"What experiments is that faction conducting, exactly?"
"Our game can end early." Rather than answer Su Bai's question, Su Xuan looked toward the distant city streets, a complicated gleam in his eyes. "You can go outside and take a look now."
"Is that something I'm not allowed to know?" Su Bai sensed how stiffly he had avoided the subject, and his curiosity only grew.
Su Xuan turned back, his eyes filled with deep worry and helplessness.
"Once someone knows something, they instinctively start paying attention to it, pursuing it. So the best way to avoid danger is to know nothing at all." He spoke slowly, his voice low and certain. "Their goal itself has little to do with the humans of the Real World. All you need to know is that they're a bunch of lunatics chasing a 0.01 percent chance for the sake of an illusory dream. For that utterly impossible goal, they're mad enough to kill anything, even by mistake. Humans may well become casualties along the way."
Su Xuan's words once again reminded Su Bai of that strange Administrator. When he had asked the strange Administrator about Su Xuan, the man had refused to answer and instead told him some supposed truths about the game.
According to that Administrator, a great war would break out between the Real World and the Nightmare World, drawing in every human in the Real World. To give those humans a fighting chance, certain factions had selected some humans-or "Players"-to enter the Nightmare World as an advance force.
But if the Nightmare Game had been created by the lunatics Su Xuan described, how could those lunatics possibly be as benevolent as the Administrator had claimed?
Judging by how the Administrator had avoided questions about Su Xuan, he probably knew about Su Xuan,