The library's special path took the form of a "Paper Scraps Barrier."
The six people on the third floor were immersed in the sorrow unique to this world, falling silent for a time.
At some point, the window had opened.
Inside and outside, natural cold wind and supernatural yin wind rose in turn. Paper scraps mingled with falling snow, both the same bleak white, impossible to tell apart.
Neither the guide's figure nor its face could be seen, yet when they gazed at it, they could picture its every movement in their minds—even the details of it covering its face and sobbing.
It turned silently and headed toward the third-floor doorway, leaving the library to fulfill its mission as their guide.
Song Yitong turned to glance at Ji Li, then was the first to step forward and follow.
Behind her came Mo Lan, Chen Xu...
The Paper Scraps Barrier was the most unusual of the special paths, because its guide was a ghost.
Here, therefore, it was in charge, and the harmless supernatural power permeating the barrier represented the rules.
But the sorrow emanating from the guide itself also caused considerable mental interference for the staff.
At 20:16, when everything fell quiet, Third Personality said softly:
"It seems that bold guess of yours is about to come true..."
With the guide's departure, nothing remained on the third floor but white paper scraps strewn across the floor and desolate silence.
In 2014, a group of people had harbored the same goal as the staff. Some of them had opened routes to the Haunted Academy at the five major locations.
Their failure had been inevitable, because this route had appeared only to pave the way for Ji Li in 2015.
The mastermind hidden within Tiannan Academy's two dimensions, front and reverse, had