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Yang Chenjin’s eyes flickered with a hint of coldness, but it quickly returned to normal. Politely, he nodded towards Ruan Qing, “Sister-in-law, good afternoon.”
After the greeting, he aimed the wooden crossbow at Ruan Qing, wearing a somewhat indifferent smile. “Sister-in-law, are you here to plead for her?”
Ruan Qing looked at the crossbow pointed at him, his face slightly pale. He opened his mouth, “I...”
Yang Chenjin seemed to know what Ruan Qing wanted to say and interrupted, “Sister-in-law, she violated the Yang family’s taboo. I haven’t thrown her into the fog; that’s already my mercy.”
After saying this, Yang Chenjin looked at Ruan Qing and smiled, “But punishment is necessary; otherwise, won’t everyone treat the rules of my Yang family as decorations?”
Shen Baiyue wanted to tug at Ruan Qing’s sleeve, but her hands were dirty, and the person in front of her had clearly changed into clean clothes.
Shen Baiyue hesitated for a moment and eventually withdrew her hand.
She looked at the person in front of her and whispered, “Brother Yu Qing, I’m fine.”
However, Ruan Qing seemed not to have heard, still blocking Shen Baiyue’s way.
Ruan Qing looked at the wooden crossbow in Yang Chenjin’s hand, took a deep breath, and firmly said to Yang Chenjin, “I’ll stand in for her.”
Yang Chenjin smiled slightly, “Alright.”
In less than a minute, the person standing with an apple atop their head had changed from Shen Baiyue to Ruan Qing.
The punishment involved enduring three strikes of Yang Chenjin’s wooden crossbow.
Ruan Qing replaced Shen Baiyue, facing the same fate.
Three strikes could determine a person’s life or death.
Whether one could survive depended on Yang Chenjin’s mood.
Ruan Qing looked at the crossbow pointed at him, his face slightly pale. Unfortunately, Yang Chenjin slowly moved the wooden crossbow, as if he felt he hadn’t aimed accurately.
Furthermore, looking from Ruan Qing’s perspective, what he aimed at wasn’t the apple on top of his head but his head itself.
As if wanting to knock him out with a single arrow.
Ruan Qing, seeing this, felt his eyelashes trembling slightly, and his face grew even paler.
Yang Chenjin observed the pitiful figure with a gentle laugh. “Sister-in-law, you can still regret it now.”
However, despite Ruan Qing’s fear making him stiff, he tightly pressed his lips and remained silent.
Even though he had pressed his lips so tightly that they turned pale, he didn’t retreat.
Yang Chenjin raised an eyebrow, casually moved the target a few times, and then shot an arrow.
Truly random.
As if he didn’t care about hitting anything at all.
Ruan Qing, frightened, closed his eyes and shrank back. The first shot, however, didn’t hit Ruan Qing, nor did it hit the apple on his head.
It missed...
But it frightened Ruan Qing, making his body tremble slightly. The thrilling sensation of almost being hit paralyzed him, and a mist covered his beautiful eyes.
Even the apple fell to the ground.
The steward nearby, seeing this, immediately picked up the apple and placed it again on Ruan Qing’s head.
He wanted to assure the visibly scared Ruan Qing not to be afraid.
Second Young Master just wanted to vent his frustration by scaring him instead of Shen Baiyue, but under Yang Chenjin’s gaze, the steward dared not say anything.
After placing the apple, the steward stepped aside.
Yang Chenjin’s arrow once again targeted Ruan Qing. This time, Ruan Qing not only had his eyelashes trembling, but his whole body was also shaking slightly.
Clearly, he was deeply frightened by the previous arrow.
Seeing this, Yang Chenjin sighed, seeming a bit troubled. “Sister-in-law, don’t shake. If you keep shaking like this, I won’t be able to aim properly.”
Ruan Qing, upon hearing this, didn’t show much improvement, and his body continued to tremble slightly.
Honestly, Ruan Qing didn’t want to tremble either.
But if he didn’t, he would be risking the character setting collapsing.
He felt soft all over due to excessive exercise last night, making it uncomfortable to shake his body like this.
But who could avoid shaking when pointed at by an arrow?
The original owner might not necessarily see that Yang Chenjin just wanted to scare people.
So Ruan Qing could only pretend to tremble in fear.
In the eyes of the crowd, Ruan Qing’s appearance clearly showed extreme fear; his tears were on the verge of flowing.
Seemingly about to burst out the next second.
Looking extremely fragile and pitiful.
But he stubbornly stood in place with a determined expression, replacing Shen Baiyue.
His stubbornness was heart-wrenching.
Yang Chenjin looked at the delicate face of the pale Ruan Qing, somewhat displeased; he licked his teeth and ultimately put down the crossbow.
He didn’t continue.
The steward sighed slightly in relief and immediately took the wooden crossbow from Yang Chenjin.
Yang Chenjin glanced at the delicate and pale Ruan Qing, and with an inexplicable smile, turned and left.
Apparently, Shen Baiyue’s trespassing on the fourth floor had been forgiven.
After last night’s events, both guests and players suffered some serious injuries.
The guests were relatively better off. After seeing the warning, ‘Dangerous to go out after ten o’clock,’ most of them had returned to their rooms before ten o’clock.
Basically, not many guests were affected.
But it was different for the players. Three of them were investigating clues or other matters and did not return to their rooms before the incident.
Two people died just now.
Only Feng Ye survived.
Although the guests near the window were unharmed, they witnessed the scene of the enormous blood-red vines entwining the villa.
The blood-red vines were extremely dangerous, as if they wanted to devour the entire Yang family villa.
It wasn’t until nearly five o’clock that they retreated.
Guests who stayed away from the outer layer of the villa didn’t witness the vines.
But through the cat’s eye of their doors, they saw the eerie red shadows.
Equally dangerous.
Obviously, anyone outside the villa before around ten o’clock would be engulfed by the blood-red vines.
The blood-red shadows would hunt those who didn’t stay in their rooms before ten o’clock.
Although it felt dangerous, many guests breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, as long as they stayed in their rooms at night, they would be safe.
They just had to endure until the end of the Young Master’s funeral, and maybe they could leave this haunted place.
Players, on the other hand, were not as optimistic.
If staying in the room meant safety, this instance would be too simple.
Players speculated that even staying in the room in the later stages of the instance would no longer be safe.
They had to figure out what was going on with the blood-red vines and the blood shadows.
And what would happen on the day of the Young Master’s funeral?
After all, the blood shadow didn’t seem like a vampire or anything; tools used against vampires had no effect on these blood shadows.
Lunchtime was approaching.
Players feared that Yang Chenjin and Yang Chenyan would appear again, so they automatically went to the dining table without being called by the servants.
Ruan Qing helped Shen Baiyue upstairs.
Shen Baiyue’s condition was not good, but Ruan Qing couldn’t administer medicine to her at the moment.
After Shen Baiyue was sent to the room, Ruan Qing went downstairs and sat in front of the dining table.
Having experienced the danger from last night, the atmosphere at the dining table became even more tense.
All the players had serious expressions, including Feng Ye.
However, this did not seem to affect Yang Chenyan and Yang Chenjin at all.
The two calmly descended the stairs and sat at the dining table.
After sitting down, Yang Chenjin looked at Ruan Qing and said, “Sister-in-law, it seems like you didn’t sleep well last night?”
Ruan Qing opened her mouth, preparing to speak.
However, the next second, he suddenly coughed.
Then he couldn’t control it and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
The fresh blood immediately stained the food in front of him.
