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"Human Skin Lantern?!"

At this moment, Lantern Woman had no reaction, but Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di were startled, as if they had remembered something, and immediately looked at the lantern in the woman's hand.

Inspired by Yan Junze's words, in their minds, it was possible that Lantern Woman had argued with her husband and in a fit of rage, killed him, peeled off his skin, and made this human skin lantern.

However, after a careful look, Zhang Xiaomo shook her head and said, "The style of this lantern is very common; it doesn't look like it's made from skin, does it?"

"Exactly, the outer layer is just fire-resistant oiled paper, not human skin," Zhang Di also said.

The two initially thought they had guessed correctly, but now it seemed that wasn't the case.

Yan Junze gave them both a disparaging glance, "I was just making a metaphor, you've watched too many TV dramas. A lamp made from human skin would have a big difference, it wouldn't be something that couldn't be identified at a glance, and its light penetration couldn't possibly be so good. The texture and quality of its surface, where would it have the appearance of this kind of paper."

"Then I want to know, what's the point of you saying that?" Zhang Di suddenly felt like he'd been played by the other party and couldn't help feeling a bit ashamed and angry.

Yan Junze seriously looked at him and Zhang Xiaomo and even moved a bit closer, whispering, "Haven't you noticed that at this moment, the white lantern of Lantern Woman hasn't turned red?"

The two of them were suddenly shaken, then remembered that the white lantern in Lantern Woman's hand had indeed started to emit a red glow not long ago.

Having observed for so long, they of course knew that this was a sign that Lantern Woman was about to enter a state of rage, but after talking for a while, it seemed that the woman had not turned into a red lantern state.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di simultaneously turned their heads to look at Lantern Woman.

They saw that at this moment, the lantern in Lantern Woman's hand, which had just revealed a red glow, now showed no trace of it and was still the previous white color.

"Huh? It really didn't turn red this time," Zhang Di expressed in surprise.

"What's going on?" Zhang Xiaomo also asked.

"It's quite simple," Yan Junze no longer lowered his voice, making sure his current speech could be heard by Lantern Woman across the way, "Although the lantern is not made from human skin, clearly my guess just now triggered some thoughts in Sister Ning Ji, allowing her obsession to find its way back."

"Sister? Pfft..." Zhang Di covered his mouth with a hand, the corners of his mouth twitching.

"I feel like I'm beginning to remember..." Lantern Woman slowly began to speak, as if recalling, "My husband is really right beside me!"

"Think about it, where is he?" Yan Junze urged, "Why do your emotions change with the lantern's color? Or why does the lantern turn red whenever you get angry?"

"I... I..." Lantern Woman's obsession began to grow chaotic, "I found my husband, I found him! I told him to go back, he wouldn't, he said... he said... he wanted to divorce me!"

Yan Junze didn't speak, and Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di were at a loss for words.

At this moment, Zhang Di seemed to somewhat understand Yan Junze's Buddhist Exorcism Method.

At that time, the color of the lantern in Lantern Woman's hand kept changing from red to white, constantly altering, as if mirroring her unpredictable emotions.

After a while, Yan Junze couldn't help but say, "Then, you guys fought?"

The color of the lantern suddenly stopped at red, Lantern Woman froze for an instant, and after a few seconds, she said, "Mm, I told him to go back, he wouldn't, he wanted to divorce me, divorce me... I cried, I pushed him, he... my husband, he lost his footing and fell down..."

"Fell where?" Zhang Xiaomo immediately asked.

"Hee hee hee..." Lantern Woman slowly raised her head, looked at the three of them, and fell silent.

Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di immediately became cautious, and Zhang Xiaomo nudged Yan Junze with her elbow to get his attention.

"You haven't finished speaking, continue," Yan Junze said with a calm expression and even a faint smile.

Lantern Woman's gaze turned to Yan Junze, she bared a row of sharp teeth with a grin, and said, "He didn't want me anymore, my husband didn't want me..."

"So, after he died, you just... took his body..." Yan Junze pondered. Find your next read on My Virtual Library Empire

"I took a long detour and found his body under the cliff; I couldn't let him leave me," the Lantern Woman said slowly.

