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But the dilapidated paper doors completely blocked her view.

Not seeing Xu Ming, the monster seemed even angrier.

She waved her arms wildly, her enormous body crashing wildly across the covered bridge.

She crashed into the railings of the covered bridge and broke off most of them, which then scattered onto the first floor.

After venting her anger for a while, the monster's rage seemed to subside slightly. She left the courtyard and began to carefully search each room along the corridor.

Xu Ming hid in a small room in the northeast corner of the second floor, carefully slowing his breathing.

Just now, while the monster was on the first floor, he conducted the experiment twice.

The result was the same: whenever he approached the stairwell, whether it led to the first or third floor, the rooms on the second floor would begin to rearrange themselves, as if his actions had triggered some kind of mechanism.

Xu Ming guessed that, just like on the first floor, he would need to eliminate the monster before he could proceed to the next floor.

Silk!

Boom!

Hearing the commotion the monster was making approaching, Xu Ming tightened his backpack and prepared to move to a different location.

Although the second floor is divided into small rooms, most of the rooms are connected by paper doors. As long as the monster doesn't open all the paper doors at once, he can retreat at his leisure, playing hide-and-seek with the monster while waiting for his phone to recharge.

"Young man, over here!"

Just as Xu Ming opened a paper door and was about to leave, a voice suddenly came from the side.

Chapter 116 Lady Red Butterfly

Xu Ming turned his head and saw that a door had appeared out of thin air on the wall, and a middle-aged woman dressed as a servant was waving to him from inside the door.

Xu Ming's eyes flashed, but instead of approaching, he ignored her calls, opened the other paper door, and left the room.

Upon seeing this, the middle-aged woman couldn't help but show a hint of annoyance on her face.

boom!

A loud crash suddenly came from not far away. The woman's face changed, and she quickly shrank back inside the door, slamming it shut with a click!

The wall immediately became completely sealed, leaving no trace.

At this moment, Xu Ming quietly peeked out from behind a door on the opposite side, glanced at the spotless wall, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes, and then turned and left.

Time passed by, second by second.

Boom! Boom!

After searching for half a day without finding anyone, the monster seemed to gradually lose patience and its actions became more violent.

When she encountered a paper door blocking her way, she rushed up and smashed it down.

She quickly smashed through most of the door to the second floor and damaged a lot of the walls, but she still couldn't find Xu Ming. It was as if he had vanished...

Xu Ming certainly couldn't have disappeared into thin air.

After playing hide-and-seek with the monster, he returned to the room with the hidden door.

This time, he took the initiative to knock on the hidden door.

After a while, the woman quietly opened the hidden door and looked him over with a strange expression.

"That monster is coming soon, let's go inside and talk."

Xu Ming said calmly, as if he wasn't the one who had ignored people just now.

The woman hesitated.

Soon the commotion outside grew louder again.

"Amei, what's going on? Why aren't you coming in?"

Suddenly, another woman's voice came from inside the hidden door.

Xu Ming then noticed that the two people's pronunciation and sentence structure were a bit strange, quite different from modern Japanese, and more like the ancient Japanese he had learned in his classical Chinese class.

"Madam, the young man from before has returned."

The woman named Amei glanced at Xu Ming and cautiously spoke to the person inside the door.

"Is that so? Then please come in, our guest."

The woman inside the door said.

"Yes!"

As Amei responded, she stepped back to the door and bowed slightly to Xu Ming, saying:

"Madam, please come in."

Xu Ming, holding his phone, nodded slightly to Amei and walked into the hidden door.

Stepping through the hidden door was like entering another world.

The room behind the hidden door was very small, only about 20 or 30 square meters, but it was completely different from the dilapidated rooms outside.

All the decorations and furniture in the room were still in good condition, and there was no strong musty smell in the air. Instead, there was a faint fragrance.

A small dressing table and a bronze mirror were placed on one side of the room, and a screen embroidered with white cranes was on the other side.

