The new section, "Strange Tales"
After learning what had happened, Cui Ying and Lu Manfeng had not only examined the medical records from various major hospitals and the train tickets Lao Guo produced, but also used their group connections to find people who could check a few details. They confirmed that Haohao had indeed visited those hospitals before his "condition deteriorated."
Specialists at two of the hospitals were still interested in Haohao's rare case, but the patient had stopped coming after just two visits.
Through casual conversations with Lu Manfeng's younger aunt's husband and the neighbors around his home, they had also discreetly verified some key information.
Many neighbors complained that, for a while, Haohao had howled more and more frequently each day, and the sound had grown increasingly frightening.
It had made even sleeping at night unnerving.
Lu Manfeng had even joked to Cui Ying with a laugh that the editors and reporters of their independent written-content outlet could practically become criminal investigators.
Joking aside, the story they had gathered at Lao Guo's home was valuable. At the very least, it was guaranteed to grab readers' attention-a real-life horror story.
Yet the people in the editorial office could not quite bring themselves to be happy.
The reason? This story was simply too real!
Apart from not witnessing the "master's exorcism" themselves, they had evidence for practically everything else. Not only had Lao Guo not exaggerated, but out of a certain awkward reluctance, he had actually toned down parts of it.
For example, his mother had described Haohao's howling during the nights before the exorcism as merely loud and shrill.
But almost all the neighbors had reacted the same way.
It was frightening! They had been afraid to sleep!
Nobody believed that all the neighbors just happened to be easily