Yan Junze quickly walked with the two strange babies and soon arrived in front of the Back-faced Woman.
By this ti, the two strange babies had clearly beco agitated and anxious, and the strong oppressiveness emanating from the Back-faced Woman was also intense, overwhelming them montarily.
However, agitated as they were, it seed that the old woman had given a warning before, so the two little ones did not break free and run away.
Yan Junze let go, allowing the two strange babies to stand in front of him, facing the Back-faced Woman.
The Back-faced Woman remained motionless, just staring silently at the anxious creatures before her.
At this mont, the two strange babies were half-crouching on the ground, struggling to stand up due to underdeveloped lower limbs, wobbling as if they might fall over at any mont.
So under normal circumstances, they preferred to crawl on the ground, which significantly increased their speed of movent.
In that respect, they were sowhat similar to the Crawler Monster.
After a mont, the Back-faced Woman bent down to kneel, naturally, she knelt forward.
Then, with her hands reaching back, she parted her hair to reveal her fragnted and twisted face to the two strange babies.
At this mont, the two strange babies were no longer restless but instead tried to open their disproportionately large eyes wide, curiously staring at the face of the Back-faced Woman.
As they watched, the Back-faced Woman let her hair fall back in place and slowly stood up.
"What’s going on?" Yan Junze was sowhat taken aback.
At that mont, the two Corpse Babies seed to sense sothing was amiss and imdiately made squeaking noises, like rats, rapidly retreating backward until they were behind Yan Junze.
While Yan Junze himself felt nothing particular, he knew the two strange babies must have felt the anger and oppressiveness emanating from the Back-faced Woman, hence their instinctive retreat for cover.
"Child... Child!" ca the indistinct voice of the Back-faced Woman.
It was quite clear now that the two strange babies were not the child she was looking for.
Suddenly, the strange babies turned their heads and scurried back toward the small door in the southeast corner of the garage, no longer paying attention to this place.
Yan Junze’s body jolted, and once again, he felt that unbearable itchy sensation return.
"Damn it, does this woman have any sense of reason?"
He crossed his arms only to feel a large number of hairs trying to penetrate through his skin’s pores, wanting to grow out.
If he couldn’t find her child, would she simply kill him?
Looking back toward the direction of the southeast corner, the strange babies had already run into the small door and were out of sight.
However, the Resentful Granny with her peculiar and formidable strength had not appeared.
In fact, the Resentful Granny had no connection to Yan Junze and the others; she had already done him a favor by bringing out the strange babies for him to present to the Back-faced Woman; now, not even Yan Junze himself believed she would co forward to help again.
The difficulty level of the mission was defined as "Hair-raising (Low)," not only because of the high strength of the Evil Spirit involved, but also due to the high risk it posed.
And now, in Yan Junze’s eyes, the Back-faced Woman only cared about her child, paying no heed to anyone else.
If the child was found, all would be well. If not, she would take his life without any reason.
Looking down at his unbearably itchy hand, he noticed a large amount of black hair had begun to regrow.
Yan Junze lifted his head and said to the Back-faced Woman, "Let’s think of another way, we will definitely find the child. Besides, if you kill now, can you find the child?"
The intense itching caused his body to tremble, and as he spoke, his voice also shook uncontrollably.
The itchy sensation paused, then stopped completely.
But the densely packed black hairs that had grown on the skin did not recede.
"Let’s go upstairs first," Yan Junze said.
As he finished speaking, he glanced back at the small door in the southeast corner. Although he was eager to enlist the help of the old woman to resolve this nuisance, it was clearly unwise.
First of all, she had agreed to help him once, but that didn’t an she would agree a second ti, and it could very well anger her. Then there was also the risk of angering the Back-faced Woman.
Although the Back-faced Woman was afraid of the old woman, there was no need to offend the Back-faced Woman especially when the task was not yet complete.
He had just used her to get rid of Resentful Granny; being constantly targeted by higher-level strangenesses was trouble enough, wasn’t it?
So there must be a solution to this problem, and he couldn’t let things escalate to a completely unmanageable situation unless absolutely necessary.
Yan Junze walked ahead, glancing back once again. This ti, the Back-faced Woman followed closely behind.
The itchiness on his skin had disappeared, but the hairs remained. They weren’t very long, but a careful look revealed them to be very noticeable.
How tragic, he might maintain his hairy state until he resolved this task! However, it was a relief that only his skin had grown hair, and not all organs.
Pushing open the small door leading to the basent garage, Yan Junze walked out first with the Back-faced Woman following closely behind.
It seed the Back-faced Woman would stick with him until they found the child.
When he had called Huang Chen earlier, he asked him to co later because he feared Huang might arrive too soon while his task was still unfinished.
If Huang encountered the Back-faced Woman, with her strength surpassing that of Resentful Granny, she might very well wipe out the entire exorcist squadron here.
Luckily, the Back-faced Woman was deeply obsessed with finding the child. Nothing could delay her search, so she didn’t cause a large-scale disturbance in the area.
"Obsession?" Yan Junze quietly uttered the word, frowning slightly as he pondered, "If this woman is looking for a child, why did she co to instead of asking others for help? Could she see sothing different in that could help a strangeness rid itself of its obsession?"
"Impossible," he shook his head at the thought.
Perhaps there was so other reason.
For strangenesses, the formation of so obsessions is unconscious and natural, and sotis they themselves can neither understand nor beco aware of them.
For example, Long-tongued Zhenzhen’s unconscious knew that the son who identified her body in life was not her own; hence, after becoming a strangeness, she was obsessed with this mory, forming an obsession without precise awareness of it herself.
Could the Back-faced Woman be the sa?
All the while climbing the stairs, Yan Junze kept thinking.
Discovering the strange baby and wanting to recognize it was the reason for the Back-faced Woman’s appearance in the FH Community. But why did she co to him afterward?
At that mont, Yan Junze didn’t believe it was rely his looks that captivated the Back-faced Woman’s heart, making her willingly co to him for help.
There had to be another reason!
"What could the reason be?"
Thinking this, Yan Junze turned to glance at the Back-faced Woman who was following him up the stairs. However, he was convinced that even if he asked her, she might not understand any more than Long-tongued Zhenzhen did.
Soon, the man and the strangeness arrived on the fourth floor. As Yan Junze was climbing the last few steps, he looked up sharply and halted.
There, in the stairwell, the body of Lv Xin was gone.
"Could it be that Huang Chen and the others have already arrived?"
Yan Junze lifted his head, looking around, but he did not see the warning tapes that exorcists typically strewn about.
However, at the sa ti, the Back-faced Woman following him made a "gurgling" sound, her distinctive warning noise.
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