This was a dead end.
Although Mei Sheng's expression remained as calm as ever, her footsteps on the wooden stairs had noticeably grown heavier.
Lan Yu was no longer Lan Yu. He should now be called Old Ghost 101.
As the Vice Branch Manager of Branch No. 1, famous for so long, Mei Sheng found it hard to believe he had truly died so easily. But whether Lan Yu was dead or alive no longer made any difference to her.
She absolutely could not keep wondering whether anyone could help or save her. She had to rely on the conditions at hand and carve out a path to survival.
"The Yin World, the Giant Furnace, the ghost tide, re-smelting, the sole event..."
Mei Sheng had made calmness a habit. Even now, the path up these stairs was already the final stage before her execution.
Old Ghost 101 had seized Lan Yu's body and achieved its original goal, but that should not have been enough.
Among the vast amount of information it had previously revealed, some was true and some false. Mei Sheng believed the information concerning Old Yu Street was most likely accurate.
The falsehood should have been the latter half meant to lure her to Room 1818.
In other words, the Giant Furnace represented by the Root Ghost inside Room 1818 was likely real, and the ghost tide truly needed to be re-smelted.
Old Ghost 101 now possessed a living person's body, yet it still could not escape the fate of being re-smelted. It needed to lure Mei Sheng there as well in order to completely escape the Re-smelting Incident.
What role a living person like Mei Sheng could play in this plan was beyond her ability to analyze. But going to Room 1818 now seemed to have become