"Did you hear that rustling?" someone asked.
"Yeah, it's electrical static. There might be something wrong with the speakers."
"Shut off the speakers immediately," Professor Leon said quickly, his expression shifting slightly.
"Shut them off," ordered the director in charge of the isolation rooms.
The AI immediately shut down the Sky Garden's sound system, and the speakers fell silent.
The rustling vanished. For some reason, their minds seemed to clear a little.
But Liu Siting was still sitting there with her headphones on, listening intently to the rustling.
"Cut the audio feed to Liu Siting's headphones," a superior ordered.
"Yes!"
The sound in Liu Siting's headphones cut out as well, but she had listened to the rustling longer than anyone else-a full ten seconds.
After an expert assessment, they decided to quarantine everyone together. No one could go home to rest for now; they had to stay in the Sky Garden under quarantine.
The Sky Garden's isolation floor was enormous, with plenty of rooms for them to live in.
In addition, because this had been monitored live, the audio feed had traveled along the lines to a conference hall at the Scientific Research General Institute and the capital's central monitoring hub.
Everyone who had heard the rustling was asked to enter quarantine.
"Do not discuss the rustling with outsiders, or tell them about the strange events in the Detective Game. We must prevent any incidents of transmission through language."
"You may discuss it with others who have already heard the rustling and study it together."
"Uploading this material to the network is strictly prohibited, to prevent any possibility of transmission through language."
Orange Star issued its orders extremely quickly this time. Everyone complied, from top to bottom. Anyone who had heard it had to enter centralized quarantine and could not