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Now the Back-faced Woman had turned around, but how could she present a view with the back of her head facing me?

Yan Junze was stupefied for a long time.

However, he still reached a conclusion: it was impossible for both sides of a person to be the back of the head; there must be a front side. But at present, the front side of the Back-faced Woman's body was facing him, yet it was the back of her head that was revealed.

At this moment, Yan Junze had a chilling thought; it was possible that the true face of the Back-faced Woman was on the back of her body.

Her head might have been twisted 180 degrees, always looking backward.

If that was truly the case, Yan Junze suddenly felt goosebumps all over his body. It would mean that although the Back-faced Woman stood with her back to everyone, her face was always turned around, obscured by dirty and thick hair, staring through the strands at everyone passing behind her without blinking.

"Holy shit!"

With this realization, Yan Junze felt a shudder run through him.

He remembered the few times he had cautiously passed behind her, the woman had actually been watching him all along.

"This... this is not your face," Yan Junze tried to stay calm, looking at the chilling back of the head, reminding her, "Please look at me, I want... to help you."

The Back-faced Woman remained silent and slowly lowered her withered hands that were messing with her hair. Then, she began to turn around again.

Yan Junze just watched her, motionless.

Not until the Back-faced Woman turned her back to him once more did her hands stretch out from behind her body, clearly in the opposite direction of the joints, followed by a series of crackling sounds as bones rubbed against each other violently. Her hands, at an inconceivable angle, parted the hair at her back.

As she parted her hair, a mangled and shattered face was revealed.

The face appeared to have been subjected to a severe impact, the right side caved inwards, the nose skewed, and the chin dislocated.

Because her head was rotated 180 degrees, the skin on the Back-faced Woman's neck was wrinkled, folded over itself like a tightly wrung cloth.

Just one glance at the Back-faced Woman's face was enough to make Yan Junze's stomach churn.

"It's possible she died from a fall, her head knocked and twisted around!" Yan Junze speculated internally.

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By this time, Yan Junze also finally understood why the Back-faced Woman always faced away from everyone, because with her head twisted, only in this way was her face looking straight at everyone.

One of the Back-faced Woman's eyes was askew, as if not looking at Yan Junze but somewhere else.

Her jaw was dislocated, unable to open or close, and at this moment, she could only make a sound from her throat, somewhat muffled.

"Chi... ld!"

Yan Junze heard it clearly; the woman was saying "child."

"Are you saying... you're looking for a child?" Yan Junze asked, "Whose child? Yours?"

The Back-faced Woman made no indication.

At this moment, Yan Junze began to feel bolder, taking a small step closer, ready to Rewind at any time.

There was no choice; the actions of the Back-faced Woman were too fast. Only now did he realize that when she had killed him in an instant before, she hadn't turned around at all; she'd simply pounced on him and bitten him.

Pitifully, he hadn't seen how she bit, from where she bit, or how deep the bite was until he was dead.

"Chi... ld."

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The Back-faced Woman still uttered the same two words, without any superfluous language.

Just at that moment, Yan Junze suddenly froze, as the Spacetime Atlas detected a task information prompt.

[New dimensional waveband detected...]

[The following is a request from the Back-faced Woman...]

[She is looking for her child. Two strange baby evil spirits have appeared in the underground parking of FH Community. She is not certain if they are her children. Please reach the underground parking to help the Back-faced Woman confirm.]

[Hint: Strange babies are extremely sensitive evil spirits. Any slight disturbance can scare them off; they are also malignant, with a strong crisis response to human gaze. Perhaps, you could approach them by walking in the same manner as the Back-faced Woman.]

Staring at the task information in his mind, Yan Junze became perplexed.

The task information reminder this time was evidently aberrant, not the usual type of task release pattern.

In other words, it was a message intercepted by the Spacetime Atlas after temporarily cutting into a dimensional waveband.

And the target of the interception, of course, had only one source, coming from the Back-faced Woman.

Yan Junze had not expected that the Back-faced Woman's obsession could be directly intercepted by the Spacetime Atlas and formulated into text.

At this moment, the Atlas had essentially become a translator of information between humans and strangenesses.

It's possible the Back-faced Woman had a lot to say, but for her to communicate it all in this state, Yan Junze might as well lie on the couch, brew a cup of tea, and let her sit down and speak slowly.

Therefore, the textual prompting of the task became much more significant.

In just a few minutes, he understood the purpose of the Back-faced Woman's presence in the FH Community—it turned out that there were two strange babies in the community's underground parking, and the Back-faced Woman wanted to know if they were her children.

The parking area of the FH Community was old and could only accommodate a small number of residents' cars. Furthermore, due to years of disrepair, some pipes often leaked, leaving the ground very damp.

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Yan Junze had heard people say that the community originally did not have a parking area. The current parking area was formed after the original basement storeroom was converted to meet the increased demand for parking.

Thus, the parking space was very narrow and poorly ventilated, with many rats and bugs. Just a bit of unattended garbage would quickly become unbearably stinky.

Some female residents didn't dare go down alone to drive their cars.

Anyway, Yan Junze had never been down there himself, because he didn't own a car.

"I understand," Yan Junze nodded to the Back-faced Woman. "I'll head down to the underground parking right now. Are you coming?"

The Back-faced Woman made no response.

Yan Junze glanced at her, then turned and walked towards the stairwell.

Catching a glimpse behind him, the Back-faced Woman was still facing away, motionless, as if she had no intention to follow.

As he descended the stairs, Yan Junze didn't encounter a single resident. In fact, the number of residents on this floor was originally small, and most had gone out in the morning, so it was normal not to see anyone.

He moved quickly, concerned that Lv Xin, split by the Resentful Granny's spirit, might show up at any moment, so he kept his gaze on the staircase below, worried Lv Xin might spring an ambush while coming up the stairs.

Luckily, he reached the first floor without incident.

Since the underground parking was a conversion, one couldn't get there directly via the staircase but had to push through another door on the first floor, usually kept closed.

Pushing the door open, he faced a damp flight of steps that clearly seemed like an afterthought compared to the building's other staircases.

Yan Junze did not hesitate and walked down. However, once inside, he looked back one more time, and the Back-faced Woman had still not followed.

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