The attack came without warning. Luckily, Li Wei had raised his guard the moment the ring began acting strangely. Now that he sensed something wrong, he reacted instantly. He darted backward, vanished on the spot, then sprang out of the shadow behind the chair.
The little girl had also risen to her feet-or rather, floated into the air. She stared coldly at Li Wei, her eyes filled with icy murderous intent and hatred. She was nothing like the innocent little girl who had been grinning at him earlier.
Good grief, this world just kept getting more fantastical.
Li Wei sighed inwardly. Murderers and vampires could still be explained away as genetic mutations, but now there were ghosts, and people were flying through the air. Who knew what would turn up next...
The thought only flashed through Li Wei's mind before he quickly looked up at the little girl and activated [Soul Sight] again.
During the previous Haunted House case, Li Wei had discovered that [Soul Sight] often revealed things he couldn't ordinarily see. Take that big-headed Doll: if he hadn't glanced overhead while using [Soul Sight], he probably wouldn't have noticed it.
The current situation was a little like his encounter with the big-headed Doll. This was clearly a boss fight.
Li Wei's reasoning was simple. He had played with the little girl back in the dining room, and she had been perfectly normal. There had been nothing wrong with her, and his ring hadn't reacted either. Now, the girl was still the same girl, and the ring was still the same ring. The only difference was that they weren't in the dining room anymore. They were at an altar.
Following the usual progression of games, movies, and novels, Li Wei could guess that the little girl had probably been