"This woman is a ghost. She said her name was Liu Yu. Liu Yu is a ghost, a ghost!"
"She's here. I can feel it. She... she's already nearby."
Squelch...
Squelch...
The recording seemed to be affected by some kind of interference, and strange static began to crackle.
"I can see them."
The recording cut off abruptly after that last sentence. Listening to the woman's hysterical screams, everyone could feel how desperate she had been.
She probably never imagined that even after escaping the Nightmare World, a ghost would find her in the real world and kill her.
And in such a horrible way.
"Was this woman Song Yuting?"
The woman's voice sounded young, and the recording captured the sound of shoes stepping on fallen leaves. Li Bai had said that Song Yuting's mutilated remains were eventually found in the woods of a scenic area.
"That's right. It was Song Yuting. The police found her phone not far from her body. She was clever and had brought two phones. The killer took one of them, but she hid the backup beneath a tree, inside a hollow in its trunk, and left the recording on it."
"After speaking with Song Yuting's roommates, the police learned that although she seemed easygoing, she wasn't very close to her classmates. She had a dorm room at school, but barely ever stayed there, choosing instead to rent a place off campus. Some classmates also said she had a complicated social life. Someone had once seen her chatting with two unfamiliar men off campus."
"Maybe they were teammates she met during a mission," Jiang Cheng surmised.
"Mm. There was something else unusual, too. A few days before her death, Song Yuting suddenly returned from her off-campus apartment and started staying in the dorm. She looked