Chapter 74.2: Before Dawn (13) (2)

Chapter 74.2: Before Dawn (13) (2)

What about the ghosts? Holding onto this speculation, Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng searched the other rooms, mainly Yu Wangnians study. At this time, Yu Wangnian was newly married and would definitely stay with the lady. Therefore, he should share the same room with the lady, while the study just remained purely as a study.

They found Yu Wangnians diary in the study room. Although this diary didnt carry any contents following 1916, it wasnt smeared with blood and could help fill in the missing details.

[8th October 1915

Ive never seen a girl who looks so much like a lilac flower. She must have taken my mind away, otherwise, how could I be this sleepless?

13th February 1916

Wanwans heart isnt with me, but I still cant give up.

Its just that I dont know what kind of man she cares about?

2nd July 1916

I can finally touch Wanwans heart. The gods must have listened to my prayers.

7th October 1916

The wedding is just around the corner. A seriously ill woman who claimed to be Fathers first wife appeared in the mansion with a weak-looking boy. She hoped to let him stay here.

This is really beyond my expectation. I must send someone back to my hometown to investigate it.

8th October 1916

His name is Yu Wangri.

10th October 1916

Weve tied the knot. The joy of today was overwhelming.

11th October 1916

It wasnt my intention that she would die here. I was just afraid that her illness would contaminate my Wanwan. I couldnt explain everything to the guests, so I asked them to go to the basement to avoid the scrutinisation.

Just after one night, she passed on.

The teenager was perhaps unable to accept the death of his mother, so he suffered a heart attack and was still unconscious now. Although Dr. Lin was at fault, my fault was graver. If I hadnt put them in the basement, Dr. Lin wouldnt treat them so lightly.

Its too late to regret.]

Yu Wangnians current diary didnt contain much, but these were the only entries that were useful. Altogether, they could roughly outline a complete story. Jin Cheng closed the diary, leisurely sat in a chair and tapped his fingers on the table: I didnt expect this to be a revenge plan by the son of the first wife.

If the man in the attic was Yu Wangri, then he secretly returned to the mansion definitely to seek revenge. Everything that happened after that could now be explained perfectly.

In 1916, Yu Wangri suffered a heart attack, but he certainly didnt die. Yu Wangnian mistakenly thought he was dead and sent the body away from the mansion, which also planted a disaster for the future.

Many years later, Yu Wangri went back here as the young miss piano teacher. He must know that Lin Wan was seriously in love with Yu Wangyue, so he deliberately seduced Lin Wan using his looks, which were somewhat similar to Yu Wangyues.

Lin Wan was caught in this trap, and the leaking of this affair must have been manipulated by Yu Wangri.

This incident was like a fuse that completely detonated the subsequent tragedies in this mansion. What role did Yu Wangri play in it?

He seduced Lin Wan, but it was Lin Wan who later put the blame on Yu Wangyue. She loved him so much that it turned into hatred.

The middle-aged maid died because of greed, and the young servant died for a similar reason.

As for Dr. Lin, his arrogance and indifference indirectly led to the death of Yu Wangris mother, and his death must have been because of Yu Wangri. At that time, pretending to be the lady, the young servant communicated with Yu Wangri in the attic in an attempt to put the blame on the lady. Yu Wangri might have done something such that it led to the murder of Dr. Lin instead.

The bathroom where the doctor was killed was very close to his attic. There was no bathroom in the attic, so if Yu Wangri wanted to take a shower, he must go there. He had every opportunity to make a move.

But it wasnt him who directly killed the doctor.

He was playing with peoples hearts but not actually killing them. While the entire mansion was heading to its brutal ending, he sat quietly in the attic, watching the people underneath kill each other.

Finally, he walked out of the place completely unharmed.

Needless to say, the danger of this plan was immeasurable. With just one wrong step, everything would be exposed. Him having similar looks as Yu Wangyue might be his best tool, yet at the same time his biggest flaw.

Jin Cheng: So, Yu Wangyue didnt know the truth until after he died. The NPCs in this dungeon cant see ghosts, so Yu Wangri wouldnt be alert against a ghost.

Tang Cuo nodded.

After Yu Wangyue knew the truth, he began to play the music composed by Wangri, hoping to send a hint to those who were still alive. But his effort was all fruitless.

After getting the key, he quickly tried it on the basement door. He couldnt open it, so he headed to the second floor.

Tang Cuo couldnt move and could only watch him leave. Just when Rong Yis figure disappeared at the corner of the stairs, Jin Cheng suddenly blinked playfully at Tang Cuo.

Qi Hui was still engulfed in the sorrow following his teammates death and the shock from being made to stand here. When he saw this scene between the two bosses, he just wished he was blind.

Every second of him freezing here felt like a year.

