My Name Is Teng Shan, and I Am Human

Tenth Floor, Room 1001, the small room with the television on.

Ji Li leaned against the wall, a cigarette between his lips, silently watching the television screen.

In the black-and-white footage, the camera was focused on the eighth-floor corridor.

There, Tian Xiao Ou was leaning against the wall just like him, though she looked nervous and kept glancing from side to side.

In the two rooms with their doors open, one on each side, Hou Guisheng and Teng Shan waited separately.

Waiting for the ghost to come. Waiting for Tian Xiao Ou to settle everything.

Everything happening on the eighth floor was being broadcast live to Ji Li on the Tenth Floor.

Perhaps no one would have imagined that there were not merely four players in this game called the Hunting Game.

Ji Li had entered the game long ago under a special identity.

His identity in the game was "ghost."

"Ghost" did not refer to a faction. It meant a ghost—a ghost that killed people!

So, strictly speaking, there were five players in the Hunting Game.

Those with the identity of living humans, regardless of faction: Hou Guisheng, Tian Xiao Ou, Bao An, and Teng Shan;

The one with the identity of a ghost: Ji Li.

The prey Hou Guisheng and the others were hunting was Ji Li.

Likewise, Ji Li possessed the powers of a ghost in the game. He could kill people.

But at the same time, he had to be wary of the rule that the two flashlights could erase him.

Hou Guisheng's dilemma had fallen upon the ghost, and thus upon Ji Li as well. He had to make a choice.

Would he flee passively, or take the initiative?

Ji Li showed no expression. He merely shifted his gaze to the sofa.

There sat a