Meng Zhi looked at Qin Yuxuan's face. It was utterly unremarkable, yet somehow she found it reassuringly trustworthy, and she instinctively took his outstretched hand.
"Although my ability can only protect me and can't help anyone else, I'll still do whatever I can to help everyone." As Meng Zhi looked at Qin Yuxuan, she seemed to see him as someone of a younger generation, her smile warm and maternal.
Beneath that smile, however, there were faint signs of Meng Zhi's anxiety about how this game would unfold.
"We're probably about the same age, right? You look like a newcomer too. Once we have to fend for ourselves, we'll need to help each other." Qin Yuxuan then offered his hand to the bespectacled girl with braids standing nearby.
Qin Yuxuan's smile made him seem approachable. Combined with the way he used his ability while saying certain things, it inspired an inexplicable sense of warmth toward him, even trust. That was why his abrupt offers of a handshake always went smoothly. The handshake was also when he truly began using his ability to plant suggestions in other Players' minds.
The bespectacled girl... no, Feng Ling, the current leader of the Nameless Society, looked at Qin Yuxuan through her nonprescription glasses, then naturally took his hand. The instant their hands met, her brows, hidden beneath her glasses and bangs, furrowed almost imperceptibly, though her expression remained composed.
"I'll head downstairs first." Qin Yuxuan had achieved his goal. Perhaps remembering the two new Players on the first floor whose relationship was rather interesting, he turned and headed downstairs.
Only after Qin Yuxuan left did Meng Zhi, who had come down from the third floor with Feng Ling, turn to her with a worried look. Since both women had chosen apartments on the third floor,