Back in their room on the fourth floor, everyone tacitly went to the next room to avoid the three NPCs on the other side.
They had just caught their breath when they heard a sound echoing throughout the entire building.
The group exchanged glances, realizing they weren't going to hide anything anymore!
“No matter what, things have come to a head now.” Luo Bin plopped down on the sofa. “But at least I wasn’t caught red-handed, so she probably won’t be in a hurry to make a move.”
Xu Qing: "Speaking of which, what exactly was Teacher Feng's purpose in setting up this magic array? Is she also involved in the rumors about the haunted building?"
"That's right."
At this moment, Xiao Jin slowly walked out from behind.
Everyone looked over upon hearing the news.
She sat down, intending to tell them everything she had written down in her notebook.
Xiao Jin: "The general situation is that Professor Feng has been researching how to reincarnate people who have died. The materials she is referring to are the research materials left by her husband before his death."
"Her husband?" Tong Xiaolu pondered for a moment: "I remember now, Old Wang did mention it last night. He said that Teacher Feng has a lover, and the two have a very good relationship."
Her husband was a university professor, but the couple had no children. Later, it seems her husband developed a very serious illness and died.
Ms. Feng became depressed, resigned from her job, and locked herself in her room for half a month.
"And what about half a month later?" Hearing this, everyone had basically guessed what was going on.
Tong Xiaolu looked at Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin nodded: "You're right. She was unwilling to accept her husband's death, so she searched for various folk customs materials when she was behind closed doors."
She then devised a plan to sacrifice all the living people in the building to summon her husband's soul back.
The crowd gasped in disbelief.
All the living people in the entire building? Doesn't that mean...?
Everyone touched their arms; the people they had seen inside the building were all ghosts!
Those who were afraid of ghosts turned green instantly!
"No wonder these people's faces change so quickly." The muscular man's body shuddered violently.
"So, that explains the origin of the rumors." Cui Mingyang continued, looking at Xiao Jin, "Did she succeed?"
"I'd say we've succeeded halfway!"
Xiao Jin recalled the contents of the notebook: "She mostly pieced together these kinds of things from various sources, and the execution of the magic array was not perfect."
Do you remember the vengeful ghost we encountered in the corridor last night?
Upon hearing this, Tong Xiaolu frowned, while Xiao Xin, Li Qi, and the others secretly glanced at Xiao Jin.
Luo Bin suddenly sat up: "Oh, could it be him?"
“That’s right.” Xiao Jin: “The formation went wrong, and the sacrificial living person turned into a vengeful ghost. It not only killed Teacher Feng, but also destroyed the altar.”
"altar?"
"The entire building was an altar, and the three magic circles were the corresponding array eyes. The Avengers tore her apart, and her husband turned into a completely irrational beast."
Every night, it wanders inside the building and is unusually sensitive to light.
"Oh, I see!" Luo Bin suddenly realized, but then he couldn't quite understand it.
"Logically speaking, they should be enemies. But yesterday, they got along very well, and the residents here seemed to really respect Teacher Feng."
Luo Bin waved his hand: "This shouldn't be!"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then they realized what was happening.
He's right. The relationship between the two sides is clearly one of killing and being killed. Teacher Feng sacrificed all the living people in the building, and the residents became vengeful ghosts and killed Teacher Feng in return.
The two sides should be mortal enemies no matter how you look at it.
Xiao Jin's expression remained unchanged, and he replied calmly, "Naturally, it's for profit."
"These people want to find temporary bodies, and only the magic array in the building can help them. Teacher Feng also needs more people to help her maintain the magic array."
Without the magic circle, her husband will dissipate again. The talismans you found in the study were made using a special method.
Upon hearing this, everyone exchanged bewildered glances.
"...A temporary...body?" The muscular man's eyes were strange. "So, those who came to explore the haunted building and didn't want to go back were all possessed by ghosts?"
That's probably the only explanation.
Tong Xiaolu was somewhat downcast: "She really loves her husband, but does this kind of 'reunion' really mean anything?"
……………………
Because the commotion they'd just made was too loud, the players decided to keep a low profile. They all stayed in their rooms to rest and didn't plan to go out.
Xiao Jin, however, hadn't forgotten that she still had one of her Detective Eyes left on the third floor, and she needed to retrieve it before the movie ended.
However, no matter how much Xiao Jin thought about it, she never expected that her departure would lead to trouble.
After coming out, Xiao Jin did not rush to take action. Instead, she stood at the top of the stairs and patiently observed the situation on the third floor with meticulous attention to detail.
The reconnaissance eye pierced through layers of obstacles, taking in everything on the third floor.
The image that appeared in Xiao Jin's mind was clear and stable: an empty corridor, a silent room, and everything seemed normal.
After confirming that everything was correct, Xiao Jin took a step and stepped onto the stairs leading to the third floor.
Upon reaching the third floor, her gaze quickly swept around, finally settling on a gap in the railing.
The Eye of Detection lay there quietly. Xiao Jin deftly reached out, her fingertips gently touching the cold outer shell, before slowly retracting it.
Just as she was about to turn and leave, a sudden sense of crisis pierced her spine like ice.
The air seemed to freeze for a moment, and then a sharp aura, like an arrow in the dark night, silently shot straight towards her.
Xiao Jin's heart tightened suddenly, and her body reacted instinctively, dodging to the side and successfully avoiding the attack from behind.
She turned her head and saw that, in that split second, Teacher Feng's figure slowly emerged from the wall.
It's unclear how long she's been watching, but at this moment, Teacher Feng's face is twisted and sinister, like a vengeful ghost crawling out of the depths of hell, her eyes burning with raging anger and venomous resentment as she stares intently at Xiao Jin.
Those black hands, like the claws of a demon in the night, carried endless chill and malice, silently reaching forward, intending to tightly grip Xiao Jin's slender neck.
"Finally, it's you, it must be you!" Teacher Feng's voice was low and hoarse, each word seemingly squeezed out from between his teeth.
Faced with this sudden situation, Xiao Jin was not surprised at all; rather, she had expected this to happen.
The Eye of Reconnaissance wasn't exactly hidden, and Xiao Jin didn't think it was impossible for it to be destroyed. But it remained completely untouched, as if it hadn't been discovered at all.
Xiao Jin wasn't that naive.
However, clinging to the hope that there was still a sliver of a chance she could be saved, she went downstairs anyway.
In truth, Xiao Jin was simply overconfident and fearless. She believed that even if she faced Teacher Feng, she could escape unscathed.
That's all the reconnaissance tool she had!
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