Outside the window, night lay pitch-black. Inside, people bustled about, and Yue Wen, standing on the balcony, suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
Dead?
He stared at the case file Wang Shoucai had pulled up. The victim of the strange case from two days ago was unmistakably the little girl who had appeared at his firm that afternoon—Wang Miaomiao!
"This girl was attacked by an evil spirit on her way home from school. We don't know why, but she was brutally killed," Wang Shoucai said. "There were no wounds on her body. Her soul shattered and vanished, and we couldn't find the killer at all."
Yue Wen looked several more times, confirming it was the same face.
She had clearly gone to school that morning, then cheerfully led the two of them to Professor Guan's home. If there had been even the slightest trace of something amiss about her, he and Zhao Xing'er should both have noticed.
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What exactly was wrong?
Either the real Wang Miaomiao had come back from the dead, or an evil spirit was behind it... If it really was an evil spirit, it had to be quite powerful to evade the senses of both people at the firm.
That would also explain how she could enter and leave the Nightmare Realm at will while concealing its Yin energy.
But what was she after?
Just to get them to expose Professor Guan as a criminal?
To pull that off, she'd either have to possess a corpse or perfectly shapeshift, and conceal her aura without a single flaw. This evil spirit's cultivation had to be at least on par with a human