The torn opening offered only a glimpse of the tip of a terrifying iceberg, nowhere near enough to reveal the whole truth.
Yet that single opening had already overturned everything they thought they knew.
The restarted manager mission had undergone a tremendous upheaval. Certain things had changed from the very beginning—for instance, there was definitely more than one ghost in this mission.
That heart-stopping presence was filled with an indescribable strangeness and horror, like a primal mark stamped deep inside the human body. Once you saw it, it forced you to tremble.
Even Li Yi was no exception.
He had been the first to notice something amiss. Before Su Chenghe returned, he had already detected a slight change in the slope of the ground.
Previously, this entire area had been perfectly level. But just now, he had realized that the patch beneath his feet had risen almost imperceptibly.
The raised patch covered only about a square meter, with nothing visibly unusual about it. Only when the soles of his feet pressed against its edges could he feel an exceedingly subtle difference.
At that same moment, his innate affinity for the supernatural had allowed him to sense the spatial disturbance accompanying Su Chenghe's arrival.
And so the preceding events had unfolded.
"Be careful! There's a ghost in this house!"
Su Chenghe continued rambling incoherently, seemingly even worse than before. He had involuntarily grabbed Li Yi's sleeve and was growling, his features twisted.
"Brother Su..."
Li Guanqi wanted to approach, but Su Chenghe's next action made him break out in a cold sweat.
A Bone-Chilling Dagger glowing red flew past his ear, its sharp blade slicing a thin cut into his right ear.
A mass of negative emotions instantly piled up, stabbing straight into his heart and soul.
It was as though