Chapter 1 What Happened?

"Huh?" Jiang Cheng, who was kneeling on the ground, stood up and quickly walked to Song Tianming to search him again.

The fatty was inexplicably panicked, "What's wrong?"

This time, Jiang Cheng's search was even more thorough, almost stripping Song Tianming naked. He even used a knife to pry open Song Tianming's mouth. The head's mouth was wide open, and his face was covered in blood. The scene made the fatty's hair stand on end.

"Nothing..." Jiang Cheng's face suddenly turned ferocious, and he abruptly turned his head to look at the fatty, "Where's that jade pendant?"

These words woke the fatty up. Only then did he realize, "That's right, where's the Yun Gong (Cloud Palace) jade pendant?"

He was there when they were making the beds and moving the bodies. The jade pendant seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

Out of the 7 people, 4 were dead, and the two of them were clueless. It was clear who had the jade pendant in their hands.

Thinking of this, the fatty's breathing became rapid. He turned his head and looked at the wing room in disbelief. A terrifying thought suddenly emerged in his mind. Could it be... could it be that they were all wrong, and the real Shen Hong (Deep Crimson) was Ye Qiutang?

Someone was faster than him. Jiang Cheng grabbed his knife and quickly walked towards the wing room.

Just as he reached the halfway point, the door of the wing room was pushed open from the inside. Ye Qiutang stared at them with a vigilant look. She was no longer the unconscious person she had been. At the same time, she raised one hand, as if aiming at Jiang Cheng and Wang Fugui.

"Don't move! What do you want to do?" Ye Qiutang's voice had a hint of coldness.

The fatty opened his mouth wide, looking at Ye Qiutang in disbelief. After a moment, the anger in his heart erupted, "You... you're the Shen Hong!" At this moment, the deaths of the four people earlier were meaningless. On the contrary, they seemed particularly stupid.

Ye Qiutang frowned upon hearing this, but her eyes were still wary, "What Shen Hong? What are you talking about?"

"Still pretending? I'm asking you, where's the jade pendant?" The fatty thought of the four bodies with separated heads at his feet, and he felt injustice for them.

"The jade pendant is with me." Ye Qiutang didn't avoid the matter, "Mr. Song stuffed it into my hands at the end, and he wanted me to keep it safe. What's the problem with that?"

"You were faking being unconscious just now." Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes and looked at the arrowhead exposed in Ye Qiutang's sleeve. Clearly, there was a sleeve arrow hidden inside. He didn't expect her to have such a treasure on her.

"Yes, I don't trust you. I suspect that you're hiding something from me." Ye Qiutang still aimed the sleeve arrow at Jiang Cheng. Although Zhao Xiao had said when he was alive that Wang Fugui was very skilled, Ye Qiutang obviously still felt that this person called Jiang Cheng was more difficult to deal with, "And the facts prove that I wasn't wrong. Otherwise, why would you secretly discuss things behind my back and sneak out to chop off the heads of Mr. Song and the others? You knew from a long time ago that something had mixed in, right?"

"I even suspect that the target of those evil spirits isn't us at all, it's you, it's the two of you!" Ye Qiutang became more and more agitated as she spoke, and the arm aiming at Jiang Cheng also trembled, as if she was ready to launch the sleeve arrow at any moment.

At the critical moment, Jiang Cheng slowly raised his hands, "Don't get excited, Miss Ye. I know you're fine. Please listen to my explanation."

Afterwards, Jiang Cheng explained his suspicion of Lingxiao Daoren (Lingxiao Taoist). As for the so-called Shen Hong (Deep Crimson), Jiang Cheng used an excuse to get away with it. He said that a god had given him a dream, telling him that there was an evil spirit hidden in the team, and the name of the evil spirit was Shen Hong (Deep Crimson).

Except for hiding his origins and the second generation of Shen Hong (Deep Crimson), the rest of Jiang Cheng's words were true. The logic was also consistent. After all, everyone's goals were the same: to survive in this ghostly place. Ye Qiutang stared into Jiang Cheng's eyes, "Are you telling the truth?"

Jiang Cheng smiled indifferently at Ye Qiutang, "If Miss doesn't believe me, you can directly shoot me to death. I'm not worth much, but it's a pity that the evil spirit's plot will succeed, and Mr. Song and the others will have died in vain."

Ye Qiutang looked at Jiang Cheng, feeling that he didn't seem to be lying to her, and slowly put down the sleeve arrow.

Seeing this, the fatty didn't dare to provoke Ye Qiutang any further. She was quite thoughtful and didn't seem like someone who could be easily fooled. The reason why she believed the doctor's words more was because of Song Tianming's relationship. She truly trusted Song Tianming's judgment.

Seeing that Ye Qiutang's hostility had decreased a lot, Jiang Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the bodies of Song Tianming and the others with an apologetic expression, "Please forgive me, Miss Ye. My brother has a quick temper, but there was a reason for it. Destroying the four bodies was also a last resort."

Fatty: "???"

Ye Qiutang coldly glanced at Jiang Cheng, "Don't try to test me again. I woke up after you left the room. I saw you do it."

Ye Qiutang didn't blame Jiang Cheng too much for chopping off the heads of the four people. She raised her hand towards Jiang Cheng, and the jade pendant fell into Jiang Cheng's hand, "I believe Mr. Song's judgment. Keep this jade pendant. I just want this evil spirit to die!"

After saying what she had to say, Ye Qiutang didn't waste any more words and directly turned around and went back to bed to rest. After what had just happened, Jiang Cheng and the fatty didn't want to provoke Ye Qiutang any further, so they simply sat down on the steps outside.

The fatty quietly leaned over, staring at the jade pendant in Jiang Cheng's hand. After swallowing his saliva, he lowered his voice as much as possible, "Does this Miss Ye... does she have any problems?" The fatty's brain was obviously not working well enough now, but fortunately, the doctor was there. Huai Yi had once said that when the three of them got together, they had some brains. Huai Yi himself accounted for two, and the doctor accounted for one.

Feeling the unique luster on the jade pendant, Jiang Cheng shook his head, "Ye Qiutang should be fine. She has basically never left our sight, and besides, if she was Shen Hong (Deep Crimson), then look at Zhao Dutong's (Commander Zhao's) posture, she would have directly ordered us to be killed. How happy would that have been?"

"That's true." The fatty pursed his lips. Although he said that, he always felt that something was strange. He subconsciously turned his head to look at the four bodies not far away.

If it wasn't Ye Qiutang, then the most hidden Shen Hong (Deep Crimson) died so unclearly. The fatty found this result hard to believe.

"Um... Doctor, tell me what you're thinking, otherwise I'll always feel uneasy." The fatty wore a sad face. He was really scared.

After a moment of silence, Jiang Cheng slowly opened his mouth, "There are three possibilities now. First, the so-called second Shen Hong (Deep Crimson) doesn't exist at all. We can't completely trust what Huicong said, but this possibility is the smallest."

"Second, the second Shen Hong (Deep Crimson) is indeed dead. If that's the case, then General Manager Murong and the old woman are the most likely. They were killed by a sudden attack and didn't have time to react at all, which is barely explainable."

"Third..." Jiang Cheng paused here, raised his head to look outside the courtyard gate, and his face turned gloomy.