What Shen Hai revealed was indeed shocking.
But Qin Manjiang soon spotted a flaw. "You couldn't make out their faces, yet you knew their genders, and even knew they were current players?"
"Exactly. That's the problem..." Shen Hai really did seem drunk.
He leaned against the bar, one hand pressed to his forehead. "[Faded Memories] is a Permanent Item. There can't be a situation where it doesn't let me see clearly, so I'm certain... I did see what those two looked like. I knew they were a man and a woman, and even knew they were current players. But whenever I try to recall the details, everything about them is like something behind a pane of frosted glass."
Shen Hai turned his head, looking at Qin Manjiang with slightly hazy eyes. "There are only two possibilities."
"One, my memories have been tampered with. If so, they may already have noticed that I inadvertently saw what they looked like while using [Faded Memories]."
"Two, they didn't notice that I saw them using [Faded Memories], and my memories haven't been tampered with. Their very existence simply cannot be observed or remembered."
Shen Hai paused, then said quietly,
"If that's the case... they shouldn't be in this world."
Chen Zhiyuan frowned and quietly asked Xu Yi beside him, "What does he mean, they shouldn't be in this world?"
"Simply put, those two shouldn't exist in the present time and space," Xu Yi explained. "Haven't you seen films about time travelers and the like? People from the future who haven't been born yet, or people from the past who've already died."
Silence fell over the bar. What Shen Hai had revealed was far too startling. In Fu City's Ghost Story Game, two "players" who weren't from the present time and space had been searching