The barrel of the gun brushed aside her hair, revealing the face hidden beneath.

Her features were identical to those in the photograph of Mavis.

Except she was expressionless, her eyes vacant and lifeless, with not a trace of human emotion in her pale blue irises.

In comparison, the wooden doll that Li Ang was now holding seemed more "human."

Mavis stared blankly at the television, not even flinching when Li Ang pointed the gun at her forehead.

[Hurry...do it...]

A searing pain shot through Li Ang's arm again, and a new line of tattoos appeared, the words scrawled and chaotic,

like a dying man enduring immense pain and terror.

"..."

Li Ang calmly glanced at the tattoo, slowly released the safety of the pistol, and gently placed his finger on the trigger.

Then, he suddenly spun the gun in his hand, twirled it in a gun flourish, and tucked it into his suit pocket, without pulling the trigger on Mavis.

[Steven, what are you doing?!]

The tattoo on his arm became more prominent.

Li Ang glanced at the painfully throbbing tattoo, looked up at the air, and said, "You should be able to see what's around me, right?

I'm giving you one last chance to tell me the truth."

[What are you saying? Stop Mavis, I can't hold on much longer, think of your family...]

The tattoo continued to write more and more frantically.

Li Ang sighed deeply, grabbed the wooden doll floating in mid-air, stepped onto the double bed, and rushed towards the window on the left side of the room.

Bang!

The wooden doll crashed heavily into the window, the utility knife in its hand scraping against the glass, emitting a sharp, grating sound.

The next second, that feeling of being pulled out of consciousness descended again.

When he opened his eyes again, Li Ang was back in the living room of the house.

The living room was still filled with black gas, and the silver crucifix in the hands of the psychic Barbara emitted a faint light, forming a barrier to block the black mist.

Barbara herself was staring at Li Ang in shock and anger, asking in a deep voice, "Why?"

"Hmm?"

Li Ang raised an eyebrow and said casually, "You're questioning me because I didn't shoot Mavis just now,

which has put you, Steven's parents, and Steven himself in mortal danger at this moment.

Am I right?"

Barbara took a deep breath and said, "Mavis has completely lost her self-awareness, she's no longer the person you remember..."

"Stop."

Li Ang interrupted Barbara, saying casually, "You're mistaken about one thing.

I didn't shoot just now not because I pitied Mavis, nor because I was concerned about Mavis being Steven's wife.

But to return to this world and confirm something."

"Confirm something?"

Barbara asked subconsciously, "What is it?"

"Heh,"

Li Ang smiled, casually glanced at Steven's parents, and said calmly, "What do you think happened to Steven and Mavis?

The couple both loved cryptography, had common interests and a common language, had a son and a daughter, a harmonious family, and a happy life.

The husband was a well-paid white-collar worker, and the wife was well-educated, could play the piano, and liked to collect high-end dolls.

The two children were also very well-behaved.

So, why did this family fall apart?"

"What are you talking about?"

Barbara frowned and said, "Didn't I just explain it? Mavis was an orphan, introverted since childhood, and only improved after marrying you.

However, during a family trip, she crashed her car into a motorcyclist, causing his death.

This incident caused her severe mental trauma, to the point that in the following years, her mental state gradually collapsed, sometimes depressed, sometimes manic,

to the point that even constant medication could not cure her.

In the end, she chose self-destruction."

"Is that really so?"

Li Ang smiled and said, "I have a different idea, about the 'truth' of Steven's family."

He raised his hand, pointed to his eyes, and said calmly, "At this moment, in your eyes, what color are the irises of my eyes?"

"What? Are you crazy?"

Barbara's face showed an unbelievable expression when she heard this. They were about to be swallowed up by the black gas, and he was in the mood to discuss eye color.

Steven's mother said tremblingly, "Steven, dear child, have you suffered some kind of shock in the spirit world?"

"Shock? Not really."

Li Ang waved his hand, treating the surrounding black gas as nothing, "I just need you to answer my question. If I'm satisfied with the answer, I'll cooperate again and return to the spirit world."

"..."

Barbara took a deep breath, "Pale blue. The color of the irises of your eyes is pale blue."

"Very good."

Li Ang snapped his fingers and said casually, "The iris is a flat, round, ring-shaped membrane in the middle layer of the eyeball wall, mainly composed of connective tissue, containing pigment, blood vessels, and smooth muscle.

Iris color can be roughly divided into dark brown, light brown, amber, green, gray, blue, purple, and pink.

Of course, no matter what color the iris is, its color depends on the amount of melanin, the type of melanin, and the distribution of melanin in the iris.

And these are controlled by multiple gene loci in the human gene sequence. The known gene loci are eyCL1, eyCL2, and eyCL3, among which the oCA2 gene of eyCL3 plays a key role in most eye colors."

Li Ang paused and said with a smile, "The oCA2 gene is an integral membrane protein that participates in the transmembrane transport of small molecules, especially the precursor tyrosine of melanin, affecting skin color, hair color, eye color, and physical features such as freckles and moles.

Since it's a gene, it can be inherited.

The most common iris color in the world is dark brown.

Light brown is generally found in Caucasian ethnic groups in the Middle East.

Amber, which is lighter than brown, is even rarer and is generally found in mixed-race people in Europe.

In comparison, blue irises are more common in Europe.

Green irises are common in Celts, Germans, Slavs, Turks, Pashtuns, and others.

All of the above are genetic inheritance within the same ethnic group.

As for gray and purple, they are variations of blue irises, and pink is due to the lack of pigment in the iris and is common in albinism patients.

So, what kind of iris color will be produced by intermarriage between different ethnic groups?"

Li Ang put his hands in his pockets and said lightly, "Iris color is a qualitative trait controlled by multiple genes. The four alleles have no dominant or recessive relationship, but are added to each other.

