Original Suspense Novel: "ℬ𝓁𝒾𝓏𝓏𝒶𝓇𝒹 ℳ𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓇" EP34

Don't trust your memory. Don't trust anyone. Not even yourself. — Fog Valley, the Last Watchman" There was no signature. But a dark red fingerprint was pressed onto the bottom of the letter. Chen Mo folded the letter and put it back in the envelope. He looked up at the garage's vent window. The snow had stopped for a moment, and the sky had brightened slightly, but the clouds in the distance were still thick, as if they would never disperse. "Who was that person?" Fang Guodong asked. "I don't know," Chen Mo said. "But that person is in the manor right now. And he killed Zhang Zhenyu—the village chief who sent everyone away back then." He paused. "He's going to kill a second person." "How do you know?" Chen Mo took out the note he found by the electrical box from his pocket and spread it out in front of Fang Guodong. "'Answer correctly and win a prize,'" Chen Mo said. "This is a game. The killer is testing us—or rather, testing me. He wants to see when I'll remember." Fang Guodong was silent for a long time. The sound of the wind outside the garage gradually subsided, and the world seemed to enter a brief, eerie tranquility. "Chen Mo," he finally said, "what about the 'ritual' you mentioned?" Chen Mo didn't answer. Because in the memory palace of his mind, the door to a room suddenly opened. He saw it. It was a night many years ago, in the temple at the center of Fog Valley village, the firelight flickering. A group of people in black clothes formed a circle, and in the center, a child was tied up. That child (To be continued)