W

omen’s menstrual blood was considered extremely dirty. Not only it 

could 

force evil

 spirits

 or ghosts to show up, but it could also force them to leave. 

As we were in an emergency, I didn’t have time to 

consider politeness

as

 I was worried that Wang Ping 

wouldn't

 want to cooperate with me. 

Fortunately, Wang Ping reacted fast. She was stunned for a moment

,

 but soon, she pulled herself together. 

After t

aking off her trousers, she threw them 

at

 me. 

I caught the trousers

 and

 lashed 

them at

 the ghostly faces near me. The faces shrieked. Then, all the faces in the living room shrilled, and the countless faces 

surrounding us

 disappeared

. It was as 

if they had just received 

an order to

 retreat. 

It seemed those ghostly faces were just illusions. The otherworldly item should be somewhere in this living room. I got a hold of myself

 then rushed 

out to chase after them. 

At

 this moment, all the ghostly faces in the living room were gone

, but

 I vaguely saw a black shadow

 that slithered 

through the narrow slit between the door and the wall

. It fled...

I had done a laborious job tonight to see 

the

 real face of the ghost. If I let it flee right now, I would be in great trouble later! I gritted my teeth 

and chased

 after the shadow. 

As it was after midnight and almost dawn, the entire neighborhood was deadly silent. A few 

street lights

 stood against the darkness, which set off the ghostly 

silhouette

 of the night. To add to this eerie scene, 

the rain was even

 heavier than th

e

 evening. As soon as I got out of the door, I was almost drenched under the rain. 

I casually wiped the rainwater o

ff

 my face. The black shadow made a turn into a small alley. I immediately followed it. Most of the roads in this residential area were connected to apartment buildings. After a few steps, the shadow 

made another turn.

 It seemed to be heading to another building. I worriedly dashed after it. Suddenly, 

I stepped into a hole. My 

body 

sank

 immediately. 

“Damn it! What

’s this

freaking

 pit doing here!” I cursed, as I had stepped and fallen into a manhole that didn’t have a cover. I tried to grab the edge of the manhole

 in an attempt 

to get up. However, a sharp pain shot up from my ankle. I guessed I got hurt when I stepped into this hole.  

I turned on the flashlight 

on

 my phone

 and shone it 

around the place. I was surprised

 to see 

that it was a sewer. 

It was strange that 

I didn’t smell the typical, pungent smell of the sewage. 

This sort of fake sewer was the great invention of 

some 

cheating contractor. In other words, this construction only had a hole and a chamber. There was no pipe connected to it. 

Although I would snort at this sort of construction cheating, 

at

 this moment, I was glad that I wasn’t trapped in a real sewer. Otherwise, I would have died! 

After confirming that there would be no danger, I heaved a sigh of relief. I sat down to recover my strength. Although I was worried that the ghostly faces could return to the house to affect Wang Ping, I wasn’t able to climb up this two or three-meter tall manhole 

in

 my current condition… 

After resting

 for a while, I felt much better and my strength 

had

 recovered. I stood up and stretched my limbs. I was still lucky that this manhole was built rough

ly

. There were many blocks of concrete here and there. I stepped on them and slowly got out of the hole. 

Then, I ran as fast as I could to Wang Ping’s house while praying that she was safe and sound. 

Fortunately, when I pushed the door open and entered the house, Wang Ping was sitting on the sofa with a worried face. I exhaled in relief 

that

 she was all right. Then, I slumped onto the ground

, gasping

 for my breath. After I 

regained 

my strength, Wang Ping handed me her husbands’ clothes. 

I washed and changed into warm clothes. It was almost dawn. Wang Ping cooked me a bowl of noodles. I didn’t mind the hot noodle

s and

 immediately 

dug

 in. 

After devouring all the food, 

I started to feel warmer. 

When the sky was completely bright, I walked out to see. The rain had stopped. It should be a sunny day today. 

Since that spirit seemed to be afraid of me, I was certain it wouldn’t show up during the day. I explained the situation to Wang Ping

 and asked 

her not 

to

 worry

. I 

found a guest room to stay in. 

Tonight, there should be a fierce battle. I needed to rest well to fully recover my s

trength

! 

There was only one bedroom 

on the

 first floor. Naturally, I went to the guest room 

on the

 second floor. When I walked past Wang Ping’s son’s room, I vaguely caught 

a

 clue. However, I couldn’t figure out what it was. 

