Hearing the voice outside the door and seeing the familiar clothes through the peephole,
the woman inside paled.
Only then did she remember that her son was still outside.
"Ma'am, please open the door. If you don't do as you're told, we can't guarantee what we might do to your son."
Jiang Chen spoke.
Beside him, Su Ling didn't understand what was happening, but she was deeply shocked.
She felt that this ghost-exorcising young man's methods were even crueler and more terrifying than those of the building's residents, beyond what an ordinary person could imagine.
The woman's expression shifted uncertainly.
Thinking back carefully, she didn't seem to have seen this man in the building before.
But the fact that he could subdue her son made her extremely wary!
Hesitating, she didn't rush to open the door.
At that moment, Jiang Chen called out again.
"Ma'am, your son was just crying for his mommy. He's so pitiful. Don't you want to save him?"
"As long as you do exactly as I say, both you and your son can stay safe!"
As he spoke, he waved the child's corpse in front of the peephole.
"That's not my son!" the woman said chillingly.
Jiang Chen wasn't surprised. Once people became ghosts, even if they still lived together, it was merely to harm others together. There wasn't much familial affection between them.
"Really? Then I'll smash his head in!"
With that, Jiang Chen pressed the child against the wall beside him and raised his utility hammer high.
At that moment, his back happened to be exposed to the door.
Suddenly, the door opened.
A woman in a white dress, her hair hanging loose, rushed out with a bloodstained knife in her hand, looking at Jiang Chen with a sinister, terrifying smile.
But once she