It's late at night.

"He's here!"

Xia Yao exclaimed in surprise and immediately stood up, clutching the lantern.

They were only a meter or two away, and they didn't care that the boat hadn't docked yet.

He leaped and landed on the shore.

Seeing the approaching floating corpses, the others could no longer sit still and followed Xia Yao's example by jumping off the boat.

Fortunately, the distance wasn't too far, and even Chen Qi, who had slightly shorter legs, jumped over.

Chen Qi lost her balance and almost fell backward.

Luckily, Xia Yao caught her, preventing her from falling.

But when the woman saw that everyone else had returned, and that they were all carrying lit lanterns, her face immediately fell.

The rotting corpses in the water floated up and hovered near the shore.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

The woman, however, seemed oblivious to the corpse and focused only on making things difficult for them.

"None of you can get on the bus! None of you can leave!"

The woman, in a frenzied state, charged wildly at the group of people trying to escape.

Her strength was extraordinary; Zhou Zean was only pushed, but the powerful impact made him feel as if he had been hit by a car.

He fell backward and sat on the ground.

Lu Qifa, who was trying to escape, was slapped and knocked to the ground. His head was buzzing and he didn't recover for a long time.

This is terrifying. These NPCs at night are definitely not normal people.

Xia Yao was spared the slap because she helped Chen Qi up.

He swallowed hard and carefully moved to the side, trying to stay as far away from the woman and the riverbank as possible.

"We brought the light back, and it works!"

This was said to remind the woman of the rules she had set for herself, and to give her a chance to escape.

There are brutal NPCs in front and deadly demons behind; you can easily crush them.

Turning to look at the floating corpse in the lake, it was already crawling towards the shore, its upper body pressed against the ground, constantly dripping water.

At this moment, the woman looked at the light that was on and was a little stunned. After all, the light was on, and she really couldn't make a scene.

Upon seeing this, Liu Lili felt a chill in her heart, perhaps thinking that she was the only one without a light and would become the target of women and ghosts.

So Liu Lili steeled herself, her eyes flashing with malice, and pulled out her stun gun, charging straight at them.

"Crack—"

The woman was arguing with Xia Yao when she felt a sharp electric shock in her lower back.

A flash of blue light followed, accompanied by the smell of burnt meat.

"ah--"

After a piercing scream, the woman's eyes rolled back and she fell backward.

Lu Qifa was a little dizzy from the slap and was dumbfounded by what he saw. "Holy crap, you can do that?"

Liu Lili didn't answer, but kicked the convulsing woman hard, sending her flying into the lake.

If you give a human head to a ghost, will the ghost stop chasing them?

The floating corpse was also quite shrewd; it grabbed the woman by one leg and pulled her into the water.

The woman's body was convulsing, but she was clearly still conscious.

Although she couldn't see ghosts, she was filled with fear of the unusual.

The indistinct sounds coming from the throat were hard to decipher; it was unclear whether they were desperate cries for help.

Having escaped the woman's heavy punches, the others quickly seized the opportunity to rush into the car.

Fortunately, the sightseeing bus key hadn't been removed, and it started with a simple twist.

When the bus departed, the woman was already completely submerged in the water.

Her hair floated like seaweed, and tiny bubbles kept rising to the surface of the water.

Chen Qi hugged the lantern with a sigh of relief; he was almost the one who would have been dragged into the water.

"Wow, that woman has such a strong grip."

Lu Qifa covered his face; the slap was so painful that he could barely speak.

"It's a good thing you acted decisively and used the stun gun, otherwise we might not have been able to leave."

Zhou Ze'an sat there, seemingly calm, but he was actually gritting his teeth and enduring it all; his butt hurt terribly from the fall.

Without a doubt, without special props, even all of them combined wouldn't be enough to defeat the woman.

"Sister Liu is amazing! I would have been terrified if it were me," Chen Qi praised as well.

Since there's no harm in offering compliments, one shouldn't be stingy with them at this time.

Liu Lili was driving, and remained silent.

The stun gun was tucked into his pants pocket, with a section sticking out.

Xia Yao, however, had a different opinion: "I think the fact that Chen Qi and I were both unharmed after falling into the water means that the ghost's target might not be us at all."

If you just keep holding his head down, you can drown him, but the ghost lets him go.

"Then why were we taken down there?" Chen Qi asked, puzzled.

"Perhaps, it's to demonstrate his innocence? To get us to send over the bad guys who harmed him?"

Xia Yao spoke up, "He died because of what he was hiding, perhaps so that we would find it."

"I think so too. What they've hidden could very well be evidence of their crimes. Only by finding it and making it public can they be exonerated."

Zhou Ze'an made a judgment based on his past experience, but his butt hurt so much that it was affecting his thinking.

"This scenic area is so big, how are we supposed to find it? We can't just turn over every inch of soil, can we?"

Lu Qifa's mouth tasted fishy, ​​and his spit seemed to be tinged with blood.

"This scenic area has been renovated and is now completely different from what it used to be."

Xia Yao pondered for a moment and then shared her opinion: "If we really have to say that the item is still here, then the most likely place is on the mountain."

Yaoshan is very large. Currently, only one mountain trail has been built, and there are still many unopened areas, all of which are untouched wild lands.

"If that doesn't work, we can lure those developers' executives here and kill them; maybe that will break the deadlock and allow us to escape."

Ghosts are born from obsessions, and both of these ghosts were harmed by the developers.

Their only options right now are revenge or revealing the truth.

"It's probably difficult to lure the developers here to kill them. If they could, they wouldn't have started a trial operation and chosen people to die in their place to ward off evil."

Lu Qi sighed, "If only we could find that trap and break it, then the old man could go find them himself."

Silence, even if you know the right option, is never that easy to do.

Xia Yao, sitting in the driver's seat, sighed and then glanced at Liu Lili, who had remained silent.

Liu Lili dealt with the NPC, but why didn't she say a word?

His gaze shifted and landed on Liu Lili's hands gripping the steering wheel.

That one glance sent chills down his spine.

Liu Lili is a fashionable woman. When she first entered this world, her beautiful silver manicure left a deep impression on Xia Yao.

The nail art appears to be cat-eye style, with the nails refracting a crystal-clear light depending on the light and angle.

At this moment, Liu Lili's hands had very rough nail art, with only a rough silver coating. Under the light of the car headlights, they had no luster, let alone reflect light.

And inside those gaps between the fingers, it was a yellowish-orange.

Xia Yao felt a chill run through her body; this color was clearly the residue from peeling too many oranges.

But where did the oranges come from, and why did Liu Lili know how to peel oranges?

This woman was clearly not one of the original teammates; she was a ghost, the old man who made a living by growing oranges!