Yo, what are you planning to do? Do you want to be a bloody Lolita?

Yu Xing didn't move, just stared at Susan's fragile figure with a hint of mockery.

Martha lowered her voice and leaned in next to Yu Xing, also keeping her eyes on Susan, afraid that she would do something. Her voice trembled as she asked, "Roy, do you think Susan is a human or a ghost?"

After discussing for a while, there are people and ghosts here, and Martha can't tell.

Yu Xing: "I guess she's a human."

Before Martha could breathe a sigh of relief, Yu Xing continued, "She's the kind of person with an anti-social and anti-human personality, who can chop you into eighteen pieces with the kitchen knife in her hand at any time and anywhere."

Martha: "..."

So, she continued to be afraid.

York, who was leaning against the door, laughed and lazily supported himself with his clearly visible hands on his hips. "Let's talk about things on the journey. What's wrong, Susan? Are you planning to do something with the kitchen knife?"

Susan hugged herself weakly and didn't say whether she had heard the conversation between the three of them. She just looked up at York and said, "My dad went crazy tonight, and I'm scared. I'm holding the kitchen knife for self-defense."

"If your dad comes to grab you again, will you use the kitchen knife to chop him?" York looked at Susan's eyes, which always seemed creepy for some reason, without blinking, and casually asked a life-threatening question.

Susan said no, so she couldn't explain the reason for holding the kitchen knife. It seemed that she had exposed her ferocity.

"I don't want to either!" Susan decided to avoid this topic and the sharp questioning from York. She turned her head to Yu Xing, who was easier to get along with, and acted coquettishly, "I'm already very scared tonight. Can I, can I..."

"Hmm?" Yu Xing tilted his head, waiting for her words.

"Can I sleep with you guys? Just for tonight! You guys protected me just now, and I trust you." Susan waved the kitchen knife in her hand excitedly to prove her sincerity.

Martha's gaze fell on the kitchen knife that was moving up and down, and Yu Xing's warning kept playing in her mind: the kind that can chop you into eighteen pieces... eighteen pieces...

Her mind couldn't keep up with her mouth, and she just wanted to refuse Susan. "This is not good. You're a girl, and people will gossip about it."

"So, I'll sleep with you!" Susan immediately changed the topic.

"My mom coaxed me for a long time, but I still can't sleep. I want to sleep with you. It can be in your room or my room. We're both girls, and no one will gossip!"

Martha was scared to death. She repeated, "What did you say!? Who do you want to sleep with!?"

"I'm scared." Susan looked aggrieved and tightened her grip on the kitchen knife.

Martha: Put the knife down. We... we can't be friends either.

Who is more scared!

She had argued with Susan during the day, and who knew if this kitchen knife would end her young life when she was sleeping at night.

She couldn't compromise on this matter, no matter how much they played or argued!

Martha's neck stiffened, the situation was urgent, and without much thought, she pointed at York and said, "I was scared by your family too. I'll sleep with my brother tonight. He's my real brother!"

York maintained his sunny and youthful face, smiling ambiguously.

A touch of resentment appeared in Susan's eyes. She stared at Martha with a sinister look, then shifted her gaze to Yu Xing, who was very close to Martha. "Can I sleep with Roy?"

Yu Xing: I knew it would end up being my business.

He took this opportunity to test her, "Will your mom get angry if she finds out?"

Sure enough, Susan's expression changed when her mother was mentioned.

Which way did it change... York, who was closest to her, saw it clearly and could also discern it from experience. It was a complex mix of disgust, dependence, dissatisfaction, and helplessness.

"Please, Roy, please come to my room to sleep. My room is very big, and I can give you the bed. You can leave before dawn, and my mom won't find out..." Susan pouted and pleaded.

Yu Xing knew that Susan was definitely up to something tonight. He could gather more information by keeping her under his watchful eyes. So, he reluctantly nodded, "Okay, I'll sleep on the floor."

Hearing this, Susan's expression eased a bit. "Thank you, Roy!"

Yu Xing smiled understandingly at her, "We still have things to talk about. You go back first, and I'll knock on your door later."

In this way, the unexpected guest with the kitchen knife was coaxed back.

York closed the door and asked with some confusion, "What were you thinking? Are you prepared to confront her?"

Susan's visit was like a ghost tour among humans, selecting a lucky human to kill.

Clearly, Yu Xing was the lucky human, and he volunteered.

He could almost be certain that before Susan knocked on the door, she had already heard their conversation and knew their purpose. She pretended to be afraid and wanted someone to accompany her, but in reality, she was selecting a target to kill!

Yu Xing could have refused by using the excuse of "men and women should not be too close," but he agreed so easily.

"I don't agree. Do you think she will directly expose her true nature and use the kitchen knife to attack each of us? I don't want to cause a commotion and disturb Mrs. Brown. It's better to deal with Susan alone."

