Back when I was at Guangyuan Mountain, I hadn't had the heart to think about any of this. But because of Yuan Xiaomei, I couldn't help looking back and trying to make sense of it.
What was the truth? I couldn't figure it out just by imagining things. No matter how much I guessed, it was still just guesswork. What I had witnessed with my own eyes, on the other hand, was still vivid in my mind, and I couldn't put it behind me.
The more I went over it again and again, the more miserable I felt.
Memories of the Guide and Song Zang, the taxi driver, also crept in.
The wolf-like monster the Guide had encountered, the abandoned unfinished building, the ghost that had suddenly appeared...
The corpse Song Zang had been transporting in his hearse, which he was supposed to deliver to the crematorium as required; the attack along the way, and the fact that he had ended up being late...
All of it fit the state of that world.
The Guide and Song Zang must have run into other ghosts and monsters, and after they died, they had become new ghosts themselves, killing people and claiming territory...
If you had lived in a world like that from birth, you would probably get used to it.
But in 2023, this world was still peaceful and serene. A change this earth-shattering in just seven years was enough to chill anyone to the bone.
The future Nan Gongyao had seen through Mo Wen, that old ghost, also came to mind.
None of it had been good.
I couldn't help feeling dejected.
I had long been prepared to make sacrifices, and I had never expected to become a world-famous hero. But just as I'd felt upset when I saw the