Chapter 310

Chapter 310

Anning and I hid in a side room.

We were safe for the moment, but I was deeply worried about Meng Yifan.

Seventh Master and Song Xiaotian were probably fine. But Meng Yifan was even less capable than Anning or me. If those ghosts caught him, his chances of survival would be slim.

After resting briefly, I told Anning to hide in the room while I took the saber outside to search.

But the moment I opened the door, before I could step out, footsteps approached.

I quickly closed it again. Through the crack, I saw a man. He was not one of ours, but one of Du Yunting’s people.

He appeared to be searching for somewhere to hide and was heading toward our room.

Du Yunting’s people were all stronger than me. I was no match for him.

If he came inside, Anning and I would be in danger.

I shut the door and told Anning that one of Du Yunting’s men was approaching.

“What do we do?” Anning was frightened too.

I said, “I’ll hide in the cabinet. You stay outside.”

Her beautiful eyes widened in disbelief. “Doesn’t your conscience hurt?”

I said, “He won’t kill you the instant he enters, and I can take him by surprise.”

Holding the saber, I quickly hid inside the cabinet.

Anning was clever and understood my plan.

Soon, I heard the door open, followed by Anning’s frightened scream.

The room was silent for two seconds before a man sneered. “Little girl, are you here alone? How unfortunate for you.”

The door closed.

Anning’s voice trembled. “What… what do you want?”

“You’re a beautiful little thing.” The man laughed lewdly. “It’s a shame this place is so unsuitable. Otherwise, I’d enjoy your charms before sending you to your death. You’re with those people, aren’t you? If you are, you have to die.”

Through the crack in the cabinet, I saw the man trying to corner Anning. A round table separated them as he pursued her and she retreated.

He probably believed he was safe. Instead of attacking immediately, the fucker started playing with her.

Then Anning stopped directly in front of the cabinet and unbuttoned her white shirt, faintly revealing the proud curves beneath it. “Brother, please… don’t kill me. You can do whatever you want.”

Even from inside the cabinet, I heard the man swallow.

“Heh. Since you’re so sensible, Big Brother naturally won’t hurt you.”

“Stand right there. Don’t run.”

Anning faced me, which meant his back was turned toward the cabinet.

Turning your back on me was practically an invitation to ambush you.

I slowly opened the cabinet door. In the blink of an eye, I brought the saber down on his back.

The man reacted quickly. The blade had been aimed at his back, but he turned, causing it to strike his shoulder.

“Aah!”

He screamed and glared at me.

I gave him no chance to fight back. Drawing my folding knife, I swiftly stabbed him in the neck.

“In your next life, cultivate some self-restraint and stop obsessing over women.”

By the time I finished, his body had gone limp.

I lowered him to the floor and slowly withdrew the folding knife. Blood immediately splashed across the ground.

There had been eight opponents. We had now dealt with three.

Anning buttoned her shirt, walked over, kicked the man twice, and cursed the old pervert.

I had planned to search for Meng Yifan and the others alone, but leaving Anning here would put her in danger if someone else arrived.

After careful thought, we decided to go out together.
This grand residence contained not only Du Yunting’s men, but all the dead souls of the Luo Mansion. Anning and I did not dare draw attention to ourselves. Like guerrilla fighters, we alternated between hiding and moving.

Before long, we encountered an unbearably gruesome sight.

We found another of Du Yunting’s men, but he was already dead, and his upper and lower body… had been separated.

He must have lost his companions as well and had the misfortune of encountering the Luo Mansion’s dead souls. His death had been horrific.

Anning and I went around his corpse and continued searching for Meng Yifan.

We soon found him, along with Lin Jinhua.

They were hiding inside a room, both terrified.

Meng Yifan said, “There’s a well nearby. Something is deeply wrong with it. It seems to be suppressing something, and that thing is trying to escape.”

I quickly asked, “What is covering the well?”

Lin Jinhua answered from the side, “It’s sealed shut and bound with iron chains. There’s a Talisman pasted over it too. Something terrifying must be trapped inside. We need to find a way out of here. If that thing escapes, we’re finished.”

I froze and thought about the well.

There were two wells in the Luo Mansion. The Seventh Concubine had drowned in one of them. Xiuzhu was later murdered and her body thrown into the same well, after which that fat old bitch had ordered it sealed.

Meng Yifan and Lin Jinhua had probably found that well.

I immediately told Meng Yifan to take me there.

Lin Jinhua paled in terror. “It’s dangerous! That well is so strange. Who knows what’s inside?”

I ignored him and followed Meng Yifan with Anning. Lin Jinhua had no choice but to trail behind us.

We soon saw the well.

It had been filled in completely, yet iron chains still wound around it, and a Talisman had been pasted on top.

It was an Evil-Suppressing Talisman.

Everything we saw in the Luo Mansion had happened in the past. The chains and Talisman must therefore have been placed on the well before the tragedy.

Who put them there? And why?

As I stood lost in thought, the well truly began to move.

It should have been completely filled, leaving no hollow space inside and therefore no way for it to produce sound. Yet I heard something that suggested only the opening had been sealed while the shaft beneath remained empty. It sounded as though someone inside was pounding on the walls.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

The noise terrified Meng Yifan and the others. Even Anning retreated two steps and asked whether someone inside was calling for help.

I said, “There can’t be a person inside. Even if something is down there, it can’t be human…”

The moment I finished, the disturbance grew more violent. The chains around the well suddenly pulled taut, while an inexplicable gust tore away the Evil-Suppressing Talisman.

The thing inside… seemed ready to emerge.

Then a tremendous explosion blasted open the mouth of the well as though someone inside had detonated a bomb. Dirt and shattered stones sprayed everywhere.

We stumbled backward in fright. Thick smoke rose from the opening, but no “thing” climbed out.

“We… we need to leave! The monster inside is coming out!” Lin Jinhua’s voice quavered on the edge of tears. But since we did not leave, he did not dare go alone.

I drew a breath, gripped the saber, and prepared to investigate.

This well had exploded a century ago. If a monster truly lurked inside, it had already crawled out a hundred years earlier.

So looking inside could not place me in danger…