My heart pounded as I nervously watched Jiang You.
Jiang You smiled. "It just suddenly came to me. I don't know why, either."
"Oh, maybe the game got taken down?"
"Could be. The graphics were pretty creepy."
After a few exchanges, we ended the conversation.
I left the restroom and returned to the office, my steps heavy.
The Thin Man asked, "Brother Qi? About Yu Xiaoqin... you can't really be blamed for that. She'd been targeted long ago. Even Luo Mu, the person directly involved, couldn't do anything."
I froze.
A life—a living person—had slipped from my mind just moments ago. I'd also forgotten about Luo Mu, the ghost I'd met.
I realized I didn't have any time or energy to spare for sympathy.
"I ran into Jiang You just now. There's something..." I relayed what Jiang You had told me to the others, while searching for keywords on my phone.
It wasn't hard to find the news.
The missing uploader went by "Thunder Lord" and had over twenty thousand followers on the blingbling website. He wasn't hugely popular, but he was fairly well known.
The streamer whose channel had been shut down by a moderator was even more famous. His username was "Big Shrimp 123." He streamed all kinds of games professionally and also did some game commentary.
The game they'd played was called Spirit Search.
As Jiang You had said, it was a small horror puzzle game made independently by a single developer. Like most games of its kind, it had a gloomy, muted art style. The protagonist was a young man named Ye Zi, a detective hired to investigate a murder. When he reached the scene of a case from many years earlier, he gradually discovered that there was more to it than met the eye. The