"You see this emerald-green gown, so gracefully tailored, these crimson, glittering jeweled hairpins..."
A shrill female voice drifted down from above his head, but when Lan Yu looked up, he saw only a black ceiling streaked with Fluorescent Blood.
The aria from A Garden Encounter, enhanced by that woman's eerie, lingering voice, sounded exceptionally chilling.
"Creak!"
The doors to the Master Bedroom and second bedroom sounded at the same time. Two skeletons draped in human skin appeared before him in stiff, awkward poses.
Lan Yu pressed himself against a corner of the sofa, standing atop a large pool of Fluorescent Blood. After looking around, he turned toward the kitchen.
At that moment, more and more fluorescence appeared on Ke Xinyi's body, nearly turning her into a "red-glowing silhouette."
She covered her ears with both hands, groaning in pain and shaking her head repeatedly as if trying to throw off some interference. Yet even in that state, she still did not say a word.
But at that moment, Lan Yu saw the first Human Skin Skeleton to emerge from the kitchen reach its long arm toward Ke Xinyi.
His mind raced. He quickly turned his head left again and looked at the Human Skin Skeleton from the Master Bedroom, the one closest to him.
That Human Skin Skeleton had just opened the door. Half its body had already emerged, as though it were about to rush straight at the living.
Yet under Lan Yu's gaze, it immediately stopped, frozen with one foot suspended in midair.
"Hmm?"
Lan Yu seemed to have spotted a hidden pattern. He immediately fixed his gaze on the kitchen again.
The Human Skin Skeleton that had reached for Ke Xinyi a moment ago now had its hand nearly on her shoulder. But the instant Lan Yu looked