Blue Bay Villa District.
The downpour was especially heavy here. Fierce winds sent weeds and rubbish flying into the sky. In weather like this, no normal person would go outside.
In the villa's living room, Shen Hai "watched" the two Vengeful Ghosts pass each other without interacting. One went upstairs, while the other went into the kitchen.
They haven't noticed me yet...
He breathed a sigh of relief too.
But he knew perfectly well that this could not go on.
Thinking back, this ghost story had offered two choices from the very beginning: unravel the ghost story, or win the Game and become the ultimate victor.
But now, offering two choices seemed far too strange!
Because the first choice was already the primary option in every Ghost Story Game.
There was no need to bring it up specifically.
Unraveling the ghost story, breaking the curse, and making it disappear at its source-this was not a Game requirement at all...
Some Game requirements had time limits, such as surviving in a certain place for a certain number of days.
Take the Ultimate Game he had previously cleared, for example. Its requirement had been... keep the number of Players in the same space odd.
The same applied to this [Candy Game]. Its requirements clearly leaned toward the second option-winning the Game.
After all, winning the Game was much easier than erasing a ghost story at its source.
Then why insist on including [unravel the ghost story] in the Game requirements?
It gave Shen Hai the feeling... that it was trying to hide something.
What he did not know was that a saying circulated among veteran Players-the Opening Lines might contain clues to survival, but they would certainly contain misleading directions.
That was why Players generally treated them as nothing more than a