Chen Zhiyuan's condition... was growing increasingly difficult too.
As a doctor, Yan Xiao had sent Chen Zhiyuan for a head CT, but the resulting images left him at a loss.
Chen Zhiyuan's brain... was, strictly speaking, almost no longer capable of thought.
Yet Chen Zhiyuan himself did not seem too concerned. When Yan Xiao asked, he sighed and said, "Zhong Xueran."
"Her?" Yan Xiao was somewhat surprised.
Zhong Xueran was usually the one taking care of others. She was always so full of energy. Surely there was little need to worry about her?
"Yang said that ever since the day she entered this game, she's had deeply buried self-destructive tendencies."
Chen Zhiyuan's words came as quite a surprise to Yan Xiao.
Chen Zhiyuan turned to look at Yan Xiao and said, "And those self-destructive tendencies didn't come from the pressure of the Ghost Story World. They existed before she entered it."
"You could say... Zhong Xueran was someone who wanted to kill herself from the very beginning."
"If anything, after entering a world like this, constantly helping others on the boundary between life and death gave her some sense of worth and self-understanding. That's why she never took that final, terrible step." Seeing surprise in Yan Xiao's eyes for the first time, Chen Zhiyuan said, "Yang told me all this."
"Yang also told Zhong Xueran that her ability was very powerful, that she could help more people while keeping herself safe."
"Zhong Xueran isn't afraid of death, or ghosts..."
"In reality, her family... probably drives her to greater despair than this world full of vengeful ghosts."
After listening silently, Yan Xiao organized everything Chen Zhiyuan had told him that night, stood up, and looked at him. "What about you?"
"Me?"
Chen Zhiyuan seemed somewhat surprised. His mind had gone from