Chapter 621: The Young Master Can Hear Thoughts Again! 37

Late at night, the Fu family residence.

Everything inside the residence remained as before; it seemed that the master's death during the day had not brought the slightest ripple to this residence shrouded in darkness.

The master bedroom also had a new occupant.

The butler adapted well to the identity of 'master,' holding Xu Li as he slept soundly.

A piercing shriek tore through the night sky.

Immediately followed by heart-wrenching sobs.

"Wuu… Mom… it hurts so much…"

"Mom…"

Xu Li woke from her sleep, bewildered and frightened, looking left and right, as if realizing this wasn't a dream, and hastily shook awake the butler beside her.

"Someone! Someone is crying!"

"What sound…"

The butler was also awakened by the noise, impatiently glanced out the window, then checked the time.

He let out a strange hum, threw off the covers, and stared out the window.

At this hour, the residence's night lights should still be on; why is it so pitch black outside the window?

"Wuu… Mom… Dad…"

The sobbing continued, growing louder, as if it were right in the room.

"Duoduo… is that our Duoduo's voice?"

Xu Li took several deep breaths, her eyes filled with terror.

"Don't talk nonsense; in the middle of the night you're just scaring yourself."

The butler concluded someone was playing tricks, after all he'd used this tactic many times.

His eyes turned fierce, he glanced sharply around, and finally his gaze settled on the window that looked the most unusual.

He then approached and shoved the window open forcefully.

That very action seemed to disturb the crying; the pitiful sobs suddenly turned into a piercing shriek that rattled people's eardrums.

At the same time, the sight outside the window shocked the butler and the silently watching Xu Li.

Usually, no matter how dark it is, one can still make out the outside at night, but tonight it was like thick ink, covering everything outside, as if only their room remained between heaven and earth.

Only a faint greenish mist could be seen, making it even more eerie.

"What's going on!"

After the fright, Xu Li began to suspect, 'Are we… we being hypnotized?'

"It's possible; we might be hypnotized while asleep."

The butler, however, was well versed in this and immediately reacted.

He tried many ways to wake up, but found them ineffective.

"Back… behind!"

Xu Li trembled with fear, her eyes fixed on the window behind the butler, her whole body drained of color.

The butler was startled by her gaze, and at the same time felt an inexplicable sticky stare from behind, filled with malice and exuding a deathly aura.

His body stiffened, his neck slowly turning to look.

"Ah!"

The butler's leg gave out; his already lame leg could not support him, and he collapsed to the ground.

A clear pain came through, letting the butler know this was certainly not a hypnotic dream.

This is living reality!

No matter how ruthless the two of them were, they were so frightened by what they saw that they couldn't regain their composure.

From their viewpoint, they saw only a thin, pallid hand resting on the window, like a child's.

Then came a slowly emerging head and body.

The child's face was deathly pale, pupils pinprick-sized, dark circles under the eyes, bloodstains around the mouth, and upon seeing them he broke into a smile.

"Dad… Mom."

It was indeed the voice of their Duoduo from memory.

Duoduo saw the familiar faces, was thrilled, and kept crawling inside, utterly unaware how terrifying his blood-soaked appearance was.

"I've missed you…"

"Mom…"

"Don't come closer!"

The butler reacted, shouting angrily, and immediately grabbed the bedside lamp, intending to smash it down.

"Why… don't you want me?"

Duoduo's expression suddenly changed, black mist spreading around him.

Xu Li felt a chill rise from her tailbone, her hair standing on end, her heart clenched.

"Duoduo… child… my child!"

She sobbed, her expression dazed, actually trying to get up and move toward him: 'Mom is here… child, ah!!'

Xu Li was shoved onto the bed, and faced with the butler's vicious slap.

"Are you crazy? Duoduo has been dead for how many years!"

"I've been waiting here for you… Dad."

Duoduo suddenly let out a sinister laugh, his gaunt hands trying to clutch the butler tightly, a thick sense of suffocation instantly spreading.

"Dad! Dad! Don't you know how I died?"

He suddenly grew excited, already crawled into the room, the bloody hole in his chest had dried, faintly visible were the organs inside, his filthy clothes were soaked with dried blood.

His fine teeth trembled up and down, as if he would lunge and bite someone in the next second.

"Father! Say something!"

"Get lost! You're not Duoduo!"

The butler swallowed saliva, as if recalling something, his expression turned guilty and panicked, finally breaking down when Duoduo was about to completely press down.

"Yes…! You're the one I killed! Is that enough? Get lost!"

"Hehe."

Duoduo stopped moving, turned his head completely backward, staring at Xu Li, whose face had turned pale with shock.

"Mother, did you hear that?"

"Father is the one who killed me."

"I clearly obeyed, I helped you lure the young master to the outer room; as long as he disappears, I will become the young master… but Father is so cruel…"

Xu Li shook her head, in pain to the point of almost losing her voice, she glared at the butler whose expression was solemn and strange, covering her head as she screamed.

"Ah—"

"Hehe…"

Another faint laugh sounded.

In an instant, the bedroom light came back on.

Everything returned to normal.

Except for the frightened butler and Xu Li.

"You killed my Duoduo! You killed him! Beast! Beast!"

Xu Li screamed, grabbed a pillow and threw it.

The butler stared out the window, he felt someone's breathing,

Surely someone is playing tricks!

"Shut up! Do you want everyone to know?"

"Who knew he and Fu Mu Ci had swapped clothes then! I couldn't see clearly at night anyway!"

He wanted to kill Fu Mu Ci to eliminate future trouble, who knew they would actually swap clothes at the last minute.

The butler rushed out to check, but found no one.

He stood there with a grim face for a long time.

As expected, it was correct.

Jin Chen finished testing, dispelled the barrier, his expression thoughtful.

After discovering the butler's and Xu Li's relationship, he found it strange, piecing everything together; no matter how he looked, the butler seemed like the killer from back then.

Even if he was the child's biological father, even if it was a mistaken killing.

But after all these years, he actually feels no guilt.

More ruthless and terrifying than Xu Li.

However, Xu Li's reaction today…

Jin Chen also glanced toward the master bedroom, feeling that her spirit was not quite right.

0731 rushed over nonstop to report what he had investigated.

【Host! Shocking news! The Fee Family hasn't only recently risen over the past decade or so! I found out that the father of the current head of the Fee Family, Fee Ming, is the younger brother of Grandfather Fu!】

Jin Chen's expression was one of astonishment; no matter how he thought, he never expected this.