"I understand..." Fang Xiu's hands trembled with excitement. He wasn't timid or cowardly; he had simply assumed that players like him, who had no Permanent Items, were at a tremendous disadvantage.
But now, after Qin Manjiang's reminder, he suddenly realized that he wasn't without ways to fight back.
The hunters' uncanny abilities weren't invincible. They could even... be used to kill the hunters instead!
"Thank you..." He looked at Qin Manjiang, momentarily at a loss for words.
There was always a reason for love or hatred between people. Even taking a liking to someone at first sight counted as a reason.
But why exactly was this man named Qin Manjiang helping him?
And judging by everything he had said, the man understood the Eye Realm very well-even better than Fang Xiu himself did.
Could it be...
"You're a player who escaped the Eye Realm before?!" A possibility suddenly occurred to Fang Xiu, and his eyes widened with delighted surprise.
Qin Manjiang couldn't help laughing, but he didn't deny it. He merely said unhurriedly, "If you call it escaping, then yes."
Fang Xiu took Qin Manjiang's words as confirmation and grew even more excited.
With someone like this helping him, there really might be hope of leaving the Eye Realm for good!
This man named Qin Manjiang was just like the "old mentor" who suddenly appeared beside an unlucky protagonist in a novel.
Could I be the protagonist?
An absurd thought popped into Fang Xiu's mind.
But Qin Manjiang suddenly said, "Still, I need to remind you of something. You said your group had always stayed well hidden, but this time Chen Qiu was discovered and then killed. That's different from before, so something must have changed."
"They chose the steps of a crowded square because they wanted to draw out