Bai Huaiguang stood alone in the dark corridor, his expression calm and his heart still as water.
His hands were empty, and the floor beneath him was covered in dust.
There were no corpses, no severed heads.
Yet within his mind, a clear and melodious voice was speaking with him.
"Huai Guang, I feel that performance just now was a little over the top."
Bai Huaiguang's expression barely changed. After a brief silence, he replied in a low voice:
"Since you weren't truly dead, I didn't know how to act."
The voice in his mind belonged to Luo Xian.
If Bai Huaiguang's mind at that moment was likened to a vast space, then Luo Xian was sitting cross-legged right in its center.
Like an illusion, she occupied Bai Huaiguang's thoughts. She could see everything he saw and hear everything he heard.
But Luo Xian was no longer a living person.
This was the most powerful and terrifying life-saving effect of the Nightmare Sin Item.
During the previous Manager Mission, Luo Xian had used a similar ability. After leaving the Real World, she had entered the mind of Bai Huaiguang, who had gone to the Game World.
This was thanks to the Dream Seed's overbearing and inexplicable effect.
As long as there was a "living Dream Seed" beside Luo Xian, she had one chance to survive death. The price was losing her body and becoming a strand of thought.
Bai Huaiguang silently leaned against a place no one would visit, concealing himself completely in the darkness like a ghost.
His pale face was set with those unique light-pink pupils as he silently surveyed the darkness.
"We left the team. That means we've put ourselves at an even greater disadvantage when we were already disadvantaged. I'm a little worried."
"I had you