Ji Yan stared at the extreme height difference between the pair, twisting his tightly bound hands and feet. "Since we're teammates, why tie me up?"
[H] crouched down and blew a mouthful of smoke into Ji Yan's face.
The secondhand smoke made Ji Yan choke badly.
Even in the Eerie World, even while playing an eerie, he still couldn't stand secondhand smoke...
"Your name is Ji Yan?"
Ji Yan said, "I'm Black Chess Player [J]. Is that identity not enough? Do I need to prove myself further?"
The skin on [H]'s face was thin, his cheekbones sharply pronounced, giving him an unsmiling appearance. He shook his head. "Black Chess Player [J] isn't important."
"I only care about your name."
"It is. So?"
"Just confirming your identity."
[H] stood and raised a hand. The things binding Ji Yan's limbs were two "little metal snakes," which darted back to his wrist and turned into a silver bracelet.
Ji Yan rubbed his wrists and looked at the two. He had thought Luo Xixi and Qian Duoduo would be the ones coming to support him. He hadn't expected to end up with these two "strange coworkers" instead...
Judging by the number of Black Chess Players, aside from [W], whom he had never even met before he went offline, he had probably met everyone now.
Each one was stranger than the last—
"Is my name really that important?"
[T] held a bottle resembling a baby bottle and drank from it as she spoke. "Otherwise, do you think we're bored out of our minds and calling you by name for nothing?"
"Only after confirming your name can we 'activate' a task Night Burial Maitreya gave us."
"That way, we can stack the rewards after completing it."
"A task?" Ji Yan did not look pleased upon hearing