"I get it..." Fang Xiu's hands trembled with excitement. He wasn't timid or cowardly; he had simply assumed that players like him, who had no Permanent Items, were at a severe disadvantage.
But now, after Qin Manjiang's reminder, he suddenly realized that he wasn't without ways to fight back.
The Hunters' strange abilities weren't invincible. They could even... be used to kill them instead!
"Thank you..." He looked at Qin Manjiang, at a loss for what else to say.
There was no love or hatred between people without a reason. Even taking a liking to someone at first sight was a reason.
But why exactly was this man named Qin Manjiang helping him?
And judging by everything he had said, he knew a great deal about the Eye Realm-even more than Fang Xiu himself did.
Could it be...
"Are you a player who escaped the Eye Realm in the past?!" A possibility suddenly occurred to Fang Xiu, and his eyes widened with delighted surprise.
Qin Manjiang couldn't help laughing, but he didn't deny it. He merely said unhurriedly, "If you call it escaping, then yes."
Fang Xiu took Qin Manjiang's words as confirmation and grew even more excited.
With someone like this helping him, there really was hope of leaving the Eye Realm for good!
This man named Qin Manjiang was just like the "old mentor" who suddenly appeared beside an unlucky protagonist in a novel.
Could I be the protagonist?
An absurd thought popped into Fang Xiu's mind.
But Qin Manjiang suddenly said, "Still, I need to remind you of something. You said your group had always stayed well hidden, but this time, Chen Qiu was found and then killed. That's different from before, so something must have changed."
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