Pei Yun returned to the villa with a heavy heart. She first went to the room where Fu Lingchen had died the night before, and sure enough, the body was no longer in the room. She suspected that the body had been moved to the kitchen. Just as she was about to go downstairs to check, she heard a slight noise coming from inside the room.

Pei Yun stopped and turned around in confusion, only to see a gold ring that had inexplicably fallen to the ground from the corner of the dressing table.

Her expression hardened, and she walked to the dressing table, picked up the ring, and examined it closely. The pure gold ring had a very simple design, with only an "S" symbol on the face, and it did not contain any resentment.

Pei Yun put the ring into his pocket and then glanced around the room. It was empty and cold, except for the portrait on the wall. When Pei Yun's gaze fell on the portrait, the woman in the painting seemed to smile slightly.

After leaving Fu Lingchen's room, Pei Yun thought for a moment and did not go to the kitchen on the first floor immediately. Instead, she went to Minglu's room next door, where Minglu's body had also disappeared.

The layout of each bedroom was similar. When she arrived at the dressing table in this room, the word "death" appeared on the mirror in front of her.

Pei Yun immediately used his divine sense to investigate, but did not detect anything unusual.

She continued to He Changxuan's room, and as expected, the word "resentment" appeared on the mirror in this room.

Finally, Pei Yun arrived at Zhou Feng's room, where the word "corpse" appeared crookedly on the mirror.

She stood in front of the mirror, where only her reflection was visible, but Pei Yun felt an inexplicable force pulling at her and reminding her of something.

But what exactly do the ring, "death," "resentment," and "corpse" mean?!

For a moment, Pei Yun was also completely confused, but she felt that as long as she understood the meaning of these four things, she might be able to break the deadlock.

After searching the four people's room, Pei Yun went to the kitchen, but there were no bodies there. Under her questioning, the cook revealed that the bodies had been moved to the freezer.

After arriving at the freezer, Pei Yun found the four bodies. After thinking for a moment, she decided not to move the bodies back to the room, but to leave them there. She simply placed a defensive talisman on the freezer door to prevent the people in the manor from disturbing the bodies.

However, there was one thing that she found very strange. Once the participants in the previous "door" were eliminated, their bodies would be teleported out of the "door". Why is it that the participants in this "door" are "dead", but their bodies are still in the "door"?

Pei Yun walked into the main hall, lost in thought, only to find several members of other teams wolfing down the meat on their plates.

"What's going on?" Pei Yun asked, frowning.

Wu Ziwei said helplessly, "We just found a 'medium' and used it to enter a mural in the third-floor corridor, but unexpectedly we were besieged by vengeful spirits inside. It took a lot of effort for everyone to get out of the painting, but our spiritual energy was greatly depleted, and now we feel extremely hungry..."

As the team leader, Wu Ziwei's cultivation level was naturally higher than that of the team members below him. Although he also wanted to eat the food in front of him, he could still resist, but the team members below could not.

Xu Wei's team was also somewhat disheveled. Xu Wei said, "Our team entered the 'painting' yesterday and indeed did not encounter any attacks. I thought the independent space in the painting was a memory of the people in the painting. But when we went in again today, we were unexpectedly attacked by vengeful spirits..."

The two teams were somewhat dispirited and dared not enter the painting rashly again. The other two teams, however, were in good condition because they had not yet found the "medium" to enter the painting.

Pei Yun remembered the lipstick she found yesterday. Now that Fu Lingchen and the other three had been eliminated, she began searching alone for murals related to the lipstick in the corridors...

After a while, they finally found the painting in the corridor on the fourth floor of the villa. The painting depicted a man and a woman. It was only vaguely discernible that the man was wearing a black suit and the woman was wearing a dress. The most striking feature was the bright red color on the woman's lips.

Pei Yun took out a lipstick and infused it with spiritual power. The lipstick emitted a faint resentment, which quietly connected with the painting that was nearby.

The next moment, Pei Yun felt the clear surroundings gradually blurring, as if they were melting.

A moment later, she seemed to be back in the main hall of the villa. It was already night outside the glass windows, but inside it was as bright as day. The crystal chandelier reflected a dreamy soft light, and someone was playing music in the corner. In the center of the main hall, there was a dance floor where many men and women were dancing. It seemed that a banquet was being held here.

"Miss Meryl, it's a pleasure to have you here at the manor for this banquet..."

Hearing voices not far away, Pei Yun immediately looked over and saw an elegant woman in an evening gown standing in the corner. Pei Yun was certain that this woman was the same woman from the painting she had seen.

Upon seeing a handsome young man approaching her, the woman gave a shy smile and parted her red lips slightly: "How could I refuse Mr. Stick's invitation? My father mentioned you to me a long time ago, saying that you are an outstanding young talent, not only a devout believer like him, but also a painter. Meeting you today, I can see that you are just as my father described..."

“Miss Meryl, you flatter me. Your father often mentions you to me. Seeing you today, I am amazed by your beauty, as delicate and beautiful as the roses in my estate…”

The man named Stick smiled perfectly, his eyes fixed on the woman's red lips, a slight flicker in his gaze. He extended a hand, inviting her, "Would Miss Meryl have the pleasure of dancing with me?"

"my pleasure."

……

Pei Yun watched the two men's actions closely. When the man reached out his hand, she saw the ring on his middle finger and her heart skipped a beat. She felt as if she had grasped a clue.

She looked around and saw that not only this man, but many people at the banquet were wearing the same rings as him. The rings on their hands were exactly the same as the ones she had found in Fu Lingchen's room.

Just when she thought what she was seeing was just a replay of a memory, the surrounding environment suddenly changed, but this time she was not a bystander.

She returned to the altar in the church, bound by chains. Before she could utter a sound, she heard another voice within her body, crying and pleading with Stick before her: "Let me go! Let me go! Why are you doing this to me?!"

Stick grinned cruelly, grabbing her chin with one hand and holding a lipstick in the other, about to apply it to her face himself. His expression was almost manic as he said, "...Merry, you look most beautiful with lipstick on..."

Mary struggled in agony, tears streaming uncontrollably from her eyes. Then, she seemed to notice the old man beside Stick, and a glimmer of hope flashed in her desperate eyes: "Father! Father! Save me! I am your daughter!"

The old man coldly looked back at his daughter, a dagger in his hand. His cruel words shattered Meryl's last hope: "My dear daughter, the goddess needs your sacrifice."

After speaking, he raised his hand and stabbed Meryl in the chest...

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