The storeroom Ovelia had mentioned stood in the northwest corner of the Baskerville manor, at the end of a long, narrow corridor.
From the outside, the room looked perfectly ordinary. But when Ovelia asked someone to fetch its key...
"Young mistress, you want to go in there?"
At Ovelia's command, Mrs. Gladys stared at her in astonishment.
"Y-you can't!"
"Why not?"
Ovelia frowned in displeasure at her maid's words. She was the head of the Baskerville Family. She could go wherever she pleased. Was there really somewhere in her own house she wasn't allowed to enter?
"B-because they say this room is cursed! Everyone who goes inside dies!"
"Oh?"
Hearing that, Li Wei immediately perked up.
Now you're talking! I'm wide awake!
"Tell me more."
"Well..."
At Li Wei's question, Mrs. Gladys glanced hesitantly at Ovelia, who simply stared at her and nodded. Left with no choice, Mrs. Gladys began to explain.
"This rumor has been around since my parents' generation. Apparently, a maid once met her lover there, only for him to murder her. Afterward, she became a restless spirit and haunted the storeroom. Everyone who went inside met a horrible death, without exception..."
"How many died?"
"Huh?"
Li Wei's unusual line of questioning had certainly left Mrs. Gladys completely bewildered.
"You said people died horribly after going inside, didn't you? How many died?"
"Well... I only heard that afterward, several servants went into that storeroom for various reasons over the years and died inside. After that, everyone was afraid. That was how the rumors of a curse started, and nobody dared go near it..."
"So it's just hearsay."
At that, Li Wei immediately lost interest. What a revelation-as if there were houses where nobody had ever died. Any building over a hundred years old had probably seen far