"Hello, I am Ye Zhao. This is my.....my boyfriend, Li Zhongmou."
The beautiful female half of the couple ignored his boyfriends' attempts to hold her back and introduced them both. At the same time, she didn't forget to reveal a sweet smile at Gu yong: "Gu yong, it's nice to meet you."
Her boyfriend Li Zhongmou stood behind her with a grim expression. He clearly wasn't happy about his girlfriend talking to Gu yong, but he couldn't stop her and could only watch on reluctantly.
With her looking like that and his earlier act of spouting cheesy love talk to try and please the other party, Fan Xiaoying could easily tell what was going on. Li Zhongmou was most likely his girlfriend's spare tire and faithful dog. After finally managing to turn things into his favor, he was probably afraid that someone would steal her girlfriend and would treat all men with wariness.
But with that slight pause in Li Zhongmou's words, it was apparent that she didn't like Li Zhongmou all that much. She had difficulty admitting that he's her boyfriend and it seemed like she wouldn't hesitate to dump him at any point in time.
As for Li Zhongmou, he definitely regards Yang Wei as a Goddess. The reason why this buddy is here was probably because he followed her Goddess over. If his Goddess said that she's very scared, this buddy here probably patted her chest in confidence and became a player by accepting it through the app. It's almost certain that he would have said something along the lines of him protecting her.....
At this moment, Ye Zhao stretched her hand out to Gu yong, but Gu yong only smiled gently and didn't hold it. He just took the lead and said: "If everyone is okay with it, let's go in."
Ye Zhao bit onto her lower lip and revealed a trace of hurt expression on her face. Li Zhongmou felt particularly distressed seeing this. He angrily glared at Gu yong and then patted her back: " Ye Zhao, sometimes you can tell that someone is unreliable with just one glance. You don't need to be so friendly with him. Don't worry, you have me here. I will definitely protect you!"
"...….Cough."
Fan Xiaoying cleared her throat to suppress the laughter that was about to come out. No, she can't laugh. It would be too rude. She would direct all the hatred over to herself if she did.
So she maintained a serious expression and responded to Gu yong: "Then let's go in."
"Okay."
Gu yong once again smiled at her and took the initiative to come over and walk next to her. He even cheerily said a few more words to her.
Seeing Gu yong acting so friendly with her, Fan Xiaoying felt somewhat flattered. Just now, he had witnessed Gu Yong's cold attitude towards Yang Wei and thought that despite being good looking, Gu yong was probably someone who was hard to get along with. But, turns out he is actually quite approachable.
As they conversed, they reached the entrance to the mansion. The dark, carved wooden door had somewhat decayed and in some areas the black paint had peeled off revealing a layer of dust and cobwebs. Next to the door was an aged newspaper that was pinned onto the wall.
"'Terror! Another death at the Chen Mansion. The ghost house is true to its name'...….."
Fan Xiaoying took out the flashlight from her backpack and approached it to illuminate the text. With furrowed brows, she read the title.
The flashlight was something that she had received from the starter's gift package. It would always be fully charged, and every player would have one of them in their possession.
Also, from the gift package were three bottles of low-level blood tonics, ten weapon fragments and two skills.
Weapon fragments could be used to synthesize weapons. The more fragments used, the higher level the weapon would be. Fan Xiaoying had not yet used the fragments because ten fragments could only be combined to make a thin wooden stick that was completely useless.
As for the skills, one of it was a "Level 1 Text Interpretation" skill that allowed her to understand the contents of the newspaper written in a foreign language. The other one was a "Level 1 Clue Prompt" skill. After using the skill, she would be able to see the clues shining but this skill had a cool down time of half an hour after every use and it could only be used in instances that was below the difficulty level of Hard.
Although these two skills are very practical, the reason why Fan Xiaoying wanted to cry was because she didn't possess any weapons. She was basically in a completely unarmed state right now so if some ghosts or monsters were to appear and her teammates abandoned her, she would be done for. After all, the Kiss to Death ability of her is only useful against the boss and it had no effect on the other monsters.
For now, she had not yet told her teammates about her current predicament because she wasn't certain whether or not they were teammates that she could trust. Fortunately, it looks like she's the only one in the group that had the text interpretation ability so they could only rely on her to read the clues. This would mean that her teammates couldn't abandon her, or they would not be able to complete the main task of "Investigating the truth".
"What the newspaper article is talking about is this mansions' third and last owner's mysterious death."
After reading the contents of the article, Fan Xiaoying stored it inside her backpack and gave the others a simple summary.
"The case happened about ten years ago. He was found dead in the hall by her wife. It looked like he had committed suicide by hanging herself but the rope that he had used was very short and after being hung up, the distance between his feet and the floor was about two meters so it couldn't have been a suicide. After the police inspected the scene, they had determined that this was not a case that a human was capable of doing."
As Fan Xiaoying said this, her body trembled. The faces of Yang Wei and the others went pale with fear. Only Gu yong maintained a calm expression and asked gently: "Were there any clues left in the scene?"
"Nothing. Everything was clean."
Fan Xiaoying shook her head: "That's why the police believe that it is the work of an evil spirit. Because this case was so similar to the two cases that had happened before, it was very quickly closed, and the owner's family soon moved out. No one dared to investigate the secrets hidden here...…"
The others looked over at the door with fear. They were afraid that it would open at any time and swallow them up.
"Clack...Creaaaakk———"
As everyone looked at the door, the originally tightly locked door suddenly made a strange noise before slowly creaking open to reveal a dark gap.
From the beginning to the end, no one had touched the door.
It had opened itself.
While everyone was scared, one man was thinking
Gu Yong:'That woman wanted to shake hands with me, but I naturally rejected it.
How could I shake hands with her?'
Every inch of my body belongs to Xiaoying. Only she can touch me.