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However, after Bai Miao entered the house, he discovered a portrait of a deceased person hanging on the wall next to the TV cabinet in the living room.

The old man in the portrait was smiling, but it sent a chill down Bai Miao's spine.

Isn't that... Grandma downstairs?

Chapter 233 Bizarre Parents

The entire dungeon has been given a supernatural element, which makes it much more difficult.

As for the White Rabbit milk candy that his grandmother gave him, Bai Miao certainly wouldn't dare to eat it, but he also had no intention of throwing it away.

In short, keep it with you for now and wait and see.

Bai Miao's parents hadn't returned home yet, so after putting his schoolbag in his bedroom, he started wandering around the house.

There's not much to say about the bedroom; the child's bedroom is quite simple, with just a bed, a wardrobe, and a table, nothing else.

Oh, except for that pile of dirty footprints, stickers, and dried boogers on the wall.

It's not hard to imagine what Bai An did to this wall.

The house has three bedrooms and one living room. There is a large CRT computer in the master bedroom. In this day and age, such computers are not uncommon. Families with the means have already started using LCD monitors.

The television in Bai An's home is also a classic large-screen color TV.

After looking around, Bai Miao felt okay except for the portrait of the deceased, which made him feel somewhat uncomfortable.

It has a strong sense of everyday life, especially the mosaic tiles in the toilet, which brought Bai Miao's thoughts back to more than ten years ago.

Actually, before Bai Miao's house was renovated due to a gas explosion, the interior design style was similar to this place.

The dining table was also a rather heavy wooden table, with a note on it.

"Eat by yourself."

There are only four simple words on it, and below it is a purple five-yuan banknote.

Five yuan is enough to buy a bowl of noodles at the noodle shop downstairs, and you can even have a yuan left over to buy candy.

Bai Miao thought about it for a moment and decided to do part of his homework before going downstairs to eat.

Thinking that his grandmother, who had been dead for who knows how long, might be sitting downstairs, Bai Miao didn't want to go down.

Come to think of it, Bai Miao realized that he had absolutely no recollection of his grandmother dying.

Was it because Bai An was too young at the time and didn't understand the concept of death?

Without the Abyss Howl, a tool that locks mental power, Bai Miao can no longer freely use the Qi Observation Technique to observe all things in the world.

Bai Miao had to temporarily set aside all abilities that required mental energy.

Fortunately, all other abilities can still be used.

Knowing that ghosts existed, Bai Miao spent a lot of effort rearranging the layout of his bedroom in order to slightly counteract the yin energy in his room.

To avoid arousing suspicion from her parents, she even used footprint stickers and other things to cover up the talisman that Bai Miao had carved on the wall to ward off evil spirits.

The house-protecting talisman can prevent low-level ghosts from entering the house at will, and even high-level ghosts will be injured if they enter. Unless there is a deep-seated blood feud, they will not bother to come in and play for no reason.

After finishing these tasks, Bai Miao opened his second-grade homework.

School just started today, so there's not much homework. For Chinese, it's just some simple copying of words and phrases, and for math, there are only a few problems.

I also need to imitate Bai An's handwriting.

Imitation of handwriting was also a skill that Bai Miao had mastered long ago. He didn't get all the math problems right, but deliberately left one wrong.

After spending ten minutes finishing his homework, Bai Miao went to the living room and looked at the wall clock; it was about 6:30.

The result is the same as the estimated time.

The clock looks fine.

Then, Bai Miao went downstairs to eat.

After all, this body still needs to eat.

A bowl of noodles cost only three yuan and fifty cents. After putting the rest of the money in his pocket, Bai Miao looked at the already dimming sky and, instead of playing with other children in the streets and courtyards like other kids, went home to watch TV.

Bai Miao was quite curious about what the 7 o'clock news broadcast was like here.

Bai Miao turned on the TV and sat quietly on the sofa, listening to the familiar countdown begin.

But then the familiar opening music became very strange and jarring.

Fortunately, Bai Miao's perfect pitch had reached LV2, which allowed him to recognize that the opening theme of the news broadcast here was actually a reversed version of the song from the real world.

The two hosts looked even more terrifying to Bai Miao.

One person was wearing a red suit, while the other was wearing green.

Moreover, both of them wore smiley face masks, obscuring their mouths and eyes; only the extremely large smiley faces were etched on the masks.

