Deep on the Third Floor, inside the Monitoring Room.
Luo Ge clutched a cafeteria napkin, wiping his lenses over and over, but his eyes remained fixed on the door, now riddled with holes.
Through the head-sized holes in the door, he could glimpse shadow after ghostly shadow brushing past.
The pounding still echoed, but they had already grown used to it.
If those things could truly get in, this flimsy door would pose no obstacle at all.
Luo Ge kept wiping his glasses unconsciously. His thoughts were almost in order, and he turned back to ask:
"Are you really going to watch them die? I know you have a way to leave."
The plan had been constantly evolving. From the second he saw Duan Yanyan, Ji Li's thoughts had branched out, revising it step by step.
By now, he had settled on a new plan, so he said quietly:
"Let's weed out the irrelevant people first. From here on, we only need the top-tier employees."
Luo Ge still felt uneasy. His hand trembled, and his glasses fell to the floor, undoing all his earlier efforts.
He bent down to pick them up and began wiping them all over again, saying hesitantly:
"I can more or less guess what you're thinking, but not all of it.
"You probably don't want to give up the cafeteria as a special location, so you drew all the ghosts here into the Ghost-Free Academy.
"That makes this side of the Haunted Academy the safest place, and it can serve as our entrance into the Haunted Academy from here.
"But..."
Luo Ge had always been the Fourth Branch's strategist. Whatever his other abilities, his deductive skills were unquestionably T0-tier.
Even trapped here, with relatively little information at his disposal, he could still work out most of