Four deaths

Although Mi Chuchu was just an observer, even as an observer, she felt that the atmosphere around her was extremely oppressive.

She couldn't quite describe the feeling. Perhaps it was the unfamiliar and harsh insults from her parents, or the neighbors stirring things up with their gossip, or the heartbreak of being ignored. All of these things made Mi Chuchu feel suffocated and unable to breathe.

It felt as if a heavy stone was pressing on my heart, one that I couldn't push away or move.

At this moment, she seemed to see the world through Lin Yi's eyes. The people around her had all become familiar monsters, and Building One cozy apartment buildings had all been twisted into dead Building One like coffins.

"Sister Chu, are you alright?" Tao Yuan and the others hadn't received a response from Mi Chuchu when they spoke to her, so they quickly flew to her ear and shouted loudly, which finally woke up Mi Chuchu, who was overwhelmed by some kind of emotion.

Mi Chuchu snapped back to reality. Looking around, all the eerie figures had vanished, and some of the neighbors had dispersed. She was still herself.

"It's alright, you were probably just pulled into some kind of illusion," Mi Chuchu reassured her.

[After being abandoned by your parents, what would you choose at this moment:]

A: Go upstairs to stop my parents from divorcing.

B: Stay downstairs.

C: Cry to your neighbors, hoping they can help you.

D: Supporting parents' divorce]

This time there was no countdown; the selection box just floated there quietly.

Mi Chuchu shifted her gaze to the newly added option D, and at that moment she suddenly felt that these options were filled with malice. She hadn't felt this way about the previous options.

With her keen intuition, Sheng Qingqiao immediately sensed something was wrong and quickly said, "Sister Chu, all four options carry the power of Rules; they're very dangerous, and two of them are definitely fatal."

Mi Chuchu said, "What if I don't choose?"

"No, that will also lead to death, and we can't delay the selection process too long."

"What should we choose? Do you have any recommendations?" Mi Chuchu already had an answer in mind, but she still wanted to hear her companions' thoughts.

Qin Rang said, "I noticed you were stunned for a long time just now, so I suppose you must have sensed some of Lin Yi's emotions. You choose."

"Okay." Mi Chuchu didn't hesitate. They both knew each other's capabilities, making it easier to place their trust in each other.

Moonlit Night glanced at Bai Yang with her green eyes, then looked at Mi Chuchu with a tilt of her head: Aren't you going to help?

Bai Yang shrugged, clearly not intending to get involved.

They all knew about the past and had memories of the original True Form. Unless they were truly about to die, he didn't intend to interfere with their choices.

Mi Chuchu chose option A, but before she could even think of how to stop them upstairs, she heard Moonlit Night's urging voice. "Hurry upstairs, they'll be down soon."

"Good."

Mi Chuchu immediately ran upstairs.

When she arrived at her doorstep, Wang Yumei was already there, struggling with Lin Guang and trying to get out. Lin Guang grabbed her sleeve and wouldn't let her go, and the two of them were tearing at each other, looking very disheveled.

Mi Chuchu's appearance blocked the doorway. Wang Yumei frowned, stopped, turned around, and slapped Lin Guang's hand away.

Mi Chuchu's mouth opened and closed repeatedly before she finally managed to utter, "Mom and Dad, please stop arguing."

This remark successfully diverted the anger from both of them.

Wang Yumei's long, sharp fingernails poked at "his" forehead, her whole body radiating malice. "It's all your fault! It's all because of you! If it weren't for you, none of this would have happened today! How could I have been discovered?"

"You jinx, you're just here to collect debts!"

Taking advantage of the situation, Lin Guang pushed her into the house, then slammed the door shut and quickly locked it.

A woman's scream came from inside, "What are you doing! You think I can't get out just because you locked the door?"

Lin Yi rushed forward and knocked on the door. "Dad and Dad, I... I haven't come home yet."

Mi Chuchu felt a large tear suddenly well up in her eye and drip down her cheek. She subconsciously looked down to wipe the tear, but found that her hands had become rough and thin, as if she had done too much rough work.

Although her hands weren't exactly smooth and delicate before, and they had wounds, they definitely weren't this thin and dry, like chicken claws.

Mi Chuchu touched her face again; the baby fat was gone, and it had a very bony feel.

Mi Chuchu asked her teammate, "Have I turned into Lin Yi?"

Qin Rang and the others looked at her in surprise. "Yes, it seems our choices have basically aligned with Lin Yi's Day, and we've already reached the end that belongs to Lin Yi."

"I'm not used to it."

Bai Yang couldn't help but nod. It wasn't that he disliked it; he just felt extremely uncomfortable looking at it.

"Putting aside whether I'm used to it or not, why did these two lock me out while they were arguing?"

Mi Chuchu tried knocking on the door again to get her parents to open it, but no matter how loudly she knocked, the people inside continued to argue animatedly.

Click.

Just then, the sound of a door opening came from behind.

Mi Chuchu turned around, and the door opened, but it was her Neighbors from apartment 401 across the hall who opened the door.

The man in apartment 401 leaned out and kindly invited, "Little friend, your parents are arguing so fiercely, why don't you come to my house and rest for a while?"

Mi Chuchu took a few steps back warily, and the man immediately lowered his voice. "We are all your Dad's friends, don't be afraid."

"Look at you, you've scared that little kid." A kind-looking woman stepped out from behind the man and said with a smile, "Don't be afraid. Auntie even brought your mother a cucumber to try the other day. We're just concerned about you."

Mi Chuchu frowned as she looked at the pop-up window that appeared in front of her.

Faced with your neighbor's invitation, you choose:

A: Promise him.

B: Reject him]

Mi Chuchu certainly wouldn't choose to go; this person clearly wasn't normal.

"Thank you, uncle and aunt. My mom doesn't let me go to other people's houses."

The moment the words of refusal were uttered, the two people, who had been so amiable, immediately changed their expressions.

A sense of crisis was screaming in alarm. Mi Chuchu took a step back, and the paving stones beneath her feet suddenly cracked open. Two withered hands, like old tree roots, gripped her legs tightly.

The Male Specter half his body emerge from the ground, his head still hanging on the doorknob, staring at her.

Female Specter emerged from the doorway, her enormous belly split open. She forcefully opened her smooth abdominal cavity, her arms outstretched like a pair of fleshy wings, a sweet, happy smile on her lips.

"Don't refuse. Look, your Dad and dad don't want you, but we do. Come be our child, and we'll always be good to you..."

The woman's abdomen was getting closer and closer. Mi Chuchu struggled to free her body from the strange hands, but the harder she tried, the deeper she sank into the ground.

The Male Specter fingernails dug deep into her flesh. Mi Chuchu crouched down and forcefully pulled the Male Specter's neck upwards, trying to pull Male Specter out of the ground.

Unfortunately, Lin Yi's body was still too weak, and he was unable to bring the Male Specter's head into the Female Specter's belly before he died.

If this Female Specter become pregnant with both him and her husband's children, she'd probably be devastated, right?