"You want to team up with me?" Su Bai reached forward, his fingertips brushing lightly through the air before taking the hand of the little girl who called herself Xiao Ya. It was very thin, so delicate that the slightest pressure seemed enough to reveal the fragile contours of the bones beneath her skin.
But the girl was indeed a human Player, not a Strange Creature in disguise.
During this time, Wu Heng had remained in the Mist Shop, inhabiting the Doll's body and researching Qi-Blood. Su Bai could hardly sit around doing nothing, either. Sometimes he passed through the Rest Room's door to return to Honghuai City and keep his mother, Lin Wan, company; sometimes he looked through materials he would need for university and made preparations; sometimes, in the dead of night, he took the Puzzle Pieces for a walk through the streets beneath the Red Moon; and sometimes he put real effort into running the shop, organizing shelves in a corner and chatting with customers who came to browse...
In the time that remained, Su Bai still learned quite a lot about Qi-Blood from Wu Heng.
According to Wu Heng, one reason the humans from Su Bai's world had become important experimental subjects for the Red Moon Society might be that only a handful of native humans had survived beneath the Red Moon to this day. Over the long years, successive collapses of civilization had swept through every corner of the world like tides. Living humans who had truly endured these repeated catastrophes were exceedingly rare. Most had already found another way to "live" beneath the Red Moon, just as the Ghost Bride A Xi and the others had.
That was, by becoming Strange Creatures.
Those who had truly survived had either received some special protection or