This was a book recording the process of Sick Village's "pathological transformation"!
Alongside his delight, Xu Tingfang felt somewhat shocked.
In other words, this village hadn't been a "Ghost Story" village from the start, but had become one after a series of upheavals?
From the first three days' entries, she had already identified three elements: the fog, the black particles, and the nursing home.
Tracing it back to its source, every pathological change in Sick Village had begun after an elderly resident of the nursing home "disappeared"!
After that elderly resident disappeared-the one everyone knew was missing, yet no one could remember who it was-the thick fog came.
Then, starting from the nursing home, the epidemic began spreading like mad.
The person who wrote this book seemed to be single, lived alone, and disliked socializing, which was how they had escaped disaster and had time to observe everything at home and record it.
This would be an important clue!
Xu Tingfang could no longer spare any attention for finding the Library's Administrator. She eagerly read on.
Day four.
The good news was that I still hadn't fallen ill.
The bad news was that nearly half the villagers had gone mad.
What was more, those fellows whose necks were covered in "Frog Eggs" had begun attacking normal villagers.
They could still speak and still possessed "reason," but the logic governing their behavior was no longer human at all. It seemed... they had become another kind of "social animal."
A nephew of mine on the extended family's side and I began taking turns keeping watch at night. He was actually older than me, but I belonged to the senior generation, so what could I do?
The next day, he and I took his parents, who had just fallen ill, to the