The old man's voice sounded somewhat familiar—the very first moment he heard the "invitation," the image of an elderly man involuntarily surfaced in Yu Xing's mind.
Presumably, that should be a decrepit, deeply-crevassed old man.
He would wear old clothes with patches on them, hold a walking stick, and let out a heavy sigh with a kind, exhausted, sorrowful yet calm look in his eyes.
Just like the old man covered in lies who brought corpses and crisis to them in the mortuary of the stage world.
It was no fault of Yu Xing's that he was distracted at this moment; truly, this voice was an exact match for that old man.
In the stage world, the old man who claimed to be a corpse driver freed himself from the back courtyard, brought the corpses to the bank of the Ye River, and tried to feed them to the river water.
Following the script, the deductionists prevented the river water at the critical moment, then lost consciousness and returned to reality.
Yet until the very end, that old man never appeared again.
Yu Xing had not known the old man's true identity before, and he hadn't cared, because the old man might have been a person who once existed, used by the mastermind of the stage world to act as an NPC; or he might have been a purely fabricated character, existing solely to push the plot forward.
But now he suddenly understood that the old man had actually been using the image of Master of Ten Thousand, and everything they investigated in Fengtou Town in reality had already been hinted at in the stage world.
Yu Xing suddenly felt an urge to go and see Master of Ten Thousand in person. He wanted to know whether a wealthy version