Nightmare Assault Chapter 144: Uncle

Jiang Cheng noticed the sunlight on his shoulders. He turned around and realised the sun was already almost down the mountain. From the moment they infiltrated the Qian Family’s main house to now, it shouldn’t be more than two hours. They entered the large building at noon. How did the sun set so fast?

“We don’t have much time left.” Chen Xiaomeng glanced at the setting sun. “As the mission nears its end, the anomalies in the world we’re in will be more obvious.”

Jiang Cheng nodded. That matched his previous experience. The day became shorter until the world sank into eternal night.

“Do you still remember our earlier hypothesis?” Chen Xiaomeng said rapidly, “The ghost displayed her victims around An Ping Town because someone she wanted to kill was hiding in that town.

“To end this mission, we have to find that person.”

“Someone from the Qian Family,” Jiang Cheng said.

Chen Xiaomeng nodded. “That should be the case. The village head said that the former Village Head Qian had three sons and they all died to the ghosts. However, based on the family pictures, he should have four sons! The last one should be hiding in An Ping Town!

“Once we find him and send him out of An Ping Town, I believe this mission will be over.”

Jiang Cheng frowned.

Chen Xiaomeng looked at him and gasped, “Don’t tell me you pity the man?” In Chen Xiaomeng’s mind, someone with an anti-social personality wouldn’t care about their family, much less strangers. They had no pity.

“It’s not that.” Jiang Cheng shook his head. “I believe the ghost is not looking for a he but a she.”

“What?!”

Then, Jiang Cheng shared the scene that he saw at An Ping Inn with Chen Xiaomeng. The latter was stunned. “Are you saying there’s a woman with a ruined face hidden in the secret room on the third floor of An Ping Inn?”

“Yes.”

“That is why you wasted so much time with Zhou Rong upstairs that time.”

“Yes.” Jiang Cheng huffed indignantly. “I wanted to tell you all, but Zhou Rong denied it. He threatened me that if I breathed a word about this, he would pu

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