What a coincidence.
Fu Qian said that he seemed to actually know a woman named Lasik.
The recorder Old Man's voice remained devoid of emotion, sounding even more rigid than when they had been chatting earlier.
Yet it was precisely that robotic voice that subtly confirmed the claim that he no longer knew what he had recorded and could only rely on his son to retrieve and even recount it.
"Following in the footsteps of an old acquaintance"—combined with how often that phrase had come up before, it was hard to believe it was merely a coincidence.
At that moment, the image of a brown-haired figure in a wide-brimmed hat naturally surfaced in Fu Qian's mind.
She was also one of the few whose mission summary had not taken the form of text, but actual footage.
That was right—2-205, Virtue.
One of the Young People that incarnation had taken on, who had gone looking for thrills during what should have been a pleasant vacation.
And over the course of investigating one tragedy after another, a character named Lasik had gradually emerged, her tragic fate slowly unfolding.
A character seemingly trapped inside a movie, trying again and again to escape, only for every method she exhausted to prove futile.
In the end, her very existence had completely collapsed, turning into mold spots on a videotape and thereby giving her a chance to escape.
Before falling into that desperate predicament, she had even come here?
If that proved true, the implications behind it would be rather extraordinary.
Was there some connection between this sanatorium and that old mansion... or between this containment item and the Nightmare Corridor?
Don't forget that when he had first returned from the Witch and broken through the Nightmare Corridor with the Warehouse's help, it had already been