"Long Sen?"
"Is that you?"
Qin Manjiang's heart lurched as he looked at the hazy human silhouette at the edge of the woods.
He slowly backed away, but just then, moonlight spilled over the woods, instantly illuminating the figure.
Qin Manjiang's pupils contracted... it really was Long Sen!
But Long Sen's face was ashen, and his eyes were wide open. Strangest of all, he was drenched, water dripping steadily from his body.
Something's wrong...
Qin Manjiang was just about to run when the soaking-wet Long Sen shook his head at him in an extremely eerie manner.
At first, Qin Manjiang thought he had seen wrong. Only after another careful look did he confirm that Long Sen really was shaking his head at him!
Qin Manjiang stared at Long Sen's sinister face in the moonlight. He was utterly expressionless, drenched from head to toe, as though he had just crawled out of the water. He neither approached Qin Manjiang nor spoke, merely standing there and shaking his head over and over.
The next moment, dark clouds obscured the moonlight again. The human silhouette at the edge of the woods seemed to melt, quickly merging with the pitch-black night.
Qin Manjiang raised his phone and looked toward where Long Sen had been standing, only to discover... no one was there.
He wasted no more time, immediately turning and running toward where the car was parked.
Something must have happened to Long Sen. All that water... a ghost had very likely already dragged him into the water earlier!
But why had nothing happened to Long Sen all this time while he came here fishing alone, only for something to happen tonight when I came?
Could interference from the [Eye Realm] have caused some unknowable change in [Guanyin Flat Lake]?
Although he could not