Just as Sun Hang was about to inspect the Anomaly remains one last time, he unexpectedly discovered that the remains were gradually fading, becoming transparent... until they completely vanished before his eyes.
This was not a normal part of an Anomaly's dissipation process. There was only one explanation for this—the videotape's pause had been canceled!
"Not good!" Sun Hang immediately ran toward the computer room exit. The scavenger girl was startled by his reaction and hurriedly followed behind him.
Before she could ask why he was running, several silvery-white arcs of electricity flashed around him. The next moment, he vanished from where he stood.
Underground Commercial Street, first floor, video store.
Sun Hang stared at the opened player and the missing videotape, feeling rather annoyed.
Obviously, after he had dealt with the Anomaly in the underground computer room, someone—or something—had taken the videotape.
Not only that, but whoever had taken it had left no trace at the scene. Sun Hang carefully inspected the player, but the only fingerprints on it belonged to himself and the scavenger who had already been anomalized.
There were no new footprints on the floor. Even the thickness of the dust around them and the marks where it had been scuffed away were exactly as Sun Hang remembered them.
"The one who took the videotape... probably wasn't human, right?" Sun Hang mused. He tried using his wish-fulfillment ability to reconstruct what had happened in the video store a few minutes ago, but this time, the ability did not work.
Or rather, the scene it reconstructed was not what had truly happened in the video store—the paused image suddenly went dark, then the player's tray gently popped open, empty inside.
The videotape had never appeared in the scene from beginning to end.
"It couldn't have just