The car fell silent again, with only the engine roaring in the night.

The closer you get to the suburbs and the closer you get to your destination, the sparser the streetlights become.

Luo Tianhe swallowed hard and cursed angrily:

"Are the people in the suburbs not human? They can't even afford to install more streetlights! How poor is the city government?! It's so dark, how are we supposed to walk?!"

As he spoke, he added,

"The money for building streetlights must have been embezzled by those rich people."

I know that Luo Tianhe is just a little scared and is frantically trying to distract himself.

I opened the forum, and the rumors about this orphanage were no less numerous than those in Building Fourteen.

I leaned back in my seat, feeling somewhat powerless.

Now that things have come to this, there's no time for further preparation.

Fortunately, apart from the peach wood sword, I keep everything else close to my body, and this time was no exception.

I simply don't believe that this orphanage could be more dangerous than Gejia Village.

Soon, the driver slowed down at a fork in the road and said in a trembling voice, "That's...that's enough. Just drive into that small road ahead. I...I really don't dare to go any further."

Luo Tianhe wanted to say something more,

Old Biden, instead of taking the tip, would have been better off delivering the person to their destination.

I held him down and nodded to the driver: "Thanks, I'll get off here."

After getting out of the car, the driver floored the gas pedal and fled the scene as if his life depended on it.

Before me was a path overgrown with weeds, seemingly untouched for a long time, the weeds growing up to my knees.

The outline of the orphanage was visible in the distance. I patted Luo Tianhe on the shoulder.

"Let's go in and take a look."

"Damn, this place is really eerie." Luo Tianhe rubbed the goosebumps on his arms.

I turned on my phone's flashlight, but the beam was weak and ineffective in the darkness: "Stop dawdling, Li Huai might be waiting for us."

The path was muddy and overgrown with weeds that reached above the knees. With each step, the sound of snapping branches underfoot was exceptionally clear.

After walking for a while, as we approached the orphanage, a faint smell of burning filled the air, mixed with a musty smell and some indescribable stench of decay.

Luo Tianhe gagged and couldn't help but curse, "I just don't understand, is Li Huai out of his mind?"

"Even if he's stupid, he'd realize something's wrong once he gets this far! Instead of coming back to find us, he's going in to his death alone!"

"Damn it, when I find him, I'm going to kick him a few times!"

Luo Tianhe, who had been holding back his anger, felt his fear dissipate considerably, and his pace quickened.

I shook my head. It's not that simple.

Li Huai was probably forced into this situation; otherwise, given that kid's personality, he would have come looking for reinforcements.

"Can you smell that? It's a sickeningly sweet smell."

Luo Tianhe suddenly stopped in his tracks.

The air smelled like a mixed bag, with the stench of burning, charred meat and rotting corpses, now mixed with a sweet, cloying aroma, making one's stomach churn.

I held my breath and started breathing through my mouth again.

"If you find the smell unpleasant, don't breathe through your nose. Breathe through your mouth like I do. At least that way it won't be so disgusting."

Luo Tiange did as instructed and immediately felt much better.

We quickened our pace and soon arrived at the gate of the orphanage.

A rusty chain hung on the rusty iron gate, but it wasn't locked; it was just hanging there loosely.

The courtyard wall is mottled, with large sections of plaster peeling off, revealing the charred bricks underneath.

"It seems the fire is real." I reached out and pushed open the iron gate. The hinges made a teeth-grinding creaking sound, which was particularly jarring in the quiet night.

"Nonsense, it's officially certified after all. There must be a lot of people exploring during the day. If there weren't any signs of fire, it wouldn't have spread so widely."

Luo Tianhe rolled his eyes and followed me into the orphanage, searching for Li Huai's whereabouts.

The yard was large and overgrown with weeds.

In the very center is a three-story main building, most of the windows of which are broken, resembling dark, hollow eyes.

There is a row of low bungalows on the left, which may be a canteen or activity room.

On the right is a dilapidated swing, its rusty iron chains swaying gently in the wind, making a soft clicking sound.

Suddenly, the clicking and clattering sound intensified, as if an unseen person was playing on the swing.

Luo Tianhe was immediately stunned, his face turned pale, and he stared at the swing without blinking.

I activated my third eye and, sure enough, I found a girl sitting on the swing holding a doll.

She was wearing a faded white dress and had her back to me.

I held a yellow talisman in my hand, cautiously approached her, patted her shoulder, and asked:

"Little friend, did you see an older brother come by during the day? He looked something like this."

I described it to her in a string of gibberish.

Luo Tianhe, who was not far away, swallowed hard and watched me talk to a blank space. He knew that I was talking to a ghost.

The girl slowly turned around. Her face was now completely cooked and still steaming.

Her eyeballs had disappeared, leaving only two dark, hollow holes.

"The person you're talking about,"

She spoke slowly, and as her facial muscles moved, the rotten flesh on her face peeled off like a boiled pig's trotter, revealing the stark white bones.

A delicious aroma of roasted meat wafted out, without any strange smells mixed in.

But it made me feel extremely nauseous, and I couldn't help but gag.

The girl spoke, then held up the rag doll in her hand.

That's when I saw her rag doll, which was also a charred doll, and its disfigured face looked exactly like mine!

Is this it?

"No, little sister, sorry to bother you, I'll go look for it myself."

I pretended to be calm, waved my hand, and then pulled Luo Tianhe, trying to walk away.

"Wait, I know who you're talking about."

The girl suddenly jumped off the swing, making a sound like a float.

The flesh and blood on her legs quickly fell away, turning into bare white bones, making her appear much shorter.

"Holy crap, what is that?!"

Luo Tianhe stared at the girl in horror.

I looked at him sharply. This girl, since she had made Luo Tianhe able to see her, meant she was going to attack us.

"I'm nothing, I'm Xiaolan, brother, do you want to play a game with me?"

"If you win, I'll give you this doll."

As she spoke, she held up the doll in her hand, which had now completely transformed into Li Huai's likeness.

His face was filled with terror, as if he had seen something unbelievable.

This evil spirit has indeed seen Li Huai before!

My movement of pulling Luo Tianhe along as we ran stopped abruptly, and I froze on the spot.