"Have any of you noticed anything wrong with your bodies since entering the game?" Chi Yan's voice rang out in the corridor. His tone was steady, but his sharp gaze settled on Tian Yue and Feng Xuelan, as though he were carefully studying their reactions.
"No..." Tian Yue instinctively denied it, her tone firm, as if she had never even considered the question. Yet the moment she finished speaking, her brows furrowed slightly, and a flicker of hesitation crossed her eyes, as though something amiss were surfacing from the depths of her mind.
She turned to Feng Xuelan, her gaze turning a little fixed, uncertainty creeping into her voice. "Wait, Xuelan, just now, you..."
Feng Xuelan froze for a moment. Then, as though something had struck her, her eyes suddenly cleared, and realization dawned on her face.
"What is it?" Chi Yan's gaze moved back and forth between them, as though he had picked up on some detail.
Feng Xuelan drew a quiet breath, seemingly gathering her thoughts, before slowly saying, "Ever since I entered this game, my speech has been a little... out of my control."
"All along the way, I couldn't stop myself from saying things I didn't want to say... things I would never normally say. Thinking about it carefully, could that be the abnormality affecting my body?" Her expression was complicated, holding both confusion and something close to relief, as though she had finally found a reasonable explanation for the things she should never have said.
"It's possible." Chi Yan thought for a moment. "Including Miss Feng, at least three of the six of us have developed physical abnormalities. The rest of us might have them too. We just haven't noticed them yet."
Tian Yue's brows knitted tightly. Clearly realizing something was wrong, she asked in