Player of the Uncanny
Chapter 1055

The Taoist

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Xinxin, one of Fu City's original Ten Seats players.

In the [Ping'an Hospital] ghost story, she had been trapped inside her own photograph. In the end... it was Lian Yan, standing before her now, who had brought her out of the Ghost Story World and back to reality.

Actually, she had been back for some time, but she had never returned to Fu City.

Moreover, after escaping [Ping'an Hospital] this way, Xinxin had never received another summons from the Fu City Eye Realm.

Later, Lian Yan had told her that her code name had most likely disappeared from Fu City's [Eye Realm].

In other words, although she had not successfully cleared the entire Eye Realm, she had truly broken free of the Ghost Story Game.

This act of "exploiting a bug" had made Xinxin deeply suspicious of the origins of the [Eye Realm].

Lian Yan had told her part of the truth: the current [Eye Realm] was controlled by humans, so errors were perfectly normal. No matter how precise a system was, once humans became involved, loopholes would appear.

"Go back? Back where?" Xinxin rolled over, still hugging her teddy bear. "Hey, I'm hungry!"

"Back to Fu City." Lian Yan walked over to her and looked down at her.

"No," Xinxin muttered. "What would I go back for...?"

"Your family..." Lian Yan stopped short, remembering the photograph of Xinxin he had seen back then.

It was her Permanent Item. The photograph showed a gloomy living room, with two rotting corpses, a man and a woman, hanging from the ceiling.

Xinxin's home had long since ceased to exist.

Lian Yan said nothing more about it. He merely smiled. "But if you don't want to go back, you'll have to stay in Moon City alone."

Xinxin abruptly rolled over and sat up,

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