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After feeling something resting on his shoulder, Yan Junze was stunned for a moment, thinking that just looking at what was on his shoulder without making eye contact shouldn't be a problem.

With that thought, he turned his head slightly to look at his left shoulder, but because the room was so dark, he could see absolutely nothing, just pitch black.

He could only sense something resting on his left shoulder that was slowly moving towards his neck.

Each time it slid over an inch of skin, that patch of skin would break out in goosebumps, making Yan Junze's heart feel queasy.

Since he couldn't look directly at them, maybe he could still talk.

"There's a person—no, there's a strangeness that wants to meet you. I don't know why she won't come in here, but if you don't mind, I'll take you out now, so you can meet and see if there's been a misunderstanding," Yan Junze spoke out.

The thing moving on his shoulder paused for a moment, then continued to slide towards the skin of his neck.

Yan Junze felt something wet and viscous, like a slug crawling onto his neck and sliding up his cheek.

"Is this a hand?"

A doubt rose in his mind, as it didn't feel like a hand.

If it really were a hand, then its skin must be caked in a large amount of sticky liquid.

Yan Junze did not move rashly, nor did he turn to look. Instead, he slowly raised his own hand towards the thing that was nearing his cheek.

Then, he grasped it.

It indeed was a hand, but this hand was extremely gaunt, not much thicker than the twigs of a tree branch, and its surface was abnormally sticky. Yan Junze wasn't sure if after grabbing it, he could rid his own hand of the viscous coating well enough to let go of it.

When he grabbed the arm of this thing, the little hand clearly jittered slightly before tensing up.

However, Yan Junze didn't let go, but continued, "Come on, follow me, we'll go out and see her."

The little hand didn't retract, and its owner made no sound.

But Yan Junze dared not look back, and added, "Where's your other little buddy? Come out, let's all go together."

After saying this, he reached out his other hand, groping in a different direction.

There was no movement from behind, and after groping for a while, Yan Junze touched nothing. Even if he tried to look behind him now, he wouldn't see anything due to the darkness, so he could only rely on touch.

Slightly turning his body and reaching towards the far end of the cardboard box, Yan Junze's hand continued to explore further back.

Yet the hand holding onto the skeletal arm did not release its grip, having finally caught one, he couldn't just let it slip away.

Besides, it seemed that the little creature wasn't resisting.

Perhaps it just looked frightening. In actuality, the strange baby should be easy to communicate with.

Before long, Yan Junze, who had been searching behind him, finally caught another arm.

But then he was momentarily taken aback.

This arm was much larger than the one he had caught on the left side, though overall it remained skinny and emaciated.

If both were from strange babies, this one must be the kind of giant-headed strange baby that weighed over ten pounds at birth!

The more Yan Junze thought about it, the weirder he felt in his heart, but now, even if he turned back to look, he didn't want to see.

Holding one strange baby in each hand, both feeling sticky, Yan Junze held back his disgust, didn't look at them, and started walking towards the doorway where a sliver of light was infiltrating.

Both arms were obedient, without any resistance. Yan Junze could hear rustling noises following behind him, indicating that the mission was going rather smoothly.

Though he had been bitten by the Back-faced Woman and nearly met his end, as long as he could take these two ghostly children out for the Back-faced Woman to identify—whether they were her children or not—at least the mission would be complete. With a thousand points of Different Dimension Energy in hand, what mattered most was he could continue with his plan.

As he walked out of the room, dragging an arm in each hand, in the furthest corner of the house—

A strange baby was crawling here, its bald head slightly raised, a look of indescribable fear in its eyes, staring intently at the two things being dragged by Yan Junze.

One was another strange baby, which now half-lay on the ground, somewhat reluctantly being dragged out the door by the man.

And in the man's other hand was the arm of an apparently corpulent old woman, with slender limbs and long, curly white hair cascading over her shoulders.

In the eyes of this strange baby, the eerie old woman remained silent, following the man toward the door with a compliant gait.

Just one glance at the back of the old woman was enough to make the strange baby hidden in the corner shiver all over, burying its bald head deeply.

Yan Junze quickly led the two "strange babies" out of the dark room and into a brighter outer one.

However, according to the task instructions, strange babies are highly sensitive to human gazes, and in fear of scaring the two little ones back into that room, he still didn't turn his head back but looked around, noticing the Back-faced Woman did not follow into this room.

Grasping both arms, he quickly left the place and headed for the underground car garage.

Although this was a corner of the car garage, there were still two cars parked, but the entire garage was quiet and empty, without a single person around.

No sooner had he stepped out of the room than Yan Junze's gaze fixed on someone.

At first, he thought Lv Xin had followed, but he quickly realized that the figure was slender, silently and forlornly standing at the rear of an SUV, immobile, undoubtedly the Back-faced Woman.

"I've brought them here, come and take a look," Yan Junze said.

However, because he was worried about people coming down into the garage, he didn't speak loudly, and his words only reached where the Back-faced Woman stood.

The Back-faced Woman did not respond or come forward, just stood there, her back facing this way.

But now Yan Junze understood her neck structure and knew she was watching this place.

"Look, are they your children?" Yan Junze spoke again.

He then pulled the two things behind him closer to the Back-faced Woman.

Suddenly, the Back-faced Woman's body shook violently, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying and swiftly retreated.

Well, of course, her retreat was actually moving forward, putting more distance between herself and Yan Junze.

"What's going on?"

Yan Junze was stunned for a moment, noticing that the departure of the Back-faced Woman was clearly out of fear of the things behind him.

He was puzzled and had no choice but to turn his head and look. The thing he was holding in his left hand was a bald, pale-skinned infant, lying listlessly on the ground.
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After Yan Junze glanced at him, he became visibly scared and struggled to get away.

But Yan Junze gripped tighter. With such a critical moment at hand, he wouldn't let him escape!

Turning to look at the thing in his right hand, the arm of the strange baby that was noticeably thicker, Yan Junze's eyes bulged, and he was stumped.

What the heck, was this supposed to be a strange baby? This was more like a Strange Granny!

Only then did he realize that an old lady was standing behind him.

This was not Resentful Granny; the old lady had curly white hair down to her shoulders, a corpulent figure, and was dressed in a thick cotton-padded coat that showed tears everywhere, revealing the blackened cotton inside.

What surprised Yan Junze the most was that the old lady's limbs were slender, completely out of proportion with her body; she looked like a character straight out of an anime.

But what shocked Yan Junze the most was that the Back-faced Woman was clearly terrified of this old lady!?

Who was the Back-faced Woman? The protagonist of a hair-raising task!

And yet, she feared an old lady who had followed her up from the basement!

What was going on?