Chapter 906: 904: Omnipresent
Stir-fried pork with green peppers, Mapo tofu, green beans and eggplant, and egg soup.
This was the best al in nearly a month;
Liu Xinzhi even thoughtfully prepared a bowl of food and placed it in front of her husband’s morial.
Yi Chen really missed this taste ever since he completed Transcend as a Death Row Inmate;
he’s mostly been eating Western food and those strange dishes from the Old World.
After confirming there were no issues with the dishes before him, he began to devour them, looking much like a holess person who hadn’t eaten in ages.
Actually, according to Yi Chen’s character, he wouldn’t eat like this. No matter how hungry, he would still chew slowly and carefully.
The reason for his current behavior is partly nostalgic for the taste, and partly due to his subconscious disguise performance from spending too much ti with William.
"Eat slowly, don’t choke..."
Liu Xinzhi watched the benefactor in front of her with a smile, finding him more pleasing to the eye the longer she looked.
After eating three bowls of rice, Yi Chen finally stopped,
and as his gaze shifted from the emptied plates to Liu Xinzhi, he unexpectedly found the woman, whose age ranged between 25 to 30, sowhat attractive, perhaps due to the food filter.
After the al, Yi Chen began asking so questions.
To avoid arousing the woman’s emotions, he didn’t directly ntion her husband but asked about the city. Yi Chen also fabricated a fake identity for himself - "Cyclist."
"Oh! Mr. Yi, you’re not from around here;
I was wondering how there could be such a young and good-looking holess man.
Turns out you were passing through on your bike and it got stolen;
no wonder... Cri rates around here have been rising rapidly, especially since the police station is nearly empty;
ordinary thefts can’t be handled at all."
Yi Chen also directly got to the point, "The city’s population really seems small;
the streets are filled with missing person notices. Where has everyone gone?"
"It’s all because of that woman... As long as she’s here, n follow her away and eventually disappear without a trace.
People like
who decisively break off relationships are few;
most are hoping their husbands, sons, or fathers will return. But in reality~ no one cos back.
Living day by day;
with soone as handso as Mr. Yi, you’ll soon be targeted."
"Where is that woman?"
When this question was ntioned, Liu Xinzhi looked puzzled, "I don’t know, nobody knows~ Even the police don’t know;
no surveillance device can capture that woman.
But we ourselves can see her abducting n;
everyone has seen her, yet no one knows her whereabouts.
She might crawl out from deep within the bedding while we’re sleeping,
She might erge from the bathtub while we’re taking a bath,
She might appear in so images on the television when we’re watching, waving at us from the corner,
She might be standing at the street corner watching us as we go out or unintentionally brushing past us,
She’s everywhere;
anyone with thoughts and desires for won, whether male or female, will be deeply trapped. It’s likely Mr. Yi will find it hard to escape unless you have no interest in won at all.
If Mr. Yi is scared, I could give you a bike to continue your cycling journey, getting as far away from here as possible... But fewer and fewer TV stations seem available lately, it looks like sothing happened elsewhere too.
If it’s the sa outside, Mr. Yi might as well stay with ;
living an extra day is sothing, at least while you’re here, I’ll take good care of you."
"I’ll stay another day before leaving."
"That’s good~ Mr. Yi does need a good rest.
You can watch television while I do the dishes. There’s my husband’s favorite tea leaves by the water dispenser, unopened;
if you like, you can brew them up and drink."
"Okay."
Yi Chen naturally wouldn’t drink it;
he also sensed a trace of discord.
Since eting Liu Xinzhi, she often ntioned her husband’s matters. Clearly hating his departure, even having set a morial in advance, yet her words were filled with longing.
As Yi Chen stepped out of the dining room, his expression subtly changed.
Before the al, the bowl of rice Liu Xinzhi placed in front of the morial was unexpectedly eaten clean, with only a few vegetable leaves and grains of rice left.
By logic, if dead people really ca to eat offerings, Yi Chen, as a Reaper proxy, would definitely have sensed it.
But during the al, he didn’t sense anything,
Or perhaps his Perception was sohow dispersed or disturbed.
"Have I already begun being influenced?"
Yi Chen walked to the sofa and turned on the television;
indeed, many channels were out of signal, suggesting that corresponding stations might have temporarily or permanently shut down.
After finally tuning into a channel broadcasting a dostic drama, Yi Chen abruptly found sothing unusual, matching the situation described at the table.
In what seed a very Ordinary scene, Yi Chen caught sight of a mirror in the corner of the fra reflecting a woman whose attire didn’t match the era of the drama.
Only her figure was visible, her neck just above the mirror edge, leaving her face unseen.
The Mirror woman seed to sense his gaze,
A proportionately Perfect hand slowly rose, greeting Yi Chen outside the television... Accompanied by the hand’s wavering, the woman’s body crouched slowly, seemingly intending to reveal her face and complete the ’first eting’ with Yi Chen.
Just as the fair neck was fully exposed, on the brink of revealing her visage.
Bang!
A glass teacup abruptly dropped in front of Yi Chen, its crisp sound interrupting his Vision, and the television turned off imdiately.
Liu Xinzhi arrived just in ti, expressing with a face full of panic:
"Mr. Yi, your state earlier was just like my husband’s when he used to watch TV;
your eyes seed about to bulge out, bloodshot, you even forgot to blink!"
Growing more agitated, Liu Xinzhi even grasped Yi Chen’s shoulders tightly, "Did you see her!? You saw her, didn’t you? You saw the woman in the TV, right?"
"Almost, only saw her body."
Upon hearing this, the mistress visibly relaxed, placing a hand on her chest, her anxious and frantic face instantly growing gentler, looking even younger.
"That’s good... That’s good... It was really too dangerous. I shouldn’t have let you watch television, not expecting Mr. Yi to be targeted so soon;
it’s probably because you’re indeed too handso.
Drink so tea first;
I’ll find you a few books to pass the ti."
Liu Xinzhi got up and headed to the bedroom, while Yi Chen obediently waited in the living room,
but as ti ticked by, the day gradually darkened, Liu Xinzhi said to get the books never ca out of the bedroom.
"Miss Liu!"
Yi Chen’s call received no answer, so he had to get up and check.
The master bedroom door was next to the morial, passing by, Yi Chen vaguely noticed the portrait’s eyes seed to dart over rapidly with shifting firelight.
The bedroom door was slightly ajar with a crevice.
Out of politeness, Yi Chen knocked on the door yet still received no response, so he pushed the door open. .
The dim room was devoid of people, but the bathroom within emitted a faint glow, though the light inside appeared to be from candles instead of regular illumination.
Moreover, steam billowed out from underneath the door, clearly indicating soone was bathing inside.
Yi Chen approached the bathroom door, "Miss Liu, are you in there?"
"Oh! Mr. Yi~ I’m so sorry! I’ve been forgetful lately;
when I got to the bedroom to find you books, I suddenly rembered I hadn’t bathed in two days, so I set water to soak and completely forgot about the books.
Wait for just a mont, my Skin hasn’t been in good condition lately, so I need to clean slowly.
Without my husband’s help, I find it difficult to clean myself thoroughly alone... Mr. Yi, could you co in and help
scrub? Is that okay?"
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