As the four of them stood at the entrance to the Northern Courtyard, Huang Qi, holding the meat soup, suddenly muttered, "I trust Lin, but I wish we really had gone back in time."
"It wouldn't make much difference. All we need to do is complete the task and find the killer." Lin Wenhua still seemed absorbed in the questions Wen Wen had raised.
"Of course it would." Huang Qi suddenly grew serious. "If we went back to the past, we could do more than find the killer. We could stop him from attacking the brides! Then all three brides could survive, and we could change the past, couldn't we? Wouldn't that be cool?"
"..." Looking at Huang Qi's earnest expression, the others all fell silent.
"That honestly never occurred to me." Sha Linghai sighed, then said with a wry smile, "You said you were a delinquent before? Are you really a delinquent?"
"If he's a delinquent, then the whole world must be crawling with demons and monsters." Lin Wenhua sounded rather helpless too.
"Huh?" Huang Qi looked confused.
"But Huang Qi, the veterans who trained us once said they'd also wanted to help other players in the Nightmare Game. When things got truly dangerous, though, they simply couldn't, however much they wanted to. For players in the Nightmare World, even helping a teammate is a luxury, let alone sparing the energy to help those strange creatures." Sha Linghai patted Huang Qi's shoulder. "Promise me you'll always put your own life first."
"Of course." Huang Qi nodded repeatedly. "There's still a whole bunch of things I want to do in the Real World. I've got to treasure this life of mine."
"Let's begin." Wen Wen looked tiny standing among the three men, but she had no shortage of presence. She