Han Yun was the one who reacted most strongly. He jumped three yards into the air and angrily called the female ghost a big idiot.
Nan Tian, Liu Miao, and I all looked at Han Yun in speechless disbelief. The tense atmosphere had completely vanished after Han Yun called her a "big idiot."
The female ghost laughed. Her voice was rather pleasant.
"Kid, do you hate me that much? You can't blame me for what's happening now. If you ask me, every one of us is responsible." The female ghost spread her hands.
I understood what she was implying.
Han Yun studied her curiously. "What do you know?"
His undisguised reaction confirmed one of my earlier suspicions.
Han Yun had once proudly claimed he was the only one here who knew what was going on. It turned out that wasn't true. The female ghost knew plenty, too.
"I didn't have a choice before. None of you were willing to work with me, and I couldn't leave even if I wanted to. And you were stuck here, doomed to die. But now we're all in serious trouble, so we can talk, right?" The female ghost spoke at her leisure, seemingly certain we'd accept her proposal.
She pointed at Liu Miao. "I know you and your partner tried to leave through the black hole. Your partner must have made it, but you died. If time hadn't gone haywire in this alternate space, controlling everyone and every ghost marked by it, who knows where your body would have ended up? You were far too naive. If it were that easy to find another way out, why would I have stayed here guarding the black hole?"
What the female ghost said was exactly what we'd been worried about.
"I had no choice. You wouldn't