"That woman, Red Ning, has a head full of schemes."
"I don't know what deeper motives she's hiding from me, but she's seriously underestimated me, Fang Shiming."
"Here, I'll use this ghost quicksand to try to take control of this ghost."
"If I succeed, I'll control both the ghost quicksand and the Starvation Ghost."
"But if I fail, I'll be trapped beneath the quicksand forever, along with this Starvation Ghost."
"I'd rather we both lose than let her be the only winner!"
Dajing City, New Recruit Training Base.
Inside the basement's emergency stairwell.
The motion-sensor lights flickered wildly as though shorting out, giving off an electrical buzzing.
Yu Xiaogang ran deeper underground for all he was worth.
The expensive clothes he wore had long since been burned into ragged strips by the black smoke.
Large patches of his skin were a horrifying, charred black. The slightest movement sent excruciating pain tearing through him.
But he didn't dare stop.
As long as he could reach the Golden House in the underground laboratory and find Ning Rongrong, he would be saved!
She was his only lifeline!
"Almost there. I'm almost there!"
Yu Xiaogang gasped for breath, his bloodshot eyes filled with the desperate will to survive.
Just as he was about to round the corner and rush down the last half-flight of stairs-
A sudden jumble of heavy footsteps came from the darkness below.
Along with them came the squelching of shoes stepping through standing water.
Before Yu Xiaogang could react-
A stumbling dark figure burst out from around the corner!
Bang!
The man came at tremendous speed, slamming squarely into Yu Xiaogang with immense force.
Already exhausted, Yu Xiaogang felt as though the impact had knocked all his organs out of place. He flew backward like a ragged sack and