"It was Ning Yan and Fang Xiujie who noticed the distress signal from Building 1. That was how we knew someone was here."
Feng Ling's voice was quiet, but to the players in the lobby, it sounded almost deafening.
Even the Qiu Family sisters, who had been rather confused earlier, exchanged bewildered looks. If they remembered correctly, hadn't Sister Yao and the others said Ning Yan and Fang Xiujie had already died in the game? Weren't they the two players who had died because Lan Xingchen had been bewitched? Sister Yao's friends? The reason Lan Xingchen deserved to become a madman who shambled around like a walking corpse?
Why had those two names belonging to the dead first come up again and again in Su Bai's words, and now from the woman outside the glass doors?
The wounds on Sister Yao's body already hurt terribly, yet she still pinched the flesh on the back of her hand hard.
During her earlier incoherent rant, she had said things like wishing Ning Yan and Fang Xiujie could appear before Lan Xingchen and beat him senseless. But the main reason she had been so furious was precisely because she knew that was impossible!
Ning Yan and Fang Xiujie were dead! They could never appear before them again!
But what had Su Bai just said? What had the woman outside just said? Had she misheard?
Or... could players who died in the Nightmare World really turn into Strange Creatures?
As for Lan Xingchen, no one could possibly know what he was thinking now. All they could see was that he had lowered his head again, even lower than the Hanged Ghost's, so that no one could see his face at all.
"Open the door." Sister Yao sounded deeply distressed, as though she might burst