"Any other movement?"
"No."
"Everyone, be careful. Spread out and surround her."
"Yes."
At Bai Jing's command, the team members stayed alert as they made their way to the fourth floor one by one.
They gradually spread out, half moving to either side to keep watch outward.
The other half raised their guns and aimed at the kneeling woman before them, surrounding her.
Once most of them had gone upstairs, Xu Le finally saw what the woman looked like.
Dressed entirely in white with her hair hanging loose, she looked a little like Sadako.
With her head lowered, he couldn't make out her features.
Whenever this happened, though, Xu Le would imagine that the other person looked terrifying, with a face full of holes or crawling with bugs, for example.
Then she would suddenly look up and give them a fright, creating the strongest possible contrast.
But none of what he imagined happened.
Crack!
Zhou Jie charged straight up and chopped her damned head off. Well... perhaps it was a human head, or perhaps an Oddity's head.
"Uh..."
Looking at the woman's headless corpse, Xu Le didn't know what to say for a moment.
Zhou Jie turned toward Xu Le with a serious expression.
"You don't think there could be a normal woman here, do you? It's been hundreds of years. If she really were a woman, just how ugly would she be by now?"
Although Xu Le wanted to argue, after thinking it over carefully, he realized Captain Zhou had a point!
Still, Xu Le really wanted to know whether the woman mentioned on the note on the third floor was the one before him.
"Fine. As long as we can complete the mission, the rest isn't that important."
Xu Le stepped forward, ready to search the corpse again,