Chapter 56

Yitu lay quietly on the bed for a while, and the feeling of cold finally felt a little better.

After coming to his senses from the dream, Yitu couldn't help but recall the whole process.

Especially at the end, he was clearly dragged into the well by Du Jinyu, but was trapped in darkness.

After staying in the darkness for too long, the ancient well that appeared was the only salvation.

If he had not held on at that time or even given up the desire to live early, he might have fallen asleep in his dream before Jiang Hanyu could wake him up.

Even thinking about it now, Yitu still feels a little scared.

Du Jinyu's method of killing is completely different from Dong Haoyue's. One destroys the body, while the other destroys the soul.

As for whether the mental torture or the physical pain was more cruel, Yitu couldn't say.

He thought quietly for a while, then got out of bed.

Although he felt cold, he could still bear it. However, the psychological trauma caused by Du Jinyu could not be eliminated in a short time.

Yitu simply washed up and left the room.

However, before leaving the corridor of the west wing, they saw most of the players standing at the door of the right room where Dong Haoyue's room was.

Someone died again?

Yi Tu felt something was wrong. Song Jingchen was the first to see him and waved to him.

"Why did you just get up?"

Yitu walked over and saw that in the narrow room, a man and a woman were hanged on the eaves by two white silk ropes.

The same way of death, just a different person.

"Two more dead." Song Jingchen sighed, "Did you hear anything last night?"

Yi Tu shook his head. He was possessed by Du Jinyu last night, and Du Jinyu did not take him through the west wing.

Perhaps this missed opportunity was just the right opportunity to avoid the resentful Dong Haoyue.

"Was it Dong Haoyue who killed them?" asked the young man with curly hair.

Yitu glanced at him. There was a tall woman with fair skin standing next to him.

The two of them were standing close together, behaving intimately. If they were not lovers, they were probably blood relatives.

Yitu thought about what he saw last night. They slept separately, so they were probably not a couple.

The girl's name is Bai Yan and the boy's name is Bai Yan.

Apart from the different characters, their names are pronounced exactly the same.

A little weird.

"Who else could die like this if not Dong Haoyue?" Lu Nan rubbed his brows and said helplessly:

"But what is her purpose in doing this? It's really unsettling."

Yitu looked at the two corpses hanging on the eaves. Their purple-red tongues were stretched out long, and it was obvious that they were hanged alive.

"Dong Haoyue was murdered and the murderer couldn't be found, so she naturally feels very resentful." Bai Yan said from the side.

"Then who do you think the murderer is?" Hai Ling looked at her with a smile.

Bai Yan looked away and said softly, "Who else could be in this yard?"

Apart from Dong Qingshan and Madam Hui, there was only the housekeeper Dong Sanguan.

Dong Haoyue is Dong Qingshan's only daughter. He holds her in his hands and loves her so much that he can't possibly harm her.

Butler Dong practically watched Dong Haoyue grow up, and he is undoubtedly his second relative besides Dong Qingshan.

Therefore, the best suspect is Mrs. Hui, who has been married for only two years.

Yitu looked at the two of them and was about to walk towards the east wing.

Suddenly Hai Ling called him. Yi Tu turned around, not knowing what that person wanted to do.

"Yidong, how come the scent on you has become so faint?" Hai Ling narrowed her eyes. "What were you doing last night?"

Yitu frowned. The title of hyena was not given for nothing.

This person can not only identify players by smell, but also judge the strength of a player's life breath by smell.

"You're curious about being taken away by a ghost?" Yitu smiled slightly.

Hai Ling became interested. "Which ghost, Dong Haoyue?"

"you guess."

Yi Tu didn't want to talk to him any more and was about to leave, but Jiang Hanyu came over from the east wing and happened to hear their conversation.

The man's eyes fell on Yitu, a little heavy.

He gently shook Yi Tu's hand, and as expected, it was very cold.

"Where's Yingying?"

Yi Tu knew what Jiang Hanyu wanted to ask, but now was not the place to talk.

Jiang Hanyu stared at him for a few seconds, as if reading his mind. He knew what he wanted to ask and said:

"Ying Ying's cat died. Its heart was dug out."

She was a little depressed because of the death of her cat and stayed in the room and refused to go out.

"It's just a cat. If the little beast dies, it's dead. Why don't you just spend money to buy another one?" Hai Ling laughed sarcastically.

