Chapter 40

In Bishuiwan Manor, it was brightly lit. From the gorgeously decorated crystal lamps on the ceiling of the lobby to the dim and ambiguous atmosphere lamps in the restaurant, and even every street lamp on the corners of the garden and buildings, all were lit without exception. The dazzling light once made people unable to open their eyes.

Horror movies often like to use dark and closed scenes to render a dangerous atmosphere, while Feng Yushu was walking in a bright and spacious lobby at this moment, and could see the stone pillars and statues outside through the floor-to-ceiling windows with a turn of her head.

Empty, bright, quiet.

From time to time, there was a corpse leaning against the wall or lying on the ground. There were no bloodstains or signs of fighting on the deceased, just like a puppet that had lost power, with its limbs twisted into strange shapes and motionless.

Feng Yushu supported the wall with her hands, carefully bypassed the scattered corpses, and walked up to the second floor along the steps.

Some of the corpses lying in the lobby and corridors were wearing work clothes. They were gardeners and cleaners responsible for daily maintenance in the manor, as well as decorators, civil engineering brothers, and safety officers who stayed here to make final adjustments before the manor officially opened.

Some of the corpses were wearing pajamas. They were senior executives and employees of the New Home Group who came here on a business trip with the company and became the first batch of guests to stay in Bishuiwan Manor before it officially opened to the public.

Now they all died here.

In the quiet night, repressed crying and hysterical screams came from time to time. The passing of every human life meant that the time left for Feng Yushu was becoming more urgent, like a killer bell driving her steps to be faster and faster.

Feng Yushu ran barefoot across the soft wine-red carpet and quickly walked up to the second floor of the manor.

"Hmm?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stood on her shoulder and tilted his head.

The area of Bishuiwan Manor is very large, and the number of rooms in this European-style castle is also very large. In those brightly lit rooms that emitted light, there was the only room with the lights off, which was extremely conspicuous.

In the magnificent and bright manor, this only touch of darkness was the most eye-catching.

"It's... A-Zhi, that's her room." Feng Yushu suddenly became excited, and the steps she took couldn't help but become faster.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe frowned, protected Feng Yushu in front of him, and approached the only room with the lights off behind her.

"A-Zhi? Are you inside? It's Mom..." Feng Yushu knocked on the door, her face full of anxiety: "Are you asleep? Wake up, we have to go!"

After knocking on the door for several minutes without getting any response, Feng Yushu, who was anxious, suddenly remembered that she had a spare key to the room, and hurriedly took out the key from her small handbag in a panic and inserted it into the keyhole.

A rustling sound came from the door panel. Feng Yushu twisted the key in her hand left and right, but couldn't open the door no matter what.

She turned around and looked at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, who was standing on the windowsill beside her, with a look of help: "What should I do, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, I can't open the door..."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked up. The construction quality of Bishuiwan Manor was really good. Marble slabs were pasted on the outer wall as a heat insulation layer, and every door of an independent room was a heavy solid wood, which seemed to be a hardwood like maple. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was difficult for a human with bare hands to force the door open, at least it could be said to be a fantasy.

Even Wolf Warrior wouldn't work.

But Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe could.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe landed on his feet, picked up a vase on the windowsill, and smashed it directly on the closed window. With a loud bang, the window glass shattered in response, and a repressed scream came from the dark room.

"A-Zhi!" Feng Yushu was even more concerned.

Even if the window with anti-theft nets was smashed, it could not allow an adult to pass through. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe supported it with one hand, transformed into a small bird, passed through the hole, entered the room smoothly, and landed steadily on his feet.

But just as his feet landed, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe felt a rustling sound coming from the darkness where one couldn't see one's fingers. He subconsciously dodged to the side, and heard the clanging sound of metal colliding with the stone wall.

"Girl, do you want to enter the Assassin's Biography?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe turned to the side, touched the light switch by the door, and the moment the light turned on, he stepped out with one foot and stepped on the assassin who was rushing toward him in the dark. After turning on the light, he could see clearly that the person lying on the ground was a girl wearing a loose bathrobe. Her hair was messy and her face was pale. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's Martin boots stepped exactly on the girl's tender neck. With her vital point captured, she was still struggling violently, reaching out to touch the sharp metal hairpin that had fallen to the ground because it stabbed the marble wall...

"Hmm?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked carefully and found that it wasn't a dagger, but a sharp metal hairpin.

"Be honest, don't move." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe squatted down, tied the girl's hands behind her back, locked them firmly with his arm, and reached out with his other hand to twist the doorknob to open the door.

But after twisting a few times, he found that he couldn't twist it. It turned out that this girl had filled the gaps and keyholes of the doorknob with wood glue.

"Wood glue, do you play with wooden block models?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked casually.

However, the girl didn't even pay attention to him. With her hands locked by Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, she was still struggling violently, wanting to hit the wall with her head.

No, to be precise, she wanted to hit the light switch on the wall.

"Do you want to turn off the light?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked again.

This time she finally didn't continue to struggle desperately, but nodded slightly and said a barely audible "Hmm".

"If you have anything to say, just say it properly. If you don't say it, how can I understand?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe shook his head, turned off the light, and the room fell into pitch darkness again.

After turning off the light, the girl's mental state improved significantly, and she no longer tried to attack people like a madman. But Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's arm could still feel her heart beating wildly in her chest. It seemed that she had been extremely frightened.

"Are you Bai Zhi?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked carefully, slowly loosening his grip.

"How do you know?" The girl's voice, lacking in energy, was exceptionally clear in the darkness.

"I came with your mother. Didn't you hear her calling you just now?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was a bit helpless: "Or did you think she was a ghost?"

"Hmm, I thought it was a ghost trying to lure me into opening the door... Wait." Bai Zhi's tone suddenly became excited: "You know about the existence of ghosts?!"

"I know, but you have to tell me first why you turned off the light and hid in the room." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe asked back: "Many people died in the manor, really many, many, many people, and you have been able to live until now. I believe you might know something."

Something about the ferocious ghost in the manor.

"It's light. Ghosts need light to kill people." Bai Zhi said without hesitation: "Contrary to common sense, within the range of this ghost's activity, light means danger, and darkness means safety. As long as you hide in the dark, you won't be found and killed by it."

Her tone was full of expectation, as if she was very afraid that Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe wouldn't believe her.

"Okay..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe initially accepted this statement. After all, Bai Zhi living safely until now was the best evidence.

So the problem now is, how to open this door with a damaged lock core and take Bai Zhi away?

While pondering, suddenly, a repressed sobbing sound came from the corridor outside the door. It was Feng Yushu's voice: "Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, the ghost... the ghost is upstairs..."

Following her words, a crisp sound, as if a porcelain bottle hit marble, echoed quietly in the silent manor.

Thump, thump.

(End of chapter)