Huh?
They left?
Qin Manjiang frowned slightly as he watched Bai Hongdan leave the lakeside with the people around her.
But that was just as well. If they stayed by the lake, he would not know what to do in the early hours.
He waited at the edge of the woods for a few more minutes, only emerging after he was certain they had really left.
He looked toward Guanyin Flat Lake, still pitch-black beneath the moonlight, and his heart began to beat faster.
Guanyin Flat Lake had been formed through a premeditated murder.
It also involved the Bai family, a long-established powerful family in Fu City. A family like that could not have chosen to drown an entire village for no reason. More precisely, the people of Guanyin Village were not even important enough to offend the Bai family, even if they wanted to.
So the drowning of Guanyin Village was unlikely to have been an act of revenge by the Bai family.
The way Bai Hongdan and those people had stood in a circle just now looked very much like some kind of ritual. On top of that, the madman in the Psychiatric Hospital had used the term "Divine Envoy" and mentioned that Bai Gu, the Bai family's previous head, was one.
Qin Manjiang stared at the lake. Although his game had yet to officially begin, he had already begun to glimpse the secrets behind it.
He feared that, as with Sick Village, some "Evil God" was involved here too.
Come to think of it, although all the surviving players had cleared the games they had encountered, many mysteries remained unsolved.
Where had the fog in Sick Village come from, and who did the "giant hand that tore through the clouds" recorded in the books belong to?
And