A tall and thin young man stood in front of the door. The morning light fell on him, casting a faint shadow.

A dead person returned to the doorstep the next day.

Yue Ya looked into the distance. The ancient banyan tree was bathed in the morning light, and its branches and leaves were sparkling. However, who knows how many weirdnesses and secrets were hidden under its shadow.

"Make way. I want to go in and sleep." The tall and thin young man looked at Yue Ya and repeated it.

Before Yueya could answer, Lihua came out. She was yawning, but her jaw dropped when she saw the tall and thin young man.

"Why is he back?" Wasn't this NPC dead? !

The tall and thin young man raised his head, looking no different from before, just like an ordinary living person: "If I don't come back, where else can I go?"

Lihua pursed her lips and didn't respond, her palms feeling cold.

Yue Ya raised the corner of his eyes and said in a cold voice: "Go back to where you came from. There is no room for you here."

He did see the body of the tall and thin young man on the banyan tree, and he did kill the hanged ghost disguised as the tall and thin young man. He didn't know what the tall and thin young man in front of him was, but he should refuse to let anything related to the banyan tree in.

If he didn't leave, he just had nowhere to vent his anger, so he didn't mind giving the tall and thin young man another chance to start over.

[If they die and come back to life, won’t there be a constant stream of weirdness? This instance is a bit difficult to handle. With the current level of the players, it is difficult to completely eradicate the weirdness. Yuezai can only find another way, such as quickly finding Chen Wang and signing the contract.]

[Hurry up, hurry up! Didn’t you see the host’s face is getting colder and colder? This is a sign that we are going to fight ghosts!]

[Beat him until he reveals his true form, just in time for Fei Fei to have breakfast]

The tall and thin young man sensed the danger and stood at the door for a while before he could no longer withstand the pressure and left with his shoulders drooped.

Yue Ya glanced at the shadow of the tall and thin young man, and at a certain moment, he saw something seemed to be wriggling in the shadow.

Yue Ya folded her hands, leaning against the door and paying attention to the movements of the tall and thin young man. This guy greeted other NPC colleagues naturally when he met them on the road, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

After Yue Ya killed the hanged ghost, all NPCs had their memories of the tall and thin young man cleared by the system. Now they can remember him without any obstacles, as if he had never disappeared.

Then, the tall and thin young man knocked on other players' doors, asking to be taken in. Yue Ya had told the players about the tall and thin young man and the hanged ghost. Everyone knew that the tall and thin young man had died a long time ago, so how could he be allowed into the house?

In the end, the tall and thin young man walked around in a circle but couldn't get into the house, so he could only stay in the yard and talk to the NPC.

"How did he come back to life?" Lihua thought of the corpse pupa that Yue Ya mentioned: "Is it related to the banyan tree?"

"This is the result of the corpse hatching. This banyan tree has the ability to 'regenerate.'" Yue Ya took Fei Fei out and said, "Lihua, close the door."

Lihua locked the door quickly and followed him: "Are you going to the banyan tree?"

"right."

Walking through the yard, Yue Ya discovered that more NPCs were smoking silently, and everyone looked dejected. It seemed that the memory of yesterday's encounter with the ghost had not been erased.

"Brother Yue!" Ah Hai ran over immediately when he saw Yue Ya, and asked with concern: "Did you have a good night last night?"

Yueya nodded.

Overall it went pretty smoothly.

Lihua added: "Brother Yue's operation last night was amazing, and the ghost tailor was also ruthless. He even blew himself up to protect his hands, otherwise she would have been in the cat's stomach now."

Lihua's tone was exaggerated, and Ah Hai was frightened: "It sounds thrilling."

At this time, the player Lantern also came over. He rarely took the initiative to speak: "Look at the tree?"

Yueya only has the impression that Lantern is quiet and dull, but since the beginning of the book, Lantern has performed relatively steadily, so he probably has a good level.

Yue Ya asked him, "Are you going too?"

Lantern nodded.

The group walked towards the banyan tree. As the distance between them and the tree shortened, the cold and oppressive feeling brought by the ancient tree became stronger and stronger. They also felt as if their feet were hanging above their heads.

