More than half an hour later, a sketch of the woman was successfully completed.

"Here you go!" Su Su handed the sketch to Sun Ning. She was the brains of the three of them, so it was definitely the right thing to do to give it to him.

"This person looks familiar," Sun Ning frowned, unable to recall where he had seen him before.

Guo Hu, who was standing next to him, also came over and said, "Let me see who it is that can make you so upset? -- Hey! What a beautiful woman! Wait, I know this person!"

Before Guo Hu could even let his admiration fade, he was suddenly shocked, even a little frightened.

"She, she, isn't she Zhang Nana, the girl who was murdered in the girls' dormitory?! How could she be here?"

“Zhang Nana?” Sun Ning shook his head. “No, I remember clearly, the Zhang Nana in the girls’ dormitory didn’t look like this at all!”

Guo Hu couldn't take it anymore. He slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Sun Ning, I'm really not lying to you, Zhang Nana in the girls' dormitory looks just like this!"

“No, no,” Su Su retorted this time, “I remember too, Zhang Nana in the girls’ dormitory doesn’t look like this. I’ll draw it for you if you don’t believe me!”

"But I clearly saw Zhang Nana, and she looks exactly like this!" Guo Hu was almost doubting his own eyes. Beautiful women were already rare in the dungeon, let alone someone this beautiful.

For reasons that are well-known, men are always drawn to beautiful women, so he has a very deep impression of the few truly stunning beauties he has ever met.

—Zhang Nana was one of them. Her appearance was delicate and gentle, perfectly matching Guo Hu's own aesthetic. He remembered that back in the dungeon, he had wondered why such a stunning beauty was a dead dungeon NPC; it was such a pity.

But now, this person has actually appeared alive, he certainly can't be mistaken! Guo Hu is absolutely certain of this.

Su Su was quick on her feet. She also had a deep impression of Zhang Nana, after all, she was the first character in the rule-based instance and such a sympathetic character. So, it didn't take her long to draw a simple sketch of Zhang Nana from her memory.

However, since a year has passed, I don't remember the specific details very clearly, but I can still be sure of the general appearance.

After she finished drawing, she first showed it to Sun Ning, who immediately recognized it.

"Yes, that's her! This is what Zhang Nana looks like when I see her."

When the portrait was turned to Guo Hu, he was dumbfounded. Although the girl was very pretty, he had never seen her before!

"This person isn't Zhang Nana at all!" Guo Hu took out Yan Qing's sketch and patted it. "This is the one!"

"No! You're definitely mistaken!"

"That's right, Zhang Nana isn't like that at all!"

Finally, under the strong rebuttal from Su Su and Sun Ning, Guo Hu had to doubt his own eyes.

Could it be that I really misread it?

That's impossible!

The argument between the three of them had indeed wasted a lot of time. After Sun Ning calmed down, he led everyone on a tour of the entire Zhang family's old house, and what they found shocked them.

—The entire Cangyun Mountain area, including the Zhang family's old residence, a vast area, was devoid of a single living person!

Aside from the dozen or so corpses in the garden, only the three of them were still breathing.

This conclusion made the three of them feel a sense of lingering fear.

"No, there's a ghost here. We have to find a way to get out of here!" After a difficult internal struggle, Sun Ning finally made the decision.

"But—" Su Su said, somewhat unwillingly, "we haven't found the 'Zhang Family Old House Rules' yet!"

Sun Ning's face darkened. "I have a bad feeling. Since the dungeon hints say that, it means this 'Zhang Family Old House Rules' definitely won't be as easy to find as the previous dungeons. Perhaps we should prepare for the worst."

"The worst-case scenario?" Su Su almost cried. "Don't scare me!"

Sun Ning turned around and took her hand. "Don't worry, the World of Rules and Strange Tales never kills people outright. There's always a glimmer of hope. — For safety's sake, let's leave here first."

Guo Hu and Su Su had accompanied Sun Ning all this way and had always admired his abilities. So the two silently nodded in agreement.

Sun Ning led them back to the place where they first entered the Zhang family's old house, following the location they remembered.

This group was probably the first to enter the Zhang family's old house. This can be seen from the furnishings in the small building where they lived; their arrival was very rushed for the Zhang family's old house, and many rooms were not yet tidied up.

To the southeast of the small building, there used to be a path leading directly to the back door of the Zhang family's old house. They entered through this path last night.

However, when the three of them arrived at the path, all they saw was a bare mountain wall, with no trace of human intervention.

"Wait a minute, that's not right!" Guo Hu stroked his chin. "I remember there should be a cave here! Weren't we brought out of the cave by that grandson of someone who called himself Chu Jiang?"

Sun Ning touched the moss-covered mountain wall. Indeed, he remembered that the cave had a complex network of paths, and without a professional guide, one would easily get lost.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, Su Su began to feel scared. "What should we do?"

Sun Ning's expression changed several times before she finally gritted her teeth and said, "Let's go back!"

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When Yan Qing came to her senses, she found herself still lying on the ice bed. The sound of roosters crowing outside the window was just beginning to rise, and the sky was already starting to lighten.

"Oh no, I have to go back right now!"

Ignoring her terrible headache, she slipped out of the room, thoughtfully put the lock back in place, and then ran away from the abandoned courtyard.

When Lingxi returned to her courtyard, she immediately relaxed upon seeing her.

"Master, where did you go all night?! I was so worried!"

Yan Qing was also startled. "One night? That can't be right! I remember it was at most an hour or two, how could it be a whole night?"