"After we entered the lake and came back out, we entered some strange inner layer?"
Xiao Luo SIR froze. "Could it be that this lake is a passage that connects the inside and outside?"
He immediately thought of entering the water again to see whether he could return to the outer layer.
"No need. I've already tried." Wen Duo shook his head. "The reason is still unclear, but it seems this is only a one-way passage."
Xiao Luo SIR nodded. If he could think of it, Mr. Wen had probably thought of it too... right?
"Mr. Wen, what's that you're holding?" He noticed that Wen Duo was holding a box in both hands.
Wen Duo opened the box. Inside were talismans with black backgrounds and silver writing, several slender needles, a palm-sized straw figure, and a fuzzy handmade knit item—a rabbit.
Another rabbit.
"Could this be the medium Zhao Rong used to cast her curse?" Officer Lin asked in surprise.
"That's right." Wen Duo nodded slightly. "I retrieved it from the basement just now. It hadn't changed at all from when I found it before. It seems this small building really is the original one."
Lin Feng scratched his head. "But why did only the small building turn into a cottage?"
Wen Duo said, "You shouldn't be thinking about it that way. You should be thinking that perhaps the entire estate has changed."
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Wen Duo pointed toward the estate. "Is it possible that this replacement began with the estate from the very start, spreading outward from here?"
Xiao Luo SIR's eyes widened.
"Let's go verify it." Wen Duo immediately headed toward the estate.
Xiao Luo SIR was full of questions, but he followed anyway.
Although the night sky had taken on a strange dark-red hue, there was one advantage—the