"So you wanted to carry his body back?" Yan Junze asked.

The Lantern Woman shook her head, then bowed slightly, "He was too heavy, I couldn't carry him, but I couldn't bear to leave him, he couldn't leave me behind!"

Suddenly, Yan Junze quietly tugged at Zhang Xiaomo's sleeve, gesturing for the two of them to follow him as they took three steps back. The Lantern Woman was lost in her memories and didn't notice their movement.

"I think I know now," Yan Junze suddenly said, "Can I tell you the truth now?"

The Lantern Woman looked up, her face blank, just staring at Yan Junze without saying a word.

Yan Junze cleared his throat, "I want to clarify one fact first, the moon that night and tonight should be the same, very bright, so you could leave Plum Blossom Forest and accompany me here. That is to say, the night your husband died, it was also such a night. So, you didn't need a lantern to go out, and you didn't have a lantern at home at all."

"What?" Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di were stunned and turned to look at Yan Junze along with the Lantern Woman.

"That night, you accidentally killed your husband. You wanted to carry his body back, but you simply couldn't. Also, because you were jealous and resented him for saying he would divorce you, yet you couldn't bear to leave him, so in a fit of rage, you cut off his head and only took his head back," Yan Junze articulated each word carefully.

The other two showed terrified expressions, while the Lantern Woman remained expressionless.

Yan Junze continued, "So where did this lantern come from, let alone a white lantern, a red lantern? What you've been carrying, is clearly your husband's head! It always has been!"

As soon as these words fell, Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di immediately looked at the lantern in the Lantern Woman's hand, which had already turned red.

However, at that moment, they realized the lantern was no longer as it had been, but had turned into a shriveled head, with eyes wide open in death, mouth slightly ajar, and not a single tooth visible.

"Ah!"

This head, as if not yet dead, let out an "ah" after revealing its true form, an eerily similar scream to the Lantern Woman's when she turned into her red lantern state.

With her husband's head in hand, and as the head began to move chaotically, the Lantern Woman's mind was just like the state she was in when she turned into the red lantern.

Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di inhaled sharply, even Yan Junze himself felt startled when he saw the head appear.

Normally, the Lantern Woman would have turned red by now and started a rampage, but her husband's head had now shown its true form, and everyone could see it.

Yan Junze immediately said again, "Look at what you have been carrying?"

The Lantern Woman looked down, and with a jolt, the "lantern" in her hand dropped onto the ground with a clap, marking the first time in history that she let it go.

The furious state disappeared instantly, and on the ground, the head twisted, showing extreme hatred, and naturally, the target of that hatred was the one who had caused his death—the Lantern Woman.

At that moment, Zhang Xiaomo and Zhang Di suddenly realized why the Lantern Woman often flew into a rage—it was the influence of the strangeness emanating from her dead husband's head, causing her to become completely uncontrollable in those moments.

"Congratulations, you've found your husband," Yan Junze said, imitating the etiquette of the ancients, and made a fist salute toward the Lantern Woman.

However, the Lantern Woman showed no reaction, but it provoked a garbled roar from the head of Jia Sheng on the ground. After the roar, Jia Sheng's gaze fixed directly on him.

Zhang Xiaomo immediately shielded Yan Junze behind her, and Zhang Di stepped forward as well.

Jia Sheng's head could control or disrupt the Lantern Woman and had a strong visual interference, akin to a blinding technique. Perhaps the strangeness was even more intense, so they were even more wary of the other's wrath.

But the Lantern Woman said nothing, silently picked up her husband's head, and, just like she had been holding the lantern before, turned around silently and walked out of Good character Bookstore.

[Task: The woman carrying the lantern, Terrified (Low), completed. Gained 1600 Different Dimension Energy points.]

As the task completion notification suddenly popped up in his mind, Yan Junze's gaze hadn't yet moved away from the retreating figure of the Lantern Woman.

In that moment, he suddenly had an ominous feeling, for a simple reason—the task originally had a range, from "Hair-raising (High)" to "Terrified (Low)", but now it showed that Terrified (Low) was completed.

Was the task of being Terrified so simple?