Chapter 24: To Be Shocked (2/2)

“Are you…?”

Su Xiaoqian hesitantly voiced out her question, but the man didn’t need to answer because the madam covered her mouth with her hand and yelled in shock, “Son! How did you get out?”

After hearing these words, An Qing’s expression immediately changed. She didn’t care if the master and the madam were beside her, instantly shouting, “Don’t! Don’t let him say anything!”

As soon as the words left her mouth, Lu Tianyi rushed forward to subdue the man at once and tried to forcefully cover the man’s mouth with Su Xiaoqian by his side. Sadly, they were both a step behind.

“Dad! Mom! I’m not crazy! My little brother died a few years ago! I don’t have a brother anymore!”

“Stupid child, what nonsense are you sputtering out? Your brother is not…” The madam stopped mid-sentence and stared blankly ahead. Where was he?

For the past six months, the madam had always thought that her eldest son had gone insane, completely forgetting about his little brother from his corrupted mind.

But today, the madam’s previously neglected memories had all come flooding back into her, exuberantly exciting the eldest son. Her eyes immediately flashed bewilderedness as she gradually recalled her old memories…

Half a year ago, she and her husband went out but on their way back home, they saw a faceless child on the side of the road. Seeing that the couple was approaching him, the child suddenly obstructed their path. From someone else’s point of view, the scene was incredibly shocking.

But for some odd reason, the couple didn’t feel scared at all and even remembered their poor youngest son who died an early death because of this.

She couldn’t help but call him her son, bringing him home with them later on. They benevolently took him in and nurtured him as if he were their own.

Afterward…

What happened after?

Recalling until this point, the madam suddenly felt a sharp burst of pain coming from her neck as if it were preventing her from continuing her flashback. But, she couldn’t control what she remembered and carried on, leading the madam to become more and more horrified.

She remembered! She finally remembered!

Following that incident, the eldest son started to declare that his younger brother was already dead and due to his difficult attitude, the madam and master thought that he turned insane and locked him up in the cellar.

On the night the eldest son was locked up, the faceless ghost entered the master’s study and ominously gave the couple an ax. As a result, the master slowly lifted the ax and suddenly chopped down his wife’s head. He then waved the ax and also forcefully chopped off his head…

Finally remembering this, the madam’s head promptly fell off of her neck with a loud ‘plop.’ Simultaneously, the master’s head also helplessly rolled over to the floor…

The scene of his parent’s head falling off made the man extremely upset. He seemed to have remembered something, fear instantly emerging from his eyes.

With his parent’s decapitated heads slowly rolling towards him, his eyes turned red, his tongue began to swell, and his eyelids began to flip over, his eyeballs disgustingly falling off of their sockets.

Seeing such a horrific scene, Bai Yan quickly raised his hand and inconspicuously picked up a table knife from the dining table. He then immediately dashed to the man’s front and inserted the table knife deep into his throat, sending him away to reunite with his family.

Before the man breathed his last breath, Bai Yan saw his eyes shed tears of gratitude. After being trapped in the cellar for so long and being fed with his beloved parent’s favorite rotten meat, his body was already similar to a malicious ghost’s. The man probably wanted to die since before but with a hair’s breadth, he was able to escape his prison and tell his parents the truth. And now that he saw his parent’s miserable deaths, he completely lost his will to live.

Honestly speaking, watching a gory sight unfold in front of his eyes made him feel sick.

Killing this half-human and half-ghost entity did not only leave a bland taste in his mouth but also made him want to vomit his guts out.

However, there was no time to be nauseous in this dangerous situation. As soon as Bai Yan buried the knife into the eldest son’s throat, he immediately ran outside without a second thought, not even advising his teammates to do the same.

“Bai Yan! What did you do?” The alarmed Lu Tianyi dreadfully questioned Bai Yan’s reckless actions.

“Idiot, why are you still staring at it? Run!” An Qing readily threw her crutches away and grabbed Lu Tianyi in the process, indicating for him to follow her, “Run away or else there won’t be time to escape!”