"So it started back then?"
Han Su reached this point and suddenly snapped awake, feeling as if his head were about to split open.
Countless questions and pieces falling into place crowded into his mind all at once.
He remembered the last scene from Bai Hu's memories. Song Chushi had found him, and they'd shared a bowl of wontons filled with egg yolk. That was also when Song Chushi gave him the Fishing Horn. Afterward, he'd encountered the Ghost Truck and joined the Disaster Management Bureau.
Of course, in his current Life Path, the Fishing Horn had never existed. They'd only met once.
But in every Life Path, the conversation at the wonton shop had marked the beginning of his entry into the Mysterious Circle.
It had been his first step out of the warm cocoon of reality.
Back then, he hadn't noticed White Corpse at all. He hadn't noticed anything strange about Song Chushi, either, and he'd paid no attention to Miss Ai.
What did all of this mean?
Han Su forced himself to shake off his inner turmoil and think through every clue, from beginning to end.
"Abyss Studio!"
That was a key point. In White Corpse's memories, it was the organization the Tall, Thin Woman belonged to.
She had tried to awaken Will of Copper in him, and she had been the one secretly controlling White Corpse's fate.
Who was she, and what did she have to do with him?
His memories from before he was ten were incomplete, but she appeared in them, too. She didn't seem as cold as she had in White Corpse's memories.
And then there was Bai Senmang.
It was only when he thought of Bai Senmang that Han Su understood why Bai Hu had harbored such deep hatred, and why he'd