In the thick fog, Yan Xiao slowly advanced with Chen Yu as his hostage.
"Did you hear that?" Chen Yu suddenly said. "Those two were eaten."
Yan Xiao ignored her. Through the sensations coming from his scalpel, he could roughly tell what condition Qin Manjiang and Swimming Fish were in.
Those two had only thirty minutes left to live. And even if they found the final way to survive within those thirty minutes, could they really emerge completely unaffected?
Watching themselves being devoured alive, fully conscious, feeling every bit of pain, yet unable to die-could they endure that kind of suffering...?
"Doctor, let me go." There was little temptation in Chen Yu's voice. She was simply describing something perfectly ordinary. "You should know very well how likely it is to clear this ghost story within thirty minutes. Apart from knowing this is a dream, you know nothing at all."
Chen Yu stopped in her tracks, suddenly refusing to go any farther.
"And even if you wake this ghost from its dream, will that mean you've cleared it?" She gazed at Yan Xiao. "Do you know what kind of world awaits after it wakes up, or what the ghost will do?"
Yan Xiao looked at her in silence without urging her onward, because in truth, even he did not know what purpose there was in walking through this thick fog.
This woman was right. They still knew too little about this place, about this ghost story.
"I can't save everyone, but... if I can, I want to save you." Chen Yu looked at Yan Xiao and spoke softly.
She tilted her head back, looking at the thick fog that filled the entire sky. "You really are a strange person. I met you when I entered Multiplayer Mode for the first time