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The Lantern Woman was momentarily taken aback after hearing Zhang Di's answer.

Then she looked at Zhang Xiaomo, who had spoken first, and said to Zhang Di, "Didn't she just say she didn't see my husband?"

Zhang Di's face stiffened, and he was at a loss for words.

Yan Junze hastily said, "He didn't know your husband is Jia Sheng, he thought you were talking about someone else."

"Didn't you say my husband was in the Study Room?" the Lantern Woman turned back to Yan Junze, "How come he is now saying he's not here?"

Okay, he had gotten himself into a quagmire.

Yan Junze cast a resentful glance at Zhang Di, who felt a twinge of relief, thankful that the Lantern Woman hadn't turned her hostility towards him.

At this moment, the lantern in the Lantern Woman's hand began to turn red again.

"That's not right, her lantern is turning red," Zhang Xiaomo glanced at the lantern and quickly said, "Don't panic just yet, maybe someone saw wrong."

Bang!

The lantern turned completely fiery red.

Yan Junze flashed a bitter smile, thinking that if comforting words worked, perhaps this woman wouldn't have such an obsession with finding her husband.

Rewind!

Time returned to the moment Yan Junze and the Lantern Woman entered the Study Room, one after the other.

Zhang Xiaomo had just given Yan Junze a look that said not to make any rash moves, but Yan Junze immediately began to blurt out, "The Lantern Woman's husband loves to read, and she is here to find her husband. If you don't know about it, you can leave now, and I will stay here with her to search."

A whole string of words burst from his mouth, leaving Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di startled, as they exchanged glances and immediately shut their mouths.

They were not fools; they instantly understood the subtext behind Yan Junze's speech.

The Lantern Woman turned back to look at Yan Junze, then at Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di, and still asked, "Have you seen my husband?"

"No, no we haven't," this time, both Exorcists answered in unison, shaking their heads in remarkably synchronized magnitude and direction.

From behind the Lantern Woman, Yan Junze gave them a thumbs up.

"If possible, they might be able to help, like looking around near this Study Room to see if they can find your husband," Yan Junze signaled with his eyes to the two of them, then said to the Lantern Woman.

His intention was clear, to have the two leave so that he could better handle the Lantern Woman himself; otherwise, unlike him, they could easily trigger the Lantern Woman's sensitivities.

Zhang Xiaomo elbowed Zhang Di, indicating they should listen to Yan Junze.

But then the Lantern Woman shook her head and said to Yan Junze, "Didn't you say my husband is just in the Study Room? It's good that they are here; more people can help search around here."

Zhang Xiaomo turned to Yan Junze, who simply shrugged his shoulders, gesturing for them not to say anything more.

Yan Junze pointed upstairs, "It seems there's an attic above; let the two of them go up to the attic to look, maybe your husband is hiding up there sneaking reads, and incidentally hiding from you, perhaps even accidentally starving himself to death up there!"

"That sounds quite reasonable," Zhang Di quickly nodded in agreement.

Zhang Xiaomo shot Yan Junze an annoyed glance.

Seeing that the Lantern Woman said nothing, Yan Junze spoke again, "Then you two go upstairs to search. Remember to search carefully, huh, and don't come down too early unless you hear me call, search a bit more thoroughly."

Zhang Di immediately started climbing the wooden ladder, while a look of worry crossed Zhang Xiaomo's face. She paused, her gaze lingering on Yan Junze for a moment without a word, before following Zhang Di to the second floor.

"Alright." Yan Junze clapped his hands and said to the Lantern Woman, "Let's start searching down here; you search over there, and I'll search here."

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't wait for the Lantern Woman to respond and quickly turned to run to one side, beginning his search.

The study wasn't very large, but the amount of stuff piled inside was overwhelming. It should be quite easy to hide a person or a corpse in there, not to mention a skeleton.

If the skeleton was disassembled and stacked in a corner, it would take hours to find it.

Meanwhile, noises were also coming from upstairs, indicating there was also a lot of stuff up there. Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di were truly searching, hoping to find the Lantern Woman's husband and be rid of this plague at the earliest.

Yan Junze could faintly hear the two of them talking.

He could guess that Zhang Xiaomo was very clear about her approach to handling strangenesses; she was definitely taking this opportunity to introduce her Buddhist Exorcism Method of fulfilling the obsessions to Zhang Di.

Although this method was not commonly employed by exorcists in their daily work, and many even looked down on it, at this crucial moment, it had become the best option.

After all, no one was a match for the Lantern Woman; to confront her head-on meant either death or an especially unsightly death, with no third option.

So, at this moment, the Buddhist Exorcism Method had become the hope.

After searching for a while, Yan Junze felt that it was very laborious. He approached the center of the study and saw the Lantern Woman still standing there. He asked, "Why don't you go and search over there? I can't find anything by myself!"

"I've already searched there and didn't see my husband," the Lantern Woman shook her head.

"That fast." Yan Junze was startled and then glanced at the lantern in her hand, "Does your lantern have the function of finding people?"

"Yes, it will change color as soon as it sees my husband," the Lantern Woman raised the white lantern in her hand, "I've just walked over that side and found nothing."

"There's such a function?!" Yan Junze was taken aback, never expecting the lantern could change into other colors.

But then he thought, this didn't make sense; even in the mission prompt, there was no indication the lantern could turn any color other than red.

Immediately, he took the Lantern Woman to retrace the area he had just searched, but the lantern remained white as ever, showing no change.

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"We haven't searched up there yet, come on, let's go to the attic," Yan Junze pointed upstairs.

He took the lead up the staircase, and the Lantern Woman followed, floating eerily up to the attic, soon both standing at the mouth of the wooden stairway.

Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di were still searching in the darkness upstairs, so both had taken out flashlights. Upon seeing Yan Junze and the Lantern Woman come up, both were taken aback.

Yan Junze hurried over and asked Zhang Xiaomo in a low voice, "Have you seen the lantern change to any other colors? Aside from red and white, I mean."

"No," Zhang Xiaomo shook her head, "only red and white."

"That's not right," Yan Junze pondered, "This woman said that when she finds her husband, the lantern will change colors, not remain white."

"Is that so?" Zhang Di furrowed his brows and then shook his head as well, "Because she never found her husband, we haven't seen the lantern change to any other colors."

By now, the Lantern Woman had completed her walkthrough of the cramped attic. She didn't need to rummage through the accumulated clutter; instead, she just walked a circle, seeing everything clearly through her lantern.

"Still no sign of my husband," she said, her expression growing ugly.

As she spoke, the lantern in her hand slowly began to turn red, and her facial features rapidly elongated.

Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di retreated a couple of steps back. Zhang Xiaomo took out her magnetic knife, while Zhang Di was wrapped in a strange aura that made his entire being elusive, as if he had become a Baldy.

"Ah!"

The Lantern Woman, now fully in her red lantern state, let out a piercing scream at that moment, causing attic dust to swirl upwards.

At the exact same time, Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di, who had turned into a Semi-Spirit Body, lunged at her.

"Wait a minute!" Yan Junze looked at the lantern in the Lantern Woman's hand; at that moment, he seemed to realize something.