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Gu Mian remembers the woman the landlord mentioned. When he and Qing Huan came to investigate yesterday, the woman opened the door.

However, yesterday she had half of her face hidden behind the door, so the two of them did not notice any abnormalities on her face.

The disfigured woman was right across from her, and they arrived in just a few steps.

Gu Mian stood at the door and knocked on the door. Before he could wait, there was a sound of footsteps inside the door, and then the door in front of him was creaking and opened.

A face appeared from behind the door and looked at them.

Seeing this face, Yuwen took a deep breath. This was a very indescribable face.

Half is normal, but the other half is extremely ugly.

The burned half of the face drooped, and the skin was as loose and rough as an old man in his eighties and nineties, and as dirty as unclean.

This face was very inconsistent, with one eye and the corners of the mouth drooping down, and the facial features were completely asymmetrical.

The woman seemed to have heard the movement from the landlord a long time ago. She guessed that they would come. Without asking, she pulled the door and took a step back: "Come in first."

Gu Mian was not polite, and walked in with his foot.

The other three followed in immediately.

The house is not big, and as soon as you enter the door, there is a gloomy living room. A shrine is placed in a corner of the living room, and a god who cannot be named Gu Mian is enshrined, which looks a bit evil.

Next to the shrine was a row of old sofas, and Gu Mian sat down.

The woman did not mean to greet them, but went straight to the topic: "Did you come to me for Zhong Min?"

This should be the name of the woman who was burned to death.

The landlord never dared to mention her name from beginning to end, but the disfigured woman said it directly without any scruples.

She was so happy that Gu Mian couldn't beat around the bush. He nodded: "My friends were entangled with some dirty things. After investigation, I finally found this woman. I heard from the landlord that you were nearby when she died."

The woman nodded in a hunch: "I am nearby, but I advise you not to have anything to do with this woman. She is... She is very vengeful. If she is targeted by her, she will die no matter what."

"You knew her very well when she was alive?"

The woman was silent for a moment: "No...I don't know her."

Yuwen Hao's face was not right: "Then why do you seem to be familiar with her?"

The woman lowered her head slightly and stopped talking.

"Since you don't want to say this, let's change the question." Gu Mian said: "I learned from the landlord that the night when the fire broke out, you were not very close to the source of the fire. You should be able to run out by yourself when you find the fire, but you didn't."

Yuwen Hao and the other two looked slightly strange, and they looked at the woman who had ruined half of her face.

"At that time... I fell asleep."

"When did you wake up?"

"...I heard Zhong Min's cry, and she locked herself in a small warehouse inside, which was next to me... She was shouting for help inside, and the fire had already burned to me at that time..."

He then asked, "Can't she come out by herself?"

"She closed the lock inside, but didn't bring a key."

"Then do you have the key?"

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Yuwen Hao frowned and looked at Gu Mian, lowering his voice: "Do you suspect this woman has something to do with that fire?"

Gu Mian shook his head slightly.

The others were very strange. This woman was too weird. She was obviously the victim of the fire that year, but she was full of strangeness.

At this time, Gu Mian looked at the woman and said, "Since you are on night shift in the warehouse, you must have the key to the warehouse with you. I think you didn't run out as soon as possible after you woke up, but went to save people, right?"

Everyone else was slightly stunned when they heard this.

Judging from the current situation, her rescue obviously failed.

"I guess when you woke up, you heard a call for help, so you opened the door with your key and wanted to escape with Zhong Min, but something went wrong in the middle, causing Zhong Min to die in the sea of ​​fire and you were burned."

"And based on your description of Zhong Min just now, she definitely did something to you, maybe when she was alive or after she died."

"It should be because you blamed you for not being able to rescue her. After becoming a ghost, you are also pestering you."

Therefore, the landlord heard Zhong Min's curse that he was probably not scolding others, but cursing the woman who left her and ran away.

Qing Huan showed a confused look: "Then why can she survive until now?"

This should also be the key to this copy.

After hearing Gu Mian's words, the woman was silent. It took a long time before she raised her face and showed a strange smile as if she was relieved.

"You guessed it right. I did want to save people at that time, but Zhong Min did much more than you thought."

"We didn't know each other at that time. After the fire spread, I was woken up. When I heard her shouting for help from behind the door, I took out the key and opened the door and took her to run away with me."

"It's all going well. We covered our noses and walked through the large warehouse and wanted to run outside, but at this time a burning shelf fell down and hit her."

"I want to pull her out and run together, but the airs are too heavy and I can't pull her at all."

"The fire was already very big at that time. She held my hand and begged me not to leave her and asked me to save her, but if I stayed there, I would die with me."

"I had no choice, so I told her to go out and find someone to save her. Who knew that she actually pulled my legs hard, so that I couldn't leave at all!"

"She said she didn't believe me, and if I couldn't save her, then we both died there together."

"At this time, a few pieces of cloth burning on the shelves were smashing at me. She pulled me tightly. I couldn't dodge at all, so I was hit like this..."

She touched her face as she said.

"At that time, my hair and clothes were burning. My face hurt so much. I ignored everything. I raised my feet and kicked her hard several times. I let go of my hand before I ran out."