"Lin, did we just... clear the game?"
After ending the game and choosing to return to the Real World, Lin Wenhua and Huang Qi found themselves back in Huang Qi's bedroom. The Lin Family had been in turmoil lately because the Old Master kept demanding to find his daughter. In that house, every word Lin Wenhua said was wrong-even farting was an unforgivable crime-so he had simply come to hide out at Huang Qi's place for a few days.
Just before entering the Nightmare Game, the two of them had been sitting in Huang Qi's bedroom playing video games. Neither had expected to enter the Nightmare World together in the blink of an eye.
Lin Wenhua instinctively glanced out the window. They had started playing not long after dinner, but it was already light outside. Clearly, time in the Nightmare World did not stand still; it passed just as it did in the Real World.
"What about that Bride?" Huang Qi immediately remembered what had happened during the Accusation Round at the end of the game. "Mr. Sha said the Bride who kept helping us was a Player too? And that Player failed his mission because of us? What happens when a Player fails a mission?"
"..." Lin Wenhua fell silent. He knew that although Huang Qi always called himself a delinquent, he probably would not like the answer Lin Wenhua had to give.
"Do they really die?" Yet Huang Qi seemed to have already found his own answer. "Just to save newcomers like us?"
Lin Wenhua did not know either, but he remembered the glimpse of the Bride's profile when he turned back. Lin Wenhua was not someone who valued looks above all else, yet seeing that Bride's profile had given him an indescribable sense of familiarity. He had