With a leap, Yun Ran easily jumped into the Zhou Family Mansion.
Looking up, inadvertently, she saw the sky above the Zhou Family Mansion. It was pitch black, without even a trace of starlight shining through.
The courtyard now could accurately be described as a place where you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face.
The oddest thing was that the cries that could be heard outside beca completely silent once inside.
Yun Ran suddenly rembered the words spoken by those gossipers at the tavern earlier.
The Zhou Family was seemingly unaffected by these eerie cries.
Judging by the current situation, the Zhou Family wasn’t lying. Their choice to move seed more a resignation towards their neighbors.
Unbeknownst to Yun Ran, shortly after she entered the Zhou Family Mansion, another group of people arrived.
It was already midnight.
Inside the mansion, Yun Ran didn’t hear a single sound.
But outside, those people heard the ghostly cries, making the hair on their arms stand upright.
One of the n began to stutter, "Th-this...I..."
For a long ti, no one could guess what he intended to say.
The leader narrowed his eyes as he stared at the entrance of the Zhou Family Mansion, the magic artifact in his hand already activated.
The group consisted of six young people.
They looked like a young squad out on a training mission.
Just as the atmosphere beca particularly tense, a female voice echoed.
"Senior Brother, this place is certainly dangerous. Let’s go back first..."
The young girl genuinely regretted it at this point. She shouldn’t have acted impulsively and accepted this task against everyone’s objections.
Though she was the most favored little sister in her sect and one of the most talented,
she really hadn’t expected to encounter such a thorny problem on her first day out.
The amulet she wore was beginning to warm, a treasured gift from her master.
The leader’s face showed no change, not even his eyes shifted while he stared intently at the lock on the Zhou Family Mansion’s gate.
"We’ve accepted this task; there’s no reason to abandon it halfway."
Tasks may fail, but they couldn’t desert, or they might never get another chance in the Dark Master ranks.
For a Dark Master just passing ti, that might not matter.
But the leader, clearly a person with ambition and his own ideas, didn’t want to beco the subject of ridicule.
Hearing this, the others could only brace themselves and continue.
Fortunately, each of them had sothing to protect their lives with; at worst, they might get hurt but not lose their lives.
"Go open the door!"
Before coming, they were already aware of what had happened at the Zhou Family Mansion; they even had the key to its gate.
The little paperman quickly checked that the ghostly cries didn’t physically harm them.
However, the cries heightened their fears, sapping their energy and making them gradually haggard.
The sound’s spread was limited to this alleyway.
Given the nature of sound, this was quite unreasonable.
The little paperman couldn’t understand the key to this and could only report everything to its master.
Yun Ran searched the entire Zhou Family house and found nothing amiss.
As the little paperman followed her into the mansion,
"Master, I’ve investigated what you asked,"
the little paperman quickly reported back to Yun Ran.
"Oh, right, Master, I carefully observed those most affected — they’re all young and strong.
If the cries don’t stop, given their current physical condition,
they might not survive for more than a month."
The pieces of clues were too scattered for Yun Ran to connect them at once.
A creaking sound interrupted.
Both Yun Ran and the little paperman turned their gaze toward the direction of the Zhou Family gate; it was the sound of the door being pushed open.
Before the people outside could enter.
Yun Ran swiftly concealed herself behind a pillar, using her black robe.
If Yun Ran revealed herself, she’d definitely apply an Ignore Talisman to her body.
But now, using the identity of the Black Robed People, that wouldn’t be necessary.
Yun Ran was sincerely committed to evading bla.
Several voices ca from the entrance, one noticeably trembling.
"Senior Brother, do we really need to go inside?"
"How else will we understand the situation if we don’t enter?"
"I’m a bit scared; this sound is truly terrifying. It always feels like so monster is hiding inside this house..."
Yun Ran: ...
Whether there was a monster, she didn’t know, but she truly hadn’t seen anyone so timid yet willing to accept any task.
She wondered if they were fearless, foolish, or relying on soone powerful to bail them out.
Regardless, Yun Ran’s first impression wasn’t favorable.
She hated people who dragged others down without self-awareness the most.
Being around such people ant a higher chance of being struck by Heavenly Thunder than usual.
Soon, those people ca in.
Yet their voices ca again, now carrying a hint of excitent instead of panic.
"Senior Brother, the sounds have disappeared!"
"Could it be those monsters fear us? So once we entered, they were scared off and didn’t dare to cause trouble?"
The little paperman listened wide-eyed to their words,
knowing that many in the world were ordinary and self-righteous.
But following its master, such people were mostly filtered out.
Those not smart enough couldn’t stand before the master.
Yet now, it could hear these ordinary folks bragging endlessly here.
[Master, did these people co in through the main entrance, did the people in the alley pay them?]
Yun Ran thought so too.
But she truly believed they were rookies; otherwise, they wouldn’t be so unwary.
Coming through the front door despite knowing sothing was wrong with the Zhou Family Mansion.
However, Yun Ran had no intention of stepping out to educate them.
People couldn’t teach people; only situations could teach them effectively.
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