What Shen Hai said was indeed shocking.
But Qin Manjiang soon spotted a hole in it. "You couldn't make out their faces, but you knew their genders, and even knew they were current players?"
"Exactly. That's the problem..." Shen Hai seemed genuinely drunk.
He leaned against the bar, holding his forehead with one hand. "As a Permanent Item, [Faded Memories] couldn't possibly show me something I couldn't see clearly. So I'm certain... I did see what those two looked like. I knew they were a man and a woman, and even knew they were current players. But whenever I try to recall the specific details, everything about them is like something behind a pane of frosted glass."
Shen Hai turned his head and looked at Qin Manjiang with somewhat hazy eyes. "There are only two possibilities."
"One, my memory has been tampered with. If that's the case, they may already have noticed that I accidentally saw their faces using [Faded Memories]."
"Two, they didn't notice that I saw them using [Faded Memories], and my memory hasn't been tampered with either. Their very existence cannot be observed or remembered."
Shen Hai paused, then said quietly:
"If that's the case... they shouldn't be in this world."
Chen Zhiyuan frowned and quietly asked Xu Yi beside him, "What does he mean, they shouldn't be in this world?"
"Simply put, those two shouldn't exist in the current time and space," Xu Yi explained. "Aren't there movies about that? Time travelers and the like. People from the future who haven't been born yet, or people from the past who are already dead."
Silence fell over the bar. The information Shen Hai had revealed was far too startling. In Fu City's Ghost Story Game, two "players" who weren't from the current time and space had been