CH 481

481: Temperature

Caesar’s brows were furrowed when he looked back at the ladies. His reply held no emotion. “Understood, I will be there in a moment.”

Wow! So cold, thought Ai Lin as she stood behind Feng Wu.

“Master Caesar. . . ” The two women wanted to say more but stopped when they saw the impatient look in Caesar’s eyes. They shut up and moved away angrily, secretly holding a grudge against Zi Cheng and Feng Wu.

Caesar and the others didn’t stay long after the two women left. They only talked for a bit before returning to their rest area.

A while later, another party entered the mansion. In the lead was a chubby businessman dressed in expensive clothes but with no weapon in hand. Two people, a veiled and cloaked man and a woman, were behind him. Despite being wrapped from head to toe, a certain charm emanated from their bodies.

“Boss Hart!” Ming Xi never expected to see the businessman again. They had met on the trip from Sanye island to the Bilou islands. Ming Xi and his team had sailed on Hart’s ship. He still remembered the man who liked to take people on board.

“Ah! If it isn’t Ming Xi and Feng Wu!” Boss Hart took a step back as though surprised before stepping forward again with a grin. “I didn’t expect us to meet again so soon,” laughed Hart good-naturedly.

“Boss Hart is also interested in exotic treasures?” Hart appeared to be an ordinary businessman with ordinary strength so it was strange to Ming Xi that Hart would be in the desert wasteland.

“I was around when I heard rumors about of a strange treasure materializing soon, so of course I brought people in to see it. I’m a businessman. A treasure materializing is an opportunity for you strong people and a business opportunity for a businessman like me. Once I heard about it, of course I had to try to see it. . . ”

Ming Xi nodded. Feng Wu looked at Boss Hart without any feelings of comradery. They had not relation to each other except for a shared ship ride and the experience on Death island.

They had been preoccupied with staying alive on Death island, so at the time there had been no time to form bonds.

It wasn’t odd for Feng Wu to view Hart as a stranger.

Hart took his group to a corner, and after tidying the space up, settled down to rest.

There were no newcomers after that.

Silence settled in the hall, while outside, the rain continued to fall as lightning and thunder flashed and rumbled in the sky.

The rain kept getting worse with no end in sight. They would not be able to leave for a while. The people inside sat and stared at the rain as they mulled over their own concerns.

It was now pitch black with rain even though it had been bright and sunny just moments ago. The surrounding air even felt denser.

“It’s so cold!” Ai Lin couldn’t help but mutter. She took a cloak out from her space ring and quickly wrapped the fabric around her body. She let out a sigh of relief but was shocked to see her breath fog up. How was this possible?!

It was dark really fast too! But upon consideration, Ai Lin realized it was probably because the things in the mansion were making their move.

When she first read the novel, there wasn’t much information about the how’s of things. She only remembered people went missing in the mansion and that the heroine and her male lead found a way to escape. Then when they turned to look back at the building, they saw it was actually full of people!

The scene had been written so badly!

The author never explained how the mansion was formed, or explained how the heroine killed everything and destroyed the spirits. The author only said the heroine escaped and that was it.

The heroine’s skills weren’t any use inside the mansion because she couldn’t see the spirits. If she hadn’t used her system store and exchanged points for an escape item, it would not have been possible for her to leave alive. It was obvious how terribly dangerous the mansion was.

In the end, nearly everyone who entered died. The mortality rate was so high that less than half the people in Zi Cheng’s group managed to survive. Ai Lin knew she was no heroine, so she needed to stick close to Zi Cheng if she wanted even a glimmer of a chance to stay alive.

The weather turned cold abnormally that it made everyone uneasy. It was only ten minutes ago that they entered the mansion and here they were already bundled up in thick winter clothes to stay warm. Even with all the layers they were wearing, the chill still seeped through.

The cold continued even to the point a thin layer of frost covered the furniture.

“Yaoyue, have you discovered anything about this place?” Huozhuo couldn’t help but ask. As a fire magician, he was unafraid of the cold, but even he was disturbed by the severe, sudden drop in temperature.

Yaoyue shook her head. “The rain outside is abnormal. I feel a suffocating amount of vicious qi outside.”

Yaoyue’s face was not good. She never expected her first important mission from school would be something far beyond her abilities. Their current situation was incredibly dangerous. There was a powerful player involved with the rain, and who ever it was, was not someone she could handle.

She was a rare genius amongst necromancers, but that didn’t mean she could deal with every ghost. There were powerful ghost entities that, she didn’t know how long they had existed for, but their souls were incredibly powerful and probably on par with living humans.

Yaoyue suspected they were about to encounter an entity they wouldn’t be able to deal with. As a traditionally educated necromancer, she understood how dangerous their situation was.

She couldn’t see any ghosts despite the heavy yin all around. The ambiguous situation left her uneasy.

“Rain? Is that why the temperature dropped so much?” Tang was confused.

“Yes, does the recent drop have anything to do with the rain?” Geente pulled his collar up as the cold dug deeper into his bones.

“It may be because of the rain, or it may be something else.” Yaoyue wasn’t sure.

To this Mogefei did not look good. He was the captain and needed to ensure everyone’s safety on the team. The rain was getting heavier and the temperature was getting lower, and together the situation was making him entirely too nervous.