Shao Dong thought she was asking why the small building was built, so he replied, "...it's to make things easier for Boss Huang and his family. After all, the conditions in Shaojia Village are not good, and they have requirements for accommodation."
The small building was put into use after it was mostly completed. When people weren't using it, they would expand it; when they came back, they would use the remaining half. But after this incident, the owners felt it was bad luck, so the expansion was hastily completed and never finished.
Shi Jinzhe asked, "Who designed the current layout of that small building?"
"It was Mr. Huang who hired him. Businessmen like him are quite particular. After someone died, he specially hired a master to look at the house and change the layout, saying that he wanted to avoid the bad luck being affected."
"In your previous design, every room had a peephole, right?"
"Yes..." Shao Dong felt guilty. These bosses' requests were strange and he realized that they were a bit abnormal. "But the rooms haven't even started construction yet, and the project was abandoned. Don't worry, no one can spy on you while you're staying."
"Why is the window of the first room on the left sealed off?"
“Because my body was there,” Chai Anan said softly as his mind cleared. “He built me into the wall.”
Shao Dong turned his head away, not daring to look at her: "It wasn't me, it was that master who said you have the strongest resentment, so you have to be confined..."
"So her body was in that bedroom's peephole, right?" Shekh recalled the strange smell emanating from the mirror after she broke it.
The place was cramped, and to squeeze a person in, the body would have to be adjusted. That's probably why Chai Anan's body was twisted like that.
"Yes, but because of the changes to the layout and feng shui, the master said that the small building had unexpectedly become an extremely yin place where ghosts gather, so he asked me to seal the windows, saying that this way Chai Anan would not be able to leave that small area, and it would be fine in a few years."
Shao Dong glanced at the group of people. If it weren't for this group, Chai Anan would never have been able to run out of the courtyard of the small building, and he wouldn't be in this state.
Meng Chengxi felt a lump in his throat looking at that unrepentant gaze. "For money and profit, you'd rather be an animal. It's a disservice to you to be reborn as a human."
"I didn't want to either!" Shao Dong retorted immediately, unwilling to accept the situation. "It's because those people keep interviewing me and saying I'm a great philanthropist that I have to maintain this image. If I don't do this, then Boss Huang and the others won't pay me. How can I be the great philanthropist in their eyes if I don't have money? They'll curse me to death!"
Meng Chengxi was unwilling to listen and waved his hand impatiently at him, "Shut up, I don't want to hear it. Wrong is wrong, don't make excuses. Now take us to find these people's bodies."
"I've already confessed, why do you still want me to go..."
Shekh summoned a venomous snake, which crawled onto Shao Dong's body. "Immediately."
With two snakes on his body and both arms crippled, Shao Dong had no choice but to force himself to stand up and lead the way out, no matter how unwilling he was.
Before leaving the basement, Li Xin went to Shehe and Shi Jinzhe and pointed to a wooden cabinet in the corner of the basement, saying, "The teacher's phone number is over there. Thank you for your help."
Shi Jinzhe walked over and found a mobile phone there. The phone was turned on and had no password. He opened the messaging app and saw that the latest post on his WeChat Moments was from half a month ago.
The signal here is very weak. Don't worry if you can't reach me; I'll get back to you once the signal is back.
He looked down and saw similar messages every month or two. He opened his friend list and saw Shao Dong replying to her parents' messages in the same tone as Qin Jingyu.
The chat messages mostly consisted of photos of students, accompanied by a message saying, "I'm very happy here, you don't need to worry."
Occasionally, a voice message would be interspersed among the conversations. He listened to it and found that it was forwarded from other people. The conversations were between Qin Jingyu's parents, who were encouraging her and telling her to come back if she couldn't bear the hardship.
Shi Jinzhe clicked into Qin's mother's WeChat Moments, which was full of photos of the children, and there was also a post featuring photos of mountain produce.
【Every time we say we want to visit Xiaoyu, she won't let us, saying the journey is too far and she's worried about our health. This year she even mailed us these local specialties again. She's always been so independent and doesn't want us to interfere. This child is really a handful.】
Despite verbally expressing disdain, he posted nine photos from various angles, revealing his boasting and pride in Qin Jingyu.
