The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 242 - 246: The Haunted Mansion (15)

"You’ll regret it; it’s no fun inside." Gu Shi felt he had done his utmost to warn Lady Su Li—if she still stubbornly insisted on going in, there was nothing he could do.

Su Li didn’t have masters adept in Taoist Skills like Fatty Cui and Bearded Xue by her side as he did.

Su Li: "...."

Idiot.

Fang Zheng and his people disappeared quickly from their sight.

"Let’s go in too."

Once they stepped over the high threshold, they seemed to enter another world, starkly different from the outside.

Inside, the gate led deep, with corridors winding around, it was unclear where they led.

With each step forward, it felt like pushing through a layer of fog; occasionally, they could hear the sounds of gentle laughter and chatter not far away.

Fang Zheng, leading the way, encountered the same scene as Su Li and the others—just a few steps in, and he knew something was wrong.

It was different from what he had investigated.

Similarly alerted were Lu Bing, Cheng Zaili, and Zheng Ping.

Among those present, apart from Fang Zheng, these few Sect Leaders had the highest cultivation.

"Master, I have a bad feeling about this," whispered a young Taoist nun, dressed like Zheng Ping, shrinking her shoulders and moving closer to her master.

Hearing her disciple’s words, Zheng Ping’s heart sank further.

She knew her disciple well; although her cultivation was not high, she was exceptionally sensitive intuitively in such matters—the fact she felt uneasy indicated it really was...

"Who conducted the initial investigation here? Weren’t we told it was safe?" Zheng Ping asked with dissatisfaction. Had that not been the case, she never would have brought her disciple.

Lu Bing and Cheng Zaili also looked grim, gathering their disciples closely. "Stick together, don’t wander off."

The tense atmosphere affected Lin Mianmian too; she moved a few steps closer to Fang Zheng, only to be impatiently pushed away.

At times like this, he had no mood for flirting; for someone as feeble as Lin Mianmian, he was more concerned she’d slow them down later.

Fatty Cui and Bearded Xue were also regretting it deeply; had they known earlier, they would have tied up Gu Shi when they were outside and never agreed to let him join.

Gu Shi, completely oblivious to the resentful gazes from the two masters beside him, felt sorry for Lin Mianmian now.

He immediately glared at Fang Zheng, "What are you doing... Mianmian, come over here, Master Cui and Master Xue will protect us."

Bearded Xue: "...."

Fatty Cui: "...."

We’re not, we didn’t, don’t talk nonsense; who wanted to carry this burden?

Gu Shi: "Add ten million more when we get back."

Bearded Xue was reluctant; no matter how much money, one needs to be alive to spend it.

Fatty Cui, however, was quite tempted. Considering the number of people and Sect Leaders they had with them, even if the danger escalated, they should be able to manage.

"Twenty million."

"Deal."

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Su Li also encountered trouble; to reach the innermost part, they needed to follow the central courtyard path straight ahead. But no matter how they walked, they ended up going in circles, repeatedly passing the same peach tree.

"Ghost Wall, I’ll handle this," declared a young man from the Special Action Group, pulling out several talisman papers from his bag and tossing them in various directions.

The yellow talisman papers seemed to touch some kind of screen, creating ripples in the air like water waves. Then, everyone could hear a faint, almost imperceptible cracking sound.

"Done, we can go now."

But before they had taken a few steps, suddenly, fog began to rise.

Su Li: "Everyone, hold hands, and don’t get scattered."

The fog grew thicker, and even at distances less than half a meter, they couldn’t see each other’s outlines clearly. Fortunately, they were holding hands and walking slowly, so they didn’t get lost.

But as they walked, Su Li suddenly felt something was wrong.

She used to hear her teammates talking, but now it was eerily silent.

What was worse, the touch of the hand she was holding seemed off, as if she were holding the rough, dry bark of an old tree.

After rubbing it a bit, her senses didn’t deceive her.

The teammate whose hand she was originally holding had somehow changed.

That feeling, of what it was, was unspeakable.

Su Li immediately let go of what she was holding, but it clung to her palm like super glue and wouldn’t come off no matter how hard she shook it.

Driven to desperation, Su Li used force, only to hear the sound of breaking bones, and the thing in her palm snapped off.

Quickly glancing over, what she saw was indeed a hand, only it was the shriveled hand of a mummy dried up for years.

Su Li’s action seemed to anger something in the thick fog. Even though she was mentally prepared, the sudden appearance of a shriveled, ugly ghost face right in front of her nose still startled her.

It was so ugly.

Su Li fired her biological gun straight at the mummy’s forehead.

The hideous mummy dodged quickly, and Su Li’s shot missed.

When the creature backed up a few steps, Su Li took the opportunity to clear the fog temporarily with her biological gun and got a clear look.

The thing was a towering skeleton, with a layer of greyish-white skin tightly stretched over its bones, a few straggly hairs stuck to the skin tight against its skull, and a sparse, half-detached braid hanging behind the mummy.

The tattered clothes on its body were vaguely recognizable as an official robe.

Su Li had an idea of who the creature before her might be.

Dead for so many years, not lying peacefully in the dirt, but coming out to bother people was wrong, not to mention it looked at her with such revolting eyes, which made Su Li even more intolerant.

Don’t ask Su Li how she could tell its gaze was disgusting from its dead fish-like white eyeballs.

Anyway, the mummy made an effort to twist its mouth, revealing a mouth full of maggots, which made Su Li step back instantly, her nose almost catching a whiff of a smell potent enough to be a biological weapon, lingering incessantly.

The mummy cackled jeeringly, its dry throat making gurgling, bubbling sounds.

After several attempts, Su Li actually heard the mummy’s dry words, "Beauty..."

"Accompany... me..."

It wasn’t said that this creature had fallen deeply in love with the daughter of a high official during its life, passionately and deeply, it wasn’t supposed to be a pervert.

After being buried for so many years, it still hadn’t forgotten about chasing women.

Being fancied by such a hideous thing, Su Li felt disgusted as if she had swallowed eight hundred flies.

"Ugly creature, dare you even fantasize about me?"

Su Li was furious, a feeling of her beauty not being respected accelerating her actions significantly.

She threw a small bottle of liquid right in the face of the mummy.

It was angry and wanted to teach this unappreciative beauty a small lesson.

The mummy extended its half-meter long nails, intending to seize this disobedient trifle, but a bottle of liquid from the opposing person splashed upon itself.