So that was it.
The Lin Chao they had encountered was not a survivor from the outside world, but a Replicant created in Deep Space!
Don suddenly understood.
No wonder.
The Lin Chao who had led them before had apparently been playing the role of a Chāng ghost.
He had lured them here to their deaths.
Got it!
He turned to Liu Yuanyuan, wanting to discuss the matter with her, but found that her expression had not changed in the slightest. She looked as though she had known the result long ago.
Before he could speak,
Liu Yuanyuan had already said, "I already felt that something was off about this Lin Chao."
"But I couldn't put my finger on it."
"When we first encountered him, he ran out of a shop and claimed that he had been chased by a skinned stray dog. But in reality, we never saw that dog from beginning to end."
"At first, we thought the dog had a territory and stopped chasing him once he left."
"Thinking about it now..."
"If the shop was the dog's territory..."
"At the very least, when he rushed out, the dog should have lingered briefly by the entrance, right? But we didn't see anything at the time."
As she spoke,
she looked toward "Lin Chao," trapped inside the cage.
From beginning to end,
no evil creature had been chasing him. He had merely been putting on a performance by himself.
Perhaps
even he himself did not know that he was an Actor.
In his mind,
he really was a survivor. Seven days ago, he had taken the Supernatural Bus to this city. While searching for the tomb hidden inside a shop, he had been chased by an evil creature.
After Liu Yuanyuan finished explaining her thoughts,
Jiang Qiao said