All that Chai Ying knew was this. She didn't know anything beyond it. Even after learning that an abnormal number of her former classmates had died, she had only felt a quiet chill and never investigated.
She had left the country, and it was probably not just for her own future. She had been trying to escape.
Before Li Xingfang ended his call with Chai Ying, I asked her to describe the sound of those footsteps.
With the Azure-Faced Ghost's limbs, its footsteps should have included the sound of its claws hitting the ground. I suspected that her old classmates hadn't "woken up" because of the "girls' dormitory" incident and then each sought out an expert to engage in "superstitious activities." There had to be something else going on. Otherwise, there was no way so many people in one class would coincidentally seek out experts, successfully find different ones, and then coincidentally meet with accidents.
If experts were that easy to find, wouldn't Chen Yihan and the Chen family, with their connections, or the powers behind Qingzhou Manufacturing Bureau, be able to find plenty of them? Why would they be stuck in such a passive position?
Chai Ying took a long time to consider her answer before saying, "There shouldn't have been any shoes. It sounded like bare feet hitting the ground, with a faint noise... like a puppy walking on tile or wooden flooring."
"The sound of claws?" I prompted.
"Yes, that's what it sounded like," Chai Ying confirmed. "But it wasn't a puppy. It was something with two feet, and the sound of its claws was very loud."
I felt more and more certain that my line of thinking was right. They had all encountered the same expert. And that expert had even managed to go abroad. Impressive.