Chapter 296 I'm also desperate.

Holding his breath, Jiang Cheng, who had quietly come downstairs, didn't relax his vigilance either. He tried to walk close to the wall, keeping his distance from the piles of messy costumes.

Shi Liaozhi was already dead, and he wasn't sure if the ghost would immediately come downstairs to look for him.

What's more, there was also an missing An Xuan.

As his gaze swept across, a bright red costume hung in the center of the room. A gust of eerie wind blew from nowhere, and the skirt and sleeves of the costume danced with the wind, as if they had come to life.

Instead of going through the door, he slowly groped his way to the window.

The one he had climbed in through.

He had deliberately left a crack before, but now the crack was gone. Anyone with half a brain would know that An Xuan, that bastard, did it. He must have left from here as well.

Through the bronze mirror, he noticed the ghost appearing on the bed and took the opportunity to slip away first.

Fortunately, he had been careful.

This was not a place to stay for long. He first pushed the window open a very small crack, and then looked out through the crack, especially under the window, which was a blind spot.

Putting himself in An Xuan's shoes, he might be holding a wooden stick, squatting under the window, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

But thankfully, An Xuan wasn't him.

So there was no one under the window.

He just slipped away.

After getting out with a not-so-elegant movement, Jiang Cheng immediately ran towards the outside of the courtyard, but as soon as he took a step, he heard a loud "bang" above his head.

Accompanied by a rustling sound, something quite large fell from upstairs.

After glancing at it, Jiang Cheng ran for his life. He vaguely saw that the thing... looked like a person.

Either Shi Liaozhi's corpse, or the ghost.

But what made Jiang Cheng's blood run cold was that the person who fell rolled a few times on the ground, actually got up, and then crawled towards him on all fours.

Hearing the sound, Xia Meng, who was guarding nearby, and Fatty, both came out of their hiding places. Jiang Cheng was very fast, and almost immediately ran to the two of them.

"Stop him!" Jiang Cheng shouted at Xia Meng, who seemed to be stunned.

Then, as he passed Fatty, he grabbed the latter's arm and dragged him along.

Fatty was obviously still confused, but he subconsciously obeyed the doctor's judgment, so his two sausage-like legs swung flexibly. Later, he was even pulling the doctor along. "Doctor," Fatty turned his head and asked, "Why are we running?"

"Ghost," Jiang Cheng said succinctly.

"But the one chasing you from behind is Shi Liaozhi!" Fatty's voice seemed to carry the wind. "Did the ghost disguise itself as Shi Liaozhi?"

"It's Shi Liaozhi?" Having run a distance, Jiang Cheng gradually slowed down.

"Yes, Doctor," Fatty nodded repeatedly. "I saw it clearly, it's him, but he seems to be injured, his movements are not very coordinated. What exactly happened inside?"

A sound of running came from behind. Before the two could react, they heard someone say, "You're here, come and take a look," it was Zuo Jing who had caught up. "Shi Liaozhi is injured."

On the way back, Jiang Cheng briefly told Fatty about what had happened inside, without deliberately avoiding Zuo Jing, who was walking in front.

Halfway back, under a relatively hidden wall, they saw several people surrounding someone, and the person in the middle was sitting on the ground, one arm drooping, with many abrasions on his body, and his clothes were torn.

Seeing Jiang Cheng and the others coming over, An Xuan, who was squatting beside Shi Liaozhi checking his injuries, stood up.

"Mr. Hao," he frowned, and said in a somewhat complaining tone, "I just went downstairs to check the costumes, how did Mr. Shi become like this?"

Hearing this, Chen Qiang, You Qi, and others all looked at Jiang Cheng.

In their opinion, Jiang Cheng might have done something, which led to Shi Liaozhi having to jump out of the window to escape.

In fact, even Shi Liaozhi himself was buzzing in his head at the moment. The terrifying scene just now was still vivid in his mind, and his heartbeat had stopped at that moment.

Jumping out of the window, a tree alleviated some of the force, causing him to sprain his arm. This was already the best of a bad situation.

It was clearly An Xuan who slipped away first, but now he was turning around and blaming them. Fatty couldn't stand it, and rolled up his sleeves to argue with An Xuan, but before he could speak, Jiang Cheng stopped him.

"Mr. An," Jiang Cheng looked very aggrieved, and his voice was also timid. "I didn't want this either, but there was a reason, please listen to my explanation."

An Xuan interrupted him directly, and said in a lecturing tone, "No matter what the situation, we shouldn't abandon our teammates. Only by staying together can we..."

"It's Miss Tang Shirou!" Jiang Cheng suddenly said loudly.

Hearing this, everyone's eyes paused, especially An Xuan, his reaction was even more obvious.

"Mr. An, the spirit of Miss Tang Shirou has appeared!" Jiang Cheng looked at An Xuan, with a very frightened and sincere expression on his face. "It was she who urged me to leave quickly, not to be like her," Jiang Cheng suddenly said, sticking his neck out, "To be killed by an old yin bi (schemer)!" (yin bi: pinyin for "schemer")

The atmosphere was quiet for a few seconds, and everyone glanced at An Xuan with a subtle gaze. The latter's face turned green.

In the end, Zuo Jing smoothed things over, saying that this was not a place to stay for long, and everyone should go back first.

Fortunately, Shi Liaozhi's injury wasn't to his legs, so it didn't affect his movement.

Jiang Cheng, Fatty, and Xia Meng naturally walked together, but perhaps because of what happened just now, Xia Meng had a very bad look on her face towards the doctor.

"Doctor," Fatty licked his lips, glanced at Shi Liaozhi, who was walking at the back, and then quickly looked away, as if he was afraid of being discovered by the other party.

"According to you, he... he should be dead, right? How could he..." Fatty hugged his arms tightly, suddenly feeling a little cold.

This Shi Liaozhi was likely disguised by the ghost.

"What do we do?"

"Find a way to lure him to the lake," Xia Meng said, her voice extremely low, and then continued, "But we need to find a good reason."

You Qi said that ghosts could be identified by using the reflection of the lake water.

It was an experience summed up from Qin Jian's death.

The next second, Xia Meng suddenly noticed that Jiang Cheng was staring at her with an infatuated look, so her slightly relieved expression darkened again. Just as she was about to say something, Jiang Cheng spoke first.

"Mengmeng, you're so awesome!" He had stars in his eyes. "You don't know, I was so worried about you just now, I'm so glad you're okay."

Xia Meng sneered, "You were hoping I would die, weren't you!"

Touching his nose, Jiang Cheng seemed to want to argue, but they had already arrived at the pavilion where they had eaten before.

"Mr. Shi," Zuo Jing, who had been silent all the way, suddenly said, "Although your arm is not broken, it is badly sprained, and the wound on it will cause problems if it is not treated."

"It's okay," Shi Liaozhi didn't seem used to being treated this way by others, especially by a woman, so he declined and said, "Let's hurry up and find clues. Once we find the clues and end the mission, everything will be fine."