The moment he looked at the tentacle, chaotic and twisted murmurs echoed in He Ao's mind, like the thoughts of countless people whispering in his ears.

This gibbering was so familiar, it was exactly the gibbering caused by the hidden existence that He Ao saw in the mental hospital.

The curtain-like shadow tentacles in front of you seemed to be an extension of the hidden power.

However, the shadows spreading into this study do not seem to be as sensitive as those in the mental hospital, or perhaps the power extending into this study is not dense enough.

Gazing at these shadows, apart from bringing those confused murmurs to He Ao, did not give him the feeling of being watched at close range by a terrifying high-ranking being like in a mental hospital.

He Ao looked at these shadow tentacles and thought for a moment. He turned back and looked in the direction of the living room.

The top of the entire living room is densely covered with slender shadow tentacles, which stretch out from the void on the ceiling and entangle on the ceiling, like the body of a parasitic vine covering the crown of a tree.

Just now, He Ao passed through these dense shadow tentacles from high-ranking beings and entered the study.

He Ao turned around and looked at the shadow covering the bookshelf like a curtain, and slowly stretched out his hand. When he was about to touch the shadow tentacles, these tentacles were like automatically opening curtains, slowly fading to both sides, hiding.

Opened his hand.

At the same time, some shadow tentacles lifted up and surrounded He Ao.

They are 'watching' Heao.

At this moment, He Ao felt that some kind of force was trying to peel off his brain like a lotus bud, carefully peering into his deepest thoughts.

But these powers are somewhat insignificant compared to the power he summoned when he faced the hidden existence when he was in the mental hospital.

These powers entered his consciousness, disappearing into the calm waves like they were submerged into the sea.

The power carried by these tentacles seems to be part of the hidden existence, with the hidden existence's gaze, but this gaze is not strong, and the power of pollution it brings is not much.

But this 'not much' is relative to He Ao.

Any ordinary person, even a low-level transcendent, can easily be contaminated by the prying eyes of such power for a long time, leading to mental problems.

He Ao's hand that touched the glass door of the bookcase paused for a moment, and he looked around at the tentacles that were 'watching' him.

He suddenly understood why Jess's mother's mood changed drastically after his father's death.

The forces that tried to invade He Ao's mind did not force it directly into his mind, but entered little by little, trying to influence his thinking, pry into his consciousness, and peel away his memory.

Its methods are so gentle, like slow poison.

In a short period of one or two days, even ordinary people will not notice the problem.

These tentacles haven't been here recently, they've always been here.

They were here after Jace's father died, and even before Jace's father died.

They were like pairs of eyes, covering every corner of the house, peering into the lives of Jace's parents, their thoughts, and their memories.

This is the method that the mysterious man arranged in Jace's home to pry into the secret knowledge known to Jace's parents.

He Ao turned off his super memory, and the whole world suddenly returned to peace.

His hand was placed on the dusty bookcase door. The quiet bookcase seemed to have stopped time.

He Ao was alone in the empty house.

But the forces that kept intruding into his consciousness reminded him that those tentacles did not disappear, but he could no longer see them. They were still wrapped around him, 'watching' him.

However, these tentacles are not triggered at all times, and the power of the hidden existence seems to be limited, so the mysterious man may only have arranged trigger points at the most critical locations.

And this trigger point is the bookcase. Anyone who opens the bookcase will be spied on by these tentacles. The longer they stay in this room, the longer they will be spied on.

But from this point of view, since the mysterious man would use the bookcase as a trigger point, it proves that he believes that the bookcase is most likely to contain hidden knowledge.

But there is a question here. How did the mysterious man accurately locate the bookcase?

Do these shadow tentacles themselves have a positioning effect?

He Ao looked out at the living room. At this moment, the tentacles in the living room were also hanging down, like densely hanging vines in the forest.

Or has the mysterious person ever entered this house with some identity?

He Ao withdrew his gaze. He still lacked some key clues. The mysterious man's ability really affected his thinking. There was no suspicious person in Jace's memory.

Of course, it is also possible that the mysterious person cracked the smart lock and sneaked in here.

He Ao opened all the cabinet doors and touched the books in the bookcase with his fingers. He temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart, took a few steps back, distanced himself, and activated super memory again.

The densely packed shadow tentacles appeared in his field of vision again. He Ao's sight passed through these tentacles and landed on the bookshelf behind the tentacles.

