In a secluded reception room of the Jiang City branch of the Eerie Investigation Bureau.
The silver-white alloy walls were spotless. The tightly sealed room had no windows, only a hinged iron door embedded in the wall, its seams nearly invisible.
All noise and prying eyes were shut outside. A low tea table sat quietly in the center, forming the most conspicuous furnishing in the room.
A bizarre white female statue stood on the tea table. Its surface was covered in eyeball-like protrusions, its edges rotten and damaged, blood gushing continuously down from it.
The torrent of blood dispersed into an insubstantial red mist the instant it was about to touch the tabletop. It drifted upward like clouds and smoke, condensed into red liquid above the statue's head, then flowed down again like rain.
The endlessly repeating bloody cycle shrouded the entire tea table in crimson mist. It looked like a fairyland wreathed in clouds, yet the color of the fog inevitably led one's thoughts in an eerie direction.
[Name: (Data Deleted) Idol] [Type: Item] [Effect: Detects the presence of (Data Deleted). The closer it is to (Data Deleted), the more blood tears it sheds.] [Note: The supreme Origin that created (Data Deleted). Once its blood is drained, only a remnant body remains.]
This idol was undoubtedly a creation of the Eerie Game. The prompt text floating over its surface was intermittent and incomplete in many places, yet everyone who saw it could easily understand its meaning.
In its current state, with blood tears pouring forth like a spring, that existence whose name could not be spoken was somewhere within this city.
"We've gathered nearly all the data and information. We can basically confirm that 'The Gate' will open in Jiang City. I'll remain in Jiang City for