Amid the raging wind and rain, a Vengeful Ghost hung upside down beneath the third-floor eaves...
Yu Ruoli went rigid, her mind blank.
Run... run away...
But... her feet would not move.
Intense terror seemed to have pressed pause on her body. Even breathing was extremely difficult, let alone moving.
Rumble-
The tremendous thunder shook her to the core, and Yu Ruoli shuddered violently.
Despair welled up inside her, but just then, she saw a figure glowing with Red Light appear beside a third-floor window!
Who... was that?
The third floor was pitch-black, with no lights on. The figure emitted Red Light, but through the increasingly heavy downpour, Yu Ruoli could not make out their face at all.
Most of her attention remained on the Vengeful Ghost beneath the third-floor eaves. Its head twisted bizarrely like a fly's, and just as it was about to pounce, suddenly!
The third-floor window was smashed!
Crash-
The sound of the window shattering beneath it made even the Vengeful Ghost pause. Its hands and feet skittered rapidly beneath the eaves, and it craned its head toward the window.
Yet... it saw nothing.
When it turned back to crawl out and pounce on Yu Ruoli again, the front courtyard stood empty beneath the downpour...
The villa's third floor.
Most of this floor was an open space filled with exercise equipment. Its purpose was obvious.
By the window, fierce winds drove rain through the shattered opening with a relentless clatter, much of it striking Qin Manjiang.
A faint Red Light radiated from his body. He was the one who had smashed the window.
He had not actually seen where the Vengeful Ghost was, but he had seen Yu Ruoli.
Yu Ruoli's fixed stare clearly meant she had seen a ghost. Remembering how Shen Hai had