Five people entered.
Only four remained.
Without saying a word, everyone's mind conjured the violent sound of the door slamming shut.
Could it be...
Xiao Duan had been dragged into that room?
At the thought of this possibility, a chill rose from the depths of their hearts.
"Even."
"Odd..."
"So that's how it works. So that's the principle..."
Xie Te suddenly understood.
As an experienced Awakened, he instantly grasped what was strange about this corridor. Even numbers were safe here. If an odd-numbered room appeared while the group's numbers also happened to be odd—
Then something terrifying would happen.
The person at the very back of the group would be dragged away by that odd-numbered room.
As for what happened afterward...
Although he had not witnessed it with his own eyes,
It definitely would not end well.
"Xiao Duan had special ears and could hear things we couldn't, so he always walked at the back to guard against the Evil Spirit catching up with us... But who would have thought that this action would become a death warrant."
Xie Te looked toward the intersection behind them.
His mood was extremely heavy.
There was no evidence, but he felt that his guess was probably close to the truth.
"Are we still going to continue?"
Gu De asked.
There was no time to mourn, nor any chance to grieve. They were still walking a tightrope over a cliff and had to keep making decisions about what to do next.
"Go."
"Let's keep moving forward for a while."
Xie Te took a deep breath, quickly composed himself, and led the remaining three onward.
"I have a guess."
"But it may not be correct."
"The elevator's transformation caused Xiao Hu's death. Perhaps some supernatural phenomenon inside the ruins was triggered by something Xiao Hu