“This male servant says he killed the Madam with his own hands. Could he be the culprit?”
Shi Shu hadn’t expected the answer to be found so easily.
Precisely because it was too simple, it felt unbelievable.
“Even if this is a D-Rank dungeon, isn’t this a bit too simple?”
Xu Xingyuan nodded. “It indeed defies common sense.”
“The content in this diary is too singular to serve as evidence.”
Xu Xingyuan put the diary back into the metal box and reburied it with Shi Shu.
As he stood up, Xu Xingyuan inadvertently looked up and discovered a dark shadow standing in the room on the left side of the sixth floor!
That thing probably hadn’t expected Xu Xingyuan to look up suddenly. In less than a second, it vanished.
“Xingyuan, what’s wrong?”
Shi Shu followed Xu Xingyuan’s gaze to the sixth floor and laughed:
“You don’t want to go to the sixth floor, do you?”
“The butler warned us. We absolutely cannot go to the sixth floor. That’s definitely a death mechanism!”
Xu Xingyuan blinked. “There was a person standing on the sixth floor just now.”
“Holy sh*t!” Shi Shu instantly got goosebumps. “I’m not brave, don’t scare me.”
“It’s okay.” Xu Xingyuan waved his hand. “Let’s go back to the room and explore.”
Only then did Shi Shu remember they hadn’t searched their room yet.
The two rushed back to Room “444” and checked it carefully.
Unexpectedly, they actually found a new diary!
Xu Xingyuan didn’t let Shi Shu touch it, opening it himself.
[One day, the Madam went mad.
No one knew why she went mad. Like a bird locked in a cage that finally awakened self-awareness.
She often wore a blood-red dress, wandering the corridors alone late at night.
Whenever she saw someone pick up a paintbrush, she would scream frantically.
The once beautiful, gentle, yet sorrowful Madam vanished without a trace.]
[Until one day, the Madam died.
This should have been a happy ending for everyone, but with the Madam’s death, all sorts of bizarre things happened in the castle.
Even though the Madam was dead, her shadow was everywhere in the castle.
She wandered late at night, dancing with Them (non-humans).
Some said they saw with their own eyes the Madam turn into a bird and fly out of the castle’s cage.
More and more people went mad, until a great fire struck.]
[Year XX, a raging fire ruthlessly burned everything in the castle.
The once glorious castle that everyone yearned for turned into half-ruins.
Except for the Duke and the butler, everyone else died in the castle.
I know, the Madam has returned.]
Xu Xingyuan flipped through the diary, gradually reaching the last page.
[The Madam went mad.
She set a great fire and killed everyone.
I, killed the Madam with my own hands.
This is my retribution.]
In all the diaries found so far, there was the same sentence—“I, killed the Madam with my own hands.”
“This is very strange,” Shi Shu rubbed his chin, asking curiously, “Everyone says they are the murderer, but who is the real murderer?”
Hugging Cat-Nian, Xu Xingyuan suddenly spoke calmly:
“Is there a possibility that everyone is the murderer?”
Shi Shu had a flash of inspiration. Putting all the clues together, he gave a tentative answer:
“Could it be that the servants in the castle conspired to kill the Madam together? After the Madam became a ghost, she returned, burned down the castle with a fire, and took revenge?”
Xu Xingyuan shook his head. “It’s not that simple.”
“Have you considered why the Madam went mad? At first, the servants praised the Madam as a very gentle person. Why would she suddenly go mad?”
Shi Shu followed Xu Xingyuan’s train of thought and realized:
“The turning point lies in the secret originally hidden well by the Madam, which was suddenly discovered by everyone!”
Xu Xingyuan nodded. “Exactly. To break the game, we need to know what exactly the secret hidden on the Madam is.”
Shi Shu gave a thumbs up. “Xingyuan! When we first met, I completely didn’t see that you had such a smart brain!”
Xu Xingyuan just hugged Cat-Nian and smiled faintly, not thinking he was anything special.
Later, they found a few more diaries.
The content was largely the same.
After the Madam went mad, a fire destroyed half the castle, killing everyone except the butler and the Duke.
Everyone wrote the sentence “I, killed the Madam with my own hands” in their diaries.
Until late at night.
They found no other useful clues.
That night, Shi Shu said confidently, “Just sleep worry-free! Tonight, Bro will keep watch!”
“You should sleep.” Xu Xingyuan, having learned from the past, pressed Shi Shu onto the bed without a second thought.
Sure enough, within three minutes, Shi Shu was snoring with his mouth open, happily in dreamland.
After Shi Shu fell asleep, Xu Xingyuan was taken to the fifth floor by the butler again.
Fortunately, that night, the butler didn’t arrange any improvised singing, dancing, or rap performances for Xu Xingyuan.
He only set out a sumptuous meal.
Xu Xingyuan wasn’t very hungry and just ate a little.
Tonight, he wasn’t in a hurry to sleep. Instead, after waiting for the time to pass 12:00 AM, he actively stood by the window and looked downstairs.
Sure enough, just as Chu Xiu said during the day, a headless female ghost had appeared in the rose garden late at night.
She was mechanically bending over, collecting rose petals bit by bit.
Suddenly, the headless female ghost spun around abruptly and looked toward Xu Xingyuan.
Clearly having no head, she somehow conveyed a strong sense of staring.
Then, the headless female ghost suddenly put down the bamboo basket in her hand and walked toward the castle gate at a terrifying speed.
The castle was very silent late at night.
The creaking sound of the main gate being pushed open could be heard very clearly.
Xu Xingyuan was instantly nervous, but looking down at Cat-Nian in his arms, he gradually calmed down instead.
Soon, Xu Xingyuan heard screams coming from the fourth floor, the room directly beneath his feet.
It sounded like a woman screaming piercingly.
The scream emitted before impending death penetrated the dark, quiet, long night, stepping on one’s nerves and making one tense up involuntarily.
Within a minute, the screams downstairs vanished.
Ten seconds later.
There was a knock on Xu Xingyuan’s door.
He stood in place for a while.
The knocking continued, sounding quite polite.
In the end, holding Cat-Nian, Xu Xingyuan walked over.
He opened the door gently, revealing a small crack.
And saw the headless female ghost, covered in blood, standing reservedly in front of his door.
Sensing Xu Xingyuan looking at her, she even twisted her body shyly.
She extended a long arm, holding a human head that was still dripping blood.
This head looked overly familiar.
Xu Xingyuan looked closely and met Wang Zhen’s eyes, filled with terror before death!
The headless female ghost thought Xu Xingyuan liked the gift.
She extended Wang Zhen’s head forward a bit more.
Xu Xingyuan, smelling the pungent blood: “…”
In the Infinite Flow world, the way of gift-giving isn’t Melatonin or fruit baskets.
But giving human heads?!