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Chapter 420: Chapter 317: Takeout (Part Two)

Soon they saw the surveillance camera installed outside the Si Family’s corridor. After adjusting the time, a man wearing “Chou Tuan” delivery service uniform appeared on the screen.

The man was slightly thin, wearing a matching hat with the uniform, with the brim pulled down very low, just as Si Nannan had described, indeed making it difficult to discern his face.

When he arrived at the front door of the Si Family, he hardly paused and immediately knocked on the door.

Shortly after, he seemed to be talking with someone inside, and then Si Nannan opened the door, peeked out her head, exchanged a few words with the delivery guy, and took the pizza box from his hands.

After receiving the delivery, Si Nannan quickly closed the door.

The man immediately turned and left, but as he was about to exit the corridor, he turned back to glance in the Si Family’s direction.

“Judging by his behavior, he doesn’t seem to exhibit strangeness. Moreover, his walk and the way he delivers don’t seem stiff, also not like a creature such as a controlled corpse,” Yan Junze analyzed to himself, then he turned to look at Xiang Er, who was standing behind him.

What if it was a strangeness similar to Xiang Er’s type, possessing a corpse?

If it was like Xiang Er, who had mastered the skill of freely controlling a corpse, there would be no flaws visible through the surveillance.

But Yan Junze believed that if he faced this individual in person, he would still be able to tell whether or not he was alive.

After all, he had spent a considerable amount of time with Xiang Er, and from her initial confusion and difficulty in controlling a corpse to now being able to handle it adeptly, Yan Junze had gained considerable understanding.

This was because Xiang Er would tell him everything in detail, from any issues she encountered to how she solved them.

After watching the video, Si Dehua had an entirely different take, continuously slapping his thigh with a scared look: “This girl, she opened the door so quickly to a stranger, despite not having ordered the delivery herself. How dangerous is that!”

Suddenly, Yan Junze pointed at the video and said, “Security brother, could you please show me the surveillance footage of the corridor downstairs, about two to three minutes before this timestamp.”

The security guard did as requested, finding the camera downstairs and then opening the footage from two minutes prior to when Si Nannan accepted the delivery.

As expected, Yan Junze saw the same delivery man.

This time, though, the man still had the delivery in his hands but unexpectedly did not immediately go up to the Si Family’s floor. Instead, he lingered on that level, stood at the door of one of the residences, and knocked.

From time to time, the lower half of his face appeared on the camera, his lips moving as if he was talking to someone inside.

But the occupant of this apartment did not open the door, and after failing to gain entry, the man soon left.

About half a minute later, he reappeared on that floor, went to another apartment, and gently knocked, looking around from time to time during the process.

But it seemed like no one was home this time either, as he knocked for a while without any subsequent conversation.

The delivery man then left this level and started walking up the stairs.

“This guy, it seems that he didn’t have a specific target and was choosing at random,” Yan Junze realized upon seeing this scene.

As long as he had the opportunity to hand out the delivery he was carrying, he didn’t seem to be “picky”; any acceptance of his delivery would do.

Having collected enough information, he and Si Dehua left the security room. However, Yan Junze declined Si Dehua’s invitation to visit their home again and left with Xiang Er.

Upon exiting the complex, Yan Junze said to Xiang Er, “You saw the video just now. The ‘Chou Tuan’ delivery guy in the video, do you think he looks like a person possessed by strangeness?”

Xiang Er shook her head, “His movements were very natural, without any stiffness. I couldn’t tell.”

“Now, if you were under surveillance, could you move as smoothly as that person in the video, without revealing any signs that could be detected on camera?” Yan Junze suddenly asked with a smile.

Xiang Er thought for a moment, then replied, “Mmh, no problem.”

Just then, Yan Junze’s phone rang. It was a text message from He Yun, providing the addresses of several families who had experienced strangeness after dialing 4747. Each address was followed by a description of the related manifestations of strangeness.

Just after he finished reading these descriptions, his phone signaled another message. It was a clip of security footage sent by He Yun.

The accompanying text read: This video is the clearest segment of surveillance captured of the person delivering the food, but after he left the complex, no further traces of him were captured.

Yan Junze opened the video.

It was also a corridor surveillance snippet from another complex stairwell, timestamped at 12:10 PM a week ago. However, the person in the frame was a short man wearing a “Bao Le Me” delivery uniform.

The man was average height, slightly overweight, but he also had his hat brim pulled down very low, obscuring his features.

His appearance on the scene made Yan Junze and Xiang Er exchange puzzled glances.

“What’s going on?” Yan Junze said.

It now seemed that a strangeness had controlled different corpses to carry out the task of delivering eerie meals.

However, this level of skill in manipulating a possessed corpse was too proficient, as nothing unusual could be detected in the surveillance footage, not even by Xiang Er, who had experienced such things herself.

With this development, Yan Junze felt he couldn’t be sure that it was strangeness controlling corpses. If the person was a regular, living individual, then it was possible that a group was committing the acts, rather than any one person shown in the surveillance.

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