Shen Hai walked along the road through Sick Village. Apart from the mist shrouding its outskirts, the mist throughout the village no longer affected him.
His expression was no longer as relaxed as before. Instead, he looked exceptionally serious-an exceedingly rare sight.
He threw away the handkerchief almost immediately. It was the one he had used to cover Xu Tingfang's mouth.
Xu Tingfang had no idea he was close to death.
That woman had recounted the entire contents of Sick Village Records to him. There wasn't much to it, and if she hadn't remembered it wrong, then she must have gone mad.
Because Sick Village Records never mentioned the [Library] at all.
Yet Xu Tingfang had instinctively told him there were six locations.
She had counted the [Library] where she was. Some presence had already influenced her awareness, but she had no idea...
Were the "Frog Eggs" on Xu Tingfang's face caused by touching that book?
Ten minutes earlier.
By communicating with the "Sales Assistant," Shen Hai had successfully cleared the Supermarket area while standing at its entrance, without going inside to "trigger the plot."
After he cleared it, everything in the Supermarket revealed its true appearance to him.
The bloated, rotting corpse standing at the checkout counter was still faintly recognizable as a young woman.
In the manager's office was the middle-aged manager himself, with only half his head remaining.
The Sales Assistant had a gaping hole in her abdomen, her rotten organs scattered across the floor.
The security guard lay in a corner with his head tilted back and a flashlight shoved into his mouth, blood pooled across the floor.
Everyone in this Supermarket was already dead.
Their deaths had been utterly gruesome, but they all shared one feature-the neck of every corpse was covered in densely