This was undoubtedly the most dangerous area in the whole book, so they walked with extreme caution.

Yue Ya stopped in front of the tangled tree roots and looked up at the trunk. The huge corpse pupa from yesterday had disappeared, and he found a new pupa on another branch.

This newly grown pupa is only the size of a football, dark in color, and tightly wrapped with aerial roots, so you can't see what's inside. It just hangs on the tree like a tree tumor.

Yue pointed at the football-sized pupa and had the answer in his mind: "The ghost tailor's hand is wrapped inside."

Lihua took a deep breath. "Will it hatch like the tall and thin young man? Wouldn't the ghost tailor become whole again, and even his blindness be cured?"

Yueya said: "Not only that, even her two hands that I broke will grow back."

The ghost tailor originally had four hands.

Ah Hai got goose bumps all over his body: "The dead can be resurrected, and evil spirits can be reincarnated. Is this the human world or hell?"

Yue Ya raised his eyes and said, "It's neither the human world nor hell, it's the game world."

This sentence brought the players' wandering thoughts back to life. This is the game world and all problems encountered can be solved using game methods. There is nothing to be afraid of!

[If Feifei could own this tree, how happy he would be. He could stuff the leftover cat food into the tree, and new cat food would grow the next day. This way, he would never be hungry!]

[Moon, hurry up and steal the tree, steal the tree, this magical species is very rare! ]

[It’s exciting to think that a ghost tailor might be hatched]

[But from the players’ perspective, they probably don’t like this kind of excitement, but there is nothing they can do about it now]

Lihua sighed: "What about this pupa?"

Yue Ya thought for a moment and said, "Don't touch it yet, just observe it."

Lantern nodded in agreement and spoke slowly: "A rash touch may... create new bonds. We now need to... find clues to understand and crack... this cycle."

Ah Hai was surprised: "This is the first time I've heard you speak so long!"

Lantern said: "I speak...very slowly. If I speak faster, I will...stutter."

No wonder he was so quiet, so this is why.

"Let's go," Yue Ya said as they walked, "In addition to this pupa, there are two people we need to pay attention to. One is the reincarnation of the ghost tailor's enemy. This person is in the column group. He may be a player or an NPC. It will be beneficial for us to find him as soon as possible. The second one is Chen Wang. This person's identity is currently unknown, but he may be the planner of the whole incident. According to the rules of the game, he should also be in this house, but he is hiding deeper."

Among the two parties A, Fengjuan is a ghost, and it is hard to say whether Chen Wang is a human or a ghost.

Lihua said, "Even the ghost tailor doesn't know who the reincarnated enemy is. This is a tricky matter."

Yue Ya dodged the fallen branches and said slowly, "Don't worry, there will be clues."

"Director, someone is missing!" Suddenly someone howled anxiously, and the depressing atmosphere in the mansion was torn apart, and more anxiety and fear poured in.

But this sound attracted everyone's attention, and the program team that had been scattered like sand gathered together again.

Yue Ya looked over and saw that the girl who was shouting was an NPC. Yue Ya remembered that she was roommates with a female player.

He walked over there, and the three players followed him.

Players and NPCs gathered in front of the house where the accident happened. Yue Ya saw a tall and thin young man in the crowd. This guy was squeezed to the front, right next to the director.

Yueya walked through the crowd and stood quietly behind the tall and thin young man.

The tall and thin young man turned around as if he had a premonition, and shuddered violently when he saw Yue Ya's sickly face. When the nearby players saw this scene, they suddenly thought that Yue Ya was the incarnation of the evil spirit.

It's rare to live long enough to still see strange things scaring people.

"Who's missing?" the director began to ask about the situation.

"It was Xiaodie who lives in the same room with me. I thought she woke up early and went out for a walk, but she never came back. I looked for her but couldn't find her." The NPC female colleague became more and more anxious: "In this situation, I'm afraid something has happened to her..."

The tragic death of her colleague yesterday cast a shadow on everyone. Disappearing in a haunted house meant something dangerous was going to happen, so she was so anxious.

