With the Clown role settled, Qin Manjiang stepped onto the gravel path. The dim depths of the well were utterly silent.
This ghost story felt increasingly strange to him.
Why had this ghost made so many elaborate arrangements?
Was a sense of ritual really that important to it...
Qin Manjiang kept feeling that this Vengeful Ghost was full of "humanity."
Unlike the pure evil he had encountered before, this ghost seemed to have its own "emotions." It wanted revenge, but the method it used was so convoluted and bizarre.
This did not quite fit the image of any of the Vengeful Ghosts in the Ghost Story Game.
Could there be more to this?
Lin Yanqing had said that the latter half of Li Yunxiu's story was hidden at the bottom of this well, leaving him to uncover it himself.
But the sinister, terrifying Opera House not far away was clearly no good place to go.
There was no one around at present. Based on their current deductions, to enter the Opera House, everyone needed to choose the role they would play and step onto the larger stone bearing the patterned lettering.
Those who had entered the gravel path without stepping on a "role" stone were probably like the two opera performers he had just seen: already controlled by the Vengeful Ghost, with death only a matter of time.
Yet after taking separate paths according to their roles, they seemed to have been assigned to different spaces as well. They could not see one another, but they could vaguely sense other people nearby, and could even hear sounds!
That was right...
Sound.
That was what surprised Qin Manjiang most.
At this very moment, he and Mei Sijun were both standing on this gravel path. Each was alone on the path, yet