Chapter 24: To Be Shocked (1/2)

Three people tragically died the last four days, which cast a layer of sadness in everyone’s hearts. But with the decrease of three able-bodied people, their problem as of now was that the others would need to shoulder the deceased people’s work.

Since Yang Qi was dead, Su Xiaoqian carried on working, compliantly taking her dead teammate’s place to clean the rooms.

Fortunately, the next two days at the villa were a breeze. The madam didn’t ask them to do other types of work.

On the morning of the seventh day, Bai Yan finally found an opportunity to ask the madam a question he desperately wanted to know the answer to. He was afraid that the madam would remember this, so he didn’t dare ask his question during the early stages of the game until today.

“Madam, about the employees who previously left, where did they go?”

“Didn’t I tell you this before? They were all sacked.” The madam intently looked at Bai Yan’s face, assuming that she completely understood what he meant, and started laughing amusedly, “You can relax. You have all worked diligently for seven days and I’m not someone who can’t let go of her money. Even if someone did something wrong today, I wouldn’t drive him or her away. As long as they weren’t sneaky little thieves, the fired workers even received some money from me. I was worried that you wouldn’t take your work seriously, so I told you all that you wouldn’t be receiving any compensation just to scare you.”

“It turns out the madam is actually a kind-hearted and magnanimous person.” Bai Yan praised.

After the madam’s usual routine, everyone gathered at noon and Bai Yan said something.

It was the last day, shouldn’t they be going back to rest early? Why did they ask them to come here?

“You have all worked hard these past seven days. There’s not much left to take care of, we’ll just go over how you finish your jobs.” The madam had a wide smile on her face as she cheerfully said, “You all did well and were honestly the best employees I’ve ever had. Tonight, you all… “

The madam didn’t finish her sentence because the sudden ear-splitting sounds of thunder boomed from outside, interrupting her mid-sentence.

Along with the rolling sounds of thunder, a large downpour abruptly came out of nowhere.

Everyone could hear the numerous ‘pitter-patters’ of the raindrops from the wide-open window, causing their hearts to inevitably fall into despair.

For the weather to be unexpectedly raining cats and dogs on their last night, it surely wasn’t a good omen.

A lot of tragedies occur during these long rainy nights.

Unfortunately, tonight was no exception.

Without waiting for the madam to finish what she was saying, a series of urgent knocks resounded from the other side of the door. Because of this, everyone’s expressions changed into uneasiness.

Knocking sounds, don’t tell us that it’s the door-knocking ghost from the previous nights?

But isn’t madam the door-knocking ghost?

Or, could it be someone else?

With everyone increasing their guard and appearing as if they were birds startled by the mere twang of a bow(1), the eerie violent sounds continued. Bai Yan discreetly looked at the married couple at the corner of his eye and found out that they were also surprised at the situation as if these unexpected sounds came from an uninvited guest.

Everyone had different thoughts on the matter, but the madam broke the stillness in the room and ordered Su Xiaoqian to open the door.

Hearing her task, Su Xiaoqian’s face was quickly filled with reluctance.

No one knew if this visiting guest was a person or a ghost. If she followed the madam’s orders and opened the door, the first one to suffer casualties would definitely be her. However, she had no other choice but to follow it. Despite her heart packed with fear, her quivering steps still slowly inched towards the door, clenching her teeth as she cautiously opened and pulled the knob.

The door opened.

The other side showed a man with messy hair and an unkempt appearance, not at all the door-knocking ghost they had assumed.

The man’s head was still firmly intact to his neck, but looking closer, everyone thought that his face looked weirdly familiar.

This uncanny familiarity made everyone naturally feel restless.