Player of the Uncanny
Chapter 62

A human head on a pig's body

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Butterfly Island had no butterflies, and no island could be seen.

Fog shrouded everything. The only place free of fog was that little town.

Qin Manjiang walked into the fog. All around him was a sea of white, and he could hear only his own breathing.

Humans were visual creatures. Simply put, places their eyes could verify gave them a greater sense of security.

That was why both darkness and thick fog made people instinctively reluctant to approach.

All the more so in a place where they knew a Vengeful Ghost existed.

From the moment they set foot on the island, they had been looking for a way out of the fog. Just like that, they had been all but led straight into the town.

A place unshrouded by fog, with people living in it, made a very suitable setting for a ghost story to unfold.

Yet after last night and a cursory look around that morning, he had begun to discern some faint clues.

As players, they had to pay attention not only to the requirements of this Ghost Story Game, but also to every detail of the game itself.

For instance... this ghost story was called Butterfly Island, not Butterfly Town.

And that was indeed the case. Apart from leaving behind a corpse mangled beyond recognition and causing Doctor Yan Xiao to lose control of his emotions and disappear, they had gained no clues in town.

They had reached only one questionable conclusion-the town was very likely a ghost's dream.

This was Challenge Mode. Qin Manjiang had no way of knowing what the group wiped out last time had done, but he had heard that even the former First Seat had fallen here.

Rather than the possibility that finding a way to survive in this town was simply

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