But when he looked again the next second, his expression returned to normal, and even the speckled bloodstains on his face seemed like just an illusion.
He looked just like he did on TV—an honest and simple man grieving over his missing wife.
He was sadly wiping away tears.
It turned out that the missing wife was actually Yun Zhi's neighbor.
"Just don't know if it's the upstairs neighbor or the downstairs one," Yun Zhi muttered to herself.
【This Mr. Zhang definitely has a problem】
【Isn't it normal to be sad when a wife is gone? What's strange about that?】
【This guy's vibe is off, there's a gloomy feeling about him】
"I'm sorry, I haven't seen your wife," Yun Zhi replied through the door.
The Eerie Husband had said not to casually open the door, and as a happy housewife who loved her husband, Yun Zhi had stuck to that principle so far.
The honest and simple Mr. Zhang looked somewhat sad.
Seeing this, Yun Zhi continued, "If I get any information about her, I'll definitely tell you. When my husband gets off work, I'll ask him to help you search too."
At times like this, Yun Zhi didn't forget to maintain her persona of a loving wife.
But unexpectedly, Mr. Zhang was momentarily stunned when he heard that: "Your husband?"
"That's right," Yun Zhi said matter-of-factly. "My husband is really capable."
Mr. Zhang's expression froze for a second, then turned into fear. He nodded and said, "Right, you have a husband."
"You..." Mr. Zhang seemed about to say something else, but swallowed his words and turned to leave.
Yun Zhi looked through the peephole and noticed that his footsteps seemed a bit hurried.
After he left, Yun Zhi said with a hint of pity, "So devoted, isn't he."
But inwardly, she was puzzled by Mr. Zhang's reaction when she mentioned her husband, and she silently noted it.
【No way, the streamer still hasn't noticed something strange about this Mr. Zhang?】
【Indecisiveness is a no-go!】
【Watching this is giving me an idiot-phobia attack. She must have been lucky to survive two days in the instance】
Yun Zhi didn't know the bullet comments' assessment of her. She sighed softly and then walked straight into the bathroom.
She stopped only when she reached the toilet.
Just as the bullet comments were wondering what she was doing, Yun Zhi suddenly asked, "Your husband is looking for you—aren't you going to take a look?"
The toilet was quiet, as if nothing had changed.
Yun Zhi continued talking to herself, "Your husband looks really anxious. He loves you a lot."
The toilet began to gurgle as bloody water bubbled up.
Then a clump of black hair slowly emerged from the toilet—the same head Yun Zhi had shoved into the sewer on the first day.
This time, it finally turned around, revealing a terrifying face.
Its face looked as if it had been hacked repeatedly with some blunt weapon—chunks of scarlet flesh hung off in pieces, already rotting, with maggots wriggling. It reeked with a foul stench, and pus dripped down nonstop.
【Ugh, I'm gonna throw up】
【Run! Is the streamer crazy, calling out the ghoul to find death!】
【Can't take it anymore】
【Am I the only one who noticed the streamer said "your husband"? Does that mean this ghoul is actually Mr. Zhang's wife?】
【Obviously. That hand today had red nail polish, and Mr. Zhang's wife's hand in the photo had it too】
【So Mr. Zhang's missing wife is already dead and turned into a ghoul?】
In the live stream room, that human head slowly floated up from the sewer, completely unrecognizable from the gentle woman in the TV photo.
"Wait, don't climb out!" Yun Zhi grabbed a mop to stop it.
【Only now getting scared? Isn't it too late?】
【Even if it is Mr. Zhang's wife, it's still a ghoul now. What is the streamer doing looking for death?】
【Streamer, you can still run now】
【Too scared to move, huh? After all, she hadn't seen the ghoul's real form the past two days】
Yun Zhi then brought the mop a little closer to the head and said disdainfully, "Don't get my bathroom dirty!"
She had only just managed to clean the bathroom!
【Huh? That's it?】
【Anybody who said Zhi Jie was scared got owned, right?】
That head remembered the two times it had been shoved into the sewer, and tried hard to shrink inside the toilet, not letting a drop of blood fall on the floor.
But it looked especially furious, black qi emanating from its body, with a whistling "heh heh" sound escaping its throat.
Seeing that the human head didn't move, Yun Zhi knew her guess was correct.
In this house, these ghouls simply couldn't touch her—or rather, couldn't directly touch her.
Whether it was this human head appearing on the first day, or later the so-called lover knocking at the door, none of these ghouls could harm her.
