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    Qi Haotian stood aside, ignoring Xiang Jieming’s continuous questions, but his increasingly calm eyes fell on the rotary phone and remained silent. Zhou Min leaned against Qi Haotian and tightly grasped his sleeve, looking at the phone cautiously.

    “Brother Hao, who would call an empty house full of dead people? What is your intention?”

    The cold wind blew across her cheeks, and Zhou Min shivered involuntarily. Under the dim yellow light outside the room, she could still hear the faint screams.

    The odor wafting from nowhere in the air gradually worsened, and a faint odor drifted past everyone’s noses. The calm and terrifying look in Qi Haotian’s eyes was in sharp contrast with the anxious Zhou Min and nervous Xiang Jieming beside him.

    “You are very obedient.” Qi Haotian’s eyes skipped Zhou Min and Xiang Jieming and landed on the child who had been standing silently in the corner with his head down since entering the room, too quiet.

    At this time, Xiang Jieming and Zhou Min discovered that from the time the phone rang until it stopped, the boy had been standing aside obediently. He was neither making trouble nor afraid, and was quiet and strange, as if he was accustomed to the unexpected phone ringing.

    When the boy heard Qi Haotian’s question, he slowly raised his head, but his eyes kept glancing around unconsciously. His frail little body trembled, as if he thought of something. As time went by, he became more and more panicked, “No, I, I didn’t, I, I just… I was worried that I would be too noisy and make you angry.”

    “Really?” Qi Haotian turned slightly, his eyes fell on the boy with unclear meaning, but then moved away the next second, as if Qi Haotian just asked a question out of curiosity, without any intention.

    “Brother Hao, is there something wrong?” Zhou Min approached Qi Haotian and asked.

    Qi Haotian concentrated his attention. The roars and screams outside the hospital disappeared without a trace. What was originally a crazy town suddenly became silent and gradually turned into a dead city. Such a strange situation made Qi Haotian’s calm mind spin rapidly, and a pressing oppression made the air suffocating.

    ‘Bah!’ All the lights in the room suddenly went out before anyone could react. It seemed that the entire city had been pressed on the pause button, taking away all the light that could be illuminated and falling into darkness.

    “Ah!” There was a sudden power outage, and his eyes fell into darkness. Zhou Min was so scared that he hugged Qi Haotian tightly, closed his eyes and screamed. It was not until Qi Haotian’s gentle patting that Zhou Min’s fear was calmed.

    It was pitch black all around, and nothing could be seen. After Qi Haotian and others’ eyes gradually got used to the darkness, they could only vaguely see the people around them, and they still couldn’t see things further away.

    Darkness limits the eyes but sharpens the ears.

    Breathing, heartbeat, and the ticking of a clock in the room.

    “It seems that the whole city fell into darkness in an instant.” Xiang Jieming looked outside the courtyard wall. There used to be lights there, but now it is also pitch black.

    “Don’t you have anything to explain to us?” Qi Haotian’s incomprehensible words made Zhou Min and Xiang Jieming stunned one after another. Xiang Jieming was the first to react and grabbed the boy’s arm and pulled him between them.

    “What do you know? Tell me!”

    Only then did Zhou Min realize that this boy was an old man in Xiangcheng, and he should be more or less aware of the weirdness of Xiangcheng at this time.

    “It’s started, it’s started…” The boy seemed frightened by the sudden darkness. His voice became shrill and trembling as he became insane. It seemed as if something terrible was beginning to happen quietly.

    “What started? Tell me clearly!” Xiang Jieming frowned tightly because of the boy’s behavior.

    Just when Xiang Jieming was questioning the boy, the harsh phone rang again. This time, because of the darkness around him and the sharpness of his ears, everyone’s scalps went numb when they heard the phone call for the first time.

    “Who is calling the owner of this room one after another?” Xiang Jieming murmured.

    The ringing of the phone made Xiang Jieming even more upset. He was worried that the ringing would attract the group of lunatics who came to the city. He subconsciously looked at Qi Haotian, only to see Qi Haotian looking at the phone as calm as the vast deep sea at night. Madness and destruction were hidden under the calm water.

    “Do you want to answer the call?” Xiang Jieming asked softly, and Qi Haotian’s mouth suddenly revealed a strange smile, with a cold and bloodthirsty sly look.

    Xiang Jieming knows very well that no matter which choice he makes at this time, it is very likely to have completely different effects. Regarding Xiangcheng, his previous investigation was only one-tenth of the city’s exposure, but what about it?For example, what does the sudden darkness at a carnival night mean?!

    What they were facing at this time were the perverts and murderers in the entire city. It didn’t matter if he died if he made a wrong move, but the Third Young Master must not make any mistakes.

    The phone rang twelve times and still didn’t seem to hang up. In the silent darkness, the ringing tone of the phone was like a ghost urging death, making people’s scalp numb. Before Xiang Jieming could analyze how to make a choice, he saw Qi Haotian stepping forward and picking up the phone without a trace of hesitation.

    Xiang Jieming and Zhou Min were shocked on the spot by Qi Haotian’s fierce operation. They didn’t notice the gloomy and excited eyes of the boy behind them when they saw Qi Haotian pick up the phone again.

    Xiang Jieming held his breath and nervously didn’t say a word. Zhou Min was stunned. Whether it was the person who called the dead house or the person who answered the strange phone call at the dead house, this was a suffocating operation for Zhou Min.

    “Huh? It turns out there is someone else.” A very young man’s voice came from the microphone, “Did you see the trophy I left there? I was in a hurry when I left and forgot to take it with me. Did you see it? It’s as round as a ball. I put it in the closet of your room where the lights were not turned on before.”

    Trophies?

    As round as a ball?

    The wardrobe in the room where the lights were not turned on before?

    The information revealed in the man’s words on the phone made Qi Haotian frown. He recalled the first time the phone rang in this yard. It seemed that it started ringing after he took Zhou Min into the room and turned on the light in the room.

    Therefore, it was the light in this room that attracted this person, and this person was the murderer of this family. The trophies he mentioned…

    Qi Haotian’s eyes moved to the invisible reddish-brown closed wardrobe on the left side of the room. The peculiar smell that he had ignored before seemed to become clear after listening to the man on the phone…

    Everything… seems to have the answer.

    Qi Haotian remained silent. The person on the phone seemed to have noticed this and became quiet. The two parties only paused for a few seconds before the person on the phone noticed something was wrong.

    “You…are not from Xiangcheng!”

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