"..."
(.o)
A little over an hour later, after wandering around many places, Annie finally reached a carousel and gently patted the head of a chestnut-brown wooden horse.
The horse had looked ordinary enough, with hollow, lifeless eyes. But as Annie's fingers slid down its mane, she clearly felt a chill, as though something were writhing inside it.
And its skin didn't feel like ordinary plastic or paint, either. It felt strange, like touching a cold corpse.
What's more, she noticed that as time passed and the sun sank lower in the sky, that feeling grew more distinct.
Anyway!
An ordinary person would probably have been terrified just from touching the horse, but to Annie, it was nothing.
"..."
(ˉ▽￣~) Tsk~~
So Annie abandoned the carousel and quickly turned her attention to what lay ahead.
She'd spotted a lot of talismans posted up there, and there seemed to be some kind of notice at the entrance to a cluster of buildings.
And if there was new information, she certainly wasn't going to miss it.
"Oooh!"
(⊙.⊙)
"This is..."
(.)
[Urgent Notice]
Attention!
Proceed with caution ahead!
Proceed with caution!
Several days ago, an anomaly suddenly occurred in this park in the middle of the night. Our bureau's night patrol and security special operations personnel witnessed a swing swaying on its own while empty, blood flowing from the carousel horses' pupils, child-sized footprints appearing in the sandpit, and a corpse's shadow surfacing in the cold pool, among other abnormal phenomena.
Witnesses at the time claimed that beneath the moonless sky, they saw a woman in red holding a baby beneath the Ferris wheel. When she turned around, paper money was flying everywhere?
Since the seventh day of the seventh month, we have received dozens of reports of missing children.
The