The human face in the Knotting Chamber was nearly one and a half meters in diameter, plastered onto the door.

Its facial muscles were swollen and wrinkled, its features enlarged, its eyes closed. It looked like an over-inflated dough.

The face remained indifferent to the rope traps in the Rope Corridor.

Li Ang and Wang Congshan approached the door, observed for a while, and discovered that although the sliding door of the Knotting Chamber was made of paper and wood, the strength of the face made it impossible to break the *zhangzi* paper on the door.

And the face itself,

was immune to psychic abilities, and even firearms – any injuries on the face would quickly heal, preventing the two from opening the door to the Knotting Chamber.

Just as Li Ang was about to use his “Ma Yinglong for dark circles” theory to promote it to the face, the latter woke up on its own, muttering, “I really want to drink Guiquan wine.”

Aside from that, no matter how Li Ang negotiated, the face remained indifferent.

Li Ang and Wang Congshan discussed for a while, realizing that the current situation was obviously asking them to carry out the next step of the game's conditions.

They hadn't seen any alcohol in the script world since entering, and there were only two related clues.

One was the note from the folklorist they had picked up earlier, which mentioned that the Hiratsuka family would prepare sake for the Yuezaki Festival.

The other was the label for the brewery room on the map of the Hiratsuka mansion.

Guiquan wine, as the name suggests, should be wine made with water from the Guiquan Well.

However, the Guiquan Well was guarded by black-haired creatures and could not be entered, and well water alone could not fulfill the concept of wine.

After thinking about it, the brewery room was likely the place where clues to Guiquan wine could be found.

So, the two took the human-head lanterns, left the Rope Corridor, and headed to the brewery room according to the map.

During this time, the two also discovered that there were other ghosts and monsters deep in the Hiratsuka mansion.

Most of these ghosts lingered in one place. Some were wearing kimonos with their eyes gouged out, crawling on the ground.

Others were wearing older, more dilapidated clothing, hanging upside down from the ceiling.

Their appearances ranged from nearly human to completely inhuman.

Some of the ghosts were still invisible, only becoming visible when illuminated by the human-head lanterns.

However, these ghosts seemed to be quite... sluggish.

As long as Li Ang and Wang Congshan didn't step into the area where they lingered, they wouldn't chase or attack.

The two hadn't seen so many ghosts when they were searching in front of the Hiratsuka mansion courtyard before, so it was likely that they were wandering around and got killed by the black-haired creature.

The two used the light from the human-head lanterns to avoid the ghosts scattered in each room and went straight to the front of the brewery room.

The door to the brewery room was open, dark and lightless. Vaguely, they could see more than a dozen figures, constantly making the sounds of wood being knocked and humming.

Li Ang and Wang Congshan walked into the brewery room and, with the help of the lanterns, saw the specific appearance of the figures inside.

They were hybrids of leeches and humans, retaining the outlines of human limbs, with translucent green skin, wearing relatively new kimonos, and black and white headbands.

These "things" were working between the various facilities in the brewery room. With Li Ang's knowledge, he could tell that they were performing conventional brewing steps such as grinding rice, washing chaff, and spreading *seed koji*.

The half-leeches in front of them seemed to be the former workers of the brewery room.

They had been transformed into their current appearance and were still repeating their work processes according to their memories before they died.

However, with the passage of time, the raw materials in the various instruments of the brewery room had long since rotted, and they were actually working on empty barrels.

"Why are there children here?"

Wang Congshan frowned slightly, looking at the four or five half-leech figures running around in the brewery room - these half-leeches were short, wearing kimonos, hopping around, occasionally making a humming sound similar to singing,

looking like normal human children.

"Yuezaki Village has a tradition of making sake themselves during the Yuezaki Festival. These children should be members of the Hiratsuka family, or ordinary villagers of Yuezaki Village, who happened to be in the brewery room on the day the disaster occurred."

All the half-leech lifeforms in the room ignored the two players. Li Ang searched the brewery room and shook his head regretfully, "The raw materials for brewing have all rotted, and I can't find any ready-made sake.

However, there are many empty wine bottles on the ground..."

"Wait, what are you going to do?"

Wang Congshan looked at the empty wine bottle in Li Ang's hand, her heart skipped a beat, "You don't want to pee in the wine bottle and go back to report to the face at the door of the Knotting Chamber, do you?"

"How is that possible."

Li Ang frowned and said, "In your eyes, am I such a crazy, unscrupulous person who would do anything to satisfy his perverted tastes?

I'm so disappointed, A-Shan."

"Can you stop fiddling with your zipper when you say that?"

Wang Congshan rolled her eyes. Suddenly, she seemed to notice something, her eyes fixed on the half-leech children who were hopping and singing.

"This melody..."

Wang Congshan frowned and thought for a while, then her eyes lit up suddenly. She took out the note from the folklorist from the bag on Li Ang's back and looked at the musical notes on the edge of the note that looked like ghost drawings.

"Sure enough."

Wang Congshan exhaled a mouthful of turbid air and turned the paper around to show Li Ang, "The song hummed by these dead brewery workers is consistent with part of the musical notes recorded on the folklorist's note."

"Um... it's the same indeed."

Li Ang carefully identified it. He only knew a little about music theory and wasn't very familiar with it – playing musical instruments costs money.

"The folklorist who left the clues - most likely Ogasawara Masayuki, said that this melody may be related to his life before amnesia."

Wang Congshan took a deep breath and said, "It proves that Ogasawara Masayuki may have been here before, remembered this melody,

and he himself may have been a villager of Yuezaki Village.

Considering his approximate age, he should have been just a child when the disaster occurred in Yuezaki Village. He survived the disaster for some reason, but lost his memory as a result.

Mount Yuezaki mythology, Yuezaki Festival, the Hiratsuka family's disaster, the sealed shrine, the mad Noh mask maker wandering beside the Guiquan Well...

Guiquan wine may be the center of all this."

She looked down at the musical notes on the paper and hummed a melody according to the notes.

The melody itself was not good, far from popular songs, but rather like mountain songs or work chants.

The moment she began to hum, the brewery workers who were working in vain on the deserted equipment in the brewery room stopped their work and looked at her in unison.

However, the musical notes were only a short segment. After humming, the half-leech brewery workers returned to their jobs, ignoring the two players.

"It's useless?"

Wang Congshan said in distress, "Is it because there are missing lyrics?"