At nine o'clock on the evening of May 3, in Qi Family Village, Qi Si finished washing up, dressed neatly, and lay flat on the large bed on the second floor with his hands folded over his chest, dutifully playing the part of a corpse about to be buried.
Xu Yao drifted back and forth across the ceiling above his head and asked with great interest, "Qi Si, are you going into the game? Why aren't you taking me with you? Didn't you say before that you'd take me along?"
"The final Instance won't open until the day after tomorrow. Until then, just play on your computer in peace..." Qi Si said expressionlessly. "If I die, you can stay outside and collect my body for me, so I won't end up like my cousin, left to rot in the wilderness."
In a rare display of humor, he told a joke. Unfortunately, it was not a funny one. Xu Yao considered it seriously before saying solemnly, "As a vengeful ghost, perhaps my way of collecting your body would be to eat you."
"Suit yourself, if you can really stomach it."
"Really? You won't resurrect through your corpse or possess someone else's body?"
"Rather than discussing what to do with my corpse, I suggest you leave my room immediately and go play on your computer. Give me some peace and quiet."
Qi Si closed his eyes and let his consciousness sink into the Eerie Game, intersecting and connecting with higher-dimensional space-time.
His form condensed atop the high-backed chair in the divine hall. He casually grasped the Sea God Scepter standing at his side and slowly opened his eyes.
Last night, Lin Chen had asked him, "Brother, do you think there could be two of you?"
Taking into account the suspicious points Lin