Zhang Ding remembered everything. He suffered more than anyone else, but he was also clearer-headed than anyone else.
"You've been helping us ever since we entered the supermarket?" Gao Ming was still looking beneath the supermarket, where a few living people were mixed in among countless Vengeful Ghosts.
Zhang Ding pointed at the section of floor he had pulled up. "This opening is the vent from your nightmare. The entire supermarket is wrapped in resentment. Anyone who enters will fall into the flood nightmare and be submerged in the floodwater. If they can't escape quickly enough, they'll slowly become part of the flood."
"So that's why there was a countdown?" Gao Ming finally understood everything. The Vengeful Ghosts who had drowned in the Lishui Dam Breach were hidden beneath the supermarket on Minlong Street. Zhang Ding and a few neighbors who harbored no resentment were working together to maintain a balance, gradually wearing away the water ghosts' hatred.
Whenever outsiders entered the supermarket, the water ghosts would drag them into the nightmare they had once lived through. Zhang Ding would then enter the nightmare and try to save them.
The flood Gao Ming and the others had just witnessed was actually formed by the water ghosts. The only reason Zhang Ding had gained a new respect for Gao Ming and was willing to tell him so much was that Gao Ming had made up for his regret from ten years ago within the nightmare.
"There's one other thing I don't understand." Gao Ming took out the photograph he had found in the employee locker. "These two children should be flood survivors. Why was their photo in the locker? And why did the Work Log at the checkout counter say their bodies needed to be disposed of?"
"Le Jia and Le