When I saw those white eyeballs, I sucked in a cold breath. But when I took a closer look, the person pulled their head back in, and in the end, I saw nothing at all.
"Ho Dou, is there a ghost up there?" My face turned green as I asked in a hushed voice. I'd heard that the ghosts here were incredibly powerful. With my body still unconverted, I hoped they wouldn't swallow me whole.
"A ghost? What nonsense are you spouting? I've never heard of any such... thing in this area." Ho Dou was startled too, but he quickly mustered his courage and brought me up to the fourth floor. Along the way, he also looked through the opening in the corridor ceiling like I had. After finding nothing several times, he said, "Hurry up and get your body converted. When the time comes, the magic master here will teach you a few things too. The magic artifacts from the lower realm won't work here, and spells will fail as well. The techniques you people use are flashy, but they're truly useless. Trying to deal with the ghosts here is practically asking for death. You won't be able to defend yourself."
I quickly nodded and asked, "All right, then. Who lives next door to me on the fourth floor?"
"Oh, no one lives there. I was just planning to let you choose. Which one do you want to live in?" Ho Dou asked with a sly grin.
I turned to stone in an instant. What if I chose a haunted room? Wouldn't I be eaten before I could even convert my body? Seeing Ho Dou's wicked expression, I knew the brat was messing with me. I said, "That doesn't sound right, Ho Dou. You said you lived on the