Cold wind poured through the shattered window in sheets, and within half a minute, the room's temperature plummeted.
The coaxing knocks sounded like a demon whispering temptation. As though sacrificing one life that did not matter much would be enough to buy salvation, if only for this one time.
Things seemed to be unfolding just as Wei Guang had predicted.
The ghost had abandoned Chen Binbin and turned its attention to the newly arrived Wei Guang. Perhaps this newcomer to the fifteenth floor was more rational than Chen Binbin, and better at judging the situation.
Cooperation, understanding, agreement... Words like these might suit him better.
Yet Wei Guang felt no relief at having guessed right. Instead, he was filled with confusion and a struggle he could not suppress.
Wei Guang had once been an upright, uncompromising detective. But after the Mu Nianmei Case, Gao Yan's horrific death, and everything that had happened in Heavenly Sea, he was no longer someone who insisted on doing everything the honorable way.
Sacrificing one or two strangers to stay alive was no great obstacle to him.
What troubled him was that there was no living person in Room 1519 to sacrifice.
Room 1519 had almost the same layout as Room 1518. It was a cramped space too small even for a sitting room, and it took only seconds to search.
Wei Guang had been here for over half a minute. From the moment he arrived, he had been ready to imitate Chen Binbin's desperate method of survival.
Whatever happened, he had to survive this round first.
But this was what made the situation so strange, so impossible to understand.
There was no one in Room 1519 he could use as a substitute?!
He had searched the entire room. There was not only no living