"Bzz..."
Just as Xu Yi caught sight of that corpse, every player in the real world felt a sudden palpitation in their heart.
Immediately afterward, no matter when or where they were, everyone's consciousness was stripped away in that instant. When they opened their eyes again, they were already in that boundless, vast, dark, uncanny space, with no distinction between up and down or left and right!
The infinite... eye realm!
All manner of eyes quietly opened, surrounding everyone with an indescribable chill and eeriness.
Above them, the largest spiral pupil slowly opened as well.
Only then did everyone recover from the emotions the Old Locust Tree had stirred in them... another ultimate game had begun, and everyone's consciousness... had been drawn back into the infinite eye realm!
Huh... something was wrong?
Someone noticed something unusual...
"Where's Singer?"
"That guy named Qin Manjiang isn't here either..."
"Could they have... died in the real world?"
"Suicide?"
"It's possible..."
Chen Zhiyuan and his companions felt a chill. No... it wasn't just those two. Miss Qiao, Qiao Ziruo, was absent too.
Could they already be trapped inside a ghost story?
But why hadn't anyone else received a notification? Perhaps... it was the ability of that other [Eye Realm] Qin Manjiang possessed?
What Shen Hai, Xu Yi, Yan Xiao, and all the others hadn't expected, however, was that the infinite eye realm's summons apparently did not take priority over a ghost story world already in progress.
It had clearly summoned Qin Manjiang and the other two, yet it hadn't brought them here!
In other words, could the infinite eye realm itself be nothing more than some even stranger, enormous ghost story?
Shen Hai had already composed himself, but his gaze changed.
He thought of the soul inside Qin Manjiang's body, the one called "Jiang