Chapter 232: Midnight Haunted House 19

The struggle between Su Qingyun and the old woman was broken up by Ye Jian's sudden arrival, and because of his arrival, the old woman quickly disappeared.

The open door also disappeared.

After Ye Jian rushed to the third floor, he first shone the flashlight on Su Qingyun's face, and then asked her why she was here.

"I saw an old woman, the white-haired old woman who suddenly appeared in the black and white photo of the incense table on the first floor."

"Oh." Ye Jian said "Oh", seemingly not interested in the information provided by Su Qingyun. He asked Su Qingyun why he didn't go in.

"Go in? Where to go?" Su Qingyun pointed to the locked door and asked, "Didn't we check before? The door is locked."

"I found the key." Ye Jian shook the key in his hand.

This key is exactly the same as the one the old woman took out just now.

Su Qingyun quickly asked, "Where did you find the key?"

"On the first floor, in the drawer of the incense table." Ye Jian said as he bit the flashlight with his mouth and opened the lock directly.

He pushed the door open and let Su Qingyun in.

Su Qingyun stood there without moving. She thought Ye Jian was very strange because he came up empty-handed and without a toolbox. Instead, he wore a mask and a hat neatly, with the brim of the hat almost covering his eyes.

"Where is your toolbox?" Su Qingyun asked.

Ye Jian replied vaguely, "Downstairs."

"Where's Xu Xinghe?"

"Downstairs."

"You should be downstairs too, right?" Su Qingyun looked at him twice again, then turned around and ran downstairs.

When she was about to reach the first floor, Su Qingyun's feet were restrained by a force again, and she fell down the stairs.

Fortunately, he was caught by Xu Xinghe who rushed over from the kitchen.

Xu Xinghe held the toolbox in one hand and supported Su Qingyun's waist with the other, asking her why she was in such a hurry. "Is there anything dirty on the second floor?"

"Where's Ye Jian?"

"He's in the kitchen. The ghost that attacked you just now went into the sewer. Ye Jian is trying to get it out, but since you haven't come yet, he asked me to come over and take a look."

In the kitchen on the first floor, Su Qingyun actually saw Ye Jian cleaning.

"Why are you here just now?" Perhaps nothing was taken out of the sewer. At this moment, Ye Jian was wiping a long-handled stick with a rag. When he saw Su Qingyun coming over, he asked.

Su Qingyun told him, "There was an old lady just now, and she asked me to go up to the third floor."

Ye Jian stopped what he was doing and asked, "Did you go up with her?"

Su Qingyun nodded, "But that's not the point. I saw you on the third floor just now."

"You saw me? How is that possible? Xu Xinghe and I were downstairs the whole time." Ye Jian seemed to realize something and asked, "You mean someone is impersonating me?"

"Yes."

"But you saw through it?"

"Yes."

The reason why Su Qingyun was able to tell that the person on the third floor just now was not Ye Jian was because Ye Jian was not carrying a toolbox in his hand, and there was a rule in their work manual that cleaners must carry the toolbox with them when moving the work location and cannot leave it alone at the scene.

Therefore, Ye Jian had to bring his toolbox up from the first floor to the third floor. As a level-clearing king, Ye Jian would not violate the rules.

"Are you sure that person is pretending to be me?" Ye Jian and Xu Xinghe are about the same height. Although their body shapes are slightly different, they are both wearing hats and masks, and are wearing exactly the same work clothes. How can Su Qingyun be so sure?

"I'm not sure, but I subconsciously think it's you. But no matter what, the three of us can't separate from now on."

Xu Xinghe and Ye Jian nodded in agreement, but their eyes became cautious when they looked at each other.

Because Ye Jian was alone in the kitchen just now, Xu Xinghe also went to find Su Qingyun alone, and Su Qingyun was also alone when he ran downstairs.

Everyone has times when they are alone, and now who can tell if the person standing in front of you is really him or her?

Su Qingyun actually had the same concern. The Ye Jian upstairs was not Ye Jian, and the two people downstairs were not necessarily them.

Because the two of them spent so much time in the kitchen, it was suspicious.

So Su Qingyun asked Ye Jian, "Ye Jian, let me ask you, which room am I staying in in the Wilderness Inn dungeon?"

Ye Jian answered without thinking, "203."

Su Qingyun nodded, then asked Xu Xinghe, "What's the name of the ferryman of Linhu Village?"

Xu Xinghe answered without even thinking, "Thank you, Aqiang."

"Okay, now that we're all confirmed, let's move together and don't separate."

Su Qingyun began to ask about the progress of the work and whether the pervert had been caught.

"It's hard to catch. It runs faster than a rabbit. But we've taken care of the sink."

Su Qingyun raised her wrist to check the time. There were still forty minutes until midnight, so she suggested that everyone go up to the third floor together.

"There are four rooms on the third floor. Just now, the old woman and the ghost pretending to be Ye Jian both took out the keys. The ghost pretending to be Ye Jian also said that the key was in the drawer of the incense table."

The three of them went to the living room on the first floor. The incense table was still there, but there was no drawer.

"This ghost pretending to be me is quite good at talking nonsense."

"He might not be talking nonsense." Xu Xinghe squatted down and studied the incense table carefully. He said, "If he was talking nonsense, he would be exposed quickly. Although he was exposed quickly, that's because of our rules."

He reached out and fumbled around on the incense table, then pressed hard somewhere. With a click, a drawer popped out from under the incense table.

There was a bunch of five keys inside.

Xu Xinghe picked up the key and handed it to Su Qingyun.

Su Qingyun took it and looked at it, then nodded to the two of them. This was the key that the old woman was holding just now.

"Let's go up to the third floor."

The three of them went up to the third floor, and Su Qingyun opened the first door on the outside.

But as she walked inside, she had concerns again.

"What do you think would happen if those two ghosts came up and locked the door while we were searching inside?"

"This is indeed a problem." Ye Jian shrugged nonchalantly, "But we are already in this haunted house. Maybe those two evil spirits have already locked the door downstairs. If we can't get rid of them, we won't be able to get out either."

That’s true.

If they don’t clean up as required by the rules and find the vengeful spirit, none of them will be able to escape.

However, Su Qingyun still took out the screws from the toolbox and removed the lock on the outside.

The three of them went to the room on the right.

The room of the white-haired old woman.

As soon as the door opened, the first thing that caught the eye was a statue of Guanyin, which was placed upright on a square table, with several plates of snacks in front of it and incense and candles lit on both sides.

The incense and candles did bring a little light into the room.

"This old woman also believes in Buddhism."

Su Qingyun touched the incense candle with her hand. Although the incense candle had light, it had no temperature. It was a light unique to this strange world.

Su Qingyun took her hand away and was about to go in when the sound of chanting scriptures suddenly came from the room.

At first listen, it's okay, but when you listen carefully, it feels like someone is chanting a spell.

Su Qingyun suddenly felt a pain in her head.