The strange action immediately caught his attention. He wanted to alert his master, but when he turned around, Jiang Zhao, who had been standing not far behind him, had vanished.
"Where is he?" Ouyang Huanbin immediately grew nervous.
His master had been nearby just a moment ago. How could he have vanished without a sound in the blink of an eye? Ouyang Huanbin knew that what he needed most right now was to stay calm.
He calmed himself and thought it through. His master wouldn't disappear for no reason. Something must have happened nearby that he didn't know about. "Could it... could it have something to do with that woman?"
That thought drove him to tiptoe over to one side of the bookshelf. He didn't mean to startle the woman; he just wanted to watch what she was doing from the side.
But the moment he crouched beside the bookshelf and cautiously peeked around it, something unexpected happened: the woman was gone!
Even stranger, the wooden ladder she had been standing on had vanished too. The space between the two bookshelves was completely clear. There was nothing there.
When it sank in, a chill ran down the back of Ouyang Huanbin's head.
Only then did he seem to come back to his senses. When they had arrived, they hadn't noticed anyone nearby. That woman seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, and before seeing her, he hadn't heard a sound.
"What's going on?" Ouyang Huanbin was so nervous that his lips trembled. "Could... could that woman just now... have been a ghost?!"
The moment the idea occurred to him, it took hold of his thoughts. He no longer cared about Jiang Zhao. All he wanted was to get out of there.
"Clack!"
A sudden noise came from beside him, like