In the end, Amir was tied up there, ready to continue feeding the ghosts the following day.
No one spoke up for him. After all, he had filmed everyone with his phone at the beginning, which had put them all on the opposite side. In such a situation, no one would have extra sympathy for a guy who had wanted to kill him.
Anna left quietly. The last ghost hadn't killed anyone yet. Although most people were angry now, they didn't dare to leave casually. It was unrealistic to count on others. Ling Yan had the courage, and Beom Seok would consider it, but they still couldn't abandon the people in the hall and wouldn't follow her to find a laboratory. Cairo was willing, but he was powerless. It was a miracle that he had nothing and had survived until now.
But Anna didn't want to give up. If it were other things, it would be fine. The blood of the divine bird was described in Victor Ravencourt's diary. It had a coveted effect: resurrection.
Bathing the whole body in the blood would bring the dead back to the living world. Although Victor Ravencourt also explained that such a resurrection was only a temporary awakening, and the resurrected person would die again after an hour, even so...
Holding the hammer found in the warehouse, Anna began to slowly break and knock the wall open.
As a large amount of white solidified paint and bricks fell off, the black iron sheet inside gradually revealed itself. Slowly, the outline of an iron door appeared, but there was no door handle or anything similar on the door. Anna was sure that the door had originally been meant to be opened by a mechanism.
But where was the mechanism? The door was tightly connected to the passage behind it, and it was very difficult to destroy. Even if the surrounding walls were removed, the exposed parts were all thick metal walls—Victor Ravencourt had not cut corners in protecting the laboratory.
Seeing the secret right in front of her, who would give up? Unable to break the iron door violently, Anna turned her attention back to finding the mechanism inside. After all, there weren't many things in this room, and nothing covered it except large furniture such as beds, desks, and wardrobes.
Look again!
However, good luck seemed to have run out. After searching the whole house, Anna couldn't find anything like a mechanical device. Instead, her body was so tired that she couldn't stand any longer.
"Anna, what's going on here?"
Ling Yan finally came over, feeling a little worried. When she entered the room, she saw the iron door that had been removed from the wall and Anna sitting on the bed with a disappointed face.
"Sister Ling Yan, can you open this door?" Anna looked at Ling Yan for help.
"...I'll try."
Ling Yan walked to the iron door, pressed against it, and knocked a few more times, frowning slightly. "The door is very thick; the lock should be inside, but I don't know what kind of lock is used."
"Is that so..."
Anna knew it was a mechanical lock, but what was the use? There was no switch.
"Forget it; since you found it, there's always a chance to open it. You need to rest now." Ling Yan turned around and pressed Anna's forehead to check her temperature.
"It's okay; the fever is gone, but you're in poor health now. Go back and rest immediately."
"...Okay."
Anna also knew that it was useless to force herself, so she agreed.
Ling Yan pulled Anna up, and when they walked back to the hall, no one was there; only a few lights were still on. This was the first time in a few days that the hall was so quiet.
"Where are they?"
"They were tired of all the commotion. Anyway, there was only one ghost left to kill, and there was a free one tied downstairs, so they went back to their rooms first."
"They can't be so naive..." Anna muttered, but she was also very tired now, and her brain was much slower, so she was too lazy to think about the relationships between everyone. Since she still had to abide by the rules of the group, Anna simply went to bed with Ling Yan. She knew what was going on and slept peacefully, but Ling Yan often got up at night to pay attention to the surroundings and had some traces of dark circles under her eyes when she woke up in the morning. "No one died last night?" Anna took out her mobile phone. After a good sleep, she felt refreshed. She sorted out what had happened before and suddenly had some ideas in her mind.
"I don't know; I just got up." Ling Yan yawned and walked into the bathroom—after Grace's death, everyone had taken down the mirrors in the room, wrapped them with cloth or something, and stuffed them somewhere. Although covering them up couldn't guarantee that the mirror ghost couldn't kill people, at least they didn't have to pay attention to the mirrors around them all the time.
Anna rubbed her eyes and waited for the moment with her mobile phone.
As the countdown skipped the last second, the text message was sent to the mobile phone on time. Ling Yan, who had finished washing and walked out, also picked up her mobile phone. But after reading the text message, they realized that the tense atmosphere after yesterday would probably never improve.
[Dear Visitors, did you enjoy the sunny weather? Although the villa is full of surprises at all times, please don't forget to go out and feel the natural scenery. Of course, the premise is not to leave the scope of the villa (laughs).
