Qi Cong wasn't a little girl, of course, so he didn't think it was a ghost. When the other person showed no intention of revealing himself, he assumed the people in the Ancient Castle had noticed him and were deliberately messing with him. All he could do was accept his fate, get up, and keep climbing the stairs.
At that moment, Yan Jiayu opened her eyes. She glanced toward the door, rubbed her eyes, then got out of bed. Without turning on the light, she took a lighting prop and went outside.
The light that had once illuminated dozens of meters ahead now seemed compressed, shrinking to a ten-foot radius around her. She peered into the darkness. In her dim, unclear field of vision, it looked as if a child had just passed the corner of the corridor.
Yan Jiayu carried the lamp toward the corner and unexpectedly came upon Xu Huo, standing silently ahead.
"Still not asleep?" They were three meters apart. Xu Huo stood right at the border between light and darkness. From Yan Jiayu's angle, she could see his legs clearly, but his upper body had grown blurry, and his face was even harder to make out.
Grinning, she asked, "Are you playing Hide-and-seek? Can I join?"
Xu Huo fell silent for a moment before answering, "Sure."
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
"A mental Super Evolver has a big advantage at Hide-and-seek." Yan Jiayu flexed her fingers. "That'll make it more fun!"
She put away the lighting prop and began searching the Ancient Castle by instinct and perception.
The Ancient Castle wasn't small, but players could search it quickly, even room by room. Yan Jiayu searched for half an hour, yet never entered the same room twice. It