That's why they tried every means to scare her or make her foolishly trigger a taboo.
In fact, as long as she played the role of "happy housewife," she was safe.
"I know, you want to go find your husband, right?" After confirming she was safe, Yun Zhi asked the ghoul.
The ghoul let out another "heh heh" sound, seemingly furious.
"Oh, you don't want to find him? Or rather, you actually do want to find him." Yun Zhi paused. "You want to kill him."
She tilted her head, smiling at the rotting, stinking human head in the toilet: "Because he killed you, right?"
As Yun Zhi's words fell, the ghoul erupted with a massive burst of black qi—a tangible grudge. Even Yun Zhi, who was close, felt a chill.
The ghoul's mouth opened and closed, letting out a hoarse whisper: "Die... they all deserve to die..."
【Holy crap, so it really was that Mr. Zhang who killed her?】
【I knew that guy didn't look like a good person】
【Wife murder and dismemberment, I'm gonna puke】
【So the upstairs neighbor who's been chopping vegetables all the time... could it be... dismemberment?】
【That explains why there was blood in the streamer's bathroom. It all adds up. Ugh, I'm getting goosebumps】
【So the streamer had already seen through the truth】
The ghoul seemed to be in a state of extreme anger and resentment, chunks of rotting flesh falling off its face, the stench filling the entire room.
"Die... die... they all deserve to die..."
"Calm down, calm down." Yun Zhi quickly tried to soothe it. "Your enemy isn't me. I just want to remind you—you've been crawling to the wrong place every time."
"Promise me, next time climb one more floor and go find your real enemy, okay?"
The ghoul's expression froze for a moment.
The bullet comments were cracking up.
【Hahaha climb one more floor—so that's something you can negotiate?】
【The streamer doesn't actually think she can negotiate with a ghoul, does she? Careful you don't play with fire and burn yourself】
【Such a legendary streamer】
"Die... die..." The ghoul's bloody mouth opened and closed, only able to utter that word.
Just as the bullet comments said, it seemed completely unable to hear Yun Zhi's words.
Then, in the next moment, Yun Zhi shoved the mop into its face.
The ghoul looked up. Yun Zhi was still smiling at her, her beautiful eyes curved into a lovely arc, her tone harmless and naive: "Is that okay? Otherwise, if my husband comes back and sees you, he'll get mad too..."
The ghoul remembered how it felt being shoved into the sewer in the past two days, and the terrifying aura of the man of the house, so it nodded fearfully.
【Help, I actually saw grievance on a ghoul】
【Honestly, this streamer is amazing. She can talk normally to a ghoul like that. Even with mosaic, I almost threw up】
【Ghoul: "I nodded, so you can't hit me now." jpg】
"That's more like it. Remember that man—he's the one who killed you." Yun Zhi smiled contentedly. "He chopped you into pieces and flushed you into the sewer. Don't you want revenge?"
Her tone was seductive. The ghoul grew angry again, its resentment almost turning into black qi.
"Alright, go ahead." Yun Zhi encouraged her.
The ghoul instantly disappeared from the bathroom, as if it had never been there.
Everything became calm. Then no more disturbances occurred—even the guy who came knocking yesterday claiming to be Yun Zhi's lover didn't show up.
Until her husband came home from work.
He looked at her tenderly, but his black eyes were fixed and lifeless, always giving off a somewhat eerie feeling: "Wife, did you behave at home today?"
"Of course." Yun Zhi pounced into his arms and told him about today's encounter.
"A neighbor came knocking today. His wife is missing. How pitiful."
"Is that so?" The husband still looked at her tenderly, his gaze focused and infatuated. "That really is pitiful."
Yun Zhi raised her head proudly: "But I found his wife in our bathroom, so I gave her a heads up. They'll be reunited soon. Isn't that great?"
"Yes." The husband nodded. "They'll be happy."
The husband didn't seem to pay much attention to the phrase "found in the bathroom."
At this time, upstairs, Mr. Zhang—who had been at Yun Zhi's door earlier—wore an expression of fear on his honest and simple face.
He collapsed on the floor, being choked by the ghoul reeking of stench: "Die... die..."
The ghoul's pale hands still had beautiful bright red nail polish on them.
Its face, hacked into chunks by the blunt weapon, slowly drew close. Its bloody mouth bit into Mr. Zhang's face, and blood gushed instantly.
From behind, it looked like lovers clinging to each other.
Indeed, a very happy couple.
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