After s

haking my head, I went to the next room. As soon as my head 

touched

 the bed, I 

fell asleep. 

Not after five minutes 

of laying

 down, my phone rang. 

I reached

 for the phone

 and accepted 

the call

. I asked grumpily, 

“Who

 is it

?” 

“Mr. Zhang, there’s been another murder!” 

I sprang up from the bed 

when I heard

 Captain Liu’s calm voice 

over

 the phone. I rushed out of the house

 and

 didn’t even 

inform

 Wang Ping. 

When I arrived at the police station, Captain Liu was with Xiaolin and a few more policemen

. They 

were about to leave the station. Captain Liu saw me and helped me get in the police car. On the way, he briefed me 

about

 the situation. 

The one who had reported the murder case was a twelve-year-old little girl. She found her father dead on the sofa in the living room. However, the kid couldn’t 

explain

 the situation 

well

 enough. The policeman on duty had to ask her a few times to get her address. 

After listening to him, I felt a big, heavy rock 

press

 on my

 chest

. Yesterday, when I saw Wang Ping, I had thought that th

ose

 ghostly crying faces 

were

 the 

evil 

spirits that had killed the seven people. I hadn’t expected that after one night o

f 

staying up and fighting against that evil spirit, there 

would be

 another victim 

found

 the next day… 

Chief Liu saw 

that I had kept 

silent. He patted my shoulder and comforted me. “Mr. Zhang, don’t 

feel rushed 

or worried. Let’s discuss 

this

when we get 

to the murder scene.”

I nodde

d

, but my mind was chaotic. 

After around one hour, the car stopped in front of a villa residential area. Captain Liu showed his police ID card to the security guard, who then let us in. 

The murder 

took place

 in a village at the edge of this villa neighborhood. As soon as they arrived at the scene, the group of policemen and technicians began 

to

 work. Some hurried to pull the cordons. Some talked and comforted the little girl. A group of technicians and policemen started to check the victim’s remains. 

I put on disposable gloves and shoe covers 

before

 entering the crime scene. I checked around to assess the arrangement of the villa and then went to see the body. 

I shook my head in disgust when I saw the blood streak on the ground and the pieces of chopped flesh. 

Although I had often 

made contact 

with dead things,

 a

nd I’d seen dead people before, it was the first time I had ever seen this kind of mutilated 

corpse. It was 

chopped into pieces like KFC fried chicken. Inexplicably, I felt a little pressure. 

Then, I went to a forensic doctor who was packing up his tool

s. I asked,

 “Before the victim died, was he frightened?” 

The forensic didn’t know my identity

and assumed that I was a young criminal policeman. Perhaps he had been working as a forensic doctor for quite a long time that he was immune to seeing corpses. He faintly told me, “It’s true that the deceased was frightened terribly. I 

suspect

 he was scared to death before he was minced like this.” 

Then, he picked up his 

toolbox and left

. The chopped body was put into a plastic bag and carried away. They needed to hurry to find the clues from the victim’s remains, which would help conclude the case early. 

After checking the entire scene, Captain Liu decided to leave two policemen here to take records. He wanted 

me to leave with him, b

ut I shook my head

 and expressed 

my wish to stay and join the oral confession recording with the policem

e

n. 

I didn’t understand criminal investigations, nor was I interested in this field. I just wanted to stay to see if I could capture some clues from their conversation. 

It was because I found that the cut marks on the deceased’s remains 

were

 similar to the wounds the crying faces had left on Wang Ping’s face. They weren’t big wounds. They were small but there were so many of them. That

 was

 why they could gnaw the entire body into pieces as big as fingernails. 

Chief Liu agreed

 as I had insisted on staying. S

ince there were so many corpse-chopping murder cases, he was so busy that he wished he could fly to move faster. He asked me to take care then left with the others. 

After that, the two policemen started to take the oral confessions from the four maids in this villa. They 

weren’t

 really suspicious. Except for an aunty who was the chef here, the others didn’t stay during the nights in the villa. 

Before the aunty 

woke up

 this morning, she was 

startled

 by the little girl’s scream. There was nothing in the crime scene that was related to her 

or

 showed that she committed the crime. 

The deceased’s daughter was called Yuan Yuan

. She was

 a 

twelve-year-old

 girl. She still had a pale face. It seemed her father’s death was a great shock to her. 

