Was that his Permanent Item?
Qin Manyi recalled what she had just seen: the phone in Qin Manjiang's hand.
After glancing at his phone, Qin Manjiang's expression had barely changed, but his body had suddenly tensed.
He had been nervous. Qin Manyi had never seen her brother, that textbook "human," so nervous before.
Had his Permanent Item detected danger in the village?
But... weren't Permanent Items unusable outside the Ghost Story Game?
Why could he use his?
Could it be something other than a Permanent Item?
She couldn't figure it out...
Still, she could understand why Qin Manjiang had suddenly decided not to enter the village. Compared to him... she knew far, far more about this village...
"What's wrong with Classmate Qin? Is he feeling unwell?" Xi Wutong asked casually, then honked the horn.
The car crawled along at the village entrance. Private cars kept coming and going, making the narrow, dilapidated road into the village even more congested.
"This village really is lively..." Xi Wutong muttered.
Lively?
Every trace of a smile vanished from Qin Manyi's face. She rolled up the window too, watching their surroundings warily.
"Doctor Xi, follow my directions. Head straight to the right."
"To the right? All right."
Xi Wutong carefully threaded her way through the traffic and finally squeezed into the village.
Under Qin Manyi's guidance, the car wound through turn after turn in the village. Shops and farmhouse restaurants lined the route, along with newly built imitation historical buildings. The place was practically halfway commercialized already.
Xi Wutong also knew that something must have happened to make Qin Manjiang suddenly decide not to enter the village, but she couldn't understand what it was.
The village was far livelier than she could have imagined. Even though it wasn't a holiday, there were crowds of