Just as Luo Ge and Qiu Taoyu had planned, Ji Li lured the black-clothed people upstairs, but he himself was also heavily constrained.
The black-clothed people possessed the ability to suppress the Academy Rules and intended to purge all who were unreasonable.
Although Ji Li was the nominal Vice Dean and carried the Dean's File he had written himself, ready to assume office, he was in fact also one of the unreasonable ones.
After all, he had not truly become the Head Dean yet.
However, forcing Luo Ge away in such a short time also gave Ji Li a chance to catch his breath. He had no ability to fight the black-clothed people while contending with Luo Ge, who was no weaker than himself.
Ji Li hid in a room on the Third Floor. It was a small office, empty of people and, more importantly, ghosts.
E-3 Floor was currently the only place in Haunted Academy that could accommodate ghost items, but because the main entrance was sealed and the Patrolling Person was present, there were still vacant rooms.
His luck was good. The ghost item originally in this office had already been cleared away by the Patrolling Person, leaving him enough time to rest.
With his back pressed against the inside of the door, he listened to the silence in the corridor and began planning his next route.
A large number of black-clothed people should be rushing toward the Third Floor now. Luo Ge and the others certainly would not dare linger, so they should continue fleeing upward, with survival as their priority.
But they could not take the middle staircase, because that was surely where the next ambush would be set.
The left staircase was Zhu Xiaoning's route. The space there was relatively narrow; one ambusher alone would