"We only chose to let you live because Fang Xiujie and I had already been assimilated by that evil ghost. If we'd had even the slightest chance of survival, would we really have willingly sacrificed our own lives to save someone else?" Ning Yan's voice caught slightly, but she held her eyes wide open, keeping any tears from falling.
"From the moment I was chosen to enter the Nightmare World, I knew I would die in one of its games. Fang Xiujie knew it too. So back then, we never stopped to think about how it had happened. We woke you up and let you escape alive only because there was no chance of us surviving anymore, while you still had a chance to live. That was all!"
Ning Yan had barely finished speaking when, before Lan Xingchen could say anything, her expression suddenly twisted in agony.
"My head... it hurts."
It wasn't just Ning Yan. Fang Xiujie, who had been standing perfectly fine, staggered and slumped helplessly against the wall.
Sister Yao tried to support him despite the pain of her wound, but her hands passed straight through Fang Xiujie's body.
No one knew what had happened, but Ning Yan and Fang Xiujie's bodies suddenly became translucent. When the other players stepped forward to help, they could no longer touch either of them.
The changes didn't stop there.
As the Ghost Creatures Su Bai and Feng Ling had piled at the entrance and burned as firewood dissolved into black mist and scattered, the flames gradually died down. The Ghost Creature faction's score on the lobby wall was also dropping point by point. Compared with the player faction's remaining eighty points, the Ghost Creature faction's score was steadily dwindling toward nothing as the fire went out.
When the human faction's