"Welcome to today's news broadcast. I am your host, Kang Ning."

"I am the host, Li Xia."

The two began their broadcast in clear and articulate voices.

Bai Miao didn't know what the news should have looked like around 05, but the news in this episode of the evening news didn't seem to have any major problems.

The opening scene startled Bai Miao.

Just as Bai Miao was about to turn off the TV after the evening news broadcast ended, a pop-up advertisement made his heart skip a beat.

"Selling medicine?!"

In his nightmare, Bai Miao watched some programs on his family's dilapidated television, only to find that they were all TV shopping programs selling a drug that could make people live longer.

The nightmare scene comes from the first instance Hu Muyao experienced, "Xi Sang," which means... these two instances are related?

Both involve metaphysics and ghosts, and both have this inexplicable medicine advertisement.

This time, Bai Miao didn't treat the advertisement as a joke.

One of the pharmaceutical brands mentioned, Shengshoutang, and its logo, were also a key focus of Bai Miao's attention.

After so many runs of dungeons, Bai Miao has developed some experience with the things that might cause problems within the dungeons.

When I got home in the afternoon, I saw Grandma Ghost, who was a deceased old woman.

The longevity medicines sold by Shengshoutang are primarily targeted at elderly customers.

Not to mention that Shengshoutang has the ability to place its advertisements after the evening news broadcast ends.

After watching the advertisement, Bai Miao turned off the TV, already feeling a little tired.

At this time, most primary school students will start going to bed around nine o'clock at night to get enough sleep.

Bai Miao recalled that Bai An had often boiled water and washed up by herself, and would not wait for her parents to come back before going to sleep.

As for what the two parents were doing, Bai An had no idea.

They basically don't care much about Bai An, but when they do, it's inevitably through corporal punishment.

The first day in the dungeon passed without any major incidents.

Bai Miao got up around seven o'clock.

The parents still left home earlier than Bai Miao, seemingly without considering what would happen if the child overslept.

I still left Bai Miao ten yuan for meals this morning, which included lunch.

The school doesn't have a cafeteria, so students either eat whatever they can find on the street behind the school at noon, or they go home to eat lunch if they live nearby.

There wasn't even a case of bringing boxed lunches to school.

But this condition is much better than before, when I had to bring my own raw rice and pickled vegetables and cook them in an aluminum lunchbox at school with boiling water.

Bai Miao drew the skill "Rolling Iron Hoop" today, which is still a skill related to children's entertainment activities.

Bai Miao still couldn't muster much interest in the morning classes, and it was difficult for him to adapt to the pace of life as a primary school student for the time being.

The students in the class were incredibly active during breaks.

Not only this class, but the entire school building seemed to be shaking as these children ran around.

Even though the teacher repeatedly emphasized that they were not allowed to play or make noise in the corridor, it could not suppress the playful nature of these elementary school students.

There were also some playing marbles, magnets, and jump rope.

There are so many different ways to do it.

Bai Miao couldn't help but feel a little nervous at the thought that he might draw the skills that these kids were playing with in the future.

Lin Shanshan usually enjoys playing jump rope with the other girls in her class during breaks, but today she seemed a little listless.

"are you uncomfortable?"

Bai Miao asked, "Logically speaking, Lin Shanshan is only in second grade, so she shouldn't have the monthly troubles that girls have."

What could make an elementary school student look so worried?

Lin Shanshan sat in her seat and glanced weakly at Bai Miao: "I saw my grandma."

"What happened to her?"

Lin Shanshan frowned: "But I remember last year my dad and the others buried my grandma in the ground. Last night I told my dad that my grandma came to see me, and he beat me up and made me kneel in front of my grandma's photo for half an hour, but I really did see my grandma."

Bai Miao felt a chill run down his spine and asked again, "What did your grandmother do?"

Lin Shanshan nodded, as if she had found someone to confide in: "Grandma gave me candy and smiled at me, but nobody believed what I said."

"Did you eat the candy your grandma gave you?"

Lin Shanshan continued nodding: "It's delicious! Do you believe me?"

"Believe it..."

Bai Miao gave a perfunctory answer.

Lin Shanshan ate the candy, and she doesn't seem to have any major problems...

However, Lin Shanshan also saw her deceased relatives, which made Bai Miao wary.

In short, you can't just eat the candy in your hand without careful consideration.