The picture on the wall had been sketched in black pencil. Who knew where they'd found a pencil thick enough to draw across such a long stretch of wall?
The first picture showed a long-haired girl sitting by the railing and drawing, with a man beside her offering guidance. In the second, the man tried to pull the girl into a bedroom. In the third, she was struggling by the railing.
The fourth showed her falling from the second floor...
The furnishings and setting were unmistakably from Professor Guan's home.
Yue Wen glanced at the old man unconscious in his hands, feeling uncertain. Professor Guan had enjoyed an excellent reputation at Jiangcheng University; there hadn't been a single bad rumor about him over the years.
Could the picture on the wall really depict something that had happened to him?
But now wasn't the time to speculate, and they hadn't found any evidence yet. He said at once, "Since the woman's figure disappeared here, perhaps this is the way out."
"Should I break through this wall?" Zhao Xing'er took aim and swung her meteor hammer.
"Probably."
Yue Wen had barely agreed when the meteor hammer slammed into the wall with a crash.
Bang—
The hammer smashed through the wall. Dust flew everywhere, and everything around them seemed to shatter and vanish.
Yue Wen looked around and realized they were back in the dark guest room. The wall that had just been smashed was the one facing the outer hallway. A pile of broken bricks lay scattered across the floor, and in the enormous hole in the wall, they saw a human body!
It was a corpse sealed inside plaster. It must have been bricked into the wall. Now that the wall had broken, half its body was exposed, and some of