Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 723 - 713 Floating Skin

Chapter 723: Chapter 713 Floating Skin

After coming out from the base of the Hunters Association, Wen Wen and Tao Qingqing parted ways.

They each planned to make a round of the city, handling whatever supernatural entity they encountered.

As a vampire close to the Disaster Intermediate Sequence, Tao Qingqing was fully capable of dealing with some simple supernatural cases, as long as she didn’t court death.

If she encountered those bizarre flesh parts, she would notify Wen Wen immediately, rather than attempting to handle them herself.

Apart from the flesh parts, Xihong City had a high density of monsters, but not many were strong. Armed with a child’s urine water gun, most troubles could be dealt with.

During his patrol, when Wen Wen passed by Zhao Xueling’s house, he detected a trace of a resentful spirit’s qi, so he climbed the building to observe the situation.

Indeed, the man who flashed by the window and startled Zhao Xueling was Wen Wen himself.

The eerie events in Zhao Xueling’s home should be divided into two parts. The two children playing with marbles were the offspring of the old couple who lived upstairs.

They had died from an accident five years prior.

Unable to accept this fact, the elderly couple did not announce the children’s death, pretending they were still alive.

This distorted yearning pulled the souls of the two children back from the Gray Mist Layer to the real world, becoming two vengeful ghosts that played with marbles at night.

The sound of marbles at midnight made the elderly couple feel like their children were still with them, so this abnormality continued for five years.

During those five years, the little resentful spirits did not harm the elderly couple not out of unwillingness, but because they lacked the strength.

Every resentful spirit harbors hatred toward the living, regardless of whether those living are their relatives.

Weak resentful spirits need to fulfill certain conditions to harm people. If conditions are not met, ordinary people can survive an encounter with them.

Just like the first resentful spirit Wen Wen caught, Qin Shuang, he could only cause frostbite to three ordinary students and was unable to kill them.

The abilities of these two little resentful spirits required others to play marbles with them to be triggered. However, they were even weaker than Qin Shuang initially and couldn’t even manifest real marbles, let alone entice someone to play with them.

If things had continued this way, nothing might have changed until the elderly couple passed away.

But a few months ago, a turning point occurred.

A force brimming with an unusually filthy qi spread across Xihong City, rapidly increasing the strength of weak monsters like those two little ghosts.

Five days ago, the two little resentful spirits gained the ability to manifest physically and killed the elderly couple that had been with them for five years.

And today, their strength progressed even further, no longer confined to one place, and they could freely kill.

Their first target was the family of Zhao Xueling, who had heard the sound of marbles for five years.

When Zhao Pan got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, he accidentally stepped on a marble. He attempted to pick it up but missed due to the grogginess from just waking up.

The marble rolled by the movement of Zhao Pan’s hand, fulfilling the condition for murder!

Consequently, Zhao Pan lost consciousness...

By the time Wen Wen discovered what was happening here, Zhao Pan had already died and had become a specter-like being, controlled by the two little ghosts.

Originally, Wen Wen was prepared to eliminate these entities swiftly, but just then, he acutely sensed a qi of resentful spirits that was distinctly filthier.

That qi matched that of the stomach and hair parts; Wen Wen was certain it came from the flesh parts of some monster.

Moreover, this qi was much stronger than the parts Wen Wen had encountered before, implying it was likely more complete and formidable.

Therefore, Wen Wen remained outside like a spider, observing the situation, looking for the monster’s vulnerability.

Even he couldn’t discern which of the two Leles was real.

Perhaps... neither of them were real!

When the conflict in Zhao Xueling’s house erupted, Wen Wen knew he could no longer wait.

Otherwise, the woman might die of sheer fright.

Zhao Pan was already dead, and Lele’s life or death was uncertain, but Wen Wen at least tried to ensure Zhao Xueling’s safety.

Whether he pretended to check the water meter or played water guns with the resentful spirits, Wen Wen never showed his true strength.

This could, to some extent, lower the vigilance of the flesh part in Lele’s room.

Wen Wen learned from Gu Daoqing that although the flesh parts were bizarre, they were ultimately incomplete.

Some of them couldn’t speak, some couldn’t see, and most of the discovered flesh parts had much lower cognitive abilities than normal people.

Well... they were basically mentally challenged.

Therefore, Wen Wen just needed to make sure his actions appeared logical on the surface, and he might be able to fool it.

It seemed Wen Wen’s approach had been very successful.

Wen Wen walked behind Zhao Xueling, knocked her unconscious, and put her into the Sanctuary.

With Zhao Xueling gone, Wen Wen finally took a sigh of relief, as he now had no worries behind him.

Wen Wen looked seriously at the two Leles on and under the bed, his two fingers revealing a black sheen.

If he ultimately couldn’t tell which of the two Leles was real, then he would release rays on both Leles, and the one who wasn’t hurt would naturally be the fake one.

Seeing Wen Wen, both Leles showed a look of terror and said to him:

"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?"

These lines were the same as what they had said to Zhao Xueling, only with a different title.

If Wen Wen hadn’t eavesdropped earlier, he might not have noticed anything amiss, but now, hearing the same words again, he had a few thoughts in mind.

These two guys were probably not the real Lele!

Both had seen Wen Wen shoot their father with a water gun and kidnap their mother right in front of them, yet they said the same thing without changing their expression.

If there were no issues, Wen Wen could lick the car clean that had been hit by locusts!

So Wen Wen put on a friendly smile and blatantly lied, "There’s only you here, I didn’t see anything, don’t believe me? Come out and see for yourself?"

Both Leles were momentarily stunned, as this trick had harmed many people before, but it was the first time someone responded like this.

"Uncle..."

"Uncle..."

After two seconds of silence, the two children repeated the same words again.

"It seems like you don’t have anything else to say and don’t plan on coming out here..."

Wen Wen chuckled, snapped his fingers, and the water from the child’s urine water gun was drawn out, splitting into two streams and spraying onto the heads of the two individuals.

The skin on the surface of the two Leles moved almost at the same time, and in the blink of an eye, they became quiet, proving Wen Wen’s earlier thought that both of these little guys were off.

Despite Wen Wen’s casual demeanor, he was actually ready to teleport away at any moment.

From that fleeting Qi, Wen Wen could tell that the creature’s strength was definitely not weak, but its behavior left him puzzled.

Previously, it had all the capability to kill everyone in the room, but it acted like an ordinary resentful spirit, pretending to scare people.

Without figuring out the reason for its actions, Wen Wen wouldn’t rashly attack the creature.

"Uncle..."

"Uncle..."

So Wen Wen began to test the two children, with the repeated phrases echoing in the room, along with the persistent nagging of Wen Wen.

Wen Wen was very patient; he wanted to see how long these two little guys could hold out.

Midway through the probing, Wen Wen’s expression changed; he sensed an indescribable, filthy Qi!

Then, a weird wailing sound came through.

Wen Wen immediately realized new flesh parts had appeared!

And in the instant Wen Wen was distracted, the skin of the two Leles on and under the bed began to wriggle...