"Later, my cousin ran into the hills behind the villa complex while doing that strange dance, and he never came back."
Even as Gu Hongya told the story herself, she felt a chill down her back.
What sort of thing had stiff joints?
There was only one answer-a dead person!
Someone who was already dead had stood outside the villa in the middle of the night, teaching her cousin to dance. Most terrifying of all, his wife had witnessed everything so clearly.
Apparently, his wife had still been fairly normal at the time and had immediately found the family to tell them what had happened.
But a few days later, she had also become somewhat deranged. Sometimes, she would start dancing alone for no apparent reason, her stiff movements making everyone who saw them shudder.
To stop her from running off and disappearing too, the family had been forced to lock her up.
"Dancing..." Jiang Chen nodded, noting that key detail.
The information the Netherworld had gathered was already several days old. He could only get firsthand information from Sister Hong. This was her family's business, after all.
"Then, one night, my second brother..."
"...And there was another time..."
Over the next while, Sister Hong recounted several terrifying incidents. Since Gu Youmin had previously taken in distant relatives, quite a few people were now living at the Gu Mountain Villa, and plenty of strange incidents had occurred.
Some incidents had left people dead, some had driven people mad, and some people looked normal on the surface but began behaving strangely once night fell.
The entire Gu Mountain Villa seemed shrouded in a bizarre, terrifying gloom.
"Did nobody try to leave?" Jiang Chen asked.
"Yes. Quite a few people fled right at the start. My father didn't interfere much either. As