Additional tips on ghosts:
5: The ability of the third ghost is substitution. It will directly devour a person's soul and live on behalf of that person until the next victim is found. When a substitute ghost possesses a human, it will gain that person's memory. Because it has a human body, the effect of some props on it will be weakened or even disappear, but at the same time, the substitute ghost can only act in a human posture. The substitute ghost kills people by devouring their souls the moment it comes into contact with them, and the empty shell left behind by the person killed by it will have a special smile on its face. As long as you don't make physical contact with anyone, the substitute ghost cannot kill you.
6: ( Will be unlocked at the end of the fifth day. )
I wish you all a happy journey! ]
"I found you." Anna smiled.
Ling Yan was somewhat surprised by the content of the message. When she heard Anna's words, she turned her head and showed a puzzled look.
"Do you already know who the substitute ghost is?"
"I roughly guessed that the ability of this ghost was to possess, but I didn't dare to act rashly without decisive information. Now... this information is enough." Anna shook her phone. "Elizabeth, Lily, then whoever touched Lily when she died was the substitute ghost."
The answer was already obvious: Albino.
"What are you going to do?"
"Sister Grace's dagger, the dagger that can kill a person and absorb their soul, is simply a coffin tailor-made for this ghost, isn't it?" Anna had never been so excited.
Ling Yan nodded. "In that case, I will protect you. As long as we find a way to kill the substitute ghost, more of us can survive."
Just as the two people opened the door and came out excitedly, a shout came from outside the stairs.
The white-collar worker sat on the ground, shoving backward and shouting, "Don't get close to me!"
Opposite him, two band members opened their hands in confusion, and on the stairs leading upstairs, a figure curled up on the steps; from the back, it was Albino.
The body was cold.
"Stay away from me, both of you!" the white-collar worker shouted, waving his arms wildly. "He's dead. Where's the ghost? Where did the ghost go?"
"Wait, explain it clearly!" the flat-headed band youth stood still but still looked confused.
"You guys are the closest, right? Who is the ghost? Is it you? Or you? Or that showy man? All of you get away! Don't get so close to me! Are you going to kill me?"
The white-collar worker shouted hysterically, and people were attracted to the corridor one after another. Anna was standing at the door of the room at this time. It was impossible for her not to be disappointed. After a glance, she silently put away the dagger and turned back into the room.
"Anna?"
"Sister Ling Yan, I could have killed Albino yesterday." Anna's tone made it hard to tell what she was feeling. "But I was afraid that my judgment was incorrect, or that my guess was wrong, so I waited until today's information to take action. Do you think I was... wrong again?"
"Do you still believe in me?" Ling Yan leaned against the door and did not answer the question directly.
"You are the only person I can rule out as a substitute ghost."
Ling Yan smiled lightly. "You... don't have to feel guilty. Each of us makes mistakes, big and small, and some mistakes will even change the trajectory of our lives, but I don't think it's wrong to be cautious."
"Cautious... or hesitant? I can't tell the difference myself."
Anna was a little dejected.
"When I was a kid, I was lazy in martial arts training, which led to my weak foundation. When I was in junior high school, I relied on my martial arts to form gangs at school, and my father confined me to my home for a whole summer vacation. When someone came to my house to spar, I was afraid that I couldn't beat the other person, so I hid. As a result, my father broke two bones." Ling Yan suddenly said, "I have made many mistakes in my life, and I still can't forgive my past self. I understand your current mentality, and I can be sure that this is not a mistake."
"You are comforting me."
"Even if it is really a mistake, don't be so disappointed. Many times, only those who have been hurt know how to grow." Ling Yan gestured outside. "Besides, the situation won't get worse, right?"
Anna was silent.
After a little psychological preparation, she stammered, "Then, that... Sister Ling Yan, the situation will really get worse."
Amir downstairs died.
As everyone had thought, after the effect of the Clearwell Pill ended, the invisible ghost killed him immediately without wasting any time. No one felt sorry for his death, but the existence of the substitute ghost had made everyone suspicious of each other. Albino was finally sitting on the stairs, and there was no way to judge who had been the last person to come into contact with him. Now almost everyone deliberately kept a distance from others.
In addition to Anna and Ling Yan, who still believed in each other, the only ones who could keep close contact were the couple.
The two said that they had never left each other, and it was even more impossible for them to run out in the middle of the night and have any contact with Albino. Speaking of which, no one had ever seen these two people act separately.
Although it was not particularly certain, the suspicion surrounding the couple had been reduced a lot.