Bang--
The Ceramic Puppet Girl fell from the table to the floor, shattering into pieces.
Then, in the very next instant, the fragments instantly reassembled.
The Puppet Girl jumped onto the chair again, then climbed back onto the conference table.
After He Ao entered the meeting room, Silvi, knowing everyone was about to hold a meeting, eagerly climbed onto the table by herself to play.
"This is Silvi?" Reed looked at Silvi entertaining herself in the corner of the conference table and asked slowly.
"Yes." He Ao nodded slightly. "After she entered the puppet, she became like this. Her mental state has also grown somewhat... 'excited.'"
"Let's not discuss that for now." He Ao withdrew his gaze and looked at Reed, Charn, and the Mustached Man before him. "How is your investigation into the disappearances going?"
Charn and the Mustached Man also withdrew their gazes at that moment. They looked at He Ao, then shook their heads together.
"We collected every disappearance case on Lorinser Street that the Municipal Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation could find, excluding possible accidental homicides nearby and cases strongly linked to gang members."
Charn raised a hand, pulled a tablet from the messy stack of documents on the conference table, and handed it to He Ao. "From six years ago until now, there have been roughly fifty suspected disappearance cases connected to the Orphanage."
"That many?" He Ao took the tablet, slightly stunned.
"These are only the cases that were reported and officially registered." Charn shook his head. "Street vagrants, as well as people who came from other areas and disappeared near Lorinser Street but were registered elsewhere, aren't included. The odds of triggering and entering this 'anomaly' are probably not low."
"Life on the streets isn't easy." Seeming to recall something,