The night was more than half over. Qin Manjiang and Shen Hai had reached a certain unspoken understanding, and Shen Hai took out Xu Tingfang's phone quite naturally.
When he lit up the screen, the recording interface appeared immediately.
It was easy to imagine that Xu Tingfang had been leaving them a message in the final moments before her death.
Qin Manjiang glanced at Xu Tingfang.
Her shoulders had been crushed. Just looking at her wretched state was enough to imagine the pain she had suffered before dying.
"These are her last words," Shen Hai said calmly.
"Mm..."
Both of them knew that the one truly toying with their lives was the being that had established the [Eye Realm]. It should be the source of all their hatred.
Shen Hai pressed play.
[I'm Xu Tingfang...]
Fear and despair lurked in her slightly hurried breathing.
[I found the Lesion in the last stall of the Library restroom.]
[The floor there was covered in writhing "Frog Eggs," mixed with human blood. Someone had been attacked in the restroom.]
[I found the Library's records. The person attacked was an elderly woman from the Nursing Home. She collapsed in a restroom stall, bleeding all over the floor. Later, she was taken to the Medical Station.]
[After that, "Frog Eggs" began growing in that restroom stall. More and more of them... and the Library began to change in strange ways.]
[According to the borrowing records, the book that old woman checked out was "Mermaid Flesh." I skimmed through it. It told a legend.]
[People who eat mermaid flesh live a very long time.]
[I... this is all I found. I hope you get to hear this...]
After that, Xu Tingfang's voice dissolved into quiet sobs. Qin Manjiang and Shen Hai listened in silence.
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