Meanwhile.
As Qin Manjiang and Yu Qinghuan fled the residence, Xu Yi stood on the balcony of his apartment, looking at his phone screen. On it... was the photograph he had taken before leaving the Old Locust Tree, of the names carved into its trunk.
[Liu Junyan]
[Shen Hong]
When he saw those two names, scenes of the previous round of Players dying flashed through his mind.
Apart from Chen Zhiyuan, no one else knew about this discovery.
It was not that Xu Yi was keeping information to himself. Those two names simply made him deeply reluctant to touch the matter.
The night of raging wind and rain he had seen beneath the Old Locust Tree, and the twisted corpses strewn across the ground, had been far too horrifying...
He worried that rashly telling everyone those names would instead disrupt their existing plans.
Even if he was going to tell them, he intended to investigate first.
Xu Yi exhaled and glanced back.
Zhong Xueran had been in the bathroom for almost five minutes. Although he had called out to her just now, and she was indeed still fine in there, he did not think it was a suitable place to linger.
Just as he was about to go over and tell her to come out, his phone vibrated.
[The Game has already begun. Permanent Items can be used.] [I'm going to Old Town to look for two names.] [The names of those two people in the Opening Lines.]
The sender was Qin Manjiang.
After carefully reading the messages, Xu Yi frowned slightly.
So the Game really had begun...
No wonder that ghost was already taking action.
If the humans and ghosts within the Ghost Story World were viewed as participants in a turn-based game, each match had different