Why are you all trying to win over me, the male supporting character?

As he spoke, Meng Yong urged the bodyguards who were loitering behind him to hurry up and catch up.

Because the ghost story Lu Chengzhou told him had left him with psychological trauma, the group only took a short stroll before preparing to leave.

As Lu Chengzhou walked from one end of the street to the other, he suddenly saw a house that was completely different in style from the surrounding houses.

The little house was built halfway up the mountain, and the fence and stone walls were covered with vines.

The metal railings are rusty, but you can still vaguely see their former glory.

"That house also belongs to this street, right?"

Boss Meng wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked up, and followed the direction Lu Chengzhou pointed out.

He wasn't quite sure about the situation here either, so he could only say, "I'll have someone check it out."

The assistant always carried information about the area, and with a quick search, he found the information about the little villa.

"The owner of this house is surnamed Shao. Years ago, the whole family lived here, but now only the old man lives here."

The assistant flipped through the documents and gave a brief explanation of the situation.

However, when she turned to the last page, she frowned slightly.

"This house has been listed for sale for two years now, and the starting price for the entire house is 20 million!"

Twenty million?

What rich and sick person would want such a dilapidated little house!

Lu Chengzhou smiled and shook his head.

It should be noted that the land in this area was only priced at five million.

Boss Meng also didn't take this house seriously.

He waved his hand and said, "Go and talk to the homeowner and see if he's willing to lower the price. If he's not, then that area won't be demolished."

The assistant received his instructions and immediately set off with the bodyguards.

"Come on, you brat, have a couple of drinks with me this afternoon."

Meng Yong seemed unwilling to stay here for even a minute longer and was about to leave with Lu Chengzhou.

Before leaving, Lu Chengzhou looked up again and glanced at the little villa.

Just as he was concentrating on the little villa, that premonition of success began to take hold.

"Ok?"

Lu Chengzhou was stunned for a moment.

He closed his eyes, rubbed his temples, and looked around.

The surrounding old houses did not trigger his premonition of success.

The only thing that could trigger that premonition of success was that little villa!

For a moment, Lu Chengzhou felt that he might have stumbled upon an extraordinary opportunity, feeling both nervous and somewhat expectant.

However, he did not tell Boss Meng about his premonition.

He decided to come and see for himself tonight before making a decision.

……

……

Yicheng Winery.

Tao Xingchen slumped on the sofa, looking haggard.

"Wow, ten consecutive losses in ranked matches, what's the point of playing anymore?"

Lu Chengzhou wasn't home, nor were the Meng sisters. Only Aisha, the maid with the stern face, was watching his every move from behind.

Tao Xingchen was going crazy.

He felt that he must have been out of his mind not long ago to have rushed to Yicheng so excitedly.

Now things are really messed up; they can't leave.

They wanted to put up a fight, but they didn't have the ability.

The scariest thing is that we actually ran into that vicious old man Meng here!

He vaguely felt that even if he successfully escaped, Old Man Meng would still come to question him later.

How tragic!

Lu Chengzhou did promise him that he would contact the Tao family to pick him up soon, but only heaven knows which day "soon" that would be.

Just as Tao Xingchen was idly rolling around on the sofa, she suddenly heard a loud "thud" from outside, as if something very heavy had crashed down.

He sat up abruptly.

As for Elsa behind him, with a stern face, she had already drawn her gun.

Watching her skillful loading of the bullet, Tao Xingchen shrank back timidly, pulled up the blanket beside her feet, wrapped herself up, and pretended to be a good child.

Elsa gave him a cold look: "You sit here, I'll go out and take a look."

Tao Xingchen nodded obediently.

In fact, he didn't dare to go out!

Although he didn't quite believe Lu Chengzhou's story about the "psychopathic killer," he was still very afraid of the thing that was making the noise...

Yes, my life is more important!

Do not look at what is improper! Do not look at what is improper!

Elsa pushed open the window and jumped out.

She carefully made her way towards the direction from which the sound came.

But apart from seeing a patch of fallen flowering trees, there was nothing else to be found.

Clearly, the guy who made the noise has gone into hiding.

"Hehe, you're quick."

This spot happens to be a blind spot for surveillance cameras.

Elsa couldn't immediately determine the intruder's identity, but she immediately called the head of her bodyguards and ordered him to seal off the park and begin a thorough search.

"How was it? What was it?" Tao Xingchen asked quickly upon seeing Aisha return, inquiring about the search results. "It shouldn't be a person, right?"

"I do not know."

Aisha walked to the water dispenser and poured herself a cup of tea.

Tao Xingchen wanted to ask something more, but she was glared at and shut up.

"You'd be better off sleeping more than wasting your time talking nonsense with me."

"Oh……"

Tao Xingchen was unwilling, but there was nothing she could do.

So he got up and went to his room.

Lie down, close your eyes...

He used to stay up all night, but these past few days staying with Lu Chengzhou has filled up all the sleepiness he had missed.

After sleeping for several days in a row, he can't fall asleep again.

After tossing and turning in bed for a while, I finally got up and continued playing games.

"Damn, these teammates are terrible..."

Playing video games makes it easy to lose track of time.

Before we knew it, it was past nine o'clock that evening.

With a "click," the entire manor instantly went into a power outage.

Elsa, who had been waiting outside Tao Xingchen's room, slowly opened her eyes.

It's very difficult for this place to experience a power outage.

So this is most likely the work of the intruder from earlier today.

She didn't know whether the other party's target was Tao Xingchen, Lu Chengzhou, or the valuables in the manor, so she couldn't wander around and could only continue standing there.

Half an hour later, the circuit that had been cut off was restored.

The intruder who committed the crime has still not been caught.

However, a maid who was responsible for cleaning Lu Chengzhou's room came over in a panic and told her that Lu Chengzhou's room door had been pried open and that she did not yet know what was missing from inside.

Elsa sighed.

"Mr. Lu's room? Let me go take a look."

Just as she was about to leave, Tao Xingchen opened the door and quickly followed her.

He decisively grabbed her leg!

She's being cute and whiny.

"Ugh! This place is so creepy! Don't leave me here alone!"

……

This point in time.

Lu Chengzhou had just returned to the old street and was preparing to head towards that dilapidated little Western-style building.

He had originally planned to come alone, but Miss Jiang was worried about him and insisted on coming along to be his bodyguard. Lu Chengzhou had no choice but to agree to take her with him.

I've been to that house once before.

Jiang Aiyu was in a good mood when she went out with him.

However, she usually doesn't show it on her face when she's in a good mood.

Lu Chengzhou glanced at her.