In the center of the room sat a woman dressed in an elegant twelve-layered kimono. She had her signature long Hime-style hair, and the red kimono embroidered with gold and orange patterns made her face appear even whiter and more delicate.

She held a women's folding fan in her hand. Seemingly noticing Xu Ming's gaze, she opened the fan, covering most of her face, leaving only her eyes showing as she curiously sized up Xu Ming.

Xu Ming's eyes glazed over for a moment.

The classical beauty dressed in a twelve-layered kimono, the rustic room decorations, and the scene inside made him almost think he had traveled back to the Warring States period.

However, Xu Ming did not let his guard down. He still held his phone tightly in his hand, ready to take a picture at any moment.

Although both the woman and the classical beauty in front of them looked no different from ordinary people.

But Xu Ming only glanced at them with his 'spiritual vision' and immediately saw the thick 'black mist' emanating from the two of them.

These two, like the monsters outside, are also 'strange'.

The only slight difference is that they can communicate.

Xu Ming walked up to the woman and sat down cross-legged.

The woman seemed to frown slightly at Xu Ming's carefree behavior, and a hint of dissatisfaction appeared in her eyes.

However, she still patiently bowed to Xu Ming and said:

“I am Red Butterfly, and I am the concubine of the Lord of Ashina Castle.”

Then she pointed to the woman next to her.

“She is my maid, Amei.”

Xu Ming nodded and introduced himself:

"Xu Ming is just an ordinary high school student."

Madam Red Butterfly and Ame looked puzzled; they clearly didn't know what a 'high school student' was.

However, Lady Red Butterfly did not delve into the matter. In her view, apart from 'nobles', 'daimyo', and 'samurai', everyone else was a lower class.

She would never ask a lower-class person for help unless she had absolutely no other options.

"Xu Ming... Your Excellency, I hope you can do me a favor."

Lady Red Butterfly hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Please speak, Madam."

Xu Ming immediately perked up; it was exactly as he had expected.

Having completed the tasks issued by the system multiple times, Xu Ming has also summarized some experience.

For example, there's a high probability of uncovering hidden clues from 'mysterious' figures like Lady Red Butterfly, who can be communicated with. These are crucial points that can significantly improve the success rate of the event.

"I am currently trapped on the second floor by that monster. I hope that Your Excellency Xu Ming can go to the third floor and ask my husband for help."

Lady Red Butterfly said to Xu Ming with a hopeful expression.

She seemed afraid that Xu Ming would refuse, so she quickly added another sentence.

"My husband is the ruler of Ashina Kingdom, and he will surely reward you handsomely after the deed is done!"

Xu Ming stroked his chin.

"Madam, don't worry about the reward yet. I'd like to ask what's going on with that monster outside?"

Lady Red Butterfly's expression froze instantly, and her words became mumbled:

"I don't know either. Perhaps it came from deep in the mountains and forests."

A strange look flashed in Amei's eyes.

Xu Ming immediately understood that there must be more to this story.

However, Xu Ming did not show it on his face.

"I understand. I'll accept this commission."

Just as a hint of joy appeared on Lady Red Butterfly's face, she heard Xu Ming say again:

"However, I don't seem to have any way to get close to the stairs to the third floor. I wonder if Madam has any ideas?"

Lady Red Butterfly breathed a sigh of relief. She had thought Xu Ming was going to haggle and was prepared to bleed a lot of money.

Little did she know that Xu Ming didn't care about her savings at all.

He has already discovered it.

Like the fairytale castle, the 'castle tower' is a near-realistic illusory space. No matter how realistic the things inside are, they are still illusory and worthless.

Therefore, he initially targeted hidden clues that could improve the success rate of the event.

"I can solve this problem."

As she spoke, Madam Red Butterfly gestured to Amei.

Amei immediately took out a small hand-held lantern from the inner room and placed it in front of Xu Ming.

Chapter 117 The Repulsive Samurai