After the Initial Player finished speaking, he snapped his fingers, and the door opened.
Inside was pitch-black, without the slightest sound.
"Hm?"
The Initial Player looked puzzled. Facing the room, he asked in surprise, "Where did he go?"
"How did he disappear?"
He hurried into his own Private Paradise and searched it from top to bottom. V was indeed gone—he had vanished into thin air from within his own [Nightmare]!
Ji Yan turned to look at Kong Yi and Xu Xin, both of whom wore contemplative expressions.
"Looks like we don't need to put on an act. V ran off first," Kong Yi said flatly.
Just as Ji Yan had said, that Deceiving Ghoul was extremely wary of Ji Yan.
After coming into contact with the Initial Player, V had clearly had every opportunity to "assimilate" this [Nightmare] and get there first.
Yet he had been talked into giving up on it by the "Deceiving Ghoul," escaping this [Nightmare] through the Initial Player instead!
Once players entered a [Nightmare], the exit would be sealed—or rather, there were no doors leading out. Only the Initial Player could create a "door" to leave through.
By normal logic, "assimilation" was the only way to escape. Yet through "deception," V had made the Initial Player voluntarily create a "door" for him.
"How did V know there would be a door leading out inside that 'Private Paradise'?" Xu Xin asked doubtfully.
Ji Yan looked around and shook his head. "V isn't that smart. It could only have been the Deceiving Ghoul's doing."
Kong Yi kept both hands in his pockets. "Didn't you say it could only extract 'Known Information'? The Initial Player's 'Private Paradise' counts as Unknown Information, so how did the Deceiving Ghoul obtain it?"
Ji Yan looked at Xu Xin and smiled faintly.