From a certain point onward, many old houses built on Hanhai's distant outskirts had been abandoned for various reasons. After the House Owner left, other things moved in.
The Investigators taking the Ghost Markings Test entered the courtyard one after another. Only Bai Xiao remained outside.
The distant outskirts were a major hotspot for Anomaly Events. But with so few people living there, the Investigation Offices would not send anyone out specifically to inspect them every day. They only dispatched personnel after receiving a definite report, allowing the unclean things in some old houses to keep growing and mutating.
The house beneath the Mystery Analysis Institute had most likely been moved there intact from somewhere on the distant outskirts.
"Everyone eligible for the test is an experienced veteran. They know Anomaly Events inside out, understand how to trigger distorted scenarios, and have mastered all kinds of survival rules. But..." Bai Xiao gazed into the old house through a window. "Several minutes have passed, and nothing abnormal has happened inside."
Carrying his long blade, Bai Xiao entered through the front door. Built underground, the old house completely violated the principles of terrain and feng shui. It did not look like a place for the living, but rather a house of the dead, built specifically to enshrine them.
All the furnishings inside came in odd numbers. Even the chopsticks laid on a dinner plate numbered three, resembling three sticks of incense.
The wooden clock in the corner of the living room resembled a crouching person, its moving hands like his heartbeat. The Investigators still exploring the house gradually grew uneasy. The experience they had accumulated seemed useless here. They knew perfectly well that the house was extremely dangerous, yet they could not find the source of that danger.
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