The Withered Flower

The Fifth Branch Manager had arrived.

None of those in the know looked surprised. It had been obvious.

Yet Su Chenghe's heart churned with towering waves. Amid his shock, he finally understood everything.

Ji Li, the fifth player, had arrived so late at this Time Node.

Had he truly arrived late?

The answer was no.

In another world, Su Chenghe stamped his feet and pounded his chest as he gave orders without regard for anything else:

"Use the Head Alarm Clock, now! I'm taking you out of the Game World!"

He had lost—lost utterly and completely.

The reason was that he had never seen through the rules of the Hunting Game. Or rather, he had never realized where the focus of those rules lay.

But there was still a chance to make up for all of it.

The current Su Chenghe was no longer the man he had once been. His strength had greatly increased, and he possessed an exceptionally special Sin Object.

His Right Foot could ignore space and barriers.

Ever since Su Chenghe had obtained that Sin Object, he had remained on the sixteenth floor of the Real World without using it.

However, while he waited, a thread of red light seeped through a crack in the wall and fell across his face.

At the same time, his ability to move began slipping beyond his control, following the red light into an unknown world.

That world was blanketed in scarlet and filled with all manner of indescribable things.

Those things were like hybrids of humans and ghosts.

Yet Su Chenghe was unaffected. Instead, he lingered there like a tourist.

Until he saw a familiar face there.

Gu Qingyun.

From that moment onward, Su Chenghe learned of a mysterious space called the "Supernatural World."

Starting from there, he and