Player of the Uncanny
Chapter 436

Failure

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Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Qin Manjiang, Abyss, and Chen Xin had already regrouped and were exchanging their thoughts.

Higher up on Snow Mountain, Hu Feifei was emerging from behind a snowy slope, walking toward "Spider Woman" with a fairly calm expression.

Most of her thoughts were the same as Qin Manjiang's and the others'. The only difference was...

She had witnessed the real ghost.

After [Eye Realm] opened and she confirmed she had been chosen for this Ghost Story, Hu Feifei carefully looked over the players accompanying her.

Abyss, the professor, Chen Xin, Wu Tiansheng, Xia Nan, Lin Ruonan... she had little connection with any of these six people.

Even then, she had decided to act a little more "simple-minded" once she went inside.

Humans instinctively looked down on fools, but they also instinctively lowered their guard around them.

The less threatening she appeared, the less attention she would draw.

She had become quite practiced at this tactic in the past.

This time was no different.

She had even learned one fact before anyone else...

[One]'s consciousness would possess anyone who came into contact with a corpse within Snow Mountain's boundaries.

Because she had been the first to touch a corpse.

Before the two groups met up, she had stepped on "Wu Tiansheng"'s corpse.

At the time, an icy sensation had swiftly burrowed into her body through the sole of her foot, then remained huddled inside her without moving.

Hu Feifei knew she must have stepped on something unusual.

It was during a [Plot Trigger] that she truly confirmed the chill that had entered her body was actually [One]'s consciousness.

During the first Plot Trigger, she had been the one to say, [Are we really going to dig them up?] At the time, she had distinctly felt her mouth utter those words

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