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"Wasn't there supposed to be a recording?" Lee Jung-sook turned around as she instructed, "Get your lackey to come out. Hearing a message directly is completely different from hearing a relayed message. Perhaps we'll be able to notice some details that he neglected."

Qin Ye nodded in response before curling a finger, and a bloodstained phone immediately appeared in his grasp. Strangely enough, the phone was still functional...

He checked through the files on the phone in sequential order, and he quickly discovered a newly recorded audio file that was only around 30 seconds in length.

He immediately pressed the play button without any hesitation.

It was very silent, eerily so, making the listener feel as if they had entered a morgue.

Qin Ye's brows furrowed slightly as he exchanged a glance with Lee Jung-sook. What was going on here?

The recording was very quiet, but it wasn't absolutely silent. It was as if this phone was connected to an unknown abyss and through it, one could hear what appeared to be the sound of breathing. The breathing was faint at times, heavy at others, and clear at times, but muffled at others.

The suspense was so overwhelming that it made the listener feel as if their heart had been caught in a vice. Finally, after a full minute had passed, some sound finally rang out.

"Waaah..."

A burst of eerie sobbing rang out from the phone, but it was impossible to tell the gender of the voice's owner. In this pitch-black night, the sound made the listener...