Liu Yi was an independent, cool girl. Ever since high school, she had known her own mind, and that was precisely why, back in Xinhu, she had worked step by step to uncover what had really happened to Gao Ming.
She had looked through Gao Ming's job application records on her computer. To ensure his safety, she had endured her fear and terror, gone to the Haunted House and cleared every scenario, registered as a Tester for the Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals Brain-Domain Game, tried the livestream that supposedly let people see ghosts, called the number a Haunted House Boss had left for Gao Ming, and sought out Gao Ming's attending physician several times, learning a great deal from him.
When Gao Ming suspected she was a pawn of Fate, Liu Yi herself had also wondered whether everything had been arranged by Fate.
"Where has that girl gone in the middle of the night? Her injuries haven't even healed yet."
The familiar voice reached her ears, and countless strands of longing and reluctance to part wound around Liu Yi's wrists.
Above the curtain of night, the nightmare dragon centipede rammed into the Mortal World. Just as it was about to break through the invisible barrier, Fate's leaf veins extended from other Mortal World Leaves, densely packed, converging into a blurred figure. It kept changing until its outline looked more and more like Gao Ming.
The Dragon Centipede roared. The Grotesque Rules it had acquired from the Delusion World stabbed outward in every direction. Like a bolt of lightning cleaving toward the Mortal World, it split the night in an instant. The blurred figure seemed to know every one of Gao Ming's abilities inside out. The white leaf veins unfurled, revealing tens of thousands of Fate Threads within. Unlike the Fate Threads