Chapter 4 - Midnight Mansion (2) (2/2)

As for Wang Jianming, he definitely regards Ren Xue as a goddess. The reason why this buddy is here was probably because he followed his goddess over. If his goddess said that she’s very scared, this buddy here probably patted his chest in confidence and became a player by accepting it through the app. It’s almost certain that he would have said something along the lines of him protecting her……..

At this moment, Ren Xue stretched her hand out to Bai Yi, but Bai Yi only smiled gently and didn’t hold it. He just took the lead and said: “If everyone is okay with it, let’s go in.”

Ren Xue bit onto her lower lip and revealed a trace of hurt expression on her face. Wang Jianming felt particularly distressed seeing this. He angrily glared at Bai Yi and then patted his chest: “Xiao Xue, sometimes you can tell that someone is unreliable with just one glance. You don’t need to be so friendly with him. Don’t worry, you have me here. I will definitely protect you!”

“…………….Cough.”

Cheng Zhi Chu cleared his throat to suppress the laughter that was about to come out. No, he can’t laugh. It would be too rude. He would direct all the hatred over to himself if he did.

So he maintained a serious expression and responded to Bai Yi: “Then let’s go in.”

“Okay.”

Bai Yi once again smiled at him and took the initiative to come over and walk next to him. He even cheerily said a few more words to him.

Seeing Bai Yi acting so friendly with him, Cheng Zhi Chu felt somewhat flattered. Just now, he had witnessed Bai Yu’s cold attitude towards Ren Xue and thought that despite being good looking, Bai Yi was probably someone who was hard to get along with. But, turns out he is actually quite approachable.

As they conversed, they reached the entrance to the mansion. The dark, carved wooden door had somewhat decayed and in some areas the black paint had peeled off revealing a layer of dust and cobwebs. Next to the door was an aged newspaper that was pinned onto the wall.

“‘Terror! Another death at the Sorcha Mansion. The ghost house is true to its name’………..”

Cheng Zhi Chu took out the flashlight from his backpack and approached it to illuminate the text. With furrowed brows, he read the title.

The flashlight was something that he had received from the beginner’s gift package. It would always be fully charged, and every player would have one of them in their possession.

Also, from the gift package were three bottles of low-level blood tonics, ten weapon fragments and two skills.

Weapon fragments could be used to synthesize weapons. The more fragments used, the higher level the weapon would be. Cheng Zhi Chu had not yet used the fragments because ten fragments could only be combined to make a thin wooden stick that was completely useless.

As for the skills, one of it was a “Low Level Text Interpretation” skill that allowed him to understand the contents of the newspaper written in a foreign language. The other one was a “Low Level Clue Prompt” skill. After using this skill, he would be able to see the clues shining but this skill had a cool down time of half an hour after every use and it could only be used in instances that was below the difficulty level of Hard.

Although these two skills are very practical, the reason why Cheng Zhi Chu wanted to cry was because he didn’t possess any weapons. He was basically in a completely unarmed state right now so if ghosts or monsters were to appear and his teammates abandoned him, he would be done for. After all, the Kiss to Clear ability of his is only useful against the boss and it had no effect on the other monsters.

For now, he had not yet told his teammates about his current predicament because he wasn’t certain whether or not they were teammates that he could trust. Fortunately, it looks like he’s the only one in this group that had the text interpretation ability so they could only rely on him to read the clues. This would mean that his teammates couldn’t abandon him, or they would not be able to complete the main task of “Investigating the truth”.

“What this newspaper article is talking about is this mansions’ third and last owner’s mysterious death.”

After reading the contents of the article, Cheng Zhi Chu stored it inside his backpack and gave the others a simple summary.

“This case happened about ten years ago. He was found dead in the hall by his wife. It looked like he had committed suicide by hanging himself but the rope that he had used was very short and after being hung up, the distance between his feet and the floor was about two metres so it couldn’t have been a suicide. After the police inspected the scene, they had determined that this was not a case that a human was capable of doing.”

As Cheng Zhi Chu said this, his body trembled. The faces of Lu Wenjing and the others went pale with fear. Only Bai Yi maintained a calm expression and asked gently: “Were there any clues left in the scene?”

“Nothing. Everything was clean.”

Cheng Zhi Chu shook his head: “That’s why the police believe that it is the work of an evil spirit. Because this case was so similar to the two cases that had happened before, it was very quickly closed, and the owner’s family soon moved out. No one dared to investigate the secrets hidden here………”

“……..”

The others looked over at the door with fear. They were afraid that it would open at any time and swallow them up.

“Clack……Creaaaakk———”

As everyone looked at the door, the originally tightly locked door suddenly made a strange noise before slowly creaking open to reveal a dark gap.

From the beginning to the end, no one had touched the door.

It had opened itself.

Bai Yi’s Diary (Part 4)

That woman wanted to shake hands with me, but I naturally rejected it.

How could I shake hands with her?

Every inch of my body belongs to Zhi Chu. Only he can touch me.