Human-Ghost Deception

Teng Shan and Tian Xiao Ou disappeared completely through the door of 0804.

As the door shut, only two people remained in the eighth-floor corridor.

In the uneasy silence, Bao An leaned against the wall with his head lowered, his brooding gaze giving no clue to his thoughts.

Then Hou Guisheng spoke, his voice as cold as snow frozen in the dead of winter.

"Are you a ghost?"

Bao An flinched and clenched the hem of his coat, stunned by the sudden question.

But when he looked at Hou Guisheng's back, hidden fear showed in his eyes.

After a long pause, he lowered his voice and asked in return:

"Then what are you, human or ghost?"

Hou Guisheng did not turn around. He stood straight, staring at the door of 0804, and said quietly:

Special Choice: Choose your faction.

Join the Human Faction and continue the Hunting Game under the rules' restrictions;

Join the Ghost Faction, hide among the humans, and wait for a chance to eliminate your teammates;

Special Choice reward: Choose the Ghost Faction, and upon victory, you may seize the Revival Coins of the dead.

This was a shocking secret shared by the four branch managers, though none had spoken of it aloud.

Once the Hunting Game began, a choice prompt had appeared in Hou Guisheng's mind.

It contained precisely those terms.

Clearly, this was the true heart of the Hunting Game—and its true danger.

Four branch managers had made their choices anonymously. No one knew what the others had chosen.

Those who joined the Human Faction did hold a huge advantage against the ghosts, a bias in the rules that few missions offered.

But joining the Ghost Faction meant taking on the greatest difficulty and risk. The reward, however, was all too tempting.

*Win,