Pus-yellow eyes filled half the sky, enclosing the entire island within their gaze.
The instant their gaze fell upon him, countless fragments of broken thoughts flooded his mind, nearly swallowing up his rational thinking and becoming his entire reality.
His consciousness was slowly torn apart, his emotions sorted into layers and settling one by one. Qi Si felt like a snake shedding its skin, being stripped layer by layer until only his most vulnerable, bare self remained to face the strangest horror.
Suddenly, he gained a perspective from high above, looking down.
He watched helplessly as his own body rose from the bed, walked step by step to the window, and gazed almost obsessively at the distant sea.
Shadows like fish scales floated across the fog-shrouded sea. The drowned dead, who had traveled from afar to worship the god, bowed devoutly, while a gentle breeze, almost motionless, carried a song from the distance.
Qi Si heard himself murmur:
"I really want to go see the sea... I really want to go to the sea..."
[The Identity Card's hidden effect, "Lucid Dream," has been triggered. It cannot be activated again in this instance.]
The evil spirit on the card writhed uneasily, its tentacles made of black smoke twisting. Qi Si pulled himself out of the eerie hallucination and looked down at his body with a sense of detachment.
The bubbles of reason swelled, then burst with a soft crackle.
Images flashed through his mind. Clues he had pieced together earlier replayed before his eyes, lining up and rearranging themselves.
Xu Maochun and Gao Musheng corresponded to two different ways of dying... Xu Maochun's window had been wide open...
Variables and deductions came together and concluded in a single second. In a flash of inspiration, his wandering soul poured back