Meanwhile.
As Qin Manjiang and Yu Qinghuan fled the residence, Xu Yi was standing on the balcony of his apartment, looking at his phone screen. On it... was the photograph he had taken before leaving the Old Locust Tree, showing the names carved into its trunk.
[Liu Junyan]
[Shen Hong]
When he saw those two names, the deaths of the previous round's players flashed through his mind.
Aside from Chen Zhiyuan, no one else knew about this discovery.
It was not that Xu Yi was withholding information for his own benefit. Those two names simply made him want nothing to do with them, from the bottom of his heart.
The night of violent wind and rain he had seen beneath the Old Locust Tree, and the twisted corpses strewn across the ground, had been far too horrifying...
He worried that rashly telling everyone those two names would disrupt their respective plans instead.
Even if he was going to tell them, he intended to investigate first.
Xu Yi exhaled a stale breath and glanced back.
Zhong Xueran had been in the washroom for almost five minutes. Although he had called out to her just now, and she was indeed still in there and all right, he did not think it was a suitable place to linger.
Just as he was about to go over and ask her to come out, his phone vibrated.
[The game has already begun. Permanent Items can be used.]
[I'm going to the Old Town to look for two names.]
[The names of those two people in the Opening Lines.]
The sender was Qin Manjiang.
After carefully reading the messages, Xu Yi frowned slightly.
So the game really had already begun...
No wonder that ghost was already taking action.
If the humans and ghosts in the Ghost