The middle-aged woman was on the verge of a breakdown at this point.

"I still have nightmares, dreaming that my eldest son is being chopped up alive by an axe, leaving only his head staring straight at me."

"The scariest thing is that one night my youngest son suddenly burst into tears. When I asked him what was wrong, he said he dreamed that his older brother was being chopped up with an axe. He had the same nightmare as me, but I have never told him about it!"

“Recently, my youngest son suddenly told me that he felt that person wasn’t his father. I’m afraid he’ll disappear suddenly like my eldest son,”

After the woman finished speaking, she was covered in cold sweat. She stared at me, muttering to herself:

"Please, please save my son."

My face darkened. Both of this woman's sons said that their father was not their father, which could not be a coincidence.

Children can see things that adults can't, and perhaps they really have seen something, which is why they say such things.

Then, considering that the woman's husband had suddenly transformed from an ordinary worker into a foreman and was no longer afraid of dogs, a guess immediately popped into my head.

Was her husband replaced by a wandering ghost?!

My closest loved one was replaced by a ghost, and she even poisoned my son. I looked at the woman with pity and said:

"Your situation is a bit complicated. Would it be convenient for me to come to your house to take a look?"

The woman nodded rapidly when she heard what I said, as if afraid I would change my mind.

"That's convenient, he's away on a business trip."

Without further ado, I packed some things and checked my phone; there was a message from Luo Tianhe from ten minutes ago:

"By the way, my SIM card isn't broken, but Li Huai's is. I'll go get him a new one later."

I asked where those two went, they haven't shown up at all.

It was broad daylight, so there shouldn't be any danger. I decided not to bother them and hailed a taxi on the street to go to the address the woman had given me.

Soon, we arrived at the entrance of the residential area. The security guard seemed to recognize her and let us in without asking any questions.

As I walked down to the apartment building, I looked up and saw a head sticking out of a sixth-floor window, staring at me expressionlessly.

I thought it was just some naughty kid and ignored it. But when I got into the elevator, I realized something was wrong. This woman lived on the sixth floor. It couldn't be such a coincidence.

"By the way, isn't your eldest son a bit chubby-cheeked, with single eyelids, some freckles on his face, and very short hair?"

I thought for a moment and then asked the woman.

The woman froze, then lunged at me, grabbing my arm tightly with both hands and staring intently into my eyes.

How do you know? Did you see him?

I pried her hands open and nodded.

"There was a child peeking at me from the sixth floor just now, wasn't that your youngest son?"

"No, my youngest son is in school."

The woman shook her head, showing more confidence in me.

With a "ding," the elevator doors opened, and we arrived at the sixth floor.

The woman stepped out of the elevator, took out her keys, and opened the door. I followed her into the room, and a strong smell of blood hit me.

The woman, however, remained calm, as if she hadn't smelled anything at all.

I suddenly realized that the woman's dream must have actually happened in this house, and if I wasn't mistaken, the child's body should be hidden in this house.

"By the way, did the police suspect your man was the murderer? Did they search the room?"

The woman gave a shrill laugh.

"We searched the entire building, turned it upside down, but we couldn't find it."

If I pinch my chin, that's strange.

No matter how incompetent the police are, they can't possibly fail to find a body unless it's hidden extremely well.

I activated my third eye and searched the living room inch by inch, but I couldn't find the body at all.

Suddenly, I noticed the balcony.

The boy just now was looking at me from the balcony, but the balcony is too high for a small child to stick his whole head out unless he stood on something.

I walked towards the balcony.

"Don't go there, that dog lives there."

The woman suddenly grabbed me.

Was the dog on a leash?

I turned to look at the woman.

The woman nodded. "It's leashed, but that dog is a bit strange. You'd better stay away."

"It's okay, I'll just move away and take a look."

I went to the balcony and found a black dog lying there, its neck tightly bound by a brass chain, which was stained with blood and engraved with random runes.

The black dog didn't bark when it saw me, which seemed to indicate that it understood human nature.

Suddenly, there was a loud knocking at the door.

"Qiaoyun, I'm back, open the door quickly."

Panic flashed in the woman's eyes. Qiaoyun was her name, and the person knocking on the door must be her husband.

"You should hide first!" The woman was terrified, as if the person knocking on the door wasn't her husband, but some kind of demon or monster.

I didn't want to hide, but seeing how scared the woman was, I had no choice but to follow her lead and hide in the closet in the bedroom.

I crouched down and leaned against the cabinet door against the wall. A pungent musty smell mixed with an indescribable stench of blood assaulted my senses. This cabinet had definitely been used to hide a corpse for some time, but it must have been moved when the police arrived, otherwise it would have been discovered.

The space inside the cabinet was cramped, so I had to huddle up and curse.

Just then, I suddenly felt something round and chubby next to me. I shuddered, and my pupils, which were gradually adjusting to the light in the darkness, met a pair of lifeless eyes.

That was the boy who had been watching me from the balcony. His face was pale, his short hair was plastered to his scalp, and blood was still dripping from his neck.

He stared straight at me, his lips moving but no sound coming out, yet I understood his meaning:

"You must hide well, or you'll be hacked to death with an axe after an axe if you're discovered."

I swallowed hard, feeling a little regretful for not waiting for Luo Tianhe and the others.

The main problem is that this woman clearly said her husband was away on a business trip, so who would have thought he would suddenly come back?

I heard the sound of the living room door opening, and a woman asking me a question:

"Weren't you away on a business trip? Why are you back all of a sudden?"

"The construction site was completed ahead of schedule."

The man's voice sounded somewhat fierce, with an inexplicable strangeness.

The woman seemed to be on the verge of tears, and she stammered as she spoke:

"Happy, happy, I'm just...I'm just..."

"Are we having guests?" the woman's husband suddenly asked. "I smell something unfamiliar."

My heart started racing.

Are you a fucking dog? You even smelled an unfamiliar scent.

I cursed inwardly, feeling incredibly frustrated.

I left in a hurry this time, and only brought things to deal with ghosts. If this man suddenly goes berserk and tries to chop me with an axe, I'm doomed.