"One look at your face tells me it isn't good news," Fatty said, reading his expression.
Curly Hair slowly began, "The last time I went to Room 1309 was yesterday, and the time before that was last week, about seven days ago... The time before last, this chair wasn't broken yet, and it hadn't been put out on the balcony."
He pointed to the chair icon labeled "damaged" on the balcony in the diagram.
"Huh?" Fatty couldn't help blurting out. "You mean this diagram was only printed in the book sometime in the past week?"
As he spoke, he couldn't help examining the book more closely.
The cover had black lettering on a white background, but the paper had yellowed somewhat. The edges of the pages, in particular, had turned almost the color of parchment from damp and oxidation.
That alone was enough to show the book was old, not to mention the dust covering it.
"That's not what I mean. This book looks old no matter how you look at it... I think there might be something strange about it. For example, it might update the positions of the objects in the dorm rooms in real time..." Curly Hair said.
"Like surveillance?" Xu Xingcheng tilted his head as he looked at the dorm room diagram on the page. "When an object moves in reality, the object in the book's diagram moves too?"
"Yes, exactly." Curly Hair nodded hastily. "That's what I mean."
"Pretty amazing, but things like that are normal in a supernatural instance," Fatty mused. "There don't seem to be any people in these pictures. Is that because nobody's in the rooms, or because it can't draw people and track their locations in real time?"
Curly Hair glanced at his watch. "Afternoon classes have already started. There definitely