It shattered Liu Jingqing's reflection in the windowpane, and then she cleared the Game...
Understood.
Su Yu pulled Xia Nan, who was hanging outside the window, back into the room. Xia Nan untied the rope and said:
"Light and the number of people-the more of these two factors there are around us, the more easily our status is determined to be dead. That's the first path to death."
"The second path to death: if no Players die because of the light and number of people, the curse's accompanying entities will come for us in order, based on how many people are nearby and how strong the light is. First they lure us, then they attack."
Su Yu nodded and picked up where Xia Nan had left off:
"The solution to the first path to death lies in controlling the light and number of people around us. As long as we can reduce the number of people nearby or dim the lights, at least we won't die outright, and we'll have room to escape."
"As for the second... if the curse fails to use the light and number of people to determine our status as dead, they'll use hallucinations, enticement, or intimidation to get us somewhere bright and crowded. If we don't fall for it, their attempts to lure us will turn into attacks, and that's when we have room to act."
Su Yu and Xia Nan now fully understood the logic of this Ghost Story. Fundamentally, this Ghost Story had two paths to death. One was always present: they had to keep an eye on the amount of light and number of people at all times. The slightest lapse could trigger the curse.
The second followed a sequence. The curse's manifestations would lure the Players one after another, using all