Ever since I escaped from the basement, the entire building had given me an intensely oppressive, eerie feeling.
I didn't waste a second. Carrying Wang Cui, the female ghost, on my back, I climbed through the window.
On the other side, the drop was actually only a little over a meter.
For an adult, it would have been easy to jump down.
Gripping the window frame, I was about to jump.
But at that moment, Wang Cui on my back suddenly cried out in terror:
"Don't jump! This is the rooftop!"
As she spoke, she grabbed around my neck and stopped me from jumping.
I reacted quickly too. Although half my body had already leaned forward,
the moment I heard her, I seized the window frame and steadied myself.
I stopped myself from jumping out.
"The rooftop?"
I looked down in surprise.
To my eyes, it was still a drop of just over a meter, no different from when I had come in.
"That's right. We... we're not on the first floor. We've come to the top floor.
Don't jump. Whatever you do, don't jump. If you jump, you'll die..."
Wang Cui spoke in utter panic.
A shiver ran through me, but no matter how wide I opened my eyes,
everything before me still looked exactly as it had when I climbed in.
I could even see the shoes I had taken off not far away.
Besides, we had clearly only gone up one floor, and I had just come down from the second floor.
How had we ended up on the rooftop?
"What's going on? Are we still inside the Ghost Wall?"
I asked in shock.
As I gripped the window frame beside me,
preparing to climb back inside first, my expression suddenly changed. Terror flooded my face.
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