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Chapter 8 - Chapter 8: Entangling Grievances

When he touched Li Yuejun's shoulder, Bai Yanliang felt her fear even more clearly.

  She was trembling like a sieve, her face was pale and bloodless, and her pupils were trembling violently.

  However, after Li Yuejun blinked her eyes, she then looked at the bottom of Bai Yanliang s bed ... where it was pitch black and there was nothing.

  However, Li Yuejun, who has already experienced two cursed journeys, is very clear that this is by no means a blurring of her eyes, much less any illusion.

  'No ... I'm fine. 'Li Yuejun forcibly restrained her inner fear, but her left hand grasped Bai Yanliang's arm with a death grip, the power that people subconsciously erupted in fear was great.

  Bai Yanliang's right arm had already been pinched out of blood by her sharp nails, but his face was unchanged.

  It just said, 'That's good, let's go find them.'

  With that, he didn't turn around and just closed the door to the room.

  Li Yuejun finally breathed a sigh of relief, and by the time she fully regained her senses, she had already been led by Bai Yanliang to the lift.

  The lift came down from the sixth floor and stopped in front of the two of them, empty inside.

  Bai Yanliang entered the lift with his face as normal, and Li Yuejun hurriedly followed suit.

  Only then did she realise that she had scratched Bai Yanliang's right arm.

  'Why didn't you ... you remind me?' Li Yuejun looked at Bai Yanliang with a somewhat embarrassed tone.

  However, Bai Yanliang shook his head, didn't even look at the scratched hand, just casually wiped the blood with his clothes and said, 'It doesn't hurt.'

  Li Yuejun was stunned and looked at him blankly.

  She knew very well what kind of person she was, the three months she had come to Misty Set had already driven her crazy, her emotions were getting more and more intense, and the number of people she had crossed paths with was also increasing.

  While she wasn't bad looking, people trapped in a curse were just a bunch of people who were going to die in the end.

  No one would be interested in a pile of meat that was about to break down emotionally, nor would they tolerate her.

  It had to be said that Bai Yanliang had seen it correctly, she was indeed lonely, but because of that, the fear and loneliness made her nature more and more perverse and weird, creating a vicious cycle.

  There was silence in the lift.

  Bai Yanliang glanced at the buttons, and realised that this hotel had six floors.

  He couldn't be sure if Xu Zhi An was still on the ground floor, but the situation was different from earlier, and at this time, the sky was already light.

  Although I can't say exactly where the change has taken place, and I can't say for sure whether the lightening of the sky has any effect on 'him', but ... the atmosphere of this hotel has at least become a bit lighter from the suffocating oppression.

  If he didn't take advantage of the daylight to start his investigation, Hakuren Ryo didn't think that night was a good time.

  'Ding--'

  The beeping sound of arriving on the ground floor woke up Li Yuejun, and the woman glanced at Baek Yen Liang with an odd expression on her face, as if she wanted to say something.

  But when she saw that Bai Yanliang had already stepped out of the lift, she hurriedly followed, and ultimately didn't say anything.

  On the ground floor was a fairly decent lobby, this décor was already very good.

  A waitress in her thirties greeted her and asked, 'Sir, miss, do you need to prepare breakfast?'

  Her attitude was professional, and her smile was just right, but she couldn't hear any semblance of pleasantness in her tone; instead, there was a faint hint of malice.

  Bai Yanliang was sensitive to emotional reactions, and although his own emotional reactions were faint, it didn't stop him from observing others.

  Moreover, judging from the other party's address, the two of them seemed to have just arrived here.

  'Well, please prepare two breakfasts for us.' With the rationale of not eating for nothing, Bai Yanliang responded with a smile.

  The waiter had just nodded, when Bai Yanliang suddenly seemed to remember something and casually asked, 'By the way, do you guys have any ... here?'

  Before he finished his words, the waiter's expression had completely changed.

  'Sir, if you're a reporter, please leave immediately, or I'll call security immediately.' Her face was ugly, and her pair of dangling eyes stared deathly at Bai Yanyang, as if she wanted to look him through and through.

  Bai Yanliang's heart fluttered, this here-and-now attitude was simply too contrived.

  It was as if the other party was deliberately trying to tell him what had happened here.

  However, on the surface, Bai Yanyang shook his head and said, ''No, I'm not a reporter, I'm just here to spend a holiday... By the way, what I wanted to ask just now was, can you guys help me change my pillow? As a matter of fact, I didn't sleep too well last night.'

  The waitress had a strange expression on her face, her eyes hovering strangely over Bai Yanliang and Li Yuejun, but one of them blandly locked eyes with her, while the other lowered his head without knowing what he was thinking.

  After a moment, she spoke, 'Alright, I'll change your pillow for you, I hope you sleep peacefully.'

  Her words seemed to mean something, but Bai Yanliang looked as if he couldn't understand, glancing around, and this time, he saw three people.

  Xu Zhi'an, Feng Xinghan, and Jiang Li.

  Xu Zhi'an looked exactly the same as he had seen before, dressed as a clerk, with meticulously combed hair, not too old, but with a somewhat stooped waist.

  Feng Xinghan seemed to be a long-time physical labourer, his physique was not tall, but very strong, and Yang Wanlong about the same age, but his body looked even better than Yang Wanlong's that engaged in criminal police work.

  Jiang Li, on the other hand, was a bit strange, and Bai Yanliang couldn't tell his gender.

  He had short hair, a white shirt on top and a pair of casual jeans underneath, he was not very old, he didn't seem to be twenty yet, and his eyes were sweeping over Bai Yanliang with impunity.

  Bai Yanliang and Li Yuejun arrived at the sofa by the window in the hall, finally joining up with the trio.

  'Have a seat.' Xu Zhi An's voice was a bit tired as he looked at the duo and spoke.

  Bai Yanliang's face remained unchanged as he sat on the sofa opposite them.

  This experience was really new, after all, not long ago, a 'Xu Zhi An' who looked exactly like him had knocked on his door.

  Thinking about it now, if he had opened the door just now, this game of life and death might have ended immediately.

  'I didn't expect that you, a newcomer, would be the grudge-holder this time.' Xu Zhi'an didn't seem to have rested well, and his voice was very hoarse.

  Grievance stalker?

  Bai Yanliang looked at the four with a puzzled look, this was indeed a new term he had just heard.

  'Do you remember the three whose names were the first to turn red during the fog set?' Feng Xinghan suddenly spoke up.

  Fog set?

  It seemed like that was their name for that weird place behind the door.

  Bai Yanliang nodded, his gaze turning to the stout middle-aged man.

  'The so-called grudge haunters, as the name suggests, are the people who are most likely to be haunted by the Lich ghosts, for example, right now, if the probability is one hundred, the probability of us being targeted by the Lich ghosts would be fifty per cent, and you, ninety per cent, and when both us and you are spotted by it at the same time, the probability of you being targeted would become one hundred per cent.'

  Feng Xinghan had no intention of gloating, after all, whether it was fifty per cent or ninety per cent, the final result would only be two types of life and death, it was nothing to celebrate.

  'However, it's not completely without benefit, as long as the Grudge Stalker gets through the current mission safely, the next mission will definitely not be selected by the Fog Set.'

  Bai Yanliang nodded in understanding, and at that moment, two waiters came over with breakfast.

  'Several gentlemen, miss, this is your breakfast.'