Qi Si ultimately did not try climbing out through the window.
There was no other reason—the old man's corpse was still stained with blood, and the bones below were hung with strips of half-rotted flesh. It was far too filthy. Besides, the lodging house did not seem to have anywhere to bathe.
Taking advantage of the ample morning light, Qi Si and Lin Chen searched the room inside and out. They found no new clues and had no way to restore the missing words in the letter.
"White Ocean River has fallen. Soldiers and civilians have gathered in Poplar Blossom Town to resist the invasion of foreign tribes..."
Lin Chen had already memorized the letter's contents. He frowned in frustration, muttering to himself. "'White Ocean River' sounds so familiar. I must have seen information about its real-world counterpart before. Why can't I remember it all of a sudden?"
As the only place name mentioned in the letter, "White Ocean River" was not unfamiliar to Qi Si either.
It was most likely a real location, and this Instance probably had considerable ties to reality.
However, Qi Si had never been one to deliberately gather information or memorize facts, so he could not recall what historical background White Ocean River had.
When Lin Chen turned a pleading gaze toward him, Qi Si said calmly, "If even you can't remember it, then that information isn't important—at least, it isn't key to clearing this Instance.
"The Eerie Game mainly tests Players' talents in combat and intelligence. While the amount of information one possesses is one factor in calculating intelligence quotient, it cannot be decisive. On the contrary, it may even provide misleading interference.
"Just as you can't conclude that farmers are stupider than students simply because they can't solve difficult math problems, a fair