Chapter 32: Siblings Reunite, Eyeballs Refreshed

Chapter 32: Siblings Reunite, Eyeballs Refreshed

"Just kidding, don’t take it seriously." Ji Yan waved his hand and leaned against the water tank, addressing the sisters. "Just stay here with me and enjoy the show."

The elder sister, Zhong Yi, couldn’t help but ask, "Did you smash the injury on the Ghostly Child’s forehead?"

"Yes."

"The Apartment Rules are void at night. How are we supposed to fend off two Blackened Supernatural Entity tenants from the 8th Floor?"

Ji Yan smiled without answering.

"You’re insane."

"Younger Sister, let’s go!"

Zhong Yi grabbed Zhong Ting’s hand and turned to leave, but the moment they turned around, both sisters paled in terror.

Their Talents triggered, and they heard hysterical roars echoing through the hallway.

The Blackened Ghostly Couple had already come upstairs!

"We’re done for…" Zhong Yi’s face turned deathly pale.

The younger sister heard it too, clutching her sister’s wrist in fear. "Elder Sister, they’re so vicious!"

Almost the instant she spoke, the distant stainless-steel door burst open. Thick Supernatural Aura flooded the area as the Blackened Ghostly Couple stepped onto the rooftop, their eyes blood-red.

The stainless-steel door rapidly oxidized, covered in rust, while the painted walls cracked and crumbled away.

"You filthy rat, you took our child?!"

"Don’t worry, even that woman in Room 804 can’t save you now. Hand over our child, and we’ll make your death quick!"

Compared to the twin sisters’ ashen expressions, Ji Yan remained relatively calm, suppressing his pounding heart.

He knew he was gambling.

Now, it all depended on whether throwing the Ghostly Child into the water tank would trigger the chemical reaction he anticipated…

"I didn’t take your child."

"Your child asked me to take him somewhere fun. So, I let him play with his long-lost biological sister."

The moment Ji Yan finished speaking, the Ghostly Couple’s eyes visibly bulged with rage, their Blackening intensifying horrifyingly.

A red Warning Panel even popped up before the twin sisters and Ji Yan.

[Warning! Player’s actions during the Mission have caused the Supernatural Entity tenants to Blacken by 90%. Life-threatening danger imminent. Seek escape immediately!]

The Ghostly Couple advanced step by step, their Blackened state making them resemble two nuclear-radiated monsters stripped of all humanity.

Ignoring the Warning Panel, Ji Yan leaned against the water tank—only to feel something sticky on his back.

Turning his head, he saw black pus oozing down the tank’s wall…

Looking up, he realized the water tank seemed full, with filthy black water surging out.

A pair of swollen, blackened hands gripped the concrete lid as a drenched, hair-covered Supernatural Entity slowly crawled out, clutching the still-unconscious Ghostly Child.

She moved like a mutated spider, emerging bit by bit.

The approaching Ghostly Couple froze, staring at the drowned ghost above Ji Yan—the daughter they had personally killed.

Their terrifying fury gradually twisted into dread.

Ji Yan didn’t dare move a muscle as globs of pus dripped onto his head.

His heart had never pounded this hard before.

Because the ghost above him was the most spine-chilling presence he’d encountered since entering this Instance.

"Dad… Mom… You came up?"

"Xixi has been playing hide-and-seek very seriously, but Mommy and Daddy, you took so long to find me... You don't know how cold it was in there, full of water. Xixi hugged herself in the corner, waiting and waiting..."

"I was both happy and scared—happy because I knew you'd praise me for hiding so well once you found me, but scared you might forget to come looking for me..."

A hand landed on Ji Yan's shoulder. That hand was like boiling tar, covered in black, sticky sludge, steaming with white vapor.

Ji Yan held his breath.

His body tensed involuntarily.

"But this big brother told me... this is my little brother."

"I didn't believe it at first, but... I could smell your scent on him. Every inch of him carries your scent..."

"But why didn’t I know about this brother?"

"Where did he come from?!"

The Daughter Supernatural Entity's voice escalated into a hysterical roar by the end. The viscous liquid covering her body seethed, making Ji Yan's eardrums throb in pain.

The Ghostly Couple stared into their daughter’s terrifying eyes, momentarily speechless.

Their worst fear had finally come to pass.

Their gazes locked onto the culprit—Ji Yan!

"I’ll tear you apart, you damned rat!!"

The Mother Supernatural Entity completely lost control, lunging at Ji Yan recklessly.

But in an instant, the Daughter Supernatural Entity seized her with one hand and slammed her onto the floor.

The floor sank like mud. The Daughter’s pitch-black face leaned in. "Mommy, 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 this new brother, 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 box?"

The Daughter’s hands caressed the Mother’s face, murmuring and questioning over and over.

The Mother no longer held back, shrieking hysterically, "You filthy bastard, let go of my son!"

"Why should you deserve our love? Because of that cursed misfortune clinging to you, we became neither human nor ghost! We almost got thrown out of the apartment!"

"Do you really think we picked you up out of kindness?"

"It was for the rent! To meet Room 804’s 'family of three' requirement! You were just a cheap replacement for my son!"

"If we’d known about your curse from the start, we should’ve left you in the gutter to be gnawed clean by rats!"

The Mother’s words dripped with disgust, murderous intent, and curses.

But the Daughter only grew calmer as she listened.

Her small, blackened hands gently stroked her mother’s cheeks.

"How could that be?"

"Mommy, you’re just saying angry things. You loved me the most before. Your love belongs only to me. Everything about you is mine..."

As she spoke, her tender fingers plunged into the Mother’s eye sockets and crushed the eyeballs.

Her hands, like red-hot branding irons, melted the skin and split the facial bones apart.

Amid the Mother’s shrill screams, she gave a gentle twist— and the head tore open like a pomelo.

The screams cut off abruptly.

The Daughter Supernatural Entity lowered her forehead, pressing her cheek against the torn head, feeling the flow of blood and the warmth it emitted.

"Mom, you're so warm."

"Xixi hasn’t been this close to Mom in so long. It’s so cold in there… You really are the best mom in the world."

Watching the horrifying and nauseating scene before him, Ji Yan felt as if his eyeballs had been rebaptized.

After surviving so many days, he thought he had become mostly immune to blood, gore, and terror.

But now, he could only say—he had been overconfident.

He could even clearly smell the warmth and scent of the brain matter.

The Daughter Supernatural Entity cradled the shattered pieces of her mother’s head, her eyes brimming with happiness.

As for the twin sisters nearby— The younger sister had long since fainted.

The elder sister was struggling to suppress the churning in her stomach, fighting not to vomit.

Over there, the Father Supernatural Entity stared at his brutally murdered wife, his deranged daughter, his unconscious son—his shattered family.

He didn’t go mad.

Instead, cold sweat drenched him as he turned and charged like a frenzied wild bull, crashing recklessly toward the stairwell...