An Old Acquaintance Pays a Visit

The situation at Branch No. 10 underwent another unexpected turn.

As the doors on the second floor were opened one by one, the seventeen ghosts had not even emerged before the massive ghost tide showed signs of retreating.

The first floor was packed with endless ghost infants, frantically piling atop one another and clawing at the main doors.

Many of the ghost infants even began searching for broken windows, trying to escape through them.

It was as though they had received some kind of death order and had to withdraw within the allotted time.

Li Guanqi watched everything unfold before him, deeply shaken yet unable to understand it.

From the current situation, it was now certain that someone had been controlling the ghost tide.

But why would that person suddenly decide to retreat just as the Ghost Residents were about to be released?

"Could it be to preserve the ghost infants?"

Once the Ghost Residents were allowed outside, wandering through the hotel would inevitably have a tremendous impact on the ghost infants.

That was one possible explanation.

But Li Guanqi was more inclined to believe that the Mysterious Person had already achieved her goal, making it pointless to remain any longer.

He turned around and surveyed the center of the first-floor lobby, secretly pondering:

I originally thought the Mysterious Person had created the ghost-tide disaster to invade Branch No. 10.

But judging from the outcome, she did not want Branch No. 10 to collapse. She wanted to use this to accomplish something...

Of course, none of this had anything to do with Li Guanqi, and there was no need for him to speculate about her intentions.

Among the crowd, however, Zhu Xiaoning, the manager of Branch No. 10, seemed to have formed some kind of guess.

But she would not