"I can do it!" Lian Yun immediately replied.
"I have the steak knife Ning Wei gave me, I'm not afraid of werewolves!"
Everyone looked at Ning Wei; she was the one to make the final decision.
However, they themselves didn't think it mattered. After all, they were just two young girls, neither capable of causing trouble nor holding them back.
"Alright, but as a token of your joining, you must tell us everything that happened from when you went upstairs last night until you came out this morning." Ning Wei was kind, but she still had to be clear about the conditions.
Since Wu Qing said there was one more ghost, it meant someone on their team had died last night.
But last night, the werewolf had broken into Song Zhi's room, and they were too busy helping their teammates to go upstairs.
Who could have imagined that besides the unlucky Song Zhi, there would be a second person?
It seemed Ning Wei had to overturn her previous guess. She had initially thought only one unlucky person would choose the same room each night, but now it appeared that the chance of randomly choosing a room wasn't limited to just one person.
She somewhat regretted it now; if they had checked upstairs after dealing with the werewolf last night, they wouldn't be in this situation today.
Ning Wei whispered a few instructions to Tang Tang, telling them to go upstairs and look for clues.
As for Bai Yang and Lian Yun, they recounted their experiences from last night to this morning separately.
The reason they were to speak individually was to determine if anyone was lying.
First was Bai Yang. Ning Wei sat with her at one end of the corridor, while the other end was occupied by a very quiet Lian Yun.
According to Bai Yang's account, their team had twelve people in total, divided into rooms on the fifth and fourth floors.
Lian Yun and she, being closer to Ning Wei's group, were ostracized by Sheng Kaiwei and the others.
When they went upstairs, they occupied all the rooms on the fifth floor, forcing Lian Yun and Bai Yang to the fourth floor.
After entering their rooms, apart from the sounds of fighting created by Ning Wei's group, they noticed no other commotion on the fourth and fifth floors.
When they came out in the morning, the corridors on the fourth and fifth floors were spotless, with no trace of blood.
After listening to Bai Yang, Ning Wei remained expressionless. She told Bai Yang to join Tang Tang and the others, then beckoned Lian Yun over.
Lian Yun's account matched Bai Yang's, but she dropped a bombshell that made Ning Wei disbelieve and repeatedly confirm.
"Are you serious?" Ning Wei stared into Lian Yun's eyes.
Lian Yun nodded, a smile of relief on her face. She handed the silver steak knife to Ning Wei, "Thank you for the steak knife. As expected, I was too weak. Even with a weapon, I couldn't protect myself."
Last night, Sheng Kaiwei's team did indeed lose one person, and it was Lian Yun herself, who had actively self-destructed.
However, what she couldn't understand was that she had opened different rooms for three consecutive nights, yet the werewolf still managed to open her room. She never figured out the reason before she died.
Shortly after Lian Yun entered her room last night, she heard sounds of fighting. She recognized Ning Wei's voice and immediately guessed that someone in their group had been unlucky enough to open the same room.
Lian Yun picked up the steak knife and intended to go out and help. However, before her hand even touched the door, it opened by itself.
A werewolf stood at the doorway, drooling incessantly at Lian Yun.
The werewolf wanted to keep the spoils to itself and had closed the door immediately after entering the room.
Although Lian Yun had a steak knife, she was weak. In front of the werewolf, she was bitten on the neck after only a brief struggle.
The werewolf greedily swallowed her blood, and she could clearly feel her life draining away.
The fighting outside continued, but Lian Yun could no longer hold her steak knife.
Despite her unwillingness, she was powerless.
After listening to Lian Yun's words, Ning Wei carefully recalled the details of last night.
It seemed that werewolves had indeed come down from upstairs one after another. However, because they were fighting so fiercely at the time, they hadn't noticed if someone was missing from the hall.
"If you had cried out for help then, could we have saved you..." Ning Wei murmured.
Lian Yun placed her cold hand over Ning Wei's: "I am already content to have lived this long. In reality, I was also an invisible person, no matter what I did or said, no one would notice."
She smiled with resignation, "Now, by revealing myself here, I can help you. I'm very happy. You'll always remember me, won't you?"
Even facing her own death, Lian Yun still sought to find memories of her existence in others.
Everyone struggled with death, didn't they?
Facing death calmly, yet clinging to the world.
Ning Wei looked closely at Lian Yun's features, "Don't worry, I have deeply remembered you."
Lian Yun was satisfied with this answer.
The reason she got on that bus was by chance when she was heading home from work with a friend.
Her friend had died at the previous stop due to violating a rule, and Lian Yun couldn't hold back any longer.
Now, on the bus, there was no one she knew. To die meaningfully was the best ending she could arrange for herself.
"Is there anything else you need me to do?" Lian Yun continued to offer her remaining usefulness.
"If possible, can you get rid of Sheng Kaiwei?" Ning Wei eagerly made this request. She had long disliked Sheng Kaiwei.
This scumbag who used people and then discarded them; if not for the rules suppressing her, Ning Wei would have dealt with him herself.
Since Lian Yun was no longer human, the rules should no longer apply to her.
"You helped me, so I will fulfill your requests. If I don't succeed before lunch, will you expose me to Wu Qing?"
Ning Wei shook her head, "Although our identities are different now, as long as you don't do anything to harm us, I won't care if you are human or ghost."
Ning Wei's sense of boundaries wasn't that strict; she applied the principle of 'I won't offend others unless they offend me' to the fullest extent.
As long as Lian Yun didn't attack them, she could do whatever she wanted, she was always free.
"Then I'll go find an opportunity now. Don't worry," Lian Yun made to leave.
Ning Wei reached out and stopped her, "After becoming a ghost, you are an antagonist to the guests, meaning you are on the side of the werewolves. So, what is the extent of your authority?"
Ning Wei had never quite understood what ghosts could do. Since there was one right in front of her, she might as well learn more.
Don't forget, there were two ghosts in this castle. One was Lian Yun, who had already self-destructed, and the other had yet to show herself.