Chapter 449: A Way Out
"Dying of suffocation might not have been the Ghost Shadow's doing," Gan Qing said. "Didn't the one in the rubber coat also kill Wan Yunrong with a plastic bag?"
"But weren't they accomplices?" Chu Yuan asked in disbelief. "Zhu Ruomin was stamped as one of the Kong siblings' people."
"Maybe not," Wu Xiaonan said. "We only heard Ge Pan say that. Who knows if he was making it up?"
Chu Yuan instinctively looked at Xu Huo.
Xu Huo's expression shifted slightly. Ge Pan, Mao Wei, and Zhu Ruomin had definitely been allies. A plastic bag could suffocate someone, but the Kong siblings had no reason to kill one of their own, so Zhu Ruomin had died at the hands of the Ghost Shadow.
Zhu Ruomin had been a "ghost," which meant that, in theory, she was the player who could kill others "legitimately" under the game's rules. Yet the Ghost Shadow had killed her first. That meant it didn't care whether a player was a "human" or a "ghost." The Ghost Shadow appeared on players precisely to make them kill one another.
That was also why players couldn't tell when they had become "ghosts": there was no fixed "ghost." The Ghost Shadow chose its targets at random.
If Dr. Deng and his group hadn't been there, Zhu Ruomin probably wouldn't have died yesterday. As for the Ghost Shadow killing the Kong siblings' group, they might have violated one of its taboos.
The Laboratory was spotless. Xu Huo had already suspected that the Ghost Shadow kept it clean, so damaging the Laboratory might provoke it... He looked at Dr. Deng. "What happened to the people the Bo Lun family sent here before?"
"Of course they found nothing," Dr. Deng said. "Some returned empty-handed, others were wiped