Zheng Zhiwei suddenly spoke up: "She shouldn't have lied to you about this. I went to the basement with her yesterday and there was nothing unusual."

  "Soo-hwak asked: 'What are you two doing in the basement?'"

  Zheng Zhiwei waved his hand, indicating that he had nothing to do with this matter. He then sneered and said: "We were in the basement... looking for some excitement. At that time, she really didn't do anything else."

  My heart suddenly skipped a beat.

  Su Wu's face changed suddenly and he said: "Bring Jiao jie out for me."

  Feng Yan's face changed, but Su Wei didn't look at her. Chen Ruying had been locked in the room all along and was treated relatively well compared to others except Feng Yan. However, she was now pushed out of the room by someone, and I thought her condition looked terrible too - her hair was disheveled, and she still wore the thin nightgown from when she was caught earlier. Her face was pale, and she seemed a bit dazed. I didn't know how much she had learned about what happened upstairs earlier. Usually, I thought this girl was quite cunning, but now she looked fragile, pale, and sensitive. Like a small cat, she shrank away at the slightest touch from the bandits.

  She was brought before Su Yu.

  Feng Yan's emotions finally emerged, she sat up straight, her body leaning forward, her expression tense and concerned. But Chen Ruying's body was slightly trembling, and she didn't look at her mother.

  She knew. Knew her mother's betrayal.

  Su Wu squatted down in front of her and asked: "Big sister, you tell me, is there any mechanism or anything that can harm people in the basement?"

  I understand why he wants to find Chen Ruying. Among all the people in this house, Chen Ruying is absolutely the most simple and vulnerable, and she was not present before. Su Wei can more easily get the truth out of her mouth.

  Chen Ruying's whole body was almost shaking like a sieve, and her mental state didn't seem quite normal either. She said: "No... nothing... I don't know... the basement servant goes to clean up every few days... I don't go..."

  Everyone was staring at them. Tang Leng and Professor Chen were also desperately shaking their heads, saying they didn't know anything under the threat of being beaten by other bandits.

  Su Wu remained silent for a while, then suddenly stood up and asked another thug who went to the basement: "Has the bracelet been found?"

  That bandit swallowed his saliva and said: "There was no time to look for it at all."

  "Is that so?" Su Wei said, exchanging a glance with the two men beside him, and suddenly grabbing hold of this person. The man's face changed greatly as he said: "Su Wei, what are you doing?!" Su Wei said: "I'm not doing anything, just getting to the bottom of things. A crossbow bolt wouldn't come shooting out of the wall for no reason, killing people. Moreover, we didn't find any mechanisms on the wall. Two people have died in an instant, and in this room, apart from the Chen family, there's only us. I must get to the bottom of things. Is there a traitor among us?!"

  The other two bandits started searching the man's body, and he struggled desperately, cursing loudly, saying that Su and Anh did not trust him, were not good brothers, but before he could finish speaking, a string of wooden rosary beads had already fallen out of his inner pocket.

  Su Wei's eyes suddenly widened, and he picked up the string of beads from the ground, staring at that person. That person was also stunned, his lips moving several times. Su Wei coldly said: "You killed my brother and stole the beads?!" The faces of the other people also changed instantly. Only then did that person become afraid, hastily saying: "It's not... Ah Wei, I... I was momentarily possessed by a demon, picked up the beads, but it really wasn't me who killed him, it was them..."

  But Su and others would not listen to his explanation, after all, seeing is believing. I also had such a guess: this bandit was afraid of swallowing the Xiangxiang bracelet alone and killed his partner. Maybe there is no strange trap he said.

  But in my heart, there is still a faint sense of unease.

  The Chen family suffered humiliation and torture, living a life worse than death, with almost everyone revealing their ugly side. But on the bandit's side, two people died in succession. Was it really just an accident and internal conflict?

  This night... from what time point, what event did the situation in the house suddenly start to move in a new direction and accelerate?

  Is there some cold and unknown will that is manipulating from within? Among these people right in front of me.

  That man was still shouting, Su Wei ordered someone to stuff his mouth. Perhaps this night, not only were the Chen family tortured until they didn't look human, but they too had become inhumanly excited and cold-blooded. When Su Wei silently inserted a dagger into that man's chest, I lowered my head and looked away, Wu Yu seemed to understand my thoughts, stretched out his hand and pressed my head into his embrace.