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  Pei Qian’s eyes widened in terror as he suddenly realized that, given his strength, he couldn’t escape from Zh. The tter’s arm was like an iron cmp.

  He quickly thought of Jiang g, who had excused himself earlier, and a look of untrolble fear appeared in his eyes.

  “Mr. Zhou...” he almost pleaded, his body trembling untrolbly. “Why don’t we go find Mr. Yin? He should be outside, and he’s already found a clue.”

  At this point, Zh was standing in the er of the room, which was unusually dark. Beside him was a rge and oddly shaped water tank.

  The surface of the tank was rough, with a bck iron pot ied on top.

  “There’s no hurry,” Zh said. “Let’s look at the clue I found first, then we go look for Mr. Yin.”

  His voice was mixed with a strange whooshing sound, like a wheezing wind or a throat that had been slit, leaking air.

  Zh lifted the heavy iron pot with one hand, and trembling with fear, Pei Qian dared to peer ihe tank itch dark, and it seemed filled with some liquid that occasionally glinted in the light.

  Just as he frowightening his lips, a series of small bubbles suddenly appeared from the dark water.

  Then, a pale human face emerged from the bck liquid.

  The eyes were wide open, almost splitting, and the mouth was terrifyingly gaping. From the expression, it was clear that the person had died in fear, likely drowned or possibly scared to death.

  But for Pei Qian, none of that mattered anymore because… that face was Zh’s.

  And Zh was standing right in front of him.

  Just as Pei Qian couldn’t hold bad opened his mouth to scream, a fsh of cold light appeared in front of his eyes.

  In the moment, his world turned upside down.

  At the very st sed, he saw a distorted figure, holding a huge knife in its hand.

  After leaving the kit, Jiang g immediately lightened his steps a straight to the dripping the doorknob aly testing it. There was a feeling of resistahe door was locked.

  He immediately gave up to leave through the door and gnced back at the pitch-bck staircase. Without hesitatiourned around and quickly walked toward the stairs.

  As he carefully chose where to pce his foot, climbing the wooden stairs with caution, he suddenly heard a heavy object fall i behind him.

  “Bang!”

  “Rolling…”

  The object that fell seemed round and rolled a couple of times before bumping into something and stopping.

  Jiang g immediately sped up.

  The windows and doors on the first floor were sealed by some force. He po try his lu the sed floor. After all, in a nightmare, no situation is guarao be deadly. If the sed floor was inaccessible, he po set a fire to try and create an opportunity to escape.

  He had already discovered the issue with Zh.

  His movements were very strange, and what was even stranger were the footprints left whereated. The footprints were only oips of his toes.

  It was as if he was stantly walking on tiptoe.

  This was clearly wrong.

  The yout of the sed floor was very different from the first. The entire sed floor was e room, with no partitions, a wide and unobstructed view.

  Thanks to better lighting, it was much brighter than the first floor.

  A bright window was about teers away, and with a running start, Jiang g could reach it.

  But he first turned around to observe the surroundings.

  Although the sed floor was not high and wouldn’t normally pose a dahis was a nightmare. No one knew whether something might suddenly push him if he jumped.

  Or whether a broken tree might appear below, like with Jiang Zhongyi, skewering him in a horrific death.

  He slowly sed the surroundings. The sed floor was simply decorated, resembling a study room. There was a wooden s, an old-style armchair, and a traditional desk with brushes, inkstones, paperweights, and tools for calligraphy and painting.

  The brush holder was finely crafted, with several brushes of varying sizes hanging from it.

  In the er was a dusty rog chair.

  A few oddly shaped stones were tossed he stairs, looking out of pce.

  His gaze didn’t linger mu these items until he saw a rge wardrobe.

  The wardrobe’s design was somewhat modern but built with sturdier materials. It was the most modern item iire building.

  However, the wardrobe was also quite uling, as it was covered in tless deep scratch marks.

  The scratches were of differehs, but all were very deep.

  As soon as Jiang g saw these marks, an image of despair fshed in his mind.

  “Screech—”

  Suddenly, a door opened downstairs.

  The enviro wasly silent, but the sound of a door opening downstairs was far too clear, as if it was doentionally.

  Without a doubt, it was the ghost.

  The kit door had been opened.

  Then came a slow but long dragging sound. Jiang g’s heart skipped a beat. He could almost imagihe ghost’s boneless, limp body writhing on the floor.

  It seemed Pei Qian hadn’t deyed the ghost for long.

  “Bang!”

  The ghost was already oairs, heading straight for his location.

  Now, there were only two options.

  One was to rush to the window and jump out.

  The other was to immediately hide in the wardrobe, hold his breath, and wait for whatever would happen.

  A normal person would undoubtedly choose the first option. After all, jumping out the window would mean leaving the building, and the ghost probably wouldn’t chase him out into the sunlight.

  The scratch-marked wardrobe looked so unfortable that it seemed like something terrifying had happened inside.

  The worst-case sario was that there were actually two ghosts in the building, and one of them was hiding in the wardrobe. Opening the wardrobe would trigger a deadly trap.

  Time was tight. The ghost’s footsteps had reached the er of the stairs, apanied by a sharp scraping sound.

  It sounded like a sharp knife slowly scraping against the rough, pstered wall.

  It was the ghost!

  She was dragging her mangled body, holding the huge ks bde scraping against the wall as she slowly walked toward him, like a seasoned hunter pying with her trapped prey.

  (End of the Chapter)

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