Maybe I'd be able to enter the dream tonight if I took a look.
The thought of this hanging over me had been weighing on me, so I agreed.
Wu Ling quickly sent me the file.
I hesitated a little before opening it.
After all, I wasn't the one in charge of this matter. Ye Qing was. Since he hadn't made a move, I didn't know whether something had gone wrong on his end or whether he was waiting for a new breakthrough on mine.
After thinking it over, I opened the file.
It was huge, listing all the places with "Guangyuan" in their names, sorted into categories.
Nangong Yao had searched more thoroughly than I had with the navigation app. Aside from some obscure places, he'd also found companies, shops, and apartment buildings with the name.
The combination of "Guang" and "Yuan" wasn't a bad name. It wasn't as common as "Peace" or "Harmony," but it was still fairly popular. Naturally, there were plenty of companies and shops with those names.
There were even more place names.
Just seeing the locations made my heart skip a beat. When I looked at the number of deaths marked beside them, my heart sank.
Over the past twenty-odd years, places bearing those two characters had seen one disaster after another.
Guangyuan Road took the lead, with deaths and disappearances in the double digits, closing in on fifty. The incidents at other places were more sporadic, but cases involving one or two people were all too common.
That distribution only made me more uneasy.
Perhaps the ghost was deliberately controlling its territory. Turning Guangyuan Road into a haunted road had been part of its plan. At the other places, it seemed to have limited itself to taking control, without making any further moves.