[Ghost Story: Yellow Springs Opera] [Cleared.] [Player: Nie Yunzhen. Spirit Pupil Reward received: zero.] [Player: Yang. Spirit Pupil Reward received: fifty.] [Player: Doctor. Spirit Pupil Reward received: forty-five.] [Player: Player. Spirit Pupil Reward received: fifty-five.] [Player: Chen Zhiyuan. Spirit Pupil Reward received: ten.] [Player: Xinxin. Spirit Pupil Reward received: fifteen.] [Player: Let Me Out. Spirit Pupil Reward received: fifty.] [Player: Singer. Spirit Pupil Reward received: sixty-five.] [Player: So Annoying. Spirit Pupil Reward received: fifteen.] [Player: Abyss. Spirit Pupil Reward received: sixty.] [...]
When Qin Manjiang opened his eyes back in the real world, he was lying on the riverbank beneath a sky full of stars.
Before long, everyone else appeared, one after another.
Feeling their phones vibrate incessantly, everyone silently read the notifications.
Everyone had gained quite a lot from this Ghost Story.
Except for Nie Yunzhen.
But she seemed entirely unconcerned with how many Spirit Pupil points she had earned. She simply stared blankly at the river, lost in thought.
For a while, no one felt like speaking.
Then Qin Manjiang saw something that took him quite by surprise.
There on the riverbank, the body of Mr. Dense Forest-Yu Chenglin-was rapidly disappearing!
It was neither rotting nor slowly turning transparent. Instead, it was breaking into tiny black particles that melted into the void.
Was this how the bodies of everyone who died in the Ghost Story Game were erased from reality?
Yang noticed Qin Manjiang's shock and bewilderment. He slowly walked over and said, "It's sad, isn't it? Disappearing just like that, without leaving a trace."
"Won't his family and the police look for him?" Qin Manjiang asked.
"How would they find him?" Yang seemed to sigh. "With the body disappearing like this, it's just like someone dying at sea. Since they can't find the body, they