"Boss."
"Looks like someone's coming down."
Wang Yong said in a low voice.
"Who told you it was a person? It's obviously a ghost." Jiang Qiao gave him a strange look. "It's perfectly normal to encounter a ghost in a place like this. If you encountered a person, that would be the real ghost story."
Uh—
Wang Yong didn't know what to say.
The staircase was pitch-black. He couldn't see a thing and could only hear footsteps steadily drawing closer.
If Jiang Qiao hadn't been blocking the doorway,
he truly wouldn't have had the courage to stay here.
"Relax."
"To become a qualified Awakened, you first have to learn to face fear."
"If you can't get past fear,"
"you'll die sooner or later."
Jiang Qiao said it casually.
"Didn't you notice?"
"The footsteps sound like they're coming from far away and drawing near, but in reality, they've never truly gotten any closer."
"Do you know what that means?"
What did it mean?
How could Wang Yong know?
He couldn't even tell that the footsteps had stopped at a certain spot.
To his ears,
the footsteps were constantly drawing closer, and their owner could appear in front of him at any moment.
It made his skin crawl uncontrollably.
"Heh heh."
"There's a Ghostly Deception."
"Have you never considered that there might also be a ghost blocking your ears?"
Jiang Qiao said with a laugh.
"Enough."
"This ghostly thing looks very close, but as long as you don't step onto the stairs, it'll remain stuck in this treadmill-like state."
"Now, you can tell me."
"These past two months,"
"which areas were the tasks you saw on the blackboard located in?"
An City appeared on the second floor.
Bin City appeared on the third floor.
Those two places were next to each other,