The three went downstairs and headed toward the villa's entrance.
Along the way, Sister Hong seemed to notice something. After turning to confirm it, she whispered a warning, "Xiao Chen, that corpse hanging there earlier is gone too!"
Jiang Chen nodded. "No rush. Let's find the living people in the Mountain Villa first. We'll come back for it later."
"Don't worry. It won't get far."
"Ah..."
Hearing Sister Hong say another corpse had disappeared had initially left Gu Xiaonan feeling rather frightened. But after hearing Jiang Chen's words, she couldn't help opening her mouth again, her face filled with shock.
When a corpse disappeared, shouldn't a normal person's first thought be to stay alert?
Why was your first thought to come back for it later...?
Were you really that hardcore?!
She looked at this young man, who was about her age, and for the first time, she felt she had to look up to someone her own age.
In the past, whether in academics, family background, brains, or figure, Gu Xiaonan had always been someone others looked up to.
They left the villa and headed in one direction.
"Nannan, where are your parents? They knew strange things have been happening in the Mountain Villa lately, so why didn't they stay with you?" Sister Hong asked along the way.
"They went to Grandpa's to discuss things. They looked awful before they left. Apparently, an expert in exorcism whom my second uncle invited mysteriously disappeared around dusk," Gu Xiaonan answered, still shaken.
"They said Grandpa's place was the most dangerous and told me to stay home by myself and be careful."
"I only came back in the last couple of days, too. Grandpa said the Gu family was in trouble, and all Gu Clan Members had to come back to help."
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