The lights went out the moment they got to the important part?
If this wasn't a fucking haunting, it was still creepy as hell.
As Jian Ran cursed inwardly, an icy gust rushed at his face, shifting into a ghostly claw in midair and trying to seize his slender throat to kill him in one strike.
But a light slap from his raised arm knocked it off course.
"Aaaargh-"
The claw howled and wailed, shaking violently as though trying to fling off something scalding.
Lu Yanting looked toward the sound and caught sight of the golden flames from burning Talisman Paper, particularly conspicuous in the pitch-black mortuary.
"A ghost wants to shut you up," Jian Ran said leisurely. "Looks like it has a guilty conscience."
"I can reasonably guess that the birthday banquet back then was actually a large-scale cult sacrificial ceremony, and the centerpiece of the sacrifice was that genius little psychopath who liked dissecting things."
"So she was poisoned to death, just like the other guests."
"Great minds think alike." Lu Yanting nodded slightly. "My deductions were much the same as yours."
"The killers were the little girl's parents?" Jian Ran raised an eyebrow and asked, "Are they still alive?"
"No." Lu Yanting shook his head. "They sacrificed themselves too."
Jian Ran said, "...That's pretty ruthless."
They didn't even spare themselves?
What kind of cult brainwashed people so thoroughly that they would even give up their family fortune?!
"Then why do you have to attend the banquet? Every single year, too? Are you really that obedient?" Jian Ran asked, blinking.
Lu Yanting explained unhurriedly, "Because before her birthday was over, the little girl had been fatally poisoned and was on the verge of death."
"She was only a child, after all, and her mind wasn't mature yet. She