The atmosphere in the hotel room was somewhat melancholy. I had been on edge, carefully weighing every word and every expression, so I hadn't acted any differently from the others. But I didn't feel the same sadness they did.
I now had a rough idea of what the changed past had been like. Even knowing just that much was enough to help me understand a lot.
Comparing the two versions, I felt that Lü Qiaolan had been happy in this changed past.
At least she and her beloved teddy bears had a wonderful reunion. After that, it wasn't Lü Qiaolan who suffered, but the teddy bears who had survived.
The teddy bears were toy spirits, not real people. They had come into being because of Lü Qiaolan's consciousness, and I couldn't quite treat them as real people. This change made me feel a little better. Perhaps after Lü Qiaolan died completely, the teddy bears would lose their life force and turn back into ordinary toys. If so, they probably wouldn't have to suffer the pain of losing their owner and causing her death.
With those thoughts in mind, I waited for the others to pull themselves together.
"Then, as long as Lina is still alive, this plague could continue to spread." Wu Ling was the first to bring everyone's attention back to the matter at hand.
The Toy Ghost King had been destroyed, but Lina had survived. That couldn't be called a perfect ending. In fact, judging by the reasoning we'd just gone through, Lina was more dangerous than the Ghost King.
"Why did she become a ghost? Did she become a Ghost King too? Or was she a Ghost King to begin with?" Chen Xiao Qiu asked.
We couldn't answer that question for now. We didn't have enough clues