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Yan Junze, who had been watching with great interest, felt a momentary relief from the itchy and painful sensation as the growth of black hair on his body had stopped; his attention had been diverted, and he had temporarily forgotten about the changes happening to his own body.

However, he soon shifted his focus to the living room and made a bitter face.

"It's over, the TV and the furniture are all done for!"

Yan Junze realized that while the two strangenesses were fighting fiercely, he had to crawl quickly from under the dining table.

As he crawled, the itchy and painful sensation returned, but he bore it and quickly slipped toward the door.

The rolling mist had reached the middle of the living room. Within a five-meter radius centered on this mass of fog, there was no furniture left intact.

Yan Junze couldn't care less by then; reaching the door, he gently twisted the handle, opened it, and darted out.

At that moment, within the tumbling mist, a change occurred; Lv Xin's head, which had completely transformed into Resentful Granny's, was pushed out of the fog, with a pair of hands around her neck—those were the bruised arms of Back-faced Woman.

Though it seemed Resentful Granny was at a disadvantage, she still resisted fiercely, with the fog under her feet constantly churning.

She seemed to be struggling!

The next second, Resentful Granny freed one hand and, with a slap, hit Back-faced Woman's head hard.

Back-faced Woman vanished into the fog, and immediately Resentful Granny let out a piercing scream as her head submerged back into the mist.

But just two or three seconds later, the fog violently contracted before expanding rapidly. With a bang, Resentful Granny was flung out, crashing through the window and falling outside the corridor.

Just then, Yan Junze happened to be tiptoeing outside the corridor. He was crouching down as he walked, wary of being seen by the two ferociously evil spirits.

However, the next second the window above his head shattered, and he saw Lv Xin's figure falling out, landing right in front of Yan Junze.

A man and a strangeness, less than half a meter apart.

Lv Xin abruptly lifted his head, and what showed was the wrinkled face of Resentful Granny, her grey pupils staring at Yan Junze.

Yan Junze was taken aback, then squeezed out what he thought was his most sincere smile, "Granny, why aren't you taking the usual path?"

"Ah!"

Resentful Granny stretched out her right hand and grabbed toward Yan Junze.

Yan Junze, who was already prepared, shrank his body back and narrowly dodged the grab.

A white shadow flew out of the window, with Back-faced Woman following closely behind, landing between Yan Junze and Resentful Granny, her head facing Yan Junze.
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In the next second, Resentful Granny exploded with fury, pouncing onto Back-faced Woman like a starving beast, pinning her down and biting fiercely into her twisted neck.

Back-faced Woman's arms immediately contorted in reverse, making a series of cracking sounds as if they were breaking, and she wrapped them around Resentful Granny.

Under the force of their immense strength, the two strangenesses thrashed on the ground, rolling several times before Resentful Granny was thrown away, tumbling along the corridor and crashing near the staircase entrance.

Back-faced Woman stood up, seemingly giving Yan Junze a glance. She did not approach him but walked toward Resentful Granny, her steps as calm as ever, not at all hurried.

By this time, the growth of black hair on Yan Junze's body had completely stopped, and the itchy and painful sensation had lessened significantly.

But the situation was still dire because Back-faced Woman and Resentful Granny were nearing the staircase, and if they blocked it, he would not be able to escape this floor.

The fight between the strange creatures resumed at the entrance to the staircase. Initially, Yan Junze could see them continuously Ripping Bite at each other, but soon another layer of grey mist rose up, enveloping them within.

It wasn't until Yan Junze stepped outside the house that he really got a good look at this kind of mist. The mist was a light gray color, and after the two strange creatures fought each other, the gray mist began to spread and corrode about a five-meter radius around their bodies.

Within this area, even during the day, the lighting was dim, the magnetic field twisted, and the ground and walls it covered gradually started to yellow and blacken, then, bit by bit, crumbled away. Even mold began to grow from the cracks in the walls.

At this moment, this section of the stairwell was utterly inaccessible.

In Yan Junze's view, that patch of ground and air was all gradually darkening, as if the gray mist was a domain, a realm belonging to the strangenesses.

After staring for a while, he felt as if the air itself was distorting.

This scene made Yan Junze think of his home's condition. Just now, these two strange creatures had also fought in his living room, turning it into this state. If a weird domain really formed, would it affect his life in the future?

While thinking this, the mass of mist suddenly started to tremble, and in the next second, Resentful Granny, with seeming disregard for her own life, sprinted out, bursting through the mist and heading straight for Yan Junze at the other end of the corridor.

Her toes touched the ground, and her speed was bizarrely fast.

However, Yan Junze noticed that some parts of her body had already come off, like plastered paper, and her waist had become tattered.

But this did not slow down Resentful Granny's charge. At this moment, the old woman seemed to be throwing caution to the wind, resolved to reach Yan Junze no matter what.

Yan Junze swiftly retreated, quickly making it back to his own doorstep.

But Resentful Granny was faster, now less than five meters from him.

The mass of gray mist in the stairwell quickly dissipated, and the figure of Back-faced Woman became visible, but it was clear that she couldn't reach Yan Junze before Resentful Granny, not a chance.

Seeing this, Yan Junze was about to "Rewind."

Then he saw Back-faced Woman's body suddenly bend backward in a reverse arch, making a series of grating cracking sounds. Her dirty, clumped hair instantly stretched out at this moment.

Her hair drew a straight line, with countless strands aiming at Resentful Granny's back, piercing through her body in the next second. Resentful Granny, who had been running, was frozen in place.

Back-faced Woman's body sprung back like a coil, instantly reverting to its original form. Her hair retracted, dragging Resentful Granny, who had been pierced through, back toward the direction of the stairwell.

Yan Junze watched this scene, dumbfounded.

And at the same time, as Back-faced Woman used her hair as a weapon, Yan Junze noticed that the black hairs that had just sprouted on his body receded back, leaving not a single one visible.

Resentful Granny, with her body pierced by the hair, was rapidly pulled back into the roiling gray mist, which then closed up, emitting two sharp screams in succession.

The mist immediately dissipated, revealing the standing Back-faced Woman, and Lv Xin, lying on the ground motionless.

The face of Lv Xin was now back to his own, the appearance of Resentful Granny having vanished.

But regardless of who it was, the figure on the ground now showed no sign of life, lying stiffly, probably truly dead.

Whoosh!

The hair that had pierced the body retracted, and Back-faced Woman slowly turned, her back towards Yan Junze, step by step approaching.

Yan Junze didn't retreat, nor did he dive into his house to hide; instead, he stood there waiting for her.

At this moment, Yan Junze once again felt an itchy sensation on his body.

Without waiting for Back-faced Woman to get closer, he spoke up, "I've persuaded the old lady in the basement. She's agreed to let you see the strange babies."

Back-faced Woman paused, no longer moving forward.