"Someone's coming out!"
When the sound of the door opening was heard, Lu Fei and Jia Banxian glanced at each other and silently slipped into a dark corner to hide.
Soon enough.
A hunched figure walked out of the building.
Lu Fei poked his head out slightly, squinting to observe, and found it was an elderly man in a sanitation vest, carrying a broom and a dustpan, slowly moving towards the distance.
It turned out to be a sanitation worker starting their shift.
This is quite early.
After waiting for a while and seeing no one else come out, Lu Fei and Jia Banxian quietly slipped into the building.
As soon as they entered the hallway, both felt a chill in the air.
"This kind of cold... No, it's yin energy!"
Jia Banxian was startled and looked around the old, cramped unit building.
"How could a place where people live have such heavy Yin energy? It's almost as strong as a haunted house!"
"There must be something wrong! But we came here to find the original owner of the little parrot. Let's not get involved in unnecessary matters for now. See if you can tell which household it is?" Lu Fei looked around.
"Let me calculate it." While Jia Banxian was still counting on his fingers, the small black dog seemed to have discovered something and tugged at Lu Fei's trouser leg.
"I'll go check it out first."
Lu Fei gave Jia Banxian a nod and followed the small black dog to a household's front door.
"Such heavy Yin energy!"
A thick, cold Yin energy seeped out from the crack in the door, causing Lu Fei to frown immediately. He shone his flashlight at the door.
Rusty doors hung with peach branches on both sides.
"Is this household haunted?"
At this moment, Jia Banxian also walked over.
"A hundred meters to the southwest, it's this house..."
Before he could finish, the little parrot in his hand began to quiver, appearing extremely uneasy, as if it had sensed something.
"It's here!" he exclaimed with wide eyes.
"There's something wrong with this household!"
Lu Fei pressed his ear to the door and listened.
Inside, there was complete silence; it seemed that no one was home.
The security door was locked tightly. Lu Fei, lacking the skill to open locks like Huzi, went around to the window instead.
This was the first floor, so he could get in just by opening the window.
But when Lu Fei tried, he found that the window was sealed from the inside. He would have to break the glass to open it.
Black paper was pasted on the window, making it impossible to see what was inside.
"Sealed so tightly, they must be doing something shady that can't see the light of day."
"We can't get in, what should we do?" Lu Fei was at a loss, suddenly missing Hu Zi a bit.
"With the doors and windows sealed so tightly, how did the little parrot fly out?" Jia Banxian looked at the gloomy house, his face showing a look of suspicion.
"Let's look around some more, maybe there's a hole somewhere."
"Alright!"
The two of them carefully searched along the window, and finally found a fist-sized hole at the lower right corner of one of the windows.
This hole was just big enough for the little parrot to fly out, but now it was covered with black paper, making it hard to spot at night.
Lu Fei poked through the black paper, reached his arm in, and felt for the lock. After fiddling with it for a while, he finally managed to open the window.
Immediately, a strong stench of decay wafted out.
"I'll go in first to check the situation,"
Lu Fei sniffed and, holding the small black dog, climbed through the window first.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, he stepped on something soft and mushy, nearly causing him to fall.
Struggling to steady himself, he looked down.
It was a lump of glutinous rice, which had been on the floor for who knows how long, covered in mold and emitting a pungent, sour smell.
The room not only smelled sour but also rotten.
The mixture of various odors made the small black dog sneeze continuously, while Lu Fei felt like he was about to vomit.
He covered his nose and mouth, carefully observing his surroundings, and found that the room was extremely dirty and disorderly, filled with clutter and moldy, foul-smelling garbage.
It was practically a dump!
"How could anyone live in a house like this?"
Lu Fei walked with difficulty, making his way through the clutter, observing as he went.
"There are a lot of toys!"
Among the garbage, he saw many tattered children's toys, which made his heart tighten.
The house had two bedrooms.
One room had a bed, along with various items and garbage.
From the characteristics of the clothes piled on the bed, it seemed an elderly person was living there.
The door to the other room was closed, and the cold, eerie aura was emanating from that room.
Lu Fei had a bad feeling and carefully pushed the door open a crack to peek inside.
The room was just as chaotic.
Seven or eight large black jars occupied most of the room, with different types of toys and cages placed on top of them.
"A cage?"
Seeing that there was no one inside, Lu Fei pushed the door open and walked in, frowning at the strange objects in the room.
The large black vat exuded a thick, cold aura.
The toys on top were either small trucks or Ultraman figures, all of which boys would like.
In the cages were kittens or puppies, all dead and rotting, lying pitifully inside.
The last cage was a birdcage, empty, with a few green feathers scattered inside.
"It seems that the little parrot flew out from here... What is in these vats?"
Lu Fei's gaze returned to the cold, strange vats, and he already had a guess, but he didn't want to believe it.
Moving the birdcage aside, he gritted his teeth and lifted the lid off the vat.
A strong, sour stench wafted out.
Lu Fei mustered up the courage to look into the vat, but was taken aback.
It was full of glutinous rice.
"Could it be a mistake? Impossible!"
Lu Fei narrowed his eyes, put on gloves, and dug through the rice.
Soon enough.
A pale, bloodless small hand appeared from within the rice!
Lu Fei's heart sank.
He clenched his fists tightly.
He quickly removed the lids from the other large vats and dug through the rice inside them.
In each vat, there was a child!
A thick stench of corpses filled the room, even overpowering the putrid smell of the garbage.
These children had been dead for a long time, but their bodies had not decomposed.
Corpse rearing!
The family is using these children for corpse rearing!
Lu Fei's face was tense.
Seven children, all around the same age, about five or six years old. They definitely weren't from the same family; it was obvious they were kidnapped by the owner of the house.
"Why use children for corpse rearing?"
Lu Fei didn't understand and felt a heavy burden in his heart.
What exactly did the owner of the house want to do, why be so insane?
"Lu Fei, someone's coming back!"
At this moment, a soft reminder came from outside the window from Jia Banxian.
We mustn't startle the snake.
Lu Fei hurriedly covered the glutinous rice jar and put the toys and cage back in place.
However, as a result, he no longer had time to escape through the window, so he simply hid with Xiao Hei in the corner between the jars of glutinous rice.
Then.
The sound of the door opening could be heard.
Someone entered the house, tossed what they were holding, and quickly walked towards the bedroom.
Creak—
The filth-covered door was pushed open, allowing a sliver of light to enter the bedroom.
Hugging the small black dog, Lu Fei squatted in the gap between the glutinous rice jars, seeing the legs of an elderly person standing at the doorway.
The legs paused for a moment, then walked into the room.