No one knew how long had passed. Perhaps it was a few minutes or half an hour, but Rong Yi finally came back. He walked in a hurry, his face seemed a bit paler than before, then he quickly walked past the three of them again to head towards the door.

Tang Cuo couldnt look back, but he could hear the sound of the key turning.

Jin Cheng smiled.

He moved his neck slowly, then turned around slowly, raised his bow and mounted an arrow. After all that, he said with a threatening smile: Give me the key, else, someones going to be hit badly.

The second his voice fell, time regained its flow.

This time, Rong Yi froze as his whole body stiffened, but it was only within a blink of an eye. He turned his head back calmly and said: With my current state, I really cant hold you down.

Jin Cheng: So you play tricks on me again.

And why are you saying that sounding like an all-innocent girl?

Rong Yi frowned, his expression looking as though he was eating a ton of bitter medicine.

Youve foreseen this.

Thats because Im smarter. Jin Cheng took out the one-time-use item that Wen Xiaoming gave him before entering the dungeon and threw it on the ground. If he knew that the Time Master might enter the dungeon, how could he not prepare anything? He never took it out prior to this because it wasnt the right time.

Rong Yi decided to stop talking to Jin Cheng. Talking to this person was seriously more unbearable than failing this dungeon.

Jin Cheng spread his hands and turned to Tang Cuo for comfort.

Tang Cuo ignored him, stepped forward and pulled the door that had been partially opened by Rong Yi. Just before walking in, he turned around and asked Rong Yi: Whats in the ladys room?

Rong Yi: You can go and see for yourself.

Tang Cuo: Im lazy.

I can put up a performance of spitting out blood right on this spot, do you know?

Rong Yi was really a good-tempered man so he swallowed his anger and started to explain: Beside the key to the basement in the ladys room, theres also a confession letter shes sandwiched in the book. The day before the wedding, Yu Wangri saw her confessing to Yu Wangyue and being rejected by him. The next day, Yu Wangris mother fell sick in the basement. Feeling insecure, Lin Wan called the doctor away from treating her, which the doctor played along with and unintentionally killed the mother.

Tang Cuo understood well. No wonder that in this whole tragedy, lady Lin Wan had the worst end.

She went through the torture of being bed-ridden all day, was killed by her own daughter later and eventually turned into an angry ghost, eternally unable to escape.

Thinking of this, Tang Cuo turned and walked into the basement. Entering his eyes was a music score painted with crimson blood that someone hadnt wiped away in time.

Yu Wangri, the young man who was trapped in the basement with his seriously ill mother, couldnt call for help, so he wrote this song in grief and anger.

This might be his curse to the mansion.

Now that the music score was already here, how could they turn it into the 6th Movement? Thinking about this, Tang Cuo took out the only item that hadnt been used yet the music box.

At this time, Jin Cheng stepped forward: Try winding the music box and putting it on the ground.

Tang Cuo followed his words.

The next instant, the music box began to turn and the missing melody finally came. It was the [Song of Gods, Lambs and Crows]. With the sound of the music, the crimson music score on the wall seemed to come to life, its blood trickling down the wall and slowly flowing into the bottom of the music box.

It was terrifying yet magnificent at the same time.

From the rotating disk, a Holy Light gradually spread out and a thin sheet of paper emerged in the light.

Ding!

Congratulations to the players for obtaining the 6th Movement!

The translator has something to say:

In retrospect, Im flabbergasted at how melodramatic this family is. Isnt this the classic everybody dies trope? If youre somehow lost by now, heres a quick summary of the saga (Ive put some numbering to note down how many people were involved):

The Middle-aged Maid (1) steals from The House Owner (2) The Young Servant (3) wants to seduce The House Owner to become the next lady but ends up getting killed by himThe Lady (4) commits adultery with The Teacher (5), who resembles the house owners Younger Brother (6)Due to this affair, The House Owner has The Butler (7) poison the ladyThe House Owner, angry at The Ladys adultery, locks up The Teacher in the basement and The Younger Brother in the atticThe Younger Brother dies of a heart attackThe House Owner, wanting to hide The Younger Brothers death, moves The Teacher to the attic The Lady dies slowly with the poison. The Daughter (8) eventually kills the lady.The Doctor (9), who is the ladys personal physician, is silenced for he knows too muchThe Butler and The House Owner are killed by The Ladys ghostThe Teacher turns out to be an illegitimate son from The First Wife (10), who, many years ago, was accidentally sent to her death by The House OwnerUltimately, The Teacher sits on his throne in the attic and watch the whole household burnTen years later, The Teacher / The Illegitimate Son comes back to the house and, like his half-brother, dies of a heart attackTo end the whole saga, The Daughter burns down everything.

Goodness gracious, this can probably be made into a 2000-episode soap opera