The director frowned as he was thinking, and was accidentally burned by a cigarette butt. His hand shook and the cigarette butt fell down, landing right on the instep of the tall and thin young man.

The tall and thin young man let out an inhuman wail and kicked his feet to get rid of the cigarette butt. Yue Ya was close enough to clearly see a black hole on the upper of his shoe where the cigarette butt had burned him. The hole was very small and was repaired in a short while, leaving only an ordinary burn mark on the upper.

“Sorry, I didn’t hold it firmly…” The director thought the tall and thin young man was burned by the cigarette butt, and hurriedly looked over, only to see a black mark: “Why are you screaming so miserably? It’s just a pair of shoes. I’ll give you a new pair after we get out of here.”

The tall and thin young man didn't say anything, but Yue Ya knew from his condition that he was definitely burned by the cigarette butt.

A faint smile appeared on Yueya's face, and he thought: Oh, so you are afraid of fire.

The monster hatched by the banyan tree is afraid of fire, but what about the banyan tree itself?

The tall and thin young man calmed down and waved to the director: "It's okay, it's okay, you continue."

The director turned his head and patted his female colleague on the shoulder: "Don't worry, let's look for it together."

The female colleague said frustratedly: "But I have already looked for her and I can't even see her shadow. This yard is so small, where can she go?"

Yueya asked her, "Have you checked the video?"

The female colleague shook her head, her eyes lit up: "How could I forget this, Director, let's split up and check the video, maybe we have captured her?"

The director waved his hand and said, "Go check the video for me."

Everyone worked together, Yueya and the director watched the outdoor video together, which was also the video most likely to capture Xiaodie's trace.

In order to save time, they watched the most recent video at double speed. The video taken in the morning was normal and Xiaodie was not in the video.

The recording time continued to move forward to last night. At four or five in the morning, no one was walking around in the entire yard, and it was dead silent.

The director sped up the playback speed, and the whole picture was like a time-lapse video with almost no movement, so when the white shadow flashed across the screen, it immediately caught their attention. The director suddenly pressed the pause button and almost overturned the camera in excitement.

"Is this her?!"

Because the playback speed was too fast, the white shadow on the screen was too blurry to see clearly. Yue Ya said calmly: "Slow down and continue playing."

Yueya's voice was clear and her tone was gentle, which gave people a strange sense of security. The director's wildly beating heart became steady.

The director took a few deep breaths and did as he was told. The video played at normal speed, and the white shadow became much clearer. From its appearance, clothes, and the house it started from, it can be confirmed that the white shadow is the player Xiaodie.

But her condition was very strange. She hung her head and walked quickly forward on tiptoe, looking like she was floating in the air.

The director stared at the direction she was moving and gasped: "Is she going to... the backyard?!"

When Xiaodie's roommate was told about the backyard, she got scared: "What is she doing in the backyard? We saw a ghost in the backyard yesterday!"

The director was silent for a moment and asked his colleagues who were checking other videos to come back.

Everyone gathered together to watch the video of Xiaodie. After seeing the creepy scene, they all recalled the scene of encountering a ghost in the backyard. They all fell silent, and invisible fear spread among them.

"What should we do now?" someone asked in a low voice.

They didn't live in the backyard, so naturally they didn't place any cameras there. If they wanted to track down Xiaodie's whereabouts, they could only go in and search in person.

From a player's perspective, Yue Ya naturally has to go to the backyard. Firstly, there are ghosts everywhere in this house, and the backyard is not the most dangerous one in his eyes. Secondly, Fei Fei has not had breakfast yet, and he has to take Fei Fei to find the "cat food" marked yesterday.

But he was not in a hurry to express his opinion, as this was a good opportunity for him to observe the reactions of the NPCs.

An NPC whispered, "Xiao Die seems to have been possessed by a ghost. She went to the backyard in the early morning and may be gone now. Should we just ignore her?"

Someone echoed: "Yeah, we can't risk our lives again."

Some people held different opinions, believing that Xiaodie still had a chance to survive and that it was too cold-hearted to just give up on a colleague.

The two sides have different opinions and there are signs of quarrel.

