Red... red!
What in this villa was red?
Tan Murong thought nervously. Naturally red things were generally most common among fruits and vegetables-tomatoes, red apples, and the like.
As for manufactured items, it was much more random. Clothes could be red, a dictionary's cover could be red, a bow could be red, but... they had all taken a quick look around the entire villa earlier, and there had been nothing like that!
The kitchen hadn't even had kitchenware, let alone fruits and vegetables. As for clothes, there certainly hadn't been any...
Huh... wait... that's not right!
Tan Murong suddenly realized that after the game began and the lights went off and came back on, there were abruptly far more things inside the villa.
It was as though people had been living in this villa just a second ago. Signs of everyday life were everywhere!
What was going on... had the villa's space-time been rewound?
Could the family in the Opening Lines actually have lived in this villa?
And it was only because they played a bizarre game, causing unimaginable, terrifying changes here, that this ghost story came into being...
Could that be it?
That little girl... seemed very much like the "I" in the Opening Lines.
Thinking back carefully now, the first sentence of the Opening Lines had been: [Daddy said only good children got candy.]
Daddy started this game.
Then...
[But Daddy always prepared one piece of candy too few.]
[The first time, Mommy didn't get any.]
Mommy hadn't gotten any candy in the first round. Was the terrifying woman who had appeared on the villa's courtyard wall Mommy?
In any case... she didn't look like the older sister. She was dressed entirely like a middle-aged woman. Very likely... she was the Mommy from the Opening Lines!
Then...
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