Qin Manjiang's hand had been tucked in his pocket for ages without warming up. At those words, he pulled it straight out. "Hold on. Why me?"
Yang laughed. "Because you're the only one who's still a normal human being... Little Qin."
Qin Manjiang stared at him blankly. Was this the first time anyone had ever called him normal?
Was someone who couldn't even control his own body normal?
"Let me ask you something." Yang turned away from him. An evening breeze stirred the hem of his clothes. "Has the version of yourself you see undergone any mutations?"
"I don't understand," Qin Manjiang answered honestly.
Yang suddenly coughed several times. Rather than explain that question, he asked another. "What do you think spirit pupils are?"
The question abruptly brought something to Qin Manjiang's mind: his body acting of its own accord and using [Eye Realm] to create Qiao Ziruo's beginner level.
What had appeared then was-
[Ghost Story: Lost Item... formed.] [Pillaged Spirit Pupil Count: one.] [Area: Baihong Building.] [Difficulty rating: easy (suitable for a beginner level)] [Searching for a Spirit Pupil Adaptor.] [Search successful. Issue a beginner mission and recruit a new player?]
Tang Baihe had died, and then a new ghost story had appeared.
Ultimately, Qin Manjiang was still puzzled about why that ghost had gone to the twenty-seventh floor.
And Tang Baihe-why had it kept following her, even into her apartment?
Once Tang Baihe died, the ghost story had taken shape, and two strange terms had appeared: pillaged spirit pupil and Spirit Pupil Adaptor.
The meaning of those terms was so obvious that Qin Manjiang had begun to wonder where the spirit pupil rewards they earned in the Ghost Story Game actually came from.
Could those spirit pupils all be actual...
Seeing Qin Manjiang remain silent