The offerings needed to open the door had all been gathered. The House Owner had kept them before, but he had not dared leave the Manor in his true form. Now the offerings were scattered among the Testers, and the House Owner had acquired a new body.
They raced through the heavy snow, each heading toward East Lake from a different direction.
The enormous Cloth Doll shoved the pines aside. Snow and fallen leaves clung to her body, and her huge button eyes fixed Gao Ming with an oppressive stare. "I was tricked by the filthy thing Behind the Door, dismembered, and hidden in the woods. If I find out you're lying to me too, I'll cut you into even more pieces and hide them in the hollows of every tree."
"The Testers can't open the Iron Railing on the Fourth Floor, and there aren't any tools in the Manor. Their only way to get into the Fourth Floor is to let your mother out." Gao Ming had thought through many things when he handed the portrait to Bai Huang. "As for your Older Brother, there's even less reason to worry. This was his nightmare to begin with. Although the House Owner imprisoned his memories and obsession, as long as that filthy thing Behind the Door wants to escape the dream, it'll have to find a way to sacrifice your brother at East Lake. It's bound to bring your brother's missing parts out of the Manor."
"This nightmare isn't complicated. The most important thing is to realize that the real door is East Lake." The House Owner's expression had been off from the moment he first mentioned East Lake. Later, the Little Girl had said that her father often took a boat out onto East Lake to catch fish, yet