Pushing the table aside, Adam walked over to the Ghost Cabinet.
The Ghost Cabinet looked exactly like an old-fashioned kitchen cupboard, with a latticed window on top and two tightly sealed cabinet doors below.
The latticed window above allowed air through. This level of a kitchen cupboard had originally been used to store bowls, chopsticks, and the like, but now it was pitch-black behind the lattice, impossible to see through by normal means.
The part of the Ghost Cabinet responsible for transactions was located on this level. Under the usual process, a person could communicate with the Ghost Cabinet by slipping a written note through the gaps in the lattice.
Yes, the Ghost Cabinet possessed intelligence. Otherwise, there would be no basis for a transaction.
The lower cabinet doors of the Ghost Cabinet were also shut tight. If a deal was reached, the Ghost Cabinet would open the lower doors and provide the item.
For instance, when the Ghost Cabinet wanted someone to do something, a note listing the conditions, clues, and key items that might be needed would appear inside the lower cabinet doors.
Adam braced the Ghost Cabinet and reached out with his other hand to pull at its door. It did not budge, so he pulled harder—
"Brute force alone can't open it."
Retracting his hand, Adam had Curse Adam step forward.
Curse Adam looked at the Ghost Cabinet and raised his hand to knock on the latticed window.
"Knock, knock knock~"
His knuckles tapped lightly against the wooden lattice, yet the sound was a dull, unsettling knock at the door.
An eye suddenly opened in the gaps of the lattice, then vanished into the shadows between them the next instant.
Faced with the Ghost Messenger's absolute suppressive power, the Ghost Cabinet was forced into dormancy the