The other Players had already left the game scenario. Only Su Bai and Wu Heng remained in the clearing surrounded by Dense Fog, staring at each other. Aside from the fog and the night, all that remained around them was the Red Moon overhead.
Su Bai and Wu Heng watched each other in silence, as though neither knew what to say.
Looking at the man still hidden beneath his cloak, Su Bai wondered whether Wu Heng intended to keep concealing his identity even now. Come to think of it, the last time Su Bai had seen Su Xuan, he had said that he really disliked people who beat around the bush.
But... it seemed Su Bai himself had become someone who beat around the bush when it came to this matter, at this moment.
At that thought, Su Bai reflected for three seconds, then decided the very next second to lay his cards on the table with Wu Heng. The name he had kept buried in his mind for so long was just about to leave his lips.
That was when Wu Heng spoke first.
"Sorry." Though Wu Heng's voice was still low, it had lost its earlier rasp. "If I could help it, I wouldn't want to meet you like this."
As he spoke, Wu Heng actually lifted the hood of the cloak he had been wearing all this time. Su Bai could now see that the face concealed beneath it was not the one he had imagined, but a featureless Doll's face, with clear traces of joints around the eyes and mouth.
Wu Heng soon put his hood back on. Su Bai showed no surprise at the "true face" beneath the cloak. After all, various details had already led him to suspect that the body beneath Wu Heng's