The Late-Sleeping Gugu Has Code

With their lives on the line, Anzhi Tinglan obviously wasn't going to keep up her delicate act.

Anzhi Tinglan was the first to react, so she took the lead and ran at the front.

Ren Leshan followed close behind. He wanted to speed up and overtake the person in front—although Mice Love to Eat Cats was bringing up the rear, the more people there were behind him, the better.

But he soon realized that he couldn't keep up with Anzhi Tinglan.

Then he suddenly noticed that Mice Love to Eat Cats had gone quiet. He strained to listen. In the dark passage, all he could hear was his own and Anzhi Tinglan's footsteps, along with the rustling sound drawing closer behind them.

Had Mice Love to Eat Cats died? But he hadn't heard the sound of him being killed. No matter how quickly someone died, surely they'd make some kind of noise beforehand. Yet he hadn't heard a thing.

Thinking back, Mice had seemed to go quiet not long after they started running, while the thing chasing them hadn't slowed down once.

Either the thing behind them was so terrifying it could silently kill someone without stopping, or Mice had run down a different branch of the passage—and the ghost had chosen to chase them instead of him.

Either possibility was absurd.

If it was the first, then this ghost was far too terrifying. The ghosts in previous dungeons had been frightening, but they'd still left players a chance to survive. Nothing like this had ever happened: someone killed in the blink of an eye, then the ghost immediately rushing off to hunt the rest. It had left the players no hope of survival at all.

If it was the second, why hadn't the ghost gone after Mice, who was