The blade was caught between teeth, and chains wound around his wrist. Li Xiu could not even cut off his own hand. He watched helplessly as he was dragged toward Big Dog's mouth. What he had never expected was to see a human face inside Big Dog.
"Why does that look familiar?"
Darkness engulfed him. Li Xiu felt every sound and glimmer of light receding. The instant Big Dog swallowed him, he seemed to lose everything.
"They're different from the ghosts I've seen before?" Gao Ming examined the heart he had snatched from Li Xiu. This child's heart had long since died and was utterly bloodless. An Obsession kept it beating: it wanted to see its mother. Even in death, it still wanted to see her one more time.
Sensing the powerful Obsession emanating from the heart, Gao Ming's eyes filled with surprise. The ghost creatures he had encountered all left their final longing within a particular setting. Every Greater Ghost had its own "Grudge House," but this heart's owner had compressed all its Obsession and hatred into its own "heart," becoming a ghost that possessed a "heart."
When the other investigators present saw Gao Ming devour Li Xiu and seize the "core," the investigation team leader ranked second immediately stepped up. They did not panic. They tightened their formation, ensuring that everyone could influence Red Raincoat while guarding against anything suspicious approaching.
Knowing it would be difficult to succeed again, Gao Ming did not linger on the Laboratory Building's first basement level. Clutching the child's heart, he urged Big Dog deeper into the Laboratory Building.
Human Bricks shattered, and weeping faces struggled helplessly, but their fate was already sealed.
They could not separate themselves from the building. Whenever something went wrong with it, they had to rush in to