"Alright, be quiet!" The director howled, his expression serious. "We are in the same boat. Xiaodie's life or death is uncertain now. If we give up, others will also give up on you if something happens to you in the future! Only if we stick together can we have a chance to get out alive. Otherwise, we will die one after another."

The baby-faced intern whispered, "I think the director is right. We don't know who will be next, so it's better not to give up on our companions. Shall we go to the backyard to look for them?"

Oki also said, "If you don't do anything, you'll just sit there and wait for death. I agree to go, too."

"Then don't waste time and go look for someone in the backyard." The director pinched the cigarette box and put it in his pocket.

Even when he was looking for someone, the director picked up a camera. He was worried about breach of contract, so he still recorded the program.

Yueya still played the role of anchor conscientiously and told the camera the purpose of their going to the backyard.

When they arrived at the backyard, no one dared to make a sound. Yueya walked in front and opened the door without any worries. He touched his chubby and soft little ears and said, "Let's go have breakfast."

The director didn’t know what breakfast he was talking about, otherwise he would have been scared to the point of having high blood pressure.

There were too many people, and it was very inefficient to crowd together. The director said, "Separate yourselves and don't run too far. If you encounter problems, it's best to run away."

Since they had agreed to come in, they were all mentally prepared and dispersed, calling Xiaodie's name in a low voice.

Yue Ya came to the big vase and the mark he had drawn was still there.

He put Feifei on the ground. Feifei sniffed the surroundings and then squatted aside without moving, showing no interest in the big vase.

Judging from its reaction, the cat food inside may have run away.

Yue Ya looked at the bottom of the bottle and saw that the mahogany seal was still there. He took another picture of the bottom of the bottle with his camera, but this time he couldn't find the ghost even after zooming in.

Sure enough, it ran away. Yue Ya thought, could it be that the ghost in the bottle understood what he meant by marking the cat food, so it ran away early?

In this case, let's get the mahogany seal out first. Now that we're here, it would be inappropriate to leave empty-handed without having had a good breakfast.

Yueya put away his camera and planned to move the vase to pour out the mahogany seal, but as soon as he moved the vase, he heard a sound like a mechanism was activated. Feifei noticed something and pounced on him, and then his eyes went black and his body fell straight down.

When his vision returned to normal, Yue Ya found himself in an enclosed space. It was dark all around and the air smelled damp and musty.

He quickly calmed down when he felt the warm, furry touch on his palm.

He took out his cell phone and turned on the flashlight. The cold white light cut through the darkness. He shone it to the side and saw a pale face!

The face looked at him expressionlessly, with a somewhat dazed look in the eyes.

Yueya moved the light away a little, and the face became normal again - it turned out to be a lantern.

He breathed a sigh of relief: "Why did you come down too?"

Lantern said slowly, "I'm close to you... and want to help you...."

As a result, he failed to pull it and the person fell down with him.

"It was the vase that triggered the mechanism, so let's see what the secret is." Yue Ya made the best of it: "You turn on the flashlight too."

Lantern took out an oil lamp from the player's backpack, and the secret room suddenly became brighter.

Yue Ya looked at the lamp and suddenly felt that she was too casual when entering the dungeon. She should prepare some basic props before entering the dungeon next time.

[I feel like Yuezai is coveting other people’s lanterns, hahaha, give me some tips so that Yuezai can buy a lantern!]

[Fell into a secret room? Oh wow, exciting]

[My poor fat baby, why hasn’t he had breakfast yet? Mommy feels so bad]

With adequate lighting and a wide field of vision, they can easily observe the environment.

This is a completely enclosed space, and its layout is somewhat similar to the study I've been to before. Unlike the spaciousness of the study, things here are cluttered and filled with the smell of mold and... the smell of clues.

Yue Ya first looked at the four walls. There was also a "ghost walking picture" hanging on the wall here, which was exactly the same as the one in the living room, even the name of the ghost was the same.

Is this painting mass-produced?

As Yue Ya looked at the painting, she suddenly noticed something different - the ghost-faced man in the painting did not open his eyes.

