The ghost story was gone. [Seven Children] had been successfully cleared.
But when Qin Manjiang regained consciousness and appeared in the real world, he was not in a particularly good mood.
"Bro!"
Qin Manyi's cheerful voice roused him. Qin Manjiang quickly put on a smile and pointed his thumb at himself. "Pretty awesome, huh? Survived another day."
"Knock on wood! Don't jinx it!"
Although Qin Manyi seemed cheerful, she did not ask Qin Manjiang what had happened in this ghost story. She could tell that something was weighing on his mind.
"Manyi..."
Qin Manjiang called softly.
"What is it, bro?"
"I need to go back to Fu City." Qin Manjiang looked at her and spoke earnestly.
Qin Manyi nodded. "Sure! If it weren't for the game's restrictions, I'd go back with you..."
Qin Manyi muttered those words.
"I'll be back soon," Qin Manjiang told her.
"Okay!"
That night, Qin Manjiang lay in bed, listening to the gentle lapping of Moon Lake's waters, unable to fall asleep.
All along, they had been searching for an answer: what exactly was the [Eye Realm]?
And this ghost story seemed to have lifted a corner of the veil over that answer.
Not just Qin Manjiang, but every surviving player who had participated in this ghost story had seen that scene.
Logically speaking, once they escaped [One]'s Spirit World, they should have cleared the ghost story.
But not only had the clearance notification failed to appear, they had even nearly died in the Giant Ghost's mouth.
At the last moment, Jiang Du and Li Xijiu had appeared and done something to summon a sky full of eye pupils, sending them back to the real world.
That enormous vengeful ghost had been entirely different from the supernatural entities they had known before.
It had even