Not only that corpse was rotting. The corpses elsewhere were rotting too.
They rotted incredibly fast. Once they had decayed, even the scraps of bone turned to ash. It was just like what had happened to Mrs. Winter earlier.
There were no bones left, but the ghosts remained.
I could feel ghostly yin energy gathering again inside the Green family's house. And that wasn't all. The same thing was happening in other houses.
The man who had been laughing madly in the Green family's house stopped what he was doing and let out a wild scream.
It seemed that another bout of chaos and killing had begun.
For an instant, I began to wonder.
Would finding that girl and ending the game of hide-and-seek stop all this?
The ghosts fleeing in a swarm had clearly misunderstood what was going on. They thought the ghost in hiding was Lina. They believed finding her would change things. Perhaps some of them were still lucid enough to recognize that they were dead, and that the deaths of everyone in Tisent Town were irreversible. They only wanted revenge on Lina.
Whatever the case, ending the game of hide-and-seek wouldn't end all this.
Was there any point to playing this game?
Or would things change once the game was over? Did the game come with some powerful brainwashing effect?
I couldn't figure it out, so I glanced at Han Yun without thinking.
Han Yun hummed a tune, his hands clasped behind his back, and leisurely vanished from the spot. A smile still played on his lips as he disappeared, as if he'd thought of something amusing.
"So, do we just wait and see what happens next?" Liu Miao asked. "Or should we go after them?"
"There's no need to follow them." Wu Ling shook her