Seeing Jiang Cheng's calm face, the fat man, struggling in the illusion, couldn't help but wonder, "Doctor, don't you feel any guilt?"

"What should I feel guilty about?" Jiang Cheng retorted, slapping the fat man on the forehead.

A "smack" resounded.

Strangely enough, this slap woke the fat man up. After regaining his senses, the fat man was even more impressed with the doctor, giving him a thumbs up and praising him, "You're something else, Doctor. Trying to morally blackmail you is even harder than just kidnapping you, because you simply don't have it."

Considering the intensity of the battle, Jiang Cheng swallowed his anger.

Wu stood in the rain, holding his knife, but didn't attack for a long time. The fat man, who had just come to his senses, suddenly noticed that the red figure in the rain was gone. The Dahe Niangniang… had disappeared.

But disappearing didn't mean they were let off, after all, the rain hadn't stopped.

In the next instant, a blade of light slashed down on the fat man's head.

The fat man's eyes widened, but instead of being chopped in half, he heard a crisp sound of metal striking metal. Right above his head, from Jiang Cheng's perspective, the ghost bride suddenly appeared behind the fat man, an arm suspended above his head, fingers spread, seemingly using a move from the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, wanting to drill five holes in the fat man's skull to help him get some air.

But after being interrupted by Wu, she had no choice but to change her grip to a block. Her sharp fingernails pointed upwards, actually managing to catch the blade.

The collision of the blade and fingernails produced a buzzing sound similar to the clashing of gold and stone.

Wary of Jiang Cheng and the fat man, Wu's attacks couldn't be unrestrained. He clenched his right fist and punched out, shattering the ghost bride like an illusion, dissipating her into the rain.

A strange and eerie wailing sound came from all directions. Wu shook the raindrops off his blade, warily guarding against the ghost bride's sneak attacks.

The situation was bad.

Jiang Cheng could also see that because of him and the fat man, Wu couldn't fight the ghost bride with all his strength and could only defend passively.

It would be alright for a short time, but if it dragged on too long, and the ghost bride seized an opportunity, the consequences would be dire.

Could they break through the rain?

The thought had barely appeared when Jiang Cheng extinguished it. Although, for the moment, everything seemed the same as before, except for the heavier rain, a closer look revealed that all the visible scenery nearby was tinged with an eerie gray-white.

Jiang Cheng suspected that this wasn't the world they were once in at all, but a world created by the ghost bride, or rather… a phantom realm she had created.

As long as the rain didn't stop, they would never be able to break out.

Taking a step back, if breaking through the rain would really allow them to leave, Wu wouldn't be so passive.

This law enforcer on the bus… his methods were truly terrifying!

"Heh heh heh…"

The resentful wailing sound disappeared, replaced by laughter. The sound was muffled, making it clear that it was a young and beautiful woman giggling behind her hand.

Upon hearing this laughter, Jiang Cheng immediately felt a sense of familiarity, but in the next second, a face instantly popped into his mind.

Lin Chen!

It was actually Lin Chen's laughter!

The woman who created Wu.

Also, Wu's sister.

"Damn it…" Before Jiang Cheng could warn him, Wu, who had been standing in front of them, blocking disaster, seemed to be possessed. He took stiff steps, one step at a time, into the depths of the rain.

"Come here~ Come here~" The voice was full of tenderness.

"Heh heh heh…"

Then came a series of laughter.

The fat man also recognized Lin Chen's laughter at this moment, and immediately panicked, "Brother Wu has fallen for a honey trap! No, we… we have to stop him!"

Without time to observe their surroundings, the three rushed towards Wu.

But then, a strange scene occurred. Even though Wu's back wasn't far away from them, only ten or so meters at most, no matter how they ran, they couldn't catch up.

It was as if there was an insurmountable gap between them.

Through the rain, everyone saw a horrifying scene. A red figure slowly appeared in front of Wu, it was the ghost bride!

At this moment, the ghost bride was waving at Wu, slowly, with each movement. The whole scene looked extremely strange.

But Wu seemed completely oblivious. As he approached the ghost bride, he even quickened his pace, opening his arms, as if to embrace his long-lost "sister". All the unpleasantness from before seemed to have been erased by time.

The ghost bride also opened her arms.

"Brother Wu is confused!" Du Moyu stamped his feet in anxiety.

"Hmm?"

Jiang Cheng suddenly noticed that Wu's fingers were tightening one by one. In the moment before he was about to meet the ghost bride, he suddenly gripped the hilt of his knife and stabbed it fiercely into the ghost bride's heart.

"Sister," Wu grinned, raindrops sliding down his angular face, "I'm here to send you on your way."

In the next second, the surrounding illusion shattered.

Seeing the rain disappear, the ghost bride, and the road she had walked, all vanished. The fat man breathed a sigh of relief, and then, as if regaining his confidence, slowly straightened his back.

A glance from the corner of his eye revealed that Du Moyu, who had already woken up, was so shocked that his mouth couldn't close.

The fat man sneered, about to say a few words to open the eyes of this inexperienced supernatural author, but before he could make a sound, a hateful roar startled him.

It came from the direction of the Crossing River.

Wu flashed to their side, his hawk-like eyes staring in the direction of the sound, "Run! She's coming after us."

The fat man was full of question marks. "Who, who's coming after us?"

Dahe Niangniang had just been killed by Brother Wu, so how could there be monsters in the Crossing River? He couldn't understand it.

But while he couldn't understand, Jiang Cheng immediately understood. "The one you just dealt with was just an image, like… a clone?"

Wu frowned, but nodded.

Now the fat man panicked. So, the troublesome thing just now was just a clone of the Dahe Niangniang. Judging from the situation, the real one was coming soon.

"Run!" The fat man jumped up and was the first to run away.

The others didn't know where was safe. Jiang Cheng quickly identified the direction. "Let's go back to the Wu family mansion."

The fat man, who was running happily, was stunned. "What are we doing back there?"

Du Moyu's mind worked quickly, and he immediately realized, "Brother Jiang, do you mean… Yu Chengmu and the others also returned to the Wu family mansion?"

"That should be the case."

When they ran to the entrance of the Wu family mansion, they found a shoe on the steps.

Du Moyu recognized it as Ah Biao's shoe.

The fat man looked at the shoe, then looked up at the dark and quiet Wu family mansion. An ominous premonition surged into his heart. After a moment, he showed a sudden look of understanding. "Brothers, I get it! This must be Yu Chengmu's old trick, he wants us to think that he and Ah Biao have retreated back to the mansion, but they haven't, right?"