51: Chapter 51 Bob the Toy Bear

Early the next morning, Chen Mo was awakened by a piercing scream.

His head felt like it had been smashed by a blunt object. Chen Mo held his throbbing head and headed toward the source of the sound.

He arrived at the stairs.

He discovered that his whole family was there. Anna was covering her mouth, tears streaming down.

The children were being held by his Sister-in-law, all of them sobbing uncontrollably.

"Sam, Sam, oh my god, why?"

"Lucy, he...!"

Lucy?

Chen Mo walked around the corner of the hallway and saw the complete scene.

Lying on the stairs leading to the second floor was a person.

Just by seeing the flowery boxers the person was wearing, Chen Mo knew it was his Brother-in-law.

"Dead, as expected," Chen Mo sighed in his heart.

At this moment, his Brother-in-law was no longer breathing.

There were two things that killed him: a fruit knife plunged into his chest, and a playing card stuck in his forehead.

His Brother-in-law's mouth was wide open, his eyes were bulging, and his cheekbones were sunken.

Even his facial features seemed to have been thickened.

It was a classic expression of having seen a ghost.

Chen Mo squatted down but did not touch the body.

Because he knew that touching a dead body carelessly and leaving fingerprints would easily make him a scapegoat.

In daily life, when encountering cunning murderers, they always wear gloves in advance.

Not to mention when a ghost is the killer.

If Chen Mo left fingerprints, he would be taken away by the police immediately.

"But... why does this playing card look the same as my black cards?"

Chen Mo felt very confused.

The card was numbered [Spade J].

Soon, the police provided their door-to-door service.

Two fat white men in blue police uniforms, their bellies almost bursting their belts, walked in.

They looked like complete jerks.

Because the two were not only laughing and talking, but even sharing leftover donuts from lunch.

They roughly surveyed the scene, then took simple statements from Chen Mo's family before collecting the body and leaving.

Chen Mo's family sat around in the living room, a sorrowful atmosphere lingering in the house.

Chen Mo performed psychological counseling for each of them. Anna suddenly threw herself into his arms, releasing all her sorrow at once.

However, when Anna's chin rested on Chen Mo's shoulder...

His Sister-in-law was sitting directly opposite Chen Mo. She had no tears the whole time, and instead, she was smirking at Chen Mo from behind her Sister-in-law's back.

Chen Mo felt his scalp tingle, becoming even more convinced that there was something wrong with his Sister-in-law.

Isn't this the smile of a villain in anime? Could it be... that you are the source of the weirdness in the entire house?

What was even more bizarre was that even though his Brother-in-law was dead, Anna actually allowed his Sister-in-law to continue living in the Villa.

His Sister-in-law even gladly agreed.

No... someone died in the house, and it was your boyfriend.

She's way too nonchalant.

After everyone left for work or school, Chen Mo sat alone in the living room thinking.

The main quest was to protect his family. His Brother-in-law's death did not trigger a new system message.

This meant he just needed to protect the three people and one dog.

Then, his Brother-in-law's death must hide some clues.

The only obvious clue now is that playing card.

According to the clues provided by the police, his Brother-in-law's death was abnormal.

The real cause of death was the playing card, while the fruit knife was inserted only after his Brother-in-law died.

It was as if someone wanted to cover something up.

The family that feared light, the dead Brother-in-law, the Sister-in-law who reacted abnormally to him.

There was no actual connection between these three.

Chen Mo scratched his head, feeling restless.

"What exactly is this dungeon trying to tell me?"

[Newbies, watch and learn carefully. The weirdness created by the Group Leader is different, fully maxed out in terms of style!]

[Video is here, describe your feelings after watching it.]

Chen Mo saw the message pop-up in front of him and clicked on the 3-minute video.

"Is this the whole process of my Brother-in-law's death?"

The video started playing.

At 3:15 AM, his Brother-in-law was yawning while slowly walking down the stairs.

He entered the kitchen, turned on the faucet, and poured a glass of water.

During the process of drinking water, his Brother-in-law did not notice...

The cupboard door right above his head slowly opened.

There seemed to be a humanoid creature hiding inside, crouching in the cupboard.

His Brother-in-law did not notice it at all because the creature was not breathing and did not make a sound.

After his Brother-in-law turned and walked out of the kitchen, the black shadow in the cupboard jumped out and followed closely behind him with a calm gait.

Before leaving the kitchen, his Brother-in-law seemed to have sensed something and turned his head once.

In the video, the black shadow following closely behind his Brother-in-law immediately hid under the kitchen table.

His Brother-in-law scratched his head, sighed, and continued to walk out of the kitchen.

The black shadow also crawled out from under the table, lurking behind the kitchen doorframe, sticking its head out slightly to stare at his Brother-in-law's back.

Under the pale moonlight, Chen Mo finally saw what the black shadow was.

Alice's teddy bear?

Yes, this black shadow was none other than his daughter's best friend.

A brown teddy bear named Bob.

This toy bear had come to life; its two eyes were blood-red, and its mouth was no longer a gentle smile, but had turned into a devilish, sharp-toothed maw.

The toy bear was holding a fruit knife; it was the one that had been stalking his Brother-in-law.

"Hiss!" Chen Mo couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

His mind recalled the first day he took over his parents' shop.

Because the bed in the shop was a converted coffin, when Chen Mo lay down and realized there was a Doll Bride beside him...

Chen Mo's tongue was about to escape from his throat.

Especially since humans always like to fantasize about what would happen if they suddenly woke up one night.

And found that the Doll Bride's expression or body movements had changed; Chen Mo would have died on the spot.

It wasn't until his Brother-in-law went to the hallway and took two steps onto the stairs.

His shadow was projected onto the wall beside him.

However, after that shadow followed him for two steps, it stopped moving.

Then Chen Mo saw a truly terrifying scene!

His Brother-in-law was clearly standing sideways, so the shadow should have projected his side profile.

However, this shadow turned by itself, facing his Brother-in-law, and the shadow grew larger and larger, as if it could walk out of the wall.

His Brother-in-law continued to step upward, and just as he was about to reach the corner of the stairs.

His shadow reached its hand into its pocket and took out a rectangular object.

Then it made a throwing motion!

A shadow of a playing card instantly drilled out of the wall, turned into a real playing card, and spun into the center of his Brother-in-law's forehead.

The edge of that playing card was no different from the black cards, emitting a metallic blade-like glint.

His Brother-in-law didn't even have enough time to scream.

His head was completely split down the middle like a watermelon, and his body collapsed with a thud.

A large amount of blood flowed out in the hallway.

The teddy bear, which had been waiting at the bottom of the stairs, saw this and ran up with a somewhat comical gait.

It was holding something like a medical kit in its hand.

Then, Chen Mo saw.

The teddy bear hugged his Brother-in-law's head and seemed to use something like needle and thread.

Lines of invisible thread penetrated his Brother-in-law's temples, sewing him up.

With a little force, the head, which had originally been split in two, was reassembled by the needle and thread.

Finally, the teddy bear took out a pair of scissors.

And cut off the excess thread.

The playing card had been stuck in the crack of his Brother-in-law's head before it was fully sewn.

"Threading the Needle? Is the thread this teddy bear used my item?"

"So... this guy cut the trap I set."

At the end of the video.

Bob raised the fruit knife in its hand and even used its bear paw to probe his Brother-in-law's chest for a while.

After pinpointing the location of the heart, the two bear paws gripped the fruit knife and plunged it in.

With a "squelch," blood splashed all over the screen.

After finishing all this, Bob immediately picked up the medical kit on the ground and disappeared into the darkness of the hallway.