From beginning to end, his head had never fallen off.
Everything the female passenger had seen before her death had been an illusion created by the shadow.
An unknown amount of time passed.
Once the shadow had devoured all the fear, it quietly departed.
Its enormous, weightless body floated straight up into the sky.
When it reached a height from which it could overlook the entire urban area, it stopped.
It rose no farther.
It looked down on everything below.
Searching for a new target.
Soon enough.
The shadow fixed its gaze on a haunted house below.
It immediately descended, floating rapidly toward it.
It could clearly sense a great concentration of fearful emotions inside the haunted house below.
This was precisely the perfect hunting ground it had been looking for.
At Gu Qing's home.
They had all finished dinner and were sitting in the living room chatting.
During dinner, Wen Wanyi had kept holding herself back from grilling Xia Shuran about her background.
But now, she simply couldn't hold back anymore and began casually probing into Xia Shuran's family situation:
"Shu Ran, what do your parents do?"
"My dad runs a martial arts school, and my mom is a housewife."
Xia Shuran answered with easy confidence.
Wen Wanyi asked with another smile, "How many people are there in your family?"
Xia Shuran continued answering every question. "Three. I'm my parents' only daughter."
"An only daughter, how nice."
Wen Wanyi was all smiles. The more she looked at her son's pretty junior schoolmate, the more she liked her.
Seeing his mother start grilling her about her background, Gu Qing felt it was a little inappropriate.
So he stood up and said:
"There's a really interesting pet shop across from our residential community. Let me take you over for a