"Leader, come take a look. The bathroom door won't open."
As a shop that was open for business, the first floor had an open layout with no rooms.
Although the second floor had been partitioned into an office, it was still basically visible at a glance, and nothing unusual had been found. Only the bathroom at the stairwell landing seemed to have been locked from inside. No matter what they did, they couldn't open it.
After confirming the situation, Meng Wenwen didn't dare force the door open to investigate. She quickly called for their leader, Yang Dong.
"This door... was locked from the inside?" After carefully inspecting it, Yang Dong gave an answer that made his two companions' expressions change slightly.
Locked from the inside?
Was there someone in the bathroom?
But if someone was inside, why hadn't they come out after hearing the three of them talking?
Or had the person inside already died?
Or perhaps... it was a ghost?
Meng Wenwen's expression shifted uncertainly as question after question surfaced in her mind.
"Don't worry too much."
Yang Dong smiled and reassured her, "Whether it's a person or a ghost inside, since nothing happened while we were standing here, it's safe for now."
"Don't worry about it. We'll just stay on the second floor. We'll mind our own business."
"If something happens later, we can escape quickly through the windows. I took a look—the awning outside the windows runs all the way to the neighboring building."
"That's a tube-shaped apartment building. There should be living people inside; they just haven't come out."
"Besides."
"All three of us are Awakened. Even if we encounter a Vicious Ghost, we may not be unable to fight it."
Although the officially recognized Awakened were inferior in many ways to those who had crossed