Hugging is definitely not allowed. If he reaches out and picks up the doll now, he might trigger the doll's attack or even the condition for killing someone.

Yu Xing turned over and got off the bed.

The doll on the bedside was like a radar, its head twisted with Yu Xing's movements, very eerie.

"Mom!"

Listening to the doll's unchanging tone, Yu Xing reluctantly suppressed his resentment of not being able to sleep, lowered his eyes and thought: this damn thing is looking for its mom.

So, there must be something in this villa that is its mom.

He walked quickly to the door and twisted the doorknob.

Actually, it was only a little past eight o'clock now, and the lights in the corridor were all on. A little light leaked in from under the door crack. If he could go out, the feeling of fear from being closed in would naturally disappear.

But obviously, the specter didn't make such a mistake. The door couldn't be opened.

He stared at the door crack for a while, and the doll started crawling towards him again. The characteristic of always looking for an opportunity to grab someone as long as he didn't stare at it brought a great sense of oppression at this moment.

—Except for Yu Xing.

Yu Xing didn't care about this short-legged thing. He bypassed the doll, lifted the bedsheet on the bed, and then maliciously approached the doll.

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The doll remained motionless: "Mom!"

Yu Xing: "Heh."

The next second, Yu Xing covered the doll with the bedsheet in his hand, and then wrapped it up.

The doll suddenly lost its sight. To be honest, it didn't know if Yu Xing outside the bedsheet was looking at it or not, so it was moving around like a headless fly in the wrapped bedsheet.

Yu Xing looked at this moving thing and wondered if the doll would fall apart if he used it as a hammer and swung it on the ground a few times. His eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness.

First wave, done.

"Hehehe."

Just as he was organizing his thoughts in his mind, a burst of laughter came from behind him.

His inspiration suddenly reacted, and his body moved quickly, rolling to the side—

A silk fabric lightly fell where Yu Xing had just stood.

Yu Xing saw the silk fabric and felt happy because it meant that the oil painting that had been motionless since he first entered had finally moved.

The oil painting was still hanging on the wall, but the woman in the painting was gone.

Yu Xing's gaze drifted around the room. In order to prevent dizziness caused by anemia, he slowly stood up.

But he rolled a bit too violently just now, and he still felt a little dizzy when he stood up. Taking advantage of this moment, he felt two arms wrapping around his waist.

A body pressed against his back.

Those hands were very soft, very warm, and the body had its own temperature, just like a living person, hugging Yu Xing from behind.

[You are hugged by the person in the painting, -5 HP]

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Yu Xing stiffened for a moment. He felt from the back that the person hugging him was a woman, and there obviously wouldn't be a living person in his room, so... the female ghost in the painting had come out.

The breath of the female ghost sprayed on Yu Xing's ear, and she hummed a low song.

The melody was like a folk song, ethereal and gentle, making people drowsy.

However, the movements of the female ghost's hands were the opposite of the melody. Accompanied by the humming, they slowly moved downward, showing no intention of making people fall asleep.

Yu Xing's gaze gradually turned cold. He grabbed the wrist of the female ghost with force and pulled it aside, smashing it to the side—

The singing was instantly interrupted, and the sound of the woman falling to the ground did not come. Yu Xing's hands were empty, and the woman disappeared.

Yu Xing looked around vigilantly and relaxed his body.

The melody of the soft humming just now was still playing in his mind. Was this the rumored singing in Aurang Town?

It seems wrong. The rumor said that the singing only happens at midnight, and it's not so soft.

However... the female ghost in the painting seemed to be a ghost that could appear and disappear silently at any time. Isn't this kind of ghost too buggy?

Yu Xing raised an eyebrow and felt it was impossible.

The female ghost escaped from his hands and didn't appear in the painting either, so she should still be lurking nearby.

He looked at the silk fabric on the ground.

When the female ghost appeared, the silk fabric fell first. So, if he wanted the female ghost to truly leave, he might have to rely on it. This line of thought was reasonable.

He picked up the silk fabric, and the slippery and cold touch wrapped around his hand, making him more awake.

Before two minutes had passed, the female ghost appeared again.

The melody of the folk song was lingering in the room. This time, she appeared in front of him, and he couldn't see what she was wearing in the darkness, but Yu Xing felt that she was probably not wearing anything.

Every step the female ghost took seemed to be stepping on air, ethereal and real. In the blink of an eye, she came in front of Yu Xing.

Yu Xing wanted to dodge, but he quickly discovered that he couldn't move his whole body when the female ghost stared at him.

He could only observe the female ghost more carefully.

In terms of appearance alone, she was a beautiful woman, and every move she made was full of charm and laziness. She didn't care about being rejected by Yu Xing just now. In front of him again, she reached out and wrapped her arms around Yu Xing's neck.

[You are hugged by the person in the painting, -5 HP]

Yu Xing: "..."

The warm touch came from his chest. This would probably make many men feel both fearful and excited.

However, Yu Xing guessed that if he had more intimate actions with the female ghost, his HP would probably plummet.

