My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 5 Shadows in the Dark

Li Jiuhe didn't voice his doubts. After closing the door, he went straight to the fifth floor.

I checked my phone; there were still more than twenty minutes until 3 a.m.

According to the time traveler, the family on the fifth floor would die around 3:40.

Li Jiuhe suddenly felt a bit cold. As he climbed the stairs, he tightened his collar and then put his phone on silent mode.

If that family dies in this mission, then the mission itself must be very dangerous.

However, since I have the ability to reset, I can simply reset the mission if I feel my life is threatened.

So it's like having two extra lives.

This gave him some relief.

However, he had already made up his mind that if he still couldn't complete it after resetting the first time, he would immediately turn around and go downstairs after resetting the second time, and not continue.

Even if the mission is not completed and no reward is received, it's still better than losing your life.

After arriving at the stairwell on the fifth floor, Li Jiuhe carefully examined the ground and found that none of the bloody footprints he had seen earlier were visible anymore.

Could it be true, as the time traveler said, that there are no ghosts in this world? Was the Yao Yujie I just saw an illusion?

He had a doubt in his mind.

I stood up and gently pushed open the stairwell door.

Just then, the semi-transparent words under the corner of his eye twitched slightly.

The current task reset point has been automatically set.

"here we go!"

Li Jiuhe swallowed, his heart involuntarily racing.

The automatic sensor lights in the corridor outside the stairwell turned on, allowing him to see the four households living on this floor at a glance.

Two of the houses were located at the very back, and the door of the second house from my house was ajar!

It seems that the family whose door is slightly ajar is the one that will soon be wiped out.

If it wasn't Yao Yujie's ghost trying to kill them, who else could it be?

With a sense of doubt, Li Jiuhe cautiously stepped forward and peered through the slightly ajar door.

The room was dark, and there was no sound.

He pushed the door open a little and looked around carefully. He noticed that one of the bedroom doors was closed, but a light was on in the bedroom because a sliver of light was coming through the crack in the door.

Li Jiuhe wanted to turn on the living room lights directly, but his intuition told him that doing so might be dangerous.

After a slight hesitation, he did not turn on the light, but walked directly into the living room, looking around warily.

The blood-covered Yao Yujie he had seen earlier disappeared after leaving the stairwell. Li Jiuhe was worried that she might suddenly appear in front of him at this moment, so he was extra cautious with every step he took.

The layout of this room is similar to that of the rooms downstairs, except that the two bedrooms are in opposite directions, and at this moment the other bedroom is open and pitch black inside.

Li Jiuhe felt uneasy, sensing that something was lurking in the darkness.

He quickly arrived at the bedroom door where the light was shining, reached out and turned the doorknob, only to find that the door was locked from the inside.

"Who's there? Who's outside? Speak up!"

A man's terrified, trembling voice came from the bedroom.

Li Jiuhe spoke truthfully, speaking softly, "I'm a neighbor who lives on the third floor. I came up here specifically to see what happened just now?"

"Ah, it's a man." The man in the bedroom seemed relieved and asked the other person, "Should we open the door?"

"Don't open it! We just...we clearly saw it. It wasn't a man, it was Yao Yujie outside..." a woman replied, her voice trembling with tears.

"I saw her too, but she might already be gone?"

The man in the bedroom seemed uneasy. He moved closer to the inside of the bedroom door and asked Li Jiuhe, "What's your name? Where do you live?"

"My name is Li Jiuhe, and I live in room 302 on the third floor. Don't be nervous, I'm all alone outside right now, I don't see anyone else..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly felt a pang of heart palpitation and turned to look at the other open secondary bedroom.

Although it was pitch black and nothing could be seen, the eerie feeling of unease grew stronger and stronger. In the darkness beyond the reach of sight, it seemed as if something was emerging from the bedroom.

Li Jiuhe stared intently at the bedroom door, feeling his heart almost stop beating. He didn't realize that his body temperature was rapidly dropping.

However, at that very moment, a man and a woman in the bedroom, unaware of the situation, opened the locked door after hearing his self-introduction.

As soon as the door opened, Li Jiuhe clearly sensed something in the darkness outside the second bedroom door suddenly moving rapidly toward this direction, and with a crash, the flowerpot was instantly overturned to the ground.

His heart tightened, and he abruptly pushed open the bedroom door that had just been opened, slipped inside, and quickly closed the door behind him.

"Lock the door now!"

The man inside was startled by the scene and, without thinking, quickly locked the bedroom door.

He also saw that Li Jiuhe who came in was not a ghost, but a neighbor who lived downstairs, because the man remembered meeting Li Jiuhe in the elevator.

Why did you lock the door?

What were you hiding from just now?

Li Jiuhe and the man spoke at the same time.

The two were taken aback for a moment, and Li Jiuhe replied first: "There seemed to be a shadow in the darkness outside just now."

"Did you see what it was?"

"no."

The woman in the bedroom suddenly became terrified: "I knew she hadn't left. She hates us, no, she hates you! She hates you, Jiang Kun..."

Li Jiuhe took a closer look at the woman.

Seeing that the other person was young and beautiful, with tear stains at the corners of her eyes, and although she was wearing a loose nightgown, her figure was still well-proportioned, but she didn't seem to have seen this person before.

On the contrary, I may have run into this "Yao Yujie" in the neighborhood, but I can't match the person with the name.

So the people in this room, just like Li Jiuhe from before, really saw Yao Yujie's ghost.

Judging from the woman's appearance and the things she said, they might have done something wrong to Yao Yujie.

"Do you...do you have a cell phone on you?" the man named Jiang Kun asked Li Jiuhe.

Li Jiuhe turned on the phone screen and handed it to him.

Jiang Kun fiddled with the device for a moment, then said in a desperate tone, "No signal, still no signal!"

Li Jiuhe took it and looked at it, and found that there was indeed no signal: "Are your phones like this too?"

"Yes, there's no signal at all." Jiang Kun nodded.

"Who is Yao Yujie to you?" Li Jiuhe asked.

"She was my ex-wife, or rather... my deceased wife."

Jiang Kun took a few steps back and sat on the bed, looking somewhat uneasy.

He then pointed to the woman in the nightgown and asked Li Jiuhe, "Was it Chen Yin's scream that woke you up just now?"

Li Jiuhe nodded in agreement: "Yeah, I'm a light sleeper, and I thought something had happened, so I came up to check."

He then looked at Chen Yin, the woman in the nightgown: "Then she's yours..."

"Chen Yin is my... uh, girlfriend," Jiang Kun replied.

"How long have you been together?"

"This month."

Li Jiuhe looked suspicious.

He remembered that the security guard downstairs was talking about Yao Yujie's accident last month.

In other words, this guy's ex-wife just died last month, and this month he's already with this woman named Chen Yin!

Li Jiuhe's gaze swept back and forth between the man and the woman.

With their speed, it's no wonder Yao Yujie's ghost came knocking on their door! There might be some hidden story behind this.

At this moment, in Li Jiuhe's eyes, Jiang Kun suddenly seemed to resemble a modern-day Chen Shimei (a notorious figure in Chinese folklore known for abandoning his wife).

"Brother Chen, perhaps I can help you resolve your current predicament."

My surname is Jiang.

"Excuse me, Brother Jiang."

"You say you can solve it? Do you know how to catch ghosts?" Jiang Kun looked at him in surprise.

"I don't know how to catch ghosts," Li Jiuhe shook his head, "but I can make Yao Yujie disappear. The condition is that you first tell me how she died."