"Ding-dong."
Li Xin and Wan Ling quickly ran into a four-way intersection.
At the same time, the faint sound of an elevator door opening came from behind them. Then, the noise of a small cart rolling drifted indistinctly into their ears.
Sure enough.
Something had taken the elevator from the Fourth Floor to the third floor.
Fortunately, they had reacted quickly. The moment they realized something was wrong, they had immediately chosen to leave. Otherwise, they would probably have come face-to-face with that unknown existence by now. They might even have already needed an urn.
"I heard that every ghost story has a story behind it." Li Xin stopped and glanced behind him.
Nothing had followed them.
The sound of the cart rolling along the corridor had also quietly faded away.
There was no sound anymore.
However, the two of them did not linger. After resting briefly, they continued forward.
"I heard ghost stories and vicious ghosts are different."
"Vicious ghosts imitate humans, while ghost stories are people or objects that truly existed and became evil spirits for some reason."
Wan Ling explained.
"This hotel we're in existed during a certain era."
"Everything we're experiencing now really happened here in the past."
The Supernatural World had conducted extensive research into ghost stories.
Although Wan Ling was not qualified to come into contact with certain core secrets, and he had never encountered a ghost story before this, that did not stop him from possessing fairly extensive theoretical knowledge. He was well-versed in some of the characteristics of ghost stories.
"Precisely because these things really happened, they're extremely troublesome."
Li Xin spoke as he walked.
"Being real and unquestionable means the logic is self-consistent. A Supernatural place with self-consistent logic is practically a nightmare."
"That's also what makes ghost stories so difficult