The Other Half of the Laboratory
"Doesn't the Ghost Shadow appear with the Players? What's the difference?" Wan Yunrong asked.
"Think about it carefully. The Ghost Shadow didn't appear on the Players who turned into ghosts at the same time. That means there's only one, and it can move. Since it can move, there's no point in catching the Players. The Ghost Shadow can run off at any time," Ge Pan said confidently. "So the ghost we're supposed to catch is the Ghost Shadow, not the Player dressed as a ghost."
"That's far too vague," Wan Yunrong said. "A Ghost Shadow? How are we supposed to catch it?"
"How could the ghost in a Dungeon possibly be real?" Wu Xiaonan said. "That Ghost Shadow might be a special item, or a Player's Ability hidden here. Don't forget the corpses on Underground Level 3. Maybe the Ghost Shadow was created by some hidden Player."
"But where could he be hiding?" Wan Yunrong asked. "We've searched this whole place."
There was one place they hadn't searched.
The other half of Deep Blue Laboratory, which remained sealed off.
"We can't get through from the surface, so we'll have to find a way in from the metal strips," Miao Yu said. "But we already tried breaking through with items and failed."
"Underground Level 3," Xu Huo said. "The passage there is blocked by corpses. We don't know if there are metal strips inside."
"I think it's worth a shot. If there were metal strips, why stuff the corridor with corpses? And if a Player really is controlling items, they'd have to leave an entrance, at least. Otherwise, once the Dungeon started and the surface entrance was sealed, they wouldn't be able to get through either."
So the group opened the elevator doors again and