After the doll on the television finished saying those four words, it did not stop moving. Instead, it grew larger and larger on the screen!
Alarm bells rang in Li Xian's mind. Seeing that the power button did nothing, he immediately circled behind the television and unplugged it.
"Bzz... bzz-"
The low-frequency noise in his ears did not stop. Li Xian returned to the front of the television. Sure enough, his actions had accomplished nothing.
The image on the television blurred, leaving only a doll's arm jutting out of the screen, swinging back and forth, in sharp relief.
The arm waved twice in the air, then grabbed the television's lower edge. A head emerged from the screen right after it.
Li Xian took the player off the television and quickly dodged aside.
What appeared before him was the Sheep Doll from the Archive Room.
She did not immediately push the rest of her body out. Instead, she twisted her neck twice before fixing her gaze on Li Xian, who was holding the video recorder.
An eerily human expression appeared on the doll's face. Her eyes widened, and she pointed her arm straight at Li Xian's face.
"I'll remember you."
As her words fell, the television screen went dark, and the doll's half-emerged figure vanished along with it.
Holding the Cassette Tape he had just removed from the video recorder, Li Xian let out a long breath.
He placed the video recorder back on the television, intending to leave the room immediately, but stopped as he turned around.
Something new lay on the floor.
Li Xian leaned forward to look.
Dense black lines covered a sheet of brownish-yellow paper, neatly dividing it into sections labeled in tiny lettering.
Was this a...
Map?
Li Xian did not approach right away. Instead, he