CHAPTER 801: CHAPTER 498: SURVIVING THE NIGHT

There are three people in this room: Sui Yi, Yi, and Mu Sang.

Ming Lanyuan is sharing a room with Cao Ling and Yue Beiqing.

Initially, Zhong Lang was placed there, but Cao Yu said it’s inappropriate for men and women to be together... the Chinese way—men and women should not touch, so they suggested a replacement with a woman.

The suggestion was to place his sister there.

Haha, the relationship between those two factions is not good, dear!

Cao Ling felt powerless to complain about her brother and decided to comply.

Of course, the moment they entered the room, Sui Yi and the others checked for any daisy patterns or portraits—nothing!

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Sui Yi frowned, and she would rather there were Devil’s Foot markings in the room.

At least it would prove that the opponent wasn’t deliberately targeting them.

Others didn’t have any unusual encounters, except this row had encountered the Devil’s Foot.

Now their rooms have been moved to the second floor on the right side of the castle, and everything seems normal again.

But no one dared to let their guard down.

The rooms were grouped in twos and threes, reducing the original dozen rooms to four, and all the guards were stationed outside for defense, while Ye Zixu and Gao Fei refused a room, opting to guard the door.

Inside the room, the dim light of an oil lamp flickered.

Cao Ling was not sleepy at all and even seemed to cause disturbances, seeking to make conversation out of boredom... Mu Sang bluntly told everyone to leave~

Just as Sui Yi was taking off her nightgown...

Yi handed over the coat in her hand.

"Wait!" Yi suddenly spoke out.

Expelled by Mu Sang, Cao Ling quickly darted back in.

What’s wrong?

Yi stared at Sui Yi.

Sui Yi thought they saw the injury on her shoulder, but she was turned away from them, so...

"Sui Yi, on the back of your tank top..."

A grotesque, blood-stained handprint.

Once Sui Yi changed her clothes and held the tank top in her hand, the blood handprint rendered her momentarily silent. After a while, she said, "So... it wasn’t an illusion."

Cao Ling and the others had already connected this blood handprint to something else—a charred corpse.

"Did you also encounter the charred corpse attack? I thought there was only one!" Cao Ling was shocked and worried.

"I also thought there was only one." Sui Yi tightened her grip on the tank top, "At that time, I was indeed attacked, but I thought it was an illusion. Once I became clear-headed, there was no sign of anything strange... Since it’s real, then there must be more than one charred corpse."

Since there are more than one.

All four in the room looked toward the bed.

Bam!

The bed was lifted, and nothing was there.

"Nothing? Just the floor...," Cao Ling looked at Sui Yi, "Could it be that only the row we stayed in previously had them?"

"Maybe."

"Should we go back and check now?"

"It’s not necessary..."

Sui Yi gently pressed her forehead, "Such things can’t be explained to ordinary people—it would be useless even if they knew. Besides, it’s just a matter of hours, those who can hold on, will naturally hold on, those who can’t..."

The implication was clear.

Cao Ling shook her head, "The target shouldn’t be those ordinary people... I hope things won’t escalate too much, otherwise it would be too..."

If all of them died here, it would not only cause a massive wave on the world’s visible side but would also create a huge stir in the dark side of the world.

After restoring the bed, Cao Ling left.

Sui Yi and the other two fell asleep...

The moon was shining dimly, starry night sinking deeper.

In the garden, someone strolled leisurely, walking along the dark, unlit path, reaching the transparent glass front...

Extending a hand...

Opening The Gate.

Gently opening, gently saying: "Darlings, it’s time for dinner..."

--It seems they all forgot a crucial point: the electricity went out, certain tightly-sealed places... the electronic locks are useless.

Rustling noises, one by one glowing green eyes lit up.

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Late into the night.

Sui Yi opened her eyes; she was lying on her side, facing the window towards the manor...

Dimly lit.

Huh? She suddenly felt something was off.

Until she met Yi’s gaze, and the other also seemed to have noticed—it was evident that the two glanced simultaneously toward the large glass window.

The window was large, almost like a wall, but much thicker since it was made of composite tempered glass—not just bulletproof, even a high-caliber sniper rifle couldn’t penetrate it.

But the issue now is... it’s opaque.

How can it be opaque if it’s glass?

Unless something was blocking it!

What thing?

The two waited quietly... After a while...

The light began to appear at the bottom... Darkness moved upward... Did that thing move?

Alive?

Slowly, slowly...

They saw three leg-like structures as thick as their arms...