Multiple-Choice Question

In the Game World, the black-clothed, long-haired man walked through the corridor of the Thirteenth Floor, occasionally turning his head to watch his surroundings warily.

He had been on this floor for a very, very long time.

Ever since leaving the Eighteenth Floor, he had followed those toeless footprints all the way here, confirming this as his destination.

Yet throughout that long stretch of time, he had found no valuable clues, nor had he suffered any attacks from ghosts.

Fang Shenyan in the Real World had been trapped on the Sixteenth Floor for over half an hour, which meant he had spent half an hour walking through the Game World.

There were fifteen households on the Thirteenth Floor. It was the most crowded, yet also the quietest, floor he had encountered.

And by quietest, he did not simply mean that there were no signs of any living people besides himself.

More importantly, ever since arriving on the Thirteenth Floor, it was as though he had lost his hearing.

Moonlight clearly streamed through the window at the end of the corridor, casting a faint glow.

Within his field of vision, he could even see the withered leaves on the windowsill swaying in the wind.

Yet his ears could not hear the slightest sound of wind.

Not even the sound of his own footsteps had ever reached him.

It seemed that something had not happened to this floor—rather, he himself had lost his hearing.

The man wandered through the soundless Thirteenth Floor, spending half an hour attempting to break down the doors by every means possible.

However, the doors of those fifteen households were as hard as steel and concrete, utterly impregnable.

His loss of hearing did not mean everyone else had lost theirs.

After making quite a commotion and still seeing