The owner of the Stone Material Shop, who had left Tower City long ago to seek refuge in Cold City, had actually appeared inside the shop.
What was more, his wife and daughter had been sewn into his chest and back. The family of three had fused together in a peculiar way and, under the erosion of the supernatural, transformed into a terrifying evil creature comparable to a Vicious Ghost.
"I remember that after the owner's family left, this shop was occupied by vagrants for a while."
"Later, when the vagrants were relocated together, the staff also inspected the shop inside and out. They didn't report anything unusual, let alone a Vicious Ghost."
Meng Jian said in a deep voice.
He had already recovered from his "giant corpse" form and returned to a normal body.
However, the bright-yellow, viscous liquid on him had not disappeared. It still clung to his body, giving off waves of a fishy stench.
This was a side effect of using his ability.
Fortunately, he had not used much power today, so the liquid would dry up soon.
Once he got home, he would be fine after taking a shower.
It would not have any effect on his body.
"Perhaps that intermediary never took them to Cold City at all. They had been in Tower City the whole time, only in the form of corpses," Meng Wenwen said.
She worked in the Audit Department and had recently received information about quite a few missing-person cases.
Some residents had traveled to other cities through intermediaries to seek refuge, but many days after they departed, the relatives and friends waiting to receive them in those cities never saw them arrive.
There had been many such incidents.
Previously, people generally assumed that something had happened to them on the