"You mean that guy named Ma Kui blew his flute and subdued the monster?"
Inside the conference room.
Jiang Qiao quietly listened to Old Goat Bali finish his story.
"Even if strange things were happening in Beihu Town a hundred years ago, and even if people already had ways to deal with the supernatural back then, how does any of this connect to Beihu Lake?"
The story involved Beihu Lake from beginning to end, yet he could find no actual link between them.
From his perspective, although the lake above the town held an unbelievable number of corpses, and an evil creature resembling a stitched-together monster had been born within it.
Did that explain where the stitched-together monster came from?
No.
Aside from the guess that some force had stitched a number of corpses together to create it, there was no other useful information.
"Uh—"
"Actually, this holy... monster has something to do with Ma Kui's flute..."
"Ma Kui was a legendary exorcist in the Northern Territory over a hundred years ago. He probably wasn't an Awakened himself and had no supernatural powers, but he possessed some Supernatural Items."
"They were more than enough back then."
"But perhaps because he spent his whole life dealing with those evil things while remaining an ordinary man himself, he encountered a great terror in his later years and ultimately died a very strange death."
"They say he sensed it coming before he died."
"So he built a little wooden cabin alone in the desert to serve as his final resting place. On the night he died, the north wind howled, and an unusually fierce rainstorm swept down from the sky."
"The nearby villages all heard some unknown monster roaring in the pitch-black desert, along with the faint sound of a flute."
"But the