It was past midnight. Qin Manjiang and Shen Hai had already reached a certain unspoken understanding, and Shen Hai took out Xu Tingfang's phone quite naturally.
When he turned on 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 seeing that horrific state was enough to imagine the pain she had endured before dying.
"These were her last words," Shen Hai said calmly.
"Mm..."
They both knew that the one truly toying with their lives was the being that had established [Eye Realm]. It should be the target of all their hatred.
Shen Hai pressed play.
[I'm Xu Tingfang...]
Fear and despair lurked in the slightly hurried breathing.
[I found the lesion in the last stall of the Library's washroom.]
[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 and bled all over the floor. Later, she was taken to the Medical Station.]
[After that, "Frog Eggs" started growing in that washroom stall, more and more of them... The Library started becoming strange, too.]
[According to the borrowing records, the book the old woman who was attacked checked out was "Mermaid Flesh." I skimmed through it. It told a legendary tale.]
[People who eat mermaid flesh live very long lives.]
[I... this is all I found. I hope you can hear this...]
Toward the end, Xu Tingfang's voice had dissolved into quiet sobbing. Qin Manjiang and Shen Hai listened in silence.
On the phone screen, the