"I've been set up..."
That was the only conclusion Wei Guang reached during the ten-minute "cooling-off period."
At first, he had thought Chen Binbin was right, but then Ruan Xiao'ao appeared and contradicted him.
Afterward, he actually saw Chen Binbin become a ghost after dying, seemingly about to attack him. But then the "cooling-off period" arrived, and Ruan Xiao'ao's body became a woman's corpse.
No more knocks had sounded outside Room 1508, and he had not left either.
Wei Guang had no idea that, judged by sheer intensity, this series of experiences had put him almost on par with what was happening on the Sixteenth Floor.
The Tenth Floor and the Fourteenth Floor involved more psychological terror and pressure.
Under brutally tight time limits, Wei Guang had moved between Rooms 1508 and 1509 with virtually no information, seeking whatever meager clues he could find.
Yet even now, after these ten minutes of respite, he had found nothing of value in Room 1508.
At last, Wei Guang confirmed a cruel reality-he had been manipulated.
He did not know whether Chen Binbin was a ghost, but everything that man's appearance had brought him was false information.
He did not know whether Ruan Xiao'ao was a ghost either, but every word he had spoken was utterly discredited when it all vanished with the arrival of the "cooling-off period."
Wei Guang still did not understand what sort of power could erase or suspend all the supernatural activity around him, away from the central area.
But clearly, this abrupt development had given him, already lost in a fog of uncertainty, a chance to separate truth from lies.
Neither Chen nor Ruan could be trusted.
Everything he had obtained so far-though there was hardly anything to begin with-was almost entirely unusable. The condition of those two