"Ten minutes have passed, why hasn't Aisha come out yet?"

Jiang Ran realized something might have happened, and the others didn't dare wait any longer. They went up the mountain, smashed the door lock with a spray gun, and kicked the door down.

"If you ask me, we should have done this a long time ago. We could have just had Aisha fix the door after we got out!"

Not seeing Aisha on the first floor, the group quickly went up to the second floor, where they found Aisha lying on the ground with her eyes closed and two bloody marks on her face!

"What did we just see? Such a big scene!"

They went up to the mountain and patted Aisha, but she showed no signs of waking up, which put them in a difficult position.

“If this guy doesn’t wake up, we won’t be able to fix the door. Wouldn’t that be a clear indication to Marid that a thief has broken in?”

"Wait, why are you taking off your shoes?"

"Let me see if putting a sock in her mouth will wake her up!"

"No! I think it's completely unnecessary!"

What exactly did Aisha see that turned her into this state? Jiang Ran stood next to Aisha, looking around the entire second floor. What appeared before them was the door to the storage room.

The door showed signs of being slightly ajar.

Is there anything in here?

The group immediately retreated. Alice used her silk threads to remotely open the door to the storeroom. The group was on high alert; they wouldn't be surprised if a near-god suddenly jumped out from inside!

Strangely, there were only a few brooms inside, and nothing else but some insignificant trash; nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

Gwen noticed something else, and she ran to Marid's desk and opened a box of paints.

Shan Shang also turned around and asked, "Blue-haired girl, what are you going to do with this thing? Want to make an impromptu painting?"

"I'll say it again, don't call me Blue Hairy Girl!" Gwen resisted the urge to punch him and explained, "This isn't ordinary paint, it's powder made from Moonlit Grass!"

"Moonlight Grass? What's that?"

“It’s a material that can be used in a formation.” With that, Gwen picked up a paintbrush from Mari’s desk and drew a simple pattern on the floor. “Lift Aisha into the center of the formation I drew!”

Then, she sprinkled some powdered Moonflower on Aisha, closed her eyes, and began to chant something that others couldn't understand. About 20 seconds later, Aisha's fingers twitched, and she made a "uh" sound.

"Holy crap, it actually works?"

Alice stared at Gwen as if she'd seen a ghost: "You can do all this?"

Gwen puffed out her chest: "Hmph, of course, I'm a cultured strategist!"

"What happened...?"

Aisha covered her head and sat up.

"We should be asking you what happened, what you did after you came in, ma'am?"

"After I come in... Yes! Whatever you do, don't open the door to the storage room!"

"Um, is it possible that we've already opened?"

Aisha turned to look at the storage room, where there was nothing terrifying, only a few ordinary brooms.

"When I opened the door to the storage room, all I saw was a purple pupil! Just one glare from it was enough to make my eyes bleed and cause me to faint!"

Such a terrifying thing existed? Why is it gone now?

Yamashita slapped his forehead: "I'm afraid I know now."

"Big sister, haven't you always suspected that Marid's house was haunted? Now that your 'miracle' has stirred things up, even a problem has become a problem! After you fainted, your power dissipated, so naturally there was nothing left in there..."

That is to say, there was nothing wrong with the storage room originally, but Aisha firmly believed that there was something wrong with it, so under the influence of the "Ideal Home", there really was a problem!

This is a skill most people can't pull off; it's easy to kill yourself with it...

Aisha's face flushed instantly: "Ahem, this was a mistake, this was a mistake."

"Doesn't this mean that everything is actually normal at Marid's house, and there are no problems at all?"

“No, there are still problems, but they’re not major, but they’re not minor either.” Gwen interrupted the group, and they looked into his hands and saw that he had collected some other trinkets.

"Blue-haired girl, what are all these?"

“If I hear those three words from your mouth again, I will definitely beat you up, definitely! These are all items that can be used as materials for formations. One or two pieces might be a coincidence, but the fact that I was able to find these means that this Marid must know about formations!”

"It's not good to stay here any longer; we should leave as soon as possible."

Gwen ran downstairs and took everything that could be used as a magic array. Then the group left Marid's house and restored everything in his house through Aisha's "miracle".

"This is the first time I've found array materials outside of this strange world..."

The group continued to wander around the town until dusk fell and night enveloped the entire town.

Unfortunately, during this time, they still found no news related to Aransta.

Marid returned home, tied the dog to the yard, and soon after, the lights in the house went out.

It was about 10:30 p.m. at the moment.

Jiang Ran and his accomplices' "dog-stealing operation" is about to begin.

Once Marid was fast asleep, the group quietly climbed into Marid's yard. The five dogs looked up, and three of them immediately tried to bark, but Jiang Ran gave them three hard slaps, making them lie obediently on the ground!

Jiang Ran made a shushing gesture. Aisha came up to Rusger and patted his head: "You rascal, you've really fallen to this level?"

"But you're a human, not a dog."

This is a miracle from [Ideal Home]!

The big black dog standing on the ground disappeared, and Rusger coughed twice and immediately hugged Aisha!

"Big Sister! You've finally come to save me! And Jiang Ran, and the two other girls too!"

Yamaue: "I'm here too!"

"That's right!" Rusger immediately pointed to the other dog that was still awake on the ground, "He's a ghost storyteller from the Dragon Kingdom! He turned into a dog even earlier than me!"

"A ghost storyteller?" Aisha nodded. "Then he must be a talented person!"

As Aisha finished speaking, another large dog transformed into a human. Jiang Ran recognized him: Liu Xia, an S-rank ghost storyteller from the Dragon Kingdom!

"Brother Jiang Ran? That's great!" Liu Xia looked at Aisha again, wondering to himself, "How come I remember that this guy died a long time ago?"

"We shouldn't stay here any longer! Let's hurry up and leave! We can talk about other things later!"

"Um."

The group dared not linger and left through the courtyard, but before they had taken two steps, something blocked their way.

It was a scarecrow.