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"": ""Someone is looking for me... someone wants to kill me..." Gu Yiren trembled, waves of terror filling her beautiful eyes.
"Shh..." She motioned for silence, then raised her head slightly, looked up, and pointed overhead.
"Don't let anyone find me. Anyone." Gu Yiren barely moved her lips, making no sound.
Luo Bin's heart sank again.
Someone... had entered the room!
He... hadn't locked the door!
In fact, Luo Bin had already developed the habit of locking it whenever he could. But earlier, he had instinctively sensed something wrong, retraced the problem, and gone straight into the Underground Room after finding a clue.
Listening carefully, he could indeed hear footsteps overhead.
He nodded to reassure Gu Yiren, then returned to the rope ladder and climbed up.
With a faint puff, the candle went out, plunging everything into darkness.
Luo Bin emerged from the Underground Room and crawled out from beneath the bed.
Someone stood beside the bed. It was Luo Feng.
"Dad." Luo Bin had barely looked up and called out when Luo Feng took his arm and helped him to his feet.
"I knew you'd go down for a look. Plenty of houses in this village have Underground Rooms like that," Luo Feng said.
Luo Bin panted softly and nodded, betraying nothing unusual.
Then Luo Feng glanced at the knife in his hand and added, "It's safe at home. There aren't any passages connecting the Underground Room to the outside."
"Mm-hmm." Luo Bin walked to the desk and slipped the knife into the leather belt. Then he turned back naturally and asked, "Dad, why haven't you gone to bed?"
"I can't really sleep. Too much has happened this time. We still don't know how the Village Chief will handle things with Qiang Village, or whether