The moon is getting brighter and brighter.

Qin Manjiang stood outside Baihong Building with his mobile phone in hand. He had been waiting for Qiao Ziru's call, but she never called.

What happened to her...

According to the original plan, he originally planned to go in with her, so he didn't tell her something important but something that needed to be seen to be believed.

But I never expected that this game would block other players from the very beginning.

If something happened to Qiao Ziru, Qin Manjiang wouldn't even know how to face him.

In the final analysis, Li Xi and Qin were both involved in the ghost story game because of themselves.

Not to mention Qiao Ziru, while the game was being upgraded and dormant, the permanent prop called Tongjie actually opened up a backstage, making him the creator of the game and pulling Qiao Ziru in.

Could it be a coincidence?

If Li Xi was the only one around him who entered the ghost story game, Qin Manjiang might think it was a coincidence.

But if the same thing happens again and again, it cannot be explained by coincidence.

It is inevitable.

It's just that the causal relationship hidden in this necessity has not yet been found.

I don’t know how she is doing now…

Qin Manjiang looked at the ninth floor. It was now 7:30 in the evening. Except for the ninth floor, which was completely dark, there were scattered lights on other floors.

Is there any way to help her from outside?

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The security guard left.

Qiao Ziru held her breath, not daring to breathe loudly at all.

The ninth floor is extremely quiet. The bloody fingerprints on the elevator buttons appear on the buttons on the ninth floor. This floor is also the only floor that has not been renovated or rented out.

What the ghost is looking for is most likely on this floor.

Qiao Ziru stood there for a long time before she got used to the darkness in front of her. She was not afraid of the dark, but she was afraid of the unknown.

Until now, "ghost" was just a concept to her and she had never witnessed it with her own eyes.

But the strange situations that occurred tonight had allowed her to piece together a rough image of a ghost in her mind.

The most heart-wrenching time for anything is when it doesn't show its full picture.

Qiao Ziru knew that the more he thought about it, the more scared he would become, but this was human instinct, an instinct that was difficult to control. The best way to stop thinking about something is not to force yourself to forget it, but to quickly find another idea to distract your attention.

force.

By the way...then think about what the ghost is looking for?

In the darkness, Qiao Ziru groped forward by the moonlight.

According to the description in the opening, the ghost has been haunting various places in the building for quite some time, but it still hasn't found anything. Is that thing too hidden?

Starting from this idea, Qiao Ziru found it difficult to draw a specific conclusion.

She could only think about it from another angle - what is the thing that makes her refuse to give up even if she becomes a ghost and must find it?

The murder weapon that killed him?

Or is it the most beloved thing in life?

Or... that thing made him particularly puzzled, and he wanted to find the answer after death?

Many thoughts appeared in Qiao Ziru's head. For example, what the ghost was looking for might be a mobile phone. Before he died, he was going to send a text message to his girlfriend to propose, but he couldn't do it because of the accidental death, so he became a ghost after the mobile phone was lost.

wandering nearby.

Another example is buying a gift but not giving it away.

If you think about it this way, there are too many things that can be extended.

With this line of thinking, determining the identity of the ghost becomes a top priority.

However, after checking the recent news about Baihong Building, I did not see any relevant reports of casualties.

Was it being concealed?

In this case... where can we get clues to the identity of the ghost?

Only by knowing the clues to the ghost's identity can we understand its story and guess what it is looking for.

I only have one short night, and it will be over at dawn.

But classmate Qin said that there is always the possibility of clearing the game, and it is impossible for players to enter a certain death situation.

Which means... there must be a way to figure it all out overnight.

What is...

at this time.

The fire escape where the security guard just went down suddenly heard a voice that made Qiao Ziru's scalp tingle.

"despair--"

"laugh--"

Is it...the sound of footsteps?

No...the former is the sound of footsteps and the latter is the sound of dragging.

It sounds like a person walking in front, dragging a body in his hand, taking a step and dragging it.

This formed this weird sound——

"despair--"

"laugh--"

The ghost is coming?!

Qiao Ziru covered his mouth, it was here!

Why……

Suddenly, Qiao Ziru thought that after leaving the elevator just now, she did not press other buttons to move the elevator to other floors.

The elevator always stays on the ninth floor, and this information can be seen on each floor through the elevator's display screen.

It is natural to be seen by ghosts.

What should I do...run?

There are fire escapes on the left and right sides of the elevator in this building. The ghost came up from the left. Is it too late for me to leave through the fire escape on the right now?

Qiao Ziru's heart was beating wildly, and she quickly calculated... No.

You can't do that. If this floor is renovated and the ground is flat and bright, you might be able to take advantage of the opportunity when the ghost comes to escape from the other side.

But this floor is not only pitch black, but only some dark outlines can be barely seen through the moonlight, and the ground is still bumpy. If you want to run away like this, you are afraid that you will hit your head and bleed.

Staying on this floor and hiding is the most reasonable way...

Yes, it has no ability to sense the player's position. As long as it is hidden well enough, it cannot be found.

Qiao Ziru kept comforting herself, hoping that her pounding heart could calm down a little.

But the footsteps and dragging sounds that made her scalp numb had left the fire escape and completely entered the ninth floor!

"despair--"

"laugh--"

It moved extremely slowly, and Qiao Ziru imagined a ferocious ghost appeared in his imagination, dragging a corpse and searching every corner carefully.

Can ghosts see in the dark?

Qiao Ziru, who was already hiding, suddenly thought of this question.

She found a dark place to hide, where not even the moonlight could shine, behind a huge load-bearing pillar.

But... what if a place that I thought was pitch black and impossible to find appeared to be as bright as day in the eyes of a ghost?!

Sweat broke out on Qiao Ziru's head, her breathing gradually became disordered, and her chest rose and fell uncontrollably.

Why does this happen to me...

She was not a blaming person, and her poor family of origin did not allow her to complain. But at this moment, she inevitably had some "why" questions in her mind.

Suffering... always comes to those who are already suffering.

When she was thinking this, suddenly...she got goosebumps all over her body!

"despair--"

"laugh--"

The terrifying sound stopped behind the load-bearing pillar she was leaning against.
Chapter completed!