Jiang Cheng suddenly remembered that, while he'd been watching just now, there had been a man in the bar who kept checking his phone—very frequently. "The man who was looking at his phone?"
"That's right, Doctor." The Fatty suddenly lowered his voice, as if he didn't want something to hear him. "That man was the first of them to be haunted by the female ghost."
"So the female ghost kills people through their phones?" Jiang Cheng was only guessing. He'd have to ask the Fatty, who had watched the movie, to be sure.
"Yeah. The female ghost is terrifying. Once she calls you, she'll crawl out of a cave at night—no, no, she'll... she'll crawl out of your phone screen and drag you inside." The Fatty didn't know how to explain it to Jiang Cheng. It was just creepy. The twisted faces of those people had made his stomach cramp.
Jiang Cheng couldn't quite imagine someone being dragged into a phone screen, but he could see it happening through a computer screen. Looking at the frozen image, at the profile of the waiter, he had a rough idea.
First of all, this horror movie told a true story. The people in it, even the ghosts, were real, but some kind of force had altered things.
The bar Jiang Cheng knew so well had been added later. He still wasn't sure why.
But he suspected that connecting the eerie world to the real world required an anchor—what he'd previously called the Sunset Land. The bar he often visited might have been serving that purpose.
And in the horror movie, the ghost killed people through phone screens. But in reality, that probably wasn't her only method. Perhaps she could come through a computer screen, too.
To test his theory, Jiang Cheng made