The Twenty-Eighth Chapter: The Certain-Death Timeline

Time distortions weren't unusual, but what about a distortion even the system acknowledged?

Rare.

Never seen one before. Hua Subai and Mo fixed their eyes on Yu Xing, practically urging him with eager looks to continue.

Yu Xing discreetly glanced at the top of the wall beside them, then continued as they wished. "I was just thinking that Nanshui Town has rules of its own. It shouldn't have another time trap mixed in—one powerful enough to break every established rule."

"Then I heard Mo say that what she saw as real didn't come from her own active ability. The moment she stepped into the bedroom, her Spiritual Sense was stirred, and the illusion naturally fell away."

"That might not seem unusual to Mo, so she assumed she could see those things because of her own ability."

"But what if she couldn't?"

Yu Xing spoke calmly, with a conviction that was hard to doubt. "In other words, what if anyone who entered the bedroom would get the same result and see the truth? Would that mean this is what Nanshui Town wants us to do?"

"Huh?" Mo blinked, then suddenly understood. "You mean the rules of Nanshui Town and my ability happen to manifest in similar ways, so I made the wrong call."

Because they were so focused on what Nanshui Town was hiding, they had overlooked the familiar shift in atmosphere that came when ghosts appeared.

Even in an individual scenario, ghosts and corpses had been assigned to her as a caregiver. It was entirely possible they would conjure frightening scenes to scare her and heighten her fear.

This time, the only difference was that the frightening scene had already been there. She had simply gone from being unable to see it to being able to.

"I think..." Yu Xing