Drip—
Water seeped through the ceiling and fell, landing right on his head.
Hao Xiao, his cold face slack, slowly opened his eyes.
In the dim, freezing hall, the three Black Chess Players watched the door Ji Yan had entered. Time passed in silence, and the place grew ever lonelier.
Zuo Yang sat cross-legged with his arms folded.
Something had been bothering him, and he finally could not help speaking. "I still don't understand."
"That Nightmare at the Tianyuan Coordinate is more important from every angle... yet Night Burial Maitreya only sent Q and L over there."
"Meanwhile, the three of us were left here to guard a lively J..."
"I really can't make sense of this."
"What exactly is inside that District 5 Nightmare?"
If they conquered a core Nightmare, it could give the entire Black Chess lineup a significant chance to turn things around!
Could a District 5 Nightmare be more important than that?
Tong Tong sucked on her bottle while holding a comic book, engrossed in it.
She did not pay Zuo Yang any attention at all.
Having woken up, Hao Xiao habitually pulled out that pack of cigarettes from his pocket.
That crumpled pack, its paper casing faded, seemed inexhaustible. There would always be one cigarette left inside.
He took one out, put it in his mouth, lit it, and inhaled.
After going through the whole routine, his drowsiness faded and his spirits recovered. Only then did Hao Xiao slowly say, "There's nothing inside."
"The moment you enter, you can speak with District 5's 'Initial Player.'"
"What you say determines how the Initial Player will interact with you afterward."
"She'll make you adapt to another 'self.' If you adapt, you'll gain the right to use District 5 Nightmare and become the Acting Nightmare Lord."
"If you