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The first to react was Shen Baiyue standing under the wall. Due to her small size, Ruan Qing didn’t let her climb onto the wall.
So, she obediently held her doll under the wall, her eyes fixed on Ruan Qing’s actions.
Suddenly, she saw Ruan Qing being pulled by something and falling off the wall.
Shen Baiyue widened her eyes and immediately shouted in fear, “Brother Yu Qing!!!”
She even dropped the doll she was holding and ran in panic towards the ladder, seemingly wanting to rescue Ruan Qing.
The sense of weightlessness came, and Ruan Qing stared blankly at the increasingly blurry high wall. Time seemed to slow down in this moment.
He heard Shen Baiyue’s cry, but there was no support in the air, making it impossible for him to react.
In the end, Ruan Qing could only helplessly close his eyes and let himself fall.
Others also heard Shen Baiyue’s cry and quickly looked at the spot where Ruan Qing had just stood.
There was no one there.
Inside the wall, only Shen Baiyue was there, desperately trying to climb the nearby ladder.
Clearly, it was impossible for a person to fall inside the wall.
So, there was only one possibility left...
Everyone’s hearts sank slightly, and they looked outside the wall.
Outside, the wall was still covered in mist, and there was no trace of Ruan Qing or any figure.
They didn’t know what was hidden in the mist, and despite their efforts to use their phones, they couldn’t capture anything.
The fog was too thick, and the visibility was even worse than the width and height of the wall beneath their feet.
But everyone was aware that something terrifying lurked in the mist, and once pulled inside, it might be difficult to come out unscathed.
In fact, there were people who had been paying attention to Ruan Qing’s situation.
However, the situation happened too suddenly, and they were not close enough to catch him in the first place.
One of them was Feng Ye.
Seeing Ruan Qing’s figure disappear, he directly leaped down, and the fog instantly swallowed his figure.
Similarly, there was another player who resembled the advanced male player.
The servant, instructed by the steward, had been watching the guests messing around. Little did he expect that someone would suddenly be pulled off the wall.
This was something that happened at the edge.
The servant’s eyes widened, his heart pounding, and immediately trembling. He took out his phone and called the steward.
The steward answered quickly, “What’s wrong?”
“Steward, Mr. Yu Qing fell off the wall,” the servant stammered in panic.
The steward’s voice involuntarily raised a few notches. “What happened!!!? Didn’t I tell you to keep an eye on him!?”
The servant’s body trembled slightly, with a hint of fear in his tone. “Something pulled him down in the fog...”
The presence in the mist had started pulling people, meaning it was a conscious entity.
After some time, this villa might not be safe anymore.
The servant’s body began to uncontrollably shake.
Although the servant’s words were somewhat unclear, the steward on the other end of the phone immediately understood. Then, a serious tone echoed, “Go and bring Young Master Yang.”
“Make sure to bring Mr. Yu Qing back alive.”
“Yes.”
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A three-meter fall was not considered very high; falling should be an instantaneous matter.
For an average person with normal physical qualities, falling from the third floor would probably not result in injuries.
But Ruan Qing’s physical qualities were not ordinary, and he wasn’t confident that he wouldn’t get hurt. Subconsciously, he protected his head, assuming the safest posture to prevent injuries.
However, after Ruan Qing fell to the ground, he didn’t feel any pain, as if he had fallen on a soft cotton.
Ruan Qing sat on the ground, supporting himself with his hands. The ground felt soft and cold. A sense of doubt arose in his heart.
Was the ground here unusually soft?
Before Ruan Qing could look down, the ground beneath his hands... moved...
Moved...
Ruan Qing: “!!!”
Ruan Qing’s eyes widened, his pupils shrinking. Immediately, he wanted to stand up and escape. But the next second, something came up from the ground and instantly bound Ruan Qing’s ankles.
Due to being bound at the ankles, Ruan Qing once again lost his balance, falling directly to the ground.
The expected pain didn’t come, and the ground beneath him remained incredibly soft.
It felt as if he could sink into it at any moment.
Ruan Qing lay on the ground, not bothering to look back at what had bound his ankles, but instead staring blankly at the ground before him, covered in an eerie shade of red.
The ground wasn’t just red; it was slowly undulating.
No, this wasn’t the ground at all!
It was a creature, a creature that seemed to be writhing.
No, it wasn’t the ground; it was a monster.
A monster that seemed intent on swallowing him!
Just like the guest who walked into the mist earlier!
Ruan Qing’s heart couldn’t help but accelerate due to fear, his long eyelashes trembling slightly. He wanted to get up and escape, but he couldn’t.
Something cold, clammy, and bone-chillingly wet was tightly coiled around his feet, almost like bone-chilling maggots, making it impossible for him to move. Moreover, it was crawling up his pants leg.
As if it wanted to devour him directly.
Fear continued to stimulate Ruan Qing, filling his eyes with tears, wetting his eye sockets and lashes. It made every cell in his body scream to escape.
Ruan Qing couldn’t control his breathing; it intensified. He tried to calm himself down, reaching for the scissors he had taken from his room.
Without hesitation, he stabbed at the thing coiled around his ankle.
But in the next moment, the ground again writhed, and something instantly coiled around Ruan Qing’s wrist, rendering him unable to move his hand holding the scissors.
Even his waist was tightly bound by the blood-red vines behind him, causing him to fall to the ground once again.
Ruan Qing’s white T-shirt, now tangled in the vines, appeared messy, revealing the shape of his waist.
Delicate and slender, as if not even a handful, perfectly proportioned.
At this moment, under the contrast of the vines, he looked incredibly ethereal.
Even the white T-shirt was stained with the blood-red marks left by the vines.
This time, Ruan Qing finally saw clearly what was entwining around him.
It was something like blood-red vines.
The entire land seemed to be covered in this blood-red substance, undulating and instilling an uncontrollable sense of fear in the depths of one’s being.
It was a fear that couldn’t be controlled, so intense that it left no room for resistance or defiance.
Fear to the point where every ounce of strength seemed to be drained from the body.
As Ruan Qing comprehended this, his breath caught for a moment. His slender body couldn’t help but tremble, and tears moistened his long lashes due to the piercing nature of the fear.
He... could no longer escape.
