The Attack

"We can go too!" the Fat Man and Huai Yi volunteered.

Zi Gui looked at the three of them with suspicion and a hint of bewilderment, but in the end, she said nothing more.

She opened the cloth bag, and they quickly looked through the photos and notes inside. Jiang Cheng picked up a notebook and pointed to a phone number. "Let's try this one. He gave the police a tip. According to the notes, he was a neighbor of the victims."

Zi Gui took out her phone and dialed. The call connected quickly. A middle-aged man answered, his voice hoarse and weary, as if he hadn't rested properly in a long time.

That strange feeling came over them again. They understood that Zi Gui had used her ability once more.

This time, Jiang Cheng watched closely. As Zi Gui activated her ability, her face began to change in a bizarre way.

As her lips moved, another face appeared over hers: an unfamiliar, wrinkled woman's face.

From their questions, they learned that the middle-aged man really had been a neighbor of the victims, and that he had been on good terms with the family. The two households visited each other often and knew a lot about one another.

According to the man, things had started to seem off at the neighbors' house after Shang Zuo returned. Strange noises often came from the house at night, along with sounds of things being knocked over and a woman crying.

The family had also started going out much less. When he went to visit, the couple only spoke to him through the door, brushing him off with excuses that Shang Zuo was sick and it wasn't a good time.

He hadn't thought much of it. But a few days later, as he passed