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This study was set up entirely for managing the Yang family’s external industries.
The players went straight to Yang Wenmin’s bedroom.
The bedroom was locked.
At this point, there was no time to worry about breaking any Yang family rules. Feng Ye directly used special means to open the door.
The players began searching for clues in the room.
They found a lot of information in the drawers.
The players took them out and looked at them. It was information about sacrifices and summoning ‘god’.
It also recorded everything about the Yang family.
Hundreds of years ago, someone obtained a book.
This book was about a ‘god’.
That god was incredibly powerful, capable of granting any wish, even the desire for immortality.
The book also detailed how to summon this ‘god’, including the specific summoning ritual.
Someone, half in doubt, tried it out.
It failed, but not entirely.
He turned into a monster.
An immortal being, but a monster uncontrollable during the night.
Moreover, he could vividly sense his sanity gradually slipping away.
One day, he wouldn’t be able to maintain his sanity, even during the daytime.
He started to fear, to regret, wanting to revert to being human.
To become human again, he could only summon the ‘god’ and made wishes to them.
However, as a monster, he no longer met the conditions for summoning the ‘god’.
The summoner for the sacrifice must be human.
He could only go and capture ordinary people for the sacrifice.
However, he continuously failed, and more people like him emerged, yet the ‘god’ never descended.
In the constant summoning, he discovered that the outcome after each sacrifice was different.
Some turned directly into mindless monsters, while others gained powerful abilities.
Clearly, the ‘god’ had their own preferences.
Perhaps he hadn’t found the sacrifice the ‘god’ liked, which was why they were reluctant to descend.
Not knowing the exact preferences of the ‘god’, he could only continue to capture more people.
Continuously experimenting.
But still, he couldn’t succeed.
And those who had turned into monsters could no longer reintegrate into society; they had to stay.
Becoming members of the Yang family.
And so, the Yang family gradually reached the present state.
Most of the time, the sacrifices and summoning failed. Over the centuries, those in the Yang family who could maintain sanity during the day numbered no more than five hundred.
The Yang family casually discarded the failed monsters outside, gradually forming the creature in the fog.
That creature wasn’t initially powerful, but with more failed experiments merged into it, it became stronger over time.
And developed the instinctive desire to devour all living beings, including the Yang family.
The Yang family gradually used formations to protect the entire Yang family villa, preventing the monster from entering.
The formation could be used for both sacrifice and summoning, as well as protecting the Yang family.
And the summoning formation was located on the... basement floor?
Ruan Qing finally understood why the Yang family’s basement was built so large.
If it was just for storage, it would be too extravagant, especially considering there was another basement beneath the garden.
It turned out to be because of this formation.
To destroy the summoning, one must break the formation.
But breaking the formation meant the monster in the fog would devour the Yang family at night.
Because of the extensive fusion, the monster had long surpassed even the Yang family’s direct line.
If they really destroyed the formation, they wouldn’t survive for five more days.
Unless they destroyed the formation on the day of the sacrifice.
After all, the monster feared sunlight, so it should be more manageable during the day.
After destroying the formation on the last day, they just needed to endure the remaining half-day to clear the instance.
Now the main task was to find out how to break the formation.
There was no information about this in Yang Wenmin’s room.
Even if there was, the Yang family wouldn’t keep such detrimental information.
They could only try to figure it out on their own.
Only Feng Ye saw the basement on the first night, and afterwards, when the players searched for it, they couldn’t find it again.
Even if they destroyed the ground forcefully, they couldn’t find the basement floor.
It’s as if this basement floor didn’t exist at all.
Players suspected that this basement floor might only appear at night.
That’s a bit troublesome.
The safe period in this instance was during the daytime, but at night, there were both monster and blood shadows.
In this situation, it might be somewhat difficult to search for a method to break the formation.
But even if it’s challenging, they had no choice but to try.
Just as the players were planning to restore everything to its original state, slow and steady footsteps couldn’t be heard outside the door.
Each step seemed to tread on the hearts of the people.
The players’ hearts tightened when they heard the sound.
It’s over, Yang Wenmin was back.
Ruan Qing also felt that things were about to take a turn for the worse.
Yang Wenmin could even contend with those tentacles at night, clearly displaying an unusual level of strength.
He might be able to kill all the players present.
Ruan Qing directly returned to his own body.
Then he sat up, leaning over the edge of the bed, and made an effort to produce the loudest cough.
He could only make the greatest effort.
As for whether he could save the group of players, it depended on whether Yang Wenmin would be drawn to his coughing or not.
Due to the excessively violent coughing, possibly involving the internal organs, Ruan Qing once again coughed up a mouthful of blood.
This time it was not a pretense.
Fortunately, Ruan Qing saw Yang Wenmin slowly entering his room.
He breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Yang Chenjin and Yang Chenyan also arrived.
Looking at the person who was once again spitting blood, Yang Chenyan’s face was gloomy, “What’s going on? Why are you coughing up blood again?”
The doctor was already quite flustered when Ruan Qing was coughing. Seeing Yang Chenyan getting angry, he immediately tremblingly spoke, “His body... is just too weak.”
“Now the toxin has completely eroded his body.”
Just as Yang Chenyan was filled with anger, a doctor beside him hesitated for a moment, then spoke softly with some hesitation, “Actually, there’s another method to ensure Mr. Yu survives for another five days.”
The three of them looked at the doctor.
The doctor, feeling afraid as the three looked at him, shrank back a bit and finally spoke cautiously, “However, this method... might make Mr. Yu fall into a deep sleep for these few days.”
Yang Chenjin furrowed his brows at the words, “Is there any risk?”
“No,” the doctor shook his head slightly, “You can awaken him after five days.”
The doctor’s voice wasn’t too low, and Ruan Qing naturally heard it.
His hand jerked, feeling something was not right.
If he really slept through these days, it wouldn’t be easy to predict the situation when he woke up.
He looked at Yang Chenjin, “It’s not necessary; I can take medicine...”
However, before Ruan Qing could finish, Yang Chenjin directly knocked him out.
Ruan Qing’s beautiful eyes widened, looking at him with disbelief.
In the end, he could only fall down weakly.
