[Ghost story: Yellow Springs Opera] [Cleared.] [Player: Nie Yunzhen. Spirit Pupil reward: zero.] [Player: Yang. Spirit Pupil reward: fifty.] [Player: Doctor. Spirit Pupil reward: forty-five.] [Player: Player. Spirit Pupil reward: fifty-five.] [Player: Chen Zhiyuan. Spirit Pupil reward: ten.] [Player: Xinxin. Spirit Pupil reward: fifteen.] [Player: Let Me Out. Spirit Pupil reward: fifty.] [Player: Singer. Spirit Pupil reward: sixty-five.] [Player: So Annoying. Spirit Pupil reward: fifteen.] [Player: Abyss. Spirit Pupil reward: sixty.] [...]
Back in the real world, Qin Manjiang opened his eyes to find himself lying on the riverbank, a sky full of stars overhead.
Before long, everyone else appeared, one after another.
Feeling their phones vibrating repeatedly, everyone silently read the notifications.
Everyone had gained quite a lot from this ghost story.
Except Nie Yunzhen.
But she seemed entirely unconcerned with how many Spirit Pupil points she had earned. She simply stared blankly at the river, lost in thought.
For a while, no one felt like talking.
Just then, Qin Manjiang saw something that took him quite by surprise.
On the riverbank, the body of Mr. Dense Forest-Yu Chenglin-was rapidly disappearing!
It wasn't rotting or slowly turning transparent. Instead, it was breaking into tiny black particles that dissolved into the void.
Were the bodies of people who died in the Ghost Story Game all erased from reality this way?
Noticing Qin Manjiang's shock and uncertainty, Yang slowly approached and said, "It's tragic, isn't it? Disappearing like this without leaving a trace."
"Won't their families and the police come looking?" Qin Manjiang asked.
"How would they find them?" Yang seemed to sigh. "When a body just disappears like this, it's the same as someone dying at sea. Without a body, there's no way to prove they're dead."
"In this world, a great many people actually go 'missing' every