Lu Ban remembered very clearly that when he first entered this room which was surrounded by cabinets and stored with various collectibles and antiques, he checked the environment and found that there were no other humans or living creatures present.

So now, the obvious human whimpering sound coming from behind the black safe, who is it from?

Lu Ban felt the voice sounded familiar. He and Xia looked at each other, then looked left and right, toward the back of the safe.

All I saw was a young girl in a skirt sitting there with her legs hugged, hidden among various antiques and pottery.

It's red leaves.

"Why are you here?"

Xiaya immediately walked over and wanted to help Hongye up, but Lu Ban suddenly spoke.

"Don't help her."

"What's wrong?"

Stopped by Lu Ban's words, Xia looked at him in confusion.

"You remember, we checked this place when we came in just now, and we didn't see anyone else at that time."

Lu Ban said, and at the same time he glanced at Trist beside him. Trist remained alert and did not act rashly.

"…You mean…this is fake?"

Xiaya immediately took a half step back and stared at Hongye. The girl raised her face, looked at Xiaya, and then looked at Lu Ban.

"fraud."

She said this with a slightly complaining tone, as if she didn't care about what Lu Ban said.

"How did you get here, Amber?"

Lu Ban didn't quite understand what Hongye said, so he asked.

"Amber and I were waiting for you in the room, but we heard a crash outside. I went to check it out out of curiosity, and then I passed out. When I woke up, I was here. There was nothing around, only pitch black. I was so scared that I couldn't help crying, and then... I saw you."

Hongye said while sniffling.

Her words reminded Xia of a similar situation. Xia couldn't help but glance at Lu Ban and then at Trist.

The situation described by Hongye is very similar to what Trist experienced!

"Did you know that you didn't exist here just now?"

Lu Ban continued to ask.

Hongye showed a slightly confused expression, just like a cat who came to the can excitedly only to find that it was an empty shell.

"Just now...where was this place?"

Hongye looked around in confusion, and then she noticed that she was in the storage room downstairs.

"This is the underground storage room. The contents of the safe have disappeared."

Lu Ban said something.

Hearing his words, Hongye wiped her tears, slowly stood up, checked the situation around her, and looked at Lu Ban again.

"Amber is still in the room!"

Hongye said as if she suddenly remembered something and wanted to check on her friend's condition.

"Wait a minute, we've just checked and there's no one in the room."

Xia grabbed Hongye, and when her hand touched Hongye's body, she suddenly retracted it.

"It's so hot, are you sick?"

Shia moved her hand away and placed it on Hongye's forehead.

A burst of scorching temperature came over me, which was obviously a high fever.

"I have no idea……"

Hongye's eyes were a little dazed. She was more worried about what was happening in front of her than her physical condition.

"Where's Amber? Did you find Amber?"

Hongye suddenly asked again, not knowing whether it was the high fever that caused her mental state to be abnormal, or something happened in a place that Lu Ban and the others didn't know, that made her become sensitive and neurotic.

"Not yet, we want to know what happened."

Drizzt said soothingly as he put down the broken suitcase.

"You said you were in total darkness just now. Did you hear any sounds or see anything?"

Lu Ban asked.

"I don't know. I just remember you said you would come back, but you never did. You lied to us."

Hongye stared at Lu Ban with resentment.

"Well, this is an illusion."

Lu Ban explained.

He had heard before that some girls would dream about boys doing something wrong, and scold them after waking up. If the boys refuted that it was a dream, they would say that it was because of the boys' behavior during the day that made them dream at night.

Anyway, even if I am 99% wrong, don't you have 1% problem?

However, given Hongye’s current condition, it is difficult to say whether he has really encountered something.

Of course, Lu Ban also suspected that this red leaf was fake and was disguised by some monster.

It’s still the same question, what are these monsters trying to achieve by disguising themselves as people around Lu Ban?

Trist has no intention of murdering Lu Ban now, and looks no different from the normal old Trist.

It can't be that the [Man of Darkness] couldn't stand it anymore and decided to play the "all the people in the group are my smurfs" game with Lu Ban.

Since you can't tell it now, it's okay to treat her as the real Hongye.

Boom——

At this moment, a crash suddenly came from outside.

The voice seemed familiar, causing Hongye to shudder suddenly, like a battlefield veteran with PTSD triggered.

Lu Ban could clearly distinguish that this was the sound he had heard in the hotel before.

He winked at Xia, indicating that she should look after Hongye, and he and Trist walked out of the storage room with flashlights.

I don't know when the lights in the corridor went out, and the entire villa fell into silence, with only the moonlight outside the window illuminating the whole villa. It seemed that there were monsters in every corner and danger lurking in every shadow.

Lu Ban turned on the flashlight and illuminated the villa.

He heard the noise coming from the front door, so he climbed the stairs and headed that way.

Trist was behind Lu Ban, also holding a flashlight and a baton, and keeping a close eye on the backs of the two men.

When he arrived at the door, Lu Ban heard the sound getting louder and louder.

At the same time, the door continued to shake, as if something was knocking violently on it.

Lu Ban tried to peek outside through the crack in the door, but the door was tightly closed and there was no way to see outside like in the movies, so he could only go to the window.

Outside the window, the street lights in the parking lot had long been turned off, and it was pitch black. The moonlight was obscured by dark clouds, plunging the world into silence.

There seemed to be something outside, but Lu Ban couldn't see it clearly. He moved closer to the window, trying to see clearly what it was.

Bang——

The next moment, a head hit the window glass, with only a thin layer of glass separating it from Lu Ban's face.

In the holes on the head, countless tentacles with eyeballs on the ends were sticking to the glass, trying to get in through the gaps. The wriggling appearance, combined with the movement of these monsters, made them look like disgusting giant bugs.

The dark clouds drifted away at this time, and the moonlight illuminated the earth again.

Lu Ban saw that the entire parking lot, street lights, under cars, and on the road were densely packed with those white monsters.

There were at least a thousand of these monsters, if not hundreds, and they were rushing towards the villa. The crashing sounds were caused by these monsters ramming their bodies against the door, trying to enter the villa.

Bang, bang, bang——

The glass made a sound and the monsters soon caused the windows to shake, as if they were going to break in through the windows and completely occupy the place at the next moment.