Asuna Afraid of Ghosts...

Ahead, in a corner, a black shadow suddenly flashed out from within the wall. In an instant, it melted into another wall, then slowly extended out from a wall in a different corner, drifted through the air in a circle, and began to wander silently...

The shadow was entirely a ghostly blue. Its body resembled a cloak, fluttering lightly in the cold wind blowing around it. It had no hands and no feet. The only part exposed beyond that ghostly blue cloak was its head—and it was not a human head, but a bird's head!

At that moment, it drifted lazily out from the corner ahead. As though it saw nothing at all, it floated right past the two people frozen on the spot, all in a harmonious atmosphere of "you're fine, I'm fine, everyone's fine"...

Their eyes followed the shadow as it drifted along. Wu Yan and Asuna took a long while to recover. One watched the shadow that had completely ignored him and floated back and forth before him with an odd expression, while the other's face gradually turned pale. Her crimson lips opened, closed, opened, closed, and opened wider and wider. Seeing this, Wu Yan abruptly came to his senses. Crying out inwardly that things were bad, he suddenly reached out as Asuna's mouth opened wider and clamped a hand over her lips, stopping the scream that was about to burst out.

"Calm down! Calm down, Asuna!"

Wu Yan smiled wryly as he kept his hand firmly over Asuna's lips. "That's just a monster, not a ghost..."

As soon as he said that, a gust of chilling wind blew over Wu Yan's body, making him shudder violently. He looked around uneasily and gave an embarrassed laugh.

Asuna finally came to her senses. A tear welled up in