novelraw Chapter 46 : Dead Silence
Chapter 46 : Dead Silence
Chapter 46: Dead Silence
The clock already pointed to seven, and the night outside the window grew darker and heavier.
Less than five hours remained until midnight.
At this moment, the four of them gathered in Lu Feng’s room, sharing the results of their earlier investigation.
They had searched most of the rooms on the third floor, and among all the rooms they investigated, only three had relatively fragile windows.
Of those three, the window in the room where Wu Fan had fallen was the weakest.
Upon reaching this conclusion, Lu Feng frowned and said to the others,
“Looks like Wu Fan’s fall wasn’t entirely an accident. Dong Ningning really does seem suspicious.”
There were many rooms on the third floor, and yet, against such odds, they had ended up in the one with the most fragile window.
To claim it was mere coincidence felt far too forced.
“But… if Dong Ningning was an Evil Spirit Follower, why would she care so much about Bai Quye’s suicide? Isn’t someone killing themselves actually more beneficial to the Evil Spirit Followers?”
Yu Mo voiced her doubt.
“That’s right, that’s the part I don’t understand either…”
Lu Feng shook his head with a grave expression,
“And even if Dong Ningning truly is an Evil Spirit Follower, there are five of them in total. As long as one isn’t found, we won’t be able to achieve victory…”
“In addition, there’s the matter of these two diaries—”
Lu Feng placed the two diaries side by side, his brows tightly knitted,
“Originally, I thought the Evil Spirit should be Mary Jane, but now… it seems it’s not that simple.”
Things had grown complicated again.
Still, at least they had some clues, so it wasn’t as if they were completely without direction.
Mary Jane’s and Mary Shaw’s diaries told two entirely different stories, leaving Lu Feng unable to determine which one was the truth—
The first part of Mary Jane’s diary was no different from Mary Shaw’s, until the point of Mary Jane’s supposed disappearance, where the accounts diverged.
In Mary Jane’s diary, she did not disappear, but was hidden away by her younger sister Mary Shaw.
The two servants who had come to kill Mary Jane were also murdered by her sister’s hand.
After this incident, due to her hatred of her father’s actions, Mary Shaw began her own descent into madness and revenge.
She poisoned everyone’s food daily with hallucinogens and slow-acting toxins.
Every few days she would drug someone unconscious, then drag them to the dungeon to torture them to death with instruments of pain.
Mary Jane begged her more than once to stop such insanity, but Mary Shaw had clearly lost all control.
While claiming she dearly loved her sister Mary Jane, she silently slaughtered everyone in the manor.
Until one day, she poured a heavy dose of hallucinogen into her father’s wine, disguised herself as her deceased mother, seduced him, then strangled him to death while he tried to violate her.
In the end, she made it look like suicide.
“My lovely yet terrifying sister… You once had such a beautiful life. Why did you, for the sake of a monster like me, destroy everything with your own hands…”
That was the final line of Mary Jane’s diary.
…
“Speaking of which, you two really are incredible…”
After listening to Liuli and Yu Mo explain how they found the diary, Zhang Tong broke out in a cold sweat.
With her memory far beyond ordinary, Yu Mo had drawn a floor plan of the entire old mansion.
She then noticed something unusual about a section behind the wall of the lounge.
When Liuli saw the floor plan, she immediately thought of an inverted coordinate system—
Previously, Lu Feng had set the skirting board as the y-axis, the central axis extending along the floor as the z-axis, and each floor tile as a unit of measurement.
But when the coordinate system was rotated 180 degrees and placed on the ceiling, it still fit perfectly.
Because of this change, the three-dimensional coordinates pointed to an entirely different location.
Using this newly derived set of coordinates, Yu Mo and Liuli discovered another trapdoor in the lounge, and inside it, they found Mary Jane’s diary.
Speaking of how they discovered it, the two girls looked rather helpless.
“That trapdoor led to a graveyard.” Liuli said.
“Luckily, we didn’t run into anything strange, but still…”
Yu Mo’s expression grew uneasy, as if recalling something.
“That graveyard belonged to Mary Jane. Liuli and I dug for a long time before we found the diary in her coffin…”
Liuli nodded and continued,
“Mm… but it was strange. Her coffin was empty.
There was no corpse inside.”
“No body in the coffin…”
Lu Feng nodded in thought, but did not elaborate further.
Although the two girls described it lightly, the process was likely not as easy as they made it sound.
Otherwise, it would not have taken them so long.
“Just didn’t expect… that so much happened while we weren’t here…”
Yu Mo’s face was pale.
She had already learned from Lu Feng and the others what had occurred in the dining hall.
Just from their description, she could picture the scene vividly in her mind.
Who could have imagined, in the blink of an eye, the game had already reached its final stage.
In four hours, the Evil Spirit would claim another victim.
By then, only 20 people would remain alive…
There really was no time left.
Such a desperate situation plunged the room into a suffocating heaviness.
Lu Feng stared at the two diaries in front of him, his mind colliding with chaotic thoughts.
He pulled out the game rules he had already read countless times, as if he wanted to see through every single word on the page—
Wu Fan’s bizarre death…
Zhang Yifeng pushed down the stairs to his death, only to be resurrected…
The revolver with an unknown purpose…
Bai Quye’s failed suicide and possession by the Evil Spirit…
And those rules, full of hidden dangers and lifelines…
How could all these seemingly unrelated things be connected?
“Lu Feng.”
At that moment, Liuli suddenly called softly.
“Hm? What is it?”
He looked at the girl in surprise.
She picked up the two diaries from the table and handed them to him, her eyes more serious than he had ever seen before,
“These two diaries—you must keep them safe. Carry them with you at all times, just like that gun.”
“Ah… okay.”
Lu Feng felt a strange unease in his heart.
It was as if Liuli’s words carried some deeper meaning.
But he didn’t ask further, only meeting her gaze with a strange, indescribable feeling.
…
Time ticked by, second by second.
In the oppressive atmosphere of the mansion, the chime announcing the arrival of a new day rang out.
Everyone shrank back in terror, hiding in corners like startled sheep.
They trusted no one, and dared not gamble with their fragile lives.
All they could do was helplessly wait, hoping for some miracle to occur.
…
“You all stay here.
I’ll go check on Lin You.” Lu Feng stood and said.
“But it’s already past midnight.
If you go now, what if…”
Zhang Tong looked at him anxiously.
“It’s the same.
Yin Jia’s death already proved that the Evil Spirit’s appearance is completely random.
If we run into it…”
Lu Feng forced a pale smile,
“Then it just means my luck has run out.”
Seeing his bitter smile, the three could only fall silent.
Just then, Yu Mo stood up and said,
“…I’ll go with you.”
Lu Feng didn’t say much, just nodded in agreement.
So the two went together to check on Lin You’s condition.
They slowly opened the door.
The hallway beyond was a darkness so deep it seemed capable of swallowing them whole.
Yu Mo hesitated for a moment, then stepped out of the room.
Dead silence and pitch-blackness instantly wrapped around her.
But the instant the girl stepped into the dark, she suddenly saw—
At the far end of the hallway, a ghastly, pale face hovering in the darkness, twisted between a smile and a grimace.