Yu Ruoli hugged her sketchbook, looking somewhat dazed.
As one of the few people who had never redeemed a single-use item and had instead gone straight for a Permanent Item, she actually had little confidence in herself.
To her, escaping White Dew Bay alive had already been incredibly lucky. In that ghost story, everyone would have died if not for the lawyer Chen Yu's self-sacrifice.
Yet within the Ghost Story Game as a whole, White Dew Bay was not even among the hardest. The horror games they encountered would only grow more numerous, and more... difficult.
It did not even take an extremely difficult ghost story. A relatively simple [Multiplayer Mode] could easily claim someone's life.
She had always felt that the so-called difficulties of Multiplayer Mode, Challenge Mode, Exploration Mode, and the most unsolvable of all, the Ultimate Game, actually made little difference to humans.
When facing a Vengeful Ghost, what distinction was there in difficulty? The slightest lapse could mean death, just like the former First Seat who had died in White Dew Bay.
When he went to White Dew Bay, it had not yet been [Challenge Mode], merely a [Multiplayer Mode] that everyone instinctively considered relatively simple. Yet it was in precisely such a place that the former First Seat had died, without a sound.
So she had never understood the idea of assigning ghosts difficulty ratings. What sort of person, driven by what kind of idiotic mentality, could have come up with that?
Ghosts were ghosts. What distinction was there between easy and hard? With bad enough luck and a string of instant-death encounters right at the door, the Ten Seats were no different from other players.
She hugged her sketchbook tightly and walked toward Catface Café.
In this game, all anyone could do was try