Next to the ghost walking picture, there is another even stranger picture. It depicts an abyss with many banyan trees distributed in it. Several corpse pupae grow on the largest tree. There are people kneeling under the tree, as if they are offering a sacrifice.

Could this abyss be the origin of the big banyan tree in the yard?

Yue Ya couldn't make sense of it, so he continued forward and saw a piece of paper pasted on the wall with two lines of words written on it. The handwriting was clear, with only a few words blurred by water, which did not affect reading.

"I found the legendary reincarnation tree. It has... revived, but there are still remnants in this house that need to be dealt with."

Yue Ya recognized the handwriting and found it was the same as the inscription on the ghost walking picture, so it seemed to be written by the same person.

"It turns out that banyan tree... is called the Samsara Tree..." Lantern raised the oil lamp and shone it into the abyss in the painting: "The owner of the secret room took... this painting and found the Samsara Tree... and then discovered..."

Yueya tells the second half for him: "He found Fengjuan, so he used a special method to communicate with Fengjuan, and made Fengjuan sell her soul to him on the condition of revenge for her."

Lantern nodded: "Yes."

But in the eyes of the owner of the secret room, Fengjuan was just a "remnant", and he agreed to avenge her just to make her willing to work for him.

Yue Ya came to the desk. There were a lot of things on it, but only an account book caught his attention.

He opened the account book, which recorded every transaction. He read it carefully and found that the "goods" in these transactions were actually little ghosts!

The owner of the secret room used this place as a ghost breeding farm!

Yueya handed the account book to Lantern, and his mind quickly diverged: "Do you remember the ghost story the director told on the first night? He said that he had photographed a ghost two streets away from here, and an old woman nearby told him that the house was originally inhabited by a wizard who raised ghosts."

Lantern nodded: "Remember."

They had all seen the ghost photo and were impressed.

The scattered clues connected at this time, and Yue Ya imagined a complete story line in his mind: "The wizard who raised the little ghost was the owner of the secret room. He had been looking for this banyan tree. After confirming that the banyan tree had revived, he moved here, but missed a little ghost in the old house. For some reason, he didn't go back to pick it up. The little ghost had been waiting in the old house. Many years later, he was bumped into by the director who went to collect folk songs."

Lantern finished reading the account book and handed it back to him: "Reasonable."

Yue Ya put the account book in his pocket and rummaged through the desk. After a while, he found a manual.

When I opened it, I saw a line of words written in a flamboyant style: I once promised Fengjuan that my descendants would send her reincarnated enemy to her, but I read the fortune and found that her enemy would be reincarnated into my Chen clan. This is retribution in this life, it is really retribution in this life! !

Yueya's eyes fell on the word "Chen". What a coincidence?

The first person who came to his mind when it came to the "Chen" related to this copy was Chen Wang, one of the parties A in the "Mansion Trial Sleeping Contract".

Lantern also noticed it and asked uncertainly, "Chen Wang?"

"Chen Wang took the initiative to plan all this and sent the program crew to the mansion as his scapegoats. He was pretending to fulfill the wizard's promise to Feng Juan. He must know the inside story."

Yue Ya flipped through the manual and saw nothing else. He put this important evidence into the player backpack and said slowly, "What do you think Chen Wang would do to the Ghost Tailor if he knew that he wanted to be entangled with him for the rest of his life?"

Lantern thought for a moment, then said word by word: "Except. that. And. Then. Quickly."

"I thought so too, so I think he would ask the ghost tailor for other things under the pretext of helping with revenge." Yue Ya looked around the secret room: "I didn't expect that this accidental drop would give us such a big harvest. Let's look for other clues, such as what characteristics this bully's reincarnation would have..."

When scanning the picture of the ghost walking on the wall, Yue Ya suddenly became quiet. He found that a ghost had disappeared from the picture at some point.

There was a blank space on the drawing paper, which was particularly obvious.

He saw that Lantern's face turned pale, and he paused and said, "Behind you..."

Yueya felt a chill on his back, and without turning his head, he said: "Fei Fei, be fierce to it!" Breakfast is here!

Feifei jumped onto his shoulder, bared his teeth behind him, and growled like a vicious cat: "Awooo, awooo, awooo!!"