"Come to think of it, where are the people in this town? Did they all disappear?"
Ju Lei was utterly baffled.
Meng Le shook her head, thoroughly confused herself, then suddenly said something odd. "This girl holding the statue doesn't look human at all."
"Not human? She looks pretty human to me..."
"No, no." Meng Le waved a hand at Ju Lei. "I mean her expression. It's just like Zhang Yun's in my dream. Exactly like it. They both have this indescribable evil about them. It gives me the creeps."
As soon as she finished speaking, Meng Le hugged her arms and rubbed them, as though she really did feel cold.
At the same time, for some unknown reason, the picture frame suddenly tipped backward and fell to the floor. Its glass shattered with a loud, sharp crash.
It gave Meng Le and Ju Lei quite a fright.
Both raised their hands at once. "It wasn't me!" "Me neither!"
They both turned to Che Quan, who was surveying the office, looking for all the world like kindergarten children who had done something wrong and were staring nervously at their expressionless principal.
Che Quan's indifferent gaze swept over them, and he gave an unruffled "Mm."
Then he bent down and picked up the photograph from among the shards of glass. After looking at it briefly, he turned it over to inspect the back.
Meng Le and Ju Lei leaned closer too. Once they saw it clearly, their pupils jolted.
"This..."
"This is seriously creepy, isn't it?"
There was another photograph on the back, as though two photographs had been glued together. Yet there was no trace of a seam between them, as though the images on either side were simply the front and back of the scene in the photograph.
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