"Did you hear something?"
Jiang Qiao stopped and looked around. Just now, he had heard a scream coming from somewhere.
"Someone died."
Double Happiness Bride replied.
"Who?" Jiang Qiao frowned. He really had not noticed.
"I'm not sure."
"I only realized that one of the living people below was missing after hearing the scream." Double Happiness Bride said this, her head beneath the veil tilting slightly as if examining the survivors behind her.
Compared to Jiang Qiao,
Double Happiness Bride had one innate advantage.
She was a Vicious Ghost!
Vicious Ghosts were far more perceptive of living people than humans were, so she could tell that one of the living people in the group had disappeared.
But that was all.
How had he disappeared? Who had killed him? Where was the Vicious Ghost?
She knew nothing about any of it.
"I see." Jiang Qiao nodded thoughtfully. "There's no need to worry about it. It's perfectly normal for ordinary people to die here."
With that,
he continued gripping the stairs and climbing upward.
There was no point dwelling on how the man had died. He was dead, regardless.
And they could not find the cause.
In this situation, there was nothing else they could do but keep climbing. They could not stay where they were and make blind guesses, could they? That would simply be a waste of effort. They would never find any clues that way.
Neither of them had deliberately lowered their voices, so all the survivors behind them had heard the conversation.
"Someone was killed without anyone noticing?"
Yan Mo's heart tightened.
He instinctively glanced down a few times and saw that Chen Xiaowan, who was following closely behind him, was also looking around. Then he heard Chen Baolin's lowered voice: "Damn it, Old Hong, who was below