The moment Chang Nian saw the Black Water Ghost, she knew that what she had hoped for might be impossible to achieve.
She had risked everything waiting for Tong Guan's return, even waiting for the Well Incident to end, holding on until the very last moment.
But in truth, the moment two intact ghosts had risen from the well together, that hope could no longer exist.
With two ghosts appearing at once, there were only two possibilities.
Either Tong Guan on the mountaintop had come close to the truth, even the core of the incident, forcing the ghost behind the scenes to purge the foot of the mountain;
Or the two groups on the mountaintop had lost all possibility of resolving the situation, and the ghost behind the scenes was about to end everything.
And judging by the current situation...
If it were the first possibility, the situation at the foot of the mountain, and even the well itself, would not be so quiet.
"Did you fail...?"
Chang Nian took a deep breath, braced both hands against the concrete floor, and raised her head again to stare straight at the ferocious Water Ghost looking down at her.
She had already noticed the changes happening to her. In her eyes, the ghost's appearance was becoming bloated and distorted, as if it had transformed in an instant from a human shape into a swollen corpse.
The suffocating stench of rotting flesh even flooded her nose. In just two seconds, she felt as though she had been submerged in a pool of filthy well water.
That well water was filled with decaying corpses and withered white bones. The water that had choked down her throat after excessive suffocation was full of maggots and rotten flesh.
"Urgh!"
A moment later, Chang Nian suddenly snapped