This case immediately perked Li Wei up.
Honestly, after spending so long in this world, Li Wei had handled so many fantasy cases that he had grown used to them.
But a science fiction case? This was his first!
Benjamin had confirmed that these things were clearly manufactured, and their sophisticated workmanship indicated that they were standardized, mass-produced products. He also said that he had never seen any of the techniques involved. No matter how hard he racked his brains, Benjamin could not figure out how these things had been made.
And there was a brain inside, too.
Oh, man... this was straight out of the opening of a sci-fi movie!
Actually, if they were just talking about aliens, Li Wei had fought one before. According to the Book of the Dead, the Byakhee that old man had summoned in the sanatorium basement apparently counted as an extraterrestrial creature.
But honestly, Li Wei had never felt that thing resembled an alien, especially with the atmosphere surrounding its entrance. Saying it came from hell would have been more believable than saying it came from Pluto.
By comparison, this felt much more like science fiction.
Actually, back in the modern world, plenty of science fiction movies could just as easily be called horror movies. Take those spaceships equipped with technology for traveling through spacetime tunnels: they disappeared, then came back, only for everyone to discover that they had gone to hell or something.
Was that science fiction? Sure.
Was it frightening? Absolutely.
But once hell entered the picture, there was only so much science involved, wasn't there?
At least Li Wei could be certain that the case he was investigating now probably would not be quite that kind of "science fiction."
The reason was simple. He was now almost certain that the