Someone was knocking on the door?
It wasn't just Yan Mo and the others. Jiang Zhen and the others in the other room had heard the sound too.
They all stood up at once.
The doors and windows of the room were open, allowing them to see outside into the courtyard. Several men guarding the entrance were so frightened that they shuddered and stumbled backward.
"Who is it?"
One of the men asked in a low voice.
No one answered.
Everyone felt a chill at that moment. They clearly remembered that the main gate had been locked from the inside when they entered. They had also searched the front courtyard, and there had been nothing there.
So now.
What was outside the door?
Had a ghost opened the door and come inside, or did it not need to open the door to enter at all?
If it didn't need to open the door, why knock?
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The knocking continued, unhurried and steady, one knock after another.
Jiang Zhen walked out of the room.
He gave someone a look. A man tiptoed toward the door and pressed his ear against it. His ear was extremely strange. Although his face was ruddy, his ear was dry and black, like cured meat.
Clearly.
His ear corresponded to a kind of Supernatural Means that allowed him to hear what was happening outside.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The knocking continued.
But the man frowned. Through his ear, he "heard" that there was nothing outside. It was completely empty. There was neither a person nor a ghost by the door.
"That's strange."
He was just about to listen more carefully when he suddenly froze.
He heard a voice.
A very familiar voice.
"Open the door... Gouwa... it's me..."
Fuck!
His expression changed drastically, and he