Chapter 291: Chapter 291
She wanted to know who would visit the owner of the ancient mansion in the dead of night. Considering that strange puppet, it probably wasn’t any decent family.
After stepping out of the room, Sister Zhou masked the biological scent emanating from her body and, using the cover of night, darted into a bush, choosing to take a longer route towards Lotus Pond. About two minutes passed. Sister Zhou crept hundreds of meters, pausing occasionally, and finally approached Lotus Pond in a concealed manner. She squinted, her eyes adjusting to the weak moonlight, and could barely make out several figures at Lotus Pond.
Including the mansion’s owner, there were five people in total at the pond. At a glance, they were all men, each well-built with bulging muscles that seemed to exude explosive power. Two of them looked particularly odd: one carried a coffin on his back, and the other was covered in strange yellow Talisman Papers. Their bizarre appearances marked them as anything but normal.
Suddenly, Sister Zhou’s expression froze. She recognized a familiar face at Lotus Pond: a man with two puppets perched on his shoulders. This man was the client who had once commissioned her to deliver items to an abandoned building—a member of the Yin Yang Union who claimed to be a Puppet Master!
Could it be... this group was from the Yin Yang Union? How was the owner of the ancient mansion connected with them? There was a substantial problem here!
Thinking quickly, Sister Zhou immediately took her phone out of her pocket, swiftly unlocked the screen, opened Feixin, and sent a message to Su Yan. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝗇𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗅•𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾•𝗇𝖾𝗍
Sister Zhou: "Something’s wrong, Su Yan. Old Hao is currently at Lotus Pond with a group of people who are likely from the Yin Yang Union. I don’t know what they’re talking about, but I have a bad feeling about it."
The instant Sister Zhou sent the message, a voice suddenly sounded next to her ear.
"Yes, you guessed right. I am indeed discussing some rather unpleasant matters."
Hearing the voice behind her, Sister Zhou’s heart skipped a beat. She then stiffly turned around to look. The person she saw was the same Puppet Master she had just spotted at Lotus Pond.
「Meanwhile, at Lotus Pond.」
The man covered in Talisman Papers asked the old mansion owner, "Old Hao, I’ve been pondering, it’s been over a decade. How is that possession experiment of yours coming along?"
"The experiment is complete," the mansion owner replied tonelessly. He then took out a box, placed it on the stone table at Lotus Pond, and continued, "Inside the box, you’ll find the experimental data you wanted. Open it and take a look."
Upon seeing this, the talisman paper man couldn’t help but laugh. "As expected of the Soul Devourer from our Yin Yang Union! You actually succeeded with the experiment."
Saying this, the talisman paper man reached out for the box on the stone table and opened it with an expectant look on his face in front of everyone.
As the lid of the box opened, a large cloud of yellow-green fog suddenly billowed out from inside.
"Not good! It’s corpse poison!" the talisman paper man cried out in horror.
But in the next moment, a blood-stained dagger shot out from the mist, piercing accurately into his chest. The attacker was none other than the ancient mansion’s owner.
"Old Hao, what are you doing?!" The people from the Yin Yang Union, confused by the sudden turn of events, loudly questioned the ancient mansion’s owner.
"Old Hao?" The ancient mansion’s owner sneered, his face contorting with ferocity. "I am not that decrepit old fool! I am the orphan he cruelly used as an experimental subject!"
「Upstairs in the storeroom of the ancient mansion.」
People from the Yin Yang Union? Su Yan frowned slightly as he looked at the Feixin message from Sister Zhou.
Just as he was about to go downstairs to see what was happening, a loud BANG echoed from the wall in front of him!
In the next moment, the wall burst open! A coffin smashed through the wall, an old man propelled with it.
And that old man was none other than the owner of the ancient mansion, Old Hao!
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