"The Red Moon will... disappear?"
Su Bai could hardly imagine such a scene. Would the night sky of the Nightmare World lose that red moon?
Then...
"Maybe that's a good thing?" Su Bai thought for a moment. "Actually, many places in the Nightmare World are very similar to the Real World. The biggest variable is that Red Moon. Even the flowers, trees, and concrete buildings in this world mutate when red moon power seeps into them."
"If the Red Moon disappeared, if the power belonging to it in the Nightmare World gradually dissipated, maybe this world would return to normal someday in the distant future."
Su Bai looked at his hands. His power came from the Red Moon, and the puzzle pieces in his "Vengeful Ghost Puzzle" existed because of its power as well. That power had also given him the means to protect himself and those around him in this bizarre world.
But in Su Bai's view, since everything bizarre and eerie in the Nightmare World came from the Red Moon, its disappearance could hardly be a bad thing.
"That's not how it works."
Xiao Wu-or rather, Wu Heng, who possessed the Thread-Wrapped Doll-shook his head. His solemn expression, paired with the shop assistant's young face, gave him the endearing look of a child trying to act grown-up.
"In fact, the Red Moon saved that world."
"Saved it?" Su Bai looked startled and confused.
To Su Bai and the other players of the Nightmare World, the Red Moon was a demon's eye in that eerie night sky. Whenever they looked up at the sky stained red and saw that crimson moon, they felt as though the eye above was staring fixedly at them, constraining their every move.
Even the water sources and light sources in the Nightmare World had