With his role as the Clown settled, Qin Manjiang stepped onto the gravel path. The gloomy bottom of the well was utterly silent.
This ghost story felt stranger and stranger to him.
Why had this ghost made so many elaborate arrangements?
Was a sense of ritual really that important to it...
Qin Manjiang kept feeling that this Vengeful Ghost was full of "humanity."
Unlike the pure evil he had encountered before, this ghost seemed to have "emotions" of its own. It wanted revenge, yet had chosen such a convoluted, bizarre way to pursue it.
This did not quite fit the image of all the Vengeful Ghosts in the Ghost Story Game.
Could there be more complications behind this?
Lin Yanqing had said that the latter half of Li Yunxiu's story was hidden at the bottom of this well, leaving him to uncover it himself.
But the sinister, terrifying Opera House not far away looked anything but inviting.
There was no one around at the moment. Based on their current deductions, anyone who wanted to enter the Opera House had to choose a role to play and step onto one of the larger stones bearing lettering and patterns.
Those who had walked straight onto the gravel path without stepping on a "role" stone were probably like the two opera performers he had just seen: already under the Vengeful Ghost's control, with death only a matter of time.
Yet once their routes had been divided by role, they seemed to have been separated into different spaces as well. They could not see one another, but could vaguely sense other people nearby, and could even hear them!
That was right...
Sound.
That was what surprised Qin Manjiang most.
At this very moment, he and Mei Sijun were both standing on this gravel path.