"Actually, I think all of us have noticed it to some extent." Only then did Zhi Yuan nod and say, "Among us Players, aside from the young girl who hasn't developed an ability through mutation yet, there are far too many with control abilities. Whatever the duration or method, almost all of us seem to have some ability to control or manipulate things."
Zhi Yuan's words brought the small doubts buried deep in the Players' minds out into the open for discussion.
Tan Ying, Chi Yan, and Ai Qing all had the ability to control others, even Strange Creatures. The duration varied, but the fact remained. Meanwhile, the abilities Zhi Yuan and Su Bai had openly displayed involved manipulating one or more Strange Creatures. Liang Yuyan, Li Feiwen, and Liu Yongzhi could control Straw Man, rocks, and sounds within a space, respectively.
Coupled with what Wu Heng had done earlier to Liang Yuyan's Straw Man, it was easy for others to associate him with an ability such as manipulating Dolls. But Players with good memories might also remember that, when Wu Heng had introduced his ability earlier, he had said his body was special.
At the time, many had taken Wu Heng for an ordinary Body Enhancer. After all, plenty of Players in the Nightmare World had been forced down the path of enhancing their bodies for lack of alternatives. When teaming up with other Players, they often felt inferior to those with all manner of bizarre special abilities, so they frequently avoided explaining their abilities in detail.
But in Su Bai's view, he and Wu Heng might have been the two anomalies in this game from the start.
If those two anomalies were excluded, Zhi Yuan's argument held up completely.
"In the various Nightmare Games we participated in before,