Time slipped silently through people's palms.
The snow fell and stopped by turns, just like the staff members wavering between panic and anticipation, caught in endless conflict and restless anxiety.
The Seventh Branch, which had been out of contact for a long time, finally returned to the public eye on December 31.
Ji Li and Yu Guo appeared at the second online meeting, becoming the main speakers of this meeting.
By now, it was time to reveal the secrets of Tiannan Academy of Drama.
Yu Guo recounted his history with the university—their grudges and entanglements—and finally laid out all his speculation about the academy.
Quite a few core staff members from the Seventh Branch had experienced the attack of a massive ghost tide within the academy.
This also confirmed that Yi Tong's speculation before her disappearance had been entirely correct:
Tiannan Academy of Drama was a supernatural location with two sides: one without ghosts, and one with them.
At the same time, the meeting established the method of entering the side with ghosts, as well as the plan for accurately entering the mission node:
Jiang Xi would carry Gu Xingjian's pocket watch and activate the time transition, thus beginning the mission.
In the middle of the meeting, Lu Chen explained Song Yitong's disappearance to everyone.
Based on the intelligence provided by the Seventh Branch, Yi Tong had clearly been pulled into the "side with ghosts" of Tiannan Academy.
And the place name Yi Tong had mentioned before anything happened to her had become the only clue.
Perhaps the library was the reason behind her disappearance.
Lu Chen believed that Yi Tong might not die before the mission began, despite having been missing for nine days.
There were three reasons for this view:
First, Yi Tong herself was extremely capable and