The flashlight beam revealed an eager face, its owner waiting for the plot to unfold.
But nothing came.
"Where's the Bloody Hand? Where's the ghost shadow? Why won't it open the door?" Unable to trigger the next step no matter what he did, the giant lowered his voice and slowly began singing a nursery rhyme, bizarre beyond words. "Little bunny, be good... open the door... open it quickly... I want to come in..."
He placed one huge hand on the door. With a crack, miserable spiderweb fractures spread across the frame.
"Ahhhhhh—!!" A scream of utter terror came from behind the door.
"Heh heh, hahaha, hahahahahaha!" The giant shadow let out a horrifying laugh. Amid that laughter, crack after crack rapidly split across the old wooden door before it burst apart with a bang. The Non-existent Floor shook violently, its embryonic underworld on the verge of collapse.
"Quit playing around. Be serious." Ling Xingjian rolled her eyes at him, lit up with holy light, and walked inside. "Special Case Unit on duty! Nobody move! Hands up!"
Another day, another report: Fatal Bend!
Case description: At a bend along the mountain highway outside the city, thick fog always rose in the dead of night. Drivers who reached this point could see nothing, forcing many to pull over. The fog was extremely strange, appearing at the same place at the same time every day, nothing like natural mist. Moreover, many drivers had vanished here. There had to be something sinister about this bend.
Sounded interesting.
They took the case!
That night, a massive Hummer roared onto the highway, heading straight for Fatal Bend. Sure enough, dense fog soon filled the road ahead. Visibility swiftly dropped to nothing, making it impossible to keep driving.
The Hummer pulled over, killed the engine and lights,