Late at night, the video store was dead silent. Not a single extra sound. The dark street outside was the same. Hardly any cars passed by, and there were barely any pedestrians. It was quiet like a dead street.

Jiang Qianyu looked out the window. She remembered how terrified she had been when she first reincarnated here last night.

She had kept feeling that something was off about this street. The shops that stayed open past midnight felt even worse. Whether it was the funeral wreath shop across the street or the restaurant farther away, both gave her a deeply eerie feeling.

Later, the facts proved her instincts weren't baseless at all.

And now, only one day had passed, yet she had already fully accepted reality and adapted perfectly. The worry and fear in her heart had vanished without a trace.

Sometimes, even she couldn't help marveling at how absurdly strong her adaptability was.

She reached out and gently rubbed her numb legs, her feelings a tangled mess.

On the first day after reincarnating, she had controlled a puppet and killed six Hunters. One of them had even been a Nightwatchers supervisor, basically an elite mini-boss.

No matter what had happened in the process, and no matter whether she'd succeeded through schemes and tricks, none of that mattered. At least in this whole world of urban legends and horrors, that was still something unbelievable.

Yet in reality, her true body was this pitiful woman with crippled legs, someone who needed a wheelchair just to live normally.

Forget counter-killing Hunters. With her current condition, even an ordinary person with a knife could probably solo her.

She really couldn't understand it. Why was her soul so strong after separating from her body, yet so weak inside her real body? Weak to the point that she couldn't even walk properly.

Strictly speaking, she could still walk a few steps without a wheelchair. But she'd still be the kind of frail invalid who could be blown over by a gust of wind.

She pushed her wheelchair to the stairwell, then used the lift-like device installed along the stairs to go upstairs.

She first went back to the bedroom for a look and found that Bai Dongqing was already fast asleep. The little girl's mouth was slightly open, as if she were talking in her sleep. Jiang Qianyu rolled closer in her wheelchair, and only then did she hear that Bai Dongqing kept repeating three words.

“I'm sorry.”

“She has to apologize even in her dreams? What exactly is going on in her head? This is completely beyond what a normal child should be like.”

A normal nine-year-old girl should be bright and cheerful. She should be interested in mobile games, interested in short videos. Even if she were a little introverted, there should still be at least some smile on her face, right?

At the very least, she definitely shouldn't be depressed and gloomy.

It was hard to see a smile on Bai Dongqing's face. She only smiled when Lu Yunzhi came back, but those smiles were completely forced.

She was afraid of doing anything wrong, no matter what she did. The words careful and cautious might as well have been carved into her soul.

The kind of sensible that made your heart ache. That was this girl.

It had to be said, a terrible environment and a pair of irresponsible parents really could make a child grow up fast.

Even if that kind of growth wasn't a good thing.

After tucking Bai Dongqing's blanket in properly, Jiang Qianyu wheeled herself to the bathroom on the second floor. The sink had been specially designed with a position for disabled people and children, so she could wash up and look in the mirror normally while sitting in her wheelchair.

Looking at the enchanting woman in the wheelchair in the mirror, Jiang Qianyu's gaze stopped at her chest.

Honestly, with this face, plus this figure and temperament, she seriously suspected her proper hunting method should've been seducing men first, then absorbing their souls when they let their guard down. It would be efficient and far less dangerous. No matter what, it had to be better than constantly matching wits with the Nightwatchers.

“Good thing I don't fight in my real body. Otherwise, this thing would definitely get in the way...”

As if possessed, Jiang Qianyu pressed one hand against her chest. No matter how she thought about it, this thing was just extra baggage, wasn't it?

She really didn't want to admit it, but in her previous life, he'd never had any contact with this.

A lifelong bachelor, through and through.

Back then, he'd always thought this was attractive. Now that it was on his own body, it just felt uncomfortable instead.

“Good thing Dongqing's already nine. Otherwise, this would've turned into a real problem.”

“You're really leaving?”

The red-eyed little girl's voice rang through the conference room, letting every Hunter present witness the horrifying events that had taken place tonight at Tomorrow Apartments.

Even through the big screen, everyone couldn't help feeling shocked by what that little girl had done.

They started watching from the moment the five Hunters entered Tomorrow Apartments. In the middle, they watched with their own eyes as Liu Yongkang and the others were surrounded by dozens of tenants. Then, under the tenants' relentless verbal assault, they counter-killed them one by one in a state of despair and terror.

Everyone fell silent.

Just like those tenants had said themselves, they had all been living people.

Begging for mercy while launching suicidal attacks.

After the killing, Liu Yongkang and the others fled. They had thought it was all over, but that was only the beginning.

They were forced to retreat to the fourth floor, where they officially encountered that Witch.

Everyone had seen how the Witch bewitched them into turning on each other.

And likewise, everyone had seen Liu Yongkang stab the captain to death in order to survive.

At that point, quite a few Hunters in the conference room thought the Witch would let them leave. Then they heard that absurd line from her.

From beginning to end, this Witch had acted like someone doing it all for fun.

She had deliberately created those tragedies, then sat back and enjoyed Liu Yongkang and the others' despair.

She forced them to personally end dozens of fresh lives, then made them slaughter each other in hopelessness.

She gave them hope, only to crush it mercilessly in the end.

If Liu Yongkang's group had just been ordinary Hunters on a mission, that would've been one thing. The problem was, those five clearly seemed to have ulterior motives.

Inside the fourth-floor room, the captain's words comforting Liu Yongkang and the others had also been played back. No one had expected that.

They weren't idiots, and the captain had practically said it outright. The reason they had joined that mission was to sabotage Lu Yunzhi. They wanted to kill Lu Yunzhi.

And in the end, carrying such impure motives, they were toyed to death by that black-hearted Witch.

Logically speaking, Liu Yongkang's group of five had intended to harm a teammate. That made them traitors.

And not only had they failed, they had died horribly.

Another piece of information came from the woman in white and the little girl in white on the rooftop: every tenant in Tomorrow Apartments had been a perpetrator.

So when Liu Yongkang's group killed them, was that a good deed or an evil one?

“I've already spoken with the higher-ups. Her file should be ready in the next few days. Temporary codename: Gluttonous Harpy. Threat level: Class A Hunter,” Captain Li said in a low voice. He paused and enlarged the image on the big screen, showing Jiang Qianyu standing on the rooftop with a head in one hand.

“As for Liu Yongkang's group of five, headquarters will deal with it. Why they went to Tomorrow Apartments tonight has nothing to do with us.”

“If something hasn't been confirmed, you'd better not spread it around. If trouble comes from it, you're responsible.”

“Also, regarding the Gluttonous Harpy, the higher-ups have made it clear. She must be eliminated!”

“At present, the Harpy's whereabouts are unknown. The intelligence department is searching for her now. There should be results within a few days.”

“Lu Yunzhi.”

“Here.” Lu Yunzhi had been spacing out. When she heard someone call her name, she stood up on instinct.

Captain Li glanced at her. “You need to be careful. The Gluttonous Harpy is cunning and vindictive. You were the only living person there at the time. There's a good chance she'll come looking for trouble with you. Stay alert.”