Two Ghosts
Most people had made up their minds. Anyone who opposed them now would look guilty, so they returned to the room on Underground Level 1 where the assignment boards were kept and waited.
The wait was painfully dull. Wan Yunrong couldn't help striking up a conversation with Wu Xiaonan. "Do you think becoming a ghost in the game comes with some kind of special marker?"
Wu Xiaonan was helping Zhu Ruomin wipe the powder off her face. Her face was clean now. "If there is one, that'd be for the best. Then we wouldn't have to worry about accidentally hurting someone else."
Wan Yunrong sighed. "If only someone would come forward and admit it."
"Could the people chosen to be ghosts not know they're ghosts?" Chu Yuan wondered aloud.
"How could that be?" Gan Qing said. "What would be the point of playing the game then?"
Participating in the game and winning were obvious ways to earn points. By that logic, if the "ghosts" themselves didn't know their identities, how could the game continue? It would lose its purpose.
That day, aside from going to the Restroom, the Players didn't wander around. Before long, it was time for the lights to go out, just like the night before, but they stayed on.
"What's going on? Is the lights-out time not the same for everyone?" Ge Pan asked, puzzled as he looked at the brightly lit area outside.
"I don't think it ever said the lights-out time would be the same," Miao Yu said.
The Players looked one another over. Finding nothing unusual about anyone, they could only stay alert and wait. But even at one in the morning, the lights in the Laboratory still hadn't gone out.
"I need to use the Restroom," Wu Xiaonan said, getting to