It was quite a while before the police arrived.
Chen Yihan led the team. After nodding to me, he went into the little substation building.
Before long, Chen Yihan came back out. He left the inside to the professional technicians, and the bodies weren't brought out yet.
I explained my younger sister's condition to the police. They understood and immediately handed her a bottle of mineral water from their supplies.
My sister took a couple of gulps, suppressing the urge to vomit. She no longer covered her mouth, though her face was still pale.
"Lin Qi," Chen Yihan called.
I looked at my sister.
"I'm okay now," she said, shaking her head.
I patted her back and walked over to Chen Yihan.
"I've seen what it's like inside. The killer's traces are all indoors. He stayed in there for a long time."
I listened in silence, and Ye Qing's image naturally surfaced in my mind.
Of course, I'd never seen Ye Qing's true appearance. At most, I'd caught a glimpse of his outline.
The Ye Qing I pictured changed from a figure with a blurred outline into a mass of dark energy.
"How did that thing explain it to you? He wiped out all the ghosts, so there were no bodies left?" I asked.
Chen Yihan nodded and pulled up a file on his phone.
Gui Yu—the Qi Bai incident had also happened in this timeline. Only here, it was a missing-person case. There was a large amount of blood at the scene, but no bodies. According to the police, the people may have been swallowed whole by ghosts, leaving no remains.
"What I know is what Lin Qi told us: he dealt with all of them and left no bodies, to prevent future trouble," Chen Yihan added.
I looked