I can rewind time to prevent death

Chapter 320: Chapter 274: Do I Look Good? (4500 words)

After talking with Wang Tao for a while, Yan Junze had a good understanding of the subsequent situation regarding the incident.

As the strangeness intensified, several eerie occurrences erupted in Wang Family Bay. At that time, people did not have an understanding of these “strangenesses” and resorted to traditional methods to exterminate or transcend the souls of the deceased.

However, after several of the ritual conductors died, everyone was terrified. As a result, many people moved out of Wang Family Bay. Only in the recent months, when the severity of the eerie events somewhat subsided or some were eliminated by exorcists, did people start moving back gradually.

Then people slowly returned because they came to understand that exorcists could eliminate the “strangenesses,” and life for everyone gradually got back on track.

Even after encountering some eerie occurrences, as long as they avoided provoking trouble in certain places, life was mostly peaceful.

Moreover, the locals knew very well to call 4747 upon encountering any “strangeness” and then to wait quietly in line.

At that time, Wang Kunpeng, just like his wife and son, had moved out of the place, living for a while in a commercial apartment close to the Tianyi City District before starting to move back as others did.

Even though Wang Kunpeng was only temporarily paralyzed with numbness at that time, he took a long time to recover, and his movements remained somewhat sluggish.

His son attended the No. 7 Middle School in the Tianyi City District and stayed on campus, so only the couple moved back to Wang Family Bay.

But on the second day after they moved back, they moved out again, adamant never to return.

The other neighbors thought they were overwhelmed by poignant memories, grieving for their deceased ugly daughter, while the couple remained silent.

Everyone knew that the woman’s body was still in that detached house, yet the exterior of the building was marked with warning signs cautioning that there was “strangeness” inside, and that area had become a restricted zone.

As for why no one called 4747 to inform the exorcist, it was mainly because Wang Kunpeng and his wife never intended to. Besides, people only noticed that the hair of the hanging corpse inside the building was still growing. Other than that, no other anomalies occurred that threatened anyone, so people had started to consider that detached house as the grave of the ugly girl.

The detached house’s back faced a derelict field, while the front looked out over Wang Kunpeng’s main house, situated quite a distance from other residences.

From others’ perspectives, in these times of frequent eerie events, which village or compound didn’t have a few abandoned and eerie buildings? Just like the outskirts of Shuntian City’s Rock, there have been sightings of eerie entities like “The Hanged Woman” and “Long-tongued Zhenzhen.”

In the time that followed, aside from Wang Kunpeng and his wife not returning, everything else was normal, and the other villagers of Wang Family Bay lived well.

Occasionally, when they encountered anything strange, calling 4747 usually meant the exorcist would come and deal with the “strangeness” within a month.

If they encountered a more formidable “strangeness,” the residents of that area would move away until an exorcist came and resolved the situation, after which they would move back.

The odd incidents began last month.

Wang Tao’s Second Uncle Wang lived not far from the detached house where the ugly girl had committed suicide, but still at least a thousand meters away, with a whole street between them.

One night, after having a few extra drinks at dinner, Second Uncle Wang was awoken in the middle of the night by the need to urinate, so he got up to go to the bathroom.@@novelbin@@

After relieving himself in the restroom, Second Uncle Wang was about to return to bed to continue sleeping, feeling still a bit groggy, but then he heard some noise coming from next door.

The room next door was also a bedroom, where his eleven-year-old daughter, Wang Mengmeng, lived. Wang Mengmeng was usually a heavy sleeper and went to bed early.

Second Uncle Wang couldn’t understand why his daughter hadn’t gone to sleep at this hour.

Wearing his slippers, he went to the door of the next room, leaned in to listen, and heard the soft rustle decrease significantly, but it remained audible.

Curious, he tried the doorknob, the door opened with a sound, continuing to make a faint noise as he pushed it.

Catching the light from the street lamp outside, Second Uncle Wang noticed that there was no one in his daughter’s bed, which startled him. As he prepared to flip the switch to look for his daughter, he suddenly froze.

He started to tremble slightly, his gaze locked onto a spot about a meter away from his daughter’s bed where a children’s wardrobe was situated. The wardrobe door was fitted with a full-length mirror.

And right in front of it, his daughter, clad in a short sleeve top and shorts, stood facing the mirror, holding a wooden comb and combing her hair.

Her shoulder-length hair rustled under the vigorous combing with the wooden comb, and for a moment, Second Uncle Wang even wondered if the combing would tear off his daughter’s scalp.

As she combed her hair, Wang Mengmeng’s eyes remained closed the whole time.

In the silent depths of the night, this scene terrified Second Uncle Wang. Despite his trembling body, he realized that his daughter might be sleepwalking.

Usually, the chances of children sleepwalking during sleep are much higher than for adults; as they grow up, the symptoms often lessen or slowly disappear.

With this judgment in mind, Second Uncle Wang decided to wait quietly for a bit, hoping his daughter would go back to bed and continue sleeping after finishing combing her hair.

But just then, Wang Mengmeng, who was combing her hair, stopped, and gently petted her own hair as if she were speaking to the mirror and asked, “Do I look pretty?”

Second Uncle Wang instantly felt his hands and feet go cold, his body numb, petrified where he stood, unable to take his eyes off his daughter’s figure.

Wang Mengmeng reached out towards the mirror, gesturing someone to come closer, and said again, “Come, come and see me, do I look pretty?”

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