Yu Xing didn't like noise. A quiet environment was conducive to thinking. He continued,"Think about it, if Susan heard our conversation and wanted to kill us herself, it means that even though Mrs. Brown favors her, she doesn't feel close to Mrs. Brown. Otherwise, she would have directly told Mrs. Brown to use the characters in her paintings to kill us. I think I can get some other clues from this."

Yu Xing pointed at himself, looking completely calm, "Besides, I'm an adult. I should be able to handle a little girl, right?"

York raised an eyebrow.

It was fine for a detective to say this, but for a player, it was a bit far-fetched. Susan might be a living person, but living in this house, who knows if she has some strange powers?

Didn't Mr. Brown have the ability to mimic other people's voices?

Martha also snapped back to reality, suddenly realizing that Yu Xing had agreed to Susan's request because she had refused Susan.

He was risking his life to get clues for tonight!

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How could there be such a good and handsome teammate? Martha was moved by her own thoughts, and began to consider asking Roy to be her boyfriend when the deduction was over, wondering about the success rate.

Her thoughts often drifted, which was frequently criticized by her master.

Now, after her thoughts had wandered for a while and then circled back, she felt a bit guilty about leaving all the risks to her teammates...

But she couldn't go against her own nature, if she needed to be a coward, then she would be!

Yu Xing patted his pajamas, feeling that it was about time. He didn't say much more, leaving the rest of the details for his two teammates to think about.

They were temporary teammates, and even though they got along well, he didn't need to babysit the other two, sharing all his thoughts. In fact, a big part of the reason was—

Speaking out the deduction process would earn him bonus points at the end.

Ha, no profit, no getting up early. When had he ever been kind-hearted!

"Tomorrow during the day, we need to do a few things. One, check the attic. Two, search for useful information in the study. Three, find a way to lure out Mr. Brown and find a way to the master bedroom, which is the Browns' room. Four, investigate the garden at the entrance." After briefly arranging the tasks for the next day, Yu Xing got off the bed and walked to the door.

According to his deduction, Angel was either in the attic or buried in the garden. The former might still be alive, while the latter was most likely dead.

"I'm leaving," Yu Xing said.

Martha jumped off the bed, "Wait a minute!"

She quickly walked over and stuffed a stack of things into Yu Xing's hand.

Yu Xing looked down and saw a stack of yellow talisman papers, about seven or eight, with different patterns drawn on them with cinnabar. He couldn't recognize what they were.

What surprised him was that when he received the talisman papers, he actually got a system prompt.

You have received the item: Luo Family Talisman Paper

Luo Family Talisman Paper: A talisman paper given to you by the exorcist Martha. It was personally drawn by a member of the Luo family and has the ability to resist specters and humans. Please don't question why Martha has Eastern talisman papers, just fill in the blanks yourself.

This stack of talisman papers was not a tribute, but a tool, like Yu Xing's Time Stamp and Alice's Ruby. They were not as precious as tributes, but they had some unusual powers.

And from the very personalized item analysis given by the deduction system, Yu Xing also caught a word—Luo Family.

So that's how it was, no wonder Martha was timid but seemed capable...

Yu Xing knew about the Luo family. There was only one Luo family related to deduction, originating in northern Anhui, and later shifting its focus to the south of the Yangtze River.

Like the Zhao family in Tianjin, the Luo family was also a famous family, but they were not as pure as the Zhao family, more like a sect, accepting outsiders as disciples.

The Zhao family was unparalleled in intelligence, while the Luo family was involved in making talismans, exorcising ghosts, feng shui, fortune-telling, a bit of everything, but not as strong as the deductionists trained systematically.

If you said that most of them were charlatans, no one could refute it. There were only a few who were truly talented.

Martha being able to casually pull out so many talismans drawn by "someone from the Luo family" meant that she must be an important disciple of the Luo family. Because of her young age and lack of experience, she was probably so afraid of ghosts.

But... this was the first time Yu Xing knew that real-world items could also be judged as tools by the deduction system!

And he remembered, why couldn't he bring tributes or tools, but Martha could bring so many.

Heh, the system was double standard!

Of course, Martha had no idea that the "double standard system" that Yu Xing resented had sold her out. She also didn't know that Yu Xing had knowledge of the deductionist forces across the country, because in the primary, intermediate, and advanced levels of deduction, most deductionists didn't have the channels to learn about these, they were blank slates.

She held Yu Xing's hand and introduced each talisman to him, "This is a Malice Talisman. If someone or a ghost harbors malice towards you, it will automatically burn. I'm afraid that Susan might harm you while you're asleep. With this, you should be able to wake up in time."

"This one is a Sealing Talisman, it can temporarily seal a specter hiding in a container. This one is an Exorcism Talisman. Of course, these talismans don't have much effect on the specters here, but it's better than nothing." Her words took a turn, as if she was afraid of violating the role-playing rules, then realizing that she hadn't violated any rules, she continued.

No one said that "Western Exorcist" Martha couldn't have some Eastern projects. Maybe she had traveled to the East before?

In any case, after introducing the talisman papers to Yu Xing, Martha finally mustered up the courage to cheer him on, "I hope you'll be safe."