"Do you think," Williams smirked, "that I'd believe you?"

"Believe it or not, that's up to you."

Li Ang said indifferently, "Our IRS established a special agency long ago, specifically to handle tax-dodging Transcendents like you. All of us here are top-notch IRS investigators."

Pointing at Dong Fengpo, Li Ang introduced, "This robust man using the three-dimensional maneuvering gear is named Allen Yeager. He's been practicing martial arts since childhood and prefers to wield two Great Swords. In the martial world, he's known as the top swordsman of the Survey Corps. His favorite drink is beer mixed with milk."

He then pointed at the Stonemason and continued, "This brother who uses a chisel is named Michelangelo. He loves sculpting and idolizes the Western Han scholar Kuang Heng. He was once kicked out of a Holiday Inn for imitating Kuang Heng by chiseling a hole in the wall to 'borrow light.' He's skilled with unique concealed weapons like Flying Knives and Darts. Even if ambushed in a bathhouse stark naked, he can somehow produce a Flying Knife."

Stonemason grimaced. Li Ang then pointed to the expressionless Ur Wunnian and began his introduction, "This one is even more heavyweight, called the Red Suit Strange Man..."

Li Ang paused for a moment, shifting his arm to point at the Forest Cat.

Ur Wunnian: Although it's not that important, why aren't you introducing me?! Just being called 'Red Suit Strange Man' is so lame! What happened to being heavyweight?

Ignoring Ur Wunnian's silent criticism, Li Ang introduced the Forest Cat, "This fair-skinned, beautiful young lady holding a pointer is a glorious teacher. Her students typically graduate with a 90% acceptance rate into top-tier universities and, astonishingly, a 60% mortality rate. She is a hero among teachers."

A 60% mortality rate? Is that even okay? What kind of school is this? Is it located in an African warzone?

Forest Cat couldn't help but glance at Li Ang. Her Stone Necklace could only maintain its effect for fifteen minutes. Once the necklace's power ran out, Williams would revert to his unseeable state. She didn't understand why Li Ang was wasting time with this nonsense. The more they delayed, the more strength Williams would slowly recover.

She could see Li Ang's physical conditioning was far superior to all other players, including herself. His base attributes were probably much higher, symbolizing a better Trait and a higher clearance rating, making him the main pillar of their team. If it weren't for this, she would have likely interrupted by now, urging her comrades to join her and gang up on Williams.

What was he waiting for?

Li Ang continued, ignoring the varied expressions of his teammates and addressing Williams, "If I am not mistaken, you were revived decades ago during the Lesley family's attempt to revive the Reindeer God, right?"

"Heh." Williams sneered, "Did you get that information from those organs? That's quite naive..."

Before Williams could finish, Li Ang interrupted, "Although you were revived at that time, you had already been preparing long before that."

"..."

This time, Williams did not laugh. He remained silent.

Li Ang went on, "Earlier upstairs, the anomalous organs we encountered each carried a fragment of memory. Once triggered, they unlock a part of the mansion's past. The limbs corresponded to a mother sending her daughter away from Roanoke Island, the lungs to Mrs. Lesley, the heart to Williams—meaning you—and the intestines, what do they correspond to?"

Li Ang paused momentarily, then said somberly, "The vision associated with the intestines dates back to the 16th century. Assuming the organs manifest a deeply imprinted memory from their original owner, then this segment of intestine must have belonged to a colonist involved in the Roanoke Island vanishing. In the vision, all the colonists followed the reindeer into the dense forest. Thus, it can be assumed these intestines originated from the one clergyman who did not follow the reindeer into the woods. The question, then, is this: the clergyman lived in the sixteenth century, so who exhumed him after his death?"

Li Ang took the intestines from his inventory and weighed them in his hand. "These intestines show signs of desiccation, clearly originating from a dried corpse."

"Even if the intestines really came from that clergyman, so what?" Williams said coldly. "Is that important?"

"Indeed, it's not important."

Li Ang smiled and looked at his teammates. "Do you still remember the writing left by Mrs. Lesley that we saw? She said that the Lesley family bought the mansion because they had discovered notes left by Williams. And she added later, 'The Reindeer God devoured all the family members, attempting to use us as material for resurrection.'"

Forest Cat's eyes lit up. "The intestines didn't come from the Lesley family!"

"That's right. And Williams's heart also didn't belong to a member of the Lesley family."

Li Ang smiled. "Mrs. Lesley and her family were deceived. The resurrection ritual they obtained from Williams's notes was flawed from the start. Long before the Lesley family arrived, you had already attempted the resurrection ritual. You exhumed the clergyman's grave, collected his intestines, and built cells beneath the mansion, gathering research data by killing slaves."

During Williams's era, slavery hadn't been completely abolished in the United States. The skeletons in the water dungeon, along with that kidney and torso, are likely remnants from that period. Because Williams's notes contained relevant information, the Lesley family, who later inherited the mansion, didn't dismantle the water dungeon. Instead, they left it and sealed it with Spells.

Mrs. Lesley's head didn't trigger a vision because her sanity had long since evaporated. Similarly, the kidney and torso from the slaves didn't trigger visions, possibly because Williams had subjected the slaves to numerous experiments during their lifetime, thereby exhausting any special properties. As for why the torso actively sought the kidney, Li Ang leaned towards the theory that both originated from the same enslaved host, driven by an innate instinct to reunite its body parts.

"The resurrection ritual that the Lesley family initially conducted didn't involve offering organs. From that moment, you had likely already supplanted the Reindeer God, seizing all that was his."

Li Ang said indifferently to the mud ball, "After that, you began planning your true revival. Using the divine office and Divine Power of the Reindeer God, you attacked the Lesley family, eliminating, one by one, any Lesley family member who occupied the Williams Mansion and might uncover your true identity. A heart, a head, limbs, a torso, lungs, a kidney, intestines. These seven anomalous organs we encountered earlier must be the components you specifically selected for your new body after completing your purge."

He paused, looked at the silent mud ball, and said calmly, "The only remaining question is, whose embryo are you using now?"

"..."

After a long while, Williams laughed hoarsely. "Haven't you figured it out yet? The day before you arrived, a descendant of the Lesley family came to this manor. She was a Witch, raised in the New World. She had cut ties with her family until she was called by the power of her bloodline, aiming to unearth her own origins and the family's past. Hmm... She was confident in her Transcendent abilities and attempted a swift attack to kill me. Unfortunately for her, she forgot that the entire mansion is my domain..."

"You killed her and turned her into the embryo?"

Li Ang raised an eyebrow. "No wonder. As the resurrection ritual neared, you seemed unconcerned about the other organs' locations, leaving them scattered throughout the mansion to be nurtured by the black wood. It turns out you had already found a more suitable vessel for your rebirth."