"The original owner of the Dakrosa Manor was one of them. He secretly sheltered those desperate women in the manor through various channels, and because of his status, no one ever suspected him."

"Until one day, a letter of denunciation was sent to the law enforcement officers at the time, and the fact that the original owner of Dakrosa Manor was hiding witches was exposed."

"That night, crazed people rushed into the manor with torches, captured the original owner of the manor, and hanged him on a crooked-neck tree in the manor."

What the mayor said was generally similar to what Jiang Cheng knew. Perhaps sensing Jiang Cheng's impatience, the mayor pressed down with his left hand, making a gesture to calm him down, "Don't worry, let me tell you slowly."

"Do you know why those people hanged him?" The mayor asked, looking at Jiang Cheng and the others.

"Wasn't it because he was hiding witches?" Bai Xiaojie said softly. This was an obvious question, and she didn't understand why the mayor had to repeat it.

The mayor shook his head, his tone suddenly becoming strange, "Those people searched the entire manor but couldn't find a single witch. Those women disappeared."

"Not only were those witches gone, but everyone else in the manor disappeared as well. Only the original owner of the manor was left."

"Did he hear the news and transfer those witches and others away in advance?" Miao Qing offered a very appropriate explanation.

"No." The mayor continued to shake his head. "Those people disappeared from then on. They really disappeared. So many people, no one ever saw them again. They were as if erased from this world."

The mayor's tone suddenly became low. "In the rooms of the manor, evidence of the women's existence was found. The clothes they wore and the utensils they carried with them could prove that many women who had fled had lived in the manor."

"What's frightening is that in the rooms of the manor, a large number of specially made instruments of torture were also found, some iron chairs that could tie people to, and whips for torturing people, all kinds of knives, and there was even blood on these things."

Hearing this, Huai Yi couldn't help but gasp. The development of the matter exceeded expectations. "So the owner of the manor didn't want to help them when he brought them here, but used every means to torture them. He's not a good person, but a complete pervert?"

Fatty suddenly felt sorry for those women. They originally thought they would be safe when they came to the manor, but they didn't expect that this was the beginning of a nightmare. Now it seems that those missing women were also killed by the manor owner.

The mayor was silent for a moment before continuing, "The scene was very strange when people found the manor owner. He was sitting in a chair, and on the ground was a huge eye pattern. He was sitting in the position of the pupil, and around him were placed bones and things like dead crows, and he didn't struggle or run away at all."

"He was smiling." The mayor recalled the scene at the time, and the fear on his face was undisguised. "He was always smiling, and he only spoke when he was being put on the rope."

Huai Yi leaned forward, asking nervously, "What... what did he say?"

"I'll always be here, and I'm with them, behind a door, a door you'll never find." The mayor recalled the manor owner's tone at the time.

"A door that can never be found..." Miao Qing repeated subconsciously, thinking.

"Yes." The mayor nodded. "The angry people hanged him, but just like he said, they searched the manor but couldn't find the bodies of those who disappeared."

At this moment, Jiang Cheng was thinking about the way the manor owner was found, the eye totem on the ground, the bones, the dead crows... The first reaction these things gave people was a kind of mysterious ritual, the kind related to witches or black magic.

If it was true as the mayor said, the source of the Dakrosa Manor curse could be determined, which was the original owner of this manor.

Following this line of thought, this manor owner was not a simple madman. His torturing those women with cruel punishments was perhaps also a part of the ritual.

After Jiang Cheng expressed his views, the mayor revealed a meaningful look, "That's right, that's what we thought too. He is the source of the manor's curse. Only by finding that door, finding the bodies of those who disappeared, can we break the curse and let the wronged souls who died tragically in the manor rest in peace."

"There's one more thing, the letter of denunciation." The mayor suddenly quickened his pace. "Although it wasn't signed, it was later identified as the handwriting of the original owner of the manor based on the notes, no mistake!"

"He wrote a letter to denounce himself?" Bai Xiaojie was completely stunned.

"That's right." The mayor nodded.

This result further confirmed Jiang Cheng's conjecture that all of this was a conspiracy of the original owner of the manor. Jiang Cheng even suspected that he tortured those witches in order to extort information related to the ritual.

"It seems that the prophecy was right. You are the people who can save the town!" The mayor suddenly became excited, his body trembling. "A very famous psychic once said that in a few decades, a group of people will appear, and they can help us solve the curse of the manor and find the bodies of those people."

"Psychic?" Jiang Cheng thought of the psychic he heard from the families of the missing people.

"That's right." The mayor showed a look of reminiscence, and after a moment, he continued, "Unfortunately, not long after leaving the prophecy, he disappeared, and all the final clues pointed to the manor."

Jiang Cheng didn't expect that he could predict the appearance of himself and others, "What else did he say?" He asked curiously.

"He also left a painting." The mayor replied, "Saying that when you appear one day, give you the painting."

"Where's the painting?"

The mayor reached out and took the book that Jiang Cheng had placed on the table, opened it, and pointed to the illustration in the book, "This is it. We found someone to copy the painting and put it in the book. I didn't keep the original painting with me. I'll have someone bring it to you later."

Everyone was familiar with the illustration in the book, which was a person being hanged under a crooked-neck tree, but due to the limited size, the manor in the background was very blurred.

Jiang Cheng planned to see the original painting first, "By the way, what's the name of the original owner of the manor?" He looked up at the mayor.

"Harson." The mayor couldn't hide the fear on his face, and his voice was trembling, "We all call him Mr. Harson."

Hearing this, Fatty's body trembled, and he looked at Jiang Cheng in surprise. The latter's eyes also became sharp. He remembered the name. They all remembered the name. The gentleman on the bus said that this Mr. Harson was his friend.