Once the two linked Death Portraits were placed together, Xie Zheng's figure vanished completely from the tea room.
The rules confirmed that the Matryoshka Program had been established.
To kill Xie Zheng, the ghost first had to kill Dai Yingqi.
At that very moment, a face with deathly pale, chilling skin slowly lifted, ghostly flames burning in its deeply sunken eye sockets.
The Painter Ghost had failed against this man four times in a row, and its killing intent had reached its absolute peak.
And the person who had accomplished all this was merely an ordinary employee without a single Sin Object on him.
The Painter Ghost looked at the two Death Portraits on the tea table, then suddenly lowered its hand and pinned them beneath its palm.
Dai Yingqi stood motionless in the storeroom, facing a corner.
He stared at a brand-new set of "Paper, Pen, and Ink" sitting on a wooden crate, unable to hide the panic in his eyes.
He had known all along that Mei Sheng's escape would cause the ghost to hunt down the remaining people.
But he had not expected it to happen so quickly.
In truth, it had already taken quite a while.
Xie Zheng's forceful tactics had bought them a considerable amount of time.
But people were often like that: when something good happened, they wished time would slow down; when something bad happened, they felt it was passing far too quickly.
Dai Yingqi was no longer a newcomer, either.
That was why he had chosen such a clever hiding place.
The entire villa was one enormous locked room, and they could not leave before the mission ended.
But while searching the second floor earlier, Dai Yingqi had quietly memorized the location of this storeroom.
This second-floor storeroom had a particularly