Jian Cunxin's question had suddenly brought the words "the sea of suffering is boundless" to Qin Manjiang's mind.
And the Opening Lines contained the phrase [the sea of blood becomes a sea of suffering].
Then the sea of blood before them could be treated as a sea of suffering. They could never swim to its shore, because the sea of suffering had no bounds!
But likewise, the sea of suffering had a way out that everyone knew... turning back.
"The sea of suffering is boundless; turn back and there is the shore" had always been regarded as true but useless advice, a prime example of how easy it was to talk when you weren't the one suffering.
But at this moment, those words had become their only way to survive.
Qin Manjiang carefully recalled the Opening Lines.
The line [the sea of blood becomes a sea of suffering; in this life, I wish to keep ghosts company] was clearly spoken from a human perspective.
A person who kept ghosts company... in other words, this Game really did offer a way to survive, and even to keep living indefinitely!
That was to become the person who kept ghosts company!
Could it be... almost everyone in [Ping'an Hospital] was devoured, and only seven survived because all seven chose to keep ghosts company?
Qin Manjiang suddenly grasped a crucial point! Yes... they were still alive, and there had to be a reason why they alone were still alive. That reason was written in the Opening Lines!
Then what did the next line, [the mountain of bones leads to Yin Mountain; in the next life, I will not dwell among humans], mean...?
Bones piled into a mountain... that, too, was an image.
Ancient warfare had been unimaginably brutal, leaving countless dead. It had also