Upon hearing this voice, Yue Qi also recalled it. He looked at the little girl in front of him, who had been tortured beyond recognition, and simply couldn't reconcile her with the innocent and carefree little girl he once knew.

"You, you are Amiya?"

"Yes!" Ami was even more excited, tears streaming down her face, turning a deep crimson as she passed over her blood-soaked skin. She gripped Yue Qi's sleeve tightly with both hands.

"Big brother, it's me, it's Ami. —Did you come to save me?"

Yue Qi's last impression of her was that she was forcibly dragged away by those Zhang family guards, and she even took the opportunity to leave him a fragment of white jade.

So he silently took out the broken key, handed it to Ami, and asked softly,

"Ami, did you leave this fragment for me on purpose?"

Ami nodded excitedly, "Yes, I noticed when the older brother and the other older brother appeared. I had just gotten the key and didn't want them to find me, so I deliberately stayed by the rockery."

"What is the purpose of this key?"

Ami's expression turned sorrowful. "Dong Shen, Dong Shen has been imprisoned by a demon. The key is the only way to free Dong Shen. But—I only have a fragment, which is not enough to save him."

Ami became more and more upset as she spoke, and finally burst into tears.

Yue Qi now has three fragments in his hands, and the complete key is in his possession.

Out of caution, he didn't say anything. Instead, he began to comfort the heartbroken Ami, and only after the other had calmed down did he ask,

"Ami, I remember you went to the Zhang family's old mansion to participate in the selection of maids, how come you're here?"

Although Yue Qi already knew most of Ami's story, based on the scenes he saw in the instance, Ami appeared to be a girl who longed for the Zhang family's old house. So he decided to start from this angle to see if he could make any other discoveries.

Ami sobbed, “They’re all dead. They all died suddenly. Elder, Miss—the entire Zhang family mansion was destroyed by the earthquake overnight.”

"Earthquake? When?"

Ami counted on her fingers, somewhat uncertain, "About two or three days ago, the entire old house suddenly started to shake, and many houses were destroyed. The elders also suddenly disappeared, and we don't know where they went."

It seems that this must be the big move Chu Jiang made in Mirror Lake a few days ago. The Zhang family's old house on Cangyun Mountain on the ground must have been destroyed during that operation.

"Aside from that, are there any other differences?"

"Yes, the water in Mirror Lake has been boiling for a long time, and many skeletons have crawled out of the lake. Now, almost the entire Cangyun Mountain has become their territory."

"Skeletons? You mean they crawled out of Mirror Lake?" Yue Qi also thought of the powerful skeletons they had encountered, which turned out to have come from Mirror Lake.

Didn't that Chu Jiang smash all the coffins to pieces? Logically speaking, the people in the Zhang family's old house should be dead beyond any doubt, so where did these skeletons come from?

However, that's not the focus right now.

"Amitabha, do you know where the Cave God is? Is he still alive?" Yue Qi asked tentatively.

Ami couldn't stop her tears again, and she gripped Yue Qi's sleeve even tighter, until one of Yue Qi's sleeves was ruined.

I accidentally touched Ami's fingers, and the temperature emanating from her fingertips was abnormally low, not at all like that of a living person.

Yue Qi pretended not to notice anything and listened quietly to Ami's story.

"Big brother, Dong Shen is dying! The demon has taken away all his divine power and his body, and imprisoned him for over a hundred years. Dong Shen's divine power is exhausted, and he's about to collapse. Big brother, you must save him!"

Ami's anxiety was palpable to Yue Qi; this cave spirit seemed to be in a truly dire situation. However, given the uncertainty of whether this person was good or bad, he wouldn't simply believe the other party's one-sided account.

"By the way, Ami, how did you get these injuries? These people are so mean, how could they hurt you like this?"

Yue Qi deliberately shifted the topic to Ami's injuries. He had initially assumed that the Zhang family guards had beaten her up. However, Ami's reaction suggested that it was more than that.

When the wound was mentioned, she seemed a little scared, but then there was even a hint of sweetness in her expression. This reaction puzzled him.

Could it be that Ami's injury is actually related to that so-called cave god?

If that's the case, then this cave god is definitely not a good thing!

"Good child, let's rest for a bit. Your injury is a bit serious. Big brother will take you back and take a look at it."

Yue Qi gestured for Wen Jiajia to help Ami up, intending to take her back the way she came.

Unexpectedly, Ami was extremely resistant to Wen Jiajia and wouldn't let her touch him at all.

At the same time, the system in Wen Jiajia's mind also proactively prompted her...

“Master, this Ami, she is not human.”

Wen Jiajia was quite surprised; she had guessed it after hearing Ami's story from the clan chief.

"Is she an anomaly, or a source of contamination?"

"Neither," the system denied directly. "She is already dead. The reason she is almost alive now is because there is a trace of the power of rules within her body."

The system was also somewhat uncertain. "Logically speaking, only a Gold-Rank Titled Mysterious Being can control the power of rules, but the power of rules on Ami is extremely weak. At most, it can only maintain her free movement, and it can't do anything else. — Uh, and I've discovered that this wisp of power of rules is constantly dissipating, and it won't be long before it completely disappears. At that time, this girl will become a normal corpse."

Wen Jiajia clicked her tongue. "I didn't expect this girl to have a secret she hadn't revealed. Can you sense where her power of rules comes from?"

"I can't help it, but her soul has already been sacrificed to the other party, so I can recognize her if I get close. According to calculations, this person is probably the so-called Cave God."

Wen Jiajia nodded to herself. It seemed that this cave god was really about to die.

Despite Ami's insistence, Yue Qi eventually carried her back.

As for Wen Jiajia, she unusually tried to talk to Ami the whole time, but unfortunately, Ami completely ignored her.

As for Guo Hu, he was completely ignored throughout the entire process.

It took the three of them almost another half hour to bring Ami back to the original route and successfully rejoin the main group.

Yan Che, being the only person who had ever met Ami, recognized her immediately.

"Ami, it's you?!"