All the books and their arrangement appeared in Heao's mind.

Then He Ao turned off his super memory, took a step forward, and stared at these books at close range.

The details remembered by super memory were compared with the vague memories in Jace's mind.

After his mother passed away, when Jess was cleaning the room, he took out every book and looked through it, but couldn't find any clues.

The current arrangement of this bookcase is very similar to the arrangement after Jess finished looking through it.

Although his memory was a little fuzzy, He Ao was still roughly certain that these books were the ones that Jace had read and put back before. There was not one more and not one less.

He Ao thought for a moment, then he reached out and took down all the books, leaving only the empty bookshelf. He scanned the bookshelf with his super memory, and there was nothing on the bookshelf.

There were no special marks or hidden symbols, only traces of natural wear and tear. From those traces, He Ao could not see any deliberate password.

However, this situation is not beyond He Ao's expectation. If the things left by Jace's father are so easy to find, it is impossible that Jace and the mysterious man have not been found.

The key to this incident is that Jace's father wants to ensure that the knowledge can be seen by the enemies of the mysterious man who comes for the knowledge, but cannot be seen by the mysterious man.

The mysterious man is also a supernatural being, and he has strange abilities. With the help of these tentacles from hidden existences, ordinary supernatural beings may not be as careful and sharp as the mysterious man. Therefore, what ordinary extraordinary people can see, the mysterious man should also be able to see.

See.

He Ao looked at these tentacles thoughtfully.

He temporarily left the study and entered other rooms.

The house that Jess's father bought was a small apartment with a master bedroom, a second bedroom, and a study room.

The master bedroom is Jess's parents' room, on the other side of the living room, and the study and second bedroom are on one side.

He Ao did not enter the master bedroom this time. Jess's parents' master bedroom had already been turned inside and out by Jess.

Especially after finding his mother's final letter, he even dismantled the wardrobe and bed and carefully looked for gaps.

Jess has already gone through everything he can find physically.

So Heao gave priority to the second bedroom where Jess lived.

Jess’s second bedroom was very clean. After marrying his wife Tini, Jess moved out and bought a small house outside. Most of the things that could be used had been moved out and left behind.

The things in this second bedroom are all childhood things.

The decoration of the second bedroom has hardly changed. After his parents died, Jess also looked through his second bedroom, but not carefully because he had put many things in the house.

Jace's parents rarely touch Jace's things, so except for some regular cleaning, the things in the second bedroom are almost as they were when Jace left them.

There are still a few old clothes in the closet, which are somewhat rotten and damaged. The whole closet is filled with the smell of airtight mold.

When my mother was still here, she would help Jess clean out the closet every once in a while.

At that time, my mother would often take photos and send them to Jess, telling him how much dust was accumulated on the wardrobe and that the clothes hanging in the closet had not been worn for a long time. I wonder if Jess had gained weight.

Jess actually knew that it was his mother who missed him.

He Ao gathered up the torn chemical fiber rags, tidied up the wardrobe and put it in order.

Then he opened the small bookcase next to the wardrobe.

There are only a few simple books in the bookcase, and most of the other space is filled with various game consoles and electronic toys.

Jess also wants to work hard at reading, but who can resist the temptation of a game console.

When he was a child, he received a lot of scolding from his mother for this.

Every time he was scolded, his father would laugh next to him and even pick up his cell phone to record the video, saying that he would play it at his wedding when he grew up.

Then the mother, who was very angry, would arrest the father and train him together.

In the end, his father did not play those videos at Jace's wedding. When Jace was sorting out his father's belongings, he did not find the videos recorded in his childhood in his father's cloud space.

Maybe the father really just wanted to scare the child at that time.

He Ao picked up those game consoles. Some of them had no power at all, but some of them were still running normally, and some of Jess's favorite childhood games were still stored in them.

The dynamic music from the homepage of the game console sounded in the empty room, and the glimmer of light flickered in the darkness.

He Ao was silent for a moment and turned off the game console.

He picked up the books.

These books are not serious popular science books, but a few story books with a fantasy nature similar to "unsolved mysteries".

Jess couldn't remember the content of the book at all. He Ao opened the book and glanced at it. They were all about simple stories about monsters.

But when he opened the last book, he paused.

There is a small chip inside this book.

He Ao was stunned for a moment and thought for a while before realizing that this was a virtual bill collection card.
To be continued...