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Now Yan Junze was more certain that the strangeness hidden in the darkroom was sensitive to photographing, or it could only be seen through the act of taking photos.

Having a digital camera at hand seemed very important.

This time, he did not touch the cameras in the glass display because he knew they were all useless, and the row of cabinets in the store were locked, with no way to get the cameras inside.

So Yan Junze walked directly to the bedroom, with footsteps barely audible. The sounds from the darkroom began to stir shortly before he reached the bedroom door.

Yan Junze took a deep breath, controlling the strength in his hand as he gently turned the doorknob.

Considering he was outside, Gu Bai had not locked the bedroom door, so after turning it, Yan Junze gently pushed the door open and entered.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

He wanted to ask Lin Meng which digital camera was usable, then retrieve the keys, open the cabinet, and take one for use.

At the moment, a dimmer bedside lamp was on in Gu Bai and Lin Meng's bedroom, and the soft light allowed Yan Junze to approximately make out the room's interior.

However, the moment he stepped into the bedroom, he shivered with fear.

He saw Gu Bai lying on the bed not far away, eyes wide open, staring straight at him without blinking.

It was so late, yet this person was not only wide awake, but he seemed to have no trace of sleepiness at all.

You're not sleepy is one thing, but to lie on the bed with your body exposed, glaring with a pair of dead fish eyes, fixated on the bedroom door. If this had been the old Yan Junze, he would have definitely freaked out, jumping up and banging his head on the door frame.

Yan Junze closed the bedroom door behind him and approached the bedside.

"Haven't you slept?"

"I heard that sound again," said Gu Bai.

Yan Junze was speechless, "With your hearing, you must've practiced pinpointing the position of a fly by its sound in the past!"

Gu Bai sat up.

Lin Meng, who had been sleeping beside him, also groggily opened her eyes. Upon seeing Yan Junze at the bedside, she instinctively pulled the covers, even though she was wearing home-style pajamas.

"Has that thing... come?" Lin Meng asked in astonishment.

"It has," Yan Junze nodded, then spread his hands toward her, "The cabinets outside are locked, where are the keys? I need to take a usable digital camera."

Lin Meng then sat up and asked, "A camera?"

"Yes, to photograph... the strangeness," Yan Junze did not hide it.

Although this bedroom was separated from the darkroom by a store space and the bedroom door was closed, all three of them spoke very softly.

After all, not everyone was Gu Bai, whose hearing could apply for a Guinness World Record.

Contrary to Yan Junze's expectations, Lin Meng did not give him the keys, but instead, after the initial shock, she got out of bed, opened the bedside table, and took out a digital point-and-shoot camera from underneath.

"This one is usable," Lin Meng handed the camera over to Yan Junze.

Yan Junze took the camera, learned how to use it after asking Lin Meng, and told the couple, "Don't come out. If you find the bedroom door opening by itself without any wind, you must notify me immediately."

Upon hearing the latter part of his sentence, Gu Bai broke into a cold sweat, and Lin Meng clutched his clothes tightly.

Yan Junze, holding the camera, returned to the front of the bedroom door, turned down the handle, and gently pulled the door open, slipping out.

Gu Bai quickly followed, arriving at the door to ensure that the bedroom door was securely closed.

He then lay down by the door to listen for a while before returning to the bed, shakily, to hold his beautiful wife.

When Yan Junze returned to the room in the store, because he had just entered the darkness from a lit area, his eyes were temporarily unable to see. He stood still, blinking rapidly to adjust.

After a moment, the outline of the room became clear.

He then looked towards the direction of the darkroom. There was no sound coming from it, and there were no signs that the black cloth curtain had been moved. However, only by walking over could he see whether the door to the darkroom was open.

Because he had left the room for a while to get the camera, Yan Junze now couldn't be certain whether that thing was still inside the darkroom or had already come into the shop.

To be on the safe side, he turned on the digital camera in his hand.

The camera had been manually set to night mode by Lin Meng, with automatic compensation for low light, eliminating the need for a flash. Otherwise, the flash triggering during the act of photographing could have unintended consequences.

Yan Junze took a deep breath. If his guess was right, he could now try to see if that thing had made its way into this room of the shop.

First, he took a photo towards the entrance of the darkroom.

The photographing was also set to silent mode, so there was no sound mimicking that of a traditional camera shutter.

Yan Junze immediately glanced at the screen of the camera to see the image he had just captured. Although the picture quality was much darker, he could still make out the layout in the direction of the darkroom.

From the look of it, there seemed to be no anomaly.

He stepped back a bit and took another picture towards the direction of the sofa. After checking it, everything appeared normal.

Perhaps, that thing was still in the darkroom and had not come out at all.

With that thought, Yan Junze went to the entrance of the darkroom and lifted the black curtain, only to find the door ajar, seemingly just as he had last seen it before "Rewind".

It was possible that the strangeness had not come out.

Yan Junze gently pushed open the door with one hand while holding the camera in the other, taking photos of both the table and the film developing sink.

He didn't go inside, and then checked the photos carefully. Again, he found nothing.

In fact, he also hadn't heard any unusual sounds at that moment.

He went directly into the darkroom, stood in its center, and photographed every corner, including behind the door. Then he stood still and carefully examined the pictures he had taken.

He looked at each photo, but still, no anomalies were found.

Could it be that the task hint required a camera, but not in this way? Could it be about using the camera's video recording feature instead?

That couldn't be right either. If recording video was as useful as taking photos, the hint would just say he needed a video camera.

So it must still be related to the traditional function of a camera—photographing.

Or perhaps, the strangeness was no longer in the darkroom.

Thinking of this, Yan Junze tiptoed out of the darkroom and into the shop's room. However, he stood only at the front of the black curtain and didn't go far.

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Then he raised the camera and took a photo of most of the room inside the shop. He lowered his head, brought up the photo he had just taken, and took a look.

Before long, he slightly furrowed his brows, pressed a few buttons, and zoomed in on the photo, his expression turning somewhat eerie.

From the perspective of the darkroom's entrance, this photo encompassed the sofa, the side of the glass cabinet, the side of the counter, and two corners of the room.

And now, in the photo, near the back of the counter, there was a black silhouette of a man. The man was crouched low with his head down, his face blurry, seemingly staring at the ground with his hands wrapped around his legs.

"Saw it for real!"

Yan Junze was startled and immediately lifted the camera to take another photo towards the back of the counter.

After taking the shot, he quickly pulled up the photo.

In this photo, the black silhouette was no longer crouching but had stood up, still with his head down.