This information left him with mixed feelings. He looked up and asked Li Xin, "Why did you let us leave when we were at school? Was it related to this Teacher Qin?"
"It's because it's dangerous to stay here, Chai Anan, things are out of control."
Shi Jinzhe didn't understand at first, but Shehe realized it because he had seen Chai Anan at that time on the first night.
"She was irrational at that time, and later she ate Huangshanhe, which made her even more ferocious."
"So that's how it is. Trapping a ghost in an extremely yin place where ghosts gather. I don't know if the master that Boss Huang found had ulterior motives or was just half-baked."
However, looking at it this way, Boss Huang and Huang Shanhe both have the surname Huang, so he seems to know why Chai Anan would target Huang Shanhe.
As for why he initially approached her, it was probably because he had taken her room.
Shi Jinzhe held the phone and walked out. Watching Shao Dong's staggering figure, he dialed Qin's mother's number.
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On a country road in the early morning, seven people and three ghosts created a harmonious scene.
Shao Dong was taken back to the small building. As they entered, they heard a continuous knocking on the door.
The loudest sound came from right outside Qi Yin's room.
Sherman heard someone return, opened the door a crack, and upon seeing them, immediately came forward.
No one was in the mood for formalities with her, so she had no choice but to swallow her anger and go to find Qi Yin. When she opened the door, she found that Qi Yin's pupils were dilated and he was not far from death.
Meng Chengxi, shining a flashlight, and Shi Jinzhe together dismantled the wall, and the corpse wrapped in a black plastic bag rolled out of the wall.
The wooden stake was driven into her mouth. Seeing this, the two looked at each other. No wonder they hated Boss Huang so much. Normal people wouldn't do this when they killed someone and buried the body.
This house must have accumulated a lot of yin energy for Chai Anan. It's likely that the players were able to become ghosts after death because of the special layout of this place.
The body was moved downstairs, and Chai Anan stood to the side, watching Meng Chengxi take a blanket and cover her body.
After finding Chai Anan, the group went to the school and, with Shao Dong's directions, found Li Xin and Qin Jingyu, who had already turned into skeletons.
After finishing all this, it was broad daylight.
In the morning, a large crowd gathered in front of the courtyard of the small building. For Li Xin and Qin Jingyu's family, everything Shao Dong had done was just the beginning of their suffering.
Both he and Qin Jingyu gave these girls hope of leaving the mountains. The former chose selfishness for fame and profit, while the latter was sincere but did not have a good end. Her parents will live the rest of their lives in grief for their daughter.
The exhausted group found a corner to sit down. The phone from last night had connected them to the outside world; Qin Jingyu's parents had already called the police and were on their way.
When the police arrive, the game system will clean up the mess here.
Meng Chengxi leaned closer: "Let's add each other as friends?"
"No need." Shi Jinzhe had no choice but to speak. His survival game app didn't have this function; only points and transfers were active, while everything else was grayed out.
"Alright then." Meng Chengxi didn't insist and turned to find the two newcomers.
Around noon, a game notification popped up in front of Shi Jinzhe's eyes as he heard the sound of police sirens.
[Player Shi Jinzhe has successfully solved the dungeon "Charity Event". You can leave the game early. Advancement quest points will be awarded immediately, while survival points will be awarded after the dungeon is completely closed. Please confirm whether you wish to leave early?]
Shi Jinzhe confirmed his departure. Except for Sherman, who couldn't leave early because he hadn't completed the advancement quest, the others also chose to leave the game.
Before leaving, he asked the system what punishment Shao Dong would receive.
A transparent wall of air appeared beside Shao Dong, along with several ghosts imprisoned with him. Before he could react, merciless bites had already attacked his body.
His eyes bulged out, and he stretched out his arms, desperately trying to crawl out, but people couldn't see Li Xin and the other girls; they could only see his gnawed wounds.
The wails were incessant, and then Shi Jinzhe heard the terrified shouts of the onlookers: "The ghost has come to take revenge! The ghost has come to take revenge!"
A flash of white light appeared in his eyes. In the last few seconds before being teleported back, he watched from the perspective of a villager as Shao Dong was brutally torn apart by the ghosts.
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