"This... this is too tragic." Looking at the records in the book, the fatty instinctively showed sympathy. People who haven't experienced that dark age can't understand the helplessness and despair of the time.

Inside the book was also an illustration depicting a person hanged on a large, crooked-neck tree, surrounded by a circle of people holding torches.

Miao Qing recognized at a glance that this tree was the crooked-neck tree where he had noticed the abnormality.

And from then on, rumors of hauntings began to spread throughout the manor. First, people saw many shadows hanging from the tree at night, but when they got closer, the shadows mysteriously disappeared.

Then, people said they heard women crying in the manor on rainy days, not just one person, but many women crying together, their cries mixed with the sound of rain, which was especially eerie.

Because of the original owner's tragic death, the manor was taken over by the town and eventually sold to a wealthy businessman from out of town.

But from the night the businessman's family moved in, strange things began to happen. First, in a half-dream, half-awake state, the businessman heard someone knocking on the door of the room, but when he opened the door, the empty corridor outside was quiet, and there was no one there.

And the wife sleeping next to him also said that she had not heard anyone knocking on the door.

Then there was the businessman's daughter, who, since sleeping in the manor, had frequent nightmares, and what was even more frightening was that every nightmare she had was the same: she dreamed that she opened her eyes in her bed, and all the candles around her were extinguished, and the vicinity was as silent as death.

And in front of a mirror not far from her, stood a hunchbacked woman, her back to her, tiptoeing, taking small, shuffling steps backwards towards her.

The businessman's wife was not spared either. When she was alone at home, she noticed a person in a black dress standing in the shadows behind her through the mirror.

This person was slightly drooping her head, not saying a word, wearing a top hat, the wide brim of the hat covering most of her face, revealing only a pale chin.

But when she turned her head, there was no one in that corner.

She continued to look in the mirror, and the person wearing the top hat was still standing there, but the posture had changed, and a scarred hand was extended and placed on the edge of the top hat.

But when she continued to look back in horror, that corner was still empty.

Not only was the corner empty, but the entire room was empty, and she was the only one there!

She subconsciously continued to look in the mirror, but the next scene frightened the businessman's wife so much that she almost fainted. A woman with blind eyes and a sewn-up mouth suddenly appeared in the mirror. Their faces were face to face, and she could even smell the stench emanating from the other person.

In the woman's rotten hand, she was also holding a circled rope knot.

The story of the businessman's family ends here, followed by the news of the businessman's family going missing. At the end of the paragraph, the person writing the book specifically added that they have not been found to this day. The investigators searched inside and outside the manor, but they did not find their bodies.

After that, similar incidents happened one after another, and the rumors of hauntings at Dakorosa Manor became more and more intense, and finally even the people in the nearby town knew about it.

Slowly, this manor was abandoned and became a haunted house that everyone feared.

Rumor has it that the souls of the witches who died tragically in the manor could not rest in peace and turned into vengeful spirits wandering in this manor. Their resentment before their death turned into the most vicious curse, and no visitor would escape their curse.

They will forever imprison those who stray into the manor, accompany them together, in a special room that cannot be understood and cannot be found. This is also the reason why the bodies of those missing people cannot be found.

From then on, no one dared to swagger into Dakorosa Manor, but what was frightening was that on rainy days or in bad weather with heavy fog, some people would occasionally stray into Dakorosa Manor.

But what's strange is that these people don't live nearby at all, and their direction of travel doesn't match the location of the manor! But the final evidence shows that they did enter this manor, and from then on, these people also disappeared from this world.

Liu Hui took a deep breath, her face slightly unnatural. These records were depressing to listen to. There was not much to be traced in these records. The most detailed was the family of the businessman who bought the manor.

And the experience of the businessman's family sounded familiar, and this familiarity made the group feel goosebumps.

Bai Xiaojie's face was pale, as if she had been drained of blood, and her voice trembled uncontrollably, "Don't you think the story of the businessman's family sounds..."

"Very familiar." Jiang Cheng interrupted.

"Yes." Huai Yi lowered his voice. He felt inexplicably cold, and the sunlight was cold even when shining on him. "The businessman's daughter had a nightmare, dreaming of a woman with her back to her, then tiptoeing towards her. This is... Mu Wanming's experience, she said it." Huai Yi added in a low voice.

But there was one thing Huai Yi thought of, but he didn't say it. Mu Wanming died the night she finished telling this story.

That ghost was hiding under her bed.

"And that woman in the black dress." Miao Qing said with a solemn expression: "It should be the woman that Ouyang Huanbin saw not long ago. The woman was holding a noose for hanging, which can also be matched with Jiang Zhao's way of death."

"Because Ouyang Huanbin only noticed the lower half of the woman's body, he didn't see the woman's most iconic top hat, which can also explain it." He added.

When Ouyang Huanbin heard him say this, his heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself that it was fortunate that he didn't see the woman's most iconic top hat and the woman's face, otherwise his fate would probably be the same as his master's.

"It seems that the ghosts缠着 (chanzhe -缠着- to harass, to pester) us are the witches who died in the manor." Liu Hui lowered her voice, "We were cursed by these vengeful spirits after we stepped into the manor. The bones and feathers hidden under the food are a reminder."

"Witches use these bizarre things to curse someone."

Liu Hui's words were what everyone thought.

"Then what should we do next?" Bai Xiaojie was a little nervous. This time it was not one ghost, but a group of them, especially since they were witches in their lifetime.

Liu Hui glanced at Jiang Cheng's face and noticed that he was staring at the book. He hadn't spoken for a while, and his brows were slightly furrowed, as if he was thinking about something.

"Mr. Jiang." She asked curiously: "What are you thinking about?"

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng withdrew from his thinking mode. After a moment, he pointed to the illustrations in the book and asked, "Don't you think it's strange that there is only this one illustration about the manor, and the illustration only shows the manor owner who was hanged? Where did those witches... go?"