Qin Manjiang looked down, his pupils constricting.
A broken fragment had fallen in front of him, occasionally glinting with a strange light in the moonlight.
It was... roughly a quarter of Guanyin's head, including the left eye!
The fragment was porcelain.
Almost unconsciously, Qin Manjiang reached out and picked it up. The instant the cold white shard touched his hand, a voice rang out in his mind-
[Exploration, day three, complete.]
It was actually... complete?!
A chill instantly crept through his entire body.
He stared fixedly at the porcelain fragment in his hand, roughly a quarter of Guanyin's head. Was everything I just saw a hallucination?
Whether it was the churning lake water he had seen or the enormous bloody "brain" emerging, all that had really happened was this fragment washing ashore...
That was the only explanation that could even begin to account for those bizarre events.
This thing... where on earth did it come from?
He wanted to throw it away, yet felt certain it had a major role to play in the [Guanyin Flat Lake] Ghost Story. After all, whether it was Guanyin Village or Guanyin Lake, the only constant was "Guanyin."
He took a long look at the lake. His third day's check-in had ended with him obtaining this Guanyin fragment.
Its appearance on the shore was no coincidence. So... as part of the Ghost Story, what exactly was the significance of washing a porcelain fragment of a quarter of Guanyin's head ashore...?
Qin Manjiang turned and hurried away from the lake.
"What was he doing just now?"
Inside a luxury sedan, Bai Hongdan frowned at the surveillance footage on a computer screen.
Numerous concealed cameras had already been set up around the lake, and they had seen everything Qin Manjiang did.
"Staring into