In the absence of mutations,

the presence of each effective gene increases the effect value.

For example, red and blue mix to become purple, and brown and blue mix to become green.

Have you noticed?

Steven's own iris color is pale blue, his wife Mavis's iris color is brownish-brown, and the two children's eyes are also brown.

Instead of following the genetic rules of green or light green."

Li Ang smiled and said, "That's very strange.

Why are both children, Robin and Lynn,'s irises brown?

You know, in the law of inheritance, all four genes must simultaneously determine the same color in order to produce a pure iris color.

In other words, Robin and Lynn may not be Steven's own children."

Steven's parents were stunned and shouted in unison, "What are you saying?!"

"Is that so surprising?"

Li Ang spread his hands and said, "Okay, let me give you a hypothesis.

Steven grew up in a wealthy family, with rich parents,

while Mavis was an orphan and grew up in a poor environment.

Although the two were truly in love, their different social statuses often caused conflicts in their views on life.

Steven's parents were upper-class people, and although they didn't say it out loud, they had various prejudices against their daughter-in-law in private.

And Steven was usually busy with work and didn't care enough about his family.

Under long-term torment and loneliness, it was reasonable for Mavis to find other pastimes.

She wove a broccoli-colored hat for Steven and gave birth to two children who didn't belong to Steven.

Steven himself was unaware of this and treated the two children as his own.

The days went by like this.

However, during a family trip, an accident happened.

Mavis drove a Chevrolet SUV and crashed into a motorcycle.

The injured person was sent to the hospital and died after unsuccessful rescue.

Afterwards, Mavis discovered that the deceased was her lover.

The younger lover was not satisfied with being a third party and may have wanted to drive together, follow Steven's family and participate in the family trip to find some excitement,

or he may have simply wanted to see his two children.

In short, no one noticed this except Mavis herself.

Marriage failed, love shattered, and Mavis's mental state became even worse, leading to a series of chain reactions,

resulting in the tragedy."

Li Ang paused and glanced at the dazed Steven's parents and the psychic, and smiled easily: "What do you three think of this story?"

"..."

The psychic Barbara was the first to react, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "Because you discovered the fact that the two children didn't belong to Steven, you fell into anger and despair,

and refused to kill Mavis in the spirit world.

You want her to endure eternal pain in the spirit world, unable to live and unable to die, this is the price of her betrayal.

As for Robin and Lynn.

These two children have nothing to do with you, so you naturally don't care about their life or death at all."

"You've learned to answer questions first?"

Li Ang smiled and nodded, "That's right...my ass?

This isn't some kind of family ethics drama like *The Temptation of Going Home*, involving betrayal, adultery, depravity, third parties, punishment, etc.,

nor is it some NTR ecstasy or pure love warrior tearjerker.

Mavis and Steven's relationship didn't break down, and neither of them betrayed the other.

Or rather, there is no basis for betraying each other."

"No betrayal?"

Steven's parents said hesitantly, "What do you mean?"

"It's very simple."

Li Ang shrugged and said plainly: "You just said that Steven is the person Mavis cares about the most.

Because of this, only Steven can freely enter the spirit world modeled after this house, without being subjected to Mavis's indiscriminate attacks.

If Mavis harbored hatred and killing intent towards Steven, then the unarmed Steven would almost certainly not be able to survive in the spirit world for so long.

In the spirit world, the black cat and the wooden doll that Steven encountered were all natural power ripples emitted unconsciously by Mavis. Mavis herself did not deliberately control them.

Because of this, the black cat and the wooden doll will follow their instincts in the spirit world and attack Steven.

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And this world, that is, the environment we are in at this moment, these black gases, their essence is the same as the black cat and the wooden doll,

they are all unintentionally released by Mavis.

Knowing this,

now, let me tell you the second hypothesis.

Mavis and Steven loved each other, their souls were in harmony with each other, and their lives were happy and fulfilling.

Until one day, Mavis discovered a fact.

She, was about to die."

Li Ang paused and said before Barbara could speak, "I know what you want to say.

Mavis's cause of death was taking too many sleeping pills and cutting herself with a blade, resulting in excessive blood loss.

In the final analysis, it was her mental illness.

But what if we reversed the cause and effect?

Mavis's mental illness was not because she injured someone in a car accident, but because she knew that her death was imminent.

She realized that her husband had been deceiving her from beginning to end,

all of this,

the harmonious family, the happy life, were all fabricated illusions,

and even she herself found it hard to explain why she existed."

"What are you talking about?"

Barbara clenched the silver crucifix in her hand, her fingers pale and bloodless from being clenched too hard.

"Heh,"

Li Ang shook his head and smiled, "You should be able to see all of my experiences in the spirit world.

The things in the spirit world are constructed according to the memories and imagination of the deceased.

Everything in the spirit world house eventually played its value and had its meaning.

Whether it was the padlock I opened at the beginning, or the rabbit doll corpse I moved out of the bathroom, it was all like this.

But among the clues I found, there are still a few points that have not been explained.

First of all, is the Chevrolet SUV that I saw in the garage of the house.

That car was brand new and intact, with no traces of a car accident, and the paint on its surface had not been repainted.

If Mavis was concerned about the car accident and could not accept it, then why would she allow the Chevrolet to continue to exist in the garage?

If Mavis didn't mind the Chevrolet, just because the spirit world was built according to reality, then why would the car have no damage?

Moreover, Steven has a high income and a wealthy family, so why would he continue to put this wrecked car in the garage?

What about Steven's own vehicle? He can't possibly drive an SUV to work, right?"

He tossed his head in the direction of the garage and said casually, "If I now pass through these black gases and open the garage door, what will I see inside?

A broken SUV? A new SUV?

Or a sedan?"