Unable to find any other way, Feng Guang had no choice but to carefully walk through the house with him again, touching everything they saw in the hopes of triggering some mechanism to open the door to the secret room. But to their disappointment, no matter how careful they were, they couldn't find any secret room.

She began to doubt herself, "Could I be imagining things? Is the space in this house actually not small?"

“Impossible,” Shu Qiu said. “I hadn’t paid attention to the size of the space before, but now that you mention it, I also feel that there’s something wrong with this room. It’s impossible for both of our senses to be wrong at the same time. There must be something we haven’t found yet.”

“Where else could we be? We’ve searched everywhere except by digging three feet into the ground.”

"That's right, dig three feet into the ground!" Shu Qiu clapped his hands, suddenly realizing.

"You really... plan to dig up all the floorboards here?"

"Not at all," Shu Qiu smiled, then looked at the ground. "We'll just take a look around."

As he said this, he actually started walking around casually. Feng Guang followed behind him and suddenly had a feeling that this man might actually be able to find something.

Shu Qiu suddenly stopped in the corner. He pondered for a moment, then squatted down again. "Don't you feel... something's not right here?"

“What’s wrong?” Feng Guang squatted down beside him, and after looking closely, she pointed and said, “The other floorboards are all filled with dust, but this place is clean.”

"In other words... this floorboard has been tampered with." As soon as he finished speaking, Shu Qiu tentatively reached out to lift the floorboard. He didn't need to use much force; the floorboard was easily lifted.

At the same time, a passage appeared along the wall, and Feng Guang, who was leaning against the wall, was caught off guard and fell straight down.

"Hey! Miss Xia!" Shu Qiu subconsciously reached out to grab her, but only managed to grab a corner of her clothes. Soon, her small figure disappeared into the dark passage, and it was only after a long while that a sound of her landing came.

Shuqiu shouted anxiously, "Miss Xia! Are you alright!?"

The entrance to the secret chamber was right beneath her feet—something no one had expected.

Feng Guang didn't know what she had fallen on. She wasn't hurt badly, but the darkness and stench inside were unbearable. She stood up and shouted towards the faint light coming from above, "Get me up here quickly!"

"Hey, wait a minute." Shu Qiu lit a tinderbox and then realized that there was actually a path sloping down in the passage. He was about to walk down when his vision blurred and he could only see a white-clad figure flash by, as if it were his imagination.

Shu Qiu clicked his tongue twice. He knew that this man would never let Xia Fengguang get into trouble. However, before he could even sigh that he hadn't expected it, he realized that it was his doing that Xia Fengguang fell down there. Shu Qiu didn't dare to think any further and quickly ran away.

Anyway, once that man arrives, the girl will be fine.

"Scenic views".

Feng Guang, still groping in the dark, heard a deep voice. Before she could react, she felt a faint pain in her neck, and her limp body was pulled into the man's arms. Before losing consciousness, she only felt that the man's scent was very familiar.

Shu Feng held the unconscious little girl in his arms. His gaze darkened. He was relieved that Feng Guang hadn't seen it, otherwise... many bad memories would have been left in her mind.

Beneath his feet lay corpses, all half-rotten and emitting a foul stench. There were five corpses in total.

They were all children aged eight to eleven or twelve.