Through Liu Xiaoyu's channel, the voice devoid of all human emotion slowly came through.
As Lin Cheng listened to the words "I want to play a game with you," his expression showed not the slightest anger or alarm.
"A game? Sure."
Lin Cheng sounded as relaxed as if he were chatting with someone on the street. "Go on. What are we playing?"
The other end of the channel fell silent for a moment before the voice began reciting the rules, word by word.
"The rules: the Wish-Granting Ghost will come to Dajing City. Find me within ten minutes."
"You have only five chances. For every wrong guess, I will eat one of your ghosts."
"If you refuse to search, I will kill everyone around you after ten minutes."
Lin Cheng sneered at those overbearing, unreasonable rules.
"There's nothing in it for me. Why should I play?"
The Wish-Granting Ghost said, "Win the game, and the Wish-Granting Ghost will follow you forever."
"Follow me?" Lin Cheng could not even be bothered to lift his eyelids. "Even if you follow me, I'll still have to trade the people around me as payment, won't I? How is that any different from not playing?"
"The price is one ghost for one wish. A fair exchange," the Wish-Granting Ghost replied coldly.
"That does sound pretty good." There was a note of regret in Lin Cheng's words.
"But this game is far too unfair to you."
"If I lose, all I'll lose are a few teammates and the ghosts inside me. But if you lose, you'll lose your freedom!"
"How about this? I've decided to give you ten minutes to hide properly."
"Now that would be fair to you."
On the other end of the channel, the Wish-Granting Ghost fell silent for a full ten seconds.