Was the entire town a ghost's dream?
Qin Manjiang's guess was so bold that even Swimming Fish froze for a good while.
But it did... make some sense.
Like that bowl of chicken soup. If this was a ghost's dream, then from the ghost's perspective, a human hand was delicious chicken soup.
Seeing Qin Manjiang already heading deeper into town, Swimming Fish immediately followed.
"Is escaping the dream the way to survive?" Swimming Fish asked.
A way to escape the dream immediately came to mind.
"If this is a dream, we just have to kill ourselves to wake up, right?" At that, Swimming Fish paused. She suddenly thought of Chen Yu, who had died silently the night before.
But Qin Manjiang looked at her in confusion. "Why do you say that?"
Swimming Fish thought back, clutching her sketchbook, and said, "Some players encountered something similar before. A ghost trapped all the players in a dream, and they escaped by killing themselves."
"A dream can't reproduce experiences a person has never had in reality. So once it enters unknown territory, it breaks off, jumps to another scene, or makes you wake with a start."
"Death is something no living person has experienced."
Swimming Fish said.
"As long as we kill ourselves, we can wake up."
Although she said this, she showed no intention of trying it. Instead, she kept watching Qin Manjiang's expression.
Sure enough, Qin Manjiang immediately shook his head and said:
"No. If we were the ones dreaming, trapped in our own dreams, your method might let us escape."
"But the one dreaming here is a ghost. We're trapped in the ghost's dream, not our own."
"Do you think a ghost has experienced death?" Qin Manjiang asked.
Without a doubt, a ghost must have died before.
So killing themselves