Jiangcheng immediately turned around, assuming a defensive stance, but the people who appeared before him astonished him. Fatty, 2, 13, and even the old Mr. Luo he had met last night were all there.

"You..."

Before Jiangcheng could react, he realized that something was off with their expressions. Fatty was alright, but the others were more scrutinizing. After a few seconds, Mr. Luo, the leader, finally sighed in relief. "Thank goodness. It seems what happened last night had nothing to do with you. You should be fine."

Hearing this, Fatty quickly walked over and sized Jiangcheng up, which made the latter even more puzzled. How could everyone seem to be treating him...

"Something happened last night, so we had to test you this way. After all, we couldn't be sure what you'd become after waking up."

Luo Yunshan lowered his voice. Even this dignified old man had a look of fear on his face. Although he tried his best to suppress it, this inner fear was impossible to hide.

Jiangcheng didn't trust him and turned to Fatty. "What exactly happened?"

"You really don't remember anything?" Fatty looked at Jiangcheng with worry, his eyes filled with entanglement, and a strange feeling that Jiangcheng couldn't quite describe. "Can you still sense Wu's presence?"

Hearing Fatty mention Wu, Jiangcheng frowned slightly. He was right; Wu's aura had disappeared after he woke up. No matter how he called out, there was no response, as if he had left.

Moreover, Jiangcheng noticed Fatty's wording. He said Wu, not Wu-brother, which was not in line with Fatty's usual way of addressing Wu.

Jiangcheng kept this in mind and deliberately spoke ambiguously, "That's just how Wu is, with his unpredictable personality. Sometimes he deliberately hides himself. I'm used to it."

"Zero, Wu... something might have happened to him." After hesitating, 2 spoke up. After speaking, he stepped forward, took out his phone, and lightly touched the screen. The phone played a video.

From the angle of the video, it seemed to have been taken by a surveillance camera. The background was a deep corridor. Jiangcheng moved closer to the screen and quickly recognized that this corridor was the one outside their rooms.

Dragging the progress bar, slowly, the corridor in the video gradually changed. First, the lights overhead began to flicker for no reason, and then one by one, they went out, as if something invisible was approaching. As the light dimmed, the floor of the corridor gradually turned black, seemingly rotting, becoming uneven in a strange way. Slowly, Jiangcheng even stopped breathing, because... because a mountain road could already be vaguely seen in the corridor.

Moreover, he was absolutely certain that this mountain road was the one he had walked in his dream!

He suppressed the shock and fear in his heart and continued to watch, because judging from the reactions of the others, the main event had not yet begun.

The mountain road extended all the way to a door at the end of the corridor, the door on the left.

It was the room he and Fatty were staying in.

The next second, Jiangcheng held his breath. He saw the door open, and then... then he walked out!

The surveillance footage was blurry, making it impossible to see his expression, but judging from his stiff movements, he was more like a zombie, or someone sleepwalking without awareness. His legs moved forward stiffly, but the speed was much faster than his normal walking.

"Look here."

2 paused the video, then pointed to a spot slightly behind Jiangcheng's shoulder in the video. As Jiangcheng gradually moved closer to the screen, he shuddered violently. There were several pale fingers there. He wasn't sleepwalking; he was being pushed by a hand, and that person... was standing behind him.

It was... Wu!

It was Wu who pushed him onto this road!

As they got closer and closer to the surveillance camera, the surveillance footage seemed to be strongly interfered with, constantly jumping, and finally turned into an unidentifiable snowstorm.

Closing the video, 2 gave Jiangcheng some time to calm down, then lowered his voice and said, "The people we placed on the road that must be taken to enter the mountain were killed. There were four of them in total, all disciples. They all died in the same way, killed by knives. There were no signs of resistance at the scene. They were killed without warning. The killer's strength was far above them."

2 flipped out a few photos and showed them to Jiangcheng. The photos showed four corpses arranged together. Some were cut diagonally in half, some were slashed across the throat, and their faces still held the expressions they had before they died, seemingly not noticing the danger at all.

Jiangcheng was no stranger to such knife wounds, because he had seen Wu take action.

However, the persuasiveness of a few photos was not enough. Jiangcheng suggested going to the scene to take a look. At least he needed to see the corpses to be sure. He didn't believe that Wu would harm him.

After leaving the hotel and walking for about 10 minutes, they arrived at a small hospital and saw the four corpses in one of the rooms. The white cloth covering the corpses had been soaked with blood. After lifting it, the dazzling scene was far more intense than the photos. Judging from the wounds, it was an extremely fast knife. Skin, muscle, and even hard bones were as fragile as paper in front of this knife, and were effortlessly split in half.

Connecting all of this, Jiangcheng couldn't help but be secretly shocked. After he recounted his dream from last night, the expressions of the others changed. Luo Yunshan nodded with relief. "Fortunately, you reacted, otherwise you would have been taken into this mountain as well, and it would have been difficult to find you again."

Seeing Jiangcheng's expression, Fatty stepped forward and pressed his hand on Jiangcheng's shoulder, as if to give him strength. "I don't believe Wu would harm us. He must have been bewitched by something in this mountain, so... so he thought about taking you into the mountain. But fortunately, you're lucky, Doctor. We will definitely find a way to save everyone, Boss Lin, 3, and Wu-brother. They must all be under the spell of that ghost."

Wu being bewitched was something Jiangcheng had never expected. Moreover, 2 and 13 were next door at the time, but the other party only took Wu, without even alarming the others.

"I think the mountain road that appeared most wanted to take you away, Zero," 2 said after thinking. "That's also why it controlled Wu. You are its ultimate goal, and I'm worried that such a thing will happen again. You must be careful."

But no matter what, Wu had now been taken away by the other party, and judging from Wu's behavior, the other party had likely already controlled him. Jiangcheng didn't know if Wu could escape on his own.

"We can't wait any longer. Once Wu is completely controlled, none of us will be a match."

13 mustered up the courage to say a great truth. Even if they called in the remaining Scarlet members who stayed behind, with Wu's help, they would not be able to fight the guy in the mountain.

"Send a message to headquarters, telling them that we are going into the mountain. If we lose contact for more than 24 hours, completely seal off this mountain, and no one should enter again."