Goosebumps covered Qin Manjiang's entire body. The fear Jiang Du's words brought him far exceeded anything in this [Wedding Dress] ghost story.
"Scared? When I learned that your Permanent Item was also [I], I was scared too."
Everything Jiang Du said, both outright and between the lines, sent a chill through Qin Manjiang.
"I was adopted by the Jiang family. Like you, I don't know who my biological parents are. When I was thirty, I was dragged into Moon City's Ghost Story Game, and then I obtained a Permanent Item, the doll... [I]."
"When I learned that your Permanent Item was also the doll [I], I wondered... could I also be a child the doll [I] turned into, a continuation of the previous [I]?"
"So..."
Jiang Du's voice was much deeper than before. He himself seemed bewildered too.
"Qin Manjiang, who do you think has actually been extending their life all this time?"
Qin Manjiang froze completely. Jiang Du's barrage of revelations left his head spinning. He had thought Jiang Du might refuse to answer, might give him the runaround, or might mix truth with lies, but never in his wildest dreams had he expected Jiang Du to explain everything so frankly and directly!
He could not sense any lies from Jiang Du. It was difficult to mix fear into a lie, and in Jiang Du's account, his fear of that doll was real!
Besides, if anyone cared to investigate, these lies could quickly be exposed. Jiang Du's background, for instance-whether he really was an adopted child of the Jiang family was hardly some enormous secret. A subsystem within the police system could turn it up.
This man... this Jiang Du really was bewildered and frightened by his own origins. He suspected that he had been born after the previous