"That woman upstairs sure is patient. The rhinoceros stitching operation only has one final piece left—the head—yet she's taking so long."
Yu Jing had to return to the castle and submit the mission before five in the afternoon. On top of that, he needed to spend another hour dealing with the bloodhound inhabiting the underground cave.
"It's already 3:41. We can't keep waiting."
Just as Yu Jing was preparing to take emergency action, another series of sharp, continuous footsteps came from above, gradually fading into the distance.
"Kayako, lead the way!"
Three figures quickly burst out of the ground and left through the iron gate on the right side of the Stitching and Assembling Field.
A straight Black Wood Entrance Passage stretched out before them. Kayako melted everything below her head into the wall, leaving only a mass of black hair supporting her head as she slid along the surface.
"Keep going along this passage, and you can leave through the back door," Kayako said.
"How far?"
"About two hundred meters."
"From the looks of it, it's more than two hundred meters."
Yu Jing looked down the seemingly endless passage and estimated that it was at least eight hundred meters long.
"But I don't feel like we're being watched. If that vengeful ghost had its eyes on us, its aura should inevitably wrap around our legs. What's going on?" Kayako asked in confusion.
"It's highly likely that the house itself is moving. Since the owner here is so skillful that she can stitch human and beast corpses together and give them life, this black wooden house may also be filled with all kinds of mechanisms.
"Earlier, when we looked up from the foot of the mountain, the house was clearly smaller than it was after we came up... Let's keep