"Let's put this stinking ditch aside for now and go inside the mansion to take a look... Something this ugly is really unpleasant."
At Ning Yanzhi's reminder, everyone returned to the mansion's iron gate, consciously keeping their distance from the stinking ditch beside it.
The iron gate was covered in rust, and countless metal scratches of varying depths were clearly visible, as if they had been made with fingernails.
At the same time, a large iron padlock hung on the gate.
"Oh, right—the key my grandmother left me!"
Ning Yanzhi immediately searched himself and pulled a copper key from his waist pouch, using it to unlock the large iron padlock before them.
Normally, a deserted estate like this would be home to countless crows. Yet when everyone pushed open the gate, there were no crows calling. Instead, strange sounds of leaves being trampled came from all around, along with the sound of fingernails scraping against things inside the mansion.
However, the moment the iron gate was fully opened, all the sounds stopped at once.
Feng Rui, who had just been attacked, didn't dare let his guard down. He held a pure-silver pistol in his right hand, pulled out the energy bolt, and loaded the high-energy capacitor.
Yu Jing likewise took out a weapon, though it wasn't Dragon Abyss. The spear blessed by Dean Long, combined with his long-term study of the God Slaying Spear, made spearcraft one of Yu Jing's trump cards. He didn't want to use it right at the start.
The weapon in Yu Jing's hand was a crimson butcher's knife called Blood Burial. With Shen Yixuan's cooperation, the knife's bloody aura was confined inside it, making it appear to be nothing more than an ordinary butcher's knife from the outside.
Men Qian immediately put on the Blood