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The renovated underground parking lot had poor ventilation and a musty smell, with not much space overhead.

As Yan Junze descended the stairs, his feet hit the flat ground, but the mass of pipes above gave him a claustrophobic feeling.

The lighting in the garage was dim and not very bright.

Just as he came down, a hatchback started up, slowly moved out of its parking space, and headed towards the exit.

Yan Junze stood to one side, waiting for the car to pass before continuing forward.

But after that car, he did not see any other vehicles moving in the garage, nor did he spot a single person.

In the quiet underground garage, intermittent sounds of dripping water could be heard, followed by cracking noises from inside the pipes, which made it all seem very spacious.

"Strange baby? Where could such a thing hide?"

Yan Junze murmured to himself as he walked.

He occasionally looked back and noticed the Back-faced Woman had still not followed; in fact, Yan Junze was apprehensive that upon turning around, he would see Lv Xin standing behind him.

After walking around, he didn't notice anything unusual.

Yan Junze stood still and thought, if there really were two strange babies lurking in the underground garage, it was impossible for them to remain unseen by people.

If no one had seen them, that would imply they did not appear in passages or lanes frequently traversed by people.
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With this thought, he turned his head to look around, and a small door caught his attention.

This small door was tucked away in the southeast corner of the garage, easy to overlook if one was not paying attention.

At that moment, the small door was ajar, likely leading to a storage area or a maintenance room for the pipes. In any case, people rarely entered that place; if they did, it was for maintenance or to clean up the clutter.

"Hmm, I didn't bring a flashlight."

Yan Junze approached the door, had no choice but to take out his phone, turn on the flashlight feature, and gently pushed open the small door.

The room behind the door was also lit, but the lighting was a dim yellow. With the help of the flashlight from his phone, he could see more clearly.

Yan Junze took another look behind him before stepping through the small door.

The lock on the small door was broken and couldn't be closed, but he did not plan to close it.

The room just inside the door was piled with miscellaneous items and some unopened ceramic tiles, bundled up in the corner.

There were more rooms inside this room, and at this moment, no light shone through from them.

First, Yan Junze carefully inspected the room with the flashlight on his phone, confirming there were no abnormalities. Afterwards, he walked towards the inner rooms.

Just as he approached the door, a scuttling noise came from within the room.

The sound was soft, as if something was dragging itself across the floor.

Though the lights were off, Yan Junze instinctively pointed his flashlight in that direction, thinking it might be a rat. However, under the beam of light, a small human leg appeared in view and quickly hid behind a large cardboard box.

Yan Junze saw it clearly: it was the leg of a child, pale and even a bit bruised, with no shoes on, and its little feet seemed to be completely rotted away.

He suddenly remembered the mission had warned him that if they were indeed strange babies, these creatures were highly sensitive to light, especially to the human gaze.

To get close to them, he could try using the walking method suggested by Look at Her Face.

"Damn, doesn't that mean walking backwards? And I can't use the lights or shine the flashlight on them," Yan Junze felt a chill in his heart.

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It felt as if walking across would be no different from tightrope walking alone in the sky.

But if he were to turn on the lights in this room, or use a flashlight to illuminate the way, he might attract unnecessary trouble and fail to complete the task, "Look at Her Face."

Yan Junze didn't even try to switch the lights on; he didn't attempt to see if the room's lights were working. Then, he turned off the flashlight on his cell phone.

Instantly, the surrounding area plunged into darkness.

A smattering of light from the outside room faintly illuminated the entrance, but it was not strong, only reaching the doorway.

Yan Junze turned around, his back to the room's interior, and began to cautiously make his way inside.

During this process, he constantly reminded himself to Rewind.

Although there was the "Automatic Rewind on Near-Death" feature, the damn thing used up too much energy. It would be best if he could Rewind on his own the moment he perceived danger.

Due to moisture, the floor beneath his feet was a bit slippery. Yan Junze walked slowly, his gaze fixed only on the doorway where light seeped through. He was highly tense, his attention fully on what was behind him.

He was not the Back-faced Woman; his head couldn't constantly watch what was behind him. Walking backward like this meant exposing his entire back to the other party, filling him with a sense of being out of control.

This feeling made Yan Junze very uncomfortable, a primal survival instinct constantly reminding him he needed to turn around quickly. Behind him was the presence of the strange baby!

But he held back, slowly retreating until he reached the middle of the room.

His heel bumped into a stack of cardboard boxes on the floor, and Yan Junze stopped.

Close behind him, a rustling sound arose, as if something was crawling on the ground.

Yan Junze fought the urge not to turn his head to look. He remembered the task information that warned the strange baby was extremely sensitive to human gazes. At this critical juncture, he must not ruin everything at the last moment.

Reaching back with the opposite hand, he felt around behind him.

The boxes that his heel had touched were stacked two high, reaching about to the level of his chest. Yan Junze tried to push them but couldn't budge them.

If he was to continue moving backward, he could only try to get around these boxes.

Behind him, the rustling sounds persisted, but whatever was making the noise didn't come closer to him, which made him feel suddenly anxious.

He imagined that at this moment, two unclothed, pale-skinned strange babies might be crawling on the slippery ground behind the stack of boxes.

Goosebumps broke out on Yan Junze.

Just as he was fumbling on the side to get past the two boxes, the boxes behind him suddenly moved.

The sensation of movement was strong, and not caused by Yan Junze. It was as if something from behind… had climbed up.

Yan Junze, who had been about to get around the boxes, immediately stopped and stayed still, feeling the sensation transmitted from the boxes.

The boxes were indeed shaking; something had crawled up from the other side. Its movements must have been slow, causing the shaking to be not very intense.

At this moment, Yan Junze even more wanted to turn his head to look, but he clenched his teeth and refrained from doing so, until the shaking of the boxes diminished and a tap-tap sound ensued. Something had completely climbed onto the box and was now close behind him.

If it had been the former Yan Junze, he would have freaked out by now, likely dashing out of the room.

But the current Yan Junze had a much stronger resolve. His heart rate sped up a bit, and he was very curious to turn his head to look, but he had no intention of leaving the place.

The tap-tap sounds drew nearer, shortly arriving right behind him.

Because the creature was likely propped on the boxes, it was at the same height as Yan Junze.

The next second, an arm as thin as a tree branch was laid upon Yan Junze's left shoulder.

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