【Mission Branch One】：Use every possible method to resolve the target's resentment and curse, understand her past, and heal her trauma. Additional Reward: Special Reward x1

【Mission Branch Two】：Use every possible method to kill the target or suppress her. Additional Reward: Special Item x1

【Mission Branch Three】：When the first two missions cannot be completed, escape from Happy Home. Additional Reward: Skeleton Coins x1000

【Complete any one branch to receive mission rewards】：Skeleton Coins: 3000, Basic Experience: 3000

Along with the mission trigger.

The pale little girl slowly turned her head, revealing her ghastly white face covered in cracks and her eyes.

"Big Brother... become my... family... The Mommy and Daddy you didn't like... have already... given up..."

She slowly turned around, emptily stretching her small hand toward Lynn's direction.

"Like how you treated the old brother... protect Alice... become Alice's new brother..."

"Doctor..."

"Shouldn't you... prevent your patients... from dying..."

That vast, gloomy coldness surged and spread throughout the entire tower.

Even Lynn could feel that bone-chilling cold rising from the depths of his heart.

Maintaining his composure, Lynn asked, "Can you tell me why? During your lifetime, your parents and brother were always abusing you, which caused you to become a Vengeful Ghost after death?"

Alice said emptily, "No, I was the one abusing them."

Buzz—

In an instant, Lynn's expression froze stiff.

Alice continued emptily, "They... were truly despicable people... daring to make my little Alice... forget her birth mother..."

"Little Alice... was really happy... but the happier she was... the more I hated it..."

"Because these... should have been given to Alice by me..."

Wrong!

Lynn's pupils sharply contracted.

He instantly opened the target's system panel again.

【Madam Mary】

【Race】：Vengeful Ghost

【Alignment】：Chaotic Evil

【Combat Ability】：Massive curses derived from ultimate hatred!

【Introduction】：A witch burned at the stake during the witch hunts, formerly Count Camell's mistress, skilled in black magic and Cursed Arts, gave birth to a daughter with Count Camell. When her jealousy drove her to attempt to murder the Countess, she was discovered and executed by the church through burning. After death, she transformed into a Vengeful Ghost and possessed her own daughter. Jealousy and rage led her to launch a vicious revenge against all living people in the entire ancient castle...

Indeed!

And that panel and Alice's panel were switching back and forth at an extremely high frequency.

Which meant that within this girl's body, there had always been two Evil Spirits! One was the real Alice, and the other was this Vengeful Ghost!

Sizzle—

The smell of burning suddenly emanated from her.

Lynn sharply raised his head.

Large patches of burn marks slowly appeared on the little girl's empty face, and the foul stench of burning flesh and blood gushed forth.

"Alice is so adorable... always such a well-behaved daughter..."

"Hateful that witch hunt movement... prevented me from destroying that woman... and that hypocritical Camell... actually dared to betray me... ah... and that boy... truly disgusting to look at..."

"Each one so hypocritical... must make Alice see their true faces... must make them become vicious... they should become unfortunate too..."

Lynn's pupils were fixed intently on the girl before him, immense chills surging through his body.

"You're saying that the reason their personalities drastically changed was because you manipulated them?!"

The little girl said emptily, "Ah... Alice cannot be deceived..."

And in that instant, the panel before Lynn's eyes switched back to Alice's panel without any warning.

Her voice changed again.

"Big Brother..." The girl stretched her hand toward him, saying emptily:

"Become Alice's brother... They all don't like me... Brother is good to me... Alice will be... good to Brother too..."

Which meant.

That Vengeful Ghost had long since merged with Alice into one.

Which meant.

All of this little girl's misfortune originated from...

In an instant, images of the past in this ancient castle flashed through his mind - the gentle father during the day, the virtuous mother, the caring brother, who all immediately changed faces at night.

Becoming cruel and furious, becoming insane and pathological, becoming abusive and cold-hearted.

As if wearing masks.

A curse of misfortune enveloped the entire ancient castle, everyone becoming two-faced.

Fear, constant fear day and night.

And all of this came from the misfortune imposed by the Vengeful Ghost parasitizing within her...

"You won't agree... You won't agree with me..."

Alice walked step by step toward Lynn, her gaze empty.

With each step she took, pieces of her flesh and blood cracked and fell off, as if being dismembered, clattering to the ground.

[Ding! Warning! Warning! Curse intensity skyrocketing! Curse intensity skyrocketing!]

[Host, escape immediately! Escape immediately!]

Accompanied by the system's sharp warning in his ears, at this moment, Lynn didn't hesitate at all. Gritting his teeth, numerous tentacles burst forth from his shoulders, carrying him swiftly outward.

Because even without the system's warning, he could already feel it.

That violent curse had reached a level he could no longer withstand!

And behind him.

The empty voice of the little girl continued to echo.

"You won't agree with me..."

"You won't become my brother..."

"You're going to abandon Alice too..."

Boom—

The entire tower began to tremble. In the spiral staircase leading downward, Lynn raced frantically, while on both sides of the walls, blood-red handprints continuously appeared one after another.

A thick bloody smell surged wildly from behind, the ground began to burn, and a torrent of crimson blood flowed clatteringly down the staircase behind him.

The next moment.

Lynn burst out of the tower.

And he immediately saw that on the city wall connecting the high platform to the outside world, raging blood-colored flames had already ignited.

Hanging high on the flagpole, Bai Yi looked at the anomaly in the ancient castle with shock. Seeing Lynn rushing out from the tower, he immediately screamed in terror:

"Big Brother! What on earth is happening?!"

But Lynn had no time to deal with him now.

Because almost simultaneously, the blood-colored flames on the high platform transformed into waves, rushing to drown him.

Without any hesitation.

Gritting his teeth, Lynn quickly dashed into the corridor he came from.

And he finally understood.

Why there was such immense resentment, powerful enough to envelop the entire ancient castle and drag it all into this Dark World.

Because this resentment didn't just come from that Vengeful Ghost, but also from the dismembered Alice!

The fusion of those two Vengeful Ghosts.

Made their resentment and hatred almost reach the heavens!

But there must be a way to find a cure, because if there weren't, the system definitely wouldn't have issued branch missions!

Rustle—

In the narrow corridor, countless hands that had been devoured by this ancient castle surged out wildly, howling as they obstructed Lynn's path.

Gritting his teeth, Lynn had no time to deal with them.

He grabbed his chainsaw and once again tore all those arms to shreds.

There must be a way.

Because from the information he had obtained, Alice was completely unaware - she might have died without knowing that all of this was orchestrated by her birth mother!

She was filled with hatred, but at the same time seeking happiness.

It was her birth mother who personally destroyed her entire childhood!