Everyone froze where they stood.
Zhong Feiluan and Ping Wenbin each remained poised to deploy their Sin Objects at any moment, frozen in place and unable to move.
Qiu Taoyu and Mo Lan sat cross-legged on the ground, their eyes wide as they stared into the Game.
As for Chen Xu, who had approached from the left, half of his body was concealed in the corridor. Out of sight, he seemed to be making some small movements.
Without exception, all the store clerks watching the show remained in their previous poses, frozen where they stood.
Only their ability to act had been immobilized; their thoughts could still function normally.
This filled the eyes of all five clerks with shock and terror.
Everyone knew the black-clothed ghost had to be immensely powerful, and that their Killing Method would surely be extraordinarily unusual. But no one had expected them to descend in the form of an unsolvable rule.
The one under the greatest pressure was Jiang Xi, who was directly confronting the black-clothed ghost's rule.
Her hands were spread apart. Her right hand was still held in a throwing posture, but the scarf in her palm had already shattered and become ineffective.
The other end of the scarf in her left hand was tied around Duan Yanyan's waist. She had already thrown her into the air, yet she could not land at the Corridor Entrance on the left.
With both arms extended and her defenses completely open, she faced the black-clothed ghost's rule-based killing head-on.
At that moment, her thoughts began a full analysis and deduction, while the situation instantly fell into complete passivity.
The light in Jiang Xi's eyes flickered as her mind raced wildly, assembling every usable rule.
But no matter how she searched, she could find no solution at