Chapter Forty-Nine: Even Broken Mirrors Take the Fallen Path Now?!

The moment they heard there was something terrifying and thrilling happening, a huge crowd of uninvolved viewers rushed to Hua Subai's livestream.

They remembered that the two red-clad ghosts sitting at the same table as Hua, whose background was impossible to figure out, were actually the two deducers who had gone missing and never joined the others.

After Gu Xing pointed this out, viewers had already checked the livestreams of those two deducers. As expected, both screens were black. The system had either counted them as "dead" or decided their degree of mutation was too high to save them.

This sort of thing wasn't uncommon.

The mutation level was a statistic that accompanied every deducer from the moment they obtained their Persona Mask until they died.

The more they came into contact with powerful supernatural things, the more they were tainted. At first, it affected their emotions, then their temperament and personality. After that, external signs of mutation began to appear, gradually taking them beyond the bounds of humanity until they became monsters that had been cleaved open at the heart.

Once they lost all reason and began to be assimilated by a monster's way of thinking, the system would rule that they had forfeited their qualifications as a deducer. They would remain forever in the deduction game they were currently in, becoming fear itself.

At a glance, it was impossible to tell whether the two red-clad ghosts had transformed because of their mutation level or because they had died.

If it was the latter—that would be absolutely terrifying. Many deducers believed that if they reached a dead end, death would be the best outcome, because once they died, all their suffering would end.

Any game instance where even death couldn't set them free would become a nightmare for deducers.