"Just kidding. Don't take it seriously."
Ji Yan waved a hand, leaning against the reservoir as he said to the sisters, "Just stay here and watch the show with me."
The older sister, Zhong Yi, could not help asking, "Did you cause the injury on that Eerie Child's forehead?"
"Yes."
"The Apartment's nighttime rules have failed. What are we supposed to use to fend off two blackened Eerie Residents from the eighth floor?"
Ji Yan only smiled without answering.
"What a lunatic."
"Little sister, come with me!"
Zhong Yi grabbed Zhong Ting and turned to leave, but the instant they turned around, both sisters' faces changed drastically.
Their talents activated, and both of them heard hysterical roars coming from the stairwell.
That blackened Eerie Couple had already come upstairs!
"It's over..."
Zhong Yi's pretty face turned pale.
Her younger sister heard it too and fearfully clutched Zhong Yi's wrist. "Sister, they sound so fierce!"
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, the distant stainless steel door was smashed open. Dense eerie energy spread through the air as the blackened Eerie Couple stepped onto the Rooftop, their eyes blood-red.
The stainless steel door rapidly oxidized and rusted over, while the painted walls quickly cracked and weathered.
"You filthy Rat, you took our child?!"
"Rest assured, even the woman in 801 can't save you. Hand over our child, and we'll let you die quickly!"
Unlike the Twin Sisters, whose faces were ashen, Ji Yan remained fairly calm as he forcibly suppressed his wildly pounding heart.
He knew he was gambling too.
Now, it depended on whether throwing the Eerie Child in would trigger the chemical reaction in the reservoir that he had anticipated...
"I didn't take your child."
"Your child asked me to take him somewhere fun. Then, I let him play with his biological older sister, whom he had never met."
The moment Ji Yan finished speaking, the Eerie Couple's eyes nearly split open with rage. Their blackening became even more terrifying.
Red warning panels even popped up before the Twin Sisters and Ji Yan.
Warning! The player's actions during the mission have caused an Eerie Resident to become 90% blackened. Your life is at risk. Find a way to escape!
The Eerie Couple approached step by step, their degree of blackening making them resemble two nuclear-radiated eerie monsters that no longer looked human.
Ignoring the warning panel, Ji Yan leaned against the reservoir and suddenly felt something sticky against his back.
When he turned his head, he saw black pus flowing down the reservoir wall...
Looking up, he found that the reservoir seemed to be full, with large amounts of filthy black water surging out.
A pair of swollen black hands gripped the Cement lid as an eerie figure with sticky hair covering her head slowly crawled out.
Like a mutated spider, she slowly emerged, clutching the still-unconscious Eerie Child in her hand.
The Eerie Couple advancing from the other side stopped in their tracks, staring at the drowned eerie above Ji Yan's head—the daughter they had killed with their own hands.
Their terrifying fury gradually turned into fear.
Ji Yan did not dare move at all, letting clumps of pus drip onto his head.
His heart had never beaten this fast before.
Because the eerie being above him was the most scalp-numbing thing he had encountered since entering the Dungeon.
"Dad, Mother... you came up?"
"Xi Xi had been seriously playing hide-and-seek, but Dad and Mother took so long to find me. You have no idea... it was so cold in there, and there was water everywhere. Xi Xi hugged herself and curled up in the corner, waiting and waiting..."
"I was happy and scared at the same time. Happy because when you found me, you would definitely praise me for hiding so well. Scared because I was afraid you had forgotten to come find me..."
A hand rested on his shoulder. It looked as though it had been covered in burning-hot asphalt, black sticky fluid dripping from it as thick white vapor rose.
Ji Yan held his breath.
His body tensed involuntarily.
"But this big brother told me that this is my little brother."
"I didn't believe him, but I smelled your scent on this little brother. Every part of him smelled like you..."
"But why didn't I know I had a little brother?"
"Where did he come from?!"
By the end, the eerie daughter's voice had become a hysterical roar.
The sticky fluid on her body steamed, making Ji Yan's eardrums ache.
The eerie parents looked into their daughter's terrifying eyes and, for a moment, did not know what to say.
The scene they had worried about and feared most had finally appeared.
Their gazes settled on Ji Yan, the culprit!
"I'll tear apart you damned Rat!!"
Mother Eerie completely snapped and lunged at Ji Yan without regard for anything else.
But in an instant, the eerie daughter seized her with one hand and slammed her onto the floor.
The floor rapidly caved in like mud as the eerie daughter's pitch-black face leaned closer. "Mother, why are you angry?"
"Is it because this big brother was right?"
"Is this really my little brother?"
"You abandoned me and gave all your love to your newborn son, didn't you?"
"What did I do wrong? Why did you trick me into playing hide-and-seek? Why did you make me hide in that cold, dark little space?"
The eerie daughter stroked Eerie Mother's face with both hands, murmuring and questioning her over and over.
Eerie Mother no longer tried to hide it, roaring hysterically, "You little bastard, let go of my son!"
"What right do you have to receive our love? That cursed body of yours turned us into neither humans nor ghosts, and nearly got us thrown out of the Apartment."
"Why do you think we picked you up from outside?"
"It was for the rent, to meet Room 804's requirement that a family of three move in! You were nothing but a lowly substitute for my son!"
"If we had known you were covered in curses, we should have thrown you into a stinking ditch from the beginning and let those Rats gnaw you clean!"
Eerie Mother vented, every word laced with disgust, killing intent, and curses. Yet as the eerie daughter listened, she gradually calmed down.
Her two tiny black hands gently stroked her mother's cheeks. "How could that be?"
"Mother, you're only saying that in anger. You used to love me the most. Your love could only belong to me. Everything you had was mine..." As she spoke, her gentle fingers pierced into the eye sockets and crushed the eyeballs.
Her hands were like red-hot branding irons, melting the skin and tearing open the facial bones.
Amid Eerie Mother's shrill screams, she gave a light pull, and the head split apart like a pomelo.
The screams stopped abruptly.
The eerie daughter lowered her forehead, pressing her cheek against the torn-open head as she felt the Brain Matter flow and the warmth it gave off.
"Mother, you're so warm."
"Xi Xi hasn't been this close to Mother in a long time. It was really cold in there. You truly are the best mother in the world."
Watching the horrifying, nauseating scene before him, Ji Yan felt as though his eyes had been thoroughly cleansed anew.
After surviving for so many days, he had thought he was more or less immune to blood, gore, disgust, and horror.
But now, he only wanted to say that he had been far too confident...
He could even clearly smell the warmth and scent radiating from the Brain Matter.
The eerie daughter held fragments of her mother's head, her eyes brimming with happiness.
As for the Twin Sisters nearby—
The younger sister had already fainted.
The older sister was also fighting down the churning in her stomach, trying not to vomit.
Over there, Eerie Father looked at his tragically dead wife, his crazed daughter, his unconscious son, and his shattered family.
He did not go mad.
Instead, cold sweat poured down his body as he turned and charged toward the stairwell like a crazed bull, crashing left and right without regard for anything...
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