Yan Ru was woken up by the urge to urinate in the middle of the night.

In order not to make herself sleepy, she drank a lot of coffee in the middle of the night and went to the toilet several times during the night.

She sat up in distress and glanced at Feng Yijia beside her. At this time, he was sleeping soundly. She had just been woken up half an hour ago and accompanied her to the bathroom.

Yan Ru was a little confused. Originally, everyone only had three or four hours of sleep at night. It was not appropriate for her to disturb her companions' rest. Anyway, the bathroom was downstairs, and the captains Zhu Qingrong and Liu Jigeng should still be keeping vigil downstairs.

, after thinking about it, she decided to solve it alone.

She stood up, took a candle from the table, lit it, and carefully got out of bed.

Although no cooperative relationship was established, because Zhu Qingrong provided information yesterday, Ling Yun also passed on the information about being wary of demons to them.

Walking down the stairs, Yan Ru saw the candlelight burning in the living room on the first floor.

At this time, Liu Jigeng was sitting alone on the sofa with his back to him. Yan Ru walked down the stairs and greeted him out of habit, but the other party ignored her.

After walking around to the front, Yan Ru discovered that Liu Jigeng had his eyes closed, his head was leaning on the pillow, and his chest was breathing steadily and evenly. He was actually asleep. Yan Ru smiled helplessly, thankful that Zhu Qingrong was not nearby at this time.

The captain never likes to be alone with other people. Most of the time, he stays in his room and only occasionally comes down to inspect.

Fortunately, he was the one who discovered that Liu Jigeng was lazy now. If the captain knew that he was lazy during the night watch, he would definitely be furious because of it.

Thinking of this, Yan Ru quickly pushed Liu Jigeng a few times, trying to wake him up.

But soon she discovered that something seemed wrong: although her breathing and heartbeat were normal, Liu Jigeng was sleeping extremely deeply. No matter how she called, there was no response from the other party.

Realizing that something was wrong, Yan Ru immediately went upstairs and wanted to find Zhu Qingrong to check on the situation. She knocked on the door and felt that the room was quiet.

"Captain, are you there?"

Yan Ru asked while turning the doorknob. The dark room was empty, and Zhu Qingrong disappeared mysteriously for some reason.

Seeing this, Yan Ru immediately went back to the bedroom, trying to wake up Feng Yijia. But she was in the same situation as Liu Jigeng. The two of them were sleeping soundly, and no matter how Yan Ru screamed, they couldn't wake up.

What's going on? Are all the companions attacked in their sleep?

Cold sweat slowly slid down his forehead, and Yan Ru's breathing became heavier.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of the burning sage in the corner, and she suddenly calmed down: No, exorcism props are now placed in every corner of the villa, which is said to be much safer than outside. She stepped forward to check the salt pile and

Other props. These things all reacted the last time the devil appeared.

But what surprised her was that this time, the prop itself did not appear strange.

"This...what exactly is going on?"

Yan Ru murmured to herself, and at this moment, she suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from downstairs.

Following the source of the sound, she arrived at the basement door near the entrance.

Only then did Yan Ru realize that the door to the basement had become slightly open at some point. She clearly remembered that shortly after entering the mission, after checking the situation below, the captain had locked the door with a key.

Already.

She leaned close to the door and listened carefully, and found that the movement was indeed coming from below: it seemed like someone was banging against something, occasionally mixed with indistinct whimpering sounds.

The sound of impact was like someone hitting her chest hard with a heavy hammer. Cold sweat flowed down Yan Ru's forehead. She swallowed and tentatively said:

"Captain, is that you?"

However, after hearing his own voice, the noise became louder, and it sounded like the people below were asking him for help.

Yan Ru subconsciously held the doorknob and wanted to go down, but soon she let go: What if it was a trap? Now the two companions fell asleep for no reason, the captain disappeared again, and she went down alone.

It's possible to fall into a trap.

But if the person below is the captain, I can't just leave it alone.

Fortunately, her power can control spider silk. To be conservative, Yan Ru did not go down in person, but released a ray of silver thread from her palm, extending along the stairs to the basement.

Yan Ru controlled the trajectory of the spider silk and searched for the source of the movement. The structure of the basement was not complicated. When she walked down the steps, she found a room with an area of ​​about thirty square meters. There were a lot of discarded furniture piled inside. Soon, she felt

The spider silk touched someone.

The spider silk wrapped around the man's body, and in an instant, Yan Ru's hand was jerked back as if it had touched boiling water.

No, that's not the captain!

Today, Zhu Qingrong's body is just that of a child less than ten years old. But now the person on the other side of the spider's thread is clearly an adult!

Yan Ru immediately looked back at the living room. Liu Jigeng was still asleep on the sofa. The person below could not be him.

In other words - there are other "people" in the basement of this villa!

The man kept making inarticulate grunts, as if his mouth was blocked by a ball of cloth and he couldn't scream at all.

It seemed that she felt something wrapped around her body, and the "person" struggled more and more. Yan Ru watched the silver wire in her palm tremble violently. Not only that, there was also a sound similar to the impact of an iron chain in the basement.

A crisp metallic sound.

"Who are you? Are you... trapped?!" Yan Ru tried to drag. While exerting force, she felt that the other party's body was indeed chained to the wall. In addition, her own strength was limited.

, Yan Ru could not save the other party.

What is going on? If the devil really appeared, he wouldn't have to use this method to attract his attention.

Through testing the spider silk, Yan Ru was almost certain that the person locked in the basement was a living person.

As for why he appeared here and when he was imprisoned, this is what Yan Ru really cares about.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Yan Ru decided to go down and find out.

The old wooden stairs creaked as she stepped on them, and the flames of the candles reflected on the wall. Although Yan Ru couldn't see each other at the moment, she had already discovered herself in the darkness.

In the corner, the sounds of struggling became louder.

The man's breathing sounded very heavy. Although he couldn't hear what the other person was saying, he could tell through his voice that he was a male.

Yan Ru stood on the stairs, holding a candle and shining forward.

Through the dim light, she suddenly discovered that there was a man with his hands and feet bound by iron chains, crawling in the corner. The man looked to be in his forties, with disheveled hair, wearing a brown old jacket, and was dirty.

It was full of dust.

Yan Ru's body froze immediately. She stopped hesitantly in the middle of the stairs, looking at the person under the stairs in front of her, and did not dare to approach rashly.

Suddenly, the man raised his head.

Yan Ru was startled by the sudden impact. When she calmed down and looked at the other person, she realized that she didn't recognize the middle-aged man in front of her at all.

The man's mouth was taped with tape. He looked at Yan Ru with wide eyes, the expression on his face looked full of horror.

Seeing this, Yan Ru controlled the spider silk and pulled off the tape on the other party's mouth.

However, before he could announce his identity, the man yelled at Yan Ru like crazy: "Watch what's behind you!"
Chapter completed!