"This is……"

Charlie was stunned. There was a large patch of blood behind the magazine!

Incredulously, he immediately let go of the magazine he had just picked up, and then tore down all the remaining magazines from the wall. Sure enough, more bloodstains were hidden behind them!

Why are you still here?

Julian and Lu Xiaoyao, who had finally composed themselves, came downstairs, only to find Charlie still standing on the stairs. Following his astonished expression, the others quickly noticed this as well.

"this……"

Da Yao looked down at the poster on the ground. Through Lu Xiaoyao's memory, she vaguely remembered something. Then she turned to look at Wang Wenfei, who was standing at the back with a drastically changed expression.

Wang Wenfei really didn't expect that there were these things behind the poster that she and Hu Yue had torn apart earlier!

She vaguely thought that if she had been more impulsive and torn it open back then, would she have discovered even more?

What does this mean?

Looking at the large bloodstains on the wall, everyone was certain that this must be some kind of clue, but they couldn't figure out exactly what it was.

Da Yao stared at the spurting bloodstains on the wall and the neat bloodstains at the bottom, her eyes fixed on the stairwell. Her mind began to deduce what had happened. Finally, she said, "Someone was being chased and attacked while going upstairs. They were caught and slashed, perhaps in an artery, hence the spurting blood..."

Da Yao pointed to the bloodstain at the very top, a place that was difficult for an average person to reach. Then she pointed to the neat bloodstains below, the marks becoming thinner as they went down, and said, "After that, he leaned against the wall, with nowhere to escape, and was eventually dragged away..."

At this point, Lu Xiaoyao sighed regretfully: "It's a pity that there are no bloodstains on the ground, so we don't know where it was dragged to."

"Maybe it's the vegetable garden behind."

When Wang Wenfei mentioned the vegetable garden, everyone was taken aback.

yes.

The dismembered corpses in the vegetable garden, combined with what the mysterious merchant had said earlier, meant that the missing travelers were killed there by some kind of evil spirit.

The group, who had originally planned to take a shower to clear their minds, were now thrown into chaos again by the clues on the wall.

"Let's...let's take a shower first."

The four of them blocked the stairs, and finally Julian spoke up again: "Let's ask the mysterious merchant for more details after we take a shower."

So far, even if they have to admit that much of the information was provided by the mysterious merchant.

···

"Hmm? You mean a tragedy happened in my shop?"

As if he were a real person, Mu Chen frowned and looked at the four players staring at him with a troubled expression.

After a while, everyone saw him sigh and say, "Perhaps, there are rumors that there have indeed been some cases here. But I don't know about that. What I do know is that we will provide warm and safe accommodations for lost travelers."

Sometimes, the more you tell the truth, the less people will believe you.

No one believed Mu Chen's blunt truth. Charlie grew anxious and said, "What do you mean 'maybe'? You weren't so uncertain this morning when you told us about the legend of evil spirits here."

"Yes, isn't that just a legend? But whether the case actually happened or not, I've only heard about it vaguely. I'm not sure about that. As for the legend, I've heard it many times. It's been around ever since my wife and I came here."

Yes, this legend has existed ever since I died and became a ghost.

As for the tragedy, those were things that happened before the original character became a ghost, how would he know?

As Mu Chen thought this, the player expressed doubt about his answer.

"Is that so?" The player looked distressed, as if he hadn't gotten the answer he wanted from the other person.

"Boss, what did this shop look like when you and your wife arrived? If there really was a murder, didn't you notice anything at all?"

Finally, Da Yao stared intently at Mu Chen's face, asking him question word by word.

She is different from Lu Xiaoyao and other players because she shares a body with Lu Xiaoyao, so Lu Xiaoyao's memories are naturally suppressed when she enters the body.

But she's different. She came out halfway through, so she won't forget anything, and the system can't suppress her memories halfway through.

Therefore, she remembered Mu Chen's face clearly from the previous game.

Sometimes you're a player, sometimes you're a boss, but in this game you're a mysterious merchant?

This is very wrong!

If she were to think about it more deeply, Da Yao might actually discover the truth about Mu Chen and Ming Mei switching identities.

Unfortunately, Da Yao's filter for Mingmei is no less than that for Lu Xiaoyao!

She even suspected that the mysterious businessman was originally Mingmei, and that this "professional villain" had used some vicious means to transfer this function to him.

Judging from the current level of NPC consciousness awakening, if the person in front of us were a villainous BOSS, they might actually do something like that.

Does this mean the boss and the mysterious merchant in this game are actually one and the same?!

Although Mu Chen couldn't see through people's hearts, the obvious prejudice in Da Yao's gaze made it impossible for him to pretend to be blind.

But isn't this exactly the effect he wanted?

"Hmm...I did have my doubts."

Mu Chen's sudden nod surprised everyone.

"Maybe, as you said, this place used to be a haunted house where many people died? If that's the case, it could explain why there hasn't been much business here for so long..."

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