A dating guide turned into being surrounded by female ghosts?

I just finished eating not long ago.

The aroma didn't tempt Lin Yue.

But the question is, how could the aroma of food appear in a place that has been deserted for years and is practically a haunted house?

Lin Yue took a deep breath and sniffed the air.

"Sniff sniff—"

Follow the guidance of your sense of smell.

I walked towards the direction of the smell.

"rustle--"

The soles of the shoes made a soft sound as they stepped on the soft, humus-covered soil.

After walking about ten meters, he soon found the source of the smell.

Lin Yue took out her phone from her pocket and used only the light from the screen to shine it on the dark mass on the ground.

It was only under the dim light.

A few disposable tableware items wrapped in plastic bags were half-buried in the soil, forming a small mound about ten centimeters high.

Those smells are coming from here.

There are quite a few similar small mounds in this area, but this one looks like it was only recently dug out.

Lin Yue stared at the object, her eyes shifting slightly.

He tried to pull the plastic bag out of the soil.

"Splash—"

The cutlery inside made a slight rattling sound.

Then what was below was revealed.

Lin Yue brought her phone screen even closer to the screen.

Unfortunately, without a flashlight, the illumination from the screen alone is far too weak.

Under a dim blue light.

A 30-centimeter-long, blue-gray cat carcass lay pitifully in the pit.

And due to the recent weather...

The cat carcass had begun to emit a smell similar to rotten eggs.

It was only because of the leftover food that it hadn't drifted out before.

A dozen maggots crawled in and out of the cat's already rotten, hollowed-out facial features.

Lin Yue endured the nausea.

They carefully lifted the cat's carcass out.

In an instant, the stench became even more pronounced.

Furthermore, upon handling it, he immediately discovered that the cat carcass was incredibly light.

He held his breath.

They carefully examined the cat's corpse.

It has not been spayed/neutered, its nails show no signs of trimming, and its tail is thick and bushy...

These characteristics all suggest that this should be a wild cat.

And then, most importantly.

The cat was neatly cut open from its neck down to its belly, exposing its empty abdominal cavity.

The internal organs have disappeared...

Lin Yue immediately recalled what Old Xu, the caregiver with the mole, had said that afternoon.

"After the victims were murdered, he would deliberately remove their internal organs while they were still alive. So, every corpse that was washed ashore by the river had only an empty stomach full of water worms and maggots. I heard that the person who found it was so terrified that he didn't dare to sleep for several days. It was disgusting..."

The gruesome state of the stray cat's corpse was strikingly similar to that of the victims of the 817 murder case.

Lin Yue then dug up several more small mounds of earth.

Inside, there were only similar wild cat carcasses.

The number is astonishing.

Some only had one or two buried inside.

Some had buried nearly ten.

These cat corpses all died in roughly the same way: their abdominal cavities were cut open and their internal organs were gone.

The difference lies in the varying degrees of decay among these cats.

Some even have complete fur and hides.

Some of them are now just a pile of scattered bones, probably buried for several years.

The one that was buried the shortest time was the one that was just covered with a disposable lunch box; it was probably killed no more than 24 hours ago.

He glanced back at the Western-style house atop the hill and muttered, "I was just saying it offhand, could I have actually come true?"

Lin Yue covered her nose and put all the cat corpses back in their original places.

Then he put his phone away.

So that the faint light might disturb the person here.

He continued towards the mountaintop in the dark.

They arrived at the villa in no time.

But he did not go in through the main gate.

Instead, they circled the villa until they found an open window in a bathroom with a bathtub.

Lin Yue slowly opened the window.

Like a thief, they quietly climbed inside.

This bathroom had probably been unused for a long time; the floor and walls were covered with a thick layer of dust, and even the bottom of the bathtub was covered with a layer of black mud.

He walked around the bathtub and went to the sink.

I touched the water outlet of the sink faucet with my finger.

Retract your finger.

Lin Yue looked at the layer of cold water film on her fingertips.

My suspicions have finally been confirmed.

When he first saw the disposable tableware and the dead cat, he assumed that someone else had been there besides himself.

But now, looking at the faucets here, there are still signs of use.

Then this guess needs to be changed a little.

No one has ever been here.

Rather, people have always lived here.

"Who is this person? Could it really be Qin Ziwang's missing mother?" Lin Yue wiped her fingers, thinking to herself.

Of course, there is no answer to this at the moment.

But one thing is certain.

This person is probably not a kind-hearted person.

He tortured and killed stray cats, gutting them; he lived under an assumed name in a haunted house.

None of these things seem like something a good person would do.

Lin Yue carefully opened the bathroom door.

Only at this point was the true nature of the mansion finally fully revealed to him.

The remaining old furniture was covered with dark cobwebs, the corners of the house were rotten and damp, covered with mold, the empty living room was eerily quiet, and every corner and every dim corridor was permeated with a bone-chilling cold.

The edges of the ceiling panels were peeling, with wisps of gray dust hanging down. Layers of shadows lingered deep within the room, as if hiding countless lurking shadows.

The air was thick with the smells of decay and mildew, and the deathly stillness of years of dust. It was cold and eerie, making one's skin crawl and one dare not linger.

Lin Yue hunched over, trying to use the size of the furniture to hide her figure as much as possible.

Her toes landed lightly on the floor.

The room was terribly rotten; even the slightest touch would cause it to creak and groan.

To avoid this situation.

It alerted the person who lived there.

He needs to concentrate to a considerable degree.

Slowing her breathing, she carefully made her way into the room.

About a minute or two later.

Lin Yue arrived at the door of a guest room.

He was just about to push the door open to see what was going on inside when...

"Squeak—"

A slight noise suddenly came from the floor behind him.

Lin Yue's eyes widened in surprise.

Without even thinking, he crouched down and rolled to the side.

And in the very next instant after he dodged.

"Thump—"

A gleaming, sharp knife was stuck right in the middle of the doorway.

Lin Yue was sweating profusely at that moment.

It was a close call.

If he hadn't heard footsteps behind him and quickly dodged, the knife would already be stuck in his back.

Lin Yue was half-lying on the ground.

He looked angrily toward the door.

But there were no lights in the house, so the person holding the knife couldn't be seen at all.

All he could see, in the light reflected from the knife, was a pair of bloodshot eyes, pupils as small as needles, filled with madness and murderous intent, staring intently at him.

The man knew he had been discovered.

No longer making any noise.

"Whoosh—whoosh—!"

Its heavy breathing emitted plumes of white smoke, making it seem like a beast devouring people in the darkness.