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    Chapter 691 The Deceased Old Man


    The typhoon in Wyndon hadn’tpletely passed yet, and it was still raining when Lilly got out of the


    car. Despite being the months of July and August, it unexpectedly felt a bit chilly. Lilly wore a thin


    jacket, and even Josh and the others added a shirt jacket to their attire.


    ke held an umbre, but Lilly dashed ahead, her little face filled with urgency.


    “Lilly, what’s wrong?” ke asked.


    Lilly stood on the street, watching the wind howling and the sparse number of pedestrians braving the


    rain.


    “Daddy, did you see that olddy just now?” Lilly asked..


    ke shook his head in confusion. “No, I didn’t.”


    Josh and Hannah were even more bewildered. They didn’t notice any old person when they arrived,


    and now Lilly was talking about an olddy again…


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    When they arrived, it was on the opposite side of the road, so they could pass it off as not seeing her.


    But they didn’t see her on this side either as they walked all the way here.


    Josh said. “Lilly, are you sure you didn’t see wrong?”


    Lilly murmured. “I didn’t see wrong…”


    When they arrived, she saw the olddy in person.


    But just now, she saw her spirit…


    A chill ran through Lilly’s heart, and the rain blown by the strong windnded on her face, making her


    feel cold.


    Pablo asked, “What’s wrong?”


    Lilly bit her lip and said, “There was an olddy… She wasn’t dead when we arrived, but just now I saw


    her spirit.”


    Pablo furrowed his brow and asked, “Is there anything special about this olddy?”


    Countless beingse and go in the mortal realm. Every day, babies are born, and people pass away.


    In the grand scheme of countless lives, there isn’t a single person who is truly special. If she had to pay


    attention to every person she saw once, as a resident of Little Hades, she wouldn’t be able to keep


    up….


    But Lilly said, “I saw this olddy when I was doodling with the Pen of Judgment.”


    Lilly pondered for a moment and continued, “It’s like watching an animated series, even before it’s


    aired, I – knew this olddy would appear.”


    Pablo was taken aback.


    What does she mean??


    The Pen of Judgment does allow you to see how someone’s life will turn out, but…


    Seeing the future is different!


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    Lilly had never seen that olddy, but she saw her under the influence of the Pen of Judgment. That


    was a true glimpse into the future.


    Pablo felt overwhelmed and immediately took Lilly’s hand. “Come on, let’s go find her.”


    He wanted to understand what was going on!


    ke also understood and his expression turned solemn.


    They walked up and down the street, searching for the olddy, but couldn’t find her no matter how


    long they looked.


    Josh and Hannah wore baffled expressions and kept asking, “What are we looking for? What’s going


    on?”


    Lilly said seriously, “Josh, you wouldn’t want to know.”


    Josh fell silent.


    Okay, let’s take out the camera.


    Max, who had parked the car, followed along. He held the umbre, with Drake and Zachary beneath it.


    As soon as they arrived, they saw Josh taking out his camera, prompting Max to say, “Are you taking


    pictures? What’s there to capture in this stormy weather…”


    Josh’s gaze shifted, and he said, “Uncle Max, my camera is a bit different. You’ll see in a moment.”


    Max shook his head, wondering what could be so different. He had seen cameras with advanced


    technology before.


    ke pointed to a small restaurant and said. “Let’s go in and ask.”


    Lilly pushed open the door and called out, “Boss…”


    The boss stood up, thinking there was a customer. “Hello, would you like to have a meal? How many of


    you?”


    Lilly apologized, “Sorry, we’re not here to eat.”


    Josh continued. “We just wanted to ask if you saw an olddy passing by just now?”


    The boss raised an eyebrow and shook his head. “I didn’t see anyone… Are you looking for someone?


    Is it your family?”


    Lilly shook her head and said, “We saw her without an umbre, and she looked pitiful…”


    The boss’s expression softened slightly. “I didn’t see her, but if I had, I would have given her an


    umbre.”


    They thanked him and left the restaurant.


    Lilly wasn’t satisfied and walked towards the neighboring noodle shop. The shop had an open


    entrance, so they should be able to see from there.


    “Hello, ma’am… Did you see an old person just now?” Lilly asked earnestly, “An olddy wearing a thin


    The noodle shop’s owner was taken aback and shook her head. “I didn’t see anyone just now… But I


    saw her walking past from that direction in the morning.”


    Lilly asked anxiously, “Where did she go?”


    The owner said, “That way, but I don’t know where she went.”


    Lilly looked in the direction the owner pointed, coincidentally the opposite direction from where she saw


    the olddy’s spirit walking.


    She understood that after the olddy walked in that direction in the morning, she died somewhere


    over there.


    She just didn’t know why her spirit was still wandering and returned here.


    Lilly said thank you and left, searching in the direction indicated by the noodle shop owner.


    ke said. “We found her.”


    Everyone looked at ke all at once.


    Max thought to himself. Did you only ask a few people? And you found her just like that?


    ke held his phone and pointed at the surveince footage. “I checked the surveince cameras on


    this street, and we followed her path.”


    Max murmured.


    Entering someone else’s surveince footage was as natural to him as entering his own home, and for


    a moment, he didn’t know what to say.


    Lilly stared at the footage, following the path the olddy had walked in the morning and turned into an


    alley.


    It was a shortcut, and after entering the alley, they walked a bit further, passing by a few scattered


    vegetable plots. Behind the vegetable plots were irregrly arranged self-built houses.


    These houses didn’t belong to the urban vige; they were among the few remaining residences of the


    original residents. The price of one apartment building could rival that of a small vi.


    Although the architecture couldn’tpare to the grandeur of a vi, it had a unique charm that


    reflected the city’s history.


    ke switched to another surveince footage and said, “This way.”


    Lilly walked and walked until she arrived in front of one of the self-built houses.


    From a distance, she saw a familiar figure curled up on the ground….


    The olddy was wrapped in a white stic film, but her body was already soaked, curled up into a


    ball.


    Josh stood there dumbfounded. “Is that… a corpse?”


    Hannah, who was carefree, wondered, “What corpse? What kind of corpse can there be here?”


    She only saw a small pile of things covered with a white stic film; for a moment, she didn’t think of it


    as


    a corpse.


    Lilly ran over.


    ke quickly approached and examined the scene, then spoke, “She passed away approximately two


    hours ago.”


    Josh asked, “Uncle ke, how do you know it’s been two hours?”


    ke, while examining, exined, “When a person dies, their body starts to stiffen between 30


    minutes to three hours. Rigor mortis urs around nine to twelve hours after death. Although the time


    of body stiffening varies depending on the cause of death, we can make a rough estimate.”


    Josh nodded in understanding.


    Lilly squatted beside the olddy, silent for a long time.


    There was a tree in front of the self-built house, and under the tree was a stone bench. The olddy


    was curled up beneath that bench..


    In her final moments, she must have been waiting for something, her face slightly lifted, facing towards


    the building.


    The wrinkles on her face were tightly pressed together, faintly revealing a sense of longing…