The female ghost tilted her head up, looking at Yu Xing's face, and leaned in to kiss him.

Yu Xing: "Giving you face? Taking advantage of me?"

He found that he could move now. With a shake of the silk fabric in his hand, he draped it over the woman. The woman let out a short scream and disappeared again.

Yu Xing looked towards the frame of the painting, and sure enough, the figure of the female ghost reappeared in the painting. It seemed that she couldn't come out for a while after being covered by the silk fabric.

Skills have to cool down after being used.Yu Xing touched the spot where the female ghost had touched him with disgust, feeling as if he was a decent young man who had been violated.

Well... a decent ancestor.

However, why did the two specters become active at night? Was it because of the darkness or some other conditions?

In order to get to sleep earlier, Yu Xing began to organize his thoughts, guessing the weaknesses of the two types of specters that had appeared.

Between "action" and "inaction", there must be the fulfillment and change of conditions.

For example, the doll only became active after he turned off the light.

It's very likely that the doll is a "nocturnal creature", so it should be afraid of light.

The possible weaknesses related to the doll are fear of light, fear of being watched, slow movement, and the doll's "mother".

What about the painting?

The painting was very well-behaved during the day, not moving at all, which at first glance also seemed to be afraid of light.

But Yu Xing didn't overlook the fact that the painting attacked after he wrapped the doll in a bedsheet.

He didn't believe that the specter would take turns with him, so if he changed his thinking, everything made sense... the painting should be afraid of the doll!

During the day, when the doll was in the room, the painting didn't dare to move.

Coincidentally, Yu Xing later beheaded the doll and placed its head directly opposite the painting, making the painting even quieter.

Just now, he trapped the doll, and the painting was freed and began to act like a monster.

So the possible weaknesses related to the painting are: the doll, silk.

In that case...

A gleam of schadenfreude appeared in Yu Xing's eyes. He got up, took down the painting from the wall, opened the bedsheet that wrapped the doll, and covered the painting and the doll together.

Painting: ...

He seemed to feel the painting shudder slightly.

"That's it, a family should always be together." Yu Xing tied a dead knot in the bedsheet and threw it into the corner of the room, feeling that there was nothing in the room that needed his guard.

What else could come? It couldn't be over with just two specters with such obvious weaknesses bothering him, could it?

As soon as this thought came up, he heard the door of the next room being opened.

It was Mr. and Mrs. Brown's room.

Apart from him, York, and Martha, the original people and ghosts in this villa must still be awake, and it's not time to sleep.

Mrs. Brown should be downstairs with the children now. During their idle chat, Susan told Yu Xing that every night Mrs. Brown would sit in the chair by the fireplace, knitting sweaters while telling Susan stories.

The light sound of the door opening was easy to overlook, but the subsequent bouts of coughing forced one to confirm a fact—

Mr. Brown was out again!

The last time he came out was attracted by my knocking. What about this time? The female ghost's scream?

Yu Xing looked down at the door crack and saw a black shadow standing in front of his door, blocking more than half of the light coming through the crack.

The coughing continued, but Yu Xing inside the door and Mr. Brown outside seemed to have made eye contact through the wooden door.

A moment later, a hoarse male voice came from outside the door: "Is anyone in there?"

Yu Xing: Yes, already asleep, do not disturb.

He slowly and quietly sat back on the bed.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown live in one room. Because they have guests at home, Mr. Brown's dinner is still eaten in the room. How could he not know if there are people living next door?

Asking this question is simply superfluous, and precisely because it is superfluous, he cannot answer, what if there is a death condition?

If he doesn't answer now, if he is asked later, he can still say that he was sleeping too soundly and didn't hear it.

After another standoff, Mr. Brown at the door showed no sign of leaving: "Is anyone in there?"

A few seconds later, he even knocked on the door.

"Knock knock."

"Is anyone in there!"

There is someone inside, and a repeater outside.

Yu Xing felt that Mr. Brown was like a doll, only able to say one sentence, repeating it over and over again, but for the time being, the other party should not be able to come in.

So Yu Xing planned to sleep peacefully.

Without the bedsheet, Yu Xing felt a bit uncomfortable. He wrapped himself up in the quilt and fell asleep in an environment where others should be shivering and unable to sleep.

This sleep lasted for three hours.

At eleven o'clock, Yu Xing woke up on time, spaced out for a moment, and then got up.

His physical strength had been fully restored, and it was now 100.

Well... this number looks really comfortable.

His life value was still 90, it seems that this would not recover with sleep and rest.

As soon as he got out of bed, he heard a series of footsteps coming from afar, and after a moment, York's deliberately lowered voice rang out:

"Roy, are you in there?"

This voice still made Yu Xing feel very familiar, he felt that he must have heard it recently.

Just as he was about to answer "yes", Martha's voice also rang out softly: "Brother Roy, open the door, we have something to say!"

The hand that was about to open the door paused, and a strange look appeared on Yu Xing's face.

There was only one set of footsteps, why were there two people standing outside?

Unless, one of them had been standing at his door all along!