"Staying in your room and courting death?"

No one paid any attention to him. The person concerned couldn't hear what he said, and others wouldn't interfere if they heard it.

After a while, Madam Hui did not arrive, but Butler Dong came instead.

Now that all the servants are dead and murders are happening frequently on Yong'an Street, every household dares not go out, let alone hire servants.

No one helped to collect the bodies, so Butler Dong had to do it alone.

Fortunately, there were only two of them this time, so it was easy for him to move the items one by one.

After everyone left, Jiang Hanyu left with Yi Tu.

Instead of returning to the room, the two walked towards the ancestral hall.

"I roughly know the rules of Dong Haoyue's killing." Yi Tu suddenly said.

Jiang Hanyu looked at him, quietly waiting for his next words.

"Actually, we are all Dong Haoyue's targets, but there is a certain order of priority."

"And the targets Dong Haoyue hunts have one thing in common: they all possess living hearts."

“Everyone in Dong’s house has a heart that can be eaten.”

"It's eating Madam Duanhui's food."

Ever since Du Jinyu took him for a walk last night, when Madam Hui saw the shadow outside the door and her first reaction was Dong Haoyue, something was wrong.

As the saying goes, if you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door.

Although Yi Tu's figure did not look like Dong Haoyue, and Dong Haoyue was not the only one who died, Madam Hui was almost certain that Dong Haoyue would come to find her.

Her conversation with the thing that stole the heart also shows that Dong Haoyue knew that Madam Hui ate human hearts.

Dong Haoyue discovered this secret, and Madam Hui thought that the best way to keep a secret was to make the dead never speak.

Madam Hui was cruel enough, but Dong Haoyue, who was full of resentment after his death, was even crueler.

In order to expose Madam Hui's true colors, he did not hesitate to kill eight innocent servants overnight.

Among them, some may be familiar to Dong Haoyue, while others may not be, but she did not take into account the old relationship and still killed them.

Dong Haoyue's order of killing was also very simple. After the servants who had the largest range of activities and were most likely to be killed by the heart-eating thief died, it was the turn of these unlucky guests.

Whoever is closest to the main house will be killed first.

The bald man who died was the one who lived in the east wing closest to the main house, and the one who lived in the west wing closest to the main house was also this man and woman.

But what puzzled Yi Tu the most was how Dong Haoyue killed people and why these people didn't even have a chance to resist?

Yi Tu couldn't ask because Jiang Hanyu's eyes were serious and his face didn't show much emotion.

"Were you led around by Du Jinyu?"

Yitu hesitated for a moment, then explained:

"I don't know exactly what happened, but I felt like I was possessed by a ghost."

“But I woke up in bed again.”

After he finished speaking, Jiang Hanyu responded with silence.

Yitu didn't know what to say for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he said:

"The hyena said my aura is weakening. Will I die?"

Jiang Hanyu couldn't help but frowned, but didn't deny it:

"If you become too weak, you will die."

Now it was Yi Tu's turn to remain silent. Du Jinyu had come to him again and again, and it was obvious that he had no intention of letting him go.

After being possessed only once, his breath weakened, and there was no telling how many times it would happen next time.

Yi Tu sighed softly, raised his eyes to look at Jiang Hanyu, and spoke after a long while:

"If...if I die, can you take me out?"

They are spouses bound by identity cards. If one of them dies, as long as the other does not abandon the identity card, both of them can survive.

Even though Jiang Hanyu wanted to end his relationship with him, the relationship would be automatically ended as long as he died in the card field.

Yitu was not confident, so he was prepared to be rejected.

But unexpectedly, Jiang Hanyu smiled gently.

"Then let's do it like last time."

"What?" Yitu was stunned.

Jiang Hanyu tapped Yi Tu's chest with his slender, clean fingers, and glanced at him obscurely.

"I'll listen to you, and then you'll pay me back."

Yitu's body trembled slightly.

Just like in the previous card game, Jiang Hanyu listened to him and killed Mu Cheng.

And it was the same this time, but Yitu didn't know what else he could give to this person.

"What do you want?" Yitu asked with a frown.

"No rush, there's plenty of time later." The man answered nonchalantly.

It seemed like this was just a trivial matter to him.

Yitu looked up at him and said, "Okay."