The Headquarters sent a tour guide to show He Ming around Capital. They strolled around all day, relaxing and enjoying themselves.
He Ming appeared relaxed on the outside but was actually quite tense inside. He was all smiles, but his mind was racing with all sorts of thoughts. Only when he returned to the hotel and saw the orange cat could he truly relax for a while.
[Spirit Cat]: A cat that heals the soul. When you see it, evil thoughts and negative emotions will be eliminated. Focus on petting it.
This was information he had gathered from Headquarters. The information about the Spirit Cat was not confidential; its job was to appease the Ghost Tamer in the hotel to prevent them from causing trouble in the Capital.
"The Headquarters really thought of everything." He Ming thought to himself, and subconsciously reached out to pinch the Spirit Cat's ears.
The cat's gaze occasionally swept over He Ming's chest, a hint of extremely human-like annoyance and... doubt flashing across its face.
"Don't touch me!" The Spirit Cat swatted away He Ming's paw and turned to leave.
"..." He Ming reluctantly withdrew Er Kang's hand, but did not force the Spirit Cat to stay. He was just considering whether he should also raise a furry pet.
Back in the room, I glanced at the Human Skin Paper again, but still received no clues.
As a cheat system user, being too proactive would only lower one's status, so Hu Jiu wouldn't speak up unless absolutely necessary.
He Ming wasn't the kind of protagonist whose every move would lead to trouble; nothing happened all day.
The Haunted House area is also peaceful.
The seven members of the Big Dipper Team searched the Haunted House inside and out, but couldn't find anything out.
"Nothing unusual has happened in 24 hours; not a single clue has been found."
"This is too strange. According to the information, this villa shouldn't be this peaceful. Have we Neglect something?"
The group gathered together and shared their opinions. Ye Zhuxing couldn't help but frown. He was quite puzzled. The Haunted House seemed too normal on the surface, which made people feel extremely uneasy, like a sword hanging over their heads that could fall at any moment. The process of waiting for it to fall was extremely agonizing.
The seven were unaware that their every word and action was being monitored.
Hu Jiu had already prepared a "Final Destination" meal for them, but he soon discovered something unusual about them!
While these people were moving around in the Haunted House, bugs kept crawling out of their heads!
It was a nearly transparent worm with many tiny tentacles on its body, about the size of a grain of rice, and difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.
When the insects burrowed into the walls of the Haunted House, Hu Jiu noticed them, collected them one by one, and put them into the Golden Container.
He also discovered that the strange, Supernatural aura emanating from those seven people seemed to be the "smell" of this insect!
They simply ignored the insect. At that moment, a worm was crawling between Ye Zhuxing's eyebrows. It hadn't damaged his skin tissue and had suddenly appeared. However, Xiao Yu and Huo Xun, who were sitting face to face with him, seemed completely oblivious to it!
The role of the insects is currently unknown.
After discovering these worms, Hu Jiu refrained from making any rash moves and patiently observed them carefully.
Every time an insect was caught and put into the Golden Container, a new one would crawl out from the seven heads, seemingly endless.
"Their heads have turned into insect nests?" Hu Jiu was itching to slice them up and study their head structure.
Who will be the first Lucky One chosen to participate in the great human experiment?
"Xiao Yu, have you noticed anything?" Ye Zhuxing asked.
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Xiao Yu. She didn't introduce herself by her real name, only saying that her name was Xiao Yu. Of course, the other people's names might not be real either.
Ye Zhuxing didn't know when Xiao Yu joined [Big Dipper], nor how many missions she had completed. He always felt that she was more experienced than him, but she was usually too quiet and had no interest in vying for team leadership.
Xiao Yu is neither Senior Employee nor Special Employee, and she doesn't possess Supernatural Items, but she has a special ability— Intuitive Premonition!
Her intuition was incredibly accurate; she would have a strange feeling before danger struck, like a radar that helped her avoid crisis in advance.
According to her own description, she sometimes even sees complex, incomprehensible, and bizarre visions that are invisible to ordinary people.
Therefore, even though she was a teammate who was physically weak and seemed like a burden, everyone still tried their best to take care of her and protect her.
At this moment, everyone hoped that Xiao Yu would figure something out.
Unfortunately, to their disappointment, Xiao Yu crossed her arms, turned her gaze elsewhere, and shook her head aloofly.
Ye Zhuxing sighed, "Don't panic, everyone. It's only been a day. There haven't been any Supernatural occurrences yet, so we're all safe. The enemy hasn't arrived, so we can't panic and cause internal strife."
As night fell, the seven went upstairs to rest. Four men stayed in one room, and three female team members stayed in the next room. They took turns keeping watch in their respective rooms.
In cases of Supernatural events, it's always safer to gather together.
They ate the food and water they brought with them when they were hungry; they dared not use the water in the Haunted House.
While on Ye Zhuxing kept an eye on the surveillance equipment. When he got bored, he would look down at his phone. The Hexagonal Copper Bell tied to his wrist emitted a chilling aura, and he couldn't help but recall the last mission, the incident called "Horror Cinema".
When people go to the cinema to watch a movie, they unknowingly become characters in the film, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. Ye Zhuxing was lucky; he encountered a Senior Employee leading the group, who happened to be his childhood friend. This person saved him from an ordeal, allowing him to survive.
Something suddenly flashed by in the surveillance footage. Ye Zhuxing quickly snapped back to reality, took a closer look, and then turned pale with fright!
"Quick, get up, everyone! Something terrible has happened!" he whispered.
The group, who hadn't slept well to begin with, immediately opened their eyes. "What's going on?!"
Ye Zhuxing pointed to the surveillance camera.
The scene shows three women, the three female members of the mission. They appear to be having a heated argument in the living room on the first floor, and soon they start fighting, pulling hair and slapping each other – they are incredibly brutal.
"This is... infighting?" Huo Xun rubbed his eyes. "How did the girl next door get caught up in it so quickly?"
"Something's not right!" Jia Hong's eyes widened. "There's no sound!"
Ye Zhuxing nodded. "If there's an argument on the first floor, we'll definitely be able to hear it."
At this point, the surveillance footage showed that all three had perished together, their deaths extremely gruesome.
"Should we go out and take a look?" Feng Tianyu asked timidly.
Jia Hong glanced at him and asked, "Are you going?"
Feng Tianyu blushed slightly. Ye Zhuxing stood up. "Let's go together. It's not safe to split up. Let's go next door first and see if the three of them are really alright..."