Chapter 196: “Disappearance” (8)
The Sorority at Mouster College was an organization that had existed since the school’s founding and had entrenched itself in the academy for more than two hundred years.
The state university where Everly studied also had sororities. She had even received an invitation from one of them, but Everly had her own matters to attend to and declined.
From what Everly knew, traditional Greek organizations like sororities took pride in their long histories and generally did not easily change their initiation rituals. If the “initiation ritual” of the organization had caused all the anomalies, then why had there never been any incidents in the past two hundred years—why had a monster like M suddenly appeared this year?
If the anomaly wasn’t caused by the initiation ritual, then what was it? And what connection did it have to the sorority itself?
Many questions simply couldn’t be answered by thinking alone.
Everly needed information about the sorority—preferably as much as possible.
Unfortunately, even in an information age, there were still people who, due to conservatism, tradition, formalism, and various other reasons, refused to use electronic devices such as phones or computers for work—this described the Mouster College sorority perfectly.
When Everly deployed her “toolman” hacker Orff, the usually reliable hacker tried several methods but ultimately came up empty-handed.
According to Orff, there seemed to be a rule within the sorority prohibiting members from discussing internal matters online. If any decisions needed to be made, someone would send a text message to gather members for an in-person meeting, and everything would be decided offline. As a result, there was almost no useful information to be found on the internet.