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He may have seen her, but Yan Junze was first shocked, then surprised, to discover that he was gripping the hand of an unfamiliar old lady.

The shock was due to the fear that this old lady might harm him, but when he saw that she was looking at him with a face exuding kindness and a gentle smile, his surprise took over his shock.

Could it be that it wasn't a strange baby, and that he had grabbed the wrong hand in the dark?

Yan Junze realized his mistake.

But what puzzled him the most at the moment was that the Back-faced Woman seemed frightened of this old lady. Though she didn't turn to run immediately, she kept retreating step by step, distancing herself from Yan Junze's side.

He had to figure out what was going on first.

Yan Junze already had a guess in his heart, but if he didn't clarify things, this mission would never be completed.

Firstly, the Back-faced Woman had discovered that the underground garage of the building she lived in harbored strange babies and, so far it seemed, they hadn't endangered anyone. Otherwise, an Exorcist would have been alerted and called in already.

Then the Back-faced Woman suspected the strange babies were her own children. Yan Junze temporarily assumed she had lost her child because if she wasn't the mother, she wouldn't be so determined to find her offspring.

Yan Junze then went to the underground garage to help her search, and in the darkness, he mistook the hand he grabbed. The hand wasn't another strange baby's, but belonged to the old lady with the smiling face.

This old lady had kind features and didn't look terrifying, but there she stood, scaring even the Back-faced Woman into continuously backing away.

At this moment, Yan Junze understood why the Back-faced Woman didn't come herself to claim the Corpse Baby. It was likely because this old lady was always in the underground garage.

So the question arose, no one in the FH Community had noticed the peculiarity to date, which meant that the old lady, like the two strange babies, hadn't posed any danger here.

This could be seen from the expression on the old lady's face, which was kindly and smiling as she gazed at Yan Junze.

Such a loving, dead old lady!

This was the first time Yan Junze couldn't be sure whether this old lady was truly benevolent or might suddenly lash out the next second, becoming a horrifying, vicious, utterly despicable Evil Spirit.

Regardless, it seemed the old lady was the real boss if she could scare the Back-faced Woman away!

This kind of Evil Spirit could only be outsmarted, not overpowered by force.

Because he was so close to the old lady, the strange baby that Yan Junze was holding in his other hand had been terrified to the point of collapse, lying motionless on the ground, not just lackluster.

Yan Junze realized he was still holding the old lady's hand, quickly let go, and raised his hand, revealing his white teeth and a sincerely warm smile.

"Hello, granny," even Yan Junze himself didn't expect his voice to be so soft at that moment, possibly enough to melt the sun, "It was too dark in that room just now, so I didn't notice and grabbed your hand by mistake, my apologies!"

The old lady maintained her smile, looking at him with twinkling eyes.

But after Yan Junze finished speaking, the old lady gently shook her head.

A reaction!

Yan Junze was momentarily excited. Since she shook her head, it indicated she didn't mind. The best option was not to worry about it; whatever the nature of the strange babies, they must belong to this old lady. Even if the Back-faced Woman wanted them, it would be impossible with the old lady present.

Of course, if the old lady was indeed easy to talk to, then after Yan Junze caught his breath, he could go upstairs, bring down a cup of tea, sit with her, and try to persuade her to hand over the two strange babies to the Back-faced Woman for identification. It wasn't impossible.

But now, the Back-faced Woman had disappeared without a trace, not even having the chance to identify the strange baby.

"The woman just now, she was looking for her child. Since you have two strange babies here, I brought her over to let her have a look. If they're not her children, I'll return them to you," Yan Junze explained patiently.

The old crone still didn't speak, seemingly mute. After Yan Junze finished speaking, she nodded again.

"Means she agrees," Yan Junze guessed to himself, and then said, "Well now, I'll go call the Back-faced Woman back to identify the strange baby. For now, let me take you back to that room to wait; don't catch a cold here."

After a moment's thought, Yan Junze, commendably gentle for a change, took hold of the old crone's hand as if he had turned into a nursing home attendant, carefully escorting her toward the direction of the small door.

During the walk, the old crone merely glanced at the strange baby lying on the ground as if half-dead, which promptly stood up and staggered after them.

Yan Junze noticed that the strange baby walked as if it were drunk, its stature and build not much different from Gollum in 'The Lord of the Rings,' only a size smaller.

Shortly after returning to the room, Yan Junze walked out alone.

At this moment, he unexpectedly discovered that he too had a hidden talent for caring and protecting the elderly. Of course, this was provided that the elderly person was easy to get along with and not the aloof type with a temper so strange that a single wrong look could be deadly.

According to plan, now it was time to call the Back-faced Woman back and then just bring out the two strange babies for her to recognize, complete the task, and go home to sleep!

Of course, reality was not as he imagined. Yan Junze searched the entire underground garage and didn't catch a glimpse of the Back-faced Woman.

This woman was a hair-raising kind of evil spirit. Although he didn't know what level specifically, being scared silly by an old woman in an underground garage was quite something.

With no choice left, Yan Junze left the underground garage, planning to go upstairs to see if the Back-faced Woman had run off to some floor.

Climbing the stairs from the garage, Yan Junze looked at the stairwell entrance—no one was there.

He climbed from the first to the second floor, checking each corner and the stairwell landing, especially the blind spots of the corridors, to see if the Back-faced Woman was standing there.

He encountered people coming down the stairs, but nothing was out of the ordinary.

Soon he reached the fifth floor, looked everywhere, but still did not find the Back-faced Woman.

Yan Junze even laid down outside the window of Room 503 where Resentful Granny used to live, craning his neck to peer inside for a long time, without seeing the woman in the white short-sleeved shirt and shorts.

Back in the fifth-floor corridor, he thought for a moment, then leaned on the railing of the corridor and softly called out "Back-faced Woman" several times before turning his head to look around.
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When his gaze accidentally fell to the floor below, Yan Junze froze.

At the entrance to the community, he saw Lv Xin's figure at the path leading to Building 7, walking steadily toward the direction of the first-floor staircase of Building 7.

"He's here!"

Yan Junze grew somewhat anxious. After a quick look around confirming he hadn't seen the Back-faced Woman, he immediately rushed down from the fifth floor and returned to his own home on the fourth floor.

Closing the living room door, he checked the Rewind, which was still maintaining a cycle with only a small amount of energy being consumed for now.

Suddenly, Yan Junze's tongue began to itch terribly, as if the whole tongue in his mouth had become unbearably ticklish at this moment.

Unable to bear it, he reached out and touched his tongue; there was nothing, but it was very itchy.

Rushing into the bathroom, he turned on the light and approached the mirror, where Yan Junze stuck out his tongue.

In the mirror, he saw that his tongue had grown a significant number of black hair tips, thick and densely covering his entire tongue.