The banging on the door stopped.
The sound of footsteps receding into the distance could be heard.
The strange substance slowly dragged the four people back into the depths of the room.
"Ugh—" The four of them let out desperate whimpers, a chill running from their tailbone straight to the top of their heads.
With each distance they were dragged away, the strange substance on their bodies tightened, and before long, they would be crushed to death.
Li Changzhou stood in a corner of the room. He couldn't see anything clearly either, but he could "feel" the black substance.
Seeing that these people were on the verge of death from suffocation, the black substance released them without using any special power.
This is the sixth room, and we still haven't found the third holder of the 'Great Power'.
There was still some time before dawn, but he wasn't going to waste any more time.
He lit the kerosene lamp in the room, opened the door and went out. Relying on his memory, he locked the door from the inside with his black hand and re-secured the chain.
The cold corpse stood not far away, watching him.
Li Changzhou walked towards the mahogany house, which was the lone traveler's room, also known as Yang Qinglan's room. The corpse followed behind him with heavy steps.
"Dong~ Dong~" He knocked lightly on the door twice.
"......who?"
"cough!"
Squeak! The sound of the door opening was very eerie in the darkness.
Li Changzhou went inside, and the corpse remained at the doorway.
The black substance covering the body faded away, and the light from the kerosene lamp held by the black hand merged with the light from the kerosene lamp in Yang Qinglan's hand, forming a small halo.
In the light of the two lamps, the two people could see each other fairly clearly without having to get too close.
Compared to his invulnerability to swords and spears in the lobby, Yang Qinglan was now wrapped in another blanket, and his appearance could be described as "pathetic".
"That's an exaggeration?" Li Changzhou said.
"When I was traveling during the day, the wind blew on my face, and my face felt so cold it was like I had been slapped a dozen times," Yang Qinglan said irritably.
"Hahaha!" Li Changzhou laughed loudly.
"Why are you only arriving now?" Yang Qinglan walked back to the table, placed the kerosene lamp in her hand on the table, and crawled back into bed.
Li Changzhou got into bed with her and covered them both with the blanket that was wrapped around her.
Both of them were dressed very thickly, and even when they were pressed together, all they could feel was the unfathomable depth of their clothes.
"I left half an hour after going upstairs. I encountered a little accident on my way here." He recounted the encounter with the corpse, the experiment with the 'great power,' and the ward rounds.
Afterwards, I casually remarked that it's really inconvenient not having teleportation.
“So it was you who knocked on the door earlier. Don’t play pranks at times like this,” Yang Qinglan said.
Li Changzhou looked at her quietly.
Yang Qinglan was quiet for a moment, and the two of them looked at the door at the same time.
"Winter~winter~"
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