"Long Sen?"
"Is that you?"
Qin Manjiang's heart lurched as he looked at the hazy human silhouette at the edge of the woods.
He slowly backed away, but just then, moonlight spilled over the woods, instantly illuminating the figure.
Qin Manjiang's pupils contracted... it really was Long Sen!
But Long Sen's face was ashen, his eyes wide open. Most eerily of all, he was drenched, water dripping steadily from his body.
Something was wrong...
Qin Manjiang was about to run when the water-soaked Long Sen shook his head at him in an extremely eerie manner.
At first, Qin Manjiang thought he had seen it wrong. Only after taking another careful look did he confirm that Long Sen really was shaking his head at him!
Qin Manjiang stared at Long Sen's sinister face in the moonlight. He was utterly expressionless and soaked from head to toe, as though he had just crawled out of the water. He neither approached Qin Manjiang nor spoke, merely standing there and shaking his head over and over.
The next moment, dark clouds obscured the moonlight again, and the human silhouette at the edge of the woods seemed to melt, rapidly merging with the pitch-black night.
Qin Manjiang raised his phone and looked toward where Long Sen had been standing, only to discover... no one was there.
Without delaying any further, he immediately turned and ran toward where the car was parked.
Something must have happened to Long Sen. All that water... a ghost had very likely dragged him into the water just now!
But why had Long Sen been fine all this time, coming here alone to fish, only for something to happen tonight, the moment he arrived?
Could interference from the [Eye Realm] have caused some unknowable change in [Guanyin Flat Lake]?
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