Hu Tao spoke with a bright smile under Wade's astonished gaze.
"Since you once happened to glimpse the boundary between life and death, you don't exactly count as an outsider. In that case, taking you somewhere shouldn't count as breaking the rules, right?"
Paimon thought for a moment, then smacked her forehead and looked at Lin Ze. "I know! Is it the place Hu Tao once took me, the Traveler, and Old Meng to? The Ordinary Place on the boundary between life and death?"
Lin Ze remembered it too. It was from Hu Tao's story quest-the Ordinary Place on the boundary between life and death, where Old Meng, an employee of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, had seen his childhood friend Wolf Brother, who had died young, and helped resolve his lingering regrets.
There were many spirits there, all of them dead people who still had attachments to the world of the living. If what Wade said was true, Vanessa still had something tying her to the mortal world, so they should be able to find her in the Ordinary Place.
But...
A question arose in Lin Ze's mind. In the game, Hu Tao could travel through the boundary. The Ordinary Place was somewhere very close to death, and it usually formed in areas where disturbances in the ley lines were concentrated.
This world had no ley lines, so how could it have an Ordinary Place on the boundary between life and death?
"Hey, don't be so rigid in your thinking."
Hu Tao seemed to realize what Lin Ze was thinking and explained, "The Ordinary Place essentially forms where spirits with lingering attachments gather on the boundary between life and death. Disturbed ley lines just make the gateway to the boundary clearer and easier for spirits to find."
"I've already found