As the policemen were afraid 

of scaring

 her, they talked softly to her. The girl was still frightened, but her words were clear and order

ly

. She described how she 

went

 downstairs and the moment she saw her father dead. Then, she asked the police when they could find the murderer. 

After listening to her, I couldn’t help but study the little girl. Her reaction was really strange! 

Apart from

 looking scared, there was no other emotion on her face. The victim was her father. Shouldn’t she be mournful for him? 

Right w

hen I was about to ask her about her relationship with her father,

I saw a small shadow 

on

 the second floor through the corner of my eye. It looked the same 

as

 the shadow I had chased last night. I didn’t say anything, 

but brought

 the Yin and Yang Umbrella with me and 

rushed

 upstairs.

As the black shadow had nakedly appeared during the day like this, I didn’t dare to be careless. I borrowed 

a

 police badge from a policema

n

. The police represented justice. Their aura could scare

 evil

 spirits. 

T

his badge 

should do the

 work! 

That dark shadow moved very fast. 

In the

 blink of an eye, it had crossed the corridor 

on the

 second floor

 and moved 

into the dark depths. I was worried that it could lurk somewhere to ambush me. I opened the Yin and Yang Umbrella

 and carefully followed it.  

After passing a room, the shadow halted for a while. Then, I heard the laughter of children playing. 

“Haha!” 

The black shadow turned and threw me a look. Since the distance was far and the corridor 

on

 the second floor was poorly lit, I couldn’t see 

its

 face. However, I could vaguely capture the shape of a chubby boy wearing coarse hemp garments. He looked around seven or eight years old. 

The black shadow grinned at me, then turned into wisps of smoke

 before entering 

the room through the slit at the door. I was so worried that he would hurt the kid inside the room. I immediately rushed to the room

. The door was locked.

 I knocked on the door, but no one answered. 

I hesitated for a while. Resolutely, I dashed downstairs

 and asked

 a maid for the key. She gave me a chain of keys. I didn’t have time to find the right one, so I directly pulled her upstairs. 

When we reached the room, no matter how hard I asked, she didn’t want to open the door. I knew something wasn’t right. I threatened her that if she didn’t open the door, she could be guilty as the accomplice. 

Feeling h

elpless, she had to unlock the door… 

However, 

once

 the door was pushed open, there was no dark shadow inside. Strangely, I had heard kids 

playing there

. But now, 

there was 

no 

one 

in this room! 

I was restlessly worried that the dark shadow had already taken the kid away. I asked the maid to run around to look for 

the kid

. Then, I headed toward the direction 

of the 

thickest Yin energy. 

Unexpectedly, after t

aking t

wo steps, the maid pulled me back

 and held 

my arm tightly. She looked frightened

 and gazed 

at me. Then, she spoke

 and emphasized 

each word. “There is no other kid in this house…” 

I was bewildered

 and recognized 

that her face didn’t look quite right. After asking her for a while, I learned that the deceased had a son and a daughter. The daughter was Yuan Yuan

, the girl

 we had met downstairs. 

The

 son

 had

 died in this room a few days after his first birthday. 

I felt things were even more bizarre. There were four maids in this house. Why

 didn’t anyone pay

 attention to 

the

 little boy? 

“How did the boy named Tian Tian die?” I asked. 

The maid shook her head

 and sighed 

in regret. “That poor boy choked on his milk. He was alone in this room. No one had realized 

it

. When he was found, there was no chance 

of saving

 him…” 

“Where were his parents?” 

The maid sarcastically answered my question. 

“That

 day, his parents were attending 

a

 high-class banquet. They didn’t care about their son… Poor little Tian Tian. When they found him, his body had turned purple. It was 

terrible

!” 

As I had lingered for quite a long time, I knew I couldn’t chase after the little shadow. 

I chatted

 with the maid for a while. In the end, I 

learned

 that the owners of this villa 

didn’t

 come home more than once a week. 

Every day

, they would keep their business in their heads and neglect their family

 and

 their children. 

Today, the husband was dead, but the wife hadn’t shown up yet. 

There

 was an eighty percent possibility that she was drunk and resting somewhere. 

After listening to the story of this family, I felt emotional. 

After t

hinking about little Tian Tian, who was just months old and 

was

 neglected since his parents were busy with their social party, my heart sank. 

It was j

ust 

as

 the maid had told me. It’s the children who suffer from their parents’ bad actions!