Inside the old house, quite a few people had been startled awake. Standing in the main hall, they turned back in surprise toward the outside of the old house.
The sound of palms slapping against the main gate rang out urgently. It was as if someone outside had run into an emergency and wanted to get in, hoping those inside would quickly open the door.
However.
Someone said something rather chilling.
The main gate of the old house had never been closed!
As soon as those words were spoken, Zhou Deng, Yang Jian, and everyone else began recalling what had happened.
Indeed.
Li Yang had been the first to open the door, and Yang Jian the first to step into the old house. No one knew who had entered last, but everyone knew that after coming in, no one had deliberately closed the gate.
It was not an oversight. The door simply had not been closed.
Rather, everyone had tacitly accepted the fact that it remained open.
After all, this damned place was so bizarre. What if they closed the door, only to find they could not open it again and ended up trapped inside to die?
The walls were not high, but who knew whether they would actually be able to climb out in the end?
So leaving the door open was actually a way of leaving themselves an escape route, allowing them to retreat at any time. In theory, there was nothing wrong with that.
"So something was knocking outside, yet it did not enter the old house?" Yang Jian's gaze sharpened. "That defies common sense. If it were a ghost, it would definitely have taken advantage of the open gate and wandered in."
"Unless there is something in the old house that prevents certain filthy things from