After leaving the Hunter Association base, Wen Wen parted ways with Tao Qingqing, planning to first explore the city and deal with whatever he encountered.
As a vampire nearing the intermediate stage of disaster, Tao Qingqing was fully capable of handling minor supernatural cases. As long as she didn't court death, she wouldn't face significant danger.
If she encountered the flesh and blood of those grotesque monsters, she would notify Wen Wen immediately and wouldn't attempt to handle it herself.
The monster density here was high, but few possessed great strength. Armed with a virgin boy's urine water gun, one could resolve most troubles.
As Wen Wen passed by Zhao Xueling's home, he sensed the presence of a resentful soul, so he climbed up to observe the situation.
That's right, the man who flashed past Zhao Xueling's bedside, the one who most terrified her, was Wen Wen.
The two children playing marbles had died shortly after Zhao Xueling went upstairs to argue five years ago.
For reasons unknown, the elderly couple did not announce the deaths of these two, pretending the children were still alive.
A distorted longing had pulled the souls of the two children back from the gray mist layer into the real world, turning them into two resentful souls who played marbles at night.
The sound of marbles at midnight also made the elderly couple feel that their children were still with them, which had allowed this twisted family environment to persist for five years.
For five years, the two little resentful souls had not harmed the elderly couple.
It wasn't that they didn't want to. Every resentful soul was filled with hatred for the living, but they lacked the ability.
Weak resentful souls needed to meet certain conditions to kill. Otherwise, ordinary people could survive them, just as Qin Shuang only caused frostbite to three children back then.
The abilities of these two small resentful souls required others to play marbles with them to activate.
However, their abilities were so weak that they couldn't even manifest the physical form of marbles, thus they couldn't get anyone to play with them.
If things had continued like this, perhaps nothing would have changed until the elderly couple passed away.
But everything changed a few months ago. A force carrying an abnormal filth began to spread throughout Xihong City. In this environment, these weak monsters' strength rapidly increased.
Five days ago, the two little resentful souls gained the ability to manifest physical forms and killed the two elders who had accompanied them for five years.
And today, their strength had grown even greater, no longer confined to one location, allowing them to kill freely.
Their first target was naturally Zhao Xueling's family, who had been listening to the sound of marbles for five years.
Zhao Pan, while getting up in the night, accidentally stepped on a marble. He tried to pick it up, but in his sleepy daze, he missed, nudging the marble.
Then, he lost consciousness...
By the time Wen Wen arrived, Zhao Pan was already dead and had transformed into a ghoul-like existence. As he was about to clear these entities, he keenly sensed a fleeting, foul aura distinctly different from that of a resentful soul.
That aura, like the stomach and hair, was a component from some monster. Moreover, this thing was much more complete than the two items Wen Wen had found earlier, suggesting its power was not to be underestimated.
This was why Wen Wen had been clinging to the outside like a spider, observing the situation and looking for the monster's weakness.
Because even he couldn't tell which of the two Lele was the real one.
Perhaps... neither of them was real!
When Zhao Xueling was discovered, Wen Wen knew he couldn't wait any longer, as the woman might be scared to death.
This family might only have this woman left alive, so Wen Wen intended to try and save her.
Whether it was pretending to check the water meter or playing with monsters using a water gun, Wen Wen had not revealed his strength, which could somewhat reduce the monster's vigilance.
In his discussion with Gu Daoqing, Wen Wen learned that although these monsters were strange, they were incomplete. Some couldn't speak, some couldn't see, and most of the discovered monsters had much lower thinking abilities than normal people.
Well... basically, they were mentally challenged.
Therefore, as long as it was logical and didn't threaten them, they generally wouldn't become vigilant.
After dealing with the little ghosts, Wen Wen casually knocked out Zhao Xueling and put her into the containment facility, finally breathing a sigh of relief.
Without Zhao Xueling, Wen Wen had no lingering concerns. He looked seriously at the two Lele, one on and one under the bed, and a black sheen appeared on his fingers.
If Wen Wen ultimately couldn't distinguish which of the two Lele was real, he would fire rays at both simultaneously. The one that remained unharmed would naturally be the fake.
"Uncle, there's a monster on the bed. Can you help me drive it away?"
"Uncle, there's something under the bed. Can you help me drive it away?"
Hearing this, Wen Wen already had some idea. It was likely that neither of these was the real Lele, or the real Lele was being controlled by that thing.
Before, both children had dodged like ostriches, and Wen Wen really couldn't see anything.
But they had both witnessed Wen Wen squirting their father with a water gun and then kidnapping their mother right in front of them. Yet, they had said the same thing with unchanged expressions. If there were no issues, Wen Wen would lick clean the car he was hit by by locusts.
So Wen Wen put on a kind smile and told a lie with open eyes: "You're the only one here. I didn't see anything. Don't you believe me? Take a look yourself?"
The two Lele froze for a moment. This trick had harmed quite a few people, and this was the first time someone had responded like this.
"Uncle..."
"Uncle..."
After two seconds of silence, the two children said the same thing.
"It seems you can't say anything else, nor do you plan to come out of here..."
Wen Wen chuckled, snapped his fingers, and the water from the virgin boy's urine water gun was guided out, splitting into two streams and spraying onto both of their heads.
The skin on the surface of the two Lele almost simultaneously writhed, and in an instant, they became quiet.
But this proved Wen Wen's previous assumption: both of these little fellows were acting strange.
Despite Wen Wen's current casual demeanor, he was actually ready to teleport away at any moment.
From the fleeting aura, he could tell that this thing's strength was definitely not weak, yet its behavior made Wen Wen feel puzzled.
It was fully capable of instantly killing everyone in the room but was acting like an ordinary resentful soul, pretending to scare people.
Without understanding the reason for its actions, Wen Wen wouldn't rashly attack it.
"Uncle..."
"Uncle..."
The voices of the two children echoed in the room, along with Wen Wen's nonsensical chatter.
In any case, Wen Wen was patient. He wanted to see how long these two little fellows could endure.
Suddenly, a loud noise came from outside, accompanied by a strange wail and an indescribably foul aura.
"New parts have appeared?"
At the same time, the skin of the two Lele in front of Wen Wen began to writhe strangely...