking at the girl's increasingly panicked eyes. She calmly replied, "Why did I find out about this? Because he gave me the same task."

"Sister, I don't know what Liu Lang promised you, but even if you don't betray him and insist that you killed Steward Li, Liu Lang won't save you."

Tang Li's tone was light, but her words carried a cruel undertone: "Do you think he's already extraordinary because he's a disciple of Instructor Han? Don't you know that Instructor Han is the most fickle person? This morning, another pair of twin martial arts geniuses caught his eye. Now, Liu Lang is nothing."

"How...how could this happen..." The girl seemed completely devastated by these words. She murmured, "No, no..."

"Yes, I will," Tang Li said gently. "Now, my sister has no choice but to ask me for help."

"I...I..." Perhaps the two steamed buns had an effect, or perhaps she realized that if she didn't ask for help, she would die. The girl's eyes showed an extreme emptiness of panic, but her mind was dutifully recalling, "Last night, I went to kill Steward Li."

"I know I can't kill Steward Li. But when I went to see him, he... took a liking to me. He asked me to go to the storeroom with him. I know, I know he has bad intentions." The girl's hands were clenched tightly together.

"But I think, maybe, maybe this will fulfill Lord Liu Lang's request, maybe I can take advantage of... to kill Steward Li."

Tang Li thought that at this moment, she was already under the control of that oleander.

"But I haven't done it yet..." The girl's voice trembled noticeably. "Manager Li... he committed suicide."

What?

Tang Li stared in astonishment, her eyes widening.

"Not yet, not yet started..." But Manager Li suddenly pushed me away. His eyes were fixed on me, and it was quite frightening. Suddenly, he started searching around the storeroom. I saw him find a bundle of hemp rope, and he threw it onto the beam, letting it pass through the roof beam.

"I was terrified. I thought Steward Li was going to hang me."

"But then, it seemed like he suddenly couldn't see me anymore. He stood on a stool, stuck his neck into the noose, and then... he kicked the stool away, leaving himself hanging in mid-air."

"He didn't struggle, and after a while, he stopped breathing. He... he died..." The girl looked at Tang Li, trembling, her eyes filled with tears. "And then, you appeared."

Oh, how pitiful.

Tang Li's eyes were completely unmoved.

She didn't tell the truth, or at least she didn't reveal the whole truth.

After all, she was trying to survive.

"Was anything unusual after Steward Li's death?"

Tang Li's question was utterly unskilled, but as she spoke, a faint, almost imperceptible fragrance slowly wafted from the sachet at her waist, masked by the aroma of the steamed buns.

The dungeon item [Sincere Sachet] can make the user lower their guard without them realizing it, and more cooperatively reveal the information the player needs.

"After he died... nothing unusual happened... no, after he died, something unexpected actually happened..."

The props worked extremely quickly. The girl, whose words were contradictory, had clearly been affected. An extremely conflicted and painful expression appeared on her face. The instinct to conceal the truth and the coercion of the props were fighting within her body.

Tang Li continued to apply pressure slowly and deliberately: "You and I were arrested together. Now you're in jail, while I'm out there. Don't you understand what that means?"

"Sister," the little girl's voice, though childish, slowly rose from below with a calm and composed tone, "I have the ability to let you leave the cell because you once helped me, that's why I'm giving you this opportunity."

"But if my sister refuses to tell the truth, I'll have no choice but to do the same as Liu Lang and give up on her... Do you understand?"

The girl finally burst into tears: "No! No! I'll tell you, please! I'll tell you everything!"

"Manager Li...Manager Li, he's clearly hanged himself, he's clearly dead!"

"But, but not long after... I saw with my own eyes that his legs started moving again!"

"—He's alive again!"

Tang Li suddenly took a step forward: Another person who has come back from the dead?

The girl's face was covered in tears, as if she had returned to that terrifying and helpless night that seemed endless.

"Manager Li came back to life, opened his eyes, and yelled at me from his throat, telling me to put him down."

"I didn't dare. So, gradually, he was hanged again."

"But after a while, his legs started moving again..."