As we talked, Nantian kept watching us. He looked at me from time to time, then at Chen Xiaoqiu and Nangong Yao. After Nangong Yao spoke, he stared at him without looking away.
I felt more and more that something was wrong.
It wasn't just the three different versions of what came afterward. There was also Gu Mo's behavior earlier.
Why had he laid out Nangong Yao's ability in full? Why had he singled out the Thin Man to put up that talisman?
After Nangong Yao finished speaking, I didn't respond. The others fell silent too.
Gu Mo suddenly let out a laugh, thick with sarcasm.
"So you suspect us?" Gu Mo asked.
I still said nothing.
The Thin Man came right out with it. "You're all very suspicious. Was I really the person closest to you or Nangong Yao at the time? Was I the one who was least injured? Why did you pick me?"
The Thin Man had probably wanted to ask this for a while.
We'd been close friends for years and knew each other inside out. When he put up the talisman, he must have been doing it just to see what would happen. Once the talisman took effect, that tentative curiosity had turned into outright suspicion.
With that question already hanging over us, Nangong Yao and Gu Mo's behavior in the two altered realities couldn't help but make us suspicious.
More importantly, what about Mo Wen and the female ghost?
Mo Wen could also sense that memories had changed. He would have noticed my ability and realized the past had been altered. What different choice had he made?
I'd only seen Mo Wen die. And when Chen Xiaoqiu had told us what happened earlier, she hadn't mentioned the female ghost.
Where had the female ghost