Brother-in-law, be normal!

Chapter 17 Man-Made Eeries

Having seen so many strange things, Xu Qianyan was indifferent to this mummy.

However, the mummy's petite figure reminded everyone present of... Lolita from just now.

"This..." Fifth Fish had already guessed that this was the real Lolita.

Because her true form is here.

That Lolita weirdo is her projection.

Therefore, Lu Wuxin tried to kill her several times but failed.

"Who exactly locked her up here?" Xu Qianyan was very confused.

"Why lock up such a strange creature here?"

Lu Wuxin did not stop what he was doing and continued to smash the wall.

Soon, the mummy, which was bound to the wall with ropes of unknown material, lost its support and slid down through the hole in the wall as Lu Wuxin smashed the wall open completely.

This slip not only snapped the ropes but also destroyed the force field formed by the runes throughout the room.

In an instant, the resentment that had been forcibly confined to the room was also released.

The suffering this mummy endured during her lifetime immediately flooded everyone's minds.

...It was a birthday party that should have been filled with laughter.

Nine-year-old Lolita is blowing out the candles on the cake.

However, this ceremony, which marked her turning one year older, became the beginning of the ceremony that would lead to her death.

She is not the biological daughter of this family.

Instead, they were deliberately adopted.

Her adoptive parents were devout followers of a cult called the "Candlelight Society".

The reason they adopted her was because she was a genius with extraordinary superpowers.

At such a young age, he had already awakened his special ability—[manipulating dreams].

But this is also what the church wants to exploit.

Under their design.

The little girl living in this apartment building is bullied every day by her neighbors and even her peers.

The apartment building housed many church members who constantly spread rumors about all the residents, inciting men, women, and children to bully her.

They even deliberately staged an accident and claimed it was caused by her.

Therefore, everyone said she was the child of the devil, a heretic, and a witch.

For a girl who grew up under the influence of her adoptive parents and was extremely devout to a cult, she truly believed that she was born an unfortunate being.

No matter how others bullied her, she always thought about atoning for her sins.

But her passive acceptance of fate did not bring her any good fortune.

On her ninth birthday, she was judged by the leader of the Candlelight Society, the Venerable One.

They say she is an evil and unclean being.

Thus, she was bound to the altar and burned in flames.

But she is a superhuman with a very strong physique, so she is not so easy to be burned to death.

This caused her extreme pain, as she endured the scorching flames every second, which fueled her intense hatred.

She hated the world, hated everyone in the building, and hated the cult leader even more.

But her hatred was also exploited by the Venerable One.

She was mummified, her entire body covered in various runes, and buried in the walls of this room.

Her resentment, combined with her supernatural ability to manipulate dreams, transformed her into a completely new and bizarre being, allowing her to create an alternate world to take revenge on everyone in the building.

This is also why various strange rumors began to circulate about this building a few years ago.

As her power grew stronger, she was finally able to drive people to madness and death, or to cause them a gruesome end in the underworld.

This is the first death case that has occurred in the past six months.

This is also why the criminal police were unable to find the cause of death.

Her resentment dissipated completely after the room was destroyed.

Everyone woke up from their hallucination.

"She's so pitiful... She was tricked and bullied in life... And after death, she's locked up here and can't be reborn..." Xu Qianyan said with some distress.

The fifth fish, however, is somewhat unsettling upon closer inspection.

She was thinking about something else entirely.

"I always thought that the strange occurrences were natural phenomena, a natural occurrence in this world where the strange have descended..."

"But... wasn't that Lolita weirdness today man-made?"

Her words made Xu Qianyan feel a sense of lingering fear.

The previous ghost was simply upgraded inexplicably and became more dangerous due to human influence.

And this little girl in front of me...

However, it was directly and maliciously created to be bizarre.

This is far worse than the ghost incident!

"What is their purpose in doing this? What benefit does it bring them?!" Xu Qianyan was very puzzled.

But no one could answer that.

"Before the strange event occurred, there were also a lot of people who created viruses for no reason, conducted human experiments, and so on... No matter what era, there are always some insane and inherently evil people." Lu Wuxin slowly puffed on his cigarette.

"However, there are also those who pursue [power], who do not want to take the right path, but want to take shortcuts and reach higher... and thus use these crooked methods."

He smoked half of his cigarette.

Then he took out a talisman from his pocket.

He affixed the talisman to the mummy's body and then lit it with a cigarette.

In an instant, the talisman transformed into a blazing flame, engulfing the mummy.

"Let's burn it, otherwise she'll still use dreams to do evil. Let's also send her to the afterlife."

"The Miscellaneous Affairs Department doesn't need to use this body as evidence. Just report what you saw and heard truthfully, and hand over the other items in this room."

Fifth Fish was stunned for a moment.

This is indeed the operating principle of the Miscellaneous Affairs Department.

Moreover, these are internal regulations; they're just for show when it comes to external appearances.

How did Lu Wuxin know such details?

"No problem, I'll handle this case properly..." Fifth Fish replied.

She clenched her fists, feeling incredibly angry at the person who started this incident.

"I will definitely bring these guys to justice..."

Lu Wuxin glanced at the runes in the room.

"What an incredibly sophisticated formation..."

"Before this, he had conducted countless experiments to achieve this level of precision."

His words made Fifth Fish and Xu Qianyan even angrier.

In other words... before this, there were many other victims who failed?

That's too cruel...

The matter is now considered closed.

Fifth Fish told Lu Wuxin and Xu Qianyan to go back first, while she stayed there to wait for the other colleagues to finish up.

The promised payment to Xu Qianyan would be transferred to her in a few days.

While going downstairs.

Xu Qianyan kept looking at the busy, noisy, yet happy families on the floors she passed.

She turned to Lu Wuxin, who was following behind her, and asked, "Brother-in-law...is my sister back from her business trip?"

"Yeah, isn't she holding my hand right now?" Lu Wuxin grinned foolishly at the air next to him.

Xu Qianyan couldn't see anything.

However, she was still very happy.

Because Lu Wuxin looks very energetic right now!

She suddenly thought of something.

When we were in the Otherworld just now, was it my sister who separated the ghost baby from the anchor point in reality?

Although I can't see my sister, I don't know if she even exists.

but……

Xu Qianyan still felt somewhat happy.

She